Judges 7:5
So he brought down the people to the water; and the LORD said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”Judges 7:5 · WEB
This verse in other languages
- ગુજરાતી — ન્યાયાધીશો ૭:૫
- તેથી ગિદિયોન લોકોને પાણીની પાસે લાવ્યો અને ઈશ્વરે તેને કહ્યું, “પ્રત્યેક જણ જે કૂતરાની માફક જીભથી લખલખાવીને પાણી પીએ, તેને અલગ કર, અને જે પાણી પીવા સારુ ઘૂંટણીએ પડે તેઓને પણ અલગ કર.”
- हिन्दी — न्यायियों ७:५
- तब वह उनको सोते के पास नीचे ले गया; वहाँ यहोवा ने गिदोन से कहा, “जितने कुत्ते की समान जीभ से पानी चपड़-चपड़ करके पीएँ उनको अलग रख; और वैसा ही उन्हें भी जो घुटने टेककर पीएँ।”
In context
3Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
4The LORD said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that those whom I tell you, ‘This shall go with you,’ shall go with you; and whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’ shall not go.”
5So he brought down the people to the water; and the LORD said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”
6The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.
7The LORD said to Gideon, “I will save you by the three hundred men who lapped, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his own place.”
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