Judges 7
1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
Igitur Ierobaal qui et Gedeon, de nocte consurgens, et omnis populus cum eo, venit ad fontem qui vocatur Harad. erant autem castra Madian in valle ad Septentrionalem plagam collis excelsi.
2 Yahweh said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
Dixitque Dominus ad Gedeon: Multus tecum est populus, nec tradetur Madian in manus eius: ne glorietur contra me Israel, et dicat: Meis viribus liberatus sum.
3 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
Loquere ad populum, et cunctis audientibus praedica: Qui formidolosus et timidus est, revertatur. Recesseruntque de monte Galaad, et reversi sunt. Ex populo viginti duo millia virorum, et tantum decem millia remanserunt.
4 Yahweh said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that those whom I tell you, ‘This shall go with you,’ shall go with you; and whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’ shall not go.”
Dixitque Dominus ad Gedeon: Adhuc populus multus est, duc eos ad aquas, et ibi probabo illos: et de quo dixero tibi ut tecum vadat, ipse pergat: quem ire prohibuero, revertatur.
5 So he brought down the people to the water; and Yahweh said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”
Cumque descendisset populus ad aquas, dixit Dominus ad Gedeon: Qui lingua lambuerint aquas, sicut solent canes lambere, separabis eos seorsum: qui autem curvatis genibus biberint, in altera parte erunt.
6 The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.
Fuit itaque numerus eorum qui manu ad os proiiciente, lambuerunt aquas, trecenti viri: omnis autem reliqua multitudo flexo poplite biberat.
7 Yahweh said to Gideon, “I will save you by the three hundred men who lapped, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his own place.”
Et ait Dominus ad Gedeon: In trecentis viris qui lambuerunt aquas, liberabo vos, et tradam in manu tua Madian: omnis autem reliqua multitudo revertatur in locum suum.
8 So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the rest of the men of Israel to their own tents, but retained the three hundred men; and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
Sumptis itaque pro numero cibariis et tubis, omnem reliquam multitudinem abire praecepit ad tabernacula sua: et ipse cum trecentis viris se certamini dedit. Castra autem Madian erant subter in valle.
9 That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Arise, go down into the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.
Eadem nocte dixit Dominus ad eum: Surge, et descende in castra: quia tradidi eos in manu tua.
10 But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp.
sin autem solus ire formidas, descendat tecum Phara puer tuus.
11 You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp.” Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.
Et cum audieris quid loquantur, tunc confortabuntur manus tuae, et securior ad hostium castra descendes. Descendit ergo ipse et Phara puer eius in partem castrorum, ubi erant armatorum vigiliae.
12 The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.
Madian autem et Amalec, et omnes Orientales populi fusi iacebant in valle, ut locustarum multitudo: cameli quoque innumerabiles erant, sicut arena quae iacet in littore maris.
13 When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”
Cumque venisset Gedeon, narrabat aliquis somnium proximo suo: et in hunc modum referebat quod viderat: Vidi somnium, et videbatur mihi quasi subcinericius panis ex hordeo volvi, et in castra Madian descendere: cumque pervenisset ad tabernaculum, percussit illud, atque subvertit, et terrae funditus coaequavit.
14 His fellow answered, “This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army.”
Respondit is, cui loquebatur: Non est hoc aliud, nisi gladius Gedeonis filii Ioas viri Israelitae: tradidit enim Dominus in manus eius Madian, et omnia castra eius.
15 It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. Then he returned into the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for Yahweh has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!”
Cumque audisset Gedeon somnium, et interpretationem eius, adoravit: et reversus est ad castra Israel, et ait: Surgite, tradidit enim Dominus in manus nostras castra Madian.
16 He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
Divisitque trecentos viros in tres partes, et dedit tubas in manibus eorum, lagenasque vacuas ac lampades in medio lagenarum.
17 He said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.
Et dixit ad eos: Quod me facere videritis, hoc facite: ingrediar partem castrorum, et quod fecero sectamini.
18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For Yahweh and for Gideon!’”
Quando personuerit tuba in manu mea, vos quoque per castrorum circuitum clangite, et conclamate, Domino et Gedeoni.
19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
Ingressusque est Gedeon, et trecenti viri qui erant cum eo in partem castrorum, incipientibus vigiliis noctis mediae, et custodibus suscitatis, coeperunt buccinis clangere, et complodere inter se lagenas.
20 The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon!”
Cumque per gyrum castrorum in tribus personarent locis, et hydrias confregissent, tenuerunt sinistris manibus lampades, et dextris sonantes tubas, clamaveruntque: Gladius Domini et Gedeonis:
21 They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.
stantes singuli in loco suo per circuitum castrorum hostilium. Omnia itaque castra turbata sunt, et vociferantes, ululantesque fugerunt:
22 They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
et nihilominus insistebant trecenti viri buccinis personantes. Immisitque Dominus gladium omnibus castris, et mutua se caede truncabant,
23 The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued Midian.
fugientes usque ad Bethseca, et crepidinem Abelmehula in Tabbath. Conclamantes autem viri Israel de Nephthali, et Aser, et omni Manasse persequebantur Madian.
24 Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against Midian and take the waters before them as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan!” So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.
Misitque Gedeon nuncios in omnem montem Ephraim, dicens: Descendite in occursum Madian, et occupate aquas usque Bethbera atque Iordanem. Clamavitque omnis Ephraim, et praeoccupavit aquas atque Iordanem usque Bethbera.
25 They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press, as they pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
Apprehensosque duos viros Madian, Oreb, et Zeb, interfecit Oreb in Petra Oreb, Zeb vero in Torculari Zeb. Et persecuti sunt Madian, capita Oreb et Zeb portantes ad Gedeon trans fluenta Iordanis.
