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Judges 11 (WEBP)

[1] Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor. He was the son of a prostitute. Gilead became the father of Jephthah.
[2] Gilead’s wife bore him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You will not inherit in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”
[3] Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with Jephthah, and they went out with him.
[4] After a while, the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
[5] When the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob.
[6] They said to Jephthah, “Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.”
[7] Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Didn’t you hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”
[8] The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us and fight with the children of Ammon. You will be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
[9] Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivers them before me, will I be your head?”
[10] The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Yahweh will be witness between us. Surely we will do what you say.”
[11] Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.
[12] Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, “What do you have to do with me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”
[13] The king of the children of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore that territory again peaceably.”
[14] Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon;
[15] and he said to him, “Jephthah says: Israel didn’t take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon;
[16] but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh,
[17] then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let me pass through your land;’ but the king of Edom didn’t listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab, but he refused; so Israel stayed in Kadesh.
[18] Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn’t come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.
[19] Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to my place.’
[20] But Sihon didn’t trust Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
[21] Yahweh, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. So Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
[22] They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.
[23] So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?
[24] Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.
[25] Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?
[26] Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along the side of the Arnon for three hundred years! Why didn’t you recover them within that time?
[27] Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May Yahweh the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.”
[28] However, the king of the children of Ammon didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
[29] Then Yahweh’s Spirit came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.
[30] Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,
[31] then it shall be, that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be Yahweh’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.”
[32] So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand.
[33] He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
[34] Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
[35] When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I can’t go back.”
[36] She said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon.”
[37] Then she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me. Leave me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.”
[38] He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.
[39] At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. She was a virgin. It became a custom in Israel
[40] that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

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Judges 11 (KJVS)

[1] Now Jephthah H3316 the Gileadite H1569 was a mighty man H1368 of valour H2428, and he [was] the son H1121 of an harlot H802 H2181 (8802): and Gilead H1568 begat H3205 (8686) Jephthah H3316.
[2] And Gilead’s H1568 wife H802 bare H3205 (8799) him sons H1121; and his wife’s H802 sons H1121 grew up H1431 (8799), and they thrust out H1644 (8762) Jephthah H3316, and said H559 (8799) unto him, Thou shalt not inherit H5157 (8799) in our father’s H1 house H1004; for thou [art] the son H1121 of a strange H312 woman H802.
[3] Then Jephthah H3316 fled H1272 (8799) from H6440 his brethren H251, and dwelt H3427 (8799) in the land H776 of Tob H2897: and there were gathered H3950 (8691) vain H7386 men H582 to Jephthah H3316, and went out H3318 (8799) with him.
[4] And it came to pass in process of time H3117, that the children H1121 of Ammon H5983 made war H3898 (8735) against Israel H3478.
[5] And it was so, that when the children H1121 of Ammon H5983 made war H3898 (8738) against Israel H3478, the elders H2205 of Gilead H1568 went H3212 (8799) to fetch H3947 (8800) Jephthah H3316 out of the land H776 of Tob H2897:
[6] And they said H559 (8799) unto Jephthah H3316, Come H3212 (8798), and be our captain H7101, that we may fight H3898 (8735) with the children H1121 of Ammon H5983.
[7] And Jephthah H3316 said H559 (8799) unto the elders H2205 of Gilead H1568, Did not ye hate H8130 (8804) me, and expel H1644 (8762) me out of my father’s H1 house H1004? and why are ye come H935 (8804) unto me now when ye are in distress H6887 (8804)?
[8] And the elders H2205 of Gilead H1568 said H559 (8799) unto Jephthah H3316, Therefore we turn again H7725 (8804) to thee now, that thou mayest go H1980 (8804) with us, and fight H3898 (8738) against the children H1121 of Ammon H5983, and be our head H7218 over all the inhabitants H3427 (8802) of Gilead H1568.
[9] And Jephthah H3316 said H559 (8799) unto the elders H2205 of Gilead H1568, If ye bring me home again H7725 (8688) to fight H3898 (8736) against the children H1121 of Ammon H5983, and the LORD H3068 deliver H5414 (8804) them before H6440 me, shall I be your head H7218?
