18.基甸問西巴和撒慕拿說:「你們在他泊山所殺的人是什麼樣式?」回答說:「他們好像你,各人都有王子的樣式。」
Then he asked Zebah and Zalmunna, 「What kind of men did you kill at Tabor?」 「Men like you,」 they answered, 「each one with the bearing of a prince.」
19.基甸說:「他們是我同母的弟兄,我指著永生的耶和華起誓,你們從前若存留他們的性命,我如今就不殺你們了。」
Gideon replied, 「Those were my brothers, the sons of my own mother. As surely as the LORD lives, if you had spared their lives, I would not kill you.」
20.於是對他的長子益帖說:「你起來殺他們。」但益帖因為是童子,害怕,不敢拔刀。
Turning to Jether, his oldest son, he said, 「Kill them!」 But Jether did not draw his sword, because he was only a boy and was afraid.
21.西巴和撒慕拿說:「你自己起來殺我們吧!因為人如何,力量也是如何。」基甸就起來,殺了西巴和撒慕拿,奪獲他們駱駝項上戴的月牙圈。
Zebah and Zalmunna said, 「Come, do it yourself. 『As is the man, so is his strength.』」 So Gideon stepped forward and killed them, and took the ornaments off their camels’ necks.