¹Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter to the Benjaminites as wife.

¹A mužovia Izraelovi sa boli zaprisahali v Micpe a povedali: Nikto z nás nedá Benjaminovi svojej dcéry za ženu.

²And the people came to Bethel, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices and wept bitterly,

²Potom prišiel ľud do Bét-ela a sedeli tam až do večera pred Bohom a pozdvihnúc svoj hlas plakali veľkým plačom.

³and said, Jehovah, God of Israel, why is it come to pass in Israel, that there should be this day one tribe lacking in Israel?

³A povedali: Prečo, ó, Hospodine, Bože Izraelov, stalo sa toto v Izraelovi, aby sa dnes postrádalo jedno pokolenie z Izraela?!

⁴And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered up burnt-offerings and peace-offerings.

⁴A stalo sa nasledujúceho dňa, že ľudia vstali skoro ráno a postavili tam oltár a obetovali zápalné obeti aj pokojné obeti.

⁵And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation to Jehovah? For they had [made] a great oath concerning him that came not up to Jehovah to Mizpah, saying, He shall certainly be put to death.

⁵A synovia Izraelovi povedali: Kto je zo všetkých pokolení Izraelových, kto by asi nebol prišiel hore do shromaždenia k Hospodinovi? Lebo sa boli veľmi zaprisahali vzhľadom na toho, kto by neprišiel hore k Hospodinovi do Micpy, povediac: Zomrie bez milosti.

⁶And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, To-day is one tribe extirpated from Israel.

⁶A synovia Izraelovi boli pohnutí ľútosťou k Benjaminovi svojmu bratovi, a povedali: Dnes bolo odťaté jedno pokolenie od Izraela!

⁷What shall we do for wives for them that remain? since we have sworn by Jehovah that we will not give them of our daughters for wives.

⁷Čo by sme mohli vykonať pre tých, ktorí pozostali, aby sa im dostaly ženy, keď sme my prisahali na Hospodina, že im nedáme zo svojich dcér za ženy?

⁸And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpah to Jehovah? And behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-Gilead, to the congregation;

⁸Preto vraveli: Kto asi z pokolení Izraelových by nebol prišiel k Hospodinovi hore do Micpy? A hľa, ukázalo sa, že z Jabeš-gileáda nebol nikto prišiel do tábora, do shromaždenia.

⁹for the people were numbered, and behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead there.

⁹A keď prehliadli ľud, zistilo sa, že hľa, nebolo tam nikoho z obyvateľov Jabeš-gileáda.

¹⁰And the assembly sent thither twelve thousand men of the most valiant and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead with the edge of the sword, and the women and the children.

¹⁰Vtedy ta vyslali, celá obec, dvanásť tisíc mužov z tých, ktorí boli najsilnejší, a prikázali im povediac: Iďte a pobite obyvateľov Jabeš-gileáda ostrím meča i ženy i deti.

¹¹And this is the thing which ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain with man.

¹¹A toto je to, čo urobíte: Každého, kto je mužského pohlavia, i každú ženu, ktorá poznala ložu s mužským pohlavím zabijete jako zarieknutých na smrť.

¹²And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women that were virgins, who had known no man by lying with any male, and they brought them to the camp, to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

¹²A našli z obyvateľov Jabeš-gileáda štyristo dievčat panien, ktoré neboly poznaly muža čo do lože s mužským pohlavím, a doviedli ich do tábora do Síla, ktoré je v zemi Kanaáne.

¹³And the whole assembly sent to speak to the children of Benjamin that were at the cliff of Rimmon, and to proclaim peace to them.

¹³A celá obec poslali posolstvo a hovorili synom Benjaminovým, ktorí boli v skale Rimmone, a vyhlásili im pokoj.

¹⁴And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them the wives whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-Gilead; but even so they found not enough for them.

¹⁴A Benjamin sa navrátil toho času do svojho dedičstva, a dali im ženy, tie, ktoré zachovali živé zo žien Jabeš-gileáda, ale nepostačily im tak.

¹⁵And the people repented them for Benjamin, because Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

¹⁵A ľudu bolo ľúto Benjamina, pretože Hospodin učinil trhlinu v pokoleniach Izraelových.

¹⁶And the elders of the assembly said, What shall we do for wives for them that remain? for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin.

¹⁶Vtedy povedali starší obce: Čo by sme mohli vykonať pre tých, ktorí ešte pozostali, aby sa im tiež dostaly ženy? Lebo sú vyhubené ženy z Benjamina.

¹⁷And they said, There must be a possession for those of Benjamin that have escaped, that a tribe be not blotted out of Israel.

¹⁷A povedali: Dedičstvo uniklých treba zase dať Benjaminovi, aby nebolo vyhladené pokolenie z Izraela.

¹⁸But we cannot give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to the Benjaminites!

¹⁸Ale my im nemôžeme dať ženy zo svojich dcér. Pretože boli prisahali synovia Izraelovi a povedali: Zlorečený, kto by dal ženu Benjaminovi.

¹⁹And they said, Behold, there is a feast of Jehovah from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north side of Bethel, toward the sun-rising of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.

¹⁹Nuž povedali: Hľa, slávnosť Hospodinova býva v Síle z roka na rok, v Síle, ktoré je od severnej strany Bét-ela, na východ slnka, na ceste, ktorá ide z Bét-ela hore do Sichema a od južnej strany Lebony.

²⁰And they commanded the sons of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;

²⁰Prikázali tedy synom Benjaminovým a povedali: Iďte a úklaďte skryjúc sa vo viniciach.

²¹and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

²¹A pozorujte, a hľa, ak vyjdú dcéry Síla tancovať v kolotanci, vyjdete z viníc a uchvatnete si každý svoju ženu zo dcér Síla a odídete do zeme Benjaminovej.

²²And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain to us, that we will say to them, Gratify us with them, because we did not take each man his wife in the war; for ye did not give them to them, that ye should now be guilty.

²²A bude, keď prijdú ich otcovia alebo ich bratia pravotiť sa s nami, povieme im: Zľutujte sa nám nad nimi, lebo sme nevzali každému z nich jeho ženy vo vojne. Lebo veď vy ste im ich nedali, aby ste sa boli teraz previnili.

²³And the children of Benjamin did so, and took wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught; and they went and returned to their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them.

²³A synovia Benjaminovi urobili tak a odniesli si ženy podľa svojho počtu zpomedzi tancujúcich, ktoré uchytili, a odíduc navrátili sa k svojmu dedičstvu a vystaviac mestá bývali v nich.

²⁴And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.

²⁴A synovia Izraelovi odišli toho času odtiaľ, každý do svojho pokolenia a ku svojej čeľadi a tedy vyšli odtiaľ a odišli každý do svojho dedičstva.

²⁵In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

²⁵V tých dňoch nebolo kráľa v Izraelovi; každý robil to, čo bolo správne v jeho očiach.