Judges 6:36-40 (Vespers, 10th reading)
- 36
- So Gideon said to God, “If You will save Israel by my hand as You have said –
- 37
- look, I shall put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that You will save Israel by my hand, as You have said.”
- 38
- And it was so. When he rose early the next morning and squeezed the fleece together, he wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowlful of water.
- 39
- Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me, but let me speak just once more: Let me test, I pray, just once more with the fleece; let it now be dry only on the fleece, but on all the ground let there be dew.”
- 40
- And God did so that night. It was dry on the fleece only, but there was dew on all the ground.