- 以法蓮人聚集、到了北方、對耶弗他說、你去與亞捫人爭戰、為甚麼沒有招我們同去呢.我們必用火燒你和你的房屋。
- 耶弗他對他們說、我和我的民與亞捫人大大爭戰.我招你們來、你們竟沒有來救我脫離他們的手。
- 我見你們不來救我、我就拚命前去攻擊亞捫人、耶和華將他們交在我手中.你們今日為甚麼上我這裡來攻打我呢。
- 於是耶弗他招聚基列人、與以法蓮人爭戰.基列人擊殺以法蓮人、是因他們說、你們基列人在以法蓮瑪拿西中間、不過是以法蓮逃亡的人。
- 基列人把守約但河的渡口、不容以法蓮人過去。以法蓮逃走的人若說、容我過去、基列人就問他說、你是以法蓮人不是.他若說、不是、
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- Then the men of Ephraim were summoned, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, "Why did you cross over to fight against the sons of Ammon without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down on you."
- Jephthah said to them, "I and my people were at great strife with the sons of Ammon; when I called you, you did not deliver me from their hand.
- "When I saw that you would not deliver me, I took my life in my hands and crossed over against the sons of Ammon, and the LORD gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?"
- Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought Ephraim; and the men of Gilead defeated Ephraim, because they said, "You are fugitives of Ephraim, O Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and in the midst of Manasseh."
- The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan opposite Ephraim. And it happened when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, "Let me cross over," the men of Gilead would say to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he said, "No,"
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