Judges 7:6-8
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6 And the number of those who lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was 300 men, but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water. 7 And the Lord said to Gideon, (A)“With the 300 men who lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hand, and let all the others go every man to his home.” 8 So the people took provisions in their hands, and their trumpets. And he sent all the rest of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the 300 men. And the camp of Midian was below him (B)in the valley.
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Judges 7:16
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16 And he divided the 300 men into three companies and put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty jars, with (A)torches inside the jars.
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Judges 7:22
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22 (A)When they blew the 300 trumpets, (B)the Lord set (C)every man's sword against his comrade and against all the army. And the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah,[a] as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.
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- Judges 7:22 Some Hebrew manuscripts Zeredah
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