Giudici 12
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.
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 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.
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 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?
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 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.
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 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:
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 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].
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 E Iefte Galaadita giudicò Israele sei anni; poi morì, e fu seppellito nella città di Galaad.
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 E, DOPO lui, Ibsan, da Bet-lehem, giudicò Israele.
After Jephthah died, a man named Ibzan, from Bethlehem, became the leader of the Israeli people.
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.
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 Poi Ibsan morì, e fu seppellito in Bet-lehem.
When he died, he was buried in Bethlehem.
11 E, dopo lui, Elon Zabulonita fu Giudice d'Israele; e giudicò Israele dieci anni.
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 Poi Elon Zabulonita morì, e fu seppellito in Aialon, nel paese di Zabulon.
Then he died and was buried in Aijalon [city] in the area where the tribe of Zebulun lives.
13 E, dopo lui, Abdon, figliuolo di Hillel, Piratonita, giudicò Israele.
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 Ed ebbe quaranta figliuoli, e trenta figliuoli di figliuoli, i quali cavalcavano settant'asinelli; e giudicò Israele ott'anni.
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 Poi Abdon, figliuolo di Hillel, Piratonita, morì, e fu seppellito in Piraton, nel paese di Efraim, nel monte degli Amalechiti.
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].
