申命記 1
1 以下是梅瑟在約但河東岸，對全以色列所講的話。──即在穌夫對面的阿辣巴曠野中，在帕蘭與托費耳、拉班、哈則洛特和狄匝哈布之間。
These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
2 從曷勒布經色依爾山，到卡得士巴爾乃亞，共有十一天的程路。──
It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.
3 在第四十年十一月一日，梅瑟將上主吩咐他的一切事，全訓示了以色色列子民。
In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them,
4 當時他已擊敗住在赫市朋的阿摩黎王息紅，和住在阿舍塔洛特和厄得勒的巴商王敖格。
after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.
5 梅瑟在約但河東岸摩阿布地方開始宣講這法律說：「
Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,
6 上主，我們的天主，在曷勒布曾訓示我們說：你們在這山下住得夠久了，
“The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have lived long enough at this mountain.
7 現在起身出發，到阿摩黎人的山地去，到那些住在阿辣巴荒野、山地、盆地、乃革布和沿海一帶地方去，到客納罕地，到黎巴嫩，直到大河，即幼發拉的河那一帶地方去。
Turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the places near there: in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the South, by the seashore, in the land of the Canaanites, and in Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
8 看，我已將此地擺在你們面前，你們應去佔領上主誓許給你們祖先亞巴郎、依撒格、雅各伯和他們後裔的地方。」
Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob—to give to them and to their offspring after them.’”
9 那時我對你們說過：我個人無法負擔你們。
I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not able to bear you myself alone.
10 上主你們的天主使你們的人數增加，看，你們今天多得有如天上的繁星。
The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.
11 惟願上主你們祖先的天主，再千百倍地增加你們的數目，照他所應許的，祝福你們!
May the LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!
12 但我個人怎能承擔起你們的煩務、重任和訴訟的事!
How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?
13 你們各支派應推舉一些有智慧，有見識，有經驗的人，我好立他們為你們的首領。
Take wise men of understanding who are respected among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”
14 你們回答我說：「你建議的事很好。」
You answered me, and said, “The thing which you have spoken is good to do.”
15 我遂選了你們各支派中有智慧有經驗的首領，立為你們的首領：即千夫長、百夫長、五十夫長、十人長，並為各支派立了監督，
So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and respected men, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
16 同時我也吩咐你們的判官說：你們要聽斷你們兄弟間的訴訟：無論是兄弟彼此訴訟，或與方外人訴訟，都應秉公審斷。
I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.
17 審案時不可偏袒，無論貴賤，同樣聽斷；任何人都不要怕，因為審判是天主的事。若遇有難斷的案件，該呈報給我，我來聽斷。
You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”
18 同時，凡你們當做的事，我都吩咐了你們。
I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.
19 我們由曷勒布起程，經過了你們所見的這整個遼闊的可怖的曠野：照上主我們的天主對我們的吩咐，我們向阿摩黎人山地進發，一直來到了卡德士巴爾乃亞。
We traveled from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.
20 那時我曾對你們說：你們已來到上主我們的天主即將賜給我們的阿摩黎人的山地。
I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God gives to us.
21 看上主你的天主已將這地擺在你面前，你要照上主你祖先的天主對你所許下的，去佔領這地；不要害怕，也不要膽怯。
Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the LORD the God of your fathers has spoken to you. Do not be afraid, neither be dismayed.”
22 你們眾人便來到我跟前說：「讓我們先派些人去，替我們偵探那地方，然後回報我們，我們當走那條路，當去那些城。」
You came near to me, everyone of you, and said, “Let’s send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.”
23 我就由你們中挑選了十二人，每支派一人；
The thing pleased me well. I took twelve of your men, one man for every tribe.
24 他們起身上了山地，一直到了厄市苛耳山谷，偵探了那地。
They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.
25 他們帶回來那地方的一些果品，並回報我們說：「上主我們的天主即將賜給我們的地方實在好。」
They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which the LORD our God gives to us.”
26 但你們卻不肯上去，竟違背了上主你們天主的命令，
Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God.
27 在你們的帳幕內抱怨說：「上主因為恨我們，才將我們由埃及地領出來，將我們交在阿摩黎人手中，消滅我們。
You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.
28 我們上那裏去呢﹖我們的兄弟又說了些使我們心灰意冷的話。他們說：我們在那裏看見了一個比我們又大又高的民族，他們的城邑廣大，城牆高聳摩天；我們在那裏還看見了阿納克人的子孫。」
Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’”
29 我遂對你們說：「不要畏懼，不要害怕。
Then I said to you, “Do not be terrified. Do not be afraid of them.
30 因為上主你們的天主，走在你們面前，他必為你們作戰，正如他在埃及在你們眼前，為你們所做的一樣；
The LORD your God, who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
31 並且在曠野裏，你也看出上主你的天主在你所走的長途中，攜帶你們，如同人攜帶自己的兒子一樣，直到你們來到這地方。
and in the wilderness where you have seen how that the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”
32 雖然如此，但你們仍不信賴上主你們的天主，
Yet in this thing you did not believe the LORD your God,
33 他一路原走在你們前面，替你們找安營的地方：夜間藉著火，日間藉著雲彩，指示你們應走的道路。
who went before you on the way, to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in: in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
34 上主一聽見你們的怨聲，就發怒起誓說：「
The LORD heard the voice of your words and was angry, and swore, saying,
35 這個邪惡世代的人，一個也不得見我誓許要賜給你們祖先的樂土；
“Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers,
36 只要耶孚乃的兒子加肋布除外，他必見到此地，並且我要將他踏過的地，賜給他和他的子孫，因為他一心隨從了上主。」
except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it. I will give the land that he has trodden on to him and to his children, because he has wholly followed the LORD.”
37 為了你們的緣故，上主也對我發怒說：「連你也不能進入那地。
Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in there.
38 那侍候你的農的兒子若蘇厄，要進入那地；你應壯他的膽，因為他要使以色列佔領那地作為產業。
Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
39 此外，你們所說要成為戰利品的幼童，至今尚不知好歹的子女，他們都要進入那地。我要將那地賜給他們作為產業。
Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.
40 至於你們應轉向紅海出發，往曠野裏去。」
But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”
41 你們回答我說：「我們得罪了上主；現在我們願全照上主我們的天主的吩咐上去交戰。」你們各人遂都武裝起來，輕率地上了山地。
Then you answered and said to me, “We have sinned against the LORD. We will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us.” Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country.
42 但上主對我說：「你告訴他們說：你們不要上去，不要作戰，因為我不在你們中間，免得被敵人擊敗。」
The LORD said to me, “Tell them, ‘Do not go up and do not fight; for I am not among you, lest you be struck before your enemies.’”
43 我立即告訴了你們，你們卻不聽，違背上主的命令，擅自上了山地。
So I spoke to you, and you did not listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country.
44 住在山地的阿摩黎人蜂擁而出，攻擊你們，追趕你們，由色依爾直殺到曷爾瑪。
The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you and chased you as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.
45 你們回來，在上主面前哭泣哀號，但上主未曾俯聽你們的哭聲，也未向你們側耳；
You returned and wept before the LORD, but the LORD did not listen to your voice, nor turn his ear to you.
46 你們只得長期地停留在卡德士，停留得這樣長久。
So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you remained.
