1 Samuel 6
1 Kane Sandug Muma mar Jehova Nyasaye osebet e piny jo-Filistia kuom dweche abiriyo,
Now the ark of God was in the land of the Philistines seven months.
2 jo-Filistia noluongo jodolo gi ajuoke mi giwacho niya, “Wabiro timo angʼo gi Sandug Muma mar Jehova Nyasaye? Nyiswauru kaka onego wadwoke kare.”
And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying: What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? tell us how we are to send it back to its place? And they said:
3 Negidwoko niya, “Ka udwoko Sandug Muma mar Nyasach jo-Israel, to kik udwoke nono, nyaka une ni udwoke gi misango mar pwodhruok e ketho, eka nochangu, bende ubiro ngʼeyo gima omiyo lwete ok oseweyo sandou.”
If you send back the ark of the God of Israel, send it not away empty, but render unto him what you owe for sin, and then you shall be healed: and you shall know why his hand departeth not from you.
4 Jo-Filistia nopenjo niya, “En misango machal nade mar pwodhruok e ketho monego wakowne?” Negidwoko niya, “Dhahabu abich molos machal gi buche gi dhahabu abich molos machal gi oyieyo ma kwan-gi rom gi ruodhi mag jo-Filistia, nikech masich tuo nomakou kaachiel gi ruodhiu.
They answered: What is it we ought to render unto him for sin? and they answered:
5 Losuru gik machal gi buche kod machal gi oyieyo maketho pinyu, kendo miuru Nyasach jo-Israel duongʼ. Dipo ka ongʼwononu moweyo sandou kaachiel gi nyisecheu gi pinyu.
According to the number of the provinces of the Philistines you shall make five golden emerods, and five golden mice: for the same plague hath been upon you all, and upon your lords. And you shall make the likeness of your emerods, and the likeness of the mice that have destroyed the land, and you shall give glory to the God of Israel: to see if he will take off his hand from you, and from your gods, and from your land.
6 Angʼo momiyo chunyu pek kaka jo-Misri gi Farao notimo? Kane osandogi, donge negiweyo jo-Israel odhi kuma ne onego gidhiye?
Why do you harden your hearts, as Egypt and Pharao hardened their hearts? did not he, after he was struck, then let them go, and they departed?
7 “Omiyo sani ikuru gari manyien, gi dwesni ariyo ma osenywol to pok otwe e jok. Tweuru dwesnigi e gari, nyiroye to tweuru e loch.
Now therefore take and make a new cart: and two kine that have calved, on which there hath come no yoke, tie to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.
8 Kawuru Sandug Muma mar Jehova Nyasaye mondo uket e gari, keturu Sanduku machielo bute mondo uketie gik molos gi dhahabu muterone kaka misango mipwodhruokgo e ketho, kendo uweye odhi,
And you shall take the ark of the Lord, and lay it on the cart, and the vessels of gold, which you have paid him for sin, you shall put into a little box, at the side thereof: and send it away that it may go.
9 to sikuru ka ungʼiye. Ka odhi mochomo thurgi nyaka, Beth Shemesh, to kara Jehova Nyasaye ema osekelo sand maduongʼni kuomwa. To ka ok otimore kamano to wabiro ngʼeyo ni lwete ok ema osesandowa to ni mani obironwa abira.”
And you shall look: and if it go up by the way of his own coasts towards Bethsames, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, we shall know that it is not his hand hath touched us, but it hath happened by chance.
10 Omiyo negitimo kamano. Negikawo dwesni ariyo machal kamano mi gitweyo e gari kendo gitweyo nyiroye e loch.
They did therefore in this manner: and taking two kine, that had suckling calves, they yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.
11 Negiketo Sandug Muma mar Jehova Nyasaye e gari bende negiketo Sanduku motingʼo dhahabu molos ka oyieyo gi dhahabu molos ka buche.
And they laid the ark of God upon the cart, and the little box that had in it the golden mice and the likeness of the emerods.
