Abimelek gikk opp til Salmons fjell, han og folket som var med ham. Abimelek tok en øks, hogg ned en gren, løftet den på skulderen og sa til folket som var med ham: Det dere har sett meg gjøre, gjør det raskt, dere også.
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, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.