¹归还约柜与献赔罪礼物

¹And the ark of Jehovah is in the field of the Philistines seven months,

²非利士人把众祭司和占卜的都召了来，问他们：“我们应该怎样处理耶和华的约柜呢？请告诉我们，要怎样才能把它送回原处呢？”

²and the Philistines call for priests and for diviners, saying, `What do we do to the ark of Jehovah? let us know wherewith we send it to its place?`

³他们回答：“你们把以色列　神的约柜送回去的时候，不可空空地把它送回去，却要偿还赔罪的礼物，这样，你们就可以得着医治，也可以知道，为什么他的手没有离开你们。”

³And they say, `If ye are sending away the ark of the God of Israel, ye do not send it away empty; for ye do certainly send back to Him a guilt-offering; then ye are healed, and it hath been known to you why His hand doth not turn aside from you.`

⁴非利士人问：“我们应当偿给他什么作赔罪的礼物呢？”他们回答：“要按照非利士人各城首领的数目，用五个金痔疮和五只金老鼠作赔罪的礼物，因为你们所有的人和你们各城的首领所遭遇的，都是一样的灾祸。

⁴And they say, `What [is] the guilt-offering which we send back to Him?` and they say, `The number of the princes of the Philistines — five golden emerods, and five golden mice — for one plague [is] to you all, and to your princes,

⁵所以你们要做痔疮的像和毁坏田地的老鼠的像，还要把荣耀归给以色列的　神。也许他会向你们、你们的神和你们的田地手下留情。

⁵and ye have made images of your emerods, and images of your mice that are corrupting the land, and have given honour to the God of Israel; it may be He doth lighten His hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land;

⁶你们为什么要硬着心，像以前埃及人和法老那样呢？　神严严地对付他们以后，他们不是放走了以色列人，以色列人不是真的离开了吗？

⁶and why do ye harden your heart as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their heart? do they not — when He hath rolled Himself upon them — send them away, and they go?

⁷现在你们要预备一辆新车和两头仍在乳养小牛、未曾负过轭的母牛，把它们紧紧套在车上，把小牛从它们身边带回棚里去。

⁷`And now, take and make one new cart, and two suckling kine, on which a yoke hath not gone up, and ye have bound the kine in the cart, and caused their young ones to turn back from after them to the house,

⁸你们要把耶和华的约柜搬来，放在车上，把那些偿给他作赔罪礼物的金器放在盒子里，放置在约柜旁边，然后把它送上路，让它自己走。

⁸and ye have taken the ark of Jehovah, and put it on the cart, and the vessels of gold which ye have returned to Him — a guilt-offering — ye put in a coffer on its side, and have sent it away, and it hath gone;

⁹你们要留意看，如果它是走向自己的境界，往伯．示麦去，那么就是耶和华降这大灾给我们；如果不是这样，我们就知道，不是他的手攻击我们，我们遭遇的不过是偶然的事。”

⁹and ye have seen, if the way of its own border it goeth up to Beth-Shemesh — He hath done to us this great evil; and if not, then we have known that His hand hath not come against us; an accident it hath been to us.`

¹⁰非利士人就照着去行。他们牵来两头还在乳养小牛的母牛，把它们紧紧套在车上，把小牛关在棚里。

¹⁰And the men do so, and take two suckling kine, and bind them in the cart, and their young ones they have shut up in the house;

¹¹他们又把耶和华的约柜，装金老鼠和痔疮像的盒子，都放在车上。

¹¹and they place the ark of Jehovah upon the cart, and the coffer, and the golden mice, and the images of their emerods.

¹²牛向着伯．示麦的路上直奔，如同走在一条大路上，一面走一面叫，不偏左也不偏右。非利士各城的首领在后面跟着走，直到伯．示麦的边界。

¹²And the kine go straight in the way, on the way to Beth-Shemesh, in one highway they have gone, going and lowing, and have not turned aside right or left; and the princes of the Philistines are going after them unto the border of Beth-Shemesh.

¹³约柜在伯．示麦那时，伯．示麦人正在谷中收割麦子，他们举目观看，看见了约柜，就欢欢喜喜迎见约柜。

¹³And the Beth-Shemeshites are reaping their wheat-harvest in the valley, and they lift up their eyes, and see the ark, and rejoice to see [it].

¹⁴牛车到了伯．示麦人约书亚的田间，就停在那里；那里有一块大石，他们把做那车的木料劈开，又把那两只母牛作燔祭献给耶和华。

¹⁴And the cart hath come in unto the field of Joshua the Beth-Shemeshite, and standeth there, and there [is] a great stone, and they cleave the wood of the cart, and the kine they have caused to ascend — a burnt-offering to Jehovah.

¹⁵利未人把耶和华的约柜，与它一同送来装有金器的盒子，都搬了下来，放在大石上；那一天，伯．示麦人向耶和华献上燔祭，又献上其他的祭。

¹⁵And the Levites have taken down the ark of Jehovah, and the coffer which [is] with it, in which [are] the vessels of gold, and place [them] on the great stone; and the men of Beth-Shemesh have caused to ascend burnt-offerings and sacrifice sacrifices in that day to Jehovah;

¹⁶非利士人的五个首领看见了，当天就回以革伦去。

¹⁶and the five princes of the Philistines have seen [it], and turn back [to] Ekron, on that day.

¹⁷这些金痔疮，就是非利士人偿给耶和华作赔罪的礼物的，一个是为亚实突，一个是为迦萨，一个是为亚实基伦，一个是为迦特，一个是为以革伦。

¹⁷And these [are] the golden emerods which the Philistines have sent back — a guilt-offering to Jehovah: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

¹⁸金老鼠的数目是按照非利士人五个首领所有的城市的数目，包括设防城和乡村。他们安放耶和华约柜的那块大石，直到现在还是在伯．示麦人约书亚的田间，是一个证物。

¹⁸and the golden mice — the number of all the cities of the Philistines — for the five princes, from the fenced city even unto the hamlet of the villages, even unto the great meadow on which they placed the ark of Jehovah — [are] unto this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-Shemeshite.

¹⁹耶和华因为伯．示麦人偷窥他的约柜，就击杀他们；他击杀了七十人（“七十人”大多数抄本都作“五万零七十人”，少数抄本作“七十人”）。众人因为耶和华用大灾击杀他们，就哀哭起来。

¹⁹And He smiteth among the men of Beth-Shemesh, for they looked into the ark of Jehovah, yea, He smiteth among the people seventy men — fifty chief men; and the people mourn, because Jehovah smote among the people — a great smiting.

²⁰约柜在基列．耶琳伯．示麦人说：“在耶和华这位圣洁的　神面前，谁能站立得住呢？他可以从我们这里上到哪里去呢？”

²⁰And the men of Beth-Shemesh say, `Who is able to stand before Jehovah, this holy God? and unto whom doth He go up from us?`

²¹于是他们派遣使者到基列．耶琳的居民那里去，对他们说：“非利士人把耶和华的约柜送回来了。你们下来把它接到你们那里去吧。”

²¹And they send messengers unto the inhabitants of Kirjath-Jearim, saying, `The Philistines have sent back the ark of Jehovah; come down, take it up unto you.`