Księga Sędziów 7:5

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Gedeon sprowadził więc wojsko nad wodę. Wtedy PAN mu powiedział: Każdego, kto będzie chłeptał wodę językiem jak pies, ustaw osobno. Podobnie zrób z każdym, kto - aby pić - uklęknie na kolana.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Tedy wiódł lud do wody, a Pan rzekł do Gedeona: Każdy który będzie łeptał wodę językiem jako pies łepce, temu każesz stanąć osobno, a który zasię poklęknie na kolana aby pił, ten też osobno stanie.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Tedy zaprowadził lud do wód; i rzekł Pan do Giedeona: Każdego, który łeptać będzie językiem swoim wodę, jako pies łepce, postawisz go osobno; także każdego, który uklęknie na kolana swoje, aby pił, stanie osobno.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Tak sprowadził on lud nad wodę. A WIEKUISTY powiedział do Gideona: Każdego, kto będzie chłeptał wodę swoim językiem, podobnie jak chłepcą psy – tego postawisz osobno; również każdego, kto uklęknie, aby się napić.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
Tedy zaprowadził lud do wód; i rzekł Pan do Giedeona: Każdego, który łeptać będzie językiem swoim wodę, jako pies łepce, postawisz go osobno; także każdego, który uklęknie na kolana swoje, aby pił, stanie osobno.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Zaprowadził więc lud nad wodę, a PAN powiedział do Gedeona: Każdego, kto będzie chłeptał wodę swym językiem, jak chłepce pies, postawisz osobno; także każdy, który uklęknie na kolana, aby pić, stanie osobno.

Biblia Warszawska
Sprowadził więc zastęp nad wodę. Wtedy rzekł Pan do Gedeona: Każdego, który chłeptać będzie wodę językiem jak pies chłepce, odstaw osobno; tak samo każdego, który klęknie na kolana, aby pić.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lappeth: The original word yalok, is precisely the sound which the dog makes in lapping. It appears that it is not unusual for the Arabs to drink water out of the palms of their hands; and, from this account, we learn that the Israelites did so occasionally. Dr. A. Clarke, in his edition of Harmer, has presented us with the following curious manuscript note from Dr. Russell. "When they take water with the palms of their hands, they naturally place themselves on their hams, to be nearer the water; but when they drink from a pitcher or gourd, fresh filled, they do not sit down on purpose to drink, but drink standing, and very often put the sleeve of their shirt over the mouth of the vessel, by way of strainer, lest small leeches might have been taken up with the water. For the same reason they often prefer taking the water with the palm of the hand to lapping it from the surface." From the letters of Busbequius we learn, that the Eastern people are not in the habit of drinking standing. The 300 men, who satisfied their thirst in the most expeditious manner, by this sufficiently indicated their spirit, and alacrity to follow Gideon in his dangerous enterprise; while the rest shewed their love of ease, self-indulgence, effeminacy, and want of courage. Judges 7:5

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 17:13 - make me thereof Psalms 110:7 - He shall

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So he brought them down to the water,....] His whole army of 10,000 men:

and the Lord said unto Gideon, everyone that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shall thou set by himself; this has led some, as particularly Grotius, to think of the Egyptian dogs; of whom Aelianus relates b, that they do not drink at once freely, and to satiety, being afraid of the crocodiles in the river; but run about the bank, and by stealth snatch a little here and a little there, and so satisfy themselves: but the allusion here is to dogs in common, whose usual way it is not to sup in, and drink a drought, but by putting out their tongues to lick and lap water with them, as Aristotle c says all creatures do that have teeth like saws; and the likeness between the drinking of these men, to be observed lay not in anything else but in the single action of lapping; for they first took the water in the hollow of their hands, out of the stream, and then lapped it, as in Judges 7:6 whereas a dog does not and cannot take water that way; and this lapping was standing upright, whereas dogs in common, as Aelianus in the same place suggests, bow themselves, and lap as much water as will satisfy their thirst; and by this these men were distinguished from those that bowed on their knees to drink; for had they not taken up water in their hands, they must have bowed down on their knees to have lapped, as well as those did, to sup it, or take in a large draught of it; now all those that thus lapped were to be set apart by themselves; but whether they were to go with Gideon or not, as yet he knew not: likewise everyone that boweth down on his knee to drink; were to be set by themselves also, but which of those were to go with him is after related.

b Var. Hist. l. 1. c. 4. c Hist. Animal. l. 8. c. 6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 7:5. Every one that lappeth of the water - as a dog — The original word ילק yalok is precisely the sound which a dog makes when he is drinking.