¹ Ja Kirjat-Jearimi mehed tulid ning viisid ära Issanda laeka ja tõid selle künkale Abinadabi kotta, ja nad pühitsesid tema poja Eleasari Issanda laegast hoidma.

² Sellest päevast, kui laegas jäi Kirjat-Jearimi, möödus palju aega, möödus kakskümmend aastat; ja kogu Iisraeli sugu ohkas Issanda järel käies.

³ Aga Saamuel rääkis kogu Iisraeli soole, öeldes: 'Kui te kõigest südamest tahate pöörduda Issanda poole, siis kõrvaldage oma keskelt võõrad jumalad ja astarted, valmistage oma südamed Issandale ja teenige üksnes teda, siis ta päästab teid vilistite käest!'

⁴ Siis Iisraeli lapsed kõrvaldasid baalid ja astarted ning teenisid üksnes Issandat.

⁵ Ja Saamuel ütles: 'Koguge terve Iisrael Mispasse, siis ma palun teie eest Issandat!'

⁶ Siis nad kogunesid Mispasse, ammutasid vett ja valasid Issanda ette, ja nad paastusid sel päeval; nad ütlesid seal: 'Me oleme Issanda vastu pattu teinud!' Ja Saamuel mõistis Mispas kohut Iisraeli lastele.

⁷ Aga kui vilistid kuulsid, et Iisraeli lapsed olid kogunenud Mispasse, siis tulid vilistite vürstid üles Iisraeli vastu; ja kui Iisraeli lapsed seda kuulsid, siis tundsid nad hirmu vilistite ees.

⁸ Ja Iisraeli lapsed ütlesid Saamuelile: 'Ära lakka kisendamast meie pärast Issanda, meie Jumala poole, et ta meid päästaks vilistite käest!'

⁹ Siis Saamuel võttis ühe piimatalle ja ohverdas selle täielikuks põletusohvriks Issandale; ja Saamuel kisendas Iisraeli pärast Issanda poole ning Issand vastas temale.

¹⁰ Ja kui Saamuel ohverdas põletusohvrit, lähenesid vilistid, et sõdida Iisraeli vastu; aga Issand müristas sel päeval valju mürinaga vilistite kohal ja viis nad segadusse; ja neid löödi maha Iisraeli ees.

¹¹ Ja Iisraeli mehed läksid Mispast välja ning ajasid vilisteid taga ja lõid nad kuni allapoole Beet-Kaari.

¹² Siis võttis Saamuel ühe kivi ning asetas Mispa ja Seeni vahele, pani sellele nimeks Eben-Eeser ja ütles: 'Siiani on Issand meid aidanud!'

¹³ Nõnda alistati vilistid ja nad ei tulnud enam Iisraeli maa-alale; ja Issanda käsi oli vilistite vastu kogu Saamueli eluaja.

¹⁴ Ja need linnad, mis vilistid olid Iisraelilt ära võtnud, said tagasi Iisraelile Ekronist kuni Gatini, nõndasamuti vabastas Iisrael ka nende maa-alad vilistite käest. Rahu oli ka Iisraeli ja emorlaste vahel.

¹⁵ Ja Saamuel mõistis Iisraelile kohut kogu oma eluaja.

¹⁶ Ta käis igal aastal ringi Peetelis, Gilgalis ja Mispas ja mõistis Iisraelile kohut kõigis neis paigus.

¹⁷ Siis ta tuli tagasi Raamasse, sest seal oli ta kodu ja seal ta mõistis Iisraelile kohut ja sinna ta ehitas altari Issandale.

¹ It happened after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

² Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

³ He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

⁴ The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.

⁵ They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.

⁶ Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.

⁷ He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"

⁸ They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."

⁹ The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,

¹⁰ and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and its clusters brought forth ripe grapes.

¹¹ Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand."

¹² Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.

¹³ Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer.

¹⁴ But remember me when it will be well with you, and please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.

¹⁵ For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon."

¹⁶ When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, "I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.

¹⁷ In the uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head."

¹⁸ Joseph answered, "This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.

¹⁹ Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you."

²⁰ It happened the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

²¹ He restored the chief cupbearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand;

²² but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.

²³ Yet the chief cupbearer didn't remember Joseph, but forgot him.