Discovery BoxJudges 6:37 
Context6:37 Look, I am putting a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece, and the ground around it 1 is dry, then I will be sure 2 that you will use me to deliver Israel, 3 as you promised.”
Judges 6:39
Context6:39 Gideon said to God, “Please do not get angry at me, when I ask for just one more sign. 4 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.” 5
Judges 15:11
Context15:11 Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the cliff of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why have you done this to us?” He said to them, “I have only done to them what they have done to me.”
Judges 21:22
Context21:22 When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, 6 we’ll say to them, “Do us a favor and let them be, 7 for we could not get each one a wife through battle. 8 Don’t worry about breaking your oath! 9 You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’” 10
1 tn Heb “all the ground.”
2 tn Or “know.”
3 tn Heb “you will deliver Israel by my hand.”
4 tn Heb “Let your anger not rage at me, so that I might speak only this once.”
5 tn Heb “let the fleece alone be dry, while dew is on all the ground.”
6 tc The (original) LXX and Vulgate read “to you.”
7 tn The words “and let them be” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
8 tn Heb “for we did not take each his wife in battle.”
sn Through battle. This probably refers to the battle against Jabesh Gilead, which only produced four hundred of the six hundred wives needed.
9 tn This sentence is not in the Hebrew text. It is supplied in the translation to clarify the logic of the statement.
10 tc Heb “You did not give to them, now you are guilty.” The MT as it stands makes little sense. It is preferable to emend לֹא (lo’, “not”) to לוּא (lu’, “if”). This particle introduces a purely hypothetical condition, “If you had given to them [but you didn’t].” See G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 453-54.
