¹Huan, Israel miten Mizpa khua ah, I lak ua mi kuamahin i tanute Benjamin pawl ji dingin i paisak het kei ding, chiin a kichiam ua.

¹Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

²Huan, mipite Bethelah a hoh ua, Pathian maah nitak tanin a tu ua, a awte uh suahin a kap vongvong uh.

²And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;

³Amau bel, Aw TOUPA, Israelte Pathian, bangchi dan ahia Israelte laka hichibang thil a hongom? a chi ua.

³And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?

⁴Huan, hichi ahia, ajingin jingkhangin a thou ua, huailaiah maitam a bawl ua, halmang thillatte leh lemna thillatte a lan uh.

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

⁵Huan, Israel suanten, Israel nam tengteng laka TOUPA kianga paikhawm pawl laka vatel tei lou kuate ahi ua? a chi ua. Mizpa khuaa TOUPA kianga vahoh tei lou peumahte bel, Hihlup ngei ding ahi ding, chiin a na kichiamta ngal ua.

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

⁶Huan, Israel suante a unaupa uh Benjamin pawl tungthu ah a kisik ua, Tuniin Israel pawlte lakah lah nam khat sat khiak a hita ngala.

⁶And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

⁷A omsungte adingin a ji ding uh bangchiin i hihta dia oi? I tanute lah ji dinga neisak het lou dingin TOUPA min louin i nakichiamta ngal ua, a chi ua.

⁷How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

⁸Huan, amau, Israel pawl nam laka mi kua nampen ahia Mizpa khuaa TOUPA maa vakilak tei lou? a chi ua. Huan, ngaiin, kikhawm pawl omna munah Jabes-gilead mite jaw khat kia leng a hoh kei uh.

⁸And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.

⁹Mipite a kisim uleh, ngaiin, Jabes-gilead gama omte khat leh leng a naomta kei uh.

⁹For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.

¹⁰Huan, kikhawm khawmten mi hangsan hoih ngen sing khat leh sang nih a sawl ua, Kuan unla, Jabes-gilead gama omte numei leh a tanu neute u toh namsauin vasat lum vek un.

¹⁰And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.

¹¹Na hih ding dan uh hichibang ahi, mi tengteng leh numei, pasal luppih khinsa peuhmah hihmang thang vek un, chiin thu a pia ua.

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

¹²Huan, Jabes-gilead gama omte lakah nungak za li, pasal kithuahpih ngei het louh a mu ua; huchiin a omna uh Silo khua ah a pi ua, huai bel Kanan gamahi.

¹²And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

¹³Huan, kikhawm khawmte tengtengin mi a sawl ua, Rimon suangpia om Benjaminpawl a vahoupih ua, a kiang uah kilepthu a puangta uh.

¹³And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.

¹⁴Huan, huaitakin Benjamin-pawl a paisakta ua; huan, Jabes gilead gama numeipawl a hawite uh a pia ua: huchiin leng a kiching nai sam kei uh.

¹⁴And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

¹⁵Huan, Israel nam laka TOUPAN kihihtuamna a nabawl jiakin mipite Benjamin pawl thu ah a kisikta uhi.

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

¹⁶Huchiin kikhawmte upaten, A damlaite ji ding bang i chih ding ua leh, Benjaminpawl laka a numeite uh lah hihmang a hita ngal ua? a chi ua.

¹⁶Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

¹⁷Amau, Israel nam hihmana a om louhna dingin Benjamin pawl om sunte bangchiin suan i neisak ding uam aw?

¹⁷And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

¹⁸I tanute uh lah ji dingin i neisak thei ngal kei ua, a chi ua: Israel suanten, Kuapeuh Benjamin pawl ji dia neisak peuhmah hamsiatin om uhen, chiin a nakichiamta ngal ua.

¹⁸Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

¹⁹Huan, amau, Ngai un, Bethel mallam, Bethel akipana Sekem zotna lamlian suahlampanga Lebona simlama om Silokhua ah kum chihin TOUPA adingin ankuangluina a om sek a, a chi ua.

¹⁹Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.

²⁰Huan, amau Benjamin suante pawl kiangah, Va hoh unla, grep munah va guk tan un;

²⁰Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;

²¹Huan, na naen unla, huchiin ngai un, Silo khuaa nungakte lamnaa lam dinga a hongpawt uleh, grep mun akipan hongpawt unla, Silo nungakte na ji ding un man chiat unla, Benjaminte gamah pai vek un.

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

²²Huan, hichi ahi dinga, a pate uh hiam, a sanggampate uh hiam kalh dinga i kiang ua a hong uh leh, a kianguah, Hon hehpih un: kidouna ah lah a ji ding uh ka na matsakta ngal kei ua: nou lahnou na pe kei ua: na pia hi le uchin jaw, lah mohsakin na om sin ngal ua, ka na chi ding uhi, chiin, thu a pia ua.

²²And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favorable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.

²³Huan, Benjamin suanten huchibangin a hih ua, lampawlte laka mi amau zah chiat ji dingin a man ua, a paimangpihta uh: huan, a gamlam uah a pai ua, khopite a puah nawn ua, huaiah a omta uhi.

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

²⁴Huan, huaitakin huai akipanin Israel suante bel amau chichi leh amau namnamin a kihuituam nawn ua, huai nungsiah amau gam chiatah a pai nawnta uh.Huai lain Israelte lakah kumpipa himhim a om kei ua: mi chihin amau phatsak lam zongin a gamtang mai uhi.

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.

²⁵Huai lain Israelte lakah kumpipa himhim a om kei ua: mi chihin amau phatsak lam zongin a gamtang mai uhi.

²⁵In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.