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La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Jueces 7:6
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Y fue el número de los que lamieron, poniendo la mano a su boca, trescientos hombres; pero todo el resto del pueblo se arrodilló para beber.
Y fu� el n�mero de los que lamieron las aguas, lleg�ndola con la mano � la boca, trescientos hombres: y todo el resto del pueblo se dobl� sobre sus rodillas para beber las aguas.
Y fue el n�mero de los que lamieron las aguas, lleg�ndola con la mano a la boca, trescientos varones; y todo el resto del pueblo se dobl� sobre sus rodillas para beber las aguas.
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Reciprocal: Psalms 110:7 - He shall
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth,.... That is, that took up water in the hollow of their hands, which they lifted up to their mouths, and so lapped it, as the Egyptians about the Nile are said d to do, who drank not out of pots and cups, but used their hands to drink with:
were three hundred men; only such a number out of 10,000: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water; even 9,700; and it was the custom of some nations, as the Ichthyophagy, or fish eaters, to cast themselves with their face to the ground, and drink after the manner of oxen e.
d Achilles Tatius, l. 4. e Strabo. Geograph. l. 16. p. 532.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Judges 7:6. The number of them that lapped — From this account it appears that some of the people went down on their knees, and putting their mouths to the water, sucked up what they needed; the others stooped down, and taking up water in the hollow of their hands, applied it to their mouth.
