18. Please do not leave until I bring you an offering of food.”He said, “I will stay until you come back.”
19. So Gideon went into his house and cooked a young goat and used ten kilogrammes of flour to make bread without any yeast. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, brought them to the Lord's angel under the oak tree, and gave them to him.
20. The angel ordered him, “Put the meat and the bread on this rock, and pour the broth over them.” Gideon did so.
21. Then the Lord's angel reached out and touched the meat and the bread with the end of the stick he was holding. Fire came out of the rock and burnt up the meat and the bread. Then the angel disappeared.
22. Gideon then realized that it was the Lord's angel he had seen, and he said in terror, “Sovereign Lord! I have seen your angel face to face!”
23. But the Lord said to him, “Peace. Don't be afraid. You will not die.”
24. Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and named it “The Lord is Peace”. (It is still standing at Ophrah, which belongs to the clan of Abiezer.)
25. That night the Lord told Gideon, “Take your father's bull and another bull seven years old, tear down your father's altar to Baal, and cut down the symbol of the goddess Asherah, which is beside it.
26. Build a well-constructed altar to the Lord your God on top of this mound. Then take the second bull and burn it whole as an offering, using for firewood the symbol of Asherah you have cut down.”
27. So Gideon took ten of his servants and did what the Lord had told him. He was too afraid of his family and the people of the town to do it by day, so he did it at night.