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chapter 12
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But
behold there arose a sedition in Ephraim. And passing towards the north, they
said to Jephte: When thou wentest to fight against the children of Ammon, why
wouldst thou not call us, that we might go with thee? Therefore we will burn
thy house.
2 And he answered them: I and my people were at great
strife with the children of Ammon: and I called you to assist me, and you would
not do it.
3 And when I saw this, I put my life in my own hands,
and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the Lord delivered them into
my hands. What have I deserved, that you should rise up to fight against me?
4 Then calling to him all the men of Galaad, he fought
against Ephraim: and the men of Galaad defeated Ephraim, because he had said:
Galaad is a fugitive of Ephraim, and dwelleth in the midst of Ephraim and
Manasses.
5 And the Galaadites secured the fords of the Jordan,
by which Ephraim was to return. And when any one of the number of Ephraim came
thither in the flight, and said: I beseech you let me pass: the Galaadites said
to him: Art thou not an Ephraimite? If he said: I am not:
6 They asked him: Say then, Scibboleth, which is
interpreted, An ear of corn. But he answered, Sibboleth, not being able to
express an ear of corn by the same letter. Then presently they took him and
killed him in the very passage of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of
Ephraim two and forty thousand.
7 And Jephte the Galaadite judged Israel six years: and
he died, and was buried in his city of Galaad.
8 After him Abesan of Bethlehem judged Israel:
9 He had thirty sons, and as many daughters, whom he
sent abroad, and gave to husbands, and took wives for his sons of the same
number, bringing them into his house. And he judged Israel seven years:
10 And he died, and was buried in Bethlehem.
11 To him succeeded Ahialon a Zahnlonite: and he judged
Israel ten years:
12 And he died, and was buried in ZahnIon.
13 After him Abdon, the son of Illel, a Pharathonite,
judged Israel:
14 And he had forty sons, and of them thirty grandsons,
mounted upon seventy ass colts, and he judged Israel eight years:
15 And he died, and was buried in Pharathon in the land
of Ephraim, in the mount of Amalech.
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