RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

have not obeyed My voice.
11 And there came the Malach-vuvh, who sat under an
oak that was in Ophrah that belonged to Yoash the Avi-
Ezrite: and his son Gidyon threshed wheat by the
winepress, to hide it from the Midyanites.
12 And the Malach-vuvh appeared to him, and said to
him, vuvh is with you, you mighty man of valor.
13 And Gidyon said to Him, Oh my Master, if vuvh is
with us, why then is all this happened to us? And where
are all His nisim which our ahvot told us about, saying,
Did not vuvh bring us up from Mitzrayim? But now vuvh
has forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the
Midyanites.
14 And vuvh looked upon him, 721 and said, Go in this
your might, and you shall save Yisrael from the hand of
the Midyanites: have not I sent you?
15 And he said to Him, Oh my Master, with what shall I
save Yisrael? See, my mishpacha is poor in Menashsheh,
and I am the least in my abba's bayit.
16 And vuvh said to him, Surely I will be with you, and
you shall smite the Midyanites as one man.
17 And he said to Him, If now I have found favor in Your
sight, then show me an ot that it is You who is talking
with me.
18 Depart not from here, I ask You, until I come to You,
to bring forth my present, and set it before You. And He
said, I will stay until you come again.
19 And Gidyon went in, and made ready a young goat,
and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the meat he
put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought
it out to him under the oak, and presented it.
20 And the Malach-vuvh said to him, Take the flesh and
the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and
pour out the broth. And he did so.
21 Then the Malach-vuvh put forth the end of the staff
that was in His hand, and touched the meat and the
unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock,
and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then
the Malach-vuvh departed out of his sight.
22 And when Gidyon perceived that He was the Malachvuvh,
Gidyon said, Oy, Oy vuvh-Elohim! I have seen the
Malach-vuvh panayim-el-panayim.
23 And vuvh said to him, Shalom be to you; fear not: you
shall not die. 722
24 Then Gidyon built an altar there to vuvh, and called it
vuvh-Shalom: to this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Avi-
Ezrites.
25 And it came to pass the same night, that vuvh said to
him, Take your abba's young bull, even the second bull of
seven years old, and throw down the altar of Ba’al that
your abba has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it:
26 And build an altar to vuvh your Elohim on the top of
this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bull,
and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the Asherah
that you shall cut down.
27 Then Gidyon took ten men of his avadim, 723 and did
as vuvh had said to him: and so it was, because he feared
his abba's household, and the men of the city, that he
could not do it by day, so he did it by night.
28 And when the men of the city arose early in the
morning, and see, the altar of Ba’al was cast down, and
the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second
bull was offered upon the altar that was built.
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29 And they said one to another, Who has done this
thing? And when they inquired and asked, they said,
Gidyon the son of Yoash has done this thing.
30 Then the men of the city said to Yoash, Bring out your
son, that he may die: because he has cast down the altar of
Ba’al, 724 and because he has cut down the Asherah that
was by it.
31 And Yoash said to all that stood against him, Will you
plead for Ba’al? Will you save him? He that will plead for
him, let him be put to death while it is yet morning: if he
be a real elohim, let him plead for himself, because
someone has cast down his altar.
32 Therefore on that day Yoash called Gidyon;
Yahruba’al, saying, Let Ba’al plead against him, because
his altar is thrown down.
33 Then all the Midyanites and the Amalekites and the
children of the east were gathered together, and went
over, and camped in the Valley of Yezreel.
34 But the Ruach of vuvh came upon Gidyon, and he
blew a shofar; and Avi-Ezer was gathered to him.
35 And he sent messengers throughout all Menashsheh;
who also were gathered to him: and he sent messengers to
Asher, and to Zevulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up
to meet them.
36 And Gidyon said to Elohim, If You will save Yisrael
by my hand, as You have said,
37 See, I will put a fleece of wool on the floor; and if the
dew is on the fleece only, and it is dry upon all the earth
next to it, then shall I know that You will save Yisrael by
my hand, as You have said.
38 And it was so: for he rose up early in the morning, and
squeezed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of
the fleece, filling a bowl full of mayim.
39 And Gidyon said to Elohim, Let not Your anger be hot
against me, and I will speak only once more: let me test
once more with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the
fleece, and upon all the ground next to it let there be dew.
40 And Elohim did so that night: for it was dry upon the
fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
Then Yahruba’al, who is Gidyon, and all the people
that were with him, rose up early, and camped beside the
well of Harod: so that the army of the Midyanites were on
the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
2 And vuvh said to Gidyon, The people that are with you
are too many for Me to give the Midyanites into their
hands, lest Yisrael boast themselves against Me, saying,
my own hand has saved me. 725
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3 Now therefore go proclaim in the ears of the people,
saying, Anyone who is fearful and afraid, let him return
and depart early from Mount Gilad. And there returned
from the people twenty two thousand; and there remained
ten thousand.
4 And vuvh said to Gidyon, The people are yet too many;
bring them down to the mayim, and I will test them for
you there: and it shall be, that of whom I say to you, This
one shall go with you, the same shall go with you; and of
whoever I say to you, This one shall not go with you, the
same one shall not go.
5 So he brought down the people to the mayim: and vuvh
said to Gidyon, Everyone that laps of the mayim with his
tongue, as a dog laps, him shall you set by himself;
likewise every one that bows down upon his knees