¹It happened, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it

¹Ko pa zaslišijo kralji, ki so bili tostran Jordana, po gorah in v nižavi in po vsem obrežju velikega morja tja do Libanona, Hetejci, Amorejci, Kanaanci, Ferizejci, Hevejci in Jebusejci,

²that they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.

²so se zbrali vsi enodušno, da se vojskujejo z Jozuetom in z Izraelom.

³But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

³A prebivalci v Gibeonu, ko so slišali, kaj je storil Jozue Jerihu in Aju,

⁴they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and wineskins, old and torn and bound up,

⁴so tudi skovali zvijačo: gredo in se napravijo, kakor da bi bili poslanci, in denejo stare vreče na svoje osle in stare vinske mehove, razdrte in zašite,

⁵and old and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their provision was dry and moldy.

⁵tudi staro in zakrpano obuvalo si nataknejo na noge in na sebe staro obleko; in ves kruh, ki so ga imeli za brašno, je bil trd in plesniv.

⁶They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.”

⁶In pridejo k Jozuetu v tabor v Gilgalu in reko njemu in Izraelovim možem: Prišli smo iz daljnih dežel; sklenite torej zavezo z nami!

⁷The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “What if you live among us. How could we make a covenant with you?”

⁷Možje Izraelovi pa reko Hevejcem: Morebiti prebivate med nami, kako naj sklenemo zavezo z vami?

⁸They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” Joshua said to them, “Who are you? Where do you come from?”

⁸In reko Jozuetu: Hlapci smo tvoji. Jozue pa jih vpraša: Kdo ste? In odkod ste prišli?

⁹They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,

⁹Odgovore mu: Hlapci tvoji so prišli iz silno daljnih dežel zaradi imena GOSPODA, tvojega Boga; zakaj slišali smo glas o njem in vse, kar je storil Egiptu,

¹⁰and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.

¹⁰tudi vse, kar je storil dvema kraljema Amorejcev onostran Jordana, Sihonu, kralju v Hesbonu, in Ogu, kralju v Basanu, ki je bil v Astarotu.

¹¹Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, ‘Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, “We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us.”’

¹¹Zato so nam rekli naši starejšine in vsi prebivalci naše dežele: Vzemite si živeža na pot in pojdite jim naproti in jim recite: Hlapci smo vaši. Zdaj torej sklenite zavezo z nami!

¹²This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and has become moldy.

¹²Ta kruh naš, ki smo ga iz svojih hiš vzeli za brašno, je bil še gorak, ko smo odhajali na pot k vam, zdaj pa, glej, je trd in plesniv.

¹³These wineskins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our shoes have become old because of the very long journey.”

¹³In te vinske mehove smo napolnili nove, pa glej, razdrti so. In ta naša obleka in naše obuvalo se je prestaralo po silno dolgem popotovanju.

¹⁴The men sampled their provisions, and didn’t ask counsel from the mouth of Yahweh.

¹⁴In možje vzamejo od njih brašna, a ne vprašajo za svet GOSPODOVIH ust.

¹⁵Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.

¹⁵In Jozue sklene mir ž njimi in jim stori zavezo, da bodo ohranjeni pri življenju; in knezi občine so jim prisegli.

¹⁶It happened at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.

¹⁶Ali po treh dneh, potem ko so storili ž njimi zavezo, jim pride na vest, da so oni njih sosedi ter da prebivajo med njimi.

¹⁷The children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

¹⁷Kajti ko so sinovi Izraelovi šli dalje, so tretji dan prispeli k njih mestom. Njih mesta pa so bila: Gibeon, Kefira, Beerot in Kirjat-jearim.

¹⁸The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.

¹⁸A sinovi Izraelovi jih niso pobili, zato ker so jim bili prisegli knezi občine pri GOSPODU, Izraelovem Bogu. In mrmrala je vsa občina na kneze.

¹⁹But all the princes said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.

¹⁹Vsi knezi pa reko vsej občini: Mi smo jim prisegli pri GOSPODU, Izraelovem Bogu, zato se jih ne moremo dotekniti.

²⁰This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.”

²⁰Ali to jim hočemo storiti: ostanejo naj pri življenju, da ne pride srd nad nas zavoljo prisege, ki smo jim jo prisegli.

²¹The princes said to them, “Let them live, so they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.”

²¹In reko jim knezi: Naj le žive! A morajo sekati drva in nositi vodo vsej občini, – kakor so jim knezi bili rekli.

²²Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, “Why have you deceived us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you live among us?

²²Tedaj jih pokliče Jozue in jih ogovori, rekoč: Zakaj ste nas prekanili, govoreč: Silno daleč smo od vas, pa prebivate med nami?

²³Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.”

²³Zato ste zdaj prokleti, da nikdar ne nehajo biti iz vas hlapci, ki sekajo drva in nosijo vodo za hišo mojega Boga.

²⁴They answered Joshua, and said, “Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

²⁴Odgovore Jozuetu in reko: V istini je bilo povedano nam, hlapcem tvojim, kar je zapovedal GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, svojemu hlapcu Mojzesu, da vam da vso deželo in iztrebi vse prebivalce v njej izpred vas; torej smo se spričo vas silno bali za življenje svoje in smo storili to.

²⁵Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do.”

²⁵Sedaj pa glej, v roki smo tvoji: stóri, kar se ti zdi dobro in prav, da z nami storiš.

²⁶He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn’t kill them.

²⁶In tako jim je storil in jih otel iz roke Izraelovih sinov, da jih niso pobili.In Jozue jih je tisti dan postavil, da sekajo drva in nosijo vodo občini in k oltarju GOSPODOVEMU, do tega dne, na mestu, ki bi si ga izvolil.

²⁷That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place which he should choose.

²⁷In Jozue jih je tisti dan postavil, da sekajo drva in nosijo vodo občini in k oltarju GOSPODOVEMU, do tega dne, na mestu, ki bi si ga izvolil.