Judges 7
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Judges 7:4-8

41Then the Lord said to Gideon, “The people are still too many; bring them down to the water and I will test them for you there. So it shall be that he of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go with you; but everyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ he shall not go.” 5So he brought the people down to the water. Then the Lord said to Gideon, “You shall put everyone who laps the water with his tongue as a dog laps 2in one group, and everyone who kneels down to drink in another.” 6Now the number of those who lapped, 3putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people kneeled down to drink water. 7And the Lord said to Gideon, “I will save you 4with the three hundred men who lapped, and will hand the Midianites over to you; so have all the other people go, each man to his 5home.” 8So 6the three hundred men took the people’s provisions and their trumpets in their hands. And 7Gideon dismissed all the other men of Israel, each to his tent, but retained the three hundred men; and the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.

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Notes

  1. 1. Judges 7:4 1 Sam 14:6 ↩
  2. 2. Judges 7:5 Lit by himself ↩
  3. 3. Judges 7:6 Lit with their ↩
  4. 4. Judges 7:7 1 Sam 14:6 ↩
  5. 5. Judges 7:7 Lit place ↩
  6. 6. Judges 7:8 Lit they took ↩
  7. 7. Judges 7:8 Lit he ↩

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