Now therefore proclaim in the audience of the people, and say, (A)Who so is timorous or fearful, let him return, and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people which were at mount Gilead, two and twenty thousand: so ten thousand remained.

And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many: bring them down unto the water, and I will [a]try them for thee there: and of whom I say unto thee, This man shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee: and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This man shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.

So he brought down the people unto the water. And the Lord said unto Gideon, As many as lap the water with their tongues, as a dog lappeth, them put by themselves, and everyone that shall bow down his knees to drink, [b]put apart.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 7:4 I will give thee a proof to know them that shall go with thee.
  2. Judges 7:5 Let them depart as unmeet for this enterprise.

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