1 Then Yeruba’al [let Ba’al defend], who [is] Gid’on [Hewer], and all the people that [were] with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of ‘Ein-Harod [spring of Herod (fear)]: so that the host of the Midyanim [Strife] were on the north side of them, by Giv’at-Moreh [Hill of Teacher], in the valley.

2 And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Gid’on [Hewer], The people that [are] with youi [are] too many for me to give the Midyanim [Strife] into their hands, lest Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand has saved me.

3 Now therefore come (let us begin!), proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever [is] fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gil’ad [Rocky Region]. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.

4 And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Gid’on [Hewer], The people [are] yet [too] many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for youi there: and it shall be, [that] of whom I say unto youi, This shall go with youi, the same shall go with youi; and of whomsoever I say unto youi, This shall not go with youi, the same shall not go.

5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Gid’on [Hewer], Every one that laps of the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, him shall youi set by himself; likewise everyone that bows down upon his knees to drink.

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.

7 And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Gid’on [Hewer], By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midyanim [Strife] into youi hand: and let all the [other] people go every man unto his place.

8 So the people took victuals (food for humans) in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all [the rest of] Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midyan [Strife] was beneath him in the valley.

9 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto him, Arise, get youi down unto the host; for I have delivered it into youi hand.

10 But if youi fear to go down, go youi with Purah [Bough] youi servant down to the host:

11 And youi shall hear what they say; and afterward shall youi hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Purah [Bough] his servant unto the outside of the armed men that [were] in the host.

12 And the Midyanim [Strife] and the ‘Amalekim [Dwellers in a Valley] and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels [were] without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.

13 And when Gid’on [Hewer] was come, behold, [there was] a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midyan [Strife], and came unto a tent, and struck it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.

14 And his fellow answered and said, This [is] nothing else save the sword of Gid’on [Hewer] the son of Yo’ash [Given by the Lord], a man of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: [for] into his hand has God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] delivered Midyan [Strife], and all the host.

15 And it was [so], when Gid’on [Hewer] heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and said, Arise; for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has delivered into your hand the host of Midyan [Strife].

16 And he divided the three hundred men [into] three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.

17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be [that], as I do, so shall you2f do.

18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that [are] with me, then blow you2f the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, [The sword] of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and of Gid’on [Hewer].

19 So Gid’on [Hewer], and the hundred men that [were] with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers that [were] in their hands.

20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow [withal]: and they cried, The sword of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and of Gid’on [Hewer].

21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.

22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) set every man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beit-Sheetah [House of the Acacia Tree] in Tz’rerah [Oppression], [and] to the border of Avel-M’cholah [Meadow of Dancing], unto Tabat [Celebrated].

23 And the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] gathered themselves together out of Naftali [My Wrestling], and out of Asher [Happy], and out of all M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], and pursued after the Midyanim [Strife].

24 And Gid’on [Hewer] sent messengers throughout all mount Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], saying, Come down against the Midyanim [Strife], and take before them the waters unto Beit-Barah [House of (the) Ford] and Yarden [Descender]. Then all the men of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Beit-Barah [House of (the) Ford] and Yarden [Descender].

25 And they took two princes of the Midyanim [Strife], ‘Orev [Raven] and Ze’ev [Wolf]; and they killed ‘Orev [Raven] upon the rock ‘Orev [Raven], and Ze’ev [Wolf] they killed at the winepress of Ze’ev [Wolf], and pursued Midyan [Strife], and brought the heads of ‘Orev [Raven] and Ze’ev [Wolf] to Gid’on [Hewer] on the other side Yarden [Descender].