Judges 6:17
Good News Translation
Gideon replied, "If you are pleased with me, give me some proof that you are really the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
Then he said to him, “If now I have found favor with you, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me.

Contemporary English Version
Gideon said, "It's hard to believe that I'm actually talking to the LORD. Please do something so I'll know that you really are the LORD.

New American Bible
He answered him, “If you look on me with favor, give me a sign that you are the one speaking with me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said: If I have found grace before thee, give me a sign that it is thou that speakest to me:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said: If I have found grace before thee, give me a sign that it is thou that speakest to me:

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Exodus 33:13,16 If therefore I have found favour in thy sight, shew me thy face, that I may know thee, and may find grace before thy eyes: look upon thy people this nation. . . .

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Judges 6:36-40 And Gedeon said to God: If thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast said, . . .

Genesis 15:8-17 But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it? . . .

Exodus 4:1-9 Moses answered, and said: They will not believe me, nor hear my voice, but they will say: The Lord hath not appeared to thee. . . .

2 Kings 20:8-11 And Ezechias had said to Isaias: What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I will go up to the temple of the Lord the third day? . . .

Psalm 86:17 Shew me a token for good: that they who hate me may see, and be confounded, because thou, O Lord, hast helped me and hast comforted me.

Isaiah 7:11 Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God, either unto the depth of hell, or unto the height above.

Context
The Call of Gideon
16And the Lord said to him: I will be with thee: and thou shalt cut off Madian as one man. 17And he said: If I have found grace before thee, give me a sign that it is thou that speakest to me:18And depart not hence, till I return to thee, and bring a sacrifice, and offer it to thee. And he answered: I will wait thy coming.…
Cross References
Judges 6:18
And depart not hence, till I return to thee, and bring a sacrifice, and offer it to thee. And he answered: I will wait thy coming.

Judges 6:37
I will put this fleece of wool on the floor: if there be dew in the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground beside, I shall know that by my hand, as thou hast said, thou wilt deliver Israel.

1 Kings 13:3
And he gave a sign the same day, saying: This shall be the sign, that the Lord hath spoken: Behold the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it, shall be poured out.

Psalm 86:17
Shew me a token for good: that they who hate me may see, and be confounded, because thou, O Lord, hast helped me and hast comforted me.

Isaiah 38:7
And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this word which he hath spoken:

Isaiah 38:8
Behold I will bring again the shadow of the lines, by which it is now gone down in the sun dial of Achaz with the sun, ten lines backward. And the sun returned ten lines by the degrees by which it was gone down.

Judges 6:16
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