Judges 6:39

6:39 Gideon said to God, “Please do not get angry at me, when I ask for just one more sign.¹ Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time make only the fleece dry, while the ground around it is covered with dew.”²

Judges 13:6

13:6 The woman went and said to her husband, “A man sent from God³ came to me! He looked like God’s angelic messenger – he was very awesome.⁴ I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.

Judges 14:3

14:3 But his father and mother said to him, “Certainly you can find a wife among your relatives or among all our⁵ people! You should not have to go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines.”⁶ But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me,⁷ because she is the right one for me.”⁸

¹tn Heb “Let your anger not rage at me, so that I might speak only this once.”

²tn Heb “let the fleece alone be dry, while dew is on all the ground.”

³tn Heb “The man of God.”

⁴tn Heb “His appearance was like the appearance of the messenger of God, very awesome.”

⁵tn Heb “my.” The singular may seem strange, since the introduction to the quotation attributes the words to his father and mother. But Samson’s father apparently speaks for both himself and his wife. However, the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta have a second person pronoun here (“you”), and this may represent the original reading.

⁶tn Heb “Is there not among the daughters of your brothers or among all my people a woman that you have to go to get a wife among the uncircumcised Philistines?”

⁷tn “Her” is first in the Hebrew word order for emphasis. Samson wanted this Philistine girl, no one else. See C. F. Burney, Judges, 357.

⁸tn Heb “because she is right in my eyes.”