Çölde Sayım 21

¹Çölde yaşayan Kenanlı Arad kralı, İsrail’in Atharein yolundan ilerlediğini işitince İsrail’e karşı savaş açtı ve onlardan bir grubu ganimet olarak tutsak alıp götürdü.

²Bunun üzerine İsrail Rab’be bir adak adayarak şöyle dedi: “Eğer bu halkı benim egemenliğime teslim edersen, onları ve kentlerini tamamen yok edip kutsal bir lanetle adayacağım.”

³Rab İsrail’in sesine kulak verdi ve Kenanlıları onların egemenliğine teslim etti; İsrail de onları ve kentlerini tamamen yok edip lanetledi. Bu yüzden o yerin adına Anathema dediler.

⁴Hor Dağı’ndan Kızıldeniz yoluna doğru hareket ederek Edom ülkesinin çevresinden dolandılar; yolda halkın cesareti kırıldı ve sabrı tükendi.

⁵Halk Tanrı’ya ve Musa’ya karşı konuşarak şöyle dedi: “Bizi çölde öldürmek için mi Mısır’dan çıkardın? Çünkü ne ekmek var ne de su; canımız ise bu besleyici değeri olmayan boş ekmekten tiksindi.”

⁶Bunun üzerine Rab halkın arasına ölüm saçan yılanlar gönderdi; yılanlar halkı ısırdı ve İsrailoğulları’ndan çok sayıda insan öldü.

⁷Halk Musa’ya gelip şöyle dedi: “Rab’be ve sana karşı konuşmakla günah işledik; Rab’be dua et de yılanı üzerimizden uzaklaştırsın.” Musa da halk için Rab’be dua etti.

⁸Rab Musa’ya şöyle dedi: “Kendine bir yılan yap ve onu bir işaret sancağının üzerine koy; öyle ki, bir yılan bir insanı ısırdığında, ısırılan her kim ona bakarsa yaşayacaktır.”

⁹Böylece Musa tunçtan bir yılan yaptı ve onu bir işaret sancağının üzerine dikti; bir yılan bir insanı ısırdığında, o kişi tunç yılana dikkatle bakınca yaşıyordu.

¹⁰İsrailoğulları yola çıkıp Obot’ta konakladılar.

¹¹Obot’tan göç edip Moab’ın karşısında, doğu tarafındaki çölde, öte yakada bulunan Akhalgai’de konakladılar.

¹²Oradan göç edip Zared Vadisi’nde konakladılar.

¹³Oradan da göç edip çöldeki Arnon’un öte yakasında, Amorluların sınırından uzanan bölgede konakladılar; çünkü Arnon, Moab ile Amorlular arasında Moab’ın sınırıdır.

¹⁴Bu yüzden Rab’bin Savaşları Kitabı’nda şöyle denir: “Rabbin savaşı Zoob’u ve Arnon vadilerini alevlendirdi,

¹⁵ve vadiler Er kentini yerleşime uygun kıldı ve Moab sınırlarına dayandı.”

¹⁶Oradan kuyuya geldiler; Rab’bin Musa’ya, “Halkı topla, onlara içecek su vereceğim” dediği kuyu buydu.

¹⁷O zaman İsrail kuyu için şu ezgiyi söyledi: “Kuyu için ezgiye başlayın!

¹⁸O kuyuyu ki önderler kazdı, ulusların kralları kendi krallıklarında, kendi egemenliklerinde oydular.” Sonra kuyudan Mantanayin’e geçtiler,

¹⁹Mantanayin’den Nahaliel’e, Nahaliel’den Bamot’a, Bamot’tan da Moab ovasında bulunan ve çöle bakan yontulmuş kayanın tepesindeki Yanen’e vardılar.

²⁰Musa, Amorluların kralı Sihon’a barışçıl sözlerle elçiler gönderip şöyle dedi:

²¹“Ülkenden geçip gidelim; yoldan ilerleyeceğiz, ne tarlalara ne de bağlara sapacağız.

²²Kuyularından su içmeyeceğiz; senin sınırlarından geçip gidene dek kral yolundan ilerleyeceğiz.”

²³Ancak Sihon, İsrail’in kendi sınırlarından geçmesine izin vermedi; Sihon bütün halkını topladı ve İsrail’le savaşmak üzere çöle çıktı; Yassa’ya gelip İsrail’le savaşa tutuştu.

