Judges 6:19

17 Gideon answered, “If I have found favor in Your sight, give me a sign that it is You speaking with me.

18 Please do not depart from this place until I return to You. Let me bring my offering and set it before You.” And the LORD said, “I will stay until you return.”

So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak.

20 And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so.

21 Then the angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak.
KJV
And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.
WEB
Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.
ASV
And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.
DARBY
And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid of the goats, and an ephah of flour in unleavened cakes: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the terebinth, and presented it.
BLB
And Gideon went in and prepared a kid of the goats and an ephah of flour of unleavened [bread]. He put the flesh in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and he brought [them] out to Him, to under the oak, and brought [them] near.
ÅB
Så gikk Gideon inn og laget til et kje og en efa mel til usyrede kaker; kjøttet la han i en kurv, og suppen hadde han i en krukke og bar det ut til ham under eken og satte det fram.
OTB
Gideon gikk inn, tilberedte en ung geit, og av en efa mel laget han usyret brød. Han la kjøttet i en kurv og suppen i en gryte, og brakte dem ut og ofret dem under eiken.
B1930
Så gikk Gideon inn og laget til et kje og en efa mel til usyrede kaker; kjøttet la han i en kurv, og suppen hadde han i en krukke og bar det ut til ham under eken og satte det frem.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Genesis 18:6–8

    So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”

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  • Leviticus 2:4

    Now if you bring an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must consist of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.

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  • Judges 13:15–19

    “Please stay here,” Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “and we will prepare a young goat for you.”

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