15 He said to him, “Please, Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Look, my family is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s family.”

16 “But I will be with you,”r the Lord said to him. “You will strike Midian down as if it were one man.”

17 Then he said to him, “If I have found favor with you,s give me a signt that you are speaking with me.