²⁴İsrail onu kılıçtan geçirdi ve Arnon’dan Yabok’a, Ammonoğulları’na kadar onun topraklarını ele geçirdi; çünkü Yazer, Ammonoğulları’nın sınırıdır.

²⁵İsrail bütün bu kentleri aldı ve Amorluların bütün kentlerinde, Heşbon’da ve ona bağlı bütün yerleşim yerlerinde yaşadı.

²⁶Çünkü Heşbon, Amorluların kralı Sihon’un kentiydi; Sihon daha önce Moab kralıyla savaşmış ve Aroer’den Arnon’a kadar onun bütün topraklarını elinden almıştı.

²⁷Bu yüzden bilmece söyleyenler şöyle der: “Gelin Heşbon’a, Sihon’un kenti kurulsun ve onarılsın!

²⁸Çünkü Heşbon’dan bir ateş, Sihon’un kentinden bir alev çıktı; Moab’a kadar yiyip bitirdi ve Arnon’un dikili anıtlarını yuttu.

²⁹Vay haline, ey Moab! Mahvoldun, ey Kemoş halkı! Oğulları kaçıp kurtulmaya terk edildi, kızları ise Amorluların kralı Sihon’a tutsak oldu.

³⁰Onların soyu yok olacak, Heşbon’dan Dibon’a kadar; kadınlar Moab’a karşı ateşi daha da körükleyip yaktılar.”

³¹Böylece İsrail, Amorluların bütün kentlerine yerleşti.

³²Musa, Yazer’i gözetlemek için adamlar gönderdi; orayı ve köylerini ele geçirdiler ve orada yaşayan Amorluları kovdular.

³³Sonra dönüp Başan yoluna doğru çıktılar; Başan kralı Og, bütün halkıyla birlikte onlarla savaşmak üzere Edrei’ye karşılarına çıktı.

³⁴Rab Musa’ya şöyle dedi: “Ondan korkma; çünkü onu, bütün halkını ve topraklarını senin eline teslim ettim. Heşbon’da yaşayan Amorluların kralı Sihon’a ne yaptıysan, ona da aynısını yapacaksın.”

³⁵Böylece onu, oğullarını ve bütün halkını, arkalarında canlı tek bir kişi bile kalmayacak şekilde bozguna uğrattılar ve topraklarını miras olarak aldılar.

¹ΚΑΙ ἤκουσεν ὁ Χανανεὶς βασιλεὺς ᾿Αρὰδ ὁ κατοικῶν κατὰ τὴν ἔρημον, ὅτι ἦλθεν ᾿Ισραὴλ ὁδὸν ᾿Αθαρείν, καὶ ἐπολέμησε πρὸς ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ καταπροενόμευσεν ἐξ αὐτῶν αἰχμαλωσίαν.

²καὶ ηὔξατο ᾿Ισραὴλ εὐχὴν Κυρίῳ καὶ εἶπεν· ἐάν μοι παραδῷς τὸν λαὸν τοῦτον ὑποχείριον, ἀναθεματιῶ αὐτὸν καὶ τὰς πόλεις αὐτοῦ.

³καὶ εἰσήκουσε Κύριος τῆς φωνῆς ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ παρέδωκε τὸν Χανανεὶν ὑποχείριον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀνεθεμάτισεν αὐτὸν καὶ τὰς πόλεις αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἐπεκάλεσαν τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ τόπου ἐκείνου ᾿Ανάθεμα.

⁴Καὶ ἀπάραντες ἐξ ῍Ωρ τοῦ ὄρους ὁδὸν ἐπὶ θάλασσαν ἐρυθρὰν περιεκύκλωσαν γῆν ᾿Εδώμ· καὶ ὠλιγοψύχησεν ὁ λαὸς ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ.

⁵καὶ κατελάλει ὁ λαὸς πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν καὶ κατὰ Μωυσῆ λέγοντες· ἱνατί τοῦτο; ἐξήγαγες ἡμᾶς ἐξ Αἰγύπτου, ἀποκτεῖναι ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ; ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ἄρτος οὐδὲ ὕδωρ, ἡ δὲ ψυχὴ ἡμῶν προσώχθισεν ἐν τῷ ἄρτῳ τῷ διακένῳ τούτῳ.

⁶καὶ ἀπέστειλε Κύριος εἰς τὸν λαὸν τοὺς ὄφεις τοὺς θανατοῦντας, καὶ ἔδακνον τὸν λαόν, καὶ ἀπέθανε λαὸς πολὺς τῶν υἱῶν ᾿Ισραήλ.

