Judges 7:11-13
New English Translation
11 and listen to what they are saying. Then you will be brave[a] and attack the camp.” So he went down with Purah his servant to where the sentries were guarding the camp.[b] 12 Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east covered the valley like a swarm of locusts.[c] Their camels could not be counted; they were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore. 13 When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling another man about a dream he had.[d] The man[e] said, “Look! I had a dream. I saw[f] 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.”[g]
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- Judges 7:11 tn Heb “your hands will be strengthened.”
- Judges 7:11 tn Heb “to the edge of the ones in battle array who were in the camp.”
- Judges 7:12 tn Heb “Midian, Amalek, and the sons of the east were falling in the valley like locusts in great number.”
- Judges 7:13 tn Heb “And Gideon came, and, look, a man was relating to his friend a dream.”
- Judges 7:13 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man mentioned in the previous clause) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Judges 7:13 tn Heb “Look!” The repetition of this interjection, while emphatic in Hebrew, would be redundant in the English translation.
- Judges 7:13 tn Heb “It came to the tent and struck it and it fell. It turned it upside down and the tent fell.”
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