¹In možje Izraelovi so prisegli v Micpi, rekoč: Nihče izmed nas ne sme dati hčere svoje Benjamincu za ženo!

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

²In ljudstvo pride v Betel in sedi ondi pred Bogom do večera, in povzdignejo glasove svoje in silno plakajo.

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,

³In reko: O GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov, zakaj se je zgodilo to v Izraelu, da danes manjka enega rodu v Izraelu?

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

⁴Drugo jutro pa vstane ljudstvo zgodaj, in zgrade ondi oltar in darujejo žgalne in mirovne žrtve.

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.

⁵In sinovi Izraelovi reko: Je li kdo iz vseh rodov Izraelovih, ki ni prišel sem v zbor h GOSPODU? Zakaj izrekli so bili veliko prokletje nad onim, ki ne bi prišel gori v Micpo h GOSPODU, rekši: Gotovo mora umreti.

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.`

⁶In sinovi Izraelovi so se kesali zaradi Benjamina, brata svojega, in dejali: Danes je bil odsekan en rod 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,

⁷Kako naj storimo, da tisti, ki so ostali, dobodo žene? Kajti prisegli smo pri GOSPODU, da jim od svojih hčera ne damo žen!

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?`

⁸Zato vprašajo: Ali je kdo iz rodov Izraelovih, ki ni prišel gori h GOSPODU v Micpo? In glej, nihče ni prišel iz Jabesa v Gileadu v tabor k zborovanju.

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.

⁹Kajti ko so prešteli ljudstvo, glej, ni bilo ne enega iz prebivalcev v Gileadskem Jabesu.

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

¹⁰In pošlje občina tja dvanajst tisoč najboljših junakov in jim zapove, rekoč: Pojdite in pobijte z ostrino meča prebivalce v Gileadskem Jabesu z ženami in otročiči!

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.

¹¹Ali to je stvar, ki jo storite: Pomorite vse moške in vsako ženo, ki se je združila z možem.

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

¹²In dobe med prebivalci v Gileadskem Jabesu štiristo hčera, ki so bile device in niso poznale moža v združenju; te pridejo v tabor v Silo, ki je v Kanaanski deželi.

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.

¹³In pošlje vsa občina in naroči govoriti s sinovi Benjaminovimi, ki so bili na Rimonski skali, in jim ponudi mir.

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

¹⁴Benjaminci se torej vrnejo tisti čas, in oni jim dado žene, ki so jih ohranili pri življenju izmed žen v Gileadskem Jabesu; toda ni jih jim bilo zadosti.

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.

¹⁵In ljudstvo se je kesalo zaradi Benjamina, ker je GOSPOD storil pretrgo v rodovih Izraelovih.

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

¹⁶Tedaj reko starejšine občine: Kako naj storimo, da dobé preostali žene, ker so žene iztrebljene iz 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?`

¹⁷In reko: Dediščina mora ostati tistim, ki so zbežali iz Benjamina, da se ne zatre rod iz Izraela.

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

¹⁸Toda mi jim ne moremo dati hčer svojih za žene; zakaj sinovi Izraelovi so prisegli, rekoč: Proklet bodi, kdor da ženo Benjamincem!

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.`

¹⁹Reko torej: Glejte, praznik GOSPODOV je vsako leto v Silu, ki je severno od Betela, na vzhodni strani ceste, ki drži iz Betela gori v Sihem, in južno od Lebone.

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.`

²⁰In naroče sinovom Benjaminovim, rekoč: Pojdite in prežite po vinogradih!

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

²¹Ko boste pa videli, da gredo hčere iz Sila na ples, planite iz vinogradov in si vsak ulóvi ženo iz silskih hčera ter odidite v deželo Benjaminovo!

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;

²²Ko pa pridejo njih očetje ali bratje pravdat se z nami, jim porečemo: Dajte jih v darilo nam; kajti za vsakega nismo dobili žene v boju; saj njim jih niste dali, sicer bi zdaj bili krivi.

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.`

²³In sinovi Benjaminovi so storili tako in si vzeli žene, po številu svojem, iz plesalk, ki so jih ugrabili, in šli so in se vrnili v dediščino svojo in so zgradili mesta ter prebivali v njih.

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.

²⁴Sinovi Izraelovi so se pa razšli odtod tisti čas, vsak v svoj rod in k rodovini svoji, in vsak je šel odtod v dediščino svojo.V tistih dneh ni bilo kralja v Izraelu: vsakdo je delal, kar se mu je zdelo prav.

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 tistih dneh ni bilo kralja v Izraelu: vsakdo je delal, kar se mu je zdelo prav.

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