約書亞記 6
1 耶利哥城門緊緊關閉，無人出入，以防以色列子民。
Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.
2 上主對若蘇厄說：「看，我已將耶利哥和城中的王子，精銳的戰士，都交在你手中。
Yahweh said to Joshua, “Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.
3 你們所有的戰士要圍繞這城轉一遭，這樣轉六天。
All of your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.
4 七位司祭要帶著七個羊角號，在約櫃前面行走；但第七天，要圍繞城轉七遭，並且司祭要吹號角。
Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
5 當羊號角吹起長聲時，你們聽見了號角的響聲時，眾百姓應當高聲喊叫；那時城牆必要坍塌，百姓個個要往前直衝。」
It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the city wall will fall down flat, and the people shall go up, every man straight in front of him.”
6 農的兒子若蘇厄將司祭召來，對他們說：「你們應抬著約櫃，七位司祭帶著七個羊角號，走在上主約櫃的前面。」
Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before Yahweh’s ark.”
7 然後，又對百姓說：「你們要前去圍著城轉，先鋒隊要要走在上主約櫃的前面。」
They said to the people, “Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh’s ark.”
8 若蘇厄對百姓說完話以後，那七位帶著羊角號的司祭，走在上主前面，吹著號角，上主的約櫃跟在他們他們後面。
It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before Yahweh advanced and blew the trumpets, and the ark of Yahweh’s covenant followed them.
9 先鋒隊走在吹號角的司祭前面，後衛隨著約櫃，一面走，一面吹號角。
The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went.
10 若蘇厄向百姓下令說：「你們不可叫喊，不可叫人聽到你們的聲音，連一句話也不可出口，直到我給你們說：「叫喊」那天，你們才可叫喊。
Joshua commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.”
11 這樣上主的約櫃圍城轉了一遭後，眾人就回到中，在營中過夜。
So he caused Yahweh’s ark to go around the city, circling it once. Then they came into the camp, and stayed in the camp.
12 若蘇厄清早起來，司祭又抬起上主的約櫃，
Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up Yahweh’s ark.
13 七位司祭帶了七個羊號角，走在上主約櫃前面，一面走，一面吹號角；先鋒隊走在他們前面，後衛隊隨在上主約櫃後面，一面走，一面吹號角。
The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns in front of Yahweh’s ark went on continually, and blew the trumpets. The armed men went in front of them. The rear guard came after Yahweh’s ark. The trumpets sounded as they went.
14 第二天他們圍城轉了一遭後，又回到營中；他們這樣行了六天。
The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.
15 到了第七天，早晨黎明時，他們起來，照樣圍城轉了七遭。
On the seventh day, they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. On this day only they marched around the city seven times.
16 到了第七遭，他們吹起了號角，若蘇厄吩咐百姓說：「你們叫喊，因為上主已將這城交給了你們。
At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for Yahweh has given you the city!
17 這城和城中所有的一切，都應全完毀滅，歸於上主，只有妓女辣哈布和她家中的人口 可以生存，因為她隱藏了我們所派的使者。
The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
18 但你們要小心，不可私自取用這些應毀之物，免得你們貪心，竊取應毀滅之物，使以色列全營遭受詛咒，陷於不幸。
But as for you, only keep yourselves from what is devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so you would make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble it.
19 至於所有的金銀，以及銅鐵的器皿，都應奉獻給上主，歸入上主的府庫。」
But all the silver, gold, and vessels of bronze and iron are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh’s treasury.”
20 百姓於是叫喊，號聲四起；百姓一聽到了號角聲，放聲大叫，城牆便坍塌了；百姓遂上了城，個個向前直衝，攻陷了那城。
So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight in front of him, and they took the city.
21 將城中所有的一切，不詮男女老幼，牛羊驢馬，都用利劍殺盡。
They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
22 若蘇厄吩咐偵探這地的兩個人說：「你們到那妓女家裏去，照你們對她起的誓，將那女人和她所有的家人，從那裏領出來。」
Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house, and bring the woman and all that she has out from there, as you swore to her.”
23 那兩個年輕偵探就去將辣哈布和她的父母、兄弟和她所有的親戚，都領了出來，安置在以色列營外。
The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all of her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.
24 此後眾人將城和城中所有的一切都用火燒了；惟獨把金銀以及銅鐵的器皿，送入上主居所的府庫中。
They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh’s house.
25 至於妓女辣哈布與她父家，並她所有火家人，若蘇厄使之生存，直到今天，她還住在以色列人中，因為她隱藏了若蘇厄派去偵探耶利哥的兩個使者。
But Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lives in the middle of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
26 那時若蘇厄起誓說：「凡著手重建這耶利哥城的人，在上主面前是可咒罵的。他奠基時必喪失長子，安門時必喪失幼兒。」
Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed is the man before Yahweh who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn he will lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he will set up its gates.”
27 上主與若蘇厄同在，他的名聲傳遍了那一帶地方。
So Yahweh was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.
