¹And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

¹In skrinja GOSPODOVA je bila v kraju Filistejcev sedem mesecev.

²And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.

²In Filistejci pokličejo svoje duhovnike in vedeže in reko: Kaj naj storimo s skrinjo GOSPODOVO? Poučite nas, s čim naj jo pošljemo v njen kraj?

³And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.

³Oni odgovore: Ako hočete vrniti skrinjo Boga Izraelovega, ne pošljite je prazne, temuč vsekakor mu dajte daritev za krivdo; tedaj ozdravite in spoznate, zakaj se roka njegova ni umeknila od vas.

⁴Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.

⁴In vprašajo: Kaj bodi za krivdo daritev, ki mu jo naj damo? Oni reko: Pet zlatih tvorov in pet zlatih miši, po številu knezov filistejskih; zakaj ista nadloga je bila nad vami vsemi in nad vašimi knezi.

⁵Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.

⁵Naredite torej podobe tvorov svojih in podobe miši, ki so deželo vašo kazile, in dajte čast Bogu Izraelovemu; morda olajša roko svojo nad vami in nad vašim bogom in nad vašo zemljo.

⁶Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

⁶Zakaj pa zakrkujete srce svoje, kakor so si ga Egipčani in Faraon zakrknili? Ko je Bog izkazal med njimi moč svojo, niso li pustili ljudstva, da je odšlo?

⁷Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:

⁷Sedaj pa si pripravite nov voz in vzemite dve doječi kravi, ki še nista nosili jarma, in vprezite kravi v voz, njiju teleti pa, ko pojdeta za njima, odpeljite domov.

⁸And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.

⁸In vzemite skrinjo GOSPODOVO in jo postavite na voz, zlate dragotine pa, ki mu jih daste v daritev za krivdo, denite v skrinjico ob njeni strani, in pošljite jo tja, da odide.

⁹And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.

⁹In glejte: če pojde po poti gori, proti svoji meji, k Betsemesu, je On nam storil vse tisto zlo veliko; ako pa ne, bomo vedeli, da nas ni njegova roka udarila, temuč po naključbi se nam je zgodilo.

¹⁰And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:

¹⁰In možje so storili tako; in vzamejo dve doječi kravi in ju vprežejo v voz, njiju teleti pa zaklenejo doma.

¹¹And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.

¹¹In skrinjo GOSPODOVO nalože na voz, tudi skrinjico z zlatimi mišmi in podobami svojih tvorov.

¹²And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.

¹²In kravi sta krenili naravnost proti Betsemesu, po cesti, in sta šli in mukali in se nista umeknili ne na desno, ne na levo. In knezi Filistejcev so šli za njimi do meje Betsemesa.

¹³And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.

¹³Betsemeščani pa so ravno želi pšenico v dolini. In ko povzdignejo oči, ugledajo skrinjo in se razvesele, da jo vidijo.

¹⁴And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.

¹⁴Voz pa pride na njivo Jozueta Betsemeščana in se tam ustavi. In bil je ondi velik kamen; in razsekajo les od voza in darujejo kravi v žgalno daritev GOSPODU.

¹⁵And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.

¹⁵Leviti pa so vzdignili skrinjo GOSPODOVO in skrinjico, ki je bila pri njej in v kateri so bile tiste zlate dragotine, in ju postavili na tisti veliki kamen; in ljudje iz Betsemesa so ta dan darovali žgalščine in klalščine GOSPODU.

¹⁶And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.

¹⁶In ko je to videlo petero knezov filistejskih, se vrnejo v Ekron še tisti dan.

¹⁷And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

¹⁷To pa so zlati tvori, ki so jih dali Filistejci v dar za krivdo GOSPODU: za Asdod eden, za Gazo eden, za Askelon eden, za Gat eden, za Ekron eden.

¹⁸And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.

¹⁸In zlatih miši so dali po številu vseh mest Filistejcev, podložnih peterim knezom, za ograjena mesta in za vasi po deželi. In priča je tisti veliki kamen, na katerem so postavili skrinjo GOSPODOVO, do današnjega dne na njivi Jozueta Betsemeščana.

¹⁹And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.

¹⁹Udaril pa je nekatere betsemeške može, ker so gledali v skrinjo GOSPODOVO; udaril je namreč izmed ljudstva sedemdeset mož iz petdesettisoč mož. In žalovalo je ljudstvo, ker je bil GOSPOD napravil tako velik pomor v ljudstvu.

²⁰And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?

²⁰In betsemeški ljudje so dejali: Kdo more stati pred GOSPODOM, tem svetim Bogom? In h komu naj gre od nas?In pošljejo sle prebivalcem v Kirjat-jearimu in sporoče: Filistejci so nazaj pripeljali skrinjo GOSPODOVO; pridite doli, vzemite jo gori k sebi!

²¹And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.

²¹In pošljejo sle prebivalcem v Kirjat-jearimu in sporoče: Filistejci so nazaj pripeljali skrinjo GOSPODOVO; pridite doli, vzemite jo gori k sebi!