1 Samuel 6
1 Der Herrens Ark havde været i Filisternes Land i syv Maaneder,
The people of Philistia kept God’s sacred chest in their area for seven months.
2 da kaldte Filisterne ad Præsterne og ad Spaamændene og sagde: Hvad skulle vi gøre ved Herrens Ark? lader os vide, hvormed vi skulle sende den til sit Sted.
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.”
3 Og de sagde: Dersom I sende Israels Guds Ark bort, da sender den ikke bort uden Gave; men I skulle give den et Skyldoffer med tilbage, da skulle I blive lægte, og det skal blive eder vitterligt, hvorfor hans Haand ikke vilde vige fra eder.
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.”
4 Da svarede de: Hvad er det for et Skyldoffer, som vi skulle give den med tilbage? Og de sagde: Efter Filisternes Fyrsters Tal, fem Guldbylder og fem Guldmus; thi der har været een Plage over dem alle og over eders Fyrster.
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.
5 Og I skulle gøre Billeder af eders Bylder og Billeder af eders Mus, som have ødelagt Landet, og I skulle give Israels Gud Ære; maaske han letter sin Haand fra eder og fra eders Guder og fra eders Land.
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.
6 Og hvorfor ville I forhærde eders Hjerte, ligesom Ægypterne og Farao forhærdede deres Hjerte? er det ikke saa, at der han havde ladet dem føle sin Magt, da lode de dem fare, og de gik.
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].
7 Saa tager nu og gører en ny Vogn og tager to nybære Køer, paa hvilke der ikke er kommen Aag; og I skulle spænde Køerne for Vognen og føre deres Kalve tilbage hjem fra dem.
“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.
8 Og I skulle tage Herrens Ark og sætte den paa Vognen, og Guldtøjet, som I give den med tilbage til Skyldoffer, skulle I lægge i et Skrin ved dens Side; og I skulle sende den hen og lade den fare.
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.
9 Og I skulle se til: Dersom den farer op ad Vejen til Landemærket imod Beth-Semes, da er det ham, som har gjort os dette store onde, og hvis ikke, da vide vi, at hans Haand ikke har rørt os, det har været os en Hændelse.
[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.”
10 Og Mændene gjorde saaledes og toge to nybære Køer og spændte dem for Vognen; og de lukkede deres Kalve inde hjemme.
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.
11 Og de satte Herrens Ark paa Vognen og Skrinet og Guldmusene og deres Bylders Billeder.
They put in the cart Yahweh’s sacred chest and the box with the models of the gold rats and the tumors.
12 Og Køerne gik ret frem paa Vejen, ad Vejen til Beth-Semes, paa den ene alfare Vej gik de stedse og bøgede og vege ikke til højre eller venstre Side; og Filisternes Fyrster gik efter dem indtil Beth-Semes' Landemærke.
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.
13 Og Bethsemiterne høstede Hvede i Dalen; og de løftede deres Øjne op og saa Arken, og de bleve glade, da de saa den.
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.
14 Og Vognen kom paa Bethsemiteren Josvas Ager og blev staaende der, og der var en stor Sten; og de flakte Træet af Vognen og ofrede Køerne til Brændoffer for Herren.
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.
15 Og Leviterne løftede Herrens Ark ned tillige med Skrinet, som stod ved den, og i hvilket Guldtøjet var, og satte det alt paa den store Sten; og Mændene af Beth-Semes ofrede Brændofre og slagtede Slagtofre paa samme Dag for Herren.
16 Og der de fem Filisters Fyrster havde set, det, da vendte de tilbage til Ekron paa samme Dag.
The five kings from the Philistia area watched all this, and then they returned to Ekron, that same day.
17 Disse ere de Guldbylder, som Filisterne gave med til Skyldoffer: For Asdod een, for Gaza een, for Askion een, for Gath een, for Ekron een;
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].
18 og de Guldmus efter Tallet paa alle Filisternes Stæder, som tilhørte de fem Fyrster, saavel de befæstede Stæder, som de ubefæstede Landsbyer, indtil den store Sten Abel, som de satte Herrens Ark paa, og som er indtil denne Dag paa Bethsemiteren Josvas Ager.
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].
19 Og han slog blandt Mændene i Beth-Semes, fordi de saa i Herrens Ark, og han slog af Folket halvfjerdsindstyve Mænd, halvtredsindstyve Tusinde Mænd; da sørgede Folket, fordi Herren havde slaget blandt Folket med et stort Slag.
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.
20 Og Mændene af Beth-Semes sagde: Hvo kan bestaa for Herrens, denne hellige Guds, Ansigt? og til hvem skal han drage op fra os?
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?”
21 Og de sendte Bud til Indbyggerne i Kirjath-Jearim og lode sige: Filisterne have ført Herrens Ark tilbage, kommer ned og henter den op til eder!
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!”
