< صَمُوئِيلَ ٱلْأَوَّلُ 6 >
| وَكَانَ تَابُوتُ ٱللهِ فِي بِلَادِ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيِّينَ سَبْعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ. | ١ 1 |
The people of Philistia kept God’s sacred chest in their area for seven months.
| فَدَعَا ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيُّونَ ٱلْكَهَنَةَ وَٱلْعَرَّافِينَ قَائِلِينَ: «مَاذَا نَعْمَلُ بِتَابُوتِ ٱلرَّبِّ؟ أَخْبِرُونَا بِمَاذَا نُرْسِلُهُ إِلَى مَكَانِهِ». | ٢ 2 |
Then they summoned their priests and their (diviners/men who practice rituals to find out what would happen in the future). They asked them, “What should we do with the sacred chest of Yahweh? Tell us how we should send it back to its own land.”
| فَقَالُوا: «إِذَا أَرْسَلْتُمْ تَابُوتَ إِلَهِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، فَلَا تُرْسِلُوهُ فَارِغًا، بَلْ رُدُّوا لَهُ قُرْبَانَ إِثْمٍ. حِينَئِذٍ تَشْفَوْنَ وَيُعْلَمُ عِنْدَكُمْ لِمَاذَا لَا تَرْتَفِعُ يَدُهُ عَنْكُمْ». | ٣ 3 |
Those men replied, “Send with it an offering [to show Yahweh that you know that you are] guilty [for having captured the chest], in order that the plague will stop. If you do that, and then if you are healed, you will know that Yahweh is the one who caused you to experience the plague.”
| فَقَالُوا: «وَمَا هُوَ قُرْبَانُ ٱلْإِثْمِ ٱلَّذِي نَرُدُّهُ لَهُ؟» فَقَالُوا: «حَسَبَ عَدَدِ أَقْطَابِ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيِّينَ: خَمْسَةَ بَوَاسِيرَ مِنْ ذَهَبٍ، وَخَمْسَةَ فِيرَانٍ مِنْ ذَهَبٍ. لِأَنَّ ٱلضَّرْبَةَ وَاحِدَةٌ عَلَيْكُمْ جَمِيعًا وَعَلَى أَقْطَابِكُمْ. | ٤ 4 |
The people of Philistia asked, “What kind of offering should we send?” The men replied, “Make five gold models of the tumors on your skin, and five gold models of rats. Make five of each because that is the same number as the number of your kings, and because the plague has struck both you people and your five kings.
| وَٱصْنَعُوا تَمَاثِيلَ بَوَاسِيرِكُمْ وَتَمَاثِيلَ فِيرَانِكُمُ ٱلَّتِي تُفْسِدُ ٱلْأَرْضَ، وَأَعْطُوا إِلَهَ إِسْرَائِيلَ مَجْدًا لَعَلَّهُ يُخَفِّفُ يَدَهُ عَنْكُمْ وَعَنْ آلِهَتِكُمْ وَعَنْ أَرْضِكُمْ. | ٥ 5 |
Make models that represent the rats and the tumors that are ruining your land. Make them in order to honor the god of the Israeli people. If you do that, perhaps he will stop punishing [IDM] you, and your gods, and your land.
| وَلِمَاذَا تُغْلِظُونَ قُلُوبَكُمْ كَمَا أَغْلَظَ ٱلْمِصْرِيُّونَ وَفِرْعَوْنُ قُلُوبَهُمْ؟ أَلَيْسَ عَلَى مَا فَعَلَ بِهِمْ أَطْلَقُوهُمْ فَذَهَبُوا؟ | ٦ 6 |
Do not be [RHQ] stubborn [IDM] like the Egyptians and their king were. [They did not do what the Israelis’ god told them to do, so he punished them]. After the Israelis’ god finished punishing them very severely, they were glad to allow the Israelis to leave their country [RHQ].
| فَٱلْآنَ خُذُوا وَٱعْمَلُوا عَجَلَةً وَاحِدَةً جَدِيدَةً وَبَقَرَتَيْنِ مُرْضِعَتَيْنِ لَمْ يَعْلُهُمَا نِيرٌ، وَٱرْبِطُوا ٱلْبَقَرَتَيْنِ إِلَى ٱلْعَجَلَةِ، وَأَرْجِعُوا وَلَدَيْهِمَا عَنْهُمَا إِلَى ٱلْبَيْتِ. | ٧ 7 |
“So you must build a new cart. Then get two cows that have very recently given birth to calves. They must be cows that have never been hitched to a cart [MTY]. Hitch those cows to the new cart, and take the calves away from their mothers.
