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

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 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.

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

And the Lord turned to him and said,“ Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?”

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.

Then Moses answered,“ But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say,‘ The Lord did not appear to you.’”The Lord said to him,“ What is that in your hand?” He said,“ A staff.”And he said,“ Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it.But the Lord said to Moses,“ Put out your hand and catch it by the tail”— so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand—“ that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”Again, the Lord said to him,“ Put your hand inside your cloak.” And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow.Then God said,“ Put your hand back inside your cloak.” So he put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh.“ If they will not believe you,” God said,“ or listen to the first sign, they may believe the latter sign.If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you shall take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”

And Isaiah said,“ This shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he has promised: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?”

And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

And he said to him,“ If now I have found favor in your eyes, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me.Please do not depart from here until I come to you and bring out my present and set it before you.” And he said,“ I will stay till you return.”So Gideon went into his house and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the terebinth and presented them.And the angel of God said to him,“ Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and put them on this rock, and pour the broth over them.” And he did so.