Giudici 12

DIODATI	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 OR gli Efraimiti, adunatisi a grida, passarono verso il Settentrione, e dissero a Iefte: Perchè sei tu passato per combattere contro a’ figliuoli di Ammon, e non ci hai chiamati per andar teco? noi bruceremo col fuoco la tua casa, e te insieme.	1 But behold there arose a sedition in Ephraim. And passing towards the north, they said to Jephte: When thou wentest to fight against the children of Ammon, why wouldst thou not call us, that we might go with thee? Therefore we will burn thy house.
2 E Iefte disse loro: Il mio popolo ed io abbiamo avuta gran contesa co’ figliuoli di Ammon; ed io v’ho chiamati, ma voi non mi avete liberato dalle lor mani.	2 And he answered them: I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon: and I called you to assist me, and you would not do it.
3 Laonde, veggendo che voi non mi liberavate, io ho messa la mia vita nella palma della mia mano, e son passato agli Ammoniti; e il Signore me li ha dati nelle mani; perchè dunque siete voi oggi saliti a me, per farmi guerra?	3 And when I saw this, I put my life in my own hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the Lord delivered them into my hands. What have I deserved, that you should rise up to fight against me?
4 E Iefte adunò tutti i Galaaditi, e combattè contro ad Efraim; e i Galaaditi percossero Efraim; perciocchè dicevano: Voi siete degli scampati di Efraim; Galaad è in mezzo di Efraim e di Manasse.	4 Then calling to him all the men of Galaad, he fought against Ephraim: and the men of Galaad defeated Ephraim, because he had said: Galaad is a fugitive of Ephraim, and dwelleth in the midst of Ephraim and Manasses.
5 E i Galaaditi occuparono i passi del Giordano a que’ di Efraim; e quando alcuno di que’ di Efraim che scampavano diceva: Lascia ch’io passi, i Galaaditi gli dicevano: Sei tu di Efraim? E s’egli diceva:	5 And the Galaadites secured the fords of the Jordan, by which Ephraim was to return. And when any one of the number of Ephraim came thither in the flight, and said: I beseech you let me pass: the Galaadites said to him: Art thou not an Ephraimite? If he said: I am not:
6 No, i Galaaditi gli dicevano: Deh! di’ Scibbolet; ma egli diceva: Sibbolet; e non accertava a profferir dirittamente. Ed essi lo prendevano, e lo scannavano a’ passi del Giordano. Così in quel tempo caddero morti di Efraim quarantaduemila uomini.	6 They asked him: Say then, Scibboleth, which is interpreted, An ear of corn. But he answered, Sibboleth, not being able to express an ear of corn by the same letter. Then presently they took him and killed him in the very passage of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of Ephraim two and forty thousand.
7 E Iefte Galaadita giudicò Israele sei anni; poi morì, e fu seppellito nella città di Galaad	7 And Jephte the Galaadite judged Israel six years: and he died, and was buried in his city of Galaad.
8 E, DOPO lui, Ibsan, da Bet-lehem, giudicò Israele.	8 After him Abesan of Bethlehem judged Israel:
9 Ed ebbe trenta figliuoli, e mandò fuori trenta figliuole a marito, a menò trenta fanciulle di fuori a’ suoi figliuoli per mogli; e giudicò Israele sett’anni.	9 He had thirty sons, and as many daughters, whom he sent abroad, and gave to husbands, and took wives for his sons of the same number, bringing them into his house. And he judged Israel seven years:
10 Poi Ibsan morì, e fu seppellito in Bet-lehem.	10 And he died, and was buried in Bethlehem.
11 E, dopo lui, Elon Zabulonita fu Giudice d’Israele; e giudicò Israele dieci anni.	11 To him succeeded Ahialon a Zahnlonite: and he judged Israel ten years:
12 Poi Elon Zabulonita morì, e fu seppellito in Aialon, nel paese di Zabulon.	12 And he died, and was buried in ZahnIon.
13 E, dopo lui, Abdon, figliuolo di Hillel, Piratonita, giudicò Israele.	13 After him Abdon, the son of Illel, a Pharathonite, judged Israel:
14 Ed ebbe quaranta figliuoli, e trenta figliuoli di figliuoli, i quali cavalcavano settant’asinelli; e giudicò Israele ott’anni.	14 And he had forty sons, and of them thirty grandsons, mounted upon seventy ass colts, and he judged Israel eight years:
15 Poi Abdon, figliuolo di Hillel, Piratonita, morì, e fu seppellito in Piraton, nel paese di Efraim, nel monte degli Amalechiti	15 And he died, and was buried in Pharathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of Amalech.