¹⁷Gideon said to him, “If you find me acceptable, give me a sign that it is really you speaking to me. ¹⁸Don’t leave until I come back. I want to bring my gift and set it in front of you.”

“I will stay until you come back,” he said.

¹⁹Then Gideon went into ⸤his house⸥ and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread made with 18 quarts of flour. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot. Then he went out and presented them to the Messenger of the Lord under the oak tree.

²⁰The Messenger of the Lord told him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, put them on this rock, and pour the broth over them.” Gideon did so. ²¹Then the Messenger of the Lord touched the meat and the bread with the tip of the staff that was in his hand. Fire flared up from the rock and burned the meat and the bread. Then the Messenger of the Lord disappeared. ²²That’s when Gideon realized that this had been the Messenger of the Lord. So he said, “Lord God! I have seen the Messenger of the Lord face to face.”

²³The Lord said to him, “Calm down! Don’t be afraid. You will not die.”

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