[10] And the elders H2205 of Gilead H1568 said H559 (8799) unto Jephthah H3316, The LORD H3068 be witness H8085 (8802) between us, if we do H6213 (8799) not so according to thy words H1697.
[11] Then Jephthah H3316 went H3212 (8799) with the elders H2205 of Gilead H1568, and the people H5971 made H7760 (8799) him head H7218 and captain H7101 over them: and Jephthah H3316 uttered H1696 (8762) all his words H1697 before H6440 the LORD H3068 in Mizpeh H4709.
[12] And Jephthah H3316 sent H7971 (8799) messengers H4397 unto the king H4428 of the children H1121 of Ammon H5983, saying H559 (8800), What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come H935 (8804) against me to fight H3898 (8736) in my land H776?
[13] And the king H4428 of the children H1121 of Ammon H5983 answered H559 (8799) unto the messengers H4397 of Jephthah H3316, Because Israel H3478 took away H3947 (8804) my land H776, when they came up H5927 (8800) out of Egypt H4714, from Arnon H769 even unto Jabbok H2999, and unto Jordan H3383: now therefore restore those [lands] again H7725 (8685) peaceably H7965.
[14] And Jephthah H3316 sent H7971 (8799) messengers H4397 again H3254 (8686) unto the king H4428 of the children H1121 of Ammon H5983:
[15] And said H559 (8799) unto him, Thus saith H559 (8804) Jephthah H3316, Israel H3478 took not away H3947 (8804) the land H776 of Moab H4124, nor the land H776 of the children H1121 of Ammon H5983:
[16] But when Israel H3478 came up H5927 (8800) from Egypt H4714, and walked H3212 (8799) through the wilderness H4057 unto the Red H5488 sea H3220, and came H935 (8799) to Kadesh H6946;
[17] Then Israel H3478 sent H7971 (8799) messengers H4397 unto the king H4428 of Edom H123, saying H559 (8800), Let me, I pray thee, pass through H5674 (8799) thy land H776: but the king H4428 of Edom H123 would not hearken H8085 (8804) [thereto]. And in like manner they sent H7971 (8804) unto the king H4428 of Moab H4124: but he would H14 (8804) not [consent]: and Israel H3478 abode H3427 (8799) in Kadesh H6946.
[18] Then they went along H3212 (8799) through the wilderness H4057, and compassed H5437 (8799) the land H776 of Edom H123, and the land H776 of Moab H4124, and came H935 (8799) by the east side H4217 H8121 of the land H776 of Moab H4124, and pitched H2583 (8799) on the other side H5676 of Arnon H769, but came H935 (8804) not within the border H1366 of Moab H4124: for Arnon H769 [was] the border H1366 of Moab H4124.
[19] And Israel H3478 sent H7971 (8799) messengers H4397 unto Sihon H5511 king H4428 of the Amorites H567, the king H4428 of Heshbon H2809; and Israel H3478 said H559 (8799) unto him, Let us pass H5674 (8799), we pray thee, through thy land H776 into H5704 my place H4725.
[20] But Sihon H5511 trusted H539 (8689) not Israel H3478 to pass H5674 (8800) through his coast H1366: but Sihon H5511 gathered H622 all his people H5971 together H622 (8799), and pitched H2583 (8799) in Jahaz H3096, and fought H3898 (8735) against Israel H3478.
[21] And the LORD H3068 God H430 of Israel H3478 delivered H5414 (8799) Sihon H5511 and all his people H5971 into the hand H3027 of Israel H3478, and they smote H5221 (8686) them: so Israel H3478 possessed H3423 (8799) all the land H776 of the Amorites H567, the inhabitants H3427 (8802) of that country H776.
[22] And they possessed H3423 (8799) all the coasts H1366 of the Amorites H567, from Arnon H769 even unto Jabbok H2999, and from the wilderness H4057 even unto Jordan H3383.
