民数记 14
1 当下，全会众大声喧嚷；那夜百姓都哭号。
Wherefore the whole multitude crying wept that night.
2 以色列众人向摩西、亚伦发怨言；全会众对他们说：“巴不得我们早死在埃及地，或是死在这旷野。
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying:
3 耶和华为什么把我们领到那地，使我们倒在刀下呢？我们的妻子和孩子必被掳掠。我们回埃及去岂不好吗？”
Would God that we had died in Egypt and would God we may die in this vast wilderness, and that the Lord may not bring us into this land, lest we fall by the sword, and our wives and children be led away captives. Is it not better to return into Egypt?
4 众人彼此说：“我们不如立一个首领回埃及去吧！”
And they said one to another: Let us appoint a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
5 摩西、亚伦就俯伏在以色列全会众面前。
And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell down flat upon the ground before the multitude of the children of Israel.
6 窥探地的人中，嫩的儿子约书亚和耶孚尼的儿子迦勒撕裂衣服，
But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephone, who themselves also had viewed the land, rent their garments,
7 对以色列全会众说：“我们所窥探、经过之地是极美之地。
And said to all the multitude of the children of Israel: The land which we have gone round is very good:
8 耶和华若喜悦我们，就必将我们领进那地，把地赐给我们；那地原是流奶与蜜之地。
If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us into it, and give us a land flowing with milk and honey.
9 但你们不可背叛耶和华，也不要怕那地的居民；因为他们是我们的食物，并且荫庇他们的已经离开他们。有耶和华与我们同在，不要怕他们！”
Be not rebellious against the Lord: and fear ye not the people of this land, for we are able to eat them up as bread. All aid is gone from them: the Lord is with us, fear ye not.
10 但全会众说：“拿石头打死他们二人。”忽然，耶和华的荣光在会幕中向以色列众人显现。
And when all the multitude cried out, and would have stoned them, the glory of the Lord appeared over the tabernacle of the covenant to all the children of Israel.
11 耶和华对摩西说：“这百姓藐视我要到几时呢？我在他们中间行了这一切神迹，他们还不信我要到几时呢？
And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people detract me? how long will they not believe me for all the signs that I have wrought before them?
12 我要用瘟疫击杀他们，使他们不得承受那地，叫你的后裔成为大国，比他们强胜。”
I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume them: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation, and a mightier than this is.
13 摩西对耶和华说：“埃及人必听见这事；因为你曾施展大能，将这百姓从他们中间领上来。
And Moses said to the Lord: That the Egyptians, from the midst of whom thou hast brought forth this people,
14 埃及人要将这事传给迦南地的居民；那民已经听见你—耶和华是在这百姓中间；因为你面对面被人看见，有你的云彩停在他们以上。你日间在云柱中，夜间在火柱中，在他们前面行。
And the inhabitants of this land, (who have heard that thou, O Lord, art among this people, and art seen face to face, and thy cloud protecteth them, and thou goest before them in a pillar of a cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, )
15 如今你若把这百姓杀了，如杀一人，那些听见你名声的列邦必议论说：
May hear that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were one man and may say:
16 ‘耶和华因为不能把这百姓领进他向他们起誓应许之地，所以在旷野把他们杀了。’
He could not bring the people into the land for which he had sworn, therefore did he kill them in the wilderness.
17 现在求主大显能力，照你所说过的话说：
Let their the strength of the Lord be magnified, as thou hast sworn, saying:
18 ‘耶和华不轻易发怒，并有丰盛的慈爱，赦免罪孽和过犯；万不以有罪的为无罪，必追讨他的罪，自父及子，直到三、四代。’
The Lord is patient and full of mercy, taking away iniquity and wickedness, and leaving no man clear, who visitest the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
19 求你照你的大慈爱赦免这百姓的罪孽，好像你从埃及到如今常赦免他们一样。”
Forgive, I beseech thee, the sins of this people, according to the greatness of thy mercy, as thou hast been merciful to them from their going out of Egypt unto this place.
20 耶和华说：“我照着你的话赦免了他们。
And the Lord said: I have forgiven according to thy word.
