only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it:

behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken."

Gideon said to God, "Don't let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew."

God did so that night: for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

The children of Israel said to Yahweh, "We have sinned: do you to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, this day."

Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances: and she was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

He said to her, "If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man."

Samson called to Yahweh, and said, "Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes."

The old man said, "Peace be to you; howsoever let all your wants lie on me; only don't lodge in the street."