Juízes 21

1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, "None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife." 2 The people came to Bethel and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely. 3 They said, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be one tribe lacking in Israel today?"

4 On the next day, the people rose early and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. 5 The children of Israel said, "Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to Yahweh?" For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, "He shall surely be put to death." 6 The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, "There is one tribe cut off from Israel today. 7 How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?" 8 They said, "What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah?" Behold, no one came from Jabesh Gilead to the camp to the assembly. 9 For when the people were counted, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there. 10 The congregation sent twelve thousand of the most valiant men there, and commanded them, saying, "Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones. 11 This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man." 12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

13 The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them. 14 Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead. There still weren’t enough for them. 15 The people grieved for Benjamin, because Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel. 16 Then the elders of the congregation said, "How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?" 17 They said, "There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel. 18 However, we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, ‘Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.’" 19 They said, "Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah." 20 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 out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. 22 It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them; otherwise you would now be guilty.’"

23 The children of Benjamin did so, and took wives for themselves according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them. 24 The children of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they each went out from there to his own inheritance. 25 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.

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.