Judges 7:3
Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
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Context
1 Then Jerubbaal, who Gideon, and all the people that with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
2 And the Yahuah said unto Gideon, The people that with you too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand has saved me.
3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
4 And the Yahuah said unto Gideon, The people yet many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for you there: and it shall be, of whom I say unto you, This shall go with you, the same shall go with you; and of whomsoever I say unto you, This shall not go with you, the same shall not go.
5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and the Yahuah said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shall you set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.