Judges 6:40
New International Version
That night God did so. Only the fleece was dry; all the ground was covered with dew.

New Living Translation
So that night God did as Gideon asked. The fleece was dry in the morning, but the ground was covered with dew.

English Standard Version
And God did so that night; and it was dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew.

Berean Standard Bible
And that night God did so. Only the fleece was dry, and dew covered the ground.

King James Bible
And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

New King James Version
And God did so that night. It was dry on the fleece only, but there was dew on all the ground.

New American Standard Bible
And God did so that night; for it was dry only on the fleece, and dew was on all the ground.

NASB 1995
God did so that night; for it was dry only on the fleece, and dew was on all the ground.

NASB 1977
And God did so that night; for it was dry only on the fleece, and dew was on all the ground.

Legacy Standard Bible
And God did so that night. So it was dry only on the fleece, but dew was on all the ground.

Amplified Bible
God did so that night; for it was dry only on the fleece, and there was dew on all the ground [around it].

Christian Standard Bible
That night God did as Gideon requested: only the fleece was dry, and dew was all over the ground.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
That night God did as Gideon requested: only the fleece was dry, and dew was all over the ground.

American Standard Version
And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And on that night God did in this way, and it was dry on the fleece alone, and upon all the ground was dew

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And God did so in that night; and there was drought on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew.

Contemporary English Version
That night, God made the stone floor wet with dew, but he kept the sheep skin dry.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And God did that night as he had requested: and it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

English Revised Version
And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
During the night, God did what Gideon asked. The wool was dry, but all the ground was covered with dew.

Good News Translation
That night God did that very thing. The next morning the wool was dry, but the ground was wet with dew.

International Standard Version
And God did it just like that later that night. It was dry only on the fleece, but dew was all around on the ground.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And God did so that night; for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

Literal Standard Version
And God does so on that night, and there is only dryness on the fleece, and there has been dew on all the earth.

Majority Standard Bible
And that night God did so. Only the fleece was dry, and dew covered the ground.

New American Bible
That is what God did that night: the fleece alone was dry, but there was dew on all the ground.

NET Bible
That night God did as he asked. Only the fleece was dry and the ground around it was covered with dew.

New Revised Standard Version
And God did so that night. It was dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew.

New Heart English Bible
God did so that night, for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew all over the ground.

Webster's Bible Translation
And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

World English Bible
God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

Young's Literal Translation
And God doth so on that night, and there is drought on the fleece alone, and on all the earth there hath been dew.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Sign of the Fleece
39Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time let it be dry, and the ground covered with dew.” 40And that night God did so. Only the fleece was dry, and dew covered the ground.

Cross References
Judges 6:39
Then Gideon said to God, "Do not be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time let it be dry, and the ground covered with dew."

Judges 7:1
Early in the morning Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the men with him camped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.


Treasury of Scripture

And God did so that night: for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

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Judges 6
1. The Israelites for their sin are oppressed by Midian
8. A prophet rebukes them
11. An angel sends Gideon for their deliverance
17. Gideon's present is consumed with fire
24. Gideon destroys Baal's altar; offers a sacrifice upon the altar Jehovah-shalom
28. Joash defends his son, and calls him Jerubbaal
33. Gideon's army
36. Gideon's signs














(40) It was dry upon the fleece only.--Such a result as this--not being in accordance with natural circumstances--could only have arisen from direct interposition. Besides the simple narrative, which tells us of these results as a sign granted to Gideon in accordance with his prayer, it is of course possible to allegorise the dew as the sign of God's grace, and to say that the first sign represented Israel as replenished with God's love when all was dry around (Hosea 14:5, "I will be as the dew unto Israel;" Micah 5:7, "Jacob shall be as the dew"); and the second, the fact that "God manifested himself in the weakness and forsaken condition of His people, while the nations were flourishing all around." Similarly St. Ambrose (De Sp. Sanct, Prol. in 1) sees in the fleece full of dew the Hebrew nation hiding the mystery of Christ within itself, and in the dry fleece that mystery extended to all the world, but leaving the Hebrew nation dry. It would be equally possible to give a mystic significance to the threshing-floor, as a type of the universal Church (Matthew 3:12, &c.). But these allegoric applications of simple narratives are, to say the least, precarious; nor is there much value in Ewald's comparison of the fleece to Gideon's character, cool amid the general passion, dry amid the general damp of fear.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And that
הַה֑וּא (ha·hū)
Article | Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

night
בַּלַּ֣יְלָה (bal·lay·lāh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3915: A twist, night, adversity

God
אֱלֹהִ֛ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

did
וַיַּ֧עַשׂ (way·ya·‘aś)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

so.
כֵּ֖ן (kên)
Adverb
Strong's 3651: So -- thus

Only
לְבַדָּ֔הּ (lə·ḇad·dāh)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 905: Separation, a part of the body, branch of a, tree, bar for, carrying, chief of

the fleece
הַגִּזָּה֙ (hag·giz·zāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1492: A fleece

was
וַיְהִי־ (way·hî-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

dry,
חֹ֤רֶב (ḥō·reḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2721: Dryness, drought, heat

and dew
טָֽל׃ (ṭāl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2919: Night mist, dew

covered
הָ֥יָה (hā·yāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

the ground.
הָאָ֖רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land


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