Judges 7:5-7

International Standard Version

⁵ So he brought his soldiers down to the water, and the Lord told Gideon, “You are to cull out everyone who laps up water with his tongue like a dog from everyone who kneels to drink.” ⁶ The contingent of soldiers who lapped water^[a] with their hands to their mouths numbered 300 men, but everyone else kneeled to drink water.

⁷ Then the Lord told Gideon, “I’m going to deliver you with the 300 soldiers who lapped by giving the Midianites into your control. Send everyone else back to their own homes.”^[b]