7:16 He divided the three hundred men into three units. 1 He gave them all trumpets and empty jars with torches inside them. 2 7:17 He said to them, “Watch me and do as I do. Watch closely! 3 I am going to the edge of the camp. Do as I do!
7:18 When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, you also blow your trumpets all around the camp. Then say, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon!’”
1 tnHeb “heads.”
2 tnHeb “the jars.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“them”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.