1 Samuel 6
1 And the ark of Jehovah is in the field of the Philistines seven months,
上主的約櫃在培肋舍特地方七個月之久。
2 and the Philistines call for priests and for diviners, saying, 'What do we do to the ark of Jehovah? let us know wherewith we send it to its place?'
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 say, 'If ye are sending away the ark of the God of Israel, ye do not send it away empty; for ye do certainly send back to Him a guilt-offering; then ye are healed, and it hath been known to you why His hand doth not turn aside 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 say, 'What [is] the guilt-offering which we send back to Him?' and they say, 'The number of the princes of the Philistines — five golden emerods, and five golden mice — for one plague [is] to you all, and to your princes,
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 ye have made images of your emerods, and images of your mice that are corrupting the land, and have given honour to the God of Israel; it may be He doth lighten His hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land;
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 do ye harden your heart as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their heart? do they not — when He hath rolled Himself upon them — send them away, and they go?
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 now, take and make one new cart, and two suckling kine, on which a yoke hath not gone up, and ye have bound the kine in the cart, and caused their young ones to turn back from after them to the house,
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 ye have taken the ark of Jehovah, and put it on the cart, and the vessels of gold which ye have returned to Him — a guilt-offering — ye put in a coffer on its side, and have sent it away, and it hath gone;
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 ye have seen, if the way of its own border it goeth up to Beth-Shemesh — He hath done to us this great evil; and if not, then we have known that His hand hath not come against us; an accident it hath been 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 the men do so, and take two suckling kine, and bind them in the cart, and their young ones they have 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 place the ark of Jehovah upon the cart, and the coffer, and the golden mice, and the images of their emerods.
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 the kine go straight in the way, on the way to Beth-Shemesh, in one highway they have gone, going and lowing, and have not turned aside right or left; and the princes of the Philistines are going after them unto 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 the Beth-Shemeshites are reaping their wheat-harvest in the valley, and they lift up their eyes, and see the ark, and rejoice 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 hath come in unto the field of Joshua the Beth-Shemeshite, and standeth there, and there [is] a great stone, and they cleave the wood of the cart, and the kine they have caused to ascend — a burnt-offering to Jehovah.
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 have taken down the ark of Jehovah, and the coffer which [is] with it, in which [are] the vessels of gold, and place [them] on the great stone; and the men of Beth-Shemesh have caused to ascend burnt-offerings and sacrifice sacrifices in that day to Jehovah;
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 the five princes of the Philistines have seen [it], and turn back [to] Ekron, on that day.
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 golden emerods which the Philistines have sent back — a guilt-offering to Jehovah: 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 golden mice — the number of all the cities of the Philistines — for the five princes, from the fenced city even unto the hamlet of the villages, even unto the great meadow on which they placed the ark of Jehovah — [are] unto this day 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 smiteth among the men of Beth-Shemesh, for they looked into the ark of Jehovah, yea, He smiteth among the people seventy men — fifty chief men; and the people mourn, because Jehovah smote among the people — a great smiting.
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 the men of Beth-Shemesh say, 'Who is able to stand before Jehovah, this holy God? and unto whom doth He go up from 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 send messengers unto the inhabitants of Kirjath-Jearim, saying, 'The Philistines have sent back the ark of Jehovah; come down, take it up unto 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。」