⁷καὶ παραγενόμενος ὁ λαὸς πρὸς Μωυσῆν ἔλεγον· ὅτι ἡμάρτομεν, ὅτι κατελαλήσαμεν κατὰ τοῦ Κυρίου καὶ κατὰ σοῦ· εὖξαι οὖν πρὸς Κύριον, καὶ ἀφελέτω ἀφ’ ἡμῶν τὸν ὄφιν. καὶ ηὔξατο Μωυσῆς πρὸς Κύριον περὶ τοῦ λαοῦ.

⁸καὶ εἶπε Κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν· ποίησον σεαυτῷ ὄφιν καὶ θὲς αὐτὸν ἐπὶ σημείου, καὶ ἔσται ἐὰν δάκῃ ὄφις ἄνθρωπον, πᾶς ὁ δεδηγμένος ἰδὼν αὐτὸν ζήσεται.

⁹καὶ ἐποίησε Μωυσῆς ὄφιν χαλκοῦν καὶ ἔστησεν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ σημείου, καὶ ἐγένετο ὅταν ἔδακνεν ὄφις ἄνθρωπον, καὶ ἐπέβλεψεν ἐπὶ τὸν ὄφιν τὸν χαλκοῦν καὶ ἔζη.

¹⁰Καὶ ἀπῇραν οἱ υἱοὶ ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ παρενέβαλον ἐν ᾿Ωβώθ.

¹¹καὶ ἐξάραντες ἐξ ᾿Ωβώθ, καὶ παρενέβαλον ἐν ᾿Αχαλγαὶ ἐκ τοῦ πέραν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, ἥ ἐστι κατὰ πρόσωπον Μωάβ, κατ’ ἀνατολὰς ἡλίου.

¹²καὶ ἐκεῖθεν ἀπῇραν καὶ παρενέβαλον εἰς φάραγγα Ζαρέδ.

¹³καὶ ἐκεῖθεν ἀπάραντες παρενέβαλον εἰς τὸ πέραν ᾿Αρνῶν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, τὸ ἐξέχον ἀπὸ τῶν ὁρίων τῶν ᾿Αμορραίων· ἔστι γὰρ ᾿Αρνῶν ὅρια Μωὰβ ἀνὰ μέσον Μωὰβ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ ᾿Αμορραίου.

¹⁴διὰ τοῦτο λέγεται ἐν βιβλίῳ· πόλεμος τοῦ Κυρίου τὴν Ζωὸβ ἐφλόγιζε, καὶ τοὺς χειμάρρους ᾿Αρνῶν,

¹⁵καὶ τοὺς χειμάρρους κατέστησε κατοικίσαι ῎Ηρ, καὶ πρόσκειται τοῖς ὁρίοις Μωάβ.

¹⁶καὶ ἐκεῖθεν τὸ φρέαρ· τοῦτο τὸ φρέαρ, ὃ εἶπε Κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν· συνάγαγε τὸν λαόν, καὶ δώσω αὐτοῖς ὕδωρ πιεῖν.

¹⁷τότε ᾖσεν ᾿Ισραὴλ τὸ ᾆσμα τοῦτο ἐπὶ τοῦ φρέατος· ἐξάρχετε αὐτῷ· φρέαρ,

¹⁸ὤρυξαν αὐτὸ ἄρχοντες, ἐξελατόμησαν αὐτὸ βασιλεῖς ἐθνῶν ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ αὐτῶν, ἐν τῷ κυριεῦσαι αὐτῶν. καὶ ἀπὸ φρέατος εἰς Μανθαναείν·

¹⁹καὶ ἀπὸ Μανθαναεὶν εἰς Νααλιήλ· καὶ ἀπὸ Νααλιὴλ εἰς Βαμώθ· καὶ ἀπὸ Βαμὼθ εἰς ᾿Ιανήν, ἥ ἐστιν ἐν τῷ πεδίῳ Μωὰβ ἀπὸ κορυφῆς τοῦ λελαξευμένου τὸ βλέπον κατὰ πρόσωπον τῆς ἐρήμου.

²⁰Καὶ ἀπέστειλε Μωυσῆς πρέσβεις πρὸς Σηὼν βασιλέα ᾿Αμορραίων λόγοις εἰρηνικοῖς λέγων·

²¹παρελευσόμεθα διὰ τῆς γῆς σου· τῇ ὁδῷ πορευσόμεθα, οὐκ ἐκκλινοῦμεν οὔτε εἰς ἀγρὸν οὔτε εἰς ἀμπελῶνα,

²²οὐ πιόμεθα ὕδωρ ἐκ φρέατός σου· ὁδῷ βασιλικῇ πορευσόμεθα, ἕως παρέλθωμεν τὰ ὅριά σου.

