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

¹And Jephthah the Gileadite hath been a mighty man of valour, and he [is] son of a woman, a harlot; and Gilead begetteth Jephthah,

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.

²and 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.`

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

³And 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.

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

⁴And it cometh to pass, after a time, that the Bene-Ammon fight with Israel,

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

⁵and 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;

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

⁶and they say unto Jephthah, `Come, and thou hast been to us for captain, and we fight against the Bene-Ammon.`

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?

⁷And 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?`

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.

⁸and 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.`

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?

⁹And 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?`

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

¹⁰And the elders of Gilead say unto Jephthah, `Jehovah is hearkening between us — if according to thy word we do not so.`

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.

¹¹And 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.

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?

¹²And 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.`

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!

¹³And 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.`

¹⁴Jefta, pa pošlje zopet sle h kralju Amonovih sinov

¹⁴And Jephthah addeth yet and sendeth messengers unto the king of the Bene-Ammon,

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

¹⁵and saith to him, `Thus said Jephthah, Israel took not the land of Moab, and the land of the Bene-Ammon,

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

¹⁶for in their coming up out of Egypt, Israel goeth in the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and cometh in to 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.

¹⁷and 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,

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.

¹⁸and 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.

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.

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,

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.

²⁰and 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;

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.

²¹and 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,

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

²²and they possess all the border of the Amorite from Arnon, and unto the Jabbok, and from the wilderness, and unto the Jordan.

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

²³`And now, Jehovah, God of Israel, hath dispossessed the Amorite from the presence of His people Israel, and thou wouldst possess it!

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.

²⁴That 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.

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

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?

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?

²⁶In 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?

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!

²⁷And 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.`

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

²⁸And the king of the Bene-Ammon hath not hearkened unto the words of Jephthah which he sent unto him,

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.

²⁹and 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.

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

³⁰And Jephthah voweth a vow to Jehovah, and saith, `If Thou dost at all give the Bene-Ammon into my hand —

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.

³¹then 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.`

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

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

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.

³³and 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.

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.

³⁴And 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.

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.

³⁵And 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.`

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.

³⁶And 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.`

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.

³⁷And 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.`

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

³⁸And 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;

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.

³⁹and 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:

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

⁴⁰from time to time the daughters of Israel go to talk to the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in a year.