The Test of the Fleece

³⁶ Then Gideon said to God, “^(A)If You will save Israel by my hand, as You have spoken, ³⁷ behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I will know that You will save Israel by my hand, as You have spoken.” ³⁸ And it was so. Indeed he arose early the next morning and squeezed the fleece. And he drained the dew from the fleece, a bowl full of water. ³⁹ Then Gideon said to God, “^(B)Do not let Your anger burn against me that I may speak once more; please let me make a test once more with the fleece; let it now be dry only on the fleece, and let there be dew on all the ground.” ⁴⁰ And God did so that night. So it was dry only on the fleece, but dew was on all the ground.

¹⁸ And Zechariah said to the angel, “How will I know this? For ^(A)I am an old man and my wife is advanced in ^[a]years.”