| وَخُذُوا تَابُوتَ ٱلرَّبِّ وَٱجْعَلُوهُ عَلَى ٱلْعَجَلَةِ، وَضَعُوا أَمْتِعَةَ ٱلذَّهَبِ ٱلَّتِي تَرُدُّونَهَا لَهُ قُرْبَانَ إِثْمٍ فِي صُنْدُوقٍ بِجَانِبِهِ وَأَطْلِقُوهُ فَيَذْهَبَ. | ٨ 8 |
Put the Israelis’ god’s sacred chest on the cart. Also put in the cart the five gold models of the tumors on your skin and the five gold models of rats. Put them in a small box alongside the sacred chest. They will be an offering to show that you know that you deserved to be punished [for capturing the sacred chest]. Then send [the cows] down the road, [pulling] the cart.
| وَٱنْظُرُوا، فَإِنْ صَعِدَ فِي طَرِيقِ تُخْمِهِ إِلَى بَيْتَشَمْسَ فَإِنَّهُ هُوَ ٱلَّذِي فَعَلَ بِنَا هَذَا ٱلشَّرَّ ٱلْعَظِيمَ. وَإِلَّا فَنَعْلَمُ أَنْ يَدَهُ لَمْ تَضْرِبْنَا. كَانَ ذَلِكَ عَلَيْنَا عَرَضًا». | ٩ 9 |
[Watch the cart as the cows pull it]. If they pull it to Beth-Shemesh [town] in Israel, we will know that it was the Israelis’ god who caused us to experience this plague. But if they do not take it there, we will know that it was not the god [MTY] of the Israelis who has punished us. We will know that it just happened.”
| فَفَعَلَ ٱلرِّجَالُ كَذَلِكَ، وَأَخَذُوا بَقَرَتَيْنِ مُرْضِعَتَيْنِ وَرَبَطُوهُمَا إِلَى ٱلْعَجَلَةِ، وَحَبَسُوا وَلَدَيْهِمَا فِي ٱلْبَيْتِ، | ١٠ 10 |
So the people did what the priests and men who predicted what would happen in the future told them to do. They [made] a cart [and] hitched two cows to it. They took the calves from their mothers.
| وَوَضَعُوا تَابُوتَ ٱلرَّبِّ عَلَى ٱلْعَجَلَةِ مَعَ ٱلصُّنْدُوقِ وَفِيرَانِ ٱلذَّهَبِ وَتَمَاثِيلِ بَوَاسِيرِهِمْ. | ١١ 11 |
They put in the cart Yahweh’s sacred chest and the box with the models of the gold rats and the tumors.
| فَٱسْتَقَامَتِ ٱلْبَقَرَتَانِ فِي ٱلطَّرِيقِ إِلَى طَرِيقِ بَيْتَشَمْسَ، وَكَانَتَا تَسِيرَانِ فِي سِكَّةٍ وَاحِدَةٍ وَتَجْأَرَانِ، وَلَمْ تَمِيلَا يَمِينًا وَلَا شِمَالًا، وَأَقْطَابُ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيِّينَ يَسِيرُونَ وَرَاءَهُمَا إِلَى تُخْمِ بَيْتَشَمْسَ. | ١٢ 12 |
Then the cows started walking, and they went straight toward Beth-Shemesh. They stayed on the road, and were mooing all the time. They did not turn to the left or to the right. The five kings of the Philistia area followed the cows until they reached the edge of Beth-Shemesh.
| وَكَانَ أَهْلُ بَيْتَشَمْسَ يَحْصُدُونَ حَصَادَ ٱلْحِنْطَةِ فِي ٱلْوَادِي، فَرَفَعُوا أَعْيُنَهُمْ وَرَأَوْا ٱلتَّابُوتَ وَفَرِحُوا بِرُؤْيَتِهِ. | ١٣ 13 |
At that time, the people of Beth-Shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley [outside the city]. [When the cows came along the road], they looked up and saw the sacred chest. They were extremely happy to see it.
| فَأَتَتِ ٱلْعَجَلَةُ إِلَى حَقْلِ يَهُوشَعَ ٱلْبَيْتَشَمْسِيِّ وَوَقَفَتْ هُنَاكَ. وَهُنَاكَ حَجَرٌ كَبِيرٌ. فَشَقَّقُوا خَشَبَ ٱلْعَجَلَةِ وَأَصْعَدُوا ٱلْبَقَرَتَيْنِ مُحْرَقَةً لِلرَّبِّ. | ١٤ 14 |
The cows pulled the cart into the field of a man named Joshua, and they stopped alongside a large rock. Several men from the tribe of Levi lifted from the cart the sacred chest and the box containing the gold models of the rats and the tumors, and they put them all on the large rock. Then the people smashed the cart and kindled a fire with the wood [from which the cart had been made]. They slaughtered the cows and burned their bodies/carcasses on the fire to be an offering for Yahweh that would be completely burned. That day the people of Beth-Shemesh offered to Yahweh [many] sacrifices that were completely burned, and [other] sacrifices.
