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1耶和华的约柜在非利士人之地七个月。When the ark of the LORD had been in the land of the Philistines seven months,
2非利士人将祭司和占卜的聚了来，问他们说：“我们向耶和华的约柜应当怎样行？请指示我们用何法将约柜送回原处。”the Philistines summoned the priests and diviners, saying, “What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us how to send it back to its place.”
3他们说：“若要将以色列 神的约柜送回去，不可空空地送去，必要给他献，然后你们可得痊愈，并知道他的手为何不离开你们。”They replied, “If you return the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it away empty, but by all means return it to Him with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why His hand has not been lifted from you.”
4非利士人说：“应当用什么献为赔罪的礼物呢？”他们回答说：“当照非利士首领的数目，用五个金痔疮，五个金老鼠，因为在你们众人和你们首领的身上都是一样的灾。“What guilt offering should we send back to Him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold tumors and five gold rats,” they said, “according to the number of rulers of the Philistines, since the same plague has struck both you and your rulers.
5所以当制造你们痔疮的像和毁坏你们田地老鼠的像，并要归荣耀给以色列的 神，或者他向你们和你们的神，并你们的田地，把手放轻些。Make images of your tumors and of the rats that are ravaging the land. Give glory to the God of Israel, and perhaps He will lift His hand from you and your gods and your land.
6你们为何硬着心像埃及人和法老一样呢？ 神在埃及人中间行奇事，埃及人岂不释放以色列人，他们就去了吗？Why harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened theirs? When He afflicted them, did they not send the people out so they could go on their way?
7现在你们应当造一辆新车，将两只未曾有乳的母牛套在车上，使牛犊回家去，离开母牛。Now, therefore, prepare one new cart with two milk cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.
8把耶和华的约柜放在车上，将所献赔罪的金物装在里，放在柜旁，将柜送去。Take the ark of the LORD, set it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending back to Him as a guilt offering. Then send the ark on its way,
9你们要看看：车若直行以色列的境界到伯·示麦去，这大灾就是耶和华降在我们身上的；若不然，便可以知道不是他的手击打我们，是我们偶然遇见的。”but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
10非利士人就这样行：将两只有乳的母牛套在车上，将牛犊关在家里，So the men did as instructed. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves.
11把耶和华的约柜和装金老鼠并金像的匣子都放在车上。Then they put the ark of the LORD on the cart, along with the chest containing the gold rats and the images of the tumors.
12牛直行大道，往伯·示麦去，一面走一面叫，不偏左右。非利士的首领跟在后面，直到伯·示麦的境界。And the cows headed straight up the road toward Beth-shemesh, staying on that one highway and lowing as they went, never straying to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed behind them to the border of Beth-shemesh.
13伯·示麦人正在平原收割麦子，举目看见约柜，就欢喜了。Now the people of Beth-shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they were overjoyed at the sight.
14车到了伯·示麦人约书亚的田间，就站住了。在那里有一块大磐石，他们把车劈了，将两只母牛献给耶和华为燔祭。The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there near a large rock. The people chopped up the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.
15利未人将耶和华的约柜和装金物的匣子拿下来，放在大磐石上。当日伯·示麦人将燔祭和平安祭献给耶和华。And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD and the chest containing the gold objects, and they placed them on the large rock. That day the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the LORD.
16非利士人的五个首领看见，当日就回以革伦去了。And when the five rulers of the Philistines saw this, they returned to Ekron that same day.
17非利士人献给耶和华作赔罪的金痔疮像，就是这些：一个是为亚实突，一个是为迦萨，一个是为亚实基伦，一个是为迦特，一个是为以革伦。As a guilt offering to the LORD, the Philistines had sent back one gold tumor for each city: Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.
18金老鼠的数目是照非利士五个首领的城邑，就是坚固的城邑和乡村，以及大磐石。这磐石是放耶和华约柜的，到今日还在伯·示麦人约书亚的田间。The number of gold rats also corresponded to the number of Philistine cities belonging to the five rulers—the fortified cities and their outlying villages. And the large rock on which they placed the ark of the LORD stands to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.
19耶和华因伯·示麦人他的约柜，就击杀了他们七十人；那时有五万人在那里（原文是七十人加五万人）。百姓因耶和华大大击杀他们，就哀哭了。But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.
20伯·示麦人说：“谁能在耶和华这圣洁的 神面前侍立呢？这约柜可以从我们这里送到谁那里去呢？”The men of Beth-shemesh asked, “Who can stand in the presence of the LORD, this holy God? To whom should the ark go up from here?”
21于是打发人去见基列·耶琳的居民，说：“非利士人将耶和华的约柜送回来了，你们下来将约柜接到你们那里去吧！”So they sent messengers to the people of Kiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the LORD. Come down and take it up with you.”