< داوران 17 >
در کوهستان افرایم مردی به نام میخا زندگی میکرد. | 1 |
In that time, there was a certain man, from mount Ephraim, named Micah.
روزی او به مادرش گفت: «آن هزار و صد مثقال نقرهای را که فکر میکردی از تو دزدیدهاند و من شنیدم که دزدش را نفرین میکردی، نزد من است، من آن را برداشتهام.» مادرش گفت: «چون تو اعتراف کردی، خداوند تو را برکت خواهد داد.» | 2 |
And he said to his mother, “The one thousand one hundred silver coins, which you had separated for yourself, and about which you had sworn in my hearing, behold, I have them, and they are with me.” And she answered him, “My son has been blessed by the Lord.”
پس میخا آن مقدار نقره را که دزدیده بود، به مادرش پس داد. مادرش گفت: «من این نقره را وقف خداوند مینمایم و از آن یک بت نقرهای برای تو تهیه میکنم تا این لعنت از تو دور شود.» | 3 |
Therefore, he restored them to his mother. And she said to him: “I have consecrated and vowed this silver to the Lord, so that my son would receive it from my hand, and would make a molten idol and a graven image. And now I deliver it to you.”
پس مادرش دویست مثقال از آن نقره را گرفته، پیش زرگر برد و دستور داد با آن بُتی بسازد. بت ساخته شد و در خانهٔ میخا گذاشته شد. میخا در خانهاش علاوه بر بتها، ایفود نیز داشت. او یکی از پسرانش را به کاهنی بتخانهٔ خود تعیین نمود. | 4 |
And when he restored these to his mother, she took two hundred of the silver coins, and she gave them to the silversmith, so that he might make from them a molten idol and a graven image. And it was in the house of Micah.
And he also separated in it a little shrine for the god. And he made an ephod and theraphim, that is, a priestly garment and idols. And he filled the hand of one of his sons, and he became his priest.
در آن زمان بنیاسرائیل پادشاهی نداشت و هر کس هر کاری را که دلش میخواست انجام میداد. | 6 |
In those days, there was no king in Israel. Instead, each one did what seemed right to himself.
یک روز جوانی از قبیلهٔ لاوی که اهل بیتلحم یهودا بود شهر خود را ترک گفت تا جای مناسبی برای زندگی پیدا کند. در طول سفر به خانهٔ میخا در کوهستان افرایم رسید. | 7 |
Also, there was another young man, from Bethlehem of Judah, one of his relatives. And he himself was a Levite, and he was living there.
Then, departing from the city of Bethlehem, he wished to sojourn wherever he would find it beneficial to himself. And when he had arrived at mount Ephraim, while making the journey, he also turned aside for a little while to the house of Micah.
میخا از او پرسید: «اهل کجا هستی؟» او گفت: «من از قبیلهٔ لاوی و اهل بیتلحم یهودا هستم و میخواهم جای مناسبی برای سکونت پیدا کنم.» | 9 |
And he was asked by him where he came from. And he responded: “I am a Levite from Bethlehem of Judah. And I am traveling so that I may live where I am able, if I perceive it to be useful to me.”
میخا گفت: «اگر بخواهی میتوانی پیش من بمانی و کاهن من باشی. سالیانه ده مثقال نقره، یک دست لباس و خوراک به تو خواهم داد.» آن لاوی جوان موافقت کرد و پیش او ماند. میخا او را چون یکی از پسرانش میدانست | 10 |
And Micah said: “Stay with me. And you shall be to me like a parent and a priest. And I will give to you, each year, ten silver coins, and a double-layered garment, and whatever provisions are necessary.”
He agreed, and he stayed with the man. And he was to him like one of his sons.
و وی را کاهن خود تعیین نمود و او در منزل میخا سکونت گزید. | 12 |
And Micah filled his hand, and he had the young man with him as his priest,
میخا گفت: «حال که از قبیلهٔ لاوی کاهنی برای خود دارم، میدانم که خداوند مرا برکت خواهد داد.» | 13 |
saying: “Now I know that God will be good to me, since I have a priest from the stock of the Levites.”