Judges 7:6
Good News Translation
There were three hundred men who scooped up water in their hands and lapped it; all the others got down on their knees to drink.

New Revised Standard Version
The number of those that lapped was three hundred; but all the rest of the troops knelt down to drink water.

Contemporary English Version
Three hundred men scooped up water in their hands and lapped it, and the rest knelt to get a drink.

New American Bible
Those who lapped up the water with their tongues numbered three hundred, but all the rest of the soldiers knelt down to drink the water.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the number of them that had lapped water; casting it with the hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: and all the rest of the multitude had drunk kneeling.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the number of them that had lapped water; casting it with the hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: and all the rest of the multitude had drunk kneeling.

Context
Gideon's Army of Three Hundred
5And when the people were come down to the waters, the Lord said to Gedeon: They that shall lap the water with their tongues, as dogs are wont to lap, thou shalt set apart by themselves: but they that shall drink bowing down their knees, shall be on the other side. 6And the number of them that had lapped water; casting it with the hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: and all the rest of the multitude had drunk kneeling.7And the Lord said to Gedeon: By the three hundred men, that lapped water, I will save you, and deliver Madian into thy hand: but let all the rest of the people return to their place.…
Cross References
Judges 7:5
And when the people were come down to the waters, the Lord said to Gedeon: They that shall lap the water with their tongues, as dogs are wont to lap, thou shalt set apart by themselves: but they that shall drink bowing down their knees, shall be on the other side.

Judges 7:7
And the Lord said to Gedeon: By the three hundred men, that lapped water, I will save you, and deliver Madian into thy hand: but let all the rest of the people return to their place.

Psalm 110:7
He shall drink of the torrent in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.

Judges 7:5
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