If thou shalt hear[ say] in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,

“在耶和华你神所赐你居住的各城中，你若听人说，有些匪类从你们中间的一座城出来勾引本城的居民，说：‘我们不如去侍奉你们素来所不认识的别神’；

“若你听见人说，在耶和华—你上帝所赐给你居住的城镇中的一座，

“若你听见人说，在耶和华—你神所赐给你居住的城镇中的一座，

“在你们的上帝耶和华将要赐给你们居住的各城中，如果你们听说某城里有恶人引诱城中的居民偏离正路，唆使他们去供奉你们不认识的神明，

“在耶和华你的神赐给你居住的一座城中，如果你听说

「在耶和華－你神所賜你居住的各城中，你若聽人說，有些匪類從你們中間的一座城出來勾引本城的居民，說：『我們不如去事奉你們素來所不認識的別神』；

「若你聽見人說，在耶和華－你上帝所賜給你居住的城鎮中的一座，

「若你聽見人說，在耶和華－你神所賜給你居住的城鎮中的一座，

「在你們的上帝耶和華將要賜給你們居住的各城中，如果你們聽說某城裡有惡人引誘城中的居民偏離正路，唆使他們去供奉你們不認識的神明，

“在耶和華你的神賜給你居住的一座城中，如果你聽說

『在永恆主你的上帝所賜給你居住的一個城中、你若聽說

爾上帝耶和華賜爾諸邑、俾爾居之、

爾上帝耶和華、錫爾眾邑、俾爾居處、浸假一邑之中有匪類、誘其居民、事素所未識之上帝、爾聞之、

主爾之天主所賜爾居之諸邑、爾若聞一邑中有匪類出、誘其邑之民曰、我儕莫若往事異邦之神、即爾素所未識之神、

If you hear it said about one of the towns the Lord your God is giving you to live in

The Lord your God is giving you towns to live in. But suppose you hear something bad about one of those towns.

“ If you hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you to dwell there,

“ When you begin living in the towns the Lord your God is giving you, you may hear

“ If you hear it said about one of your cities the LORD your God is giving you to live in,

“ If you hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you to live in, anyone saying that

“ If you hear someone in one of your cities, which the Lord your God gives you to dwell in, saying,

If thou shalt hear tell concerning one of thy cities, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to dwell there, saying,

“ If you hear it said about one of your cities the Lord your God is giving you to live in,

Suppose you should hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you as a place to live, that

If you hear about one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, that

And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.And when the children of Israel heard[ of it], the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one[ was] an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass[ is] this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the LORD?[ Is] the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it will be,[ seeing] ye rebel to day against the LORD, that tomorrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession[ be] unclean,[ then] pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD’S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God.Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of Israel,The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if[ it be] in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD,( save us not this day,)That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require[ it];And if we have not[ rather] done it for fear of[ this] thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD.Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:But[ that] it[ may be] a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD.Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should[ so] say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say[ again], Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it[ is] a witness between us and you.God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God that[ is] before his tabernacle.And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which[ were] with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD[ is] among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar[ Ed]: for it[ shall be] a witness between us that the LORD[ is] God.

Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.And the chief of all the people,[ even] of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.( Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell[ us], how was this wickedness?And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that[ belongeth] to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night,[ and] thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.Behold, ye[ are] all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any[ of us] go to his tent, neither will we any[ of us] turn into his house.But now this[ shall be] the thing which we will do to Gibeah;[ we will go up] by lot against it;And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness[ is] this that is done among you?Now therefore deliver[ us] the men, the children of Belial, which[ are] in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.Among all this people[ there were] seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair[ breadth], and not miss.And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these[ were] men of war.