¹Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.

¹Jefta pa, Gileadec, je bil močan junak, pa je bil nečistnice sin; in Gilead je rodil Jefta.

²And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.

²Gileadova žena pa mu je rodila otrok, ali ko so te žene sinovi dorasli, pahnejo Jefta od sebe in mu reko: Ne boš ti dedoval v očeta našega hiši, ker si postranske žene sin.

³Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.

³Tedaj zbeži Jefta pred brati svojimi in se nastani v Tobski deželi. In zbero se k njemu postopači in hodili so ž njim.

⁴And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

⁴Za nekaj časa pa so se vojskovali Amonovi sinovi z Izraelom.

⁵And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:

⁵Ko so torej začeli Amonovi sinovi vojsko z Izraelom, se napotijo gileadski starejšine, da pripeljejo Jefta iz Tobske dežele.

⁶And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.

⁶In reko Jeftu: Pridi in bodi nam poveljnik, da se bojujemo zoper Amonove sinove!

⁷And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?

⁷Jefta pa odvrne starejšinam iz Gileada: Niste li vi me sovražili in me pehnili iz mojega očeta hiše? Zakaj pa ste prišli k meni zdaj, ko ste v nadlogi?

⁸And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

⁸In gileadski starejšine reko Jeftu: Zato smo se zdaj obrnili do tebe, da pojdeš z nami in se bojuješ zoper Amonove sinove, in bodi glava nam, vsem prebivalcem v Gileadu.

⁹And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?

⁹Jefta reče gileadskim starejšinam: Ako me pripeljete domov, da se bom vojskoval s sinovi Amonovimi, in ako mi jih GOSPOD da v pest, ali vam bodem glava?

¹⁰And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.

¹⁰Gileadski starejšine reko Jeftu: GOSPOD bodi med nami priča! Resnično storimo tako, kakor si govoril.

¹¹Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh.

¹¹Tedaj gre Jefta z gileadskimi starejšinami, in ljudstvo ga postavi za glavo in poveljnika nad seboj. In Jefta je govoril vse besede svoje pred GOSPODOM v Micpi.

¹²And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land?

¹²Nato pošlje Jefta selstvo do kralja Amonovih sinov in sporoči: Kaj imaš opraviti z mano, da si prišel k meni vojskovat se zoper mojo deželo?

¹³And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.

¹³Kralj Amonovih sinov pa odgovori Jeftovim slom: Zato ker mi je Izrael vzel deželo, ko je prišel iz Egipta, od Arnona do Jaboka in tja do Jordana; zdaj torej mi jo povrni v miru!

¹⁴And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon:

¹⁴Jefta, pa pošlje zopet sle h kralju Amonovih sinov

¹⁵And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:

¹⁵in mu sporoči: Tako pravi Jefta: Izrael ni vzel dežele Moabcev, ne dežele Amonovih sinov;

¹⁶But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;

¹⁶temuč ko so Izraelci prišli iz Egipta in potovali po puščavi do Rdečega morja in dospeli v Kades,

¹⁷Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.

¹⁷tedaj je poslal Izrael selstvo k edomskemu kralju, rekoč: Dovoli mi, prosim, iti skozi deželo tvojo, ali kralj edomski jih ni uslišal. Enako je sporočil kralju Moabcev, a ta tudi ni hotel; in Izraelu je bilo ostati v Kadesu.

¹⁸Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.

¹⁸Potem je potoval po puščavi in obšel deželo Edomcev in deželo Moabcev in prišel ob vzhodni strani k pokrajini Moabcev, in raztaborili so se na oni strani Arnona; ali v pokrajino Moabcev niso prišli, ker Arnon je meja Moabcem.

¹⁹And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.

¹⁹In Izrael je poslal poročnike k Sihonu, kralju Amorejcev, kralju v Hesbonu, in Izrael mu sporoči: Dovoli nam, prosim, iti skozi deželo tvojo do našega kraja.

²⁰But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

²⁰A Sihon ni zaupal Izraelu, da bi šel mirno čez mejo njegovo, ampak Sihon je zbral vse ljudstvo svoje in se je utaboril v Jahazu in se bojeval z Izraelom.

²¹And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.

