1 Os efraimitas, tendo-se sublevado, passaram a Safon e disseram a Jefté: Por que saíste a combater os amonitas, sem nos chamar para irmos contigo? Por isso vamos queimar a tua casa.

2 Jefté respondeu: Eu e meu povo tivemos graves contendas com os amonitas; chamei-vos e vós não me livrastes de suas mãos.

3 Vendo que não podia contar convosco, arrisquei a minha vida marchando {sozinho} contra os amonitas, e o Senhor entregou-os nas minhas mãos. Por que, pois, viestes contender comigo?

4 Jefté reuniu todos os homens de Galaad e combateu contra Efraim. Os habitantes de Galaad derrotaram os de Efraim, que lhes haviam dito: Vós sois fugitivos de Efraim que habitais entre Efraim e Manassés!

5 Galaad ocupou os vaus do Jordão, e cada vez que um fugitivo de Efraim queria passar, perguntavam-lhe: És tu efraimita? Ele respondia: Não.

6 Pois bem, diziam eles então, dize: Chibólet. E ele dizia: Sibólet, não podendo pronunciar corretamente. Prendiam-no logo e o degolavam junto aos vaus do Jordão. Naquele dia pereceram quarenta e dois mil homens de Efraim.

7 Jefté, o galaadita, foi juiz em Israel durante seis anos; depois morreu, e foi sepultado em uma das cidades de Galaad.

8 Depois de Jefté, foi juiz de Israel Ibsã, de Belém,

9 o qual teve trinta filhos; casou suas trinta filhas fora de sua família, e mandou vir de fora trinta jovens para os seus filhos. Julgou Israel durante sete anos.

10 Morreu e foi enterrado em Belém.

11 Depois dele, Elon, de Zabulon, foi juiz em Israel, e sua judicatura durou dez anos.

12 Morreu, e foi enterrado em Ajalon, na terra de Zabulon.

13 Em seguida teve Israel por juiz Abdon, filho de Ilel, de Faraton.

14 Teve quarenta filhos e trinta netos, que montavam em setenta jumentinhos. Julgou Israel durante oito anos.

15 Depois disso, Abdon, filho de Ilel, de Faraton, morreu e foi sepultado em Faraton, na terra de Efraim, na montanha dos amalecitas.

1 Now the men of Ephraim came together and took up arms and went over to Zaphon; and they said to Jephthah, Why did you go over to make war against the children of Ammon without sending for us to go with you? Now we will put your house on fire over you.

2 And Jephthah said to them, I and my people were in danger, and the children of Ammon were very cruel to us, and when I sent for you, you gave me no help against them.

3 So when I saw that there was no help to be had from you, I put my life in my hand and went over against the children of Ammon, and the Lord gave them into my hands: why then have you come up to me this day to make war on me?

4 Then Jephthah got together all the men of Gilead and made war on Ephraim; and the men of Gilead overcame Ephraim.

5 And the Gileadites took the crossing-places of Jordan against the Ephraimites; and when any of the men of Ephraim who had gone in flight said, let me go over; the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? And if he said, No;

6 Then they said to him, Now say Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth, and was not able to say it in the right way; then they took him and put him to death at the crossing-places of Jordan; and at that time forty-two thousand Ephraimites were put to death.

7 Now Jephthah was judge of Israel for six years. And Jephthah the Gileadite came to his death, and his body was put to rest in his town, Mizpeh of Gilead.

8 And after him, Ibzan of Beth-lehem was judge of Israel.

9 He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters whom he sent to other places, and he got thirty wives from other places for his sons. And he was judge of Israel for seven years.

10 And Ibzan came to his death and his body was put to rest at Beth-lehem.

11 And after him, Elon the Zebulonite was judge of Israel; and he was judge of Israel for ten years.

12 And Elon the Zebulonite came to his death, and his body was put to rest in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.

13 And after him, Abdon, the son of Hillel, the Pirathonite, was judge of Israel.

14 He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons who went on seventy young asses; and he was judge of Israel for eight years.

15 And Abdon, the son of Hillel, came to his death, and his body was put to rest in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekites.