1 A nd the men of Israel have sworn in Mizpeh, saying, `None of us doth give his daughter to Benjamin for a wife.'

وَحَلَفَ بَنُو إسْرائِيلَ فِي المِصْفاةِ فَقالُوا: «لَنْ يُزَوِّجَ أحَدٌ مِنّا ابْنَتَهُ لِرَجُلٍ مِنْ بَنِي بَنْيامِيْنَ.»

2 A nd the people come in to Beth-El, and sit there till the evening before God, and lift up their voice, and weep -- a great weeping,

وَلَمّا وَصَلَ الشَّعبُ إلَى بَيتِ إيلَ، جَلَسُوا هُناكَ فِي حَضْرَةِ اللهِ. صَرَخُوا بِصَوْتٍ عالٍ وَبَكُوا بُكاءً مُرّاً.

3 a nd say, `Why, O Jehovah, God of Israel, hath this been in Israel -- to be lacking to-day, from Israel, one tribe?'

قالُوا: «يا اللهُ ، إلَهَ إسْرائِيلَ، لِماذا حَدَثَ هَذا، حَتَّى إنَّ قَبِيلَةً واحِدَةً مِنْ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ فُقِدَتْ؟»

4 A nd it cometh to pass on the morrow, that the people rise early, and build there an altar, and cause to ascend burnt-offerings and peace-offerings.

وفي اليومِ التّالي، قامَ الشَّعبُ باكِراً، وَبَنَوا مذْبَحاً هُناكَ. وقَدَّموا ذَبائِحَ صاعِدَةً وذبائِحَ سَلامٍ.

5 A nd the sons of Israel say, `Who he that hath not come up in the assembly out of all the tribes of Israel unto Jehovah?' for the great oath hath been concerning him who hath not come up unto Jehovah to Mizpeh, saying, `He is surely put to death.'

ثُمَّ قالَ بَنو إسْرائِيلَ: «مَنْ مِنْ قَبائِلَ إسْرائِيلَ لَمْ تَصْعَدْ إلَى الاجْتِماعِ فِي حَضرَةِ اللهِ ؟» فَقَدْ أقْسَمُوا قَسَماً عَظِيماً بِأنَّ كُلَّ مَنْ لَمْ يَصْعَدْ إلَى الاجْتِماعِ فِي حَضرَةِ اللهِ فِي المِصْفاةِ: «يَنْبَغِي أنْ يُقْتَلَ.»

6 A nd the sons of Israel repent concerning Benjamin their brother, and say, `There hath been to-day cut off one tribe from Israel,

لَكِنَّ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ أحَسُّوا بِالحُزْنِ عَلَى أقرِبائِهِمْ بَنِي بَنْيامِيْنَ وَقالُوا: «قُطِعَت قَبِيلَةٌ واحِدَةٌ اليَومَ مِنْ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ.

7 w hat do we do for them -- for those who are left -- for wives, and we -- we have sworn by Jehovah not to give to them of our daughters for wives?'

فَماذا نَعمَلُ مَعَ النّاجِينَ مِنْهُمْ فِي مَسْألَةِ الزَّوجاتِ؟ فَقَدْ أقْسَمْنا بِاللهِ أنْ لا نُزَوِّجَهُمْ مِنْ بَناتِنا.»

8 A nd they say, `Who is one out of the tribes of Israel who hath not come up unto Jehovah to Mizpeh?' and lo, none hath come in unto the camp from Jabesh-Gilead -- unto the assembly.

ثُمَّ قالُوا: «هَلْ هُناكَ قَبِيلَةٌ مِنْ قَبائِلِ إسْرائِيلَ لَمْ تَصْعَدْ لِلاجتِماعِ فِي حَضرَةِ اللهِ فِي المِصفاةِ؟» فَوَجَدُوا أنَّهُ لَمْ يَأتِ أحَدٌ إلَى المُخَيَّمِ لِلاجتِماعِ مِنْ يابِيشِ جِلْعادَ.

9 A nd the people numbered themselves, and lo, there is not there a man of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead.

