Verse 5
Judges 7:5
World English Bible, British Edition
5
So he brought down the people to the water; and the LORD said to Gideon,
“Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise
everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יּ֥וֹרֶד אֶת הָ/עָ֖ם אֶל הַ/מָּ֑יִם וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֶל גִּדְע֗וֹן כֹּ֣ל אֲשֶׁר יָלֹק֩ בִּ/לְשׁוֹנ֨/וֹ מִן הַ/מַּ֜יִם כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֧ר יָלֹ֣ק הַ/כֶּ֗לֶב תַּצִּ֤יג אוֹת/וֹ֙ לְ/בָ֔ד וְ/כֹ֛ל אֲשֶׁר יִכְרַ֥ע עַל בִּרְכָּ֖י/ו לִ/שְׁתּֽוֹת
English Translation
And he brought the people down to the water, and the LORD said to Gideon, "Everyone who laps the water with his tongue like a dog, you shall set apart by himself, and everyone who kneels down on his knees to drink.
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Chapter 7 Context
1
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose
up early and encamped besi...
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2
The LORD said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for
me to give the Midianites int...
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3
Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is
fearful and trembling, let him...
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4
The LORD said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Bring
them down to the water, and I will...
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5
So he brought down the people to the water; and the LORD said to Gideon,
“Everyone who laps of the w...
6
The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was
three hundred men; but all th...
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7
The LORD said to Gideon, “I will save you by the three hundred men who
lapped, and deliver the Midia...
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8
So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and
he sent all the rest of the men of Is...
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9
That same night, the LORD said to him, “Arise, go down into the camp,
for I have delivered it into y...
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10
But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to
the camp.
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11
You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened
to go down into the camp....
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12
The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the
east lay along in the valley like locu...
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13
When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream
to his fellow. He said, “Behold, I dre...
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14
His fellow answered, “This is nothing other than the sword of
Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Isra...
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15
It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its
interpretation, that he worshipped. Th...
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16
He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he
put into the hands of all of them trum...
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17
He said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come
to the outermost part of the camp,...
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18
When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets
also on every side of all...
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19
So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost
part of the camp in the beginn...
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20
The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held
the torches in their left hands...
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21
They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran;
and they shouted, and put them t...
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22
They blew the three hundred trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword
against his fellow and agai...
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23
The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, out of Asher,
and out of all Manasseh, and...
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24
Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying,
“Come down against Midian...
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25
They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb
at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they k...
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