¹⁷Gideon replied, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign^k that it is really you talking to me. ¹⁸Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.”

And the Lord said, “I will wait until you return.”

¹⁹Gideon went inside, prepared a young goat,^l and from an ephah^a^m of flour he made bread without yeast. Putting the meat in a basket and its broth in a pot, he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak.ⁿ

²⁰The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock,^o and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so. ²¹Then the angel of the Lord touched the meat and the unleavened bread^p with the tip of the staff^q that was in his hand. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the Lord disappeared. ²²When Gideon realized^r that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!”^s

²³But the Lord said to him, “Peace! Do not be afraid.^t You are not going to die.”^u

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Footnotes

aThat is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms

Cross references

j Ex 3:12; See Nu 14:43; Jos 1:5
kver 36–37; See Ge 24:14; See Ex 3:12; See 4:8
l Jdg 13:15
mSee Lev 19:36
n Ge 18:7–8
o Jdg 13:19
pSee Lev 9:24
qSee Ex 4:2
r Jdg 13:16, 21
s Ge 32:30; Jdg 13:22
t Da 10:19
uSee Ge 16:13; See Dt 5:26