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Cũai Tỗp Lê-vi Cớp Lacuoi Cỗiq Án
1Tâng dỡi ki, cũai I-sarel tỡ yũah bữn puo. Bữn manoaq cũai tỗp Lê-vi ỡt tâng máh dũal cớp cóh cruang Ep-ra-im, la ntốq yơng tễ cũai ỡt. Án bữn muoi lám lacuoi cỗiq tễ vil Bet-lahem, cruang Yuda.
2Mansễm nâi sâng tỡ ễq noâng cayac án; chơ án chu loah pỡ dống mpoaq án tâng vil Bet-lahem tâng cruang Yuda bữn pỗn casâi.
3Cayac án pỡq coâiq cớp rakiauq dững án chu. Cayac án dững dếh manoaq cũai táq ranáq cớp bar lám aséh dễn. Chơ mansễm ki dững cayac án mut tâng clống dống. Toâq mpoaq án hữm partiam, mpoaq án roap chỗm o lứq.
4Yacũn án kiauq án yỗn ỡt pái tangái. Ngkíq án cớp lacuoi án ỡt nguaiq cha, cớp bếq pái sadâu.
5Toâq poang tarưp tangái pỗn, alới tamỡ tễ cláih thrũan ễ chu, ma yacũn án pai neq: “Cha dỗi dỡq voai, nŏ́q chu!”
6Chơ yacũn cớp partiam tacu chi-cha parnơi. Ma yacũn án pai neq: “Sadâu nâi bếq nâi voai, dŏq yỗn mứt pahỡm bũi o.”
7Samiang Lê-vi yuor tayứng ễ pỡq, ma yacũn án kiauq níc. Ngkíq án ỡt loah sadâu ki sĩa.
8Tâng tangái sỡng, noâng cláih, án ntôm ễ loŏh pỡq; ma yacũn án pai ễn neq: “Cha dỗi dỡq voai! Acoan yỗn paloŏng poang voai, nŏ́q pỡq.”
Ngkíq alới bar náq tacu chi-cha parnơi sĩa.
9Chơ, toâq cũai Lê-vi cớp lacuoi án, dếh cũai táq ranáq án, ntôm ễ pỡq, yacũn án pai ễn neq: “Nhêng tíh! Khoiq cheq sadâu chơ. Khân anhia ỡt loah, la o lứq, yuaq khoiq canám chơ. Anhia ỡt rlu cớp yỗn mứt pahỡm bũi óh; toâq poang tarưp ki chu tễ cláih, la têq.”
10Ma samiang ki tỡ ễq bếq noâng. Án yuor tayứng, chơ pỡq toau toâq dáng-radáng cớp vil Yê-but (tỡ la Yaru-salem). Án bữn bar lám aséh dễn bữn racu; dếh lacuoi cỗiq án pỡq tê.
11Tữ alới toâq cheq vil Yê-but, moat mandang khoiq ralóh chơ. Cũai táq ranáq án pai neq: “O tỡ, khân hái mut bếq tâng vil Yê-but sadâu nâi?”
12-13Cũai ncháu án ta‑ỡi: “Hái chỗi mut rlu tâng vil cũai tỡ cỡn cũai I-sarel. Hái cóq pỡq luat vil nâi; mahỗi toâq vil Ki-bĩah, chơ hái mut bếq tâng vil ki, tỡ la vil Rama.”
14Ngkíq tỗp alới pỡq luat vil Yê-but. Tữ alới toâq vil Ki-bĩah, la cutễq tỗp Ben-yamin, moat mandang khoiq pât chơ.
15Ngkíq alới veh mut bếq tâng vil Ki-bĩah sadâu ki. Alới tacu kễng nchŏh pứng dĩ vil, yuaq tỡ bữn noau mơi yỗn alới mut bếq tâng dống.
16Chơ bữn muoi noaq samiang thâu mbỡiq chu tễ sarái pỡq pha ntốq ki. Án la cũai tễ máh dũal cớp cóh cruang Ep-ra-im, ma sanua án ỡt tâng vil Ki-bĩah (máh cũai canŏ́h tâng vil nâi la cũai tỗp Ben-yamin).
17Toâq án hữm cũai liaq ỡt tacu tâng nchŏh pứng dĩ vil, chơ án blớh neq: “Anhia toâq tễ léq? Cớp ễ pỡq chu léq?”
18Cũai Lê-vi ta‑ỡi: “Tỗp hếq toâq tễ vil Bet-lahem, cruang Yuda. Hếq ntôm ễ píh chu loah pỡ dống hếq tâng máh dũal cớp cóh cruang Ep-ra-im yơng tễ ntốq cũai ỡt; ma tỡ bữn noau mơi yỗn hếq mut bếq tâng dống alới;
19tam hếq bữn soc yỗn aséh dễn cha, bữn bễng mi cớp blŏ́ng nho dũ yỗn hếq nguaiq cha.”
20Samiang thâu ki pai neq: “Sễq anhia ỡt ien khễ. Khân anhia ŏ́q ntrớu, cứq têq chuai anhia. Ma sễq anhia chỗi bếq bân nchŏh pứng dĩ vil nâi.”
21Chơ án dững tỗp alới pỡq chu dống án, cớp ĩt soc yỗn aséh dễn cha. Alới ariau ayững atĩ cớp cha dỗi pêl tabữ.
