داوران 19
| در آن روزگار که قوم اسرائیل هنوز پادشاهی نداشت، مردی از قبیلهٔ لاوی در آن طرف کوهستان افرایم زندگی می‌کرد. او دختری از اهالی بیت‌لحم یهودا را به عقد خود درآورد. | 1 |
Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.
| اما آن دختر از او دلگیر شده، به خانهٔ پدرش در بیت‌لحم یهودا فرار کرد و مدت چهار ماه در آنجا ماند. | 2 |
And his servant-wife was angry with him, and went away from him to her father's house at Beth-lehem-judah, and was there for four months.
| سرانجام شوهرش برخاسته، به دنبال زنش رفت تا دوباره دل او را به دست آورد و او را به خانه بازگرداند. غلامی با دو الاغ همراه او بود. چون به آنجا رسید، زنش او را به خانهٔ خود برد و پدرزنش از دیدن وی بسیار شاد شد. | 3 |
Then her husband got up and went after her, with the purpose of talking kindly to her, and taking her back with him; he had with him his young man and two asses: and she took him into her father's house, and her father, when he saw him, came forward to him with joy.
| پدرزنش از او خواست که چند روزی با آنها بماند. پس او سه روز در خانهٔ پدرزنش ماند و اوقات خوشی را با هم گذراندند. | 4 |
And his father-in-law, the girl's father, kept him there for three days; and they had food and drink and took their rest there.
| روز چهارم، صبح زود برخاستند و خواستند حرکت کنند، اما پدرزنش اصرار نمود که بعد از خوردن صبحانه بروند. | 5 |
Now on the fourth day they got up early in the morning and he made ready to go away; but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, Take a little food to keep up your strength, and then go on your way.
| پس از صرف صبحانه پدرزن آن مرد گفت: «امروز هم پیش ما بمان تا با هم خوش بگذرانیم.» | 6 |
So seating themselves they had food and drink, the two of them together; and the girl's father said to the man, If it is your pleasure, take your rest here tonight, and let your heart be glad.
| آن مرد اول نپذیرفت، اما سرانجام بر اثر اصرار پدرزنش یک روز دیگر نزد آنها ماند. | 7 |
And the man got up to go away, but his father-in-law would not let him go, so he took his rest there again for the night.
| روز بعد، آنها دوباره صبح زود برخاستند تا بروند اما باز پدرزنش مانع شد و گفت: «خواهش می‌کنم چیزی بخورید و تا غروب بمانید.» پس ماندند و به خوردن و نوشیدن پرداختند. | 8 |
Then early on the morning of the fifth day he got up to go away; but the girl's father said, Keep up your strength; so the two of them had a meal, and the man and his woman and his servant did not go till after the middle of the day.
| در پایان همان روز که آن مرد و زنش و غلامش آمادهٔ حرکت می‌شدند، پدرزنش گفت: «اکنون دیر وقت است. بهتر است شب را هم با خوشی دور هم باشیم و فردا صبح زود برخاسته روانه شوید.» | 9 |
And when they got up to go away, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, Now evening is coming on, so do not go tonight; see, the day is almost gone; take your rest here and let your heart be glad, and tomorrow early, go on your way back to your house.
| ولی آن مرد این بار قبول نکرد و به اتفاق همراهانش به راه افتاد و آنها پیش از غروب به اورشلیم که یبوس هم نامیده می‌شد به همراه همسر و دو الاغ پالان شده رسیدند. | 10 |
But the man would not be kept there that night, and he got up and went away and came opposite to Jebus (which is Jerusalem); and he had with him the two asses, ready for travelling, and his woman.
| غلامش به وی گفت: «بهتر است امشب در همین شهر بمانیم.» | 11 |
When they got near Jebus the day was far gone; and the servant said to his master, Now let us go from our road into this town of the Jebusites and take our night's rest there.
| مرد جواب داد: «نه، ما نمی‌توانیم در این شهر غریب که یک اسرائیلی هم در آن یافت نمی‌شود بمانیم. بهتر است به جِبعه یا رامه برویم و شب را در آنجا به سر بریم.» | 12 |
But his master said to him, We will not go out of our way into a strange town, whose people are not of the children of Israel; but we will go on to Gibeah.
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And he said to his servant, Come, let us go on to one of these places, stopping for the night in Gibeah or Ramah.
| پس به راه خود ادامه دادند. غروب به جِبعه که در سرزمین قبیلهٔ بنیامین بود، وارد شدند، | 14 |
So they went on their way; and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the land of Benjamin.
| تا شب را در آنجا به سر برند. اما چون کسی آنها را به خانهٔ خود نبرد، در میدان شهر ماندند. | 15 |
And they went off the road there with the purpose of stopping for the night in Gibeah: and he went in, seating himself in the street of the town, for no one took them into his house for the night.
| در این موقع پیرمردی از کار خود در مزرعه‌اش به خانه برمی‌گشت (او از اهالی کوهستان افرایم بود، ولی در جِبعهٔ بنیامین زندگی می‌کرد). | 16 |
Now when it was evening they saw an old man coming back from his work in the fields; he was from the hill-country of Ephraim and was living in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.
