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The number of men who lapped was three hundred, and all the rest of the people bent down on their knees to drink water, with their hands to their mouths.[a] Then the Lord said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped I will rescue you and hand over the Midianites to you. Let everyone else go home.” So the people gathered their supplies and trumpets,[b] and Gideon sent all the Israelites home, but kept the three hundred.

Now Midian’s camp was below Gideon in the valley.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 7:6 MT places the words with their hands to their mouths after the word lapped.
  2. Judges 7:8 Or the ones who lapped took the people’s supplies and trumpets for themselves.

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