1 Samue 6
1 Hagi 7ni'a ikampi Filistia vahe'mokizmi mopafina Ra Anumzamofo huhagerafi huvempage vogisimo'a me'ne.
The people of Philistia kept God’s sacred chest in their area for seven months.
2 Filistia vahe'mo'za pristi vahe'ene avune vahe'zamia kehazage'za age'za amanage hu'za zamantahige'naze. Inankna huta Ra Anumzamofo huhagerafi huvempage vogisia atre'nunkeno kuma arega vugahie?
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 Hazageza ana pristi vahe'ene avune vahe'mo'za zamasami'za, Israeli vahe'mokizmi Anumzamofo huhagerafi huvempage vogisia amnea atresage'za eri'za ovugahazanki, kumi ofama huzantamine eri'neta erita viho. Hagi anama hanageno ana knazamo'ma vagaresigeta, ama knazana Anumzamo neramie huta antahigahaze.
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 Hagi ana kenona zamire zamantahige'za, inankna zantimi kumi ofa eri'neta vugahune? hu'za hazage'za, golireti 5fu'a usagenkna namu tro nehuta, 5fu'a kfa golireti tro huta erita viho. Na'ankure anahu knazamo'a tamagri'ene 5fu'a kini vahetaminte'enena efore hu'ne.
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 Hagi mopatami tamazeri haviza hu'negu 5fu'a usgenkna namuna golireti tro nehuta, ne'zama neno erivagarea kafaramina 5fu'a golireti tro huta Israeli vahe'mofo Anumzamofoma ami'nageno'ma ra agima erisuno'a, azama rusuteno tamagri'ene anumzatamine mopatamia azeri havizama nehiazana osugahie.
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 Hagi nahigeta Isipi vahe'mo'zane Ferozama hu'nazaza huta tamagu'a azeri hankavenetize. Zamagra Israeli vahe'ma zamazerizana Anumzamo'a antahintahi zami'a zamazeri savri huno knazana zamige'za zamatrazage'za vu'naze. E'ina hu'negu tamagra e'izanku nentahita amefira huomiho.
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 Hagi menina kasefa karisi retro nehuta, anenta'ma antekema amima nemisia tare bulimakao afutrema kora zanagumpina agare namara zafa erinteno reonte'nesia suzantre zanavreta zanarente tragotenteta anenta'a ramina zamavareta kegina agu'afi ome zamatreho.
“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 Hagi ana karisifi Ra Anumzamofo huhagerafi huvempage vogisia eri nenteta kumi'ma apasente ofe hutama golireti'ma kfane usagenkna namuma tro hu'naza zantamina mago vogisifi anteta erinenteta, ana bulimakaontrena zamatrenkene ana karisia avazuhuke vi'o.
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 Hagi kva hu'neta negenkeno ana bulimakaomokema Bet-Semesi mopa kazigama vanigeta, e'i Ra Anumzamo ama knazana neramie huta antahigahune. Hagi ana'ma osina, agraragisa fore nehie huta antahigahune.
[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 Hagi ana vahe'mo'zama ana kema nentahi'za tare a' bulimakaontrena zanavre'za karisire renente'za, anentazani'a zamavare'za bulimakao kegina agu'afi ome atre'naze.
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 Hagi Ra Anumzamofo huhagerafi huvempage vogisine anama golireti'ma tro hu'naza kafane usagenkna namunema ante'naza vogisia karisifi erinte'naze.
They put in the cart Yahweh’s sacred chest and the box with the models of the gold rats and the tumors.
12 Hagi ana bulimakaomokea kana atre'ne vugantigama osu Bet-Semesima me'nea kazigama vu'nea kante vufatgo hu'ne nevu'ne krafa hume vu'na'e. Hagi anama huke nevakeno'a Filistia kva vahe'mo'za zanavariri'za Bet-Semesi mopa atupare ome zanatre'naze.
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 Hagi ana knazupa Bet-Semesi vahe'mo'za hoza agupofi witi hoza nehamare'za kesga hu'za huhagerafi huvempage vogisima nege'za, tusi'a muse hu'naze.
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 Hagi ana bulimakaomokea Josua hozafi Bet-Semesi ehanatike ra have me'nea asoparega emani'na'e. Hagi ana karisia taganavazi'za Ra Anumzante kresramana vunte teve eri'za, ana tare bulimakaontrena znahe'za Ra Anumzamofonte kresramana vu'naze.
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 Hagi pristi vahe'mo'za Ra Anumzamofo huhagerafi huvempage vogisine, golireti'ma tro'ma hu'naza kfane usagenkna namunema ante'naza vogisia eri'za ra have agofetu ante'naze. Ana hute'za ana zupa Bet-Semesi vahe'mo'za Ra Anumzamofontega kre fanane hu ofa nehu'za mago'a ofanena kresramna vu'naze.
16 Hagi 5fu'a Filistia kva vahe'mo'za anazama hazazana kete'za ete ana zupage kuma'zamirega Ekroni vu'naze.
The five kings from the Philistia area watched all this, and then they returned to Ekron, that same day.
17 Hagi Filistia vahe'mo'za mago mago kumazamire Gazagi, Asdotigi, Askelonigi, Gatigi Ekronigi hu'za zamente zamente golireti usgenkna namuna tro hu'za Ra Anumzamofontega kumizmima apasezmante ofa ante'naze.
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 Hagi 5fu'a golireti'ma kfa tro'ma hu'za ante'nazana 5fu'a kva vahe'mo'zama kegava hu'naza rankumatamima Ra Anumzamofo huhagerafi huvempage vogisima antazageno'ma me'nea kumataminte huhampri'za tro hunte'naze. Hagi ra havema Josua hozafima me'nea havemo anazama fore'ma hu'nea zamofo avame'zana me'neankino meninena me'ne.
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 Hianagi Ra Anumzamo'a 70'a Bet-Semesi vahera zamahe'ne. Na'ankure Ra Anumzamofo huhagerafi huvempage vogisimofo agu'afinka ke'naza zante anara hige'za 50 tauseni'a vahe'mo'za rama'a vahe'ma fri'naza zanku tusi zamasunku hu'za zavira ate'naze.
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 Hagi Bet-Semesi vahe'mo'za amanage hu'naze, iza ruotgema hu'nea Ra Anumzamofo avurera otigahie nehu'za, iga ama huhagerafi huvempage vogisia atre'nunkeno vugahie.
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 Anage nehu'za ke erino vu vahera huzmantage'za vu'za Kiriat Jearimi vahera amanage hu'za ome zmasami'naze. Hago Filistia vahe'mo'za Ra Anumzamofo huhagerafi huvempage vogisia eri'za eme atrazanki emerita kumatamirega viho, hu'za kea atre zamante'naze.
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!”
