¹⁶ He divided the three hundred men into three companies. He put in the hands of all of them shofars and empty pitchers with torches in them. ¹⁷ Then he said to them, “Watch me, and do what I do. When I get to the edge of the camp, whatever I do, you do the same. ¹⁸ When I and everyone with me blow the shofar, then you blow your shofars all around the whole camp, and shout, “For Adonai and for Gid‘on!”