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Gideon was beating out wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites (Judges 6:11). Judges describes Midian’s raids that took Israel’s produce and left them impoverished (Judges 6:1–6).
11The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.