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The Lord spoke to Gideon again, “There are still too many men.[a] Bring them down to the water and I will thin the ranks some more.[b] When I say, ‘This one should go with you,’ pick him to go;[c] when I say,[d] ‘This one should not go with you,’ do not take him.”[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 7:4 tn Heb “too many people.”
  2. Judges 7:4 tn Heb “test them for you there.”
  3. Judges 7:4 tn Heb “he should go with you.”
  4. Judges 7:4 tn Heb also has “about anyone to you.”
  5. Judges 7:4 tn Heb “he should not go.”

But the Lord said to Gideon, “There are still too many(A) men. Take them down to the water, and I will thin them out for you there. If I say, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go; but if I say, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ he shall not go.”

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And the Lord said unto Gideon, 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.

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