12 To dwesni nowuok kochiko Beth Shemesh tir, negiluwo yo ka gidhi to giywak, ne ok gibaro korachwich kata koracham. Ruodhi mag jo-Filistia ne luwogi nyaka negichopo e tongʼ man Beth Shemesh.
And the kine took the straight way that leadeth to Bethsames, and they went along the way, lowing as they went: and turned not aside neither to the right hand nor to the left: and the lords of the Philistines followed them as far as the borders of Bethsames.
13 E kindeno jo-Beth Shemesh ne kayo ngano e holo, kane gitingʼo wangʼ-gi malo mi gineno Sandug Muma, negimor ka ginene.
Now the Bethsamites were reaping wheat in the valley: and lifting up their eyes they saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
14 Gari nobiro nyaka e puoth Joshua ma ja-Beth Shemesh, modhi mochungʼ but lwanda maduongʼ. Ji nobaro yiend gari mi gichiwo dwesnigo ka misango miwangʼo pep ne Jehova Nyasaye.
And the cart came into the field of Josue a Bethsamite, and stood there. And there was a great stone, and they cut in pieces the wood of the cart, and laid the kine upon it a holocaust to the Lord.
15 Jo-Lawi noloro Sandug Muma mar Jehova Nyasaye kaachiel gi Sanduku manotingʼo gik molos gi dhahabu, mine giketogi ewi lwanda maduongʼ. Odiechiengʼno jo-Beth Shemesh nochiwo misango miwangʼo pep gi misengini mamoko ni Jehova Nyasaye.
And the Levites took down the ark of God, and the little box that was at the side of it, wherein were the vessels of gold, and they put them upon the great stone. The men also of Bethsames offered holocausts and sacrificed victims that day to the Lord.
16 Ruodhi abich mag jo-Filistia noneno gik manotimore duto mine gidok odiechiengno nyaka Ekron.
And the five princes of the Philistines saw, and they returned to Accaron the same day.
17 Magi e dhahabu molos ka buche mane jo-Filistia oorone Jehova Nyasaye ka misango mipwodhruokgo e ketho ka moro ka moro ochungʼ kar Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath kod Ekron.
And these are the golden emerods, which the Philistines returned for sin to the Lord: For Azotus one, for Gaza one, for Ascalon one, for Geth one, for Accaron one:
18 To kwan mar dhahabu molos ka oyieyo ne chal gi kwan dalane mag jo-Filistia mag Ruodhi abich, ne gin mier matindo mochiel motegno man-gi mieregi. Lwanda maduongʼ, mane giketoe Sandug Muma mar Jehova Nyasaye, pod ochungʼ kanyo ka ranyisi e puoth Joshua ja-Beth Shemesh nyaka chil kawuono.
And the golden mice according to the number of the cities of the Philistines, of the five provinces, from the fenced city to the village that was without wall, and to the great Abel (the stone) whereon they set down the ark of the Lord, which was till that day in the field of Josue the Bethsamite.
19 To Nyasaye nogoyo jo-Beth Shemesh moko, monego ji piero abiriyo nikech negingʼiyo ii Sandug Muma mar Jehova Nyasaye. Ji noywak malit nikech sand mane Jehova Nyasaye osekelonegi,
But he slew of the men of Bethsames, because they had seen the ark of the Lord: and he slew of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the common people. And the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten the people with a great slaughter.
20 kendo jo-Beth Shemesh nopenjo niya, “En ngʼa manyalo chungʼ e nyim Jehova Nyasaye, Nyasaye malerni? Ngʼatno ma Sandugni nodhine koa ka?”
And the men of Bethsames said: Who shall be able to stand before the Lord this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
21 Eka negioro joote ne jo-Kiriath Jearim, kagiwacho niya, “Jo-Filistia osedwogo Sandug Muma mar Jehova Nyasaye. Biuru mondo ukawe udhi kode.”
And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Cariathiarim, saying: The Philistines have brought back the ark of the Lord, come ye down and fetch it up to you.
