¹Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of a harlot; and Gilead had begotten Jephthah.

¹Huan, Gilead mi Jephtha bel mi hat hangsan ahi a, kijuaknu tapa ahi: huan, Gileadin Jephtha a suang.

²And Gilead's wife bore him sons; and when his wife's sons were grown, they expelled Jephthah, and said to him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of another woman.

²Huan, Gilead ji in tapate a suansaka; huan, a ji tapate a hongpichin un Jephtha a delh khia ua, a kiangah, Nang jaw ka pa uh in-gou na luah theikei ding; numei dang a kipan na hih jiakin, a chi ua.

³Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob. And vain men were gathered to Jephthah, and they made expeditions with him.

³Huchiin Jephtha a unaute akipanin a tai manga, Tob gamah a omta a; huan, Jephtha kiangah mi thulimlou pipi ateng khawm ua, a jui jel uh.

⁴And it came to pass after some time, that the children of Ammon fought with Israel.

⁴Huan, Hichi ahia, a nung deuhin Amon suanten Israelte a douta ua.

⁵And when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob.

⁵Huan, hichi ahia, Amon suanten Israelte a dou u leh, Gilead-te upate Tob gama Jephtha pi dingin a pai kheta ua.

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

⁶Jephtha kiangah, Amon suante ka sual theihna ding un ka heutupen dingin hongomin, a chi ua.

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

⁷Huan, Jephthain Gileadte upate kiangah, Non hua ua, ka pa in akipan non delh khia uh ahi kei maw? bangachia na buai tak ua ka kianga hong na hi ua? a chi a.

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

⁸Huan, Gileadte upaten Jephtha kiangah, Huaijiak tak ahi hi, tua nang lam ka hongngat nawn uh, Amon suante sual dinga ka kiang ua na pai theihna dingin; huan, Gilead gama om tengtengte tungah ka heutu ding un na om ding, a chi ua.

⁹And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If ye take me back to fight against the children of Ammon, and Jehovah give them up before me, shall I be your head?

⁹Huan, Jephthain Gileadte upate kiangah, Amon suante sual dinga non pi kik nawn ua, hua, TOUPAN amau a honpiak leh na heutu ding un ka om petmah ding maw? a chi a.

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

¹⁰Huan, Gileadte upaten Jephtha kiangah, TOUPA i kikal uah hontheihpihpa ahi ding; na thu bangbangin ka hih ngeingei ding uh, a chi ua.

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 Jehovah in Mizpah.

¹¹Huchiin Jephtha bel Gileadte upate kiangah a hohtaa, huan, miten heutu ding leh a pipenpen dingin a nabawlta uhi: huan, Jephthain Mizpa khua ah TOUPA maah thu bangkim a genta.

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

¹²Huan, Jephthain Amon suante Kumpipa kiangah, Bangchi dana hichibanga ka gam hongsual dinga ka kianga hongpai mawk na hia? chiin palai a sawla.

¹³And the king of the children of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok and unto the Jordan; and now restore it peaceably.

¹³Huan, Amon suante kumpipan, Israelte Aigupta gam akipana a hongpawt lai ua ka gam a lak jiak uh a vo-oi, Arnon akipana Jabok leh Jordan tanin: huaijiakin huai gamte lungdamin honpe nawn main, chiin Jephtha palaite a nadawnga.

¹⁴And Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon,

¹⁴Huchiin Jephthain Amon suante kumpipa kiangah palai a sawl nawna:

¹⁵and said to him, Thus saith Jephthah: Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon.

¹⁵A kiangah, Jephthain hichiin a chi, Israelten Moab gam a laksak kei ua, Amon suante gam leng a laksak sam kei uh:

¹⁶But when they came up from Egypt, then Israel walked through the wilderness as far as the Red sea, and came to Kadesh.

¹⁶Aigupta gam akipan a hongpawtna uh Tuipi San tana gamdaia paisuak ahi ua, Kades a tun un,

¹⁷And Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land; but the king of Edom would not hearken. And they also sent to the king of Moab; and he would not. And Israel abode in Kadesh.

¹⁷Israelten Edom kumpipa kiangah, Hehpihtakin na gamah ka paisuak ding uh, chiin palai a sawl ua: himahleh Edom kumpipain a nangaikhe nuam kei. Huan, huchimahbangin Moab kumpipa kiangah a sawl nawna: himahleh pha a nasa keia: huchiin Israelte Kades ah a omta uh.

¹⁸And they walked through the wilderness, and went round the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came by the east of the land of Moab, and encamped beyond the Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab, for the Arnon is the border of Moab.

¹⁸Huchiin gamdai ah a paisuak ua, Edom gam leh Moab gam kimvelin a pai ua, Moab gam suahlam pangah a pai ua, Arnon leh lampangah ommun a bawl ua; Moab gamsungah jaw a lut kei hial uh, Arnon bel Moab gamgi chiang lah ahi ngala.

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

¹⁹Huan, Israelten Amorte Kumpipa Sihon, Hesbon kumpipa kiangah palai a sawl ua; Israelten a kiangah, Ka mun lam ua paina dingin hehpih takin nagam ah ka paisuak ding uh, a chi ua.

²⁰But Sihon trusted not Israel, to let him pass through his border, and Sihon gathered all his people, and they encamped in Jahzah; and he fought with Israel.

²⁰Himahleh Sihonin Israelte a gam a paisuak dingin a muangzou keia: Sihonin a mite tengteng a kaikhawma, Jahaz khua ah a kikulha, Israelte a sualta hi.

²¹And Jehovah the God of Israel gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them; and Israel took possession of the whole land of the Amorites, who dwelt in that country.

