1 And Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. And he was the son of a
harlot woman; and Gilead fathered Jephthah.
2 And the wife of Gilead bore sons to him. And the sons of the wife grew up, and
they threw Jephthah out, and said to him, You shall not inherit in the house of
your father, for you are the son of another woman.
3 And Jephthah fled from the face of his brothers, and lived in the land of Tob.
And worthless men were gathered to Jephthah, and went out with him.
4 And it happened after some time, the sons of Ammon fought with Israel.
5 And it happened when the sons of Ammon fought with Israel, the elders of
Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob.
6 And they said to Jephthah, Come, and you shall be our commander, that we may
fight against the sons of Ammon.
7 And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Have you not hated me? Yea, you
threw me out from my father's house. Why have you come to me when you are in
distress?
8 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, For this reason we have come back
to you now; and you shall go with us and fight against the sons of Ammon. And
you shall be our head, to all the people of Gilead.
9 And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If you take me back to fight
against the sons of Ammon, and YAHUVEH gives them up before me, shall I be your
head?
10 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, YAHUVEH shall be witness between
us; surely we will do according to your word.
11 And Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people appointed him
head over them, and as commander. And Jephthah spoke all his words before
YAHUVEH in Mizpeh.
12 And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon, saying, What
have you to do with me, that you have come in to me to fight in my land?
13 And the king of the sons of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah, Because
Israel took my land when he came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even to the Jabbok,
and to the Jordan. And now, restore them in peace.
14 And Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon,
15 and said to him, So says Jephthah, Israel did not take the land of Moab, and
the land of the sons of Ammon.
16 For when they came up out of Egypt, Israel went in the wilderness to the Red
Sea, and came in at Kadesh.
17 And Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, Please let me pass on
through your land, and the king of Edom did not listen. And Israel sent also to
the king of Moab, and he was not willing. And Israel remained in Kadesh.
18 And he went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the
land of Moab, and came in at the rising of the sun to the land of Moab. And they
camped beyond Arnon, and did not come into the border of Moab, for Arnon was the
border of Moab.
19 And Israel sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amorites the king of
Heshbon, and Israel said to him, Please let us pass on through your land, to my
place.
20 And Sihon did not trust Israel to pass on through his border. And Sihon
gathered all his people and they camped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.
21 And YAHUVEH the Elohim of Israel gave Sihon and all his people into the hand
of Israel, and they struck them. And Israel took possession of all the land of
the Amorites, the inhabitants of that land.
22 And they took possession of all the border of the Amorites from Arnon and to
the Jabbok, and from the wilderness, and to the Jordan.
23 And now, YAHUVEH our Elohim has expelled the Amorite from before His people
Israel. And would you possess it?
24 Whatever Chemosh your god causes you to possess, do you not possess it? And
all that which YAHUVEH our Elohim has expelled from before us, we will possess!
25 And now, are you at all any better than Balak the son of Zippor, the king of
Moab? And striving, did he strive with Israel? Did he ever fight against them?
26 When Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and in its towns, in
all the cities by the sides of Arnon three hundred years, then why have you not
delivered them in that time?
27 So I have not sinned against you, and you are doing me wrong to fight against
me. YAHUVEH the Judge shall judge today between the sons of Israel and the sons
of Ammon.
28 And the king of the sons of Ammon did not listen to the words of Jephthah
which he sent to him.
29 And the Spirit of YAHUVEH was on Jephthah. And he passed through Gilead and
Manasseh, and passed through Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he
passed on to the sons of Ammon.
30 And Jephthah vowed a vow to YAHUVEH, and said, If You will indeed give the
sons of Ammon into my hand,
31 then it shall be that the thing which comes out from the doors of my house to
meet me when I return in peace from the sons of Ammon, it shall belong to
YAHUVEH; and I will offer it a burnt offering.
32 And Jephthah passed over to the sons of Ammon to fight against them. And
YAHUVEH delivered them into his hand.
33 And he struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities,
and to the Meadow of the Vineyard, a very great destruction. And the sons of
Ammon were humbled before the sons of Israel.
Hebrews 9:1–28
1 Truly then, the first covenant also had ordinances of service, and the earthly
holy place.
2 For the first tabernacle was prepared, in which was both the menorah and the
table, and the setting out of the loaves, which is called holy.
3 But behind the second veil is a tabernacle, being called Holy of Holies,
4 having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant covered around
on all sides with gold, in which was the golden pot having the manna, and
Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
5 and above it the cherubs of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat (about which
now is not enough time to speak piece by piece).
6 And these having been prepared thus, the priests go into the first tabernacle
through all, completing the services.
7 But into the second the high priest goes alone once in the year, not without
blood, which he offers for himself and the ignorance’s of the people;
8 the Holy Spirit signifying by this that the way of the Holy of Holies has not
yet been made manifest, the first tabernacle still having been standing;
9 and it was a symbol, for that time, during which oblation and sacrifices were
offered that could not make perfect the conscience of him who offered them:
10 but only in food and drink, and various washings, and fleshly ordinances,
until the time of reformation has been imposed.
11 But Messiah having appeared as a High Priest of the coming good things,
through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is,
not of this creation,
12 nor through the blood of goats and of calves, but through His own blood, He
entered once for all into the Holy of Holies, having obtained for us everlasting
salvation.
13 For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the sprinkling of ashes of a heifer
on those having been defiled, sanctifies them to the purity of the flesh,
14 by how much more the blood of Messiah who through the eternal Spirit offered
Himself without blemish to YAHUVEH, will purify your conscience from dead works,
to serve the living ELOHIM!
15 And for this reason He became the Mediator of the New Covenant, that He might
by his death be redemption, to them who had transgressed the first covenant; so
that they, who are called to the eternal inheritance, might receive the promise.
16 For where there is a testament, it shows the death of him who made it.
17 For a covenant is affirmed over those dead, since it never has force when he
who has made it is living.
18 For this reason not even the first covenant was confirmed without blood.
19 For when the whole ordinance had been propounded by Moses to all the people,
according to the Torah; Moses took the blood of a heifer, and water, with
scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled upon the scrolls and upon all the people;
20 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which is ordained to you by
YAHUVEH.”
21 With that blood he also sprinkled upon the tabernacle, and upon all the
vessels of service:
22 And almost all things are purified by blood according to the Torah; and apart
from shedding of blood no remission occurs.
23 Then it was needful for the patterns of the things in the heavens to be
cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves by better sacrifices
than these.
24 For Messiah did not enter into the Holy of Holies made by hands, which is a
symbol of the true one, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of
YAHUVEH on our behalf,
25 not that He should often offer Himself even as the high priest enters into
the Holy of Holies year by year with blood of others;
26 otherwise He would have been obliged to have suffered many times from the
foundation of the world. But now once for all, at the completion of the ages, He
did offer Himself to abolish sin.
27 And as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this, Judgment;
28 so Messiah having been once offered “to bear the sins of many,” Messiah shall
appear a second time without our sins for the salvation of those who are waiting
for Him.