¹In sinovi Rubena, prvenca Izraelovega (kajti on je bil prvorojenec, ali ker je onečastil očeta svojega posteljo, je bilo prvorojenstvo njegovo dano sinoma Jožefa, sinu Izraelovega; toda v rodopisu se to prvenstvo ne šteje.

¹As to sons of Reuben, first-born of Israel — for he [is] the first-born, and on account of his profaning the couch of his father hath his birthright been given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, and [he is] not to be reckoned by genealogy for the birthright,

²Zakaj Juda je bil junak med svojimi brati in iz njega je prišel vojvoda; a pravica prvenstva je bila Jožefova),

²for Judah hath been mighty over his brother, and for leader above him, and the birthright [is] to Joseph.

³sinovi Rubena, prvenca Izraelovega: Hanok, Palu, Hezron in Karmi.

³Sons of Reuben, first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

⁴Sinovi Joelovi: njegov sin Semaja, tega sin Gog, tega sin Simej,

⁴Sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,

⁵tega sin Miha, tega sin Reaja, tega sin Baal,

⁵Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,

⁶tega sin Beera, ki ga je Tilgat-pilneser, kralj asirski, odvedel v ujetništvo; on je bil vojvoda Rubenovcem.

⁶Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-Pilneser king of Asshur removed; he [is] prince of the Reubenite.

⁷In njegovi bratje po svojih rodovinah, kakor so bili zapisani po svojem rodosledju: poglavar Jegiel in Zeharija

⁷And his brethren, by their families, in the genealogy of their generations, [are] heads: Jeiel, and Zechariah,

⁸in Bela, sin Azaza, sinu Sema, sinu Joela, ki je prebival v Aroerju tja do Neba in Baalmeona;

⁸and Bela son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel — he is dwelling in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal-Meon;

⁹in proti vzhodu je prebival tja do vhoda v puščavo od reke Evfrata; ker njih črede so se pomnožile v deželi Gileadski.

⁹and at the east he dwelt even unto the entering in of the wilderness, even from the river Phrat, for their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.

¹⁰V dnevih Savlovih pa so se bojevali zoper Hagarence, ki so padli po njih roki; in nastanili so se v njih šatorih po vsej deželi vzhodno od Gileada.

¹⁰And in the days of Saul they have made war with the Hagarites, who fall by their hand, and they dwell in their tents over all the face of the east of Gilead.

¹¹In sinovi Gadovi so prebivali njim nasproti, v Basánski deželi tja do Saleka:

¹¹And the sons of Gad, over-against them have dwelt in the land of Bashan unto Salcah,

¹²Joel, poglavar, in Safam, drugi, in Janaj in Safat v Basanu.

¹²Joel the head, and Shapham the second, and Jaanai and Shaphat in Bashan;

¹³In njih bratje po svojih očetovskih hišah: Mihael, Mesulam, Seba, Joraj, Jakan, Zia in Heber, sedem.

¹³and their brethren of the house of their fathers [are] Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven.

¹⁴Ti so bili sinovi Abihaila, sinu Hurija, sinu Jaroaha, sinu Gileada, sinu Mihaela, sinu Jesisaja, sinu Jahda, sinu Buza.

¹⁴These [are] sons of Abihail son of Huri, son of Jaroah, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jeshishai, son of Jahdo, son of Buz;

¹⁵Ahi, sin Abdielov, sinu Gunija, je bil poglavar njih očetovske hiše.

¹⁵Ahi son of Abdiel, son of Guni, [is] head of the house of their fathers;

¹⁶In prebivali so v Gileadu v Basanu in po njega vaseh in po vseh Saronskih pašnikih tja do njih mej.

¹⁶and they dwell in Gilead in Bashan, and in her small towns, and in all suburbs of Sharon, upon their outskirts;

¹⁷Vsi ti so bili zapisani v rodopise v dnevih Jotama, kralja Judovega, in v dnevih Jeroboama, kralja Izraelovega.

¹⁷all of them reckoned themselves by genealogy in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

¹⁸Sinov Rubenovih in Gadovih in polovice rodu Manasejevega, kar jih je bilo hrabrih mož, ki so nosili ščit in meč in streljali z lokom in so bili vešči vojni, je bilo štiriinštirideset tisoč sedemsto in šestdeset, ki so bili sposobni iti v boj.

¹⁸Sons of Reuben, and the Gadite, and the half of the tribe of Manasseh, of sons of valour, men bearing shield and sword, and treading bow, and taught in battle, [are] forty and four thousand and seven hundred and sixty, going out to the host.

¹⁹In vojskovali so se s Hagarenci in z Jeturjem in Nafisom in Nodabom.

¹⁹And they make war with the Hagarites, and Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab,

²⁰In Bog jim je pomagal zoper nje, in Hagarenci so jim bili dani v roko in vsi, ki so bili ž njimi; kajti klicali so k Bogu v boju, in dal se jim je izprositi, ker so zaupali vanj.

²⁰and they are helped against them, and the Hagarites are given into their hand, and all who [are] with them, for they cried to God in battle, and He was entreated of them, because they trusted in Him.

²¹In odpeljali so si njih živino: petdeset tisoč njih velblodov, dvestoinpetdeset tisoč glav drobnice, dva tisoč oslov in sto tisoč ljudi.

²¹And they take captive their cattle, of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of human beings a hundred thousand;

²²Kajti padlo jih je mnogo ranjenih, ker je bil boj od Boga. In prebivali so na njih mestu do preselitve v ujetništvo.

²²for many have fallen pierced, for of God [is] the battle; and they dwell in their stead till the removal.

²³In sinovi polovice rodu Manasejevega so prebivali v deželi: razmnožili so se od Basana do Baal-hermona in Senirja in do Hermonske gore.

²³And the sons of the half of the tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land, from Bashan unto Baal-Hermon, and Senir, and mount Hermon, they have multiplied.

²⁴In ti so bili poglavarji svojih očetovskih hiš: Efer, Iši, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremija, Hodavija in Jahdiel, vojni junaki, imenitni možje, glavarji svojih očetovskih hiš.

²⁴And these [are] heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, men mighty in valour, men of name, heads to the house of their fathers.

²⁵Ali izneverili so se Bogu očetov svojih in so nečistovali za bogovi narodov te dežele, ki jih je Bog iztrebil izpred njih obličja.Tedaj je Bog obudil duha Pula, kralja asirskega, in duha Tilgat-pilneserja, kralja asirskega, in odpeljal jih je, namreč Rubence, Gadovce in polovico rodu Manasejevega, in jih je preselil v Halah in Habor in Haro in k reki Gozanu do tega dne.

²⁵And they trespass against the God of their fathers, and go a-whoring after the gods of the peoples of the land whom God destroyed from their presence;

²⁶Tedaj je Bog obudil duha Pula, kralja asirskega, in duha Tilgat-pilneserja, kralja asirskega, in odpeljal jih je, namreč Rubence, Gadovce in polovico rodu Manasejevega, in jih je preselil v Halah in Habor in Haro in k reki Gozanu do tega dne.

²⁶and stir up doth the God of Israel the spirit of Pul king of Asshur, and the spirit of Tilgath-Pilneser king of Asshur, and he removeth them — even the Reubenite, and the Gadite, and the half of the tribe of Manasseh — and bringeth them in to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and the river of Gozan unto this day.