Gideon Tests Yahweh With the Fleece

³⁶ Then Gideon said to God, “In order to see that you will deliver Israel by my hand, just as you have said,

⁴ And Yahweh said to Gideon, “There are still too many troops; bring them down to the water, and I will sift through them^[a] for you there. For whomever I say to you, ‘This one will go with you,’ he will go with you; and for all whom I say to you, ‘This one will not go with you,’ he will not go.”

⁷ And Yahweh said to Gideon, “I will deliver you with the three hundred men lapping up the water; I will give Midian into your hand, so let the other troops go, each to his own place. ⁸ So they took their provisions and their trumpets into their hand, and he sent all the men of Israel, each one, to his tent; but three hundred of the men he kept; the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.

⁹ And that night Yahweh said to him, “Get up; go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hand.