¹In skrinja GOSPODOVA je bila v kraju Filistejcev sedem mesecev.

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

²In Filistejci pokličejo svoje duhovnike in vedeže in reko: Kaj naj storimo s skrinjo GOSPODOVO? Poučite nas, s čim naj jo pošljemo v njen kraj?

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?`

³Oni odgovore: Ako hočete vrniti skrinjo Boga Izraelovega, ne pošljite je prazne, temuč vsekakor mu dajte daritev za krivdo; tedaj ozdravite in spoznate, zakaj se roka njegova ni umeknila od vas.

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.`

⁴In vprašajo: Kaj bodi za krivdo daritev, ki mu jo naj damo? Oni reko: Pet zlatih tvorov in pet zlatih miši, po številu knezov filistejskih; zakaj ista nadloga je bila nad vami vsemi in nad vašimi knezi.

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,

⁵Naredite torej podobe tvorov svojih in podobe miši, ki so deželo vašo kazile, in dajte čast Bogu Izraelovemu; morda olajša roko svojo nad vami in nad vašim bogom in nad vašo zemljo.

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;

⁶Zakaj pa zakrkujete srce svoje, kakor so si ga Egipčani in Faraon zakrknili? Ko je Bog izkazal med njimi moč svojo, niso li pustili ljudstva, da je odšlo?

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?

⁷Sedaj pa si pripravite nov voz in vzemite dve doječi kravi, ki še nista nosili jarma, in vprezite kravi v voz, njiju teleti pa, ko pojdeta za njima, odpeljite domov.

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,

⁸In vzemite skrinjo GOSPODOVO in jo postavite na voz, zlate dragotine pa, ki mu jih daste v daritev za krivdo, denite v skrinjico ob njeni strani, in pošljite jo tja, da odide.

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;

⁹In glejte: če pojde po poti gori, proti svoji meji, k Betsemesu, je On nam storil vse tisto zlo veliko; ako pa ne, bomo vedeli, da nas ni njegova roka udarila, temuč po naključbi se nam je zgodilo.

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.`

¹⁰In možje so storili tako; in vzamejo dve doječi kravi in ju vprežejo v voz, njiju teleti pa zaklenejo doma.

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;

¹¹In skrinjo GOSPODOVO nalože na voz, tudi skrinjico z zlatimi mišmi in podobami svojih tvorov.

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

¹²In kravi sta krenili naravnost proti Betsemesu, po cesti, in sta šli in mukali in se nista umeknili ne na desno, ne na levo. In knezi Filistejcev so šli za njimi do meje Betsemesa.

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.

¹³Betsemeščani pa so ravno želi pšenico v dolini. In ko povzdignejo oči, ugledajo skrinjo in se razvesele, da jo vidijo.

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].

¹⁴Voz pa pride na njivo Jozueta Betsemeščana in se tam ustavi. In bil je ondi velik kamen; in razsekajo les od voza in darujejo kravi v žgalno daritev GOSPODU.

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.

¹⁵Leviti pa so vzdignili skrinjo GOSPODOVO in skrinjico, ki je bila pri njej in v kateri so bile tiste zlate dragotine, in ju postavili na tisti veliki kamen; in ljudje iz Betsemesa so ta dan darovali žgalščine in klalščine GOSPODU.

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;

¹⁶In ko je to videlo petero knezov filistejskih, se vrnejo v Ekron še tisti dan.

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

¹⁷To pa so zlati tvori, ki so jih dali Filistejci v dar za krivdo GOSPODU: za Asdod eden, za Gazo eden, za Askelon eden, za Gat eden, za Ekron eden.

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;

¹⁸In zlatih miši so dali po številu vseh mest Filistejcev, podložnih peterim knezom, za ograjena mesta in za vasi po deželi. In priča je tisti veliki kamen, na katerem so postavili skrinjo GOSPODOVO, do današnjega dne na njivi Jozueta Betsemeščana.

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.

¹⁹Udaril pa je nekatere betsemeške može, ker so gledali v skrinjo GOSPODOVO; udaril je namreč izmed ljudstva sedemdeset mož iz petdesettisoč mož. In žalovalo je ljudstvo, ker je bil GOSPOD napravil tako velik pomor v ljudstvu.

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.

²⁰In betsemeški ljudje so dejali: Kdo more stati pred GOSPODOM, tem svetim Bogom? In h komu naj gre od nas?In pošljejo sle prebivalcem v Kirjat-jearimu in sporoče: Filistejci so nazaj pripeljali skrinjo GOSPODOVO; pridite doli, vzemite jo gori k sebi!

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?`

²¹In pošljejo sle prebivalcem v Kirjat-jearimu in sporoče: Filistejci so nazaj pripeljali skrinjo GOSPODOVO; pridite doli, vzemite jo gori k sebi!

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.`