Judges 6:36
Good News Translation
Then Gideon said to God, "You say that you have decided to use me to rescue Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Gideon said to God, “In order to see whether you will deliver Israel by my hand, as you have said,

New American Bible
Gideon said to God, “If indeed you are going to save Israel through me, as you have said,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Gedeon said to God: If thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast said,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Gedeon said to God: If thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast said,

if thou wilt

Judges 6:14,17-20 And the Lord looked upon him, and said: Go, in this thy strength, and thou shalt deliver Israel out of the hand of Madian: know that I have sent thee. . . .

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 20:9 And Isaias said to him: This shall be the sign from the Lord, that the Lord will do the word which he hath spoken: Wilt thou that the shadow go forward ten lines, or that it go back so many degrees?

Psalm 103:13,14 As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that fear him: . . .

Matthew 16:1 And there came to him the Pharisees and Sadducees tempting: and they asked him to shew them a sign from heaven.

Context
The Sign of the Fleece
35And he sent messengers into all Manasses, and they also followed him : and other messengers into Aser and Zabulon, and Nephthali, and they came to meet him. 36And Gedeon said to God: If thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast said,37I 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.…
Cross References
Genesis 15:8
But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it?

Judges 6:14
And the Lord looked upon him, and said: Go, in this thy strength, and thou shalt deliver Israel out of the hand of Madian: know that I have sent thee.

Judges 6:16
And the Lord said to him: I will be with thee: and thou shalt cut off Madian as one man.

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 Samuel 14:10
But if they shall say: Come up to us: let us go up, because the Lord hath delivered them into our hands, this shall be a sign unto us.

Judges 6:35
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