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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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The Levite’s Concubine
1And it came to pass in those days, ⚓when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite staying in the remote mountains of Ephraim. He took for himself a concubine from ⚓Bethlehem in Judah.
2But his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there four whole months.
3Then her husband arose and went after her, to ⚓speak kindly to her and bring her back, having his servant and a couple of donkeys with him. So she brought him into her father’s house; and when the father of the young woman saw him, he was glad to meet him.
4Now his father-in-law, the young woman’s father, detained him; and he stayed with him three days. So they ate and drank and lodged there.
5Then it came to pass on the fourth day that they arose early in the morning, and he stood to depart; but the young woman’s father said to his son-in-law, ⚓“Refresh your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way.”
6So they sat down, and the two of them ate and drank together. Then the young woman’s father said to the man, “Please be content to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.”
7And when the man stood to depart, his father-in-law urged him; so he lodged there again.
8Then he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart, but the young woman’s father said, “Please refresh your heart.” So they delayed until afternoon; and both of them ate.
9And when the man stood to depart—he and his concubine and his servant—his father-in-law, the young woman’s father, said to him, “Look, the day is now drawing toward evening; please spend the night. See, the day is coming to an end; lodge here, that your heart may be merry. Tomorrow go your way early, so that you may get home.”
10However, the man was not willing to spend that night; so he rose and departed, and came opposite ⚓Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). With him were the two saddled donkeys; his concubine was also with him.
11They were near Jebus, and the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, “Come, please, and let us turn aside into this city ⚓of the Jebusites and lodge in it.”
12But his master said to him, “We will not turn aside here into a city of foreigners, who are not of the children of Israel; we will go on ⚓to Gibeah.”
13So he said to his servant, “Come, let us draw near to one of these places, and spend the night in Gibeah or in ⚓Ramah.”
14And they passed by and went their way; and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.
15They turned aside there to go in to lodge in Gibeah. And when he went in, he sat down in the open square of the city, for no one would ⚓take them into his house to spend the night.
16Just then an old man came in from ⚓his work in the field at evening, who also was from the mountains of Ephraim; he was staying in Gibeah, whereas the men of the place were Benjamites.
17And when he raised his eyes, he saw the traveler in the open square of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going, and where do you come from?”
18So he said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah toward the remote mountains of Ephraim; I am from there. I went to Bethlehem in Judah; now I am going to ⚓the house of the Lord. But there is no one who will take me into his house,
19although we have both straw and fodder for our donkeys, and bread and wine for myself, for your female servant, and for the young man who is with your servant; there is no lack of anything.”
20And the old man said, ⚓“Peace be with you! However, let all your needs be my responsibility; ⚓only do not spend the night in the open square.”
21⚓So he brought him into his house, and gave fodder to the donkeys. ⚓And they washed their feet, and ate and drank.
Gibeah’s Crime
22As they were ⚓enjoying themselves, suddenly ⚓certain men of the city, ⚓perverted men, surrounded the house and beat on the door. They spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, ⚓“Bring out the man who came to your house, that we may know him carnally!”
23But ⚓the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, “No, my brethren! I beg you, do not act so wickedly! Seeing this man has come into my house, ⚓do not commit this outrage.
24⚓Look, here is my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine; let me bring them out now. ⚓Humble them, and do with them as you please; but to this man do not do such a vile thing!”
25But the men would not heed him. So the man took his concubine and brought her out to them. And they ⚓knew her and abused her all night until morning; and when the day began to break, they let her go.
26Then the woman came as the day was dawning, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her master was, till it was light.
27When her master arose in the morning, and opened the doors of the house and went out to go his way, there was his concubine, fallen at the door of the house with her hands on the threshold.
28And he said to her, “Get up and let us be going.” But ⚓there was no answer. So the man lifted her onto the donkey; and the man got up and went to his place.
29When he entered his house he took a knife, laid hold of his concubine, and ⚓divided her into twelve pieces, limb by limb, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.
30And so it was that all who saw it said, “No such deed has been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up from the land of Egypt until this day. Consider it, ⚓confer, and speak up!”