民數記 11
1 當時人民怨聲載道，怨聲已傳入上主的耳中；上主聽見，遂發怒上主的火在他們中燃起，焚燒了營幕的邊緣。
The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, his anger burned; and Yahweh’s fire burned among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.
2 人民遂向梅瑟求救；梅瑟懇求了上主，火就熄滅了，
The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.
3 遂給那地方起名叫塔貝辣，因為上主的火曾在他們中燃燒起來。
The name of that place was called Taberah, because Yahweh’s fire burned among them.
4 那些跟百姓來的雜族神甚是貪求口腹，連以色列子民也開始哭泣說：「誰給我們肉吃﹖
The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?
5 我們記得：在埃及我們可隨便吃魚，還有胡瓜、西瓜、韭菜、蔥和蒜。
We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;
6 現在我們的心靈憔悴，我們眼見的除「瑪納」外，什麼也沒有。」「
but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”
7 瑪納」形似胡荽種子，色彩有如珍珠。
The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.
8 人民四散收斂，用磨研細，或在臼內搗碎，在鍋內煮了做成餅，它的滋味有如油餅的滋味。
The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.
9 夜間露水降在營上時，也降下「瑪納。」
When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
10 梅瑟聽見百姓家家戶戶，各在帳棚門口悲哭。上主大發忿怒，梅瑟見了也很難受，
Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and Yahweh’s anger burned greatly; and Moses was displeased.
11 遂對上主說：「你為什麼難為你的僕人﹖為什麼我在你眼中不蒙寵幸，竟將管理這百姓的擔子全放在我身上﹖
Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
12 莫非是我懷孕了這百姓，或是我生了他們，你竟對我說：你要懷抱他們，如同褓母懷抱乳兒，直到進入你對他們的祖先所誓許的地方﹖
Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers’?
13 我從那裏拿肉給這百姓吃﹖因為他們向我哭訴說：給我們肉吃!
Where could I get meat to give all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’
14 我獨自不能抱著這百姓，這為我太重。
I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
15 若你願這樣對待我，如果我在你眼中得寵，求你殺了我罷! 免得我受這苦楚。」
If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”
16 上主對梅瑟說：「你給我由以色列老年人中召選七十人，你知道他們是民間的老前輩和會辦事的人，領他們進入會幕，叫他們同你一起站在那裏。
Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.
17 在那裏我要降下，與你交談，取些你身上具有的神能，賦給他們，叫他們與你分擔管理人民的重擔，不讓你個人獨自承擔。
I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you don’t bear it yourself alone.
18 你對民眾說：你們聖潔自己直到明天，你們就會有肉吃，因為上主已聽見你們哀哭說：誰給我們肉吃﹖我們在埃及是多麼好! 如今上主要給你們肉吃了；
“Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, and you will eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore Yahweh will give you meat, and you will eat.
19 不但是一天、兩天、五天、十天、二十天，你們有肉吃，
You will not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,
20 而是整月，直到肉從你們的鼻子裏出來，吃的生厭，因為你們輕視了住在你們中的上主，在他面前涕泣說：為什麼我們出離了埃及﹖」
but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”
21 梅瑟說：「與我同住的人民，步行的男子就有六十萬，你卻說：我要給他們肉吃，且吃一整月。
Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month.’
22 就是將牛羊都為他們殺了，為他們夠用麼﹖或將海裏的魚全給他們捉來，為他們足用麼﹖」
Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”
23 上主回答梅瑟說：「難道上主的手短了﹖你就要看見我對你說的話是否應驗。」
Yahweh said to Moses, “Has Yahweh’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”
24 梅瑟將上主的話告訴了人民；隨後從人民的老年人中召選了七十人，令他們站在會幕四周。
Moses went out, and told the people Yahweh’s words; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.
25 上主乘雲降下，與梅瑟談話；將他身上的神能，賦給那七十位長老；這神能一降在他們身上，他們就出神說話；以後再沒有出神。
Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
26 當時有兩個人留在營內，一個名叫厄耳達得，一個名叫默達得；這神能也降在他們身上；他們原是在被錄取的人內，卻沒有到會幕那裏去，就在營內出神說話。
But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad; and the Spirit rested on them. They were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.
27 有一少年跑來告訴梅瑟說：「厄耳達得和默達得在營內出神說話。」
A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”
28 自幼即服事梅瑟的農的兒子若蘇厄遂說：「我主梅瑟! 你該禁止他們。」
Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!”
29 梅瑟回答他說：「你為我的緣故嫉妒人麼﹖巴不得上主的人民都成先知，上主將自己的精神貫注在他們身上! 」
Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”
30 梅瑟遂與以色列的長老回到了營內。
Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
31 那時上主使一陣風颳起，由海上吹來了鵪鶉，散落在營幕上；鵪鶉在營幕四周多得有一天路程那麼遠，在地面上約有兩肘厚。
A wind from Yahweh went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.
32 人民那一整日整夜，且在第二日整天都忙於捕捉鵪鶉，收集得最少的，也收集了十堆，都擺在營幕四周。
The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all out for themselves around the camp.
33 肉還在他們的牙齒間，尚未嚼爛，上主就對人民發怒了，以極嚴重的災禍打擊了人民。
While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, Yahweh’s anger burned against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.
34 故此人給那地方起名叫克貝洛特阿塔瓦，因為在那裏埋葬了貪饕的人民。
The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
35 以後民眾由克貝洛特阿塔瓦起程，向哈茲洛特出發，在哈茲洛特住下了。
From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and they stayed at Hazeroth.