| فَأَنْزَلَ ٱللَّاوِيُّونَ تَابُوتَ ٱلرَّبِّ وَٱلصُّنْدُوقَ ٱلَّذِي مَعَهُ ٱلَّذِي فِيهِ أَمْتِعَةُ ٱلذَّهَبِ وَوَضَعُوهُمَا عَلَى ٱلْحَجَرِ ٱلْكَبِيرِ. وَأَصْعَدَ أَهْلُ بَيْتَشَمْسَ مُحْرَقَاتٍ وَذَبَحُوا ذَبَائِحَ فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ لِلرَّبِّ. | ١٥ 15 |
| فَرَأَى أَقْطَابُ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيِّينَ ٱلْخَمْسَةُ وَرَجَعُوا إِلَى عَقْرُونَ فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ. | ١٦ 16 |
The five kings from the Philistia area watched all this, and then they returned to Ekron, that same day.
| وَهَذِهِ هِيَ بَوَاسِيرُ ٱلذَّهَبِ ٱلَّتِي رَدَّهَا ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيُّونَ قُرْبَانَ إِثْمٍ لِلرَّبِّ: وَاحِدٌ لِأَشْدُودَ، وَوَاحِدٌ لِغَزَّةَ، وَوَاحِدٌ لِأَشْقَلُونَ، وَوَاحِدٌ لِجَتَّ، وَوَاحِدٌ لِعَقْرُونَ. | ١٧ 17 |
The five gold models of tumors that they sent to be an offering to Yahweh to show that they knew that they deserved to be punished were gifts from [those five kings who were rulers of] Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron [cities].
| وَفِيرَانُ ٱلذَّهَبِ بِعَدَدِ جَمِيعِ مُدُنِ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيِّينَ لِلْخَمْسَةِ ٱلْأَقْطَابِ مِنَ ٱلْمَدِينَةِ ٱلْمُحَصَّنَةِ إِلَى قَرْيَةِ ٱلصَّحْرَاءِ. وَشَاهِدٌ هُوَ ٱلْحَجَرُ ٱلْكَبِيرُ ٱلَّذِي وَضَعُوا عَلَيْهِ تَابُوتَ ٱلرَّبِّ. هُوَ إِلَى هَذَا ٱلْيَوْمِ فِي حَقْلِ يَهُوشَعَ ٱلْبَيْتِشَمْسِيِّ. | ١٨ 18 |
The models of the five gold rats were gifts from the people of those five cities and the surrounding towns. The large rock at Beth-Shemesh, on which the [men of the tribe of Levi] set the sacred chest, is still there in the field that belonged to Joshua. When people see it, they remember [what happened there].
| وَضَرَبَ أَهْلَ بَيْتَشَمْسَ لِأَنَّهُمْ نَظَرُوا إِلَى تَابُوتِ ٱلرَّبِّ. وَضَرَبَ مِنَ ٱلشَّعْبِ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ رَجُلٍ وَسَبْعِينَ رَجُلًا. فَنَاحَ ٱلشَّعْبُ لِأَنَّ ٱلرَّبَّ ضَرَبَ ٱلشَّعْبَ ضَرْبَةً عَظِيمَةً. | ١٩ 19 |
But seventy men from Beth-Shemesh looked into Yahweh’s sacred chest, and because of that, Yahweh caused them to die. Then the people mourned very much because Yahweh punished [IDM] those men like that.
| وَقَالَ أَهْلُ بَيْتَشَمْسَ: «مَنْ يَقْدِرُ أَنْ يَقِفَ أَمَامَ ٱلرَّبِّ ٱلْإِلَهِ ٱلْقُدُّوسِ هَذَا؟ وَإِلَى مَنْ يَصْعَدُ عَنَّا؟» | ٢٠ 20 |
They said, “No one [RHQ] can (resist the power of/stand in the presence of) Yahweh, our holy God, [and remain alive]! Where can we send the sacred chest?”
| وَأَرْسَلُوا رُسُلًا إِلَى سُكَّانِ قَرْيَةِ يَعَارِيمَ قَائِلِينَ: «قَدْ رَدَّ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيُّونَ تَابُوتَ ٱلرَّبِّ، فَٱنْزِلُوا وَأَصْعِدُوهُ إِلَيْكُمْ». | ٢١ 21 |
They sent messengers to the people of Kiriath-Jearim [city] to tell them, “The people of Philistia have returned Yahweh’s sacred chest to us! Come here and take it away!”
