All a person’s ways seem right to him, but the Lord weighs motives. ,
Judges 7:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The number of those who lapped with their hands to their mouths was three hundred men, and all the rest of the troops knelt to drink water. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
All a person’s ways seem right to him, but the Lord weighs motives. ,
So he brought the troops down to the water, and the Lord said to Gideon, ‘Separate everyone who laps water with his tongue like a dog. Do the same with everyone who kneels to drink.’
The Lord said to Gideon, ‘I will deliver you with the three hundred men who lapped and hand the Midianites over to you. But everyone else is to go home.’