Judges 6:11-24

English Standard Version (Chapter 6)

Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

Now the angel of the LORD:

Came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite

While his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

English Standard Version (Chapter 6)

And the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, “The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.” And Gideon said to him, “Please, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian.”

The angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him:

The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.

Gideon said to him

Please, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us

And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us

Saying Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt

But now the LORD has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian

English Standard Version (Chapter 6)

And the LORD turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?” And he said to him, “Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”

And the LORD turned to him and said:

Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian

Do not I send you?

And he said to him:

Please, Lord, how can I save Israel

Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh

I am the least in my father’s house.

English Standard Version (Chapter 6)

And the LORD said to him, “But I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.” And he said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me. Please do not depart from here until I come to you and bring out my present and set it before you.” And he said, “I will stay till you return.”

And the LORD said to him:

But I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man

And he said to him:

If now I have found favor in your eyes, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me

Please do not depart from here until I come to you and bring out my present and set it before you

And he said, “I will stay till you return.”

English Standard Version (Chapter 6)

So Gideon went into his house and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the terebinth and presented them. And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and put them on this rock, and pour the broth over them.” And he did so. Then the angel of the LORD reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes. And fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.

So Gideon went into his house:

And prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour

The meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the terebinth and presented them

And the angel of God said to him:

Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and put them on this rock, and pour the broth over them.

And he did so

Then the angel of the LORD reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes

And fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes

And the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.

English Standard Version (Chapter 6)

Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the LORD. And Gideon said, “Alas, O Lord GOD! For now I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face.” But the LORD said to him, “Peace be to you. Do not fear; you shall not die.” Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD and called it, The LORD Is Peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.

Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the LORD

And Gideon said:

Alas, O Lord GOD! For now I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face

But the LORD said to him, Peace be to you

Do not fear; you shall not die

Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD and called it,

The LORD Is Peace

To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.