Judges 21
1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying: 'There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.'
| وَأَقْسَمَ رِجَالُ إِسْرَائِيلَ فِي الْمِصْفَاةِ أَلّا يُزَوِّجَ أَحَدٌ مِنْهُمُ ابْنَتَهُ لأَيِّ رَجُلٍ مِنْ سِبْطِ بِنْيَامِينَ. | ١ |
2 And the people came to Beth-el, and sat there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore.
| فَاجتَمَعُوا فِي بَيْتِ إِيلَ وَمَثَلُوا أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ بَاكِينَ بِمَرَارَةٍ حَتَّى الْمَسَاءِ، | ٢ |
3 And they said: 'O LORD, the God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel?'
| قَائِلِينَ: «لِمَاذَا يَا رَبُّ إِلَهَ إِسْرَائِيلَ قَدْ حَدَثَتْ هَذِهِ الْكَارِثَةُ فِي إِسْرَائِيلَ حَتَّى يَفْنَى أَحَدُ أَسْبَاطِ إِسْرَائِيلَ؟» | ٣ |
4 And it came to pass on the morrow that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings.
| وَبَكَّرَ الْقَوْمُ فِي صَبَاحِ الْيَوْمِ التَّالِي وَبَنَوْا هُنَاكَ مَذْبَحاً قَدَّمُوا عَلَيْهِ مُحْرَقَاتٍ وَذَبَائِحَ سَلامٍ. | ٤ |
5 And the children of Israel said: 'Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up in the assembly unto the LORD?' For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up unto the LORD to Mizpah, saying: 'He shall surely be put to death.'
| وَقَالَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ: «هَلْ تَغَيَّبَ أَحَدٌ مِنْ أَسْبَاطِ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ حُضُورِ اجْتِمَاعِنَا أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ فِي الْمِصْفَاةِ، لأَنَّنَا أَقْسَمْنَا يَمِيناً مُغْلَظَةً أَنْ نَقْتُلَ كُلَّ مَنْ تَغَيَّبَ عَنِ الْحُضُورِ؟» | ٥ |
6 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said: 'There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
| وَاعْتَرَى النَّدَمُ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ عَلَى إِخْوَتِهِمْ بَنِي بِنْيَامِينَ قَائِلِينَ: «قَدِ انْقَرَضَ الْيَوْمَ أَحَدُ أَسْبَاطِ إِسْرَائِيلَ | ٦ |
7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?'
| فَمَاذَا نَعْمَلُ لِلْبَقِيَّةِ الْبَاقِيَةِ مِنْهُمْ لِنُزَوِّجَهُمْ، وَقَدْ حَلَفْنَا نَحْنُ بِالرَّبِّ أَلّا نُعْطِيَهُمْ بَنَاتِنَا؟». | ٧ |
8 And they said: 'What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up unto the LORD to Mizpah?' And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.
| وَتَسَاءَلُوا: «أَيُّ سِبْطٍ مِنْ أَسْبَاطِ إِسْرَائِيلَ لَمْ يَصْعَدْ لِلْمُثُولِ أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ فِي الْمِصْفَاةِ؟» وَتَبَيَّنُوا أَنَّ أَحَداً مِنْ يَابِيشَ جِلْعَادَ لَمْ يَحْضُرْ، | ٨ |
9 For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
| لأَنَّهُمْ حِينَ أَحْصَوْا الشَّعْبَ وَجَدُوا أَنَّ أَهْلَ يَابِيشَ جِلْعَادَ جَمِيعَهُمْ قَدْ تَخَلَّفُوا عَنِ الْحُضُورِ. | ٩ |
10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying: 'Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
| فَأَرْسَلَتِ الْجَمَاعَةُ حَمْلَةً مِنِ اثْنَيْ عَشَرَ أَلْفَ رَجُلٍ مِنْ جَبَابِرَةِ الْقِتَالِ وَأَوْصَوْهُمْ قَائِلِينَ: «انْطَلِقُوا وَاقْضُوا عَلَى أَهْلِ يَابِيشَ جِلْعَادَ بَحَدِّ السَّيْفِ رِجَالاً وَنِسَاءً وَأَطْفَالاً. | ١٠ |
11 And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.'
| اقْتُلُوا كُلَّ ذَكَرٍ وَكُلَّ امْرَأَةٍ عَاشَرَتْ رَجُلاً». | ١١ |
12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
| فَوَجَدُوا بَيْنَ أَهْلِ يَابِيشَ جِلْعَادَ أَرْبَعَ مِئَةِ فَتَاةٍ عَذْرَاءَ فَقَطْ لَمْ يُضَاجِعْنَ رَجُلاً، فَجَاءُوا بِهِنَّ إِلَى الْمُخَيَّمِ إِلَى شِيلُوهَ الَّتِي فِي أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ. | ١٢ |
13 And the whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace unto them.
| وَبَعَثَتِ الْجَمَاعَةُ كُلُّهَا بِوَفْدٍ وَخَاطَبَتْ أَبْنَاءَ بِنْيَامِينَ الْمُعْتَصِمِينَ فِي صَخْرَةِ رِمُّونَ وَاسْتَدْعَتْهُمْ لِلصُّلْحِ. | ١٣ |
