Hakim-hakim 13:7

13:7 He said to me, ‘Look, you will conceive and have a son. ¹  So now, do not drink wine or beer and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean. ²  For the child will be dedicated ³  to God from birth till the day he dies.’”

Hakim-hakim 20:48

20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns ⁴  and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, ⁵  the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path. ⁶ 

[13:7]  ¹ tn See the note on the word “son” in 13:5, where this same statement occurs.

[13:7]  ² tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”

[13:7]  ³ tn Traditionally “a Nazirite.”

[20:48]  ⁴ tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”

[20:48]  ⁵ tc The translation is based on the reading מֵעִיר מְתִים (me’ir mÿtim, “from a city of men,” i.e., “an inhabited city”), rather than the reading מֵעִיר מְתֹם (me’ir mÿtom, “from a city of soundness”) found in the Leningrad Codex (L).

[20:48]  ⁶ tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”