داوران 14
| یک روز که سامسون به تمنه رفته بود، دختری فلسطینی توجه او را جلب نمود. | 1 |
One day when Samson was in Timnah [town], he saw a young Philistine woman there.
| چون به خانه بازگشت جریان را با پدر و مادرش در میان گذاشت و از آنها خواست تا آن دختر را برایش خواستگاری کنند. | 2 |
When he returned home, he told his mother and father, “I saw a young Philistine woman in Timnah, and I want you to get her for me so I can marry her.”
| آنها اعتراض نموده، گفتند: «چرا باید بروی و همسری از این فلسطینی‌های بت‌پرست بگیری؟ آیا در بین تمام خاندان و قوم ما دختری پیدا نمی‌شود که تو با او ازدواج کنی؟» ولی سامسون به پدر خود گفت: «دختر دلخواه من همان است. او را برای من خواستگاری کنید.» | 3 |
His mother and father objected very strongly. They said, “Is there no woman from our tribe, or from the other Israeli tribes, that you could marry? Why must you go to the heathen Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me! She is the one I want!”
| پدر و مادر او نمی‌دانستند که دست خداوند در این کار است و بدین وسیله می‌خواهد برای فلسطینی‌ها که در آن زمان بر بنی‌اسرائیل حکومت می‌کردند، دامی بگستراند. | 4 |
His mother and father did not realize that Yahweh was arranging this. He was preparing a way for [Samson to defeat] the Philistines, who were ruling over Israel at that time.
| سامسون با پدر و مادرش به تمنه رفت. وقتی آنها از تاکستانهای تمنه عبور می‌کردند شیر جوانی بیرون پریده، به سامسون حمله کرد. | 5 |
So, as Samson was going down to Timnah, followed by his mother and father, a young lion attacked Samson near the vineyards close to Timnah.
| در همان لحظه روح خداوند بر او قرار گرفت و با اینکه سلاحی با خود نداشت، شیر را گرفته مثل یک بزغاله آن را درید! اما در این باره چیزی به پدر و مادر خود نگفت. | 6 |
Then Yahweh’s Spirit came upon Samson powerfully, with the result that he tore the lion apart with his hands. He did it [as easily] as if it were a young goat. But he did not tell his mother and father about it.
| وقتی سامسون به تمنه رسید با آن دختر صحبت کرد و او را پسندید. | 7 |
When they arrived in Timnah, Samson talked with the young woman, and he liked her very much. [And his father made arrangements for the wedding].
| بعد از مدتی، سامسون برای عروسی باز به تمنه رفت. او از جاده خارج شد تا نگاهی به لاشهٔ شیر بیفکند. چشمش به انبوهی از زنبور و مقداری عسل در داخل لاشه افتاد. | 8 |
Later, when Samson returned to Timnah for the wedding, he turned off the path to see the carcass of the lion. He discovered that [after other creatures had eaten all the flesh], a swarm of bees [had made a hive in the skeleton and] had made some honey.
| مقداری از آن عسل را با خود برداشت تا در بین راه بخورد. وقتی به پدر و مادرش رسید کمی از آن عسل را به آنها داد و ایشان نیز خوردند. اما سامسون به ایشان نگفت که آن عسل را از کجا آورده است. | 9 |
So he scooped some of the honey into his hands and ate some of it as he was walking along. He also gave some of it to his mother and father, but he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the skeleton of the lion, [because anyone dedicated to God was not to touch any corpse].
| در حالی که پدر سامسون تدارک ازدواج او را می‌دید، سامسون مطابق رسم جوانان آن زمان ضیافتی ترتیب داد و سی نفر از جوانان دهکده در آن شرکت کردند. | 10 |
As his father was making the final arrangements for the marriage, Samson gave a party [for the young men in that area]. That was the custom for men to do when they were about to be married.
