¹ Вотъ родословіе сыновъ Ноевыхъ Сима, Хама и Іафета. Послј потопа родились у нихъ дјти:

² Сыны Іафета: Гомеръ, Магогъ, Мадай, Іаванъ, Ѕувалъ, Мешехъ и Ѕирасъ.

³ Сыны Гомера: Аскеназъ, Рифатъ и Ѕогарма,

⁴ Сыны Іована: Елиса, Ѕарсисъ, Киттимъ и Доданимъ.

⁵ Отъ сихъ населились острова народовъ въ зсмляхъ ихъ, по различію языка ихъ, по племенамъ ихъ въ народј ихъ.

⁶ Сыны Хама: Хушъ, Минраимъ, Футъ и Ханаанъ.

⁷ Сыны Хуша: Сева, Хавила, Савта, Раама и Савтеха, а сыны Раамы Шева и Деданъ.

⁸ Хушъ родилъ также Нимрода: сей началъ быть силенъ на землј.

⁹ Онъ былъ силснъ звјроловствомъ предъ Іеговою; потому п говорится: силенъ звјроловствомъ, какъ Нимродъ предъ Іеговою.

¹⁰ Царство его въ началј составляли: Вавилонъ, Эрехъ, Аккадъ и Халне, въ землј Сеннааръ.

¹¹ Изъ сей земли вышелъ Ассуръ и построилъ Ниневію, Реховоѕиръ, Калахъ,

¹² и Ресенъ между Ниневію и Калахомъ, городъ великій.

¹³ Отъ Мицраима произошли Лудимъ, Анамимъ, Легавимъ, Нафтухимъ,

¹⁴ Патрусимъ, Каслухимъ, (откуда вышли Филистимляне), и Кафторимъ.

¹⁵ Отъ Ханаана родились: Сидонъ, первенецъ его, Хетъ,

¹⁶ Іевусей, Аморрей, Гергесей,

¹⁷ Евей, Аркей, Синей,

¹⁸ Арвадей, Цемарей и Емаѕей. Въ послјдствіи времени племена Ханаанскія разсјялись.

¹⁹ И простирался предјлъ Хананеевъ отъ Сидона къ Герару до Газы, отсюда къ Содому, Гомору, Адмј и Цевоиму до Лаши.

²⁰ Сіи суть сыны Хамовы, по племенамъ ихъ, по языкамъ ихъ въ земляхъ ихъ, въ народахъ ихъ.

²¹ Были дјти и у Сима, отца всјхъ сыновъ Еверовыхъ, старшаго брата Іафетова.

²² Сыны Сима: Еламъ, Ассуръ, Арфаксадъ, Лудъ и Арамъ.

²³ Сыны Арама: Уцъ, Хулъ, Геѕеръ и Машъ.

²⁴ Арфаксадъ родилъ Салу, Сала родилъ Евера.

²⁵ У Евера родились два сына: имя одному Фалекъ, потому что во дни его земля раздјлена; имя брату его Іоктанъ.

²⁶ Отъ Іоктана родились: Алмодадъ, Шалефъ, Хоцармоветъ, Іерахъ,

²⁷ Гадорамъ, Узалъ, Дикла,

²⁸ Овалъ, Авимаилъ, Шева,

²⁹ Офиръ, Хавила и Іовавъ. Всј сіи былн дјти Іоктана.

³⁰ Поселенія ихъ простираются отъ Меши до Сефара, горы восточной.

³¹ Сіи суть сыны Симовы по племенамъ ихъ, по различію языковъ ихъ, вь земляхъ ихъ, по народамъ ихъ.

³² Вотъ племена сыновъ Ноевыхъ, въ родословномъ ихъ порядкј, въ народахъ ихъ. Отъ сихъ распространились на землј народы послј потопа.

¹ The ark of Yahweh was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

² The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, "What shall we do with the ark of Yahweh? Show us with which we shall send it to its place."

³ They said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don't send it empty; but by all means return him a trespass offering: then you shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you."

⁴ Then they said, "What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him?" They said, "Five golden tumors, and five golden mice, [according to] the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.

⁵ Therefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel: perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.

⁶ Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn't they let the people go, and they departed?

⁷ "Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart, and two milk cows, on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them;

⁸ and take the ark of Yahweh, and lay it on the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by its side; and send it away, that it may go.

⁹ Behold; if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it was a chance that happened to us."

¹⁰ The men did so, and took two milk cows, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home;

¹¹ and they put the ark of Yahweh on the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.

¹² The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.

¹³ They of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.

¹⁴ The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they split the wood of the cart, and offered up the cows for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

¹⁵ The Levites took down the ark of Yahweh, and the coffer that was with it, in which the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to Yahweh.

¹⁶ When the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.

¹⁷ These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

¹⁸ and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages, even to the great stone, whereon they set down the ark of Yahweh, [which stone remains] to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.

¹⁹ He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Yahweh, he struck of the people fifty thousand seventy men; and the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.

²⁰ The men of Beth Shemesh said, "Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? To whom shall he go up from us?"

²¹ They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, "The Philistines have brought back the ark of Yahweh; come down, and bring it up to yourselves."