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Shaphatiym 7

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7:1

The 300 of Gid'un and the Acoustic Strike

Then Yerubbaal, who is Gid'un, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

7:2

The Purge of Human Pride

And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said unto Gid'un, "The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Yashar'al vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me."

7:3

"Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead." And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.

7:4

The Frequency-Test at the Water

And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said unto Gid'un, "The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go."

7:5

So he brought down the people unto the water: and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said unto Gid'un, "Chawahry one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink."

7:6

And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.

7:7

And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said unto Gid'un, "By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place."

7:8

So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets (shuparot): and he sent all the rest of Yashar'al every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

7:9

The Covert Infiltration of the Camp

And it came to pass the same night, that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said unto him, "Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand."

7:10

"But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:"

7:11

"And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host." Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.

7:12

And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers (locusts) for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.

7:13

The Dream of the Barley Cake

And when Gid'un was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, "Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along."

7:14

And his fellow answered and said, "This is nothing else save the sword of Gid'un the son of Yoash, a man of Yashar'al: for into his hand hath Alahiym delivered Midian, and all the host."

7:15

The Worship of the Commander

And it was so, when Gid'un heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the camp of Yashar'al, and said, "Arise; for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian."

7:16

The Luminous and Acoustic Weaponry

And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet (shupar) in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.

7:17

And he said unto them, "Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do."

7:18

"When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and of Gid'un."

7:19

The Shattering of the Vessels

So Gid'un, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.

7:20

And the three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, "The sword of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and of Gid'un."

7:21

The Self-Destruction of the Matrix

And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.

7:22

And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth-shittah in Zererath, and to the border of Habal-meholah, unto Tabbath.

7:23

The Mobilization of the Pursuers

And the men of Yashar'al gathered themselves together out of Naphtaliy, and out of Ashar, and out of all Manashah, and pursued after the Midianites.

7:24

The Securing of the Yardan Fords

And Gid'un sent messengers throughout all mount Aphrayiym, saying, "Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Beth-barah and Yardan." Then all the men of Aphrayiym gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Beth-barah and Yardan.

7:25

The Execution of the Midianite Princes

And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gid'un on the other side Yardan.