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to drink.
6 And the number of those that lapped; putting their
hands to their mouth were three hundred men: but all the
rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink
mayim.
7 And vuvh said to Gidyon, By the three hundred men
that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midyanites
into your hand: and let all the other people go every man
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8 So the people took food in their hands, and their
shofars: and he sent all the rest of Yisrael every man to
his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the
army of Midyan was beneath them in the valley.
9 And it came to pass the same night, that vuvh said to
him, Arise, get down to the army, for I have delivered it
into your hand.
10 But if you fear to go down, go with Phurah your eved
down to the army:
11 And you shall hear what they say; and afterward shall
your hands be strengthened to go down to the army. Then
he went down with Phurah his eved to the edge of the
armed men that were in the camp.
12 And the Midyanites and the Amalekites and all the
children of the east lay along in the valley like
grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without
number, as the sand by the seaside for multitude.
13 And when Gidyon had come, see, there was a man that
told a dream to his chaver, and said, See, I dreamed a
dream, and, a cake of barley lechem tumbled into the
army of Midyan, and came to a tent, and smote it so that it
fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay flat.
14 And his companion answered and said, This is nothing
other than the sword of Gidyon the son of Yoash, a man
of Yisrael: for into his hand has Elohim delivered
Midyan, and all the army.
15 And it was so, when Gidyon heard the telling of the
dream, and the interpretation of it, that he worshipped,
and returned to the army of Yisrael, and said, Arise; for
vuvh has delivered into your hand the army of Midyan.
16 And he divided the three hundred men into three
companies, and he put a shofar in every man's hand, with
empty jars, and torches in the jars.
17 And he said to them, Look at me, and do likewise: and,
see, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be
that, as I do, so shall you do.
18 When I blow with the shofar, I and all that are with
me, then blow your shofars also on every side of the
camp, and say, The sword of vuvh, and of Gidyon.
19 So Gidyon, and the hundred men that were with him,
came to the outside of the camp at the start of the middle
watch; and they had just set their watch: and they blew
the shofars, and broke the jars that were in their hands.
20 And the three companies blew the shofars, and broke
the jars, and held the torches in their left hands, and the
shofars in their right hands to blow with: and they cried
out, The sword of vuvh, and of Gidyon.
21 And they stood every man in his place around the
camp: and all the army ran, and cried, and fled.
22 And the three hundred blew the shofars, and vuvh set
every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all
the army: and the army fled to Beth-Shittah in Tzererath,
and to the border of Avel-Meholah, to Tavvath.
23 And the men of Yisrael gathered themselves together
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out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all
Menashsheh, and pursued after the Midyanites.
24 And Gidyon sent messengers throughout all Mount
Efrayim, saying, Come down against the Midyanites, and
take from them the watering places to Beth-Barah and of
the Yarden River. Then all the men of Efrayim gathered
themselves together, and took the watering places in
Beth-Barah and also of the Yarden River.
25 And they took two princes of the Midyanites, Orev and
Zeev; and they killed Orev upon the rock Orev, and Zeev
they killed at the winepress of Zeev, and pursued Midyan,
and brought the heads of Orev and Zeev to Gidyon on the
other side of the Yarden River.
And the men of Efrayim said to him, Why have you
treated us like this, that you did not call us, when you
went to fight with the Midyanites? And they did argue
with him sharply. 727
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2 And he said to them, What have I done now in
comparison to you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of
Efrayim better than the vintage of Avi-Ezer?
3 Elohim has delivered into your hands the princes of
Midyan, Orev and Zeev: and what was I able to do in
comparison to you? Then their anger was abated toward
him, when he had said that.
4 And Gidyon came to the Yarden River, and passed
over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him,
weary, yet pursuing them.
5 And he said to the men of Sukkot, Give, I ask you,
loaves of lechem to the people that follow me; for they
are weary, and I am pursuing after Tzevah and
Tzalmunna, melechim of Midyan.
6 And the princes of Sukkot said, Are the hands of
Tzevah and Tzalmunna now in your hand, that we should
give lechem to your army?
7 And Gidyon said, Therefore when vuvh has delivered
Tzevah and Tzalmunna into my hand, and then I will tear
your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with
briers.
8 And he went up to Penu-El, and spoke to them likewise:
and the men of Penu-El answered him just as the men of
Sukkot had answered him.
9 And he spoke also to the men of Penu-El, saying, When
I come again in shalom, I will break down this tower.
10 Now Tzevah and Tzalmunna were in Karkor, and their
armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that
were left of all the armies of the children of the east: for
there fell a hundred twenty thousand men that drew the
sword.
11 And Gidyon went up by the derech of those that dwelt
in tents on the east of Novach and Yogvehah, and smote
the army: for the army was secure.
12 And when Tzevah and Tzalmunna fled, he pursued
after them, and took the two melechim of Midyan, Tzevah
and Tzalmunna, and destroyed all the army.
13 And Gidyon the son of Yoash returned from battle
before the sun was up,
14 And caught a young man of the men of Sukkot, and
inquired of him: and he described to him the princes of
Sukkot, and their zechanim, even seventy-seven men.
15 And he came to the men of Sukkot, and said, See
Tzevah and Tzalmunna, about whom you taunted me,
saying, Are the hands of Tzevah and Tzalmunna now in