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NOVA VULGATA	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Igitur Ierobbaal, qui et Gedeon, de nocte consurgens et omnis populus cum eo castrame tati sunt ad fontem, qui vocatur Harad. Erant autem castra Madian in valle ad septentrionalem plagam collis Moreh.	1 Then Jerobaal, who is the same as Gedeon, rising up early and all the people with him, came to the fountain that is called Harad. Now the camp of Madian was in the valley on the north side of the high hill.
2 Dixitque Dominus ad Gedeon: “ Maior tecum est populus, quam ut tradatur Madian in manus eius, ne glorietur contra me Israel et dicat: “Meis viribus liberatus sum”.	2 And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people that are with thee are many, and Madian shall not be delivered into their hands: lest Israel should glory against me, and say: I was delivered by my own strength.
3 Loquere ad populum et, cunctis audientibus, praedica: “Qui formidolosus et timidus est, revertatur et recedat de monte Gelboe” ”. Et reversa sunt ex populo viginti duo milia virorum; et tantum decem milia remanserunt.	3 Speak to the people, and proclaim in the hearing of all, I Whosoever is fearful and timorous, let him return. So two and twenty thousand men went away from mount Galaad and returned home, and only ten thousand remained.
4 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 ”.	4 And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people are still too many, bring them to the waters, and there I will try them: and of whom I shall say to thee, This shall go with thee, let him go: whom I shall forbid to go, let him return.
5 Cumque deduxisset populum 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 ”.	5 And when the people were come down to the waters, the Lord said to Gedeon: They that shall lap the water with their tongues, as dogs are wont to lap, thou shalt set apart by themselves: but they that shall drink bowing down their knees, shall be on the other side.
6 Fuit itaque numerus eorum, qui manu ad os proiciente aquas lambuerant, trecenti viri; omnis autem reliqua multitudo flexo poplite biberat.	6 And the number of them that had lapped water, casting it with the hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: and all the rest of the multitude had drunk kneeling.
7 Et ait Dominus ad Gedeon: “ In trecentis viris, qui lambuerunt aquas, liberabo vos et tradam Madian in manu tua; omnis autem reliqua multitudo revertatur in locum suum ”.	7 And the Lord said to Gedeon: By the three hundred men, that lapped water, I will save you, and deliver Madian into thy hand: but let all the rest of the people return to their place.
8 Sumptis itaque pro numero cibariis et tubis, omnem reliquam multitudinem abire praecepit ad tabernacula sua et ipse trecentos viros tenuit. Castra autem Madian erant subter eum in valle.	8 So taking victuals and trumpets according to their number, he ordered all the rest of the multitude to depart to their tents: and he with the three hundred gave himself to the battle. Now the camp of Madian was beneath him in the valley.
9 Eadem nocte dixit Dominus ad eum: “ Surge et descende in castra, quia tradidi ea in manu tua.	9 The same night the Lord said to him: Arise, and go down into the camp: because I have delivered them into thy hand.
10 Sin autem ire formidas, descendat tecum Phara puer tuus.	10 But if thou be afraid to go alone, let Phara thy servant go down with thee.
11 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.	11 And when thou shalt hear what they are saying, then shall thy hands be strengthened, and thou shalt go down more secure to the enemies' camp. And he went down with Phara his servant into part of the camp, where was the watch of men in arms.
12 Madian autem et Amalec et omnes orientales populi fusi iacebant in valle ut locustarum multitudo; cameli quoque innumerabiles erant sicut arena, quae iacet in litoribus maris.	12 But Madian and Amalec, and all the eastern people lay scattered in the valley, as a multitude of locusts: their camels also were innumerable as the sand that lieth on the sea shore.
13 Cumque venisset Gedeon, narrabat aliquis somnium proximo suo et dicebat: “ Ecce vidi somnium, et videbatur mihi quasi subcinericius panis ex hordeo volvi et in Madian castra descendere; cumque pervenisset ad tabernaculum, percussit illud atque subvertit et terrae funditus coaequavit ”.	13 And when Gedeon was come, one told his neighbour a dream: and in this manner related what he had seen: I dreamt a dream, and it seemed to me as if a hearth cake of barley bread rolled and came down into the camp of Madian: and when it was come to a tent it struck it, and beat it down flat to the ground.
