^{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.