[23] So now the LORD H3068 God H430 of Israel H3478 hath dispossessed H3423 (8689) the Amorites H567 from before H6440 his people H5971 Israel H3478, and shouldest thou possess H3423 (8799) it?
[24] Wilt not thou possess H3423 (8799) that which Chemosh H3645 thy god H430 giveth thee to possess H3423 (8686)? So whomsoever the LORD H3068 our God H430 shall drive out H3423 (8689) from before H6440 us, them will we possess H3423 (8799).
[25] And now [art] thou any thing better H2896 than Balak H1111 the son H1121 of Zippor H6834, king H4428 of Moab H4124? did he ever H7378 (8800) strive H7378 (8804) against Israel H3478, or did he ever H3898 (8736) fight H3898 (8738) against them,
[26] While Israel H3478 dwelt H3427 (8800) in Heshbon H2809 and her towns H1323, and in Aroer H6177 and her towns H1323, and in all the cities H5892 that [be] along by the coasts H3027 of Arnon H769, three H7969 hundred H3967 years H8141? why therefore did ye not recover H5337 (8689) [them] within that time H6256?
[27] Wherefore I have not sinned H2398 (8804) against thee, but thou doest H6213 (8802) H853 me wrong H7451 to war H3898 (8736) against me: the LORD H3068 the Judge H8199 (8802) be judge H8199 (8799) this day H3117 between the children H1121 of Israel H3478 and the children H1121 of Ammon H5983.
[28] Howbeit the king H4428 of the children H1121 of Ammon H5983 hearkened H8085 (8804) not unto the words H1697 of Jephthah H3316 which he sent H7971 (8804) him.
[29] Then the Spirit H7307 of the LORD H3068 came upon Jephthah H3316, and he passed over H5674 (8799) Gilead H1568, and Manasseh H4519, and passed over H5674 (8799) Mizpeh H4708 of Gilead H1568, and from Mizpeh H4708 of Gilead H1568 he passed over H5674 (8804) [unto] the children H1121 of Ammon H5983.
[30] And Jephthah H3316 vowed H5087 (8799) a vow H5088 unto the LORD H3068, and said H559 (8799), If thou shalt without fail H5414 (8800) deliver H5414 (8799) the children H1121 of Ammon H5983 into mine hands H3027,
[31] Then it shall be, that whatsoever H3318 (8802) cometh forth H3318 (8799) of the doors H1817 of my house H1004 to meet H7125 (8800) me, when I return H7725 (8800) in peace H7965 from the children H1121 of Ammon H5983, shall surely be the LORD’S H3068, and I will offer it up H5927 (8689) for a burnt offering H5930.
[32] So Jephthah H3316 passed over H5674 (8799) unto the children H1121 of Ammon H5983 to fight H3898 (8736) against them; and the LORD H3068 delivered H5414 (8799) them into his hands H3027.
[33] And he smote H5221 (8686) them from Aroer H6177, even till thou come H935 (8800) to Minnith H4511, [even] twenty H6242 cities H5892, and unto the plain H58 of the vineyards H3754 (8677) H64, with a very H3966 great H1419 slaughter H4347. Thus the children H1121 of Ammon H5983 were subdued H3665 (8735) before H6440 the children H1121 of Israel H3478.
[34] And Jephthah H3316 came H935 (8799) to Mizpeh H4709 unto his house H1004, and, behold, his daughter H1323 came out H3318 (8802) to meet H7125 (8800) him with timbrels H8596 and with dances H4246: and she [was his] only child H3173; beside her he had neither son H1121 nor H176 daughter H1323.
[35] And it came to pass, when he saw H7200 (8800) her, that he rent H7167 (8799) his clothes H899, and said H559 (8799), Alas H162, my daughter H1323! thou hast brought H3766 me very H3766 (8689) low H3766 (8687), and thou art one of them that trouble H5916 (8802) me: for I have opened H6475 (8804) my mouth H6310 unto the LORD H3068, and I cannot H3201 (8799) go back H7725 (8800).
