< 1 Samuel 6 >

1 And it was [the] ark of Yahweh in [the] region of [the] Philistines seven months.
上主的約櫃在培肋舍特地方七個月之久。
2 And they summoned [the] Philistines the priests and the diviners saying what? will we do to [the] ark of Yahweh make known to us how? will we send it to own place its.
培肋舍特人召集司祭和占卜者說:「我們對上主的約櫃該作什麼﹖請告訴我們,用什麼方法可將它送回原處﹖」
3 And they said if [you are] about to send away [the] ark of [the] God of Israel may not you send away it empty for certainly you will send back to him a guilt offering then you will be healed and it will be known by you why? not does it turn aside hand his from you.
他們回答說:「你們若將以色列天主的約櫃送回,不可空空的將它送回,必須奉上贖罪的禮品:這樣你們纔能痊癒,也會明瞭他的手為什麼沒有離開你們。」
4 And they said what? [is] the guilt offering which we will send back to him and they said [the] number of [the] rulers of [the] Philistines five (tumors of *Q(K)*) gold and five mice of gold for a plague one [belongs] to all of them and to rulers your.
他們問說:「我們應奉上什麼贖罪的禮品﹖」他們回答說:「按照培肋舍特酋長的數目,奉上五個金毒瘡像和五個金鼠像,因為你們所有的人和你們的酋長,都遭遇同樣的災禍。
5 And you will make images of (tumors your *Q(K)*) and images of mice your which are ruining the land and you will give to [the] God of Israel honor perhaps he will lighten hand his from with you and from on gods your and from on land your.
所以你們應製造你們患的毒瘡像,和損壞你們地方的老鼠的像,應歸光榮於以色列的天主:這樣或許他會對你們,對你們的神和你們的地方放鬆他的手。
6 And why? will you harden heart your just as they hardened Egypt and Pharaoh heart their ¿ not just when he dealt wantonly with them and they sent away them and they went.
你們為什麼像埃及人和法郎一樣心硬呢﹖不是上主玩弄了他們以後,埃及人纔放走了他們嗎﹖
7 And therefore take and make a cart new one and two cows nursing which not it has gone up on them a yoke and you will harness the cows on the cart and you will take back young ones their from after them the house towards.
現今,趕快製造一輛新車,牽出兩頭正在哺乳,還沒有負過軛的母牛來,套上這輛新車,把小牛牽回棚裏去;
8 And you will take [the] ark of Yahweh and you will put it into the cart and - [the] articles of gold which you have sent back to him a guilt offering you will put in the box from side its and you will send away it and it will go.
然後把上主的約櫃裝在車上,把那奉上作為贖罪禮品的金器,都盛在一匣子內,放在約櫃旁邊,然後讓它去。
9 And you will see if [the] way of own territory its it will go up Beth Shemesh he he has done to us the harm great this and if not and we will know that not hand his it touched us chance it it happened to us.
但你們應留神:若是約櫃取道往自己的地方去,即往貝特舍默士去,那麼,這大災難,即是上主加給我們的;若不然,我們就知道,不是他的手打擊了我們,而我們所遭遇的是出於偶然。」
10 And they did the men thus and they took two cows nursing and they harnessed them on the cart and young ones their they shut up in the house.
人們就這樣作了;牽出兩頭正在哺乳的母牛來,套上那輛新車,將牛犢關在棚裏,
11 And they put [the] ark of Yahweh into the cart and the box and [the] mice of gold and [the] images of tumors their.
把上主的約櫃,以及裝有金老鼠和毒瘡像的匣子,都放在車上。
12 And they were straight the cows in the road on [the] road of Beth Shemesh on a highway one they went continuously and lowed and not they turned aside right [hand] and left [hand] and [the] rulers of [the] Philistines [were] going after them to [the] border of Beth Shemesh.
那對母牛直直奔向貝特舍默士的路上走去,一邊走,一邊叫,不偏左也不偏右;培肋舍特的酋長跟在後面,一直到了貝特舍默士的邊境。
13 And Beth Shemesh [were] harvesting [the] harvest of wheat in the valley and they lifted up eyes their and they saw the ark and they rejoiced to see [it].
那時,貝特舍默士人正在谷中收割麥子,舉目一看,見是上主的約櫃,就前去歡迎。
14 And the cart it came to [the] field of Joshua [the] Beth Shemeshite and it stopped there and [was] there a stone large and they split [the] wood of the cart and the cows they offered up a burnt offering to Yahweh.
車來到貝特舍默士人約叔亞的莊田,就在那裏停住了。那裏有一塊大石頭,人就將車輛的木頭劈開,把母牛祭獻給上主作全燔祭。
15 And the Levites they brought down - [the] ark of Yahweh and the box which [was] with it which [were] in it [the] articles of gold and they put [them] to the stone large and [the] people of Beth Shemesh they offered up burnt offerings and they sacrificed sacrifices on the day that to Yahweh.
肋未人先把上主的約櫃和旁邊盛有金器的匣子搬下來,放在那塊大石上。貝特舍默士人當天給上主獻了全燔祭,宰殺了許多犧牲。
16 And five [the] rulers of [the] Philistines they saw and they went back Ekron on the day that.
培肋舍特的五位酋長見事已成,當天就回了厄刻龍。
17 And these [are] [the] tumors of gold which they sent back [the] Philistines a guilt offering to Yahweh for Ashdod one for Gaza one for Ashkelon one for Gath one for Ekron one.
以下是培肋舍特人奉獻給上主作為贖罪禮品的金毒瘡像:阿市多得一個,迦薩一個,阿市刻隆一個,加特一個,厄刻龍一個。
18 And [the] mice of gold [the] number of all [the] cities of [the] Philistines of [the] five the rulers from a city of fortification and unto village[s] of the hamlet-dweller[s] and to - Abel the great which they set down on it [the] ark of Yahweh until the day this in [the] field of Joshua [the] Beth Shemeshite.
金老鼠也是依照培肋舍特五酋長的城市數目,包括有垣墻的城市和所有的村落。那曾安放過上主約櫃的大石,直到今日還在貝特舍默士人約叔亞的田內,作為見證。
19 And he struck down among [the] people of Beth Shemesh for they had looked in [the] ark of Yahweh and he struck down among the people seventy man fifty thousand man and they mourned the people for he had struck Yahweh the people a blow (great *LB(ah)*)
當貝特舍默士人看見上主的約櫃時,耶苛尼雅的子孫沒有與他們一起表示歡樂,所以上主擊殺了他們中七十人。百姓就難受,因為上主這樣嚴厲打擊了百姓。
20 and they said [the] people of Beth Shemesh who? is he able to stand before Yahweh the God holy this and to whom? will it go up from with us.
於是貝特舍默士人說:「在這神聖的天主上主面前,誰還能站得住﹖從我們這裏把它送到誰那裏去呢﹖」
21 And they sent messengers to [the] inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim saying they have brought back [the] Philistines [the] ark of Yahweh come down take up it to you.
他們遂派使者到克黎雅特耶阿陵的居民那裏,對他們說:「培肋舍特人送回了上主的約櫃,你們下來,將它抬上去,放在你們那裏。」

< 1 Samuel 6 >