¹Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a prostitute: and Gilead became the father of Jephthah.

¹A Jefta Gileádsky bol udatný muž a bol synom ženy smilnice, a Gileád splodil Jeftu.

²Gilead’s wife bore him sons; and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said to him, “You shall not inherit in our father’s house; for you are the son of another woman.”

²Ale aj žena Gileádova porodila Gileádovi synov. A keď dorástli synovia ženini, zahnali Jeftu a povedali mu: Nebudeš dediť v dome nášho otca, lebo si ty syn inej ženy.

³Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they went out with him.

³Preto utiekol Jefta pred svojimi bratmi a býval v zemi Tóbe. A posberali sa k Jeftovi zaháľčiví mužovia a vychádzavali s ním.

⁴It happened after a while, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

⁴A stalo sa po čase, že synovia Ammonovi bojovali s Izraelom.

⁵It was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob;

⁵A stalo sa, keď bojovali synovia Ammonovi s Izraelom, že prišli starší kraja Gileáda, aby doviedli Jeftu zo zeme Tóba.

⁶and they said to Jephthah, “Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.”

⁶A riekli Jeftovi: Poď a budeš nám kniežaťom, a budeme bojovať proti synom Ammonovým.

⁷Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Didn’t you hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”

⁷A Jefta povedal starším Gileáda: Či nie ste to vy, ktorí ste ma nenávideli a zahnali ste ma z domu môjho otca? A tedy prečo ste prišli ku mne teraz, keď vám je úzko?

⁸The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon; and you shall be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

⁸Na to riekli starší Gileáda Jeftovi: Práve preto sme sa teraz vrátili k tebe, pojdeš s nami a budeš bojovať proti synom Ammonovým a budeš nám hlavou, všetkým obyvateľom Gileáda.

⁹Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh deliver them before me, shall I be your head?”

⁹Vtedy povedal Jefta starším Gileáda: Jestli ma vrátite, aby som bojoval proti synom Ammonovým, a Hospodin ich vydá predo mnou, či vám ja budem hlavou?

¹⁰The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Yahweh shall be witness between us; surely according to your word so will we do.”

¹⁰A starší Gileáda riekli Jeftovi: Hospodin bude svedkom medzi nami, jestli by sme neučinili tak, podľa tvojho slova.

¹¹Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.

¹¹Vtedy išiel Jefta so staršími Gileáda, a ľud ho učinil hlavou nad sebou a kniežaťom. A Jefta hovoril všetky svoje slová pred Hospodinom v Micpe.

¹²Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, “What have you to do with me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”

¹²Potom poslal Jefta poslov ku kráľovi synov Ammonových s odkazom: Čo ja mám s tebou, že si prišiel ku mne, aby si bojoval proti mojej zemi?

¹³The king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan: now therefore restore that territory again peaceably.”

¹³A kráľ synov Ammonových povedal poslom Jeftovým: Lebo Izrael vzal moju zem, keď išiel hore z Egypta, od Arnona až po Jabok a až po Jordán, preto teraz vráť mi tie kraje v pokoji.

¹⁴Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon;

¹⁴A Jefta poslal znova poslov ku kráľovi synov Ammonových

¹⁵and he said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: Israel didn’t take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon,

¹⁵a riekol mu: Takto hovorí Jefta: Izrael nevzal zeme Moábovej ani zeme synov Ammonových.

¹⁶but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea or, Sea of Reeds , and came to Kadesh;

¹⁶Ale keď išli hore z Egypta, išiel Izrael púšťou až k Rudému moru a prišiel do Kádeša.

¹⁷then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let me pass through your land;’ but the king of Edom didn’t listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab; but he would not: and Israel stayed in Kadesh.

¹⁷Odtiaľ poslal Izrael poslov ku kráľovi Edoma a povedal mu: Dovoľ mi, prosím, žeby som prešiel cez tvoju zem: Ale kráľ Edoma nechcel počuť. A poslal i ku kráľovi Moábovmu. Ale nechcel ani ten. A tak zostal Izrael v Kádeši.

¹⁸Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn’t come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.

¹⁸Potom išiel púšťou. A keď obišiel zem Edomovu i zem Moábovu, prišiel od východu slnca k zemi Moábovej a táborili za Arnonom a nevošli na územie Moábovo, lebo Arnon bol hranicou Moábovou.

¹⁹Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to my place.’

¹⁹A Izrael poslal poslov k Síchonovi, kráľovi, Amoreja, ku kráľovi Chešbona, a Izrael mu riekol: Nech prejdeme, prosím, cez tvoju zem až na svoje miesto!

²⁰But Sihon didn’t trust Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

²⁰Lež Síchon neveril Izraelovi, aby bol dovolil prejsť cez svoje územie. Ale Síchon shromaždil všetok svoj ľud, a položili sa táborom v Johse, a bojoval s Izraelom.

