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

¹And the men of Israel have sworn in Mizpeh, saying, `None of us doth give his daughter to Benjamin for a wife.`

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

²And the people come in to Beth-El, and sit there till the evening before God, and lift up their voice, and weep — a great weeping,

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

³and say, `Why, O Jehovah, God of Israel, hath this been in Israel — to be lacking to-day, from Israel, one tribe?`

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

⁴And it cometh to pass on the morrow, that the people rise early, and build there an altar, and cause to ascend burnt-offerings and peace-offerings.

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.

⁵And the sons of Israel say, `Who [is] he that hath not come up in the assembly out of all the tribes of Israel unto Jehovah?` for the great oath hath been concerning him who hath not come up unto Jehovah to Mizpeh, saying, `He is surely put to death.`

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

⁶And the sons of Israel repent concerning Benjamin their brother, and say, `There hath been to-day cut off one tribe from Israel,

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?

⁷what do we do for them — for those who are left — for wives, and we — we have sworn by Jehovah not to give to them of our daughters for wives?`

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.

⁸And they say, `Who is [that] one out of the tribes of Israel who hath not come up unto Jehovah to Mizpeh?` and lo, none hath come in unto the camp from Jabesh-Gilead — unto the assembly.

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

⁹And the people numbered themselves, and lo, there is not there a man of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead.

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.

¹⁰And the company send there twelve thousand men of the sons of valour, and command them, saying, `Go — and ye have smitten the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead by the mouth of the sword, even the women and the infants.

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.

¹¹And this [is] the thing which ye do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, ye devote.`

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.

¹²And they find out of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women, virgins, who have not known man by the lying of a male, and they bring them in unto the camp at Shiloh, which [is] in the land of Canaan.

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

¹³And all the company send, and speak, unto the sons of Benjamin who [are] in the rock Rimmon, and proclaim to them peace;

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.

¹⁴and Benjamin turneth back at that time, and they give to them the women whom they have kept alive of the women of Jabesh-Gilead, and they have not found for [all of] them so.

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

¹⁵And the people repented concerning Benjamin, for Jehovah had made a breach among the tribes of Israel.

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.

¹⁶And the elders of the company say, `What do we do to the remnant for wives — for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin?`

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

¹⁷And they say, `A possession of an escaped party [is] to Benjamin, and a tribe is not blotted out from Israel;

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

¹⁸and we — we are not able to give to them wives out of our daughters, for the sons of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed [is] he who is giving a wife to Benjamin.`

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.

¹⁹And they say, `Lo, a festival of Jehovah [is] in Shiloh, from time to time, which [is] on the north of Beth-El, at the rising of the sun, by the highway which is going up from Beth-El to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.`

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

²⁰And they command the sons of Benjamin, saying, `Go — and ye have laid wait in the vineyards,

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.

²¹and have seen, and lo, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances — then ye have gone out from the vineyards, and caught for you each his wife out of the daughters of Shiloh, and gone to the land of Benjamin;

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.

²²and it hath been, when their fathers or their brethren come in to plead unto us, that we have said unto them, Favour us [by] them, for we have not taken [to] each his wife in battle, for ye — ye have not given to them at this time [that] ye are guilty.`

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.

²³And the sons of Benjamin do so, and take women according to their number, out of the dancers whom they have taken violently away; and they go, and turn back unto their inheritance, and build the cities, and dwell in them.

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.

²⁴And the sons of Israel go up and down thence at that time, each to his tribe, and to his family; and they go out thence each to his inheritance.

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

²⁵In those days there is no king in Israel; each doth that which is right in his own eyes.