²⁶ But Aod, while they were in confusion, escaped, and passed by the place of the idols, from whence he had returned. And he came to Seirath:

²⁷ And forthwith he sounded the trumpet in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel went down with him, he himself going in the front.

²⁸ And he said to them: Follow me: for the Lord hath delivered our enemies the Moabites into our hands. And they went down after him, and seized upon the fords of the Jordan, which are in the way to Moab: and they suffered no man to pass over.