Gideon said to God,“ If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,

基甸对神说：“你若果照着所说的话，藉我手拯救以色列人，

基甸对上帝说：“你如果真的照你所说的，藉我的手拯救以色列，

基甸对神说：“你如果真的照你所说的，藉我的手拯救以色列，

基甸对上帝说：“若如你所言，你要用我去拯救以色列人，

基甸对神说：“如果你按着你所说的，要藉着我的手拯救以色列人；

基甸對神說：「你若果照着所說的話，藉我手拯救以色列人，

基甸對上帝說：「你如果真的照你所說的，藉我的手拯救以色列，

基甸對神說：「你如果真的照你所說的，藉我的手拯救以色列，

基甸對上帝說：「若如你所言，你要用我去拯救以色列人，

基甸對神說：“如果你按著你所說的，要藉著我的手拯救以色列人；

基甸對上帝說：『你如果照你所說的要藉着我的手來拯救以色列，

基甸謂上帝曰、如爾果循所言、假我手而拯以色列人、

其田求上帝曰、爾嘗有言、必假手於我、援以色列族。

基甸禱天主曰、主若果藉我手拯以色列人、循主所許、

Gideon said to God,“ If you will save Israel by my hand as you have promised—

Gideon said to God,“ You promised you would use me to save Israel.

Then Gideon said to God,“ If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said,

Then Gideon said to God,“ If you are truly going to use me to rescue Israel as you promised,

Then Gideon said to God,“ If you will deliver Israel by me, as you said,

Then Gideon said to God,“ If You are going to save Israel through me, as You have spoken,

So Gideon said to God,“ If You will save Israel by my hand as You have said—

And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast spoken,

Then Gideon said to God,“ If You will deliver Israel by my hand, as You said,

And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,

Gideon said to God,“ If you really intend to use me to deliver Israel, as you promised, then give me a sign as proof.

Yahweh looked at him, and said,“ Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven’t I sent you?”

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

Moses answered,“ But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say,‘ Yahweh has not appeared to you.’”Yahweh said to him,“ What is that in your hand?” He said,“ A rod.”He said,“ Throw it on the ground.” He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.Yahweh said to Moses,“ Stretch out your hand, and take it by the tail.” He stretched out his hand, and took hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.“ This is so that they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”Yahweh said furthermore to him,“ Now put your hand inside your cloak.” He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.He said,“ Put your hand inside your cloak again.” He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.“ It will happen, if they will not believe you or listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.”

Isaiah said,“ This will be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing that he has spoken: should the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?”

The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

He said to him,“ If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.Please don’t go away until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you.” He said,“ I will wait until you come back.”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.The angel of God said to him,“ Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” He did so.