撒上6:1 耶和华的约柜在非利士人的地方有七个月之久。
撒上6:1 Now the ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines for seven months.
撒上6:2 非利士人把众祭司和占卜的都召了来，问他们：“我们应该怎样处理耶和华的约柜呢？请告诉我们，要怎样才能把它送回原处呢？”
撒上6:2 And the Philistines sent for the priests and those who were wise in secret arts, and said to them, What are we to do with the ark of the Lord? How are we to send it away to its place?
撒上6:3 他们回答：“你们把以色列 神的约柜送回去的时候，不可空空地把它送回去，却要偿还赔罪的礼物，这样，你们就可以得着医治，也可以知道，为什么他的手没有离开你们。”
撒上6:3 And they said, If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it without an offering, but send him a sin-offering with it: then you will have peace again, and it will be clear to you why the weight of his hand has not been lifted from you.
撒上6:4 非利士人问：“我们应当偿给他什么作赔罪的礼物呢？”他们回答：“要按照非利士人各城首领的数目，用五个金痔疮和五只金老鼠作赔罪的礼物，因为你们所有的人和你们各城的首领所遭遇的，都是一样的灾祸。
撒上6:4 Then they said, What sin-offering are we to send to him? And they said, Five gold images of the growths caused by your disease and five gold mice, one for every lord of the Philistines: for the same disease came on you and on your lords.
撒上6:5 所以你们要做痔疮的像和毁坏田地的老鼠的像，还要把荣耀归给以色列的 神。也许他会向你们、你们的神和你们的田地手下留情。
撒上6:5 So make images of the growths caused by your disease and of the mice which are damaging your land; and give glory to the God of Israel: it may be that the weight of his hand will be lifted from you and from your gods and from your land.
撒上6:6 你们为什么要硬着心，像以前埃及人和法老那样呢？ 神严严地对付他们以后，他们不是放走了以色列人，以色列人不是真的离开了吗？
撒上6:6 Why do you make your hearts hard, like the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians? When he had made sport of them, did they not let the people go, and they went away?
撒上6:7 现在你们要预备一辆新车和两头仍在乳养小牛、未曾负过轭的母牛，把牠们紧紧套在车上，把小牛从牠们身边带回棚里去。
撒上6:7 So now, take and make ready a new cart, and two cows which have never come under the yoke, and have the cows yoked to the cart, and take their young ones away from them:
撒上6:8 你们要把耶和华的约柜搬来，放在车上，把那些偿给他作赔罪礼物的金器放在盒子里，放置在约柜旁边，然后把它送上路，让它自己走。
撒上6:8 And put the ark of the Lord on the cart, and the gold images which you are sending as a sin-offering in a chest by its side; and send it away so that it may go.
撒上6:9 你们要留意看，如果它是走向自己的境界，往伯．示麦去，那么就是耶和华降这大灾给我们；如果不是这样，我们就知道，不是他的手攻击我们，我们遭遇的不过是偶然的事。”
撒上6:9 If it goes by the land of Israel to Beth-shemesh, then this great evil is his work; but if not, then we may be certain that the evil was not his doing, but was the working of chance.
撒上6:10 非利士人就照着去行。他们牵来两头还在乳养小牛的母牛，把牠们紧紧套在车上，把小牛关在棚里。
撒上6:10 And the men did so; they took two cows, yoking them to the cart and shutting up their young ones in their living-place:
撒上6:11 他们又把耶和华的约柜，装金老鼠和痔疮像的盒子，都放在车上。
撒上6:11 And they put the ark of the Lord on the cart and the chest with the gold images.
撒上6:12 牛向着伯．示麦的路上直奔，如同走在一条大路上，一面走一面叫，不偏左也不偏右。非利士各城的首领在后面跟着走，直到伯．示麦的边界。
撒上6:12 And the cows took the straight way, by the road to Beth-shemesh; they went by the highway, not turning to the right or to the left, and the sound of their voices was clear on the road; and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the edge of Beth-shemesh.
撒上6:13 那时，伯．示麦人正在谷中收割麦子，他们举目观看，看见了约柜，就欢欢喜喜迎见约柜。
撒上6:13 And the people of Beth-shemesh were cutting their grain in the valley, and lifting up their eyes they saw the ark and were full of joy when they saw it.
撒上6:14 牛车到了伯．示麦人约书亚的田间，就停在那里；那里有一块大石，他们把做那车的木料劈开，又把那两只母牛作燔祭献给耶和华。
撒上6:14 And the cart came into the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite, and came to a stop there by a great stone: and cutting up the wood of the cart they made a burned offering of the cows to the Lord.
撒上6:15 利未人把耶和华的约柜，与它一同送来装有金器的盒子，都搬了下来，放在大石上；那一天，伯．示麦人向耶和华献上燔祭，又献上其他的祭。
撒上6:15 Then the Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the chest in which were the gold images, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh made burned offerings and gave worship that day before the Lord.
撒上6:16 非利士人的五个首领看见了，当天就回以革伦去。
撒上6:16 And the five lords of the Philistines, having seen it, went back to Ekron the same day.
撒上6:17 这些金痔疮，就是非利士人偿给耶和华作赔罪的礼物的，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。
撒上6:17 Now these are the gold images which the Philistines sent as a sin-offering to the Lord; one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron;
撒上6:18 金老鼠的数目是按照非利士人五个首领所有的城市的数目，包括设防城和乡村。他们安放耶和华约柜的那块大石，直到现在还是在伯．示麦人约书亚的田间，是一个证物。
撒上6:18 And the gold mice, one for every town of the Philistines, the property of the five lords, walled towns as well as country places: and the great stone where they put the ark of the Lord is still in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite to this day.
撒上6:19 耶和华因为伯．示麦人偷窥他的约柜，就击杀他们；他击杀了七十人（“七十人”大多数抄本都作“五万零七十人”，少数抄本作“七十人”）。众人因为耶和华用大灾击杀他们，就哀哭起来。
撒上6:19 But the Lord sent destruction on seventy men of the people of Beth-shemesh for looking into the ark of the Lord; and great was the sorrow of the people for the destruction which the Lord had sent on them.
撒上6:20 伯．示麦人说：“在耶和华这位圣洁的 神面前，谁能站立得住呢？他可以从我们这里上到哪里去呢？”
撒上6:20 And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to keep his place before the Lord, this holy God? and to whom may he go from us?
撒上6:21 于是他们派遣使者到基列．耶琳的居民那里去，对他们说：“非利士人把耶和华的约柜送回来了。你们下来把它接到你们那里去吧。”
撒上6:21 And they sent men to the people living in Kiriath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have sent back the ark of the Lord; come and take it up to your country.