¹ Und Debora und Barak, der Sohn Abinoams, sangen an selbigem Tage und sprachen:

² Weil Führer führten in Israel, weil freiwillig sich stellte das Volk, preiset Jehova!

³ Höret, ihr Könige; horchet auf, ihr Fürsten! Ich will, ja, ich will Jehova singen und spielen Jehova, dem Gott Israels!

⁴ Jehova! Als du auszogest von Seir, als du einherschrittest vom Gefilde Edoms, da erzitterte die Erde; auch troffen die Himmel, auch troffen die Wolken von Wasser.

⁵ Die Berge erbebten vor Jehova, jener Sinai vor Jehova, dem Gott Israels.

⁶ In den Tagen Schamgars, des Sohnes Anaths, in den Tagen Jaels feierten die Pfade, und die Wanderer betretener Wege gingen krumme Pfade.

⁷ Es feierten die Landstädte in Israel, sie feierten, bis ich, Debora, aufstand, bis ich aufstand, eine Mutter in Israel.

⁸ Es erwählte neue Götter; da war Streit an den Toren! Ward wohl Schild und Lanze gesehen unter vierzigtausend in Israel?

⁹ Mein Herz gehört den Führern Israels, denen, die sich freiwillig stellten im Volke. Preiset Jehova!

¹⁰ Die ihr reitet auf weißroten Eselinnen, die ihr sitzet auf Teppichen, und die ihr wandelt auf dem Wege, singet!

¹¹ Fern von der Stimme der Bogenschützen, zwischen den Schöpfrinnen, dort sollen sie preisen die gerechten Taten Jehovas, die gerechten Taten an seinen Landstädten in Israel. Da zog das Volk Jehovas hinab zu den Toren.

¹² Wache auf, wache auf, Debora! Wache auf, wache auf, sprich ein Lied! Mache dich auf, Barak, und führe gefangen deine Gefangenen, Sohn Abinoams!

¹³ Da zog hinab ein Überrest der Edlen und des Volkes; Jehova zog zu mir herab unter den Helden.

¹⁴ Von Ephraim zogen hinab, deren Stammsitz unter Amalek ist; hinter dir her Benjamin, unter deinen Völkern; von Makir zogen hinab die Führer, und von Sebulon, die den Feldherrnstab halten.

¹⁵ Und die Fürsten in Issaschar waren mit Debora; und Issaschar gleich Barak; er wurde seinen Füßen nach ins Tal gesandt. An den Bächen Rubens waren große Beschlüsse des Herzens.

¹⁶ Warum bliebest du zwischen den Hürden, das Flöten bei den Herden zu hören? An den Bächen Rubens waren große Beratungen des Herzens.

¹⁷ Gilead ruhte jenseit des Jordan; und Dan, warum weilte er auf Schiffen? Aser blieb am Gestade des Meeres, und an seinen Buchten ruhte er.

¹⁸ Sebulon ist ein Volk, das seine Seele dem Tode preisgab, auch Naphtali auf den Höhen des Gefildes.

¹⁹ Könige kamen, sie stritten; da stritten die Könige Kanaans zu Taanak an den Wassern Megiddos: Beute an Silber trugen sie nicht davon.

²⁰ Vom Himmel her stritten, von ihren Bahnen aus stritten die Sterne mit Sisera.

²¹ Der Bach Kison riß sie hinweg, der Bach der Urzeit, der Bach Kison. Du, meine Seele, tratest die Starken nieder!

²² Da stampften die Hufe der Rosse vom Rennen, dem Rennen ihrer Gewaltigen.

²³ Fluchet Meros! spricht der Engel Jehovas, verfluchet seine Bewohner! Denn sie sind nicht Jehova zu Hilfe gekommen, Jehova zu Hilfe unter den Helden.

²⁴ Gesegnet vor Weibern sei Jael, das Weib Hebers, des Keniters, vor Weibern in Zelten Gesegnet!

²⁵ Wasser verlangte er, Milch gab sie; in einer Schale der Edlen reichte sie geronnene Milch.

²⁶ Ihre Hand streckte sie aus nach dem Pflocke und ihre Rechte nach dem Hammer der Arbeiter; und sie hämmerte auf Sisera, zerschmetterte sein Haupt und zerschlug und durchbohrte seine Schläfe.

²⁷ Zwischen ihren Füßen krümmte er sich, fiel, lag da; zwischen ihren Füßen krümmte er sich, fiel; da, wo er sich krümmte, fiel er überwältigt.

²⁸ Durchs Fenster schaute aus Siseras Mutter und rief ängstlich durch das Gitter: Warum zaudert sein Wagen zu kommen? Warum zögern die Tritte seiner Gespanne?

²⁹ Die Klugen unter ihren Edelfrauen antworten ihr, und sie selbst erwidert sich ihre Reden:

³⁰ Finden sie nicht, teilen sie nicht Beute? Ein Mädchen, zwei Mädchen auf den Kopf eines Mannes? Beute an bunten Gewändern für Sisera, Beute an buntgewirkten Gewändern; zwei buntgewirkte Gewänder für den Hals der Gefangenen. -

³¹ Also mögen umkommen alle deine Feinde, Jehova! Aber die ihn lieben, seien wie die Sonne aufgeht in ihrer Kraft! Und das Land hatte Ruhe vierzig Jahre.

¹ They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

² The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

³ and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

⁴ Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.

⁵ It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily."

⁶ Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At evening, then you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt;

⁷ and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of Yahweh; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?"

⁸ Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh."

⁹ Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, 'Come near before Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.'"

¹⁰ It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud.

¹¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

¹² "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, 'At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.'"

¹³ It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.

¹⁴ When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.

¹⁵ When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is it?" For they didn't know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat."

¹⁶ This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent."

¹⁷ The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.

¹⁸ When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.

¹⁹ Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning."

²⁰ Notwithstanding they didn't listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them.

²¹ They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.

²² It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

²³ He said to them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to Bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.'"

²⁴ They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it.

²⁵ Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. today you shall not find it in the field.

²⁶ Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none."

²⁷ It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.

²⁸ Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

²⁹ Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."

³⁰ So the people rested on the seventh day.

³¹ The house of Israel called its name Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.

³² Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, 'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.'"

³³ Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations."

³⁴ As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

³⁵ The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.

³⁶ Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.