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Thirty young man were invited to the party.
| سامسون به آنها گفت: «معمایی به شما می‌گویم. اگر در این هفت روزی که جشن داریم جواب معما را گفتید، من سی ردای کتانی و سی دست لباس به شما می‌دهم. | 12 |
Samson said to them, “Allow me to tell you a riddle. If you tel me the meaning of my riddle during these seven days of the celebration, I will give each of you a linen robe and an extra set of clothes.
| ولی اگر نتوانستید جواب بدهید، شما باید این لباسها را به من بدهید!» آنها گفتند: «بسیار خوب، معمای خود را بگو تا بشنویم.» | 13 |
But if you cannot tell me the meaning, you must each give me a linen robe and an extra set of clothes.” They replied, “All right. Tell us your riddle.”
| سامسون گفت: «از خورنده خوراک بیرون آمد و از زورآور شیرینی!» سه روز گذشت و ایشان نتوانستند جواب معما را پیدا کنند. | 14 |
So he said, “From the thing that eats came something to eat; out of something strong came something sweet.” But for three days they could not tell him the meaning of the riddle.
| روز چهارم همگی آنها نزد زن سامسون رفتند و به او گفتند: «جواب این معما را از شوهرت بپرس و به ما بگو و گرنه خانهٔ پدرت را آتش خواهیم زد و تو را نیز خواهیم سوزانید. آیا این مهمانی فقط برای لخت کردن ما بود؟» | 15 |
On the fourth day, they said to Samson’s bride, “Ask your husband to tell you the meaning of the riddle. If you do not do that, we will burn down your father’s house, with you inside it! Did you invite us here only to make us poor [by forcing us to buy a lot of clothes for your husband]?”
| پس زن سامسون پیش او رفته، گریه کرد و گفت: «تو مرا دوست نداری. تو از من متنفری؛ چون برای جوانان قوم من معمایی گفته‌ای، ولی جواب آن را به من نمی‌گویی.» سامسون گفت: «من آن را به پدر و مادرم نیز نگفته‌ام، چطور انتظار داری به تو بگویم!» | 16 |
So Samson’s wife came to him, crying, and said to him, “You do not really love me. You hate me! You have told a riddle to my friends, but you have not told me the meaning of the riddle!” He replied, “I have not told the meaning of the riddle even to my mother and father, so why should I tell it to you?”
| ولی او دست بردار نبود و هر روز گریه می‌کرد، تا اینکه سرانجام در روز هفتم مهمانی، سامسون جواب معما را به وی گفت. او نیز جواب را به جوانان قوم خود بازگفت. | 17 |
She continued to cry every time she was with him, all during the rest of the celebration. Finally, on the seventh day, because she continued to nag him, he told her the meaning of the riddle. Then she told it to the young men.
| پس در روز هفتم، پیش از غروب آفتاب آنها جواب معما را به سامسون چنین گفتند: «چه چیزی شیرینتر از عسل و زورآورتر از شیر می‌باشد؟» سامسون گفت: «اگر با ماده گاو من شخم نمی‌کردید، جواب معما را نمی‌یافتید!» | 18 |
So, before sunset on the seventh day, the young men came to Samson and said to him, “What/Nothing is sweeter than honey [RHQ]. What/Nothing is stronger than a lion [RHQ]!” Samson replied, “[You should not force a heifer to] plow a field [MET]. Similarly, if you had not forced my bride to ask me about the riddle [MET], you would not have known the answer to my riddle!”
| آنگاه روح خداوند بر سامسون قرار گرفت و او به شهر اشقلون رفته، سی نفر از اهالی آنجا را کشت و لباسهای آنها را برای سی جوانی که جواب معمایش را گفته بودند، آورد و خود از شدت عصبانیت به خانهٔ پدر خود بازگشت. | 19 |
Then Yahweh’s Spirit powerfully took control of Samson. He went down to [the coast at] Ashkelon [town], and killed 30 men. He took their clothes [and went back to Timnah] and gave them to the men who had told him the meaning of the riddle. But he was very angry about what had happened, so he went back home to live with his mother and father.
| زن سامسون نیز به جوانی که در عروسی آنها ساقدوش سامسون بود، به زنی داده شد. | 20 |
So (Samson’s wife was given/the bride’s father gave Samson’s wife) to the man who who had been Samson’s best man at the wedding, [but Samson did not know that].
