¹Angel GOSPODOV pa pride od Gilgala gori do Bohima in reče: Jaz sem storil, da ste šli iz Egipta, in sem vas pripeljal v deželo, ki sem jo s prisego obljubil očetom vašim; in rekel sem: Vekomaj ne prelomim zaveze svoje z vami;

¹And a messenger of Jehovah goeth up from Gilgal unto Bochim,

²vi pa ne sklenite nobene zaveze s prebivalci te dežele, njih oltarje pa razrušite. Ali niste poslušali glasu mojega. Zakaj ste tako ravnali?

²and saith, `I cause you to come up out of Egypt, and bring you in unto the land which I have sworn to your fathers, and say, I do not break My covenant with you to the age; and ye — ye make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land — their altars ye break down; and ye have not hearkened to My voice — what [is] this ye have done?

³Zategadelj sem tudi rekel: Ne preženem jih izpred vas, temuč naj vam bodo kakor trnje v bokih, in njih bogovi naj vam bodo v zanko.

³And I also have said, I do not cast them out from your presence, and they have been to you for adversaries, and their gods are to you for a snare.`

⁴In ko je angel GOSPODOV izgovoril te besede vsem sinovom Izraelovim, je ljudstvo zavpilo na ves glas in jokalo.

⁴And it cometh to pass, when the messenger of Jehovah speaketh these words unto all the sons of Israel, that the people lift up their voice and weep,

⁵In imenovali so ime tistega kraja Bohim [T. j. Plakalci.]; in ondi, so darovali GOSPODU.

⁵and they call the name of that place Bochim, and sacrifice there to Jehovah.

⁶Ko je bil namreč Jozue razpustil ljudstvo, je šel vsak Izraelovih sinov v dediščino svojo, da posedejo deželo.

⁶And Joshua sendeth the people away, and the sons of Israel go, each to his inheritance, to possess the land;

⁷In ljudstvo je služilo GOSPODU, dokler je živel Jozue in starejšine, ki so še po Jozuetu živeli, ki so bili videli vse veliko delo GOSPODOVO, ki ga je storil za Izraela.

⁷and the people serve Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who prolonged days after Joshua, who saw all the great work of Jehovah which He did to Israel.

⁸In ko je Jozue, sin Nunov, hlapec GOSPODOV, umrl v starosti sto in desetih let,

⁸And Joshua son of Nun, servant of Jehovah, dieth, a son of a hundred and ten years,

⁹so ga pokopali v kraju dediščine njegove v Timnat-heresu, v gorovju Efraimskem, severno ob gori Gaasu.

⁹and they bury him in the border of his inheritance, in Timnath-Heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of mount Gaash;

¹⁰In ko je tudi ves ta rod bil zbran k očetom svojim, je po njem nastopil drug rod, ki ni poznal GOSPODA, ne del njegovih, ki jih je bil storil za Izraela.

¹⁰and also all that generation have been gathered unto their fathers, and another generation riseth after them who have not known Jehovah, and even the work which He hath done to Israel.

¹¹In sinovi Izraelovi so počenjali, kar je bilo hudo v očeh GOSPODOVIH, in služili so Baalom,

¹¹And the sons of Israel do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and serve the Baalim,

¹²in zapustivši GOSPODA, Boga očetov svojih, ki jih je bil odpeljal iz Egipta, so hodili za drugimi bogovi, za bogovi sosednjih ljudstev, in se jim poklanjali in dražili GOSPODA v jezo.

¹²and forsake Jehovah, God of their fathers, who bringeth them out from the land of Egypt, and go after other gods (of the gods of the peoples who [are] round about them), and bow themselves to them, and provoke Jehovah,

¹³In zapustili so GOSPODA in služili Baalu in Astarotam [Baal je bil Kanaancem moško, Astoret (ali Astarta, Ašera) žensko božanstvo; njene podobe so imenovali Astarote.].

¹³yea, they forsake Jehovah, and do service to Baal and to Ashtaroth.

¹⁴Tedaj se vname jeza GOSPODOVA zoper Izraela, in dal jih je v roke roparjem, ki so jih oplenjevali, in jih prodal v njih sovražnikov roke vseokoli, da se niso mogli več vzdržati pred sovražniki svojimi.

¹⁴And the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel, and He giveth them into the hand of spoilers, and they spoil them, and He selleth them into the hand of their enemies round about, and they have not been able any more to stand before their enemies;

¹⁵Kamorkoli so šli, roka GOSPODOVA je bila zoper nje v hudo, kakor je bil GOSPOD govoril in kakor jim je bil prisegel GOSPOD. In bili so bridko stiskani.

¹⁵in every [place] where they have gone out, the hand of Jehovah hath been against them for evil, as Jehovah hath spoken, and as Jehovah hath sworn to them, and they are distressed — greatly.

¹⁶A GOSPOD jim je obujal sodnike, ki so jih otimali iz rok tistih roparjev.

¹⁶And Jehovah raiseth up judges, and they save them from the hand of their spoilers;

¹⁷Ali tudi sodnikov svojih niso poslušali, temuč nečistovali so za drugimi bogovi in jih molili, hitro odstopivši s pota, po katerem so hodili njih očetje, poslušajoč zapovedi GOSPODOVE. Oni niso tako delali.

¹⁷and also unto their judges they have not hearkened, but have gone a-whoring after other gods, and bow themselves to them; they have turned aside [with] haste out of the way [in] which their fathers walked to obey the commands of Jehovah — they have not done so.

¹⁸In ko jim je GOSPOD obujal sodnike, je bil GOSPOD s sodniki ter jih reševal iz rok njih sovražnikov, dokler je živel sodnik; zakaj GOSPODU se je smililo zaradi njih jokanja spričo tistih, ki so jih stiskali in mučili.

¹⁸And when Jehovah raised up to them judges — then was Jehovah with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it repenteth Jehovah, because of their groaning from the presence of their oppressors, and of those thrusting them away.

¹⁹Ko pa je umrl sodnik, so se spet vrnili ter so huje ravnali nego njih očetje, hodeč za drugimi bogovi, da bi jim služili in jih molili; nič niso popustili od dejanj svojih in svojega trdovratnega vedenja.

¹⁹And it hath come to pass, at the death of the judge — they turn back and have done corruptly above their fathers, to go after other gods, to serve them, and to bow themselves to them; they have not fallen from their doings, and from their stiff way.

²⁰Zato se je vnel srd GOSPODOV zoper Izraela, in je rekel: Ker je to ljudstvo prestopilo zavezo mojo, ki sem jo bil zapovedal njih očetom, in ne posluša glasu mojega:

²⁰And the anger of Jehovah doth burn against Israel, and He saith, `Because that this nation have transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened to My voice —

²¹zato tudi jaz ne preženem nikogar več iz tistih narodov, ki so preostali ob Jozuetovi smrti,

²¹I also continue not to dispossess any from before them of the nations which Joshua hath left when he dieth,

²²da po njih izkusim Izraela, če se bodo držali pota GOSPODOVEGA, hodeč po njem, kakor so se ga držali njih očetje, ali če ne.Zato je vzdržal GOSPOD tiste narode in jih ni pregnal v kratkem, tudi jih ni dal v roko Jozuetu.

²²in order to try Israel by them, whether they are keeping the way of Jehovah, to go in it, as their fathers kept [it] or not.`

²³Zato je vzdržal GOSPOD tiste narode in jih ni pregnal v kratkem, tudi jih ni dal v roko Jozuetu.

²³And Jehovah leaveth these nations, so as not to dispossess them hastily, and did not give them into the hand of Joshua.