²³καὶ οὐκ ἔδωκε Σηὼν τῷ ᾿Ισραὴλ παρελθεῖν διὰ τῶν ὁρίων αὐτοῦ, καὶ συνήγαγε Σηὼν πάντα τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐξῆλθε παρατάξασθαι τῷ ᾿Ισραὴλ εἰς τὴν ἔρημον καὶ ἦλθεν εἰς ᾿Ιασσὰ καὶ παρετάξατο τῷ ᾿Ισραήλ.

²⁴καὶ ἐπάταξεν αὐτὸν ᾿Ισραὴλ φόνῳ μαχαίρας καὶ κατεκυρίευσαν τῆς γῆς αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ ᾿Αρνῶν ἕως ᾿Ιαβόκ, ἕως υἱῶν ᾿Αμμάν· ὅτι ᾿Ιαζὴρ ὅρια υἱῶν ᾿Αμμάν ἐστι.

²⁵καὶ ἔλαβεν ᾿Ισραὴλ πάσας τὰς πόλεις ταύτας, καὶ κατῴκησεν ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐν πάσαις ταῖς πόλεσι τῶν ᾿Αμορραίων, ἐν ᾿Εσεβὼν καὶ ἐν πάσαις ταῖς συγκυρούσαις αὐτῇ.

²⁶ἔστι γὰρ ᾿Εσεβὼν πόλις Σηὼν τοῦ βασιλέως τῶν ᾿Αμορραίων, καὶ οὗτος ἐπολέμησε βασιλέα Μωὰβ τὸ πρότερον καὶ ἔλαβον πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ ᾿Αροὴρ ἕως ᾿Αρνῶν.

²⁷διὰ τοῦτο ἐροῦσιν οἱ αἰνιγματισταί· ἔλθετε εἰς ᾿Εσεβών, ἵνα οἰκοδομηθῇ καὶ κατασκευασθῇ πόλις Σηών.

²⁸ὅτι πῦρ ἐξῆλθεν ἐξ ᾿Εσεβών, φλὸξ ἐκ πόλεως Σηὼν καὶ κατέφαγεν ἕως Μωὰβ καὶ κατέπιε στήλας ᾿Αρνῶν.

²⁹οὐαί σοι, Μωάβ· ἀπώλου, λαὸς Χαμώς. ἀπεδόθησαν οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτῶν διασῴζεσθαι καὶ αἱ θυγατέρες αὐτῶν αἰχμάλωτοι τῷ βασιλεῖ τῶν ᾿Αμορραίων Σηών·

³⁰καὶ τὸ σπέρμα αὐτῶν ἀπολεῖται, ᾿Εσεβὼν ἕως Δαιβών, καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες ἔτι προσεξέκαυσαν πῦρ ἐπὶ Μωάβ.

³¹Κατώκησε δὲ ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐν πάσαις ταῖς πόλεσι τῶν ᾿Αμορραίων.

³²καὶ ἀπέστειλε Μωυσῆς κατασκέψασθαι τὴν ᾿Ιαζήρ, καὶ κατελάβοντο αὐτὴν καὶ τὰς κώμας αὐτῆς καὶ ἐξέβαλον τὸν ᾿Αμορραῖον τὸν κατοικοῦντα ἐκεῖ.

³³καὶ ἐπιστρέψαντες ἀνέβησαν ὁδὸν τὴν εἰς Βασάν· καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ῍Ωγ βασιλεὺς τῆς Βασὰν εἰς συνάντησιν αὐτοῖς καὶ πᾶς ὁ λαὸς αὐτοῦ εἰς πόλεμον εἰς ᾿Εδραείν.

³⁴καὶ εἶπε Κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν· μὴ φοβηθῇς αὐτόν, ὅτι εἰς τὰς χεῖράς σου παραδέδωκα αὐτὸν καὶ πάντα τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ποιήσεις αὐτῷ καθὼς ἐποίησας τῷ Σηὼν βασιλεῖ τῶν ᾿Αμορραίων, ὃς κατῴκει ἐν ᾿Εσεβών.

