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THE SONS OF YISRA EL ATTACK THE SONS OF BEN YAMIN
And all the sons of Yisra El go out and the witness congregates as one man - from Dan even to Beer Sheba with the land of Gilad to Yah Veh in Mispeh: 2 and the chiefs of all the people - of all the scions of Yisra El, set themselves in the congregation of the people of Elohim - four hundred thousand footmen who draw sword. 3 The sons of Ben Yamin hear that the sons of Yisra El ascend to Mispeh. And the sons of Yisra El say, Word, how becomes this evil? 4 And the Leviy, the man of the woman who is murdered, answers and says, I come to Gibah to Ben Yamin - I and my concubine, to stay overnight: 5 and the masters of Gibah rose against me and surrounded the house on me by night and considered slaughtering me: and abased my concubine that she died. 6 And I possessed my concubine and dismembered her; and send her throughout all the fields of the inheritance of Yisra El: for they work intrigue and folly in Yisra El. 7 Behold, you are all sons of Yisra El; give here your word and counsel. 8 And all the people rise as one man, saying, No man goes to his tent, and no man turns to his house: 9 and now, this is the word we work by pebble against Gibah; 10 we take ten men of a hundred throughout all the scions of Yisra El; and a hundred of a thousand and a thousand of a myriad to take hunt for the people, that when they come to Gibah of Ben Yamin, to work according to all the folly they worked in Yisra El. 11 And all the men of Yisra El gather against the city - companions as one man: 12 and the scions of Yisra El send men through all the scion of Ben Yamin, saying, What evil is this among you? 13 Now give the men - the sons of Beli Yaal in Gibah and we deathify them and thus burn away evil from Yisra El. And Ben Yamin wills to not hearken to the voice of their brothers the sons of Yisra El: 14 and the sons of Ben Yamin gather from the cities to Gibah, to go to war against the sons of Yisra El. 15 And daily the sons of Ben Yamin muster from the cities twenty-six thousand men who draw sword; beside the settlers of Gibah, who muster seven hundred chosen men: 16 among all this people are seven hundred chosen men bound of their right hand; every one slinging stones at a hair, and none sin/miss the mark. 17 And beside Ben Yamin, the men of Yisra El muster four hundred thousand men who draw sword - all men of war. 18 And the sons of Yisra El rise and ascend to the house of Elohim and ask counsel of Elohim, and say, Who of us goes to war at the beginning against the sons of Ben Yamin? And Yah Veh says, Yah Hudah, at the beginning. 19 And the sons of Yisra El rise in the morning and encamp against Gibah: 20 and the men of Yisra El go to war against Ben Yamin: and the men of Yisra El line up to war against them at Gibah. 21 And the sons of Ben Yamin go from Gibah and ruin to the earth of the Yisra Eliy that day twenty-two thousand men. 22 And the people - the men of Yisra El strengthen themselves and line up to war again in the place they lined up the first day. 23 And the sons of Yisra El ascend and weep at the face of Yah Veh until evening; and ask counsel of Yah Veh, saying, Add I to approach to war against the sons of Ben Yamin - my brother? And Yah Veh says, Ascend against him. 24 - and the sons of Yisra El approach against the sons of Ben Yamin the second day. 25 And Ben Yamin goes to meet them from Gibah the second day; and ruins to the earth of the sons of Yisra El again eighteen thousand men - all who draw the sword. 26 And all the sons of Yisra El and all the people ascend and come to the house of Elohim and weep; and settle there at the face of Yah Veh; and fast that day until evening; and holocaust holocausts and shelamim at the face of Yah Veh. 27 And the sons of Yisra El ask of Yah Veh - for the ark of the covenant of Elohim is there in those days; 28 and Pinechas the son of El Azar the son of Aharon stands at the face of it in those days, saying, Go I yet again to war against the sons of Ben Yamin - my brother? Or cease? And Yah Veh says, Ascend; for tomorrow I give them into your hand. 29 And Yisra El sets lurkers all around Gibah: 30 and on the third day the sons of Yisra El ascend against the sons of Ben Yamin and line up against Gibah, as time by time: 31 and the sons of Ben Yamin come out to meet the people; and they tear away from the city and begin to smite and pierce the people - about thirty men of Yisra El, as time by time - in the highways whereby one ascends to the house of Elohim and to Gibah in the field. 32 And the sons of Ben Yamin say, They are smitten at our face, as at the first. But the sons of Yisra El say, We flee and tear them away from the city to the highways. 