So he brought the people down to the water. Then the Lord said to Gideon, “You shall put everyone who laps the water with his tongue as a dog laps [a]in one group, and everyone who kneels down to drink in another.” Now the number of those who lapped, [b]putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people kneeled down to drink water.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 7:5 Lit by himself
  2. Judges 7:6 Lit with their

So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the Lord told him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel down to drink.” Three hundred of them(A) drank from cupped hands, lapping like dogs. All the rest got down on their knees to drink.

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