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Judges 11 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:1 - And Jephthah the Gileadite hath been a mighty man of valour, and he is son of a woman, a harlot; and Gilead begetteth Jephthah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:2 - 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:3 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:4 - And it cometh to pass, after a time, that the Bene-Ammon fight with Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:5 - 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;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:6 - and they say unto Jephthah, 'Come, and thou hast been to us for captain, and we fight against the Bene-Ammon.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:7 - 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?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:8 - 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:9 - 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?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:10 - And the elders of Gilead say unto Jephthah, 'Jehovah is hearkening between us -- if according to thy word we do not so.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:11 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:12 - 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13 - 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:14 - And Jephthah addeth yet and sendeth messengers unto the king of the Bene-Ammon,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:15 - and saith to him, 'Thus said Jephthah, Israel took not the land of Moab, and the land of the Bene-Ammon,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:16 - for in their coming up out of Egypt, Israel goeth in the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and cometh in to Kadesh,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:17 - 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,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:18 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:19 - '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,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:20 - 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;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:21 - 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,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:22 - and they possess all the border of the Amorite from Arnon, and unto the Jabbok, and from the wilderness, and unto the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:23 - 'And now, Jehovah, God of Israel, hath dispossessed the Amorite from the presence of His people Israel, and thou wouldst possess it!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:24 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:25 - '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?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:26 - 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?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27 - 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:28 - And the king of the Bene-Ammon hath not hearkened unto the words of Jephthah which he sent unto him,

Jephthah's Tragic Vow

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:29 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:30 - And Jephthah voweth a vow to Jehovah, and saith, 'If Thou dost at all give the Bene-Ammon into my hand --

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:31 - 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:32 - And Jephthah passeth over unto the Bene-Ammon to fight against them, and Jehovah giveth them into his hand,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:34 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:35 - 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:36 - 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:37 - 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.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:38 - 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;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:39 - 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:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:40 - from time to time the daughters of Israel go to talk to the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in a year.
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