[36] And she said H559 (8799) unto him, My father H1, [if] thou hast opened H6475 (8804) thy mouth H6310 unto the LORD H3068, do H6213 (8798) to me according to that which H834 hath proceeded H3318 (8804) out of thy mouth H6310; forasmuch H310 as the LORD H3068 hath taken H6213 (8804) vengeance H5360 for thee of thine enemies H341 (8802), [even] of the children H1121 of Ammon H5983.
[37] And she said H559 (8799) unto her father H1, Let this thing H1697 be done H6213 (8735) for me: let me alone H7503 (8685) two H8147 months H2320, that I may go up H3212 (8799) and down H3381 (8804) upon the mountains H2022, and bewail H1058 (8799) my virginity H1331, I and my fellows H7464 (8675) H7474.
[38] And he said H559 (8799), Go H3212 (8798). And he sent her away H7971 (8799) [for] two H8147 months H2320: and she went H3212 (8799) with her companions H7464, and bewailed H1058 (8799) her virginity H1331 upon the mountains H2022.
[39] And it came to pass at the end H7093 of two H8147 months H2320, that she returned H7725 (8799) unto her father H1, who did H6213 (8799) with her [according] to his vow H5088 which he had vowed H5087 (8804): and she knew H3045 (8804) no man H376. And it was a custom H2706 in Israel H3478,
[40] [That] the daughters H1323 of Israel H3478 went H3212 (8799) yearly H3117 H3117 to lament H8567 (8763) the daughter H1323 of Jephthah H3316 the Gileadite H1569 four H702 days H3117 in a year H8141.

Young’s Literal Translation

Judges 11 (YLT)

[1] And Jephthah the Gileadite hath been a mighty man of valour, and he is son of a woman, a harlot; and Gilead begetteth Jephthah,
[2] and the wife of Gilead beareth to him sons, and the wife’s sons grow up and cast out Jephthah, and say to him, ‘Thou dost not inherit in the house of our father; for son of another woman art thou.’
[3] And Jephthah fleeth from the face of his brethren, and dwelleth in the land of Tob; and vain men gather themselves together unto Jephthah, and they go out with him.
[4] And it cometh to pass, after a time, that the Bene-Ammon fight with Israel,
[5] and it cometh to pass, when the Bene-Ammon have fought with Israel, that the elders of Gilead go to take Jephthah from the land of Tob;
[6] and they say unto Jephthah, ‘Come, and thou hast been to us for captain, and we fight against the Bene-Ammon.’
[7] And Jephthah saith to the elders of Gilead, ‘Have not ye hated me? and ye cast me out from the house of my father, and wherefore have ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?’
[8] And the elders of Gilead say unto Jephthah, ‘Therefore, now, we have turned back unto thee; and thou hast gone with us, and fought against the Bene-Ammon, and thou hast been to us for head-to all the inhabitants of Gilead.’
[9] And Jephthah saith unto the elders of Gilead, ‘If ye are taking me back to fight against the Bene-Ammon, and Jehovah hath given them before me-I, am I to you for a head?’
[10] And the elders of Gilead say unto Jephthah, ‘Jehovah is hearkening between us-if according to thy word we do not so.’
[11] And Jephthah goeth with the elders of Gilead, and the people set him over them for head and for captain, and Jephthah speaketh all his words before Jehovah in Mizpeh.
[12] And Jephthah sendeth messengers unto the king of the Bene-Ammon, saying, ‘What-to me and to thee, that thou hast come in unto me, to fight in my land.’
[13] And the king of the Bene-Ammon saith unto the messengers of Jephthah, ‘Because Israel took my land in his coming up out of Egypt, from Arnon, and unto the Jabbok, and unto the Jordan; and now, restore them in peace.’
[14] And Jephthah addeth yet and sendeth messengers unto the king of the Bene-Ammon,
[15] and saith to him, ‘Thus said Jephthah, Israel took not the land of Moab, and the land of the Bene-Ammon,
[16] for in their coming up out of Egypt, Israel goeth in the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and cometh in to Kadesh,
[17] and Israel sendeth messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me pass over, I pray thee, through thy land, and the king of Edom hearkened not; and also unto the king of Moab hath Israel sent, and he hath not been willing; and Israel abideth in Kadesh,
[18] and he goeth through the wilderness, and compasseth the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and cometh in at the rising of the sun of the land of Moab, and they encamp beyond Arnon, and have not come into the border of Moab, for Arnon is the border of Moab.
[19] ‘And Israel sendeth messengers unto Sihon, king of the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and Israel saith to him, Let us pass over, we pray thee, through thy land, unto my place,
[20] and Sihon hath not trusted Israel to pass over through his border, and Sihon gathereth all his people, and they encamp in Jahaz, and fight with Israel;
[21] and Jehovah, God of Israel, giveth Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smite them, and Israel possesseth all the land of the Amorite, the inhabitant of that land,
[22] and they possess all the border of the Amorite from Arnon, and unto the Jabbok, and from the wilderness, and unto the Jordan.
[23] ‘And now, Jehovah, God of Israel, hath dispossessed the Amorite from the presence of His people Israel, and thou wouldest possess it!
[24] That which Chemosh thy god causeth thee to possess-dost thou not possess it? and all that which Jehovah our God hath dispossessed from our presence,-it we do possess.
[25] ‘And now, art thou at all better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he at all strive with Israel? did he at all fight against them?
[26] In Israel’s dwelling in Heshbon and in its towns, and in Aroer and in its towns, and in all the cities which are by the sides of Arnon three hundred years-and wherefore have ye not delivered them in that time?
[27] And I-I have not sinned against thee, and thou art doing with me evil-to fight against me. Jehovah, the Judge, doth judge to-day between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.’
[28] And the king of the Bene-Ammon hath not hearkened unto the words of Jephthah which he sent unto him,
[29] and the Spirit of Jehovah is on Jephthah, and he passeth over Gilead and Manasseh, and passeth over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he hath passed over to the Bene-Ammon.
[30] And Jephthah voweth a vow to Jehovah, and saith, ‘If Thou dost at all give the Bene-Ammon into my hand-
[31] then it hath been, that which at all cometh out from the doors of my house to meet me in my turning back in peace from the Bene-Ammon-it hath been to Jehovah, or I have offered up for it-a burnt-offering.’
[32] And Jephthah passeth over unto the Bene-Ammon to fight against them, and Jehovah giveth them into his hand,
[33] and he smiteth them from Aroer, and unto thy going in to Minnith, twenty cities, and unto the meadow of the vineyards-a very great smiting; and the Bene-Ammon are humbled at the presence of the sons of Israel.
[34] And Jephthah cometh into Mizpeh, unto his house, and lo, his daughter is coming out to meet him with timbrels, and with choruses, and save her alone, he hath none, son or daughter.
[35] And it cometh to pass, when he seeth her, that he rendeth his garments, and saith, ‘Alas, my daughter, thou hast caused me greatly to bend, and thou hast been among those troubling me; and I-I have opened my mouth unto Jehovah, and I am not able to turn back.’
[36] And she saith unto him, ‘My father-thou hast opened thy mouth unto Jehovah, do to me as it hath gone out from thy mouth, after that Jehovah hath done for thee vengeance on thine enemies, on the Bene-Ammon.’
[37] And she saith unto her father, ‘Let this thing be done to me; desist from me two months, and I go on, and have gone down on the hills, and I weep for my virginity-I and my friends.’
[38] And he saith, ‘Go;’ and he sendeth her away two months, and she goeth, she and her friends, and she weepeth for her virginity on the hills;
[39] and it cometh to pass at the end of two months that she turneth back unto her father, and he doth to her his vow which he hath vowed, and she knew not a man; and it is a statute in Israel:
[40] from time to time the daughters of Israel go to talk to the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in a year.