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up: 14 And the Lord looked upon him, and said:
4 And pitching their tents among them, Go, in this thy strength, and thou shalt deliver
wasted all things as they were in the blade, even Israel out of the hand of Madian: know that I
to the entrance of Gaza: and they left nothing have sent thee.
at all in Israel for sustenance of life, nor sheep, 15 He answered, and said: I beseech thee, my
nor oxen, nor asses. lord wherewith shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my
5 For they and all their flocks came with their family is the meanest in Manasses, and I am the
tents, and like locusts filled all places, an innu- least in my father’s house.
merable multitude of men, and of camels, wast- 16 And the Lord said to him: I will be with
ing whatsoever they touched. thee: and thou shalt cut off Madian as one man.
6 And Israel was humbled exceedingly in the 17 And he said: If I have found grace before
sight of Madian. thee, give me a sign that it is thou that speakest
7 And he cried to the Lord, desiring help to me:
against the Madianites. 18 And depart not hence, till I return to thee,
8 And he sent unto them a prophet, and he and bring a sacrifice, and offer it to thee. And
spoke: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: I he answered: I will wait thy coming.
made you to come up out of Egypt, and brought 19 So Gedeon went in, and boiled a kid, and
you out of the house of bondage, made unleavened loaves of a measure of flour:
9 And delivered you out of the hands of the and putting the flesh in a basket, and the broth
Egyptians, and of all the enemies that afflicted of the flesh into a pot, he carried all under the
you: and I cast them out at your coming in, and oak, and presented to him.
gave you their land. 20 And the angel of the Lord said to him:
10 And I said: I am the Lord your God, fear Take the flesh and the unleavened loaves, and
not the gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land lay them upon that rock, and pour out the broth
you dwell. And you would not hear my voice. thereon. And when he had done so,
11 And an angel of the Lord came, and sat 21 The angel of the Lord put forth the tip of
under an oak that was in Ephra, and belonged the rod, which he held in his hand, and touched
to Joas, the father of the family of Ezri. And the flesh and the unleavened loaves: and there
when Gedeon, his son, was threshing and cleans- arose a fire from the rock, and consumed the
ing wheat by the winepress, to flee from Madian, flesh and the unleavened loaves: and the angel
12 The angel of the Lord appeared to him, of the Lord vanished out of his sight.
and said: The Lord is with thee, O most valiant 22 And Gedeon seeing that it was the angel of
of men. the Lord, said: Alas, my Lord God: for I have
13 And Gedeon said to him: I beseech thee, seen the angel of the Lord face to face.
my lord, if the Lord be with us, why have these 23 And the Lord said to him: Peace be with
evils fallen upon us? Where are his miracles, thee: fear not, thou shalt not die.
which our fathers have told us of, saying: The 24 And Gedeon built there an altar to the
Lord brought us out of Egypt but now the Lord Lord, and called it the Lord’s peace, until this
hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hand present day. And when he was yet in Ephra,
of Madian. which is of the family of Ezri,