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 on this side Jordan in the desert towards the west near the Red Sea, between Pharan Tophol, and Lobon, and Aulon, and the gold works.
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] a journey of eleven days from Choreb to mount Seir as far as Cades Barne.
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。
And it came to pass in the forties year, in the eleventh month, on the first [day] of the month, Moses spoke to all the children of Israel, according to all things which the Lord commanded him for 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 Seon king of the Amorites who lived in Esebon, and Og the king of Basan who lived in Astaroth and in Edrain;
5 梅瑟在約但河東岸摩阿布地方開始宣講這法律說：「
beyond 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 your God spoke to us in Choreb, saying, Let it suffice you to have lived [so long] in 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 you and depart and enter into the mountain of the Amorites, and [go] to all that dwell near about Araba, to the mountain and the plain and to the south, and the land of the Chananites near the sea, and Antilibanus, 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, [God] has delivered the land before you; go in and inherit the land, which I sware to your fathers, Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob, to give it to them and to their seed after them.
9 那時我對你們說過：我個人無法負擔你們。
And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I shall not be able by myself to bear you.
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 heaven 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!
The Lord God of your fathers add to you a thousand-fold more than you are, and bless you as he has spoken to you.
12 但我個人怎能承擔起你們的煩務、重任和訴訟的事!
How shall I alone be able to bear your labour, and your burden, and your gainsayings?
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 to yourselves wise and understanding and prudent men for your tribes, and I will set your leaders over you.
14 你們回答我說：「你建議的事很好。」
And you answered me and said, The thing which you have told us [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 of you wise and understanding and prudent men, and I set them to rule over you as rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, and officers to your judges.
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。
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [causes] between your brethren, and judge rightly between a man and [his] brother, and the stranger that is 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 have respect to persons in judgement, you shall judge small and great equally; you shall not shrink from before the person of a man, for the judgement is God's; and whatever matter shall be too hard for you, you shall bring it to me, and I will hear it.
18 同時，凡你們當做的事，我都吩咐了你們。
And I charged upon you at that time all the commands which you shall perform.
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。
And we departed from Choreb, and went through all that great wilderness and terrible, which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite, as the Lord our God charged us, and we came as far as Cades Barne.
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。
And I said to you, You have come as far as the mountain of the Amorite, which the Lord our God gives to you:
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 delivered to us the land before you: go up and inherit it as the Lord God of your fathers said to you; fear not, neither be afraid.
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。」
And you all came to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and let them go up to the land for us; and let them bring back to us a report of the way by which we shall go up, and of the cities into which we shall enter.
23 我就由你們中挑選了十二人，每支派一人；
And the saying pleased me: and I took of you twelve men, one man of a 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。
And they turned and went up to the mountain, and they came as far as the valley of the cluster, and surveyed it.
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。」
And they took in their hands of the fruit of the land, and brought it to you, and said, The land is good which the Lord our God gives 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 words of the Lord our 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。
And 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 hands 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。」
Whither do we go up? and your brethren drew away your heart, saying, [It is a] great nation and populous, and mightier than we; and [there are] cities great and walled up to heaven: moreover we saw there the sons of the giants.
29 我遂對你們說：「不要畏懼，不要害怕。
And I said to you, Fear not, neither be you 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 your face, he shall fight against them together with you effectually, according to all that he wrought for you in the land of Egypt;
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 this wilderness which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite; how the Lord your God will bear you as a nursling, as if any man should nurse his child, through all the way which you have gone 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，
And in this matter you believed not the Lord our 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 goes before you in the way to choose you a place, guiding you in fire by night, showing you the way by which you go, and a cloud by day.
34 上主一聽見你們的怨聲，就發怒起誓說：「
And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and being greatly provoked he sware, 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；
Not one of these men shall see this good land, which I sware to their 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 Chaleb the son of Jephonne, he shall see it; and to him I will give the land on which he went up, and to his sons, because he attended to the things of 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。
And the Lord was angry with me for your sake, saying, Neither shall you by any means enter therein.
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 Naue, who stands by you, he shall enter in there; do you strengthen 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。
And every young child who this day knows not good or evil, —they shall enter therein, and to them I will give it, and they shall inherit it.
40 至於你們應轉向紅海出發，往曠野裏去。」
And you turned and marched into the wilderness, in the way by 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。
And you answered and said, We have sinned before the Lord our God; we will go up and fight according to all that the Lord our God has commanded us: and having taken every one his weapons of war, and being gathered together, you went up to the mountain.
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。」
And the Lord said to me, Tell them, You shall not go up, neither shall you fight, for I am not with you; thus shall you not be destroyed 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。
And I spoke to you, and you did not listen to me; and you transgressed the commandment of the Lord; and you forced your way and went up into the mountain.
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。
And the Amorite who lived in that mountain came out to meet you, and pursued you as bees do, and wounded you from Seir to Herma.
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；
And you sat down and wept before the Lord our God, and the Lord listened not to your voice, neither did he take heed to you.
46 你們只得長期地停留在卡德士，停留得這樣長久。
And you lived in Cades many days, as many days as you lived [there].
