Judges 7:13

7:13 When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling another man about a dream he had. ¹  The man ²  said, “Look! I had a dream. I saw ³  a stale cake of barley bread rolling into the Midianite camp. It hit a tent so hard it knocked it over and turned it upside down. The tent just collapsed.” ⁴ 

Judges 17:2

17:2 He said to his mother, “You know ⁵  the eleven hundred pieces of silver which were stolen ⁶  from you, about which I heard you pronounce a curse? Look here, I have the silver. I stole ⁷  it, but now I am giving it back to you.” ⁸  His mother said, “May the Lord reward ⁹  you, my son!”

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¹ tn Heb “And Gideon came, and, look, a man was relating to his friend a dream.”

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man mentioned in the previous clause) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “Look!” The repetition of this interjection, while emphatic in Hebrew, would be redundant in the English translation.

⁴ tn Heb “It came to the tent and struck it and it fell. It turned it upside down and the tent fell.”

⁵ tn The words “You know” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁶ tn Heb “taken.”

⁷ tn Heb “took.”

⁸ tn In the Hebrew text the statement, “but now I am giving it back to you,” appears at the end of v. 3 and is spoken by the mother. But v. 4 indicates that she did not give the money back to her son. Unless the statement is spoken by the woman to the LORD, it appears to be misplaced and fits much better in v. 2. It may have been accidentally omitted from a manuscript, written in the margin, and then later inserted in the wrong place in another manuscript.

⁹ tn Traditionally, “bless.”