出埃及記 33
1 上主向梅瑟說：「你和你從埃及國領出的百姓離開這裏，上那地方去；關於此地，我曾誓許給亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯說：我要將此地獻給你的後裔。
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt. Go to the land about which I made an oath to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, when I said, 'I will give it to your descendants.'
2 我要打發使者在你面前，我要趨逐客納罕人、阿摩黎人、赫特人、培黎齊人、希威人和耶步斯人。
I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
3 你往流奶流蜜之地時，我不與你同行，因為你是個執拗的百姓，免得我在路上消滅你。」
Go to that land, which is flowing with milk and honey, but I will not go up with you, because you are a stubborn people. I might destroy you on the way.”
4 百姓一聽這兇信，都表示悲痛，沒有人再穿戴裝飾品。
When the people heard these troubling words, they mourned, and no one put on any jewelry.
5 少主向梅瑟說：「你告訴以色列子民：你們是個執拗的百姓，我若與你同行，只一會兒，我必把你消滅。現在你把裝飾品卸下，看我要怎樣待你。」
Yahweh had said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, 'You are a stubborn people. If I went among you for even one moment, I would destroy you. So now, take off your jewelry so that I may decide what to do with you.'”
6 以色列子民從離開曷勒布山，就卸去了裝飾品。會幕
So the Israelites wore no jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.
7 梅瑟往往將那帳幕支搭在營外，離營遠些；他稱此帳幕為「會幕。」凡求問天主的，要到營外的帳幕那裏。
Moses took a tent and pitched it outside the camp, some distance from the camp. He called it the tent of meeting. Everyone who asked Yahweh for anything went out to the tent of meeting, outside the camp.
8 每當梅瑟往會幕那裏去的時候，眾百姓都起來，每人站在自己帳幕門口，觀望梅瑟直到他進入會幕。
When Moses would go out to the tent, all the people would stand up at their tent entrances and look at Moses until he had gone inside.
9 當梅瑟進入會幕的時候，雲柱降下，停在會幕門口，上主便向梅瑟談話。
Whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stand at the tent entrance, and Yahweh would speak with Moses.
10 眾百姓一見雲柱停止在會幕門口，百姓就起來，俯伏在自己的帳幕門口。
Whenever all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the entrance to the tent, they would get up and worship, every man at his own tent entrance.
11 上主同梅瑟面對面地談話，就如人同朋友談話一樣。梅瑟回營以後，他的侍從，一個年輕人，即農的兒子若蘇厄總不離開會幕。梅瑟求見天主的榮耀
Yahweh would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua son of Nun, a young man, would stay in the tent.
12 梅瑟對上主說：「看，你吩咐了我，叫我引領這百姓，但沒有告訴我，你派誰與我同去。你還說過：提名選了你，你在我眼中得了寵。
Moses said to Yahweh, “See, you have been saying to me, 'Take this people on their journey,' but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my eyes.'
13 如果我真在你眼中得寵，求你把你的道路指示給我，叫我認識你，好在你眼中得寵。也請記得這民族是你的百姓。」
Now if I have found favor in your eyes, show me your ways so that I may know you and continue to find favor in your eyes. Remember that this nation is your people.”
14 上主回答說：「我必親自去，使你獲得安所。」
Yahweh answered, “My own presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
15 梅瑟上主說：「你若不親自去，也別叫我們從這裏上去。
Moses said to him, “If your presence does not go with us, do not take us up from here.
16 人怎樣知道我和你的百姓在你眼中得寵，豈不是因你與我們同行，而我和你的百姓有別於地面上所以的人民﹖」
For otherwise, how will it be known that I have found favor in your eyes, I and your people? Will it not only be if you go with us so that I and your people are different from all the other peoples that are on the surface of the earth?”
17 上主回答說：「連你所求的事，我也要作，因為你在我眼中得了寵，我提名選了你。」
Yahweh said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have requested, for you have found favor in my eyes, and I know you by name.”
18 梅瑟又說：「求你把你的榮耀顯示給我。」
Moses said, “Please show me your glory.”
19 上主答說：「當我在你前呼喊「雅威」名號時，我要使我的一切美善在你面前經過。我要恩待的就恩待，要憐憫的就憐憫。」
Yahweh said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim my name 'Yahweh' before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”
20 又說：「我的面容你決不能看見，因為人見了我，就不能再活了。」
But Yahweh said, “You may not see my face, for no one can see me and live.”
21 上主又說：「看，靠近我有個地方，你可站在那塊磐石上。
Yahweh said, “See, here is a place by me; you will stand on this rock.
22 當我的榮耀經過時，我把你放在磐石縫裏，用我的手遮掩你，直到我過去。
While my glory passes by, I will put you in a crevice of the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by.
23 當我縮回我的手時，你將看見我的背後，但我的面容，卻無法看見。」
Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back, but my face will not be seen.”
