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

¹Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to 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 came to Beth-el, and sat there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore.

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

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

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

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.

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 children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up in the assembly unto Jehovah? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up unto Jehovah to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

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

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

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?

⁷How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by Jehovah that we will not give them of our daughters to 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 said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up unto Jehovah to Mizpah? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.

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

⁹For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.

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 congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

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 that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

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 found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them unto the camp to 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 the whole congregation sent and spake to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace unto 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.

¹⁴And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

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

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

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?

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

¹⁷And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be 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.

¹⁸Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth 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 said, Behold, there is a feast of Jehovah from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth 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 commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in 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 see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the 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.

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 shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain unto us, that we will say unto them, Grant them graciously unto us, because we took not for each man [of them] his wife in battle, neither did ye give them unto them, else would ye now be 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 children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they carried off: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt 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 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.

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

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