民數記 14
1 全會眾都大聲喧嚷，人民哭了一夜。
Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
2 以色列子民都抱怨梅瑟和亞郎；全會眾對他們說：「巴不得我們都死在埃及地，都死在曠野裏!
All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
3 為什麼上主引我們到那地方死在刀下，叫我們的妻子兒女當作戰利品﹖再回埃及去，為我們豈不更好﹖」
Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
4 於是彼此說：「我們另立頭目，回埃及去。」
So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
5 梅瑟和亞郎遂俯伏在以色列子民全會眾前。
Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown before the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.
6 偵探那地方的人中，有農的兒子若蘇厄和耶孚乃的兒子加肋布，他們撕裂了自己的衣服，
Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes
7 告訴以色列子民全會眾說：「我們偵探所經過的地方，確是一片極好的地方。
and said to the whole congregation of Israel, “The land we passed through and explored is an exceedingly good land.
8 若上主恩待我們，必引我們到那裏去，將那地方賜給我們。那實在是一塊流奶流蜜的地方。
If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.
9 只要你們不反抗上主，就不必怕那地方的人民，因為他們要作我們的掠物；護佑他們的，離開了他們，上主卻與我們同在；所以不要怕他們。」
Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not be afraid of the people of the land, for they will be like bread for us. Their protection has been removed, and the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them!”
10 全會眾正說要用石頭砸死他們時，上主的榮耀在會幕上顯示給全以色列子民。
But the whole congregation threatened to stone Joshua and Caleb. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting.
11 上主對梅瑟說：「這人民輕慢我要到幾時呢﹖我雖在他們中行了那些神蹟，他們仍不相信我，要到幾時呢﹖
And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
12 我要用瘟疫打擊他們，剷除他們，使你成為一個比他們更強大，更昌盛的民族。」
I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”
13 但是梅瑟對上主說：「埃及人如果聽說這事，因為你曾用威力由他們中領出這民族來，
But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.
14 他們將說什麼﹖這地方的居民也曾聽說：你上主是在這民族中；你上主曾面對面地發顯出來，你的雲彩常停在他們上面；白日你乘雲柱，黑夜你乘火柱，走在他們前面。
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
15 現在，如果你消滅這民族如消滅一個人一樣，這些曾聽到你聲名的外邦民族必要議論說：『
If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
16 由於上主不能引這民族進入他對他們所誓許的地方，就在曠野將他們殺了。』
‘Because the LORD was unable to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
17 吾主，如今求你，大發寬容，如你曾聲明說：
So now I pray, may the power of my Lord be magnified, just as You have declared:
18 上主緩於發怒，富於仁慈，寬赦過犯和罪過，但決不豁免懲罰，父親的過犯，要向子孫追討，直到三代四代。
‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’
19 求你大發仁慈，寬恕這人民的罪過，就如從埃及一直到現在，你寬赦了他們一樣。」
Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”
20 上主回答說：「我就照你祈求的寬赦他們；
“I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.
21 但是我以我的生命，以充滿全地的上主的榮耀起誓：
“Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,
22 這些見了我的榮耀，見了我在埃及和曠野裏所行的神蹟的人，已十次試探了我，不聽我的話，
not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
23 他們決不能見我對他們祖先誓許的地方；凡輕慢我的人，決不會見到那地方。
not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.
24 惟有我的僕人加肋布，因懷有另一種精神，全心服從我，我必引他進入他去過的地方，他的後裔必佔有那地方為產業。
But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.
25 現今阿瑪肋克人和客納罕人盤據在山谷中，明天你們應轉身向紅海出發，往曠野去。」
Now since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”
26 上主吩咐梅瑟和亞郎說：「
Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
27 這個邪惡的會眾抱怨我要到幾時﹖以色列子民抱怨我的話我都聽見了。
“How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.
28 你對他們說：我以我的生命起誓：──上主的斷語──我必照你們在我耳中所說的話，對待你們：
So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
29 你們中凡二十歲以上登過記的，凡抱怨過我的，都要倒斃在這曠野中。
Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.
30 你們決不得進入我誓許給你們居住的地方，只有耶孚乃的加肋布和農的兒子若蘇厄除外。
Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
31 至於你們的幼童，你們曾說他們要當戰利品的，我要領他們進去，使他們享受你們所輕視的地方。
But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.
32 至於你們，你們必倒斃在這曠野中；
As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
33 你們的子女要在曠野漂流四十年，受你們背信之罰，直到你們的屍首在曠野中爛盡。
Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
34 你們偵探那地方的日子，共計四十天，一天算一年，你們應受四十年的罪罰，叫你們知道我放棄你們是什麼一回事。
In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.
35 我上主既說了，也必對這聚集反抗我的邪惡會眾這樣做：在這曠野他們都要滅絕，在這裏都要死盡。」
I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”
36 梅瑟派遣去偵探那地方的人，回來以後，對那地方散佈謠言，致使全會眾抱怨梅瑟。
So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land—
37 這些對那地方講說壞話的人，都遭了災罰，死在上主面前；
those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
38 前去偵探那地方的人，只有農的兒子若蘇厄和耶孚乃的兒子加肋布，保全了性命。
Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.
39 梅瑟將這些話告訴了全以色列子民；人民都非常憂悶。
And when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly.
40 次日清晨他們起來，要上山頂去，說：「我們犯了罪，現在我們已準備好，要往上主所說的地方去。」
Early the next morning they got up and went up toward the ridge of the hill country. “We have indeed sinned,” they said, “but we will go to the place the LORD has promised.”
41 但是梅瑟說：「你們為什麼要違背上主的命令﹖這事必不會成功。
But Moses said, “Why are you transgressing the commandment of the LORD? This will not succeed!
42 不要上去，因為上主不在你們中間，難免不被敵人擊敗。
Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.
43 因為阿瑪肋克人和客納罕人在那裏要抵擋你們，你們必喪身刀下；你們既背離了上主，上主自然不再與你們同在。」
For there the Amalekites and Canaanites will face you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, He will not be with you.”
44 他們仍擅自上了山頂；但上主的約櫃和梅瑟沒有由營幕中移動。
But they dared to go up to the ridge of the hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the covenant of the LORD moved from the camp.
45 住在山中的阿瑪肋克人和客納罕人就下來，擊殺了他們，將他們追擊到曷爾瑪。
Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them all the way to Hormah.
