22 Ngabona lobo busuku Jakobe wavuka watsatsa bafati bakhe bobabili, netincekukati takhe letimbili, nebantfwabakhe labalishumi namunye, wabeweta etubukweni lemfula iJabhoki.
Jakobe wakhuluma kuLabani, watsi: “Sengisicedzile sikhatsi sami, sale unginika umkami ngingene kuye.”
Ngako-ke letipho takhe tahamba embili, yena Jakobe wasala ngemuva esikanekisweni, wabucitsa khona busuku.
Bonkhe wabewetela ngesheya kwemfula nako konkhe labenako,
Kwatsi nasafa wetsa loluswane lwakhe watsi nguBhenoni, kodvwa uyise wametsa libito watsi nguBhenjamini.
Kodvwa asizange sisondzele eveni lema-Amoni: nome eceleni kugudla umfula iJabhoki, nome ngasemadolobheni laseveni letintsaba, nome ngukuphi-ke lapho Simakadze Nkulunkulu wetfu abesiyale kutsi singayi khona.”
Sive sakaRubeni nesakaGadi ngatabela live lakaGileyadi, kuze kuyewufika eSihosheni sase-Anoni, ekhatsi nesihosha kwaba ngumnyele, kanye nasemfuleni iJabhoki, umnyele wesive sema-Amoni.
Kepha nangabe umuntfu anganakekeli tihlobo takhe, ikakhulu umndeni wakhe, sewukulahlile kukholwa; futsi loko kwenta kwakhe kubi kakhulu kunekwemuntfu longakholwa.
Sihoni, inkhosi yema-Amori, labebusa eHeshboni. Abebusa kusukela e-Aroyeri emngcengcemeni weMsaho wase-Anoni, kusukela ekhatsi nawo, kuye eMfuleni iJabhoki, lekungumncele wema-Amoni. Lelive lalifaka ekhatsi incenye yelive lakaGileyadi.
Inkhosi yema-Amoni yaphendvula letigijimi takaJeftha yatsi: “Kwatsi ema-Israyeli nakaphuma eGibhithe, efika lapha atsatsa live lami, kusukela e-Anoni kuze kuyewufika eJabhoki naseJordane. Manje-ke libuyiseni ngekuthula.”