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.

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

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.”

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 brothers, and lived in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they 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.

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

⁴Za nekaj časa pa so se vojskovali Amonovi sinovi z 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;

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

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

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

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?”

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?

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.”

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.

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?”

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?

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

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 chief over them: and Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.

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.

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?”

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?

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.”

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!

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

¹⁴Jefta, pa pošlje zopet sle h kralju Amonovih sinov

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,

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

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;

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.’

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 didn’t trust Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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?

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?

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.”

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!

²⁸However the king of the children of Ammon didn’t listen to 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 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.

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.

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

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

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.”

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 to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.”

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.

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.”

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.

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

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,

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 celebrate 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.