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 hath spoken unto all Israel, beyond the Jordan, in the wilderness, in the plain over-against Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-Zahab;
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。──
eleven days' from Horeb, the way of mount Seir, unto 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。
And it cometh to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month hath Moses spoken unto the sons of Israel according to all that Jehovah hath commanded him concerning 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 his smiting Sihon king of the Amorite who is dwelling in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan who is dwelling in Ashtaroth in 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, hath Moses begun to explain 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，
'Jehovah our God hath spoken unto us in Horeb, saying, Enough to you — of dwelling in this mount;
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 ye and journey for you, and enter the mount of the Amorite, and unto all its neighbouring places, in the plain, in the hill-country, and in the low country, and in the south, and in the haven of the sea, the land of the Canaanite, and of Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Phrat;
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。」
see, I have set before you the land; go in and possess the land which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give 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 speak unto you at that time, saying, I am not 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。
Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and lo, ye [are] to-day as the stars of the heavens 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!
Jehovah, God of your fathers, is adding to you, as ye [are], a thousand times, and doth bless you as He hath 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 do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, 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。
Give for yourselves men, wise and intelligent, and known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads;
14 你們回答我說：「你建議的事很好。」
and ye answer me and say, Good [is] the thing which thou hast spoken — 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，
'And I take the heads of your tribes, men, wise and known, and I appoint them heads over you, princes of thousands, and princes of hundreds, and princes of fifties, and princes of tens, and authorities, for 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。
And I command your judges at that time, saying, Hearkening between your brethren — then ye have judged righteousness between a man, and his brother, and his sojourner;
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。
ye do not discern faces in judgment; as the little so the great ye do hear; ye are not afraid of the face of any, for the judgment is God's, and the thing which is too hard for you, ye bring near unto me, and I have heard it;
18 同時，凡你們當做的事，我都吩咐了你們。
and I command you, at that time, all the things which ye 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。
'And we journey from Horeb, and go [through] all that great and fearful wilderness which ye have seen — the way of the hill-country of the Amorite, as Jehovah our God hath commanded us, and we come in unto 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。
'And I say unto you, Ye have come in unto the hill-country of the Amorite, which Jehovah our God is giving 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。
see, Jehovah thy God hath set before thee the land; go up, possess, as Jehovah, God of thy fathers, hath spoken to thee; fear not, nor be affrighted.
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 ye come near unto me, all of you, and say, Let us send men before us, and they search for us the land, and they bring us back word [concerning] the way in which we go up into it, and the cities unto which we come in;
23 我就由你們中挑選了十二人，每支派一人；
and the thing is good in mine eyes, and I take of you twelve men, one man for 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 turn and go up to the hill-country, and come in unto the valley of Eshcol, and spy 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 take with their hand of the fruit of the land, and bring down unto us, and bring us back word, and say, Good is the land which Jehovah our God is giving to us.
26 但你們卻不肯上去，竟違背了上主你們天主的命令，
'And ye have not been willing to go up, and ye provoke the mouth of Jehovah 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。
and murmur in your tents, and say, In Jehovah's hating us He hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorite — 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 are we going up? our brethren have melted our heart, saying, A people greater and taller than we, cities great and fenced to heaven, and also sons of Anakim — we have seen there.
29 我遂對你們說：「不要畏懼，不要害怕。
'And I say unto you, Be not terrified, nor 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；
Jehovah your God, who is going before you — He doth fight for you, according to all that He hath done with 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 thou hast seen that Jehovah thy God hath borne thee as a man beareth his son, in all the way which ye have gone, till your coming in unto this place.
32 雖然如此，但你們仍不信賴上主你們的天主，
'And in this thing ye are not stedfast in Jehovah 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 is going before you in the way to search out to you a place for your encamping, in fire by night, to shew you in the way in which ye go, and in a cloud by day.
34 上主一聽見你們的怨聲，就發怒起誓說：「
'And Jehovah heareth the voice of your words, and is wroth, and sweareth, 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 of this evil generation doth see the good land which I have sworn 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。」
save Caleb son of Jephunneh — he doth see it, and to him I give the land on which he hath trodden, and to his sons, because that he hath been fully after Jehovah.
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 with me hath Jehovah been angry for your sake, saying, Also, thou dost not go in thither;
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 son of Nun, who is standing before thee, he goeth in thither; him strengthen thou; for he doth cause Israel to inherit.
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 your infants, of whom ye have said, For a prey they are, and your sons who have not known to-day good and evil, they go in thither, and to them I give it, and they possess it;
40 至於你們應轉向紅海出發，往曠野裏去。」
and ye, turn for yourselves, and journey toward the wilderness, the way of 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 ye answer and say unto me, We have sinned against Jehovah; we — we go up, and we have fought, according to all that which Jehovah our God hath commanded us; and ye gird on each his weapons of war, and ye are ready 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。」
and Jehovah saith unto me, Say to them, Ye do not go up, nor fight, for I am not in your midst, and ye are not smitten 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 speak unto you, and ye have not hearkened, and provoke the mouth of Jehovah, and act proudly, and go 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。
and the Amorite who is dwelling in that hill-country cometh out to meet you, and they pursue you as the bees do, and smite you in Seir — unto 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；
'And ye turn back and weep before Jehovah, and Jehovah hath not hearkened to your voice, nor hath he given ear unto you;
46 你們只得長期地停留在卡德士，停留得這樣長久。
and ye dwell in Kadesh many days, according to the days which ye had dwelt.
