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chapter 6
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the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord: and he
delivered them into the hand of Madian seven years.
2 And they were grievously oppressed by them. And they
made themselves dens and eaves in the mountains, and strong holds to resist.
3 And when Israel had sown, Madian and Amalec, and the
rest of the eastern nations came up:
4 And pitching their tents among them, wasted all
things as they were in the blade even to the entrance of Gaza: and they left
nothing at all in Israel for sustenance of life, nor sheep, nor oxen, nor
asses.
5 For they and all their flocks came with their tents,
and like locusts filled all places, an innumerable multitude of men, and of
camels, wasting whatsoever they touched.
6 And Israel was humbled exceedingly in the sight of
Madian.
7 And he cried to the Lord desiring help against the
Madianites.
8 And he sent unto them a prophet, and he spoke: Thus
saith the Lord the God of Israel: I made you to come up out of Egypt, and
brought you out of the house of bondage,
9 And delivered you out of the hands of the Egyptians,
and of all the enemies that afflicted you: and I cast them out at your coming
in, and gave you their land.
1O And I said: I am the Lord your God, fear not the
gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell. And you would not hear my
voice.
11 And an angel of the Lord came, and sat under an oak,
that was in Ephra, and belonged to Joas the father of the family of Ezri. And
when Gedeon his son was threshing and cleansing wheat by the winepress, to flee
from Madian,
12 The angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said: The
Lord is with thee, O most valiant of men.
13 And Gedeon said to him: I beseech thee, my lord, if
the Lord be with us, why have these evils fallen upon us? Where are his
miracles, which our fathers have told us of, saying: The Lord brought us Out of
Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the bands of
Madian.
14 And the Lord looked upon him, and said: Go in this
thy strength, and then shalt deliver Israel out of the hand of Madian: know
that I have sent thee.
15 He answered and said: I beseech thee, my lord,
wherewith shall I deliver Israel? Behold my family is the meanest in Manasses,
and I am the least in my father's house.
16 And the Lord said to him: I will be with thee: and
thou shalt cut off Madian as one man.
17 And he said: If I have found grace before thee, give
me a sign that it is thou that speakest to me,
18 And depart not hence, till I return to thee, and
bring a sacrifice, and offer it to thee. And he answered: I will wait thy
coming.
19 So Gedeon went in, and boiled a kid, and made
unleavened loaves of a measure of flour: and putting the flesh in a basket, and
the broth of the flesh into a pot, he carried all under the oak, and presented
to him.
20 And the angel of the Lord said to him: Take the
flesh and the unleavened loaves, and lay them upon that rock, and pour out the
broth thereon. And when he had done so,
21 The angel of the Lord put forth the tip of the rod,
which he held in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened loaves: and
there arose a fire from the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened
loaves: and the angel of the Lord vanished out of his sight.
22 And Gedeon seeing that it was the angel of the Lord,
said: Alas, my Lord God: for I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.
23 And the Lord said to him: Peace be with thee: fear
not, thou shalt not die.
24 And Gedeon built there an altar to the Lord, and
called it the Lord's peace, until this present day. And when he was yet in
Ephra, which is of the family of Ezri,
25 That night the Lord said to him: Take a bullock of
thy father's, and another bullock of seven years, and thou shalt destroy the
altar of Baal, which is thy father's: and cut down the grove that is about the
altar:
26 And thou shalt build an altar to the Lord thy God in
the top of this rock, whereupon thou didst lay the sacrifice before: and thou
shalt take the second bullock, and shalt offer a holocaust upon a pile of the
wood, which thou shalt cut down out of the grove.
27 Then Gedeon taking ten men of his servants, did as
the Lord had commanded him. But fearing his father's house, and the men of that
city, he would not do it by day, but did all by night.
28 And when the men of that town were risen in the
morning, they saw the altar of Baal destroyed, and the grove cut down, and the
second bullock laid upon the altar, which then was built.
29 And they said one to another: Who hath done this?
And when they inquired for the author of the fact, it was said: Gedeon the son
of Joas did all this.
30 And they said to Joas: Bring out thy son hither,
that he may die: because he hath destroyed the altar of Baal, and hath cut down
his grove.
31 He answered them: Are you the avengers of Baal, that
you fight for him? he that is his adversary, let him die before to morrow light
appear: if he be a god, let him revenge himself on him that hath cast down his
altar.
32 From that day Gedeon was called Jerobaal, because
Joss had said: Let Baal revenge himself on him that hath cast down his altar.
33 Now all Madian, and Amalec, and the eastern people
were gathered together, and passing over the Jordan, camped in the valley of
Jezrael.
34 But the spirit of the Lord came upon Gedeon, and be
sounded the trumpet and called together the house of Abiezer, to follow him.
35 And he sent messengers into all Manasses, and they
also followed him: and other messengers into Aser and Zabulon and Nephtali, and
they came to meet him.
36 And Gedeon said to God: If thou wilt save Israel by
my hand, as thou hast said,
37 I will put this fleece of wool on the floor: if
there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground beside, I,
shall know that by my hand, as thou hast said, thou wilt deliver Israel.
38 And it was so. And rising before day wringing the
fleece, he filled a vessel with the dew.
39 And he said again to God: let not thy wrath be
kindled against me if I try once more, seeking a sign in the fleece. I pray
that the fleece only may be dry, and all the ground wet with dew.
40 And God did that night as he had requested: and it
was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
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