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33 And he defeated them with a very great blow, from Aroer as far as Minnith, twenty towns,[a] up to Abel Keramim. And the Ammonites[b] were subdued before the Israelites.[c]

34 Jephthah came to Mizpah, to his house, and behold his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and dancing. She was his only child; he did not have a son or daughter except her. 35 And the moment he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Ah! My daughter, you have caused me to bow down, and you have become my trouble. I made an oath[d] to Yahweh, and I cannot take it back.”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 11:33 Hebrew “town”
  2. Judges 11:33 Literally “sons/children of Ammon”
  3. Judges 11:33 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  4. Judges 11:35 Literally “I have opened wide my mouth”