33 And all the men of Yisra El rise from their place and line up at Baal Tamar: and the lurkers of Yisra El come from their places - from the barrens of Gibah: 34 ten thousand chosen men of all Yisra El and come against Gibah; and the war is heavy: but they know not that evil touches them. 35 And Yah Veh smites Ben Yamin at the face of Yisra El: and that day the sons of Yisra El ruin of the Ben Yaminiy twenty-five thousand and a hundred men - all who draw the sword. 36 And the sons of Ben Yamin see they are smitten: for the men of Yisra El give place to the Ben Yaminiy, because they confide in the lurkers they set beside Gibah: 37 and the lurkers hasten and spread on Gibah; and the lurkers draw along and smite all the city with the mouth of the sword. 38 And there becomes a season to the men of Yisra El with the lurkers, to make an abounding heaviness of smoke ascend from the city. 39 And the men of Yisra El return in the war, and Ben Yamin begins to smite and pierce about thirty persons of the men of Yisra El: for they say, In smiting, they are smitten at our face as in the first war. 40 And the signal - a pillar of smoke begins to holocaust from the city, the Ben Yaminiy turn face behind them, and behold, the city totally holocausts to the heavens. 41 And the men of Yisra El turn again, and the men of Ben Yamin hasten: for they see that evil touches them: 42 and they turn from the face of the men of Yisra El to the way of the wilderness; and the war overtakes them: and they ruin them who come in their midst from the cities. 43 Thus they surround the Ben Yaminiy and pursue them and tread them down with ease over against Gibah from the rising sun. 44 And eighteen thousand men of Ben Yamin fall - all men of valour: 45 and they turn face and flee toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they glean five thousand of their men in the highways; and adhere after them to Gidom; and smite two thousand of their men: 46 and all who fall that day of Ben Yamin - twenty-five thousand men who draw the sword - all men of valour. 47 And six hundred men turn face and flee to the wilderness to the rock Rimmon and settle in the rock Rimmon four months: 48 and the men of Yisra El turn on the sons of Ben Yamin and smite them with the mouth of the sword - the integrious of city, to animals, and to all they find: also they set on fire all the cities they find.
THE SONS OF YISRA EL ATTACK THE SONS OF BEN YAMIN
And all the sons of Yisra El go out and the witness congregates as one man - from Dan even to Beer Sheba with the land of Gilad to Yah Veh in Mispeh: 2 and the chiefs of all the people - of all the scions of Yisra El, set themselves in the congregation of the people of Elohim - four hundred thousand footmen who draw sword. 3 The sons of Ben Yamin hear that the sons of Yisra El ascend to Mispeh. And the sons of Yisra El say, Word, how becomes this evil? 4 And the Leviy, the man of the woman who is murdered, answers and says, I come to Gibah to Ben Yamin - I and my concubine, to stay overnight: 5 and the masters of Gibah rose against me and surrounded the house on me by night and considered slaughtering me: and abased my concubine that she died. 6 And I possessed my concubine and dismembered her; and send her throughout all the fields of the inheritance of Yisra El: for they work intrigue and folly in Yisra El. 7 Behold, you are all sons of Yisra El; give here your word and counsel. 8 And all the people rise as one man, saying, No man goes to his tent, and no man turns to his house: 9 and now, this is the word we work by pebble against Gibah; 10 we take ten men of a hundred throughout all the scions of Yisra El; and a hundred of a thousand and a thousand of a myriad to take hunt for the people, that when they come to Gibah of Ben Yamin, to work according to all the folly they worked in Yisra El. 11 And all the men of Yisra El gather against the city - companions as one man: 12 and the scions of Yisra El send men through all the scion of Ben Yamin, saying, What evil is this among you? 13 Now give the men - the sons of Beli Yaal in Gibah and we deathify them and thus burn away evil from Yisra El. And Ben Yamin wills to not hearken to the voice of their brothers the sons of Yisra El: 14 and the sons of Ben Yamin gather from the cities to Gibah, to go to war against the sons of Yisra El. 15 And daily the sons of Ben Yamin muster from the cities twenty-six thousand men who draw sword; beside the settlers of Gibah, who muster seven hundred chosen men: 16 among all this people are seven hundred chosen men bound of their right hand; every one slinging stones at a hair, and none sin/miss the mark. 17 And beside Ben Yamin, the men of Yisra El muster four hundred thousand men who draw sword - all men of war. 18 And the sons of Yisra El rise and ascend to the house of Elohim and ask counsel of Elohim, and say, Who of us goes to war at the beginning against the sons of Ben Yamin? And Yah Veh says, Yah Hudah, at the beginning. 