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19 So Gideon went into his house (A)and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an ephah[a] of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the terebinth and presented them. 20 And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and put them (B)on this rock, and (C)pour the broth over them.” And he did so. 21 Then the angel of the Lord reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes. (D)And fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of the Lord vanished from his sight. 22 Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the Lord. And Gideon said, (E)“Alas, O Lord God! For now I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.” 23 But the Lord said to him, (F)“Peace be to you. Do not fear; you shall not die.” 24 Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, (G)The Lord Is Peace. To this day it still stands at (H)Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 6:19 An ephah was about 3/5 of a bushel or 22 litres