These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Judges 12
Tanakh 15 verses
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And the men of were gathered together, and passed to Zaphon; and they said unto Jephthah: ‘Wherefore didst thou pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thy house upon thee with fire.’
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And Jephthah said unto them: ‘I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye saved me not out of their hand.
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- 3 And when I saw that ye saved me not, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and delivered them into my hand; wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?’
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Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of , and fought with ; and the men of smote , because they said: ‘Ye are fugitives of , ye Gileadites, in the midst of , and in the midst of .’
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And the Gileadites took the fords of the against the Ephraimites; and it was so, that when any of the fugitives of said: ‘Let me go over,’ the men of said unto him: ‘Art thou an Ephraimite?’ If he said: ‘Nay’;
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- 6 then said they unto him: ‘Say now Shibboleth’; and he said ‘Sibboleth’; for he could not frame to pronounce it right; then they laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the ; and there fell at that time of forty and two thousand.
- 7 And Jephthah judged six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of .
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And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged .
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And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he sent abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. And he judged seven years.
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- 10 and Ibzan died, and was buried at Beth-lehem.
- 11 And after him Elon the Zebulunite judged ; and he judged ten years.
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And Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of .
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- 13 And after him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged .
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And he had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts; and he judged eight years.
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And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of , in the hill-country of the Amalekites.
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