19 And the sons of Yisra El rise in the morning and encamp against Gibah: 20 and the men of Yisra El go to war against Ben Yamin: and the men of Yisra El line up to war against them at Gibah. 21 And the sons of Ben Yamin go from Gibah and ruin to the earth of the Yisra Eliy that day twenty-two thousand men. 22 And the people - the men of Yisra El strengthen themselves and line up to war again in the place they lined up the first day. 23 And the sons of Yisra El ascend and weep at the face of Yah Veh until evening; and ask counsel of Yah Veh, saying, Add I to approach to war against the sons of Ben Yamin - my brother? And Yah Veh says, Ascend against him. 24 - and the sons of Yisra El approach against the sons of Ben Yamin the second day. 25 And Ben Yamin goes to meet them from Gibah the second day; and ruins to the earth of the sons of Yisra El again eighteen thousand men - all who draw the sword. 26 And all the sons of Yisra El and all the people ascend and come to the house of Elohim and weep; and settle there at the face of Yah Veh; and fast that day until evening; and holocaust holocausts and shelamim at the face of Yah Veh. 27 And the sons of Yisra El ask of Yah Veh - for the ark of the covenant of Elohim is there in those days; 28 and Pinechas the son of El Azar the son of Aharon stands at the face of it in those days, saying, Go I yet again to war against the sons of Ben Yamin - my brother? Or cease? And Yah Veh says, Ascend; for tomorrow I give them into your hand. 29 And Yisra El sets lurkers all around Gibah: 30 and on the third day the sons of Yisra El ascend against the sons of Ben Yamin and line up against Gibah, as time by time: 31 and the sons of Ben Yamin come out to meet the people; and they tear away from the city and begin to smite and pierce the people - about thirty men of Yisra El, as time by time - in the highways whereby one ascends to the house of Elohim and to Gibah in the field. 32 And the sons of Ben Yamin say, They are smitten at our face, as at the first. But the sons of Yisra El say, We flee and tear them away from the city to the highways. 33 And all the men of Yisra El rise from their place and line up at Baal Tamar: and the lurkers of Yisra El come from their places - from the barrens of Gibah: 34 ten thousand chosen men of all Yisra El and come against Gibah; and the war is heavy: but they know not that evil touches them. 35 And Yah Veh smites Ben Yamin at the face of Yisra El: and that day the sons of Yisra El ruin of the Ben Yaminiy twenty-five thousand and a hundred men - all who draw the sword. 36 And the sons of Ben Yamin see they are smitten: for the men of Yisra El give place to the Ben Yaminiy, because they confide in the lurkers they set beside Gibah: 37 and the lurkers hasten and spread on Gibah; and the lurkers draw along and smite all the city with the mouth of the sword. 38 And there becomes a season to the men of Yisra El with the lurkers, to make an abounding heaviness of smoke ascend from the city. 39 And the men of Yisra El return in the war, and Ben Yamin begins to smite and pierce about thirty persons of the men of Yisra El: for they say, In smiting, they are smitten at our face as in the first war. 40 And the signal - a pillar of smoke begins to holocaust from the city, the Ben Yaminiy turn face behind them, and behold, the city totally holocausts to the heavens. 41 And the men of Yisra El turn again, and the men of Ben Yamin hasten: for they see that evil touches them: 42 and they turn from the face of the men of Yisra El to the way of the wilderness; and the war overtakes them: and they ruin them who come in their midst from the cities. 43 Thus they surround the Ben Yaminiy and pursue them and tread them down with ease over against Gibah from the rising sun. 44 And eighteen thousand men of Ben Yamin fall - all men of valour: 45 and they turn face and flee toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they glean five thousand of their men in the highways; and adhere after them to Gidom; and smite two thousand of their men: 46 and all who fall that day of Ben Yamin - twenty-five thousand men who draw the sword - all men of valour. 47 And six hundred men turn face and flee to the wilderness to the rock Rimmon and settle in the rock Rimmon four months: 48 and the men of Yisra El turn on the sons of Ben Yamin and smite them with the mouth of the sword - the integrious of city, to animals, and to all they find: also they set on fire all the cities they find.