The three companies prepared

16Then he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and put trumpets into the hands of all of them, and empty jars, with torches inside the jars.

17And he said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the edge of the camp, then as I do, so you shall do.”

18When I and all who are with me blow the ram’s horn, then you also must blow the horns all around the whole camp, and say, ‘For Yahweh and for Gideon!’