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And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people
are yet
too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there; and it shall be
that of whom I say unto thee, This
one shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whoever I say unto thee, This
one shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.
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So he brought the people down unto the water, and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that laps of the water with his tongue as a dog laps, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that bows down upon his knees to drink.
6
And the number of those that lapped,
putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink the water.
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Then the LORD said unto Gideon, With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and deliver the Midianites into thy hand; and let all the
other people go each one to his place.
8
And having taken provision for the people in his hands with their shofarot; he sent all
the other Israelites each one to his tent and retained those three hundred men, and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
9
And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise and descend to the camp, for I have delivered it in thy hands.
10
But if thou art afraid to go down, go with Phurah thy servant down to the camp,
11
and thou shalt hear what they say; and then thy hands shall be strengthened, and thou shalt go down to the camp. Then he went down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that
were in the camp.
12
And Midian and Amalek and all the sons of the east lay along in the valley like locusts in multitude, and their camels
were not numbered as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
13
And when Gideon arrived, behold, a man was telling a dream to his fellow, saying, Behold, I dreamed a dream that I saw a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and come unto the tents, and it smote them so that they fell and overturned them, and the tents fell.
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And his fellow answered and said, This
is nothing else but the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, a man of Israel,
for God has delivered the Midianites with all the camp into his hand.