Judges 6:36-40

The Message

^36-37 Gideon said to God, “If this is right, if you are using me to save Israel as you’ve said, then look: I’m placing a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If dew is on the fleece only, but the floor is dry, then I know that you will use me to save Israel, as you said.”

³⁸ That’s what happened. When he got up early the next morning, he wrung out the fleece—enough dew to fill a bowl with water!

³⁹ Then Gideon said to God, “Don’t be impatient with me, but let me say one more thing. I want to try another time with the fleece. But this time let the fleece stay dry, while the dew drenches the ground.”

⁴⁰ God made it happen that very night. Only the fleece was dry while the ground was wet with dew.

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