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1 Os homens de Efraim foram reunidos e passaram para o norte; e disseram a Jefté: “Por que você passou para lutar contra as crianças de Ammon, e não nos chamou para irmos com você? Vamos queimar sua casa ao seu redor com fogo”!
The men of the tribe of Ephraim summoned their soldiers, and they crossed [the Jordan River] to [the town of] Zaphon [to talk with] Jephthah. They said to him, “(Why did you not ask us for help?/You should have requested us) to help your army fight the Ammon people-group. So we will burn down your house while you are in it.”
2 Jefthah disse a eles: “Eu e meu povo estávamos em grande contenda com os filhos de Ammon; e quando os chamei, vocês não me salvaram da mão deles.
Jephthah replied, “The Ammon people-group were oppressing us greatly. When we were prepared to start to attack them, I requested you to come and help us, but you refused. My men and I defeated the Ammon people-group, but you did not help us.
3 Quando vi que você não me salvou, coloquei minha vida na mão e passei contra as crianças de Ammon, e Yahweh as entregou em minhas mãos. Por que então vocês vieram até mim hoje, para lutar contra mim”?
When I saw that you would not help us, I was willing to be killed in the battle against the Ammon people-group. But Yahweh helped us to defeat them. [You did not help us when we requested it before], so (why have you come here today to fight against me?/you should not have come here today to fight against me.)” [RHQ]
4 Então Jephthah reuniu todos os homens de Gilead, e lutou com Efraim. Os homens de Gilead atingiram Efraim, porque disseram: “Vocês são fugitivos de Efraim, seus gileaditas, no meio de Efraim, e no meio de Manasseh”.
Then Jephthah summoned the men of [the] Gilead [region] to fight [against the men of the tribe of] Ephraim. The men of the tribe of Ephraim said, “You men from [the] Gilead [region] are men who deserted us. Long ago you left us and moved to the area between our tribe and the tribe of Manasseh.” [Because of their saying that], the men of [the] Gilead [region] attacked the men of the tribe of Ephraim.
5 Os gileaditas tomaram os vaus do Jordão contra os efraimitas. Sempre que um fugitivo de Efraim dizia: “Deixe-me ir”, os homens de Gilead lhe diziam: “Você é um efraimita? Se ele disse, “Não;”
The men of Gilead captured that (ford/place where people can walk across) at the Jordan [River] to go to the land where the tribe of Ephraim live. Whenever one of the soldiers from the tribe of Ephraim came to the ford to try to escape, he would say, “Let me cross the river.” Then the men of Gilead would ask him, “Are you from the tribe of Ephraim?” If he said “No,”
6 então eles lhe disseram, “Agora diga 'Shibboleth;'” e ele disse “Sibboleth”; pois ele não conseguiu pronunciá-lo corretamente, então eles o apreenderam e o mataram nos vaus do Jordão. Naquele momento, quarenta e dois mil de Efraim caíram.
they would say to him, “Say the word ‘Shibboleth’.” The men of Ephraim could not pronounce that word correctly. So if the person from the tribe of Ephraim said ‘Sibboleth’, [they would know that he was lying and that he was really from the tribe of Ephraim, and] they would kill him there at the ford. So the men of Gilead killed 42,000 people from the tribe of Ephraim at that time.
7 Jephthah julgou Israel por seis anos. Depois Jefté, o Gileadita, morreu e foi enterrado nas cidades de Gilead.
Jephthah, the man from [the] Gilead [region], was a leader of the Israeli people for six years. Then he died and was buried in a town in [the] Gilead [region].
8 Depois dele, Ibzan de Belém julgou Israel.
After Jephthah died, a man named Ibzan, from Bethlehem, became the leader of the Israeli people.
9 Ele teve trinta filhos. Ele enviou suas trinta filhas de fora de seu clã e trouxe trinta filhas de fora de seu clã para seus filhos. Ele julgou Israel por sete anos.
He had 30 sons and 30 daughters. He forced all his daughters to marry men who were not in his clan, and brought women from outside his clan to marry his sons. He was the leader of the Israeli people for seven years.
10 Ibzan morreu, e foi enterrado em Belém.
When he died, he was buried in Bethlehem.
11 Depois dele, Elon, o zebulunita, julgou Israel; e ele julgou Israel dez anos.
After Ibzan died, a man named Elon, from the tribe of Zebulun, became the leader of the Israeli people. He was their leader for ten years.
12 Elon o zebulunita morreu, e foi enterrado em Aijalon, na terra de Zebulun.
Then he died and was buried in Aijalon [city] in the area where the tribe of Zebulun lives.
13 Depois dele, Abdon, filho de Hillel, o Piratonita, julgou Israel.
After Elon died, a man named Abdon who was the son of Hillel, from Pirathon [city, in the area where the tribe of Ephraim live] became the leader of the Israeli people.
14 Ele tinha quarenta filhos e trinta filhos de filhos que montavam em setenta jumentos de burros. Ele julgou Israel por oito anos.
He had 40 sons and 30 grandsons. Each of them had his own donkey on which to ride. Abdon was the leader of the Israeli people for eight years.
15 Abdon, filho de Hillel, o piratonita, morreu e foi enterrado em Pirathon, na terra de Efraim, na região montanhosa dos amalequitas.
When Abdon died, he was buried in Pirathon, in the hilly area where the descendants of Amalek lived previously, [but now it is the area where the tribe of Ephraim lives].

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