"You shall not watch the ox of your neighbor or his sheep or goat straying and ignore them; certainly you shall return them to your neighbor.

So Gideon and the hundred men who [were] with him came to the edge of the camp [at] the beginning of the middle night-watch, when they had just finished setting up the guards, and they blew on the trumpets and smashed the jars that [were] in their hands.

For a thousand years in your eyes [are] like yesterday when it passes, or [like] a watch in the night.

And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea.

But understand this: that if the master of the house had known what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.

And he saw them being beaten in their rowing because the wind was against them. Around the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he was wanting to pass by them.

And there were shepherds in the same region, living out of doors and keeping watch, guarding over their flock by night.

Even if he should come back in the second or in the third watch of the night and find [them] like this, blessed are they!