Judices 7:6

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Josue vero scidit vestimenta sua, et pronus cecidit in terram coram arca Domini usque ad vesperam, tam ipse quam omnes senes Israël : miseruntque pulverem super capita sua,

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Fuit itaque numerus eorum qui manu ad os projiciente lambuerunt aquas, trecenti viri: omnis autem reliqua multitudo flexo poplite biberat.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Fuit itaque numerus eorum, qui manu ad os proiciente aquas lambuerant, trecenti viri; omnis autem reliqua multitudo flexo poplite biberat.

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Reciprocal: Psalms 110:7 - He shall

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth,.... That is, that took up water in the hollow of their hands, which they lifted up to their mouths, and so lapped it, as the Egyptians about the Nile are said d to do, who drank not out of pots and cups, but used their hands to drink with:

were three hundred men; only such a number out of 10,000: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water; even 9,700; and it was the custom of some nations, as the Ichthyophagy, or fish eaters, to cast themselves with their face to the ground, and drink after the manner of oxen e.

d Achilles Tatius, l. 4. e Strabo. Geograph. l. 16. p. 532.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 7:6. The number of them that lapped — From this account it appears that some of the people went down on their knees, and putting their mouths to the water, sucked up what they needed; the others stooped down, and taking up water in the hollow of their hands, applied it to their mouth.