1 ecce autem in Ephraim orta seditio est
nam transeuntes contra aquilonem dixerunt ad Iepthae
quare vadens ad pugnam contra filios Ammon vocare nos noluisti
ut pergeremus tecum
igitur incendimus domum tuam
2 quibus ille respondit
disceptatio erat mihi et populo meo contra filios Ammon vehemens
vocavique vos ut mihi praeberetis auxilium
et facere noluistis
3 quod cernens posui in manibus meis animam meam
transivique ad filios Ammon
et tradidit eos Dominus in manus meas
quid commerui ut adversum me consurgatis in proelium
4 vocatis itaque ad se cunctis viris Galaad pugnabat contra Ephraim
percusseruntque viri Galaad Ephraim
quia dixerat fugitivus est Galaad de Ephraim
et habitat in medio Ephraim et Manasse
5 occupaveruntque Galaaditae vada Iordanis
per quae Ephraim reversurus erat
cumque venisset ad ea de Ephraim numero fugiens atque dixisset
obsecro ut me transire permittas
dicebant ei Galaaditae numquid Ephrateus es
quo dicente non sum
6 interrogabant eum
dic ergo sebboleth quod interpretatur
spica
qui respondebat tebboleth
eadem littera spicam exprimere non valens
statimque adprehensum iugulabant in ipso Iordanis transitu
et ceciderunt in illo tempore de Ephraim quadraginta duo milia
7 iudicavitque Iepthae Galaadites Israhel sex annis
et mortuus est ac sepultus in civitate sua Galaad
8 post hunc iudicavit Israhel Abessan de Bethleem
9 qui habuit triginta filios et totidem filias
quas emittens foras maritis dedit
et eiusdem numeri filiis suis accepit uxores introducens in domum suam
qui septem annis iudicavit Israhel
10 mortuusque est ac sepultus in Bethleem
11 cui successit Ahialon Zabulonites
et iudicavit Israhelem decem annis
12 mortuusque est ac sepultus in Zabulon
13 post hunc iudicavit in Israhel Abdon filius Hellel Farathonites
14 qui habuit quadraginta filios et triginta ex eis nepotes
ascendentes super septuaginta pullos asinarum
et iudicavit in Israhel octo annis
15 mortuusque est ac sepultus in Farathon terrae Ephraim in monte Amalech
1 And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire. 2 And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands. 3 And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me? 4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites. 5 And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so , that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; 6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand. 7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
8 ¶ And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel. 9 And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years. 10 Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Beth-lehem.
11 ¶ And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years. 12 And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.
13 ¶ And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel. 14 And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years. 15 And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.