Judges 7:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ The number of those who lapped was three hundred, but all the rest of the troops knelt down to drink water.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was 300 men, but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.

Common English Bible

⁶ The number of men who lapped was three hundred, and all the rest of the people bent down on their knees to drink water, with their hands to their mouths.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And so the number of those who had lapped the water, by bringing it with the hand to the mouth, was three hundred men. And all the remainder of the multitude drank by bending the knee.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And the number of them that had lapped water, casting it with the hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: and all the rest of the multitude had drunk kneeling.

Judges 7:6 Cross References

Psalm 110:7

He will drink from the stream by the path; therefore he will lift up his head.

Proverbs 16:2

All one’s ways may be pure in one’s own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.

Judges 7:5

So he brought the troops down to the water, and the Lord said to Gideon, “All those who lap the water with their tongues, as a dog laps, you shall put to one side; all those who kneel down to drink, putting their hands to their mouths, you shall put to the other side.”

Judges 7:7

Then the Lord said to Gideon, “With the three hundred who lapped I will deliver you and give the Midianites into your hand. Let all the others go to their homes.”.