- 耶路巴力、就是基甸、他和一切跟隨的人、早晨起來、在哈律泉旁安營.米甸營在他們北邊的平原、靠近摩利岡。
- 耶和華對基甸說、跟隨你的人過多、我不能將米甸人交在他們手中、免得以色列人向我誇大、說、是我們自己的手救了我們。
- 現在你要向這些人宣告說、凡懼怕膽怯的、可以離開基列山回去.於是有二萬二千人回去.只剩下一萬。
- 耶和華對基甸說、人還是過多.你要帶他們下到水旁、我好在那裡為你試試他們.我指點誰說、這人可以同你去、他就可以同你去.我指點誰說、這人不可同你去、他就不可同你去。
- 基甸就帶他們下到水旁.耶和華對基甸說、凡用舌頭餂水、像狗餂的、要使他單站在一處.凡跪下喝水的、也要使他單站在一處。
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- Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him, rose early and camped beside the spring of Harod; and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them by the hill of Moreh in the valley.
- The LORD said to Gideon, "The people who are with you are too many for Me to give Midian into their hands, for Israel would become boastful, saying, 'My own power has delivered me.'
- "Now therefore come, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, 'Whoever is afraid and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.'" So 22,000 people returned, but 10,000 remained.
- Then the LORD said to Gideon, "The people are still too many; bring them down to the water and I will test them for you there. Therefore it shall be that he of whom I say to you, 'This one shall go with you,' he shall go with you; but everyone of whom I say to you, 'This one shall not go with you,' he shall not go."
- So he brought the people down to the water. And the LORD said to Gideon, "You shall separate everyone who laps the water with his tongue as a dog laps, as well as everyone who kneels to drink."
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