Abimelek dro opp til Salmons fjell med alt folket som var med ham; han tok en øks i hånden, hogde en gren fra et tre, la den på skulderen og sa til folket som var med ham: 'Det dere ser at jeg gjør, gjør dere i hast og gjør som jeg.'
And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder: and he said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.