Judges 7:4-6

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁴ The Lord said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Lead them down to the water, and there I will refine them further for you. If I tell you, ‘This one will go with you,’ he may go with you, but if I say to you, ‘This one will not go with you,’ he must not go.”

⁵ So Gideon led the people down to the water, and the Lord said to Gideon, “Place everyone who laps water with his tongue, as a dog would lap, to one side. Place everyone who kneels down to drink on the other side.” ⁶ The number of those who lapped—those who put their hands to their mouths^[a]—was three hundred men, while all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water.