and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her
virginity on the mountains.
011:039 It happened at the end of two months, that she returned to her father,
who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed:
and she was a virgin. It was a custom in Israel,
011:040 that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter
of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
012:001 The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward;
and they said to Jephthah, Why did you pass over to fight
against the children of Ammon, and didn't call us to go
with you? we will burn your house on you with fire.
012:002 Jephthah said to them, I and my people were at great strife
with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn't
save me out of their hand.
012:003 When I saw that you didn't save me, I put my life in my hand,
and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh
delivered them into my hand: why then are you come up to me
this day, to fight against me?
012:004 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead,
and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim,
because they said, You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites,
in the midst of Ephraim, [and] in the midst of Manasseh.
012:005 The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites.
It was so, that when [any of] the fugitives of Ephraim said,
Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, Are you
an Ephraimite? If he said, No;
012:006 then said they to him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth;
for he couldn't manage to pronounce it right: then they laid
hold on him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan.
There fell at that time of Ephraim forty-two thousand.
012:007 Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite,
and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.
012:008 After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
012:009 He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent abroad,
and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons.
He judged Israel seven years.
012:010 Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.
012:011 After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged
Israel ten years.
012:012 Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the
land of Zebulun.
012:013 After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.
012:014 He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, who rode on seventy
donkey colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
012:015 Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried
in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country
of the Amalekites.
013:001 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in
the sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand
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