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20 All three units blew their trumpets and broke their jars. They held the torches in their left hand and the trumpets in their right.[a] Then they yelled, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 7:20 tn The Hebrew text adds, “in order to blow [them].” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

20 The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches(A) in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, “A sword(B) for the Lord and for Gideon!”

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