³⁵καὶ ἐπάταξεν αὐτὸν καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ καὶ πάντα τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ, ἕως τοῦ μὴ καταλιπεῖν αὐτοῦ ζωγρείαν· καὶ ἐκληρονόμησαν τὴν γῆν αὐτοῦ.

¹And Arad the Chananitish king who dwelt by the wilderness, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharin; and he made war on Israel, and carried off some of them captives.

²And Israel vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, If thou wilt deliver this people into my power, I will devote it and its cities [to thee].

³And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered the Chananite into his power; and [Israel] devoted him and his cities, and they called the name of that place Anathema.

⁴And having departed from mount Or by the way [leading] to the Red Sea, they compassed the land of Edom, and the people lost courage by the way.

⁵And the people spoke against God and against Moses, saying, Why is this? Hast thou brought us out of Egypt to slay us in the wilderness? for there is not bread nor water; and our soul loathes this light bread.

⁶And the Lord sent among the people deadly serpents, and they bit the people, and much people of the children of Israel died.

⁷And the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee: pray therefore to the Lord, and let him take away the serpent from us. And Moses prayed to the Lord for the people;

⁸and the Lord said to Moses, Make thee a serpent, and put it on a signal-[staff]; and it shall come to pass that whenever a serpent shall bite a man, every one [so] bitten that looks upon it shall live.

⁹And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a signal-[staff]: and it came to pass that whenever a serpent bit a man, and he looked on the brazen serpent, he lived.

¹⁰And the children of Israel departed, and encamped in Oboth.

¹¹And having departed from Oboth, they encamped in Achalgai, on the farther side in the wilderness, which is opposite Moab, toward the east.

¹²And thence they departed, and encamped in the valley of Zared.

¹³And they departed thence and encamped on the other side of Arnon in the wilderness, [the country] which extends from the coasts of the Amorites; for Arnon is the borders of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

¹⁴Therefore it is said in a book, A war of the Lord has set on fire Zoob, and the brooks of Arnon.

¹⁵And he has appointed brooks to cause Er to dwell [there]; and it lies near to the coasts of Moab.

¹⁶And thence [they came to] the well; this [is] the well of which the Lord said to Moses, Gather the people, and I will give them water to drink.

¹⁷Then Israel sang this song at the well, Begin [to sing] of the well;

¹⁸the princes digged it, the kings of the nations in their kingdom, in their lordship sank it in the rock: and [they went] from the well to Manthanain,

¹⁹and from Manthanain to Naaliel, and from Naaliel to Bamoth, and from Bamoth to Janen, which is in the plain of Moab [as seen] from the top of the quarried [rock] that looks toward the wilderness.

²⁰And Moses sent ambassadors to Seon king of the Amorites, with peaceable words, saying,

²¹We will pass through thy land, we will go by the road; we will not turn aside to the field or to the vineyard.

²²We will not drink water out of thy well; we will go by the king’s highway, until we have past thy boundaries.

²³And Seon did not allow Israel to pass through his borders, and Seon gathered all his people, and went out to set the battle in array against Israel into the wilderness; and he came to Jassa, and set the battle in array against Israel.

²⁴And Israel smote him with the slaughter of the sword, and they became possessors of his land, from Arnon to Jaboc, as far as the children of Amman, for Jazer is the borders of the children of Amman.

²⁵And Israel took all their cities, and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Esebon, and in all cities belonging to it.

²⁶For Esebon is the city of Seon king of the Amorites; and he before fought against the king of Moab, and they took all his land, from Aroer to Arnon.

²⁷Therefore say they who deal in dark speeches, Come to Esebon, that the city of Seon may be built and prepared.

²⁸For a fire has gone forth from Esebon, a flame from the city of Seon, and has consumed as far as Moab, and devoured the pillars of Arnon.

²⁹Woe to thee, Moab; thou art lost, thou people of Chamos: their sons are sold for preservation, and their daughters are captives to Seon king of the Amorites.

³⁰And their seed shall perish [from] Esebon to Daebon; and their women have yet farther kindled a fire against Moab.

³¹And Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites.

³²And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took it, and its villages, and cast out the Amorite that dwelt there.

³³And having returned, they went up the road that leads to Basan; and Og the king of Basan went forth to meet them, and all his people to war to Edrain.

³⁴And the Lord said to Moses, Fear him not; for I have delivered him and all his people, and all his land, into thy hands; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst to Seon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Esebon.

³⁵And he smote him and his sons, and all his people, until he left none of his to be taken alive; and they inherited his land.