14 Respondit is, cui loquebatur: “Non est hoc aliud nisi gladius Gedeonis filii Ioas viri Israelitae; tradidit Deus in manu eius Madian et omnia castra eius ”.	14 He to whom he spoke, answered: This is nothing else but the sword of Gedeon the son of Joas a man of Israel. For the Lord hath delivered Madian, and all their camp into his hand.
15 Cumque audisset Gedeon somnium et interpretationem eius, adoravit et reversus ad castra Israel ait: “ Surgite, tradidit enim Dominus in manus vestras castra Madian ”.	15 And when Gedeon had heard the dream, and the interpretation thereof, he adored: and returned to the camp of Israel, and said: Arise, for the Lord hath delivered the camp of Madian into our hands.
16 Divisitque trecentos viros in tres partes et dedit tubas in manibus eorum lagoenasque vacuas ac lampades in medio lagoenarum	16 And he divided the three hundred men into three parts, and gave them trumpets in their hands, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
17 et dixit ad eos: “ Quod me facere videritis, hoc facite; ingrediar extremam partem castrorum, et, quod fecero, sectamini.	17 And he said to them: What you shall see me do, do you the same: I will go into one part of the camp, and do you as I shall do.
18 Quando personaverit tuba in manu mea et omnium eorum, qui mecum sunt, vos quoque per castrorum circuitum clangite et conclamate: “Domino et Gedeoni!” ”.	18 When the trumpet shall sound in my hand, do you also blow the trumpets on every side of the camp.
19 Ingressusque est Gedeon et trecenti viri, qui erant cum eo, extremam partem castrorum, incipientibus vigiliis noctis mediae, cum eo ipso tempore custodes mutati essent, et coeperunt bucinis clangere et conterere lagoenas.	19 And Gedeon, and the three hundred men that were with him, went into part of the camp, at the beginning of the midnight watch, and the watchmen being alarmed, they began to sound their trumpets, and to clap the pitchers one against another.
20 Cumque in tribus personarent turmis et hydrias confregissent, tenuerunt sinistris manibus lampades et dextris sonantes tubas clamaveruntque: “ Gladius Domino et Gedeoni! ”,	20 And when they sounded their trumpets in three places round about the camp, and had broken their pitchers, they held their lamps in their left hands, and with their right hands the trumpets which they blew, and they cried out: The sword of the Lord and of Gedeon;
21 stantes singuli in loco suo per circuitum castrorum hostilium. Omnia itaque castra turbata sunt, et vociferantes ululantesque fugerunt.	21 Standing every man in his place round about the enemies' camp. So all the camp was troubled, and crying out and howling they fled away.
22 Et insistebant trecenti viri bucinis personantes. Immisitque Dominus gladium in omnibus castris, et mutua se caede truncabant fugientes usque Bethsetta, Sareda et crepidinem Abelmehula in Tebbath.	22 And the three hundred men nevertheless persisted sounding the trumpets. And the Lord sent the sword into all the camp, and they killed one another,
23 Convocati autem viri Israel de Nephthali et Aser et omni Manasse persequebantur Madian.	23 Fleeing as far as Bethsetta, and the border of Abelmahula in Tebbath. But the men of Israel shouting from Nephtali and Aser, and from all Manasses pursued after Madian.
24 Misitque Gedeon nuntios in omnem montem Ephraim dicens: “ Descendite in occursum Madian et occupate aquas usque Bethbera atque Iordanem ”. Omnis Ephraim praeoccupavit aquas usque Bethbera atque Iordanem.	24 And Gedeon sent messengers into all mount Ephraim, saying: Come down to meet Madian, and take the waters before them to Bethbera and the Jordan. And all Ephraim shouted, and took the waters before them and the Jordan as far as Bethbera.
25 Apprehensosque duos principes 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.	25 And having taken two men of Madian, Oreb and Zeb: Oreb they slew in the rock of Oreb, and Zeb in the winepress of Zeb. And they pursued Madian, carrying the heads of Oreb and Zeb to Gedeon beyond the waters of the Jordan.