Judges 7:6-8

International Standard Version

⁶ The contingent of soldiers who lapped water^[a] with their hands to their mouths numbered 300 men, but everyone else kneeled to drink water.

⁷ Then the Lord told Gideon, “I’m going to deliver you with the 300 soldiers who lapped by giving the Midianites into your control. Send everyone else back to their own homes.”^[b]

⁸ So the soldiers took provisions with them, along with their trumpets, and Gideon^[c] sent all the rest of the soldiers of Israel back to their own tents, but he retained the 300 men. And the Midian encampment was below him in the valley.