007:005 So he brought down the people to the water: and Yahweh said
to Gideon, Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue,
as a dog laps, him shall you set by himself; likewise everyone
who bows down on his knees to drink.
007:006 The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth,
was three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed
down on their knees to drink water.
007:007 Yahweh said to Gideon, By the three hundred men who lapped
will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand;
and let all the people go every man to his place.
007:008 So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets;
and he sent all the men of Israel every man to his tent,
but retained the three hundred men: and the camp of Midian
was beneath him in the valley.
007:009 It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, Arise, get you
down into the camp; for I have delivered it into your hand.
007:010 But if you fear to go down, go you with Purah your servant
down to the camp:
007:011 and you shall hear what they say; and afterward shall
your hands be strengthened to go down into the camp.
Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost
part of the armed men who were in the camp.
007:012 The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of
the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude;
and their camels were without number, as the sand which is
on the seashore for multitude.
007:013 When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream
to his fellow; and he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream;
and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp
of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell,
and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.
007:014 His fellow answered, This is nothing else save the sword
of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: into his hand
God has delivered Midian, and all the army.
007:015 It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream,
and the interpretation of it, that he worshiped; and he returned
into the camp of Israel, and said, Arise; for Yahweh has
delivered into your hand the army of Midian.
007:016 He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put
into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers,
with torches within the pitchers.
007:017 He said to them, Look on me, and do likewise: and behold,
when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that,
as I do, so shall you do.
007:018 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow
you the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say,
For Yahweh and for Gideon.
007:019 So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him,
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