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1 И бе кивот Господень на селе иноплеменников седмь месяц: и воскипе земля их мышами.
And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
2 И призваша иноплеменницы жерцев и волхвов и обаянников своих, глаголюще: что сотворим кивоту Господню? Скажите нам, како послем его на место его?
And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us with which we shall send it to his place.
3 И реша: аще отпущаете вы кивот завета Господа Бога Израилева, да не послете его тща, но отдающе отдадите Ему за муки (дары), и тогда исцелитеся, и умилостивится вам: еда ли не отступит рука Его от вас?
And they said, If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then you shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.
4 И глаголаша: что Ему за муки отдадим? И реша: по числу воевод и иноплеменничих пять седалищ златых и пять мышей златых, яко прегрешения в вас и в князех ваших и в людех:
Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden tumors, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
5 и сотворите подобие седалищ ваших и подобие мышей ваших, растлевающих землю, и воздадите славу Богу (Израилеву), яко да облегчит руку Свою от вас и от богов ваших и от земли вашея:
Why you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
6 и почто отягощаете сердца ваша, якоже отягчи Египет и фараон сердце свое? Не егда ли поругася им, отпусти их, и отидоша?
Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had worked wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
7 И ныне возмите и сотворите колесницу нову едину и две кравы первородившыя без телят, на нихже не бяше ярмо: и впрязите кравы в колесницу, а телята их возвратите вспять в дом:
Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milk cows, on which there has come no yoke, and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
8 и возмите кивот Господень, и возложите и на колесницу, и сосуды златыя отдадите Ему за муки, и положите в ковчежце от страны его: и отпустите его, да идет:
And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it on the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
9 и узрите, аще путем пределов своих пойдет в Вефсамис, той сотвори нам зло великое сие: аще же ни, то уразумеем, яко не рука его прикоснуся нас, но приключение сие бысть нам.
And see, if it goes up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.
10 И сотвориша иноплеменницы тако, и взяша две кравы первородившыя, и впрягоша я в колесницу, телята же их затвориша в доме:
And the men did so; and took two milk cows, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
11 и возложиша кивот Господень на колесницу, и ковчежец, и мышы златыя, и подобия седалищ своих:
And they laid the ark of the LORD on the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.
12 и управишася кравы на пути в путь Вефсамский, на пути имже идяху, и труждахуся, и не совращахуся на десно, ниже на шуе: и воеводы иноплеменничи идяху вслед его даже до предел Вефсамских.
And the cows took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Bethshemesh.
13 И иже в Вефсамисе жняху жатву пшеницы во юдоли: и возведоша очи свои, и видеша кивот Господень, и возвеселишася во сретение ему.
And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
14 И колесница вниде в село Осиево сущее в Вефсамисе, (и ста тамо, ) и поставиша тамо при нем камень велий: и иссекоша древеса колесничная, и кравы вознесоша на всесожжение Господу.
And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they split the wood of the cart, and offered the cows a burnt offering to the LORD.
15 Левити же вознесоша кивот Господень, и ковчежец иже с ним, и яже в нем сосуды златы, и положиша на камени велицем: мужие же Вефсамстии вознесоша всесожжения и пожроша жертву в той день Господу.
And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to the LORD.
16 И пять воевод иноплеменничи зряху, и возвратишася во Аккарон в день той.
And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
17 И сия седалища златая, яже воздаша иноплеменницы за муку Господу: Азотско едино, Газско едино, Аскалонско едино, Гефско едино, Аккаронско едино.
And these are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
18 И златыя мышы по числу всех градов иноплеменничих пяти воевод, от града утвержена и даже до веси ферезеовы и до камене великаго, на немже положиша кивот завета Господня, иже есть даже до сего дне, на селе Осии Вефсамиситянина.
And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even to the great stone of Abel, where on they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remains to this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
19 И не порадовашася сынове Иехониины в мужех Вефсамских, яко видеша кивот Господень: и уби в них пятьдесят тысящ и седмьдесят мужей. И плакашася людие, яко порази Господь людий язвою великою зело.
And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and three score and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
20 И реша мужие иже от Вефсамиса: кто возможет поити пред Господем Богом святым сим? И к кому взыдет кивот завета Господня от нас?
And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
21 И послаша послы к живущым в Кариафиариме, глаголюще: возвратиша иноплеменницы кивот Господень, снидите и вознесите его к себе.
And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come you down, and fetch it up to you.