“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.”
Then the LORD said to Gideon, 'There are still too many; take them down to the water, and I will sift them out for you there. When I say, "This one shall go with you," he shall go; and when I say, "This one shall not go," he shall not go." — The second reduction uses a water-drinking test as the sifting mechanism. The verb 'sift' indicates divine selection through a criterion known only to God, suggesting that the test measures some quality beyond the soldiers' awareness.
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