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Judges 11:1-3

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11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a brave warrior. His mother was a prostitute, but Gilead was his father. 1  11:2 Gilead’s wife also gave 2  him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they made Jephthah leave and said to him, “You are not going to inherit any of our father’s wealth, 3  because you are another woman’s son.” 11:3 So Jephthah left 4  his half-brothers 5  and lived in the land of Tob. Lawless men joined Jephthah’s gang and traveled with him. 6 

1 tn Heb “Now he was the son of a woman, a prostitute, and Gilead fathered Jephthah.”

2 tn Heb “bore.”

3 tn Heb “in the house of our father.”

4 tn Or “fled from.”

5 tn Heb “brothers.”

6 tn Heb “Empty men joined themselves to Jephthah and went out with him.”



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