21 然我指着我的永生起誓，遍地要被我的荣耀充满。
As I live: and the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
22 这些人虽看见我的荣耀和我在埃及与旷野所行的神迹，仍然试探我这十次，不听从我的话，
But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,
23 他们断不得看见我向他们的祖宗所起誓应许之地。凡藐视我的，一个也不得看见；
Shall not see the land for which I aware to their fathers, neither shall any one of them that hath detracted me behold it.
24 惟独我的仆人迦勒，因他另有一个心志，专一跟从我，我就把他领进他所去过的那地；他的后裔也必得那地为业。
My servant Caleb, who being full of another spirit hath followed me, I will bring into this land which he hath gone round: and his seed shall possess it.
25 亚玛力人和迦南人住在谷中，明天你们要转回，从红海的路往旷野去。”
For the Amalecite and the Chanaanite dwell in the valleys. Tomorrow remove the camp, and return into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
26 耶和华对摩西、亚伦说：
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
27 “这恶会众向我发怨言，我忍耐他们要到几时呢？以色列人向我所发的怨言，我都听见了。
How long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel.
28 你们告诉他们，耶和华说：‘我指着我的永生起誓，我必要照你们达到我耳中的话待你们。
Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you.
29 你们的尸首必倒在这旷野，并且你们中间凡被数点、从二十岁以外、向我发怨言的，
In the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, and have murmured against me,
30 必不得进我起誓应许叫你们住的那地；惟有耶孚尼的儿子迦勒和嫩的儿子约书亚才能进去。
Shall not enter into the land, over which I lifted up my bend to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.
31 但你们的妇人孩子，就是你们所说、要被掳掠的，我必把他们领进去，他们就得知你们所厌弃的那地。
But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey to the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you have despised.
32 至于你们，你们的尸首必倒在这旷野；
Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness.
33 你们的儿女必在旷野飘流四十年，担当你们淫行的罪，直到你们的尸首在旷野消灭。
Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed ill the desert,
34 按你们窥探那地的四十日，一年顶一日，你们要担当罪孽四十年，就知道我与你们疏远了，
According to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed the land: year shall be counted for a day. And forty years you shall receive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge:
35 我—耶和华说过，我总要这样待这一切聚集敌我的恶会众；他们必在这旷野消灭，在这里死亡。’”
For as I have spoken, so will I do to all this wicked multitude, that hath risen up together against me: in this wilderness shall it faint away and die.
36 摩西所打发、窥探那地的人回来，报那地的恶信，叫全会众向摩西发怨言，
Therefore all the men, whom Moses had sent to view the land, and who at their return had made the whole multitude to murmur against him, speaking ill of the land that it was naught,
37 这些报恶信的人都遭瘟疫，死在耶和华面前。
Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord.
38 其中惟有嫩的儿子约书亚和耶孚尼的儿子迦勒仍然存活。
But Josue. the son of Nun. and Caleb the son of Jephone lived, of all them that had gone to view the land.
39 摩西将这些话告诉以色列众人，他们就甚悲哀。
And Moses spoke all these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned exceedingly.
40 清早起来，上山顶去，说：“我们在这里，我们有罪了；情愿上耶和华所应许的地方去。”
And behold rising up very early in the morning, they went up to the top of the mountain, and said: We are ready to go up to the place, of which the Lord hath spoken: for we have sinned.
41 摩西说：“你们为何违背耶和华的命令呢？这事不能顺利了。
And Moses said to them: Why transgress you the word of the Lord, which shall not succeed prosperously with you?
42 不要上去；因为耶和华不在你们中间，恐怕你们被仇敌杀败了。
Go not up, for the Lord is not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.
43 亚玛力人和迦南人都在你们面前，你们必倒在刀下；因你们退回不跟从耶和华，所以他必不与你们同在。”
The Amalecite and the Chanaanite are before you, and by their sword you shall fall, because you would not consent to the Lord, neither will the Lord be with you.
44 他们却擅敢上山顶去，然而耶和华的约柜和摩西没有出营。
But they being blinded went up to the top of the mountain. But the ark of the testament of the Lord and Moses departed not from the camp.
45 于是亚玛力人和住在那山上的迦南人都下来击打他们，把他们杀退了，直到何珥玛。
And the Amalecite came down, and the Chanaanite that dwelt in the mountain: and smiting and slaying them pursued them as far as Horma.
