Mwet Nununku 21
1 Ke mwet Israel elos tuh toeni in acn Mizpah, elos orala sie wulela ku inmasrlolos nu sin LEUM GOD ac fahk, “Wangin sie sesr ac fah fuhlela mwet Benjamin in payuk sin acn natusr.”
Now the men of Israel had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, Not one of us will give his daughter as a wife to Benjamin.
2 Ke ma inge mwet Israel elos som nu Bethel ac muta we ye mutun God nwe ke ekela. Elos tung ac mwemelil ac fahk,
And the people came to Beth-el, waiting there till evening before God, and gave themselves up to bitter weeping.
3 “O LEUM GOD lun Israel, efu ku ma inge sikyak nu sesr— Efu ku sruf lal Benjamin in wanginla liki Israel?”
And they said, O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this fate come on Israel, that today one tribe has been cut off from Israel?
4 Toang in lutu tok ah mwet uh tukakek ac tulokunak sie loang we. Elos orek mwe kisa in akinsewowo ac mwe kisa firir.
Then on the day after, the people got up early and made an altar there, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings.
5 Ac elos siyuk, “Ya oasr sie inmasrlon sruf lun Israel inge tia wi tukeni ye mutun LEUM GOD in acn Mizpah?” (Elos tuh wulela mu kutena mwet su tia wi som nu ke toeni se orek Mizpah ah, ac fah anwuki.)
And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel, who did not come up to the Lord at the meeting of all Israel? For they had taken a great oath that whoever did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord was to be put to death.
6 Mwet Israel elos arulana pakomuta mwet wialos in sruf lal Benjamin, ac elos fahk, “Misenge, sie sin sruf lun Israel wanginla.
And the children of Israel were moved with pity for Benjamin their brother, saying, Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.
7 Mea kut ac oru tuh in oasr mutan kien mukul lula ke sruf lal Benjamin— Kut tuh wulela nu sin LEUM GOD lah kut ac fah tiana lela acn natusr in payuk selos.”
What are we to do about wives for those who are still living? For we have taken an oath by the Lord that we will not give them our daughters for wives.
8 Ke elos tuh suk lah oasr mwet Israel tia wi toeni se orek in acn Mizpah, elos konauk tuh wangin mwet Jabesh in acn Gilead wi som nu ke tukeni sac.
And they said, Which one of the tribes of Israel did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord? And it was seen that no one had come from Jabesh-gilead to the meeting.
9 Ke pacl in pang inen mwet mweun ma som ah, wangin mwet liki acn Jabesh topuk.
For when the people were numbered, not one man of the people of Jabesh-gilead was present.
10 Ke ma inge elos supwala singoul luo tausin mwet mweun na pulaik lalos nu Jabesh, ac fahk nu selos, “Fahla ac onela mwet nukewa in acn Jabesh, wi pac mutan ac tulik nukewa.
So they (the meeting) sent twelve thousand of the best fighting-men, and gave them orders, saying, Go and put the people of Jabesh-gilead to the sword without mercy, with their women and their little ones.
11 Uniya mukul nukewa oayapa mutan nukewa, sayen mutan virgin.”
And this is what you are to do: every male, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man, you are to put to the curse, but you are to keep safe the virgins. And they did so.
12 Na elos konauk mutan fusr virgin angfoko inmasrlon mwet Jabesh, na elos usalosla nu ke nien aktuktuk lalos in acn Shiloh in facl Canaan.
Now there were among the people of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had never had sex relations with a man; these they took to their tents in Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
13 Na mwet nukewa su toeni ah elos sapla nu sin mwet in sruf lal Benjamin su muta ke Eot Rimmon ac fahk, “Kut lungse tuh in oasr misla inmasrlosr.”
And all the meeting sent to the men of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, offering them peace.
14 Na mwet Benjamin elos foloko ke pacl sac, ac mwet Israel ke sruf ngia elos sang nu selos mutan ma elos tia onela sin mwet in acn Jabesh, tusruktu mutan inge puelac nu selos.
Then Benjamin came back; and they gave them the women whom they had kept from death among the women of Jabesh-gilead: but still there were not enough for them.
15 Mwet ah pakomuta sruf lal Benjamin mweyen LEUM GOD El kunausla akupasri lun sruf Israel.
And the people were moved with pity for Benjamin, because the Lord had let his wrath loose on the tribes of Israel.
16 Ouinge mwet matu inmasrlon toeni sac elos fahk, “Ke wangin mutan lula in sruf lal Benjamin, kut ac konauk fuka mutan kien mwet lula inge?
Then the responsible men of the meeting said, What are we to do about wives for the rest of them, seeing that the women of Benjamin are dead?
17 Tia wo in wanginla sie sin sruf lun Israel uh. Kut enenu na in suk oreya tuh in folokonak sruf lal Benjamin.
And they said, How is the rest of Benjamin to be given offspring so that one tribe of Israel may not be put out of existence,
18 Tusruktu kut tia ku in sang acn natusr in payuk selos mweyen kut tuh orala sie fulahk fahk mu ac fah mwe selnga nu sin mwet se su fuhlela tuh sie mukul Benjamin in payuk sin acn natusr.”
Seeing that we may not give them our daughters as wives? For the children of Israel had taken an oath, saying, Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.
19 Na elos esamak lah sie pacl in kufwa nu sin LEUM GOD in acn Shiloh apkuranme. (Acn se inge oasr eir in acn Bethel, ac epang in acn Lebonah, ac kutulap in innek soko inmasrlon Bethel ac Shechem.)
And they said, See, every year there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh, which is to the north of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway which goes up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
20 Ouinge elos fahk nu sin mwet Benjamin, “Kowos som ac wikwik in ima grape we
And they said to the men of Benjamin, Go into the vine-gardens, waiting there secretly,
21 ac soano. Ke tulik mutan in acn Shiloh ac ilme in wi onsrosro ke pacl in kufwa uh, na kowos ilme liki ima grape, ac kais sie suwos eis kais sie mutan tuh in ma kiowos ac usalos som nu in acn suwos an.
And watching; and if the daughters of Shiloh come out to take part in the dances, then come from the vine-gardens and take a wife for every one of you from among the daughters of Shiloh, and go back to the land of Benjamin.
22 Papa tumalos ac mukul wialos fin tuku lain kowos kac, na kowos fahk nu selos, ‘Nunak munas, fuhlelosme nu sesr, mweyen kut tia sruokolosi ke mweun sac tuh elos in ma kiasr. Na ke sripen tia kowos pa usalosme nu sesr uh, wangin mwatuwos ke wulela se ma kowos tuh orala.’”
And when their fathers or their brothers come and make trouble, you are to say to them, Give them to us as an act of grace; for we did not take them as wives for ourselves in war; and if you yourselves had given them to us you would have been responsible for the broken oath.
23 Pa inge ma mwet Benjamin elos oru: ke pacl se mutan inge onsrosro, kais sie mukul Benjamin elos sruokya kais sie mutan ac usalosla tuh in ma kialos. Ouinge elos folokla nu yen selos ac sifilpa musaeak siti srisrik in acn we ac muta we.
So the men of Benjamin did this, and got wives for themselves for every one of their number, taking them away by force from the dance; then they went back to their heritage, building up their towns and living in them.
24 In pacl sac pacna, mwet Israel nukewa saya elos folokelik, kais sie mwet nu in sruf lal ac sou lal ac acn sel sifacna.
Then the children of Israel went away from there, every man to his tribe and his family, every man went back to his heritage.
25 In pacl se inge wangin tokosra lun mwet Israel. Kais sie mwet sifacna oru ma el nunku mu suwohs ye mutal sifacna.
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.
