¹Ary ny fiaran'i Jehovah dia tany amin'ny tanin'ny Filistina fito volana.

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

²Ary ny Filistina nampaka ny mpisorona sy ny mpanao fankatovana ka nanao hoe: Ahoana no hataontsika amin'ny fiaran'i Jehovah? Lazao aminay izay hanateranay azy ho any amin'ny fitoerany.

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?`

³Ary hoy ireo: Raha aterinareo ny fiaran'ny Andriamanitry ny Isiraely, aza aterina foana izy, fa manatera fanati-panonerana ho Azy mihitsy, dia ho sitrana ianareo, ary ho fantatrareo koa izay tsy ialan'ny tànany aminareo.

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.`

⁴Dia hoy ny olona: Inona ary no fanati-panonerana haterinay ho Azy? Ary hoy kosa ireo: Vay volamena dimy sy totozy volamena dimy, araka ny isan'ireo andrianan'ny Filistina; fa aretina iray ihany no manjo anareo rehetra sy ny andriananareo.

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,

⁵Koa manaova sarin'ny vainareo sy sarin'ny totozinareo izay manimba ny tany; ary omeo voninahitra ny Andriamanitry ny Isiraely; angamba hanamaivana ny tanany hiala aminareo sy ny andriamanitrareo ary ny taninareo Izy.

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;

⁶Fa nahoana no manamafy ny fonareo ianareo, toy ny nanamafian'ny Egyptiana sy Farao ny fony? Raha nanao fahagagana namelezany azy Izy, moa tsy nalefany handeha va ny olona, ka dia lasa?

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?

⁷Koa ankehitriny manaova sariety vaovao, ary mangalà ombivavy roa mitaiza, izay tsy mbola nasiana zioga, dia afehezo amin'ny sariety ny ombivavy, ka ento mody ny zanany hiala aminy.

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,

⁸Ary alao ny fiaran'i Jehovah, ka apetraho eo ambonin'ny sariety, dia ataovy ao anaty vata kely eo anilany ny fanaka volamena haterinareo ho Azy ho fanati-panonerana, ka ampandehano izany.

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;

⁹Ary izahao, ka raha miakatra amin'ny lalana mankany amin'ny taniny ihany ho any Beti-semesy izany, dia Jehovah no nahatonga izao loza lehibe izao tamintsika; fa raha tsy izany, dia ho fantatsika fa tsy ny tanany no namely antsika, fa mby amin'izay hanjo antsika.

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.`

¹⁰Dia nataon'ny olona izany, ka naka ombivavy roa mitaiza izy, dia nafehiny tamin'ny sariety ireo, fa ny zanany narindriny tao an-trano.

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;

¹¹Dia napetrany teo ambonin'ny sariety ny fiaran'i Jehovah sy ny vata kely ary ny totozy volamena sy ny sarin'ny vay.

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

¹²Ary ny ombivavy nizotra mahitsy tamin'ny lalana mankany Beti-semesy, dia nandeha tamin'ny lalambe ka nimàmà teny am-pandehanana, ary tsy nania, na ho amin'ny ankavanana, na ho amin'ny ankavia, ary ireo andrianan'ny Filistina nanaraka azy hatramin'ny fari-tanin'i Beti-semesy.

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.

¹³Ary ny Beti-semesita nijinja ny vary tritika teny an-dohasaha; ary nanopy ny masony izy ka nahita ny fiara, dia faly raha nahita izany.

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].

¹⁴Ary ny sariety tonga teo an-tanimbarin'i Josoa Beti-semesita, dia nijanona teo, ary nisy vato lehibe teo; dia namaky ny hazon'ny sariety ny olona ka nanatitra ny ombivavy ho fanatitra dorana ho an'i Jehovah.

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.

¹⁵Ary ny Levita nampidina ny fiaran'i Jehovah sy ny vata kely izay teo aminy, dia ilay nitoeran'ny fanaka volamena, ka nametraka azy teo ambonin'ny vato lehibe; ary tamin'izany andro izany ny mponina tao Beti-semesy nanatitra fanatitra dorana sy fanatitra hafa alatsa-drà ho an'i Jehovah.

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;

¹⁶Ary raha hitan'ireo andriana dimy tamin'ny Filistina izany, dia niverina nankany Ekrona androtrizay ihany izy.

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

¹⁷Ary izao no sary volamenan'ny vay naterin'ny Filistina ho fanati-panonerana ho an'i Jehovah: an'i Asdoda iray, an'i Gaza iray, an'i Askelona iray, an'i Gata iray, an'i Ekrona iray;

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;

¹⁸ary ny totozy volamena dia araka ny isan'ny tanàna rehetra an'ny Filistina, izay an'ireo andriana dimy, an'ny tanàna mimanda, na ny vohitra any ivelany, ka hatramin'ny vato lehibe izay nametrahany ny fiaran'i Jehovah; ary mbola any an-tanimbarin'i Josoa Beti-semesita mandraka androany izany.

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.

¹⁹Ary Jehovah namely ny mponina tao Beti-semesy noho ny nijerijeren'ireo ny fiarany, ka dia olona fito-polo amby dimy alina no maty; dia nisaona ny olona, satria nasian'i Jehovah, ka be dia be no maty.

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.

²⁰Ary hoy ny mponina tao Beti-semesy: Iza no mahajanona eo anoloan'izao Jehovah Andriamanitra masina izao? Ary ho amin'iza no hiakarany, rehefa miala amintsika?Dia naniraka olona nankany amin'ny mponina tao Kiriata-jearima izy hanao hoe: Efa naverin'ny Filistina ny fiaran'i Jehovah; koa midìna ianareo, dia ento miakatra ho any aminareo izy.

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?`

²¹Dia naniraka olona nankany amin'ny mponina tao Kiriata-jearima izy hanao hoe: Efa naverin'ny Filistina ny fiaran'i Jehovah; koa midìna ianareo, dia ento miakatra ho any aminareo izy.

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.`