²¹GOSPOD pa, Bog Izraelov, je dal Sihona z vsem ljudstvom njegovim Izraelcem v roke, in porazili so jih. Tako je Izrael zasedel vso deželo Amorejcev, ki so bivali v tisti pokrajini.

²²And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.

²²In posedli so vso pokrajino Amorejcev, od Arnona do Jaboka in od puščave do Jordana.

²³So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?

²³Tako torej je GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov, razdedinil Amorejce pred ljudstvom svojim Izraelom, in ti hočeš zavzeti, kar je njegovo?

²⁴Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.

²⁴Ni li prav, da vzameš tisto, kar ti da v posest Kamos, bog tvoj? Tudi mi hočemo obdržati, karkoli je pred nami pripravil v posest GOSPOD, Bog naš.

²⁵And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,

²⁵Ali si mar kaj boljši od Balaka, sinu Ziporjevega, kralja Moabcev? ali se je on kdaj pravdal ali bojeval z Izraelom?

²⁶While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?

²⁶Ker pa je Izrael že tristo let prebival v Hesbonu in po njegovih podložnih vaseh in v Aroerju in po podložnih vaseh njegovih in po vseh mestih, ki so poleg Arnona, zakaj jih niste pridobili sebi v tem času?

²⁷Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.

²⁷Jaz torej se nisem pregrešil zoper tebe, a ti hudo ravnaš z menoj, da se vojskuješ zoper mene. GOSPOD, Sodnik, naj danes razsodi med sinovi Izraelovimi in sinovi Amonovimi!

²⁸Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

²⁸Ali kralj Amonovih sinov ni poslušal Jeftovih besed, ki mu jih je sporočil.

²⁹Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.

²⁹Tedaj pride duh GOSPODOV nad Jefta, in ta preide Gilead in Manase in Micpo v Gileadu, in od Micpe v Gileadu preide proti Amonovim sinovom.

³⁰And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,

³⁰In Jefta stori obljubo GOSPODU in reče: Če mi res daš Amonove sinove v roko,

³¹Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.

³¹karkoli pride skozi duri hiše moje, meni naproti, ko se bom vračal v miru od sinov Amonovih, bodi GOSPODOVO, in hočem to darovati kot žgalno žrtev.

³²So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.

³²Tako gre Jefta proti Amonovim sinovom, da se bojuje zoper nje; in GOSPOD jih da v roko njegovo.

³³And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

³³In porazil jih je od Aroerja do tja, koder se gre v Minit, dvajset mest, in tja do Abelkeramima, v velikem poboju. Tako so bili Amonovi sinovi potlačeni pred Izraelovimi sinovi.

³⁴And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

³⁴Ko se pa vrača Jefta v Micpo v dom svoj, glej, hči njegova mu pride naproti z bobnicami in plesom; in ona mu je bila edinica, razen nje ni imel ne sina, ne hčere.

³⁵And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.

³⁵In ko jo ugleda, si raztrga oblačila in reče: Ah, hči moja! hudo si me ponižala, ena si teh, ki me žalijo; kajti odprl sem usta svoja proti GOSPODU, in ne morem preklicati.

³⁶And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.

³⁶Ona pa mu reče: Oče moj, odprl si usta svoja proti GOSPODU, stóri mi torej, kakor je prišlo iz ust tvojih; samo da te je GOSPOD maščeval nad tvojimi sovražniki, Amonovimi sinovi.

³⁷And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.

³⁷Še reče očetu svojemu: Stóri mi le-to: pusti me dva meseca, da odidem in pojdem doli v hribe in bom objokovala devištvo svoje z družicami svojimi.

³⁸And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

³⁸In ji veli: Pojdi. In odpusti jo za dva meseca. In ona odide s svojimi družicami in joče nad devištvom svojim po gorah.

³⁹And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,

³⁹In ko mineta dva meseca, pride nazaj k očetu svojemu, in on ji stori, kakor je bil obljubil. In ona ni spoznala moža. In prišlo je v navado v Izraelu,da so hodile Izraelove hčere vsako leto slavit hčer Jefta Gileadskega, po štiri dni v letu.

⁴⁰That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

⁴⁰da so hodile Izraelove hčere vsako leto slavit hčer Jefta Gileadskega, po štiri dni v letu.