¹Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife.”

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

²The people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.

²Potom prišiel ľud do Bét-ela a sedeli tam až do večera pred Bohom a pozdvihnúc svoj hlas plakali veľkým plačom.

³They said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?”

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

⁴It happened on the next day that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

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

⁵The children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”

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.

⁶The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

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

⁷How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?”

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?

⁸They said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah?” Behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.

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.

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

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

¹⁰The congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

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.

¹¹This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”

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.

¹²They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

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.

¹³The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.

¹³A celá obec poslali posolstvo a hovorili synom Benjaminovým, ktorí boli v skale Rimmone, a vyhlásili im pokoj.

¹⁴Benjamin 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 weren’t enough for 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.

¹⁵The people grieved for Benjamin, because that Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

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

¹⁶Then the elders of the congregation said, “How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”

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.

¹⁷They said, “There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.

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

¹⁸However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, ‘Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.’”

¹⁸Ale my im nemôžeme dať ženy zo svojich dcér. Pretože boli prisahali synovia Izraelovi a povedali: Zlorečený, kto by dal ženu Benjaminovi.

¹⁹They said, “Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.”

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.

²⁰They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

²⁰Prikázali tedy synom Benjaminovým a povedali: Iďte a úklaďte skryjúc sa vo viniciach.

²¹and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

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.

²²It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, otherwise you would now be guilty.’”

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.

²³The children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them.

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.

²⁴The children of Israel departed there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.

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.

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

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