Judges (Alexandrinus A-text) 6 — Rahlfs Septuagint

καὶ ἐποίησαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ισραηλ τὸ πονηρὸν ἔναντι κυρίου καὶ παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς κύριος ἐν χειρὶ Μαδιαμ ἔτη ἑπτά

And the sons of Israel did what was evil before the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian for seven years.

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And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel, and the sons of Israel made for themselves from before Midian dens in the mountains and in the caves and in the strongholds.

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And it happened when a man of Israel had sown, that Midian and Amalek and the sons of the east were coming up, and they were coming up against him

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And they camped against them and destroyed the produce of the land, until coming to Gaza, and they did not leave behind sustenance of life in Israel, neither flock nor calf nor donkey.

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For they themselves and their livestock were coming up and carrying along their tents, and they were coming as locusts in multitude; and to them and to their camels there was no number, and they were coming into the land of Israel to destroy it

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καὶ ἐπτώχευσεν Ισραηλ σφόδρα ἀπὸ προσώπου Μαδιαμ καὶ ἐκέκραξαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ισραηλ πρὸς κύριον

And Israel became very poor because of Midian, and the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord

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καὶ ἐγένετο ἐπεὶ ἐκέκραξαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ισραηλ πρὸς κύριον διὰ Μαδιαμ

And it came to pass, when the sons of Israel cried to the Lord because of Midian,

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And the Lord sent a man, a prophet, to the sons of Israel, and he said to them: Thus says the Lord the God of Israel: I am the one who brought you up out of Egypt, and I brought you out of a house of slavery.

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and I rescued you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of all those oppressing you, and I drove them out from before you, and I gave you their land

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And I said to you, I am the Lord your God: you shall not fear the gods of the Amorite, in whom you dwell in their land; and you did not listen to my voice.

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And an angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak that was in Ephra, that of Joas the father of Abiezer; and Gideon his son was beating out wheat in a winepress, to escape from before Midian.

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καὶ ὤφθη αὐτῷ ἄγγελος κυρίου καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτόν κύριος μετὰ σοῦ δυνατὸς τῇ ἰσχύι

And an angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, The Lord is with you, mighty in strength

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And Gideon said to him, In me, my lord, and if the Lord is with us, why then has all this evil found us, and where are all his wonders, which our fathers recounted to us, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt? And now he has thrust us away and given us into the hand of Midian.

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And the angel of the Lord looked toward him and said to him, Go in your strength, and you shall save Israel; and behold, I have sent you out.

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And Gideon said to him, In me, lord, by what shall I save Israel? Behold, my thousand is the least in Manasseh, and I am small in my father’s house.

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καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτὸν ὁ ἄγγελος κυρίου κύριος ἔσται μετὰ σοῦ καὶ πατάξεις τὴν Μαδιαμ ὡσεὶ ἄνδρα ἕνα

And the angel of the Lord said to him, The Lord will be with you, and you shall strike Midian as one man.

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And Gideon said to him, And if I have found favor in your eyes, then do a sign for me that it is you who are speaking with me

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Do not move from here until my coming to you, and I will bring my sacrifice and will set it before you. And he said, I am; I will sit until your return.

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And Gideon entered and made a kid of goats and unleavened cakes of flour, and he put the meat on the basket and poured the broth into the pot, and he brought it out to him under the oak and bowed down

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And the angel of the Lord said to him, Take the meat and the unleavened loaves and put them on that rock, and pour out the broth, and he did thus

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And the angel of the Lord stretched out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes, and fire was kindled from the rock and devoured the meat and the unleavened cakes, and the angel of the Lord departed from before his eyes

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And Gideon saw that it is an angel of the Lord, and Gideon said, Ah, ah, Lord, Lord, because I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face

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καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ κύριος εἰρήνη σοι μὴ φοβοῦ μὴ ἀποθάνῃς

And the Lord said to him: Peace be to you; do not fear, you shall not die.

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And Gideon built there an altar to the Lord and called it The Lord’s Peace, until this day, while he was still in Ephratha of the father of Ezri.

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And it happened in that night, and the Lord said to him, Take the fatted calf of your father, a calf seven years old, and you shall tear down the altar of Baal, which is your father’s, and the grove on it you shall cut down

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And you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, who appeared to you on the top of this mountain, in the arrangement, and you shall take the bull calf and offer up a whole burnt offering with the wood of the grove that you shall cut down.

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And Gideon took thirteen men from his servants and did as the Lord spoke to him, and it happened, because he feared the house of his father and the men of the city, not to do by day, that he did by night.

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And the men of the city rose early in the morning, and behold, the altar of Baal had been torn down, and the grove that was upon it had been cut down, and the fatted calf had been offered up as a whole burnt offering on the altar that had been built.

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And a man said to his neighbor, Who has done this thing? And they examined and searched out, and they said, Gideon son of Joash has done this thing.

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And the men of the city said to Joash, Bring out your son, and let him die, because he has torn down the altar of Baal and because he cut down the grove that was upon it.

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And Joas said to the men who were standing against him, Do you now judge for Baal, or do you save him? Whoever will bring a lawsuit against him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, he himself will take vengeance on him, because he has demolished his altar.

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καὶ ἐκάλεσεν αὐτὸ ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ Δικαστήριον τοῦ Βααλ ὅτι κατέσκαψεν τὸ θυσιαστήριον αὐτοῦ

And he called it on that day Baal’s Court, because he had torn down his altar.

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And all Midian and Amalek and the sons of the east were gathered together as one, and they crossed over and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.

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καὶ πνεῦμα θεοῦ ἐνέδυσεν τὸν Γεδεων καὶ ἐσάλπισεν ἐν κερατίνῃ καὶ ἐβόησεν Αβιεζερ ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ

And the Spirit of God clothed Gideon, and he sounded a trumpet with a horn, and Abiezer cried out after him

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And he sent messengers into all Manasseh, and he cried out also after him, and he sent messengers into Asher and into Zebulun and into Naphtali, and they went up to meet him

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καὶ εἶπεν Γεδεων πρὸς τὸν θεόν εἰ σῴζεις ἐν τῇ χειρί μου τὸν Ισραηλ ὃν τρόπον ἐλάλησας

And Gideon said to God, If you are saving Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,

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Behold, I am laying the fleece of wool on the threshing floor, and if there is dew on the fleece alone and on all the ground dryness, then I will know that you are saving Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.

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And it was so, and Gideon rose early on the next day and squeezed out the fleece, and the dew had run off from the fleece, a bowl full of water.

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And Gideon said to God, let not your anger be inflamed against me, and I will speak yet once; let me test yet once in the fleece: and let there be dryness on the fleece only, but on all the ground let there be dew.

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And God did so in that night, and there was dryness on the fleece alone, and on all the ground there was dew.