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

²¹Avšak Hospodin, Bôh Izraelov, dal Síchona i všetok jeho ľud do ruky Izraelovej, a porazili ich, a Izrael zaujal celú zem Amoreja do dedičstva, obyvateľa tej zeme.

²²They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.

²²A tak zaujali celé územie Amoreja od Arnona až po Jabok do dedičstva a od púšte až po Jordán.

²³So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?

²³Nuž tak teraz Hospodin, Bôh Izraelov, vyhnal Amoreja zpred tvári svojho ľudu Izraela, a ty tedy chceš zaujať jeho zem do dedičstva?

²⁴Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.

²⁴Či azda nie je tak, že národ, ktorý ti dá vyhnať Kámoš, tvoj boh, toho zem zaujmeš do dedičstva, a ktorýkoľvek národ vyženie Hospodin, náš Bôh, zpred našej tvári, toho zem zaujmeme my do dedičstva?

²⁵Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?

²⁵A teraz čože? Či si ty ozaj lepší ako bol Balák, syn Cipporov, kráľ Moába? Či sa azda pravotil s Izraelom? A či snáď bojoval kedy proti nim, proti Izraelovi?

²⁶While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years; why didn’t you recover them within that time?

²⁶Kým doteraz býval Izrael v Chešbone a v jeho mestečkách, v Aroere a v jeho mestečkách a vo všetkých mestách, ktoré sú popri Arnone, toto už tristo rokov, nuž prečože ste ich nevytrhli v tom čase?

²⁷I therefore have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. Yahweh, the Judge, be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.”

²⁷Ani ja som sa neprehrešil proti tebe, ale ty mi robíš zlé chcúc bojovať proti mne. Nech súdi Hospodin sudca dnes medzi synmi Izraelovými a medzi synmi Ammonovými!

²⁸However the king of the children of Ammon didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

²⁸Ale nepočul kráľ synov Ammonových na slová Jeftu, ktoré poslal k nemu.

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

²⁹Vtedy sostúpil Duch Hospodinov na Jeftu, a prešiel Gileádom a Manassesom a prešiel cez Micpu v Gileáde a z Micpy v Gileáde prešiel k synom Ammonovým.

³⁰Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

³⁰A Jefta sľúbil Hospodinovi sľub a povedal: Ak istotne dáš synov Ammonových do mojej ruky,

³¹then it shall be, that whatever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be Yahweh’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.”

³¹vtedy bude, že to, čo vyjde zo dverí môjho domu oproti mne, keď sa navrátim v pokoji od synov Ammonových, bude Hospodinovo, a budem to obetovať zápalnou obeťou.

³²So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand.

³²A tak prešiel Jefta k synom Ammonovým, aby bojoval proti nim, a Hospodin ich dal do jeho ruky.

³³He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

³³A zbil ich od Aroera až potiaľ, ako ideš do Minníta, dvadsať miest, a až po Ábel-vinice porážkou, veľmi velikou, a tak boli zohnutí synovia Ammonovi pred synmi Izraelovými.

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

³⁴A keď prišiel Jefta do Micpy vracajúc sa do svojho domu, hľa, jeho dcéra mu išla von oproti s bubny a kolotancami, a bola len ona jediná; nemal krome nej ani syna ani dcéry.

³⁵It happened, when he saw her, that he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I can’t go back.”

³⁵A stalo sa, keď ju uvidel, že roztrhnul svoje rúcha a povedal: Ach, moja dcéra, veľmi si ma zohla a si jednou z tých, ktorí mi pôsobia trápenie, a ja, pretože som otvoril svoje ústa sľúbiac Hospodinovi sľub, nebudem môcť odvolať.

³⁶She said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon.”

³⁶A ona mu riekla: Môj otče, otvoril si svoje ústa sľúbiac Hospodinovi sľub, nuž učiň mi podľa toho, čo vyšlo z tvojich úst, keďže ti dal Hospodin, aby si sa pomstil na svojich nepriateľoch, na synoch Ammonových.

³⁷She said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.”

³⁷A ešte povedala svojmu otcovi: Dovoľ, nech sa mi učiní táto vec. Nechaj ma dva mesiace, aby som odišla a sišla na vrchy a plakala nad svojím panenstvom, ja i moje priateľky.

³⁸He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.

³⁸A riekol: Iď. A poslal ju na dva mesiace. A tedy odišla ona i jej priateľky a plakala nad svojím panenstvom na vrchoch.

³⁹It 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,

³⁹A stalo sa po dvoch mesiacoch, že sa navrátila ku svojmu otcovi, ktorý vykonal pri nej svoj sľub, ktorý sľúbil. A ona nepoznala muža. A stalo sa to pevnou obyčajou v Izraelovi,

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

⁴⁰že z roka na rok chodievajú dcéry Izraelove, aby spievaly dcére Jeftu Gileádskeho štyri dni v roku.