Juízes 21

He Wāhine mā ngā Tāne o Pineamine

1 Nā, kua puaki noa ake te oati a ngā tāngata o Īharaira i Mihipa, i mea rātou: "Kaua tētahi tangata o tātou e hoatu i tāna tamāhine hei wahine mā Pineamine."

2 Nā, ka haere te iwi ki Pētēre, ā, noho ana i reira i te aroaro o te Atua ā ahiahi noa; nā, rahi noa atu ō rātou reo, he nui te tangi. 3 I mea hoki rātou, "Nā te aha, e Ihowā, e te Atua o Īharaira, i puta ake ai tēnei i roto i a Īharaira; i ngaro ai tētahi iwi i tēnei rā i roto i a Īharaira?"

4 Nā, i te ata ka maranga wawe te iwi, ā, hangā ana he āta e rātou, ā, whakaekea ana he tahunga tinana, he whakahere mō te pai.

5 Nā, ka mea ngā tama a Īharaira, "Ko wai o ngā iwi katoa o Īharaira kāhore i tae mai i roto i te whakaminenga ki a Ihowā?" Kua takoto hoki he oati nui mō te tangata e kore e haere ki a Ihowā ki Mihipa; i mea rātou, "Ka whakamatea rawatia."

6 Ā, kōingo tonu ngā tama a Īharaira ki tō rātou teina, ki a Pineamine; i mea, "Kua hautopea atu tētahi iwi i tēnei rā i roto i a Īharaira. 7 Me aha tātou ki ētahi wāhine mā ngā mea o rātou i mahue; kua oatitia hoki a Ihowā e tātou e kore ā tātou tamāhine e hoatu hei wāhine mā rātou?" 8 Nā, ka mea anō rātou, "Ko tēhea o ngā iwi o Īharaira kāhore nei i tae mai ki a Ihowā ki Mihipa?" Nā, kāhore tētahi tangata o Iapehe Kireara i haere ki te puni ki te whakaminenga. 9 I taua hoki te iwi, ā, kāhore tētahi tangata i reira o ngā tāngata o Iapehe Kireara.

10 Nā, ka tono te huihui i ētahi tāngata ki reira, kotahi tekau mā rua mano, he hunga toa, ā, ka whakahau i a rātou, ka mea, "Tīkina patua ngā tāngata o Iapehe Kireara ki te mata o te hoari, me ngā wāhine me ngā tamariki. 11 Ā, ko tēnei tā koutou e mea ai, Ko ngā tāne katoa, me ngā wāhine katoa i takoto ki te tāne, me huna." 12 Ā, e whā rau ngā kōtiro i mau i a rātou i roto i ngā tāngata o Iapehe Kireara, he wāhina kāhore anō i mōhio noa, arā i takoto ki te tāne. Nā, kawea ana e rātou ki te puni ki Hiro, ki tērā i te whenua o Kanaana.

13 Kātahi ka unga tāngata te huihui katoa hei kōrero ki ngā tama a Pineamine i te kāmaka i Rimono, hei karanga ki a rātou, "Kua mau te rongo." 14 Nā, ka hoki a Pineamine i taua wā; ā, ka hoatu ki a rātou ngā wāhine i whakaorangia e rātou i roto i ngā wāhine o Iapehe Kireara; otiia kīhai anō i rato.

15 Nā, kōingo tonu te iwi ki a Pineamine, nō te mea kua wāhia e Ihowā ngā iwi o Īharaira. 16 Nā, ka mea ngā kaumātua o te huihui, "Me aha tātou ki ētahi wāhine mā ngā mea i mahue, kua hunā nei hoki ngā wāhine a Pineamine?" 17 I mea anō rātou, "Kia whai kāinga tupu ngā mōrehu o Pineamine, kei mōtī rawa tētahi iwi i roto i a Īharaira. 18 Otiia e kore e taea te hoatu e tātou ā tātou tamāhine hei wāhine mā rātou." Nō te mea kua oati ngā tama a Īharaira, kua mea: "Kia kangā te tangata e hoatu ana i te wahine ki a Pineamine." 19 Nā, ka mea rātou, "Nanā, he hākari tērā ki a Ihowā i Hiro, i tēnei tau, i tēnei tau, i te taha ki te raki o Pētēre, i te taha ki te rāwhiti o te huarahi e tika atu ana i Pētēre ki Hekeme, i te tonga o Repona."

20 Nā, ka whakahau atu rātou ki ngā tama a Pineamine, ka mea, "Haere ki ngā māra wāina whanga ai; 21 ā, e kite koutou. Nā, kua puta ngā tamāhine o Hiro ki te kanikani, nā, ka haere atu koutou i ngā māra wāina hopu i tāna wahine, i tāna wahine, i roto i ngā tamāhine o Hiro, ā, ka haere ki te whenua o Pineamine. 22 Ā, ka tae mai ō rātou mātua, ō rātou tungāne rānei, ki ā mātou whakawā ai, ko reira mātou mea ai ki a rātou, ‘Kia atawhai ki a mātou, arā ki a rātou; kīhai hoki i riro i a mātou he wahine mā tēnei, mā tēnei, o rātou i te mea e whawhai ana; ehara anō i te mea nā koutou i hoatu i tēnei wā, e hē ai koutou.’ "

23 Nā, pērā ana ngā tama a Pineamine, ā, tangohia ana e rātou ētahi wāhine i roto i te hunga i kanikani rite tonu ki a rātou te tokomaha, mea hopu nā rātou; ā, haere ana noho ana ki tō rātou kāinga tupu; kei te hanga i ō rātou pā, nohoia iho e rātou.

24 Nā, ka tūria atu i reira i taua wā ngā tama a Īharaira ki tōna iwi ki tōna iwi, ki tōna hapū, ki tōna hapū. Nā, haere ana rātou i reira ki tōna kāinga, ki tōna kāinga. 25 I aua rā kāhore o Īharaira kīngi; ko tā rātou i mea ai ko ngā mea i tika ki te titiro a tēnei, a tēnei.

1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife. 2 And the people came to Beth-el, and sat there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore. 3 And they said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel? 4 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings. 5 And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up in the assembly unto Jehovah? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up unto Jehovah to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death. 6 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day. 7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by Jehovah that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

8 And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up unto Jehovah to Mizpah? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly. 9 For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there. 10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones. 11 And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man. 12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

13 And the whole congregation sent and spake to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace unto them. 14 And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not. 15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

16 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin? 17 And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel. 18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin. 19 And they said, Behold, there is a feast of Jehovah from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah. 20 And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards, 21 and see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. 22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain unto us, that we will say unto them, Grant them graciously unto us, because we took not for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did ye give them unto them, else would ye now be guilty. 23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they carried off: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them. 24 And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.

25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.