07:006:039 And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against
           me, and I will speak but this once:  let me prove, I pray thee,
           but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the
           fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.

07:006:040 And God did so that night:  for it was dry upon the fleece
           only, and there was dew on all the ground.

07:007:001 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were
           with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: 
           so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of
           them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

07:007:002 And the lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee
           are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands,
           lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand
           hath saved me.

07:007:003 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people,
           saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and
           depart early from mount Gilead.  And there returned of the
           people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten
           thousand.

07:007:004 And the lord said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many;
           bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee
           there:  and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This
           shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of
           whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the
           same shall not go.

07:007:005 So he brought down the people unto the water:  and the lord
           said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his
           tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself;
           likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.

07:007:006 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.

07:007:007 And the lord said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that
           lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine
           hand:  and let all the other people go every man unto his
           place.

07:007:008 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: 
           and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent,
           and retained those three hundred men:  and the host of Midian
           was beneath him in the valley.

07:007:009 And it came to pass the same night, that the lord said unto
           him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered
           it into thine hand.