فَعِندَما أجرُوا عَمَلِيَّةَ التَّفَقُّدِ لِمَعرِفَةِ الغائِبِينَ، لَمْ يَجِدُوا هُناكَ أحَداً مِنْ يابِيشِ جِلْعادَ.

10 A nd the company send there twelve thousand men of the sons of valour, and command them, saying, `Go -- and ye have smitten the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead by the mouth of the sword, even the women and the infants.

فَأرسَلَتِ الجَماعَةُ اثنَي عَشَرَ ألفَ جُندِيٍّ إلَى هُناكَ، وَأمَرُوهُمْ: «اذهَبُوا وَاقتُلُوا سُكّانَ يابِيشَ جِلْعادَ بِالسُّيُوفِ، مَعَ النِّساءِ وَالصِّغارِ.

11 A nd this the thing which ye do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, ye devote.'

وَهَذا هُوَ ما يَنْبَغِي أنْ تَفعَلُوهُ: اقتُلُوا كُلَّ ذَكَرٍ، وكُلَّ امْرأةٍ عاشَرَتْ رَجُلاً. أمّا العَذارَى فَحافِظُوا عَلَى حَياتِهِنَّ.»

12 A nd they find out of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women, virgins, who have not known man by the lying of a male, and they bring them in unto the camp at Shiloh, which in the land of Canaan.

فَوَجَدُوا بَينَ سُكّانِ يابِيشَ جِلْعادَ أربَعَ مِئَةِ شابَّةٍ عَذْراءَ لَمْ يُعاشِرْنَ أيَّ رَجُلٍ. فَأحضَرُوهُنَّ إلَى المُخَيَّمِ فِي شِيلُوهَ فِي أرْضِ كَنْعانَ.

13 A nd all the company send, and speak, unto the sons of Benjamin who in the rock Rimmon, and proclaim to them peace;

ثُمَّ أرسَلَتِ الجَماعَةُ كُلَّها رِسالَةً إلَى البَنْيامِيْنِيِّينَ الَّذِينَ عِنْدَ صَخرَةِ رِمُّونَ، وَصالَحُوهُمْ.

14 a nd Benjamin turneth back at that time, and they give to them the women whom they have kept alive of the women of Jabesh-Gilead, and they have not found for them so.

وَفِي ذَلِكَ اليَومِ، عادَ بَنُو بَنْيامِيْنَ، فَأعطُوهُمُ النِّساءَ النّاجِياتِ مِنْ نِساءِ يابِيشَ جِلْعادَ. لَكِنَّ عَدَدَ النِّساءِ لَمْ يَكُنْ كافِياً لَهُمْ.

15 A nd the people repented concerning Benjamin, for Jehovah had made a breach among the tribes of Israel.

فَأحَسَّ الشَّعبُ بِالحُزْنِ عَلَى بَنْيامِيْنَ لِأنَّ اللهَ قَدْ صَنَعَ شَرْخاً بَينَ قَبائِلِ إسْرائِيلَ.

16 A nd the elders of the company say, `What do we do to the remnant for wives -- for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin?'

وَقالَ شُيُوخُ الجَماعَةِ: «ماذا نَعمَلُ مَعَ الباقِينَ بِشَأْنِ الزَّوجاتِ، فَقَدْ قُضِيَ عَلَى النِّساءِ فِي قَبِيلَةِ بَنْيامِيْنَ؟»

17 A nd they say, `A possession of an escaped party to Benjamin, and a tribe is not blotted out from Israel;

فَقالُوا: «لِنُخَصِّصْ مِيراثاً لِلنّاجِينَ مِنْ بَنِي بَنْيامِيْنَ، حَتَّى لا تُمحَى قَبِيلَةٌ مِنْ قَبائِلِ إسْرائِيلَ.

18 a nd we -- we are not able to give to them wives out of our daughters, for the sons of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed he who is giving a wife to Benjamin.'

