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The Great Bible 1539
| 12:1 | And the men of Ephraim geathered them selues together, & went northwarde, and sayde vnto Iephthah: Wherfore wentest thou to fyght with the children of Ammon, and dydest not call vs to go with the? we will therfore burne thine house vpon the fyer. |
| 12:2 | And Iephthah said vnto them: I & my people were at great stryfe wt the chyldren of Ammon. And when I called you, ye delyuered me not out of their handes. |
| 12:3 | And when I sawe that ye deliuered me not, I put my lyfe in my handes, & went vpon the children of Ammon. And the Lord delyuered them into my handes. Wherfore then are ye come vpon me now, to fyght wt me? |
| 12:4 | Iephthah therfore gathered together all the men of Gilead, & fought wt the Ephraites And the men of Gilead smote the Ephraites, because they sayd: Ye Gileadites are but runneagates of Ephraim amonge the Ephraites & the Manassites. |
| 12:5 | Moreouer, the men of Gilead toke the passages of Iordan before the Ephraites. And when those Ephraites that were escaped, sayde: lett vs go ouer, then the men of Gilead sayd vnto them: Art thou an Ephraite? they sayde: naye. |
| 12:6 | Then sayde they vnto him: then saye: Schibboleth. And he sayde: Sibboleth: for he coulde not so pronounce. And then they toke him, and slewe hym at the passages of Iordan. And there were ouerthrowen at that tyme of the Ephraites .xlij.M. |
| 12:7 | And Iephthah iudged Israel .vi. yeare & dyed, and was buryed in one of the cyties of Gilead. |
| 12:8 | After thys man, iudged Israell one Abezan of Bethlehem, |
| 12:9 | & he had .xxx. sonnes and .xxx. daughters, whom he sent out, and toke .xxx. other in, for his sonnes. And when Abezan had iudged Israel .vii. yere, |
| 12:10 | he dyed, and was buryed at Bethlehem. |
| 12:11 | After him, Elon a Zabulonite iudged Israel ten yere, & Elon the Zabulonite dyed, |
| 12:12 | & was buryed in Aialon, in the countre of Zabulon. |
| 12:13 | After hym, Abdon the sonne of Hellel a Pharathonite iudged Israel. |
| 12:14 | And he had .xl. sonnes, and thirty neueus, that rode on .lxx. asse coltes. And when Abdon the sonne of Hellel the Pharathonite had iudged Israell eyght yeare, |
| 12:15 | he dyed, & was buryed in Pharthon in the lande of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites. |
The Great Bible 1539
The Great Bible of 1539 was the first authorized edition of the Bible in English, authorized by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England. The Great Bible was prepared by Myles Coverdale, working under commission of Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Secretary to Henry VIII and Vicar General. In 1538, Cromwell directed the clergy to provide "one book of the bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have care of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it."