22Bo alới ỡt lơiq sar‑óh, bữn cũai khễng-lễng toâq lavíng nheq dống, cớp cucŏ́q ngoah toong. Tỗp alới arô chóq samiang thâu ki neq: “Mới dững aloŏh yáng tiah samiang ca bếq tâng dống mới! Hếq ễ parlưi án.”
23Samiang thâu ki loŏh yáng tiah cớp pai chóq alới neq: “Sễm ai ơi! Sễq anhia chỗi táq ngkíq! Chỗi táq ranáq tanghang chóq samiang nâi; án la tamoi cứq.
24Nâi con cumũr cứq! Án tỡ nai bếq cớp samiang aléq yũah, dếh lacuoi samiang ki hỡ. Cứq ễ dững aloŏh alới yỗn anhia sanua toâp, cớp chiau loâng yỗn anhia; anhia yoc ễ táq ntrớu chóq alới, la tam anhia. Ma sễq anhia chỗi táq sâuq chóq samiang nâi.”
25Ma cũai khễng-lễng ki tỡ bữn tamứng samiang thâu. Yuaq ngkíq, cũai Lê-vi dững aloŏh lacuoi cỗiq án yáng tiah, táh yỗn tỗp alới. Chơ tỗp alới parlưi mansễm ki nheq mu sadâu, toau poang tarưp.
26Tữ cheq ễ poang tarưp, mansễm nâi dớm bân ngoah toong dống samiang thâu, la dống cayac án bếq. Toâq poang án noâng ỡt ngki.
27Tữ poang tháng cayac án tamỡ cớp pớh ngoah toong ễ pỡq. Ma án hữm lacuoi cỗiq án ỡt choâng ngoah toong, bếq sayũang prong, atĩ tớt ngoah toong.
28Án pai neq: “Yuor, hái pỡq!”
Ma lacuoi án tỡ bữn ta‑ỡi ntrớu. Ngkíq án acŏ́q lacuoi án apơp tâng cloong aséh dễn, cớp píh chu pỡ vil viang án.
29Tữ án chu toâq dống, án cŏ́h tỗ lacuoi án cỡt muoi chít la bar dỗt. Chơ án asuoi yỗn muoi chít la bar tỗp cũai I-sarel.
30Dũ náq ca bữn hữm ranáq ki, alới pai neq: “Tễ dỡi mbŏ́q, tỡ nai hữm ranáq riang nâi. Noap tễ cũai I-sarel loŏh tễ cruang Ê-yip-tô la tỡ nai cỡt ranáq ĩn nâi. Ma sanua cóq hái chanchớm o! Nŏ́q tỗp hái ễ táq tễ ranáq nâi?”
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A Levite and His Concubine
1In those days Israel had no king.
Now a Levite who lived in a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim took a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
2But she was unfaithful to him. She left him and went back to her parents’ home in Bethlehem, Judah. After she had been there four months,
3her husband went to her to persuade her to return. He had with him his servant and two donkeys. She took him into her parents’ home, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.
4His father-in-law, the woman’s father, prevailed on him to stay; so he remained with him three days, eating and drinking, and sleeping there.
5On the fourth day they got up early and he prepared to leave, but the woman’s father said to his son-in-law, “Refresh yourself with something to eat; then you can go.”
6So the two of them sat down to eat and drink together. Afterward the woman’s father said, “Please stay tonight and enjoy yourself.”
7And when the man got up to go, his father-in-law persuaded him, so he stayed there that night.
8On the morning of the fifth day, when he rose to go, the woman’s father said, “Refresh yourself. Wait till afternoon!” So the two of them ate together.
9Then when the man, with his concubine and his servant, got up to leave, his father-in-law, the woman’s father, said, “Now look, it’s almost evening. Spend the night here; the day is nearly over. Stay and enjoy yourself. Early tomorrow morning you can get up and be on your way home.”
10But, unwilling to stay another night, the man left and went toward Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), with his two saddled donkeys and his concubine.
11When they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, “Come, let’s stop at this city of the Jebusites and spend the night.”
12His master replied, “No. We won’t go into any city whose people are not Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”
13He added, “Come, let’s try to reach Gibeah or Ramah and spend the night in one of those places.”
14So they went on, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin.
15There they stopped to spend the night. They went and sat in the city square, but no one took them in for the night.
16That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was living in Gibeah (the inhabitants of the place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the fields.
17When he looked and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?”
18He answered, “We are on our way from Bethlehem in Judah to a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim where I live. I have been to Bethlehem in Judah and now I am going to the house of the Lord.⚓ No one has taken me in for the night.
19We have both straw and fodder for our donkeys and bread and wine for ourselves your servants—me, the woman and the young man with us. We don’t need anything.”
20“You are welcome at my house,” the old man said. “Let me supply whatever you need. Only don’t spend the night in the square.”
21So he took him into his house and fed his donkeys. After they had washed their feet, they had something to eat and drink.
22While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him.”
23The owner of the house went outside and said to them, “No, my friends, don’t be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don’t do this outrageous thing.
24Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But as for this man, don’t do such an outrageous thing.”
25But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.
26At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door and lay there until daylight.
27When her master got up in the morning and opened the door of the house and stepped out to continue on his way, there lay his concubine, fallen in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
28He said to her, “Get up; let’s go.” But there was no answer. Then the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.
29When he reached home, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, limb by limb, into twelve parts and sent them into all the areas of Israel.
30Everyone who saw it was saying to one another, “Such a thing has never been seen or done, not since the day the Israelites came up out of Egypt. Just imagine! We must do something! So speak up!”