لَكِنْ لا يُمكِنُنا أنْ نُزَوِّجَهُمْ مِنْ بَناتِنا.» فَقَدْ سَبَقَ أنْ أقسَمَ بَنُو إسْرائِيلَ وَقألُوا: «مَلعُونٌ مَنْ يُزَوِّجُ ابنَتَهُ مِنْ بَنْيامِيْنِيٍّ.»

19 A nd they say, `Lo, a festival of Jehovah in Shiloh, from time to time, which on the north of Beth-El, at the rising of the sun, by the highway which is going up from Beth-El to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.'

فَقالُوا: «اسْمَعُوا، يُقامُ عِيدٌ سَنَوِيٌّ تَكرِيماً للهِ فِي شِيلُوهَ، إلَى الشِّمالِ مِنْ بَيتِ إيلَ، وَإلَى الشَّرْقِ مِنَ الطَّرِيقِ الرَّئِيسِيَّةِ الَّتِي تَصعَدُ مِنْ بَيتِ إيلَ إلَى شَكيمَ، وَإلَى الجَنُوبِ مِنْ لَبُونَةَ.»

20 A nd they command the sons of Benjamin, saying, `Go -- and ye have laid wait in the vineyards,

وَقالُوا لِلبَنْيامِيْنِيِّينَ: «اذهَبُوا وَاختَبِئُوا فِي الكُرُومِ.

21 a nd have seen, and lo, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances -- then ye have gone out from the vineyards, and caught for you each his wife out of the daughters of Shiloh, and gone to the land of Benjamin;

وَانْتَظِرُوا إلَى أنْ تَخرُجَ بَناتُ شِيلُوهَ لِلرَّقْصِ. ثُمَّ اخرُجُوا مِنَ الكُرُومِ. وَليُمسِكْ كُلُّ واحِدٍ مِنْكُمْ لَهُ زَوجَةً مِنْ بَناتِ شِيلُوهَ، وَاذهَبُوا بِهُنَّ إلَى أرْضِ بَنْيامِيْنَ.

22 a nd it hath been, when their fathers or their brethren come in to plead unto us, that we have said unto them, Favour us them, for we have not taken each his wife in battle, for ye -- ye have not given to them at this time ye are guilty.'

وَحِينَ يَأْتِي آباؤُهُنَّ لِكَي يَشْكُوا إلَينا، سَنَقُولُ لَهُمْ: ‹أشفِقُوا عَلَيهِمْ مِنْ أجلِنا، فَنَحنُ لَمْ نَأخُذْ زَوجاتٍ لِأحَدٍ مِنْهُمْ فِي الحَربِ، وَأنْتُمْ لَمْ تُعطُوهُمْ بَناتِكُمْ طَوْعاً، فَلَمْ تَكْسِرُوا قَسَمَكُمْ.›»

23 A nd the sons of Benjamin do so, and take women according to their number, out of the dancers whom they have taken violently away; and they go, and turn back unto their inheritance, and build the cities, and dwell in them.

فَفَعَلَ البَنْيامِيْنِيُّونَ هَكَذا. وَأخَذَ كُلُّ واحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ زَوجَةً مِنَ الرّاقِصاتِ اللَّواتِي خَطَفُوهُنَّ. ثُمَّ مَضَوْا وَعادُوا إلَى أرْضِهِمْ. وَأعادُوا بِناءَ مُدُنِهِمْ. وَاسْتَقَرُّوا فِيها.

24 A nd the sons of Israel go up and down thence at that time, each to his tribe, and to his family; and they go out thence each to his inheritance.

فَذَهَبَ بَنُو إسْرائِيلَ مِنْ هُناكَ فِي ذَلِكَ اليَومِ، كُلٌّ إلَى قَبِيلَتِهِ وَعَشِيرَتِهِ، وَخَرَجَ كُلُّ واحِدٍ مِنْ هُناكَ إلَى أرْضِهِ.

25 I n those days there is no king in Israel; each doth that which is right in his own eyes.

فِي ذَلِكَ الوَقتِ، لَمْ يَكُنْ هُناكَ مَلِكٌ عَلَى بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ. وَكانَ كُلُّ واحِدٍ يَعمَلُ ما يَراهُ مُناسِباً.