^{12 Ref} The angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him, Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor.

^{13 Ref} Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? and where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Yahweh bring us up from Egypt? but now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.

^{14 Ref} Yahweh looked at him, and said, Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian: have not I sent you?

^{15 Ref} He said to him, Oh, Lord, with which shall I save Israel? behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.

^{16 Ref} Yahweh said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.

^{17 Ref} He said to him, If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.

^{18 Ref} Please don't go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you. He said, I will wait until you come again.

^{19 Ref} Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.

^{20 Ref} The angel of God said to him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth. He did so.

^{21 Ref} Then the angel of Yahweh put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there went up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of Yahweh departed out of his sight.

^{22 Ref} Gideon saw that he was the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said, Alas, Lord Yahweh! because I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to face.

^{23 Ref} Yahweh said to him, Peace be to you; don't be afraid: you shall not die.

^{24 Ref} Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it Yahweh-shalom: to this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

^{25 Ref} It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, Take your father's bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;

^{26 Ref} and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in the orderly manner, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.