²¹Huan, TOUPA, Israelte Pathianin Sihon leh a lawite tengteng Israelte khut ah a piaa, amah a that uh: huchiin Israelten huai gam Amorte omna gam tengteng a tang vekta uh.

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

²²Huchiin Amorte gamgi chiang tengteng Arnon akipana Jabok phain, gamdai kipana Jordan phain a tang vek uh ahi.

²³And now Jehovah the God of Israel has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou take possession of it?

²³Huchiin TOUPA, Israelte Pathianin a mi Israelte maah Amorte a sut hi, nang amau na tang sin ahia?

²⁴Dost not thou possess what Chemosh thy god puts thee in possession of? and whatever Jehovah our God has dispossessed before us, that will we possess.

²⁴Na pathian Kemosain na tuam dia honseh saksa tang sin hilou na hi maw? Huchiin TOUPA ka Pathian un ka ma ua a suhte ka tangding uh.

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

²⁵Moab kumpipa Zipor tapa Balak sangin na hatjaw ahia? Aman Israelte a tok buaiin, a dou ngam ahia?

²⁶While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its dependent villages, and in Aroer and its dependent villages, and in all the cities that are along the banks of the Arnon, three hundred years -- why did ye not recover [them] within that time?

²⁶Israelte Hesbon ah leh a khopel ah, Aroer leh a khopelte ah, Arnon gamgi naih khopi tengtenga kum zathum tak a om laiua, bangdinga la loua na naom thek na hia?

²⁷So I have not sinned against thee, but it is thou who doest me wrong in making war against me. Jehovah, the Judge, be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon!

²⁷Huaijiakin na tungah thil bangmah ka hihkhial kei hi, nangman honsual na tup jiakin ka tungah thil na hihkhial ahi: TOUPA, Vaihawmpain tuin Israel suante leh Amon suante kala thu ngaihtuah hen, a chi, chiin.

²⁸But the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not to the words of Jephthah that he had sent him.

²⁸Himahleh Amon suante kumpipan Jephtha thukhah a na ngaikhe nuam kei hi.

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

²⁹Huchiin Toupa kha tuh Jephtha tungah a hongtunga, huchiin Gilead leh Manasi gamah a paisuaka, Gilead gama Mizpa ah a paisuaka, huan, Gilead gam Mizpa akipanin Amon suante kiangah a pai jel hi.

³⁰And Jephthah vowed a vow to Jehovah, and said, If thou wilt without fail give the children of Ammon into my hand,

³⁰Huan, Jephtha TOUPA kiangah a kichiama, Amon suante ka khuta na honpiak petmah leh,

³¹then shall that which cometh forth from the door of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, be Jehovah's, and I will offer it up for a burnt-offering.

³¹Hichi ahi dinga, Amon suante kiang akipana galmuanga ka painawn hun chiangin bangpeuh ka kongpi akipana hondawn masa penpen TOUPA a ahi ding, halmang thillat dingin ka zang ngeingei ding, a chi a.

³²And Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Jehovah gave them into his hand.

³²Huchiin Jephtha bel Amon suante sual dingin a kuantaa; huan, TOUPAN a khut ah a peta hi.

³³And he smote them from Aroer until thou come to Minnith, twenty cities, even unto Abel-Cheramim, with a very great slaughter; and the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

³³Huan, Aroer akipana Mibith phain a sual jela, kho sawmnih tak, huan, Abel-keramim phain a that eka. Huchiin Amon suante Israel suante maah a na zahlakta uhi.

³⁴And Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house, and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambours and with dances; and she was an only child: besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

³⁴Huan, Jephtha bel a omna Mizpa khuaa a in a tungtaa, huan, ngaiin, a tanuin khuangtate tohin lamin a nadawna: a ta neih sun ahia; amah lou tapa leh tanu dang himhim a neikei.

³⁵And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his garments, 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 to Jehovah, and I cannot go back.

³⁵Huan, hichi ahia, amah a muh takin a puante a botkeka, Ehe, ka tanu! Non niamkhiak mahmah ve, honmangbangsak mite laka na hita: TOUPA lamah lah ka kam ka nakata ngala, huailah jukkik thei ka hita kei, a chi a.

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

³⁶Huan, aman a kiangah, Pa, TOUPA lamah na kam na nakataa; na kama na thupawt bang ngeiin ka tungah na hih ding hi; TOUPAN na melma Amon suante tung ngeiah lah na phu a lata ngala, a chi a.

³⁷And she said to her father, Let this thing be done for me: leave me alone two months, that I may go and descend to the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.

³⁷Huan, a pa kiangah, Hichi bangin ka hih ding: kha nih sungin ka tang om dinga, tangte ah a suk a touin ka pai dinga, ka nungakna ka honsun dinga, kei leh ka lawmte toh, a chi a.

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.

³⁸Huan, aman, Pai ve, a chi a. Huchiin kha nih tam dingin a sawla; huan, a pawta, amah leh a lawmte toh, huan, tangte ah a nungakna a vasun.

³⁹And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned to her father, and he performed on her the vow that he had vowed; and she had known no man. And it became a fixed custom in Israel,

³⁹Huan, hichi ahia, kha nih nungin a pa kiangah a pai nawna, aman a nakichiamsa bangin a tungah a hiha: pasal kuamahin a kithuahpih kei uh.Huchiin Israelte lakah Israel tanuten Gilead mi Jephtha tanu kum tengin ni li sun danin a na neita uhi.

⁴⁰that from year to year the daughters of Israel go to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.

⁴⁰Huchiin Israelte lakah Israel tanuten Gilead mi Jephtha tanu kum tengin ni li sun danin a na neita uhi.