the wool of a sheep, whether shorn off or still attached to the skin (De 18:4; Job 31:20). The miracle of Gideon's fleece (Jg 6:37-40) consisted in the dew having fallen at one time on the fleece without any on the floor, and at another time in the fleece remaining dry while the ground was wet with dew.
The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.
behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said." And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water. read more. Then Gideon said to God, "Let not your anger burn against me; let me speak just once more. Please let me test just once more with the fleece. Please let it be dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew." And God did so that night; and it was dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew.
if his body has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep,
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