Judges 6:16–23

^16aBut the Lord said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall ¹defeat Midian as one man.”

¹⁷So ¹Gideon said to Him, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me ^aa sign that it is You who speak with me.

¹⁸“Please do not depart from here, until I come back to You, and bring out my offering and lay it before You.” And He said, “I will remain until you return.”

¹⁹Then Gideon went in and ^aprepared a young goat and unleavened bread from an ¹ephah of flour; he put the meat in a basket ²and the broth in a pot, and brought them out to him under the ³oak and presented them.

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

²¹Then the angel of the Lord put out the end of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread; and ^afire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the Lord ¹vanished from his sight.

^22aWhen Gideon saw that he was the angel of the Lord, ¹he said, “Alas, O Lord ²God! For now I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.”

²³The Lord said to him, “Peace to you, do not fear; you shall not die.”