14 And Benjamin 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 sufficed them not.
| فَرَجَعَ الْبَنْيَامِينِيُّونَ آنَئِذٍ، فَأَعْطَوْهُمُ الْفَتَيَاتِ اللَّوَاتِي اسْتَحْيَوْهُنَّ مِنْ بَنَاتِ يَابِيشَ جِلْعَادَ فَلَمْ يَكْفِينَهُمْ | ١٤ |
15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
| وَانْتَابَ النَّدَمُ الشَّعْبَ مِنْ أَجْلِ مَا جَرَى لِبَنْيَامِينَ، لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ جَعَلَ ثُغْرَةً فِي أَسْبَاطِ إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ١٥ |
16 Then the elders of the congregation said: 'How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?'
| فَقَالَ شُيُوخُ الْجَمَاعَةِ: «كَيْفَ نَحْصُلُ عَلَى زَوْجَاتٍ لِرِجَالِ بِنْيَامِينَ الْبَاقِينَ بَعْدَ أَنِ انْقَرَضَتِ النِّسَاءُ مِنْ سِبْطِهِمْ، | ١٦ |
17 And they said: 'They that are escaped must be as an inheritance for Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.
| إِذْ يَجِبُ أَنْ يَكُونَ وَرَثَةٌ لِلنَّاجِينَ مِنْ بَنِي بِنْيَامِينَ، فَلا يَنْقَرِضُ سِبْطٌ مِنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ، | ١٧ |
18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters.' For the children of Israel had sworn, saying: 'Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.'
| لأَنَّنَا نَحْنُ لَا نَقْدِرُ أَنْ نُزَوِّجَهُمْ مِنْ بَنَاتِنَا بَعْدَ أَنْ أَقْسَمْنَا قَائِلِينَ:’مَلْعُونٌ مَنْ يُزَوِّجُ امْرَأَةً لِرَجُلٍ بِنْيَامِينِيٍّ‘». | ١٨ |
19 And they said: 'Behold, there is the feast of the LORD from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.'
| ثُمَّ قَالُوا: «هُنَاكَ احْتِفَالٌ سَنَوِيٌّ فِي شِيلُوهَ شِمَالِيَّ بَيْتِ إِيلَ شَرْقِيَّ الطَّرِيقِ الْمُتَّجِهَةِ مِنْ بَيْتِ إِيلَ إِلَى شَكِيمَ وَجَنُوبِيَّ لَبُونَةَ. | ١٩ |
20 And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying: 'Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
| فَأَوْصَوْا بَنِي بِنْيَامِينَ قَائِلِينَ: انْطَلِقُوا إِلَى الْكُرُومِ وَاكْمِنُوا فِيهَا. | ٢٠ |
21 and see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
| وَانْتَظِرُوا حَتَّى إِذَا خَرَجَتْ بَنَاتُ شِيلُوهَ لِلرَّقْصِ فَانْدَفِعُوا أَنْتُمْ نَحْوَهُنَّ، وَاخْطِفُوا لأَنْفُسِكُمْ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ امْرَأَةً وَاهْرُبُوا بِهِنَّ إِلَى أَرْضِ بِنْيَامِينَ. | ٢١ |
22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to strive with us, that we will say unto them: Grant them graciously unto us; because we took not for each man of them his wife in battle; neither did ye give them unto them, that ye should now be guilty.'
| فَإِذَا جَاءَ آبَاؤُهُنَّ أَوْ إِخْوَتُهُنَّ لِكَيْ يَشْكُوا إِلَيْنَا نُجِيبُهُمْ: تَعَطَّفُوا عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ أَجْلِنَا، لأَنَّنَا لَمْ نَحْصُلْ عَلَى زَوْجَةٍ لِكُلِّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ فِي حَرْبِنَا مَعَ أَهْلِ يَابِيشَ جِلْعَادَ، وَأَنْتُمْ لَمْ تُزَوِّجُوهُمْ مِنْ بَنَاتِكُمْ عَنْ طِيبِ خَاطِرٍ فَتَأْثَمُوا». | ٢٢ |
23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they carried off; and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them.
| وَهَكَذَا صَنَعَ رِجَالُ بِنْيَامِينَ، فَقَدِ اخْتَطَفُوا الْعَدَدَ الْكَافِي مِنَ الرَّاقِصَاتِ وَتَزَوَّجُوا مِنْهُنَّ، وَرَجَعُوا إِلَى دِيَارِهِمْ وَعَمَّرُوا الْمُدُنَ وَأَقَامُوا فِيهَا. | ٢٣ |
24 And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.
| ثُمَّ انْطَلَقَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ، مُنْذُ ذَلِكَ الْوَقْتِ، كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ إِلَى سِبْطِهِ وَعَشِيرَتِهِ، عَائِدِينَ إِلَى أَرْضِ مِيرَاثِهِمْ. | ٢٤ |
25 In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
| فِي تِلْكَ الأَيَّامِ لَمْ يَكُنْ مَلِكٌ عَلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ، فَكَانَ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ يَعْمَلُ مَا حَسُنَ فِي عَيْنَيْهِ. | ٢٥ |
