SIL Translator’s Notes on Judges 7:8

7:8a So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites to their tents

So Gideon sent everyone home
-or-
So Gideon sent the others home.

7:8b but kept the three hundred men, who took charge of the provisions and rams’ horns of the others.

except for the three hundred. Those who remained took the provisions and the trumpets of those who left.
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He kept the three hundred soldiers ⌊who lapped water with their hands⌋ . The three hundred kept the food and the trumpets of those ⌊who were sent home⌋ .

7:8c And the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley.

Now the camp of the Midian people was in the valley below Gideon’s camp.
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The camp of the soldiers of Midian was below Gideon in the valley.

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