| چون مسافران را در گوشهٔ میدان دید نزد ایشان رفت و پرسید: «از کجا آمده‌اید و به کجا می‌روید؟» | 17 |
And when he saw the traveller in the street of the town, the old man said, Where are you going? and where do you come from?
| مرد در پاسخ گفت: «از بیت‌لحم یهودا آمده‌ایم و به آن طرف کوهستان افرایم می‌رویم، زیرا خانه ما آنجا در نزدیکی شیلوه است و عازم خانه خود هستیم و هیچ‌کس ما را به خانه خود راه نمی‌دهد. | 18 |
And he said to him, We are on our way from Beth-lehem-judah to the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim: I came from there and went to Beth-lehem-judah: now I am on my way back to my house, but no man will take me into his house.
| با اینکه یونجه برای الاغها و خوراک و شراب کافی برای خودمان همراه داریم و نیازی به چیزی نداریم.» | 19 |
But we have dry grass and food for our asses, as well as bread and wine for me, and for the woman, and for the young man with us: we have no need of anything.
| پیرمرد گفت: «نگران نباشید. من شما را به خانهٔ خود می‌برم. شما نباید در میدان بمانید.» | 20 |
And the old man said, Peace be with you; let all your needs be my care; only do not take your rest in the street.
| پس آنها را با خود به خانه برد و علوفه به الاغهایشان داد. ایشان پس از شستن پاها و رفع خستگی شام خوردند. | 21 |
So he took them into his house and gave the asses food; and after washing their feet they took food and drink.
| وقتی آنها سرگرم گفتگو بودند ناگهان عده‌ای از مردان منحرف و شهوتران، خانهٔ پیرمرد را محاصره نمودند. آنها در حالی که در را به شدت می‌کوبیدند، فریاد می‌زدند: «ای پیرمرد، مردی را که در خانهٔ توست بیرون بیاور تا به او تجاوز کنیم.» | 22 |
While they were taking their pleasure at the meal, the good-for-nothing men of the town came round the house, giving blows on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, Send out that man who came to your house, so that we may take our pleasure with him.
| پیرمرد از خانه‌اش بیرون آمد و به آنها گفت: «برادران من، از شما تمنا می‌کنم چنین عمل زشتی را انجام ندهید، زیرا او میهمان من است. | 23 |
So the man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said, No, my brothers, do not this evil thing; this man has come into my house, and you are not to do him this wrong.
| دختر باکرهٔ خودم و زن او را نزد شما می‌آورم، هر چه که می‌خواهید با آنها بکنید، اما چنین عمل زشتی را با این مرد نکنید.» | 24 |
See, here is my daughter, a virgin, and his servant-wife: I will send them out for you to take them and do with them whatever you will. But do no such thing of shame to this man.
| ولی آنها به حرفهای پیرمرد گوش ندادند. پس مرد میهمان، زن خود را به آنها تسلیم نمود و آنها تمام شب به وی تجاوز کردند و صبح خیلی زود او را رها ساختند. | 25 |
But the men would not give ear to him: so the man took his woman and sent her out to them; and they took her by force, using her for their pleasure all night till the morning; and when dawn came they let her go.
| سپیده دم، آن زن به دم در خانه‌ای که شوهرش در آنجا بود آمد و همان جا بر زمین افتاد و تا روشن شدن هوا در آنجا ماند. | 26 |
Then at the dawn of day the woman came, and, falling down at the door of the man's house where her master was, was stretched there till it was light.
| صبح، وقتی که شوهرش در را گشود تا روانه شود، دید زنش کنار در خانه افتاده و دستهایش بر آستانهٔ در است. | 27 |
In the morning her master got up, and opening the door of the house went out to go on his way; and he saw his servant-wife stretched on the earth at the door of the house with her hands on the step.
| به او گفت: «برخیز تا برویم.» اما جوابی نشنید، چون زن مرده بود. پس جسد وی را روی الاغ خود انداخته عازم خانه‌اش شد. | 28 |
And he said to her, Get up and let us be going; but there was no answer; so he took her up and put her on the ass, and went on his way and came to his house.
| وقتی به منزل رسید، چاقویی برداشته، جسد زنش را به دوازده قطعه تقسیم کرد و هر قطعه را برای یکی از قبایل اسرائیل فرستاد. | 29 |
And when he had come to his house, he got his knife, and took the woman, cutting her up bone by bone into twelve parts, which he sent through all Israel.
| قوم اسرائیل چون این را دیدند خشمگین شده، گفتند: «از روزی که قوم ما از مصر بیرون آمد تاکنون چنین عملی دیده نشده است. ما نباید در این مورد خاموش بنشینیم.» | 30 |
And he gave orders to the men whom he sent, saying, This is what you are to say to all the men of Israel, Has ever an act like this been done from the day when the children of Israel came out of Egypt to this day? Give thought to it, turning it over in your minds, and give your opinion of it.
