民數記 16
1 利未的曾孫、哥轄的孫子、以斯哈的兒子可拉，和呂便子孫中以利押的兒子大坍、亞比蘭，與比勒的兒子安，
And behold Core the son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, and Hon the son of Pheleth of the children of Ruben,
2 並以色列會中的二百五十個首領，就是有名望選入會中的人，在摩西面前一同起來，
Rose up against Moses, and with them two hundred and fifty others of the children of Israel, leading men of the synagogue, and who in the time of assembly were called by name.
3 聚集攻擊摩西、亞倫，說：「你們擅自專權！全會眾個個既是聖潔，耶和華也在他們中間，你們為甚麼自高，超過耶和華的會眾呢？」
And when they had stood up against Moses and Aaron, they said: Let it be enough for you, that all the multitude consisteth of holy ones, and the Lord is among them: Why lift you up yourselves above the people of the Lord?
4 摩西聽見這話就俯伏在地，
When Moses heard this, he fell flat on his face:
5 對可拉和他一黨的人說：「到了早晨，耶和華必指示誰是屬他的，誰是聖潔的，就叫誰親近他；他所揀選的是誰，必叫誰親近他。
And speaking to Core and all the multitude, he said: In the morning the Lord will make known who belong to him, and the holy he will join to himself: and whom he shall choose, they shall approach to him.
6 可拉啊，你們要這樣行，你和你的一黨要拿香爐來。
Do this therefore: Take every man of you your censers, thou Core, and all thy company.
7 明日，在耶和華面前，把火盛在爐中，把香放在其上。耶和華揀選誰，誰就為聖潔。你們這利未的子孫擅自專權了！」
And putting fire in them tomorrow, put incense upon it before the Lord: and whomsoever he shall choose, the same shall be holy: you take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
8 摩西又對可拉說：「利未的子孫哪，你們聽我說！
And he said again to Core: Hear ye sons of Levi.
9 以色列的上帝從以色列會中將你們分別出來，使你們親近他，辦耶和華帳幕的事，並站在會眾面前替他們當差。
Is it a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath spared you from all the people, and joined you to himself, that you should serve him in the service of the tabernacle, and should stand before the congregation of the people, and should minister to him?
10 耶和華又使你和你一切弟兄－利未的子孫－一同親近他，這豈為小事？你們還要求祭司的職任嗎？
Did he therefore make thee and all thy brethren the sons of Levi to approach unto him, that you should challenge to yourselves the priesthood also,
11 你和你一黨的人聚集是要攻擊耶和華。亞倫算甚麼，你們竟向他發怨言呢？」
And that all thy company should stand against the Lord? for what is Aaron that you murmur against him?
12 摩西打發人去召以利押的兒子大坍、亞比蘭。他們說：「我們不上去！
Then Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab. But they answered: We will not come.
13 你將我們從流奶與蜜之地領上來，要在曠野殺我們，這豈為小事？你還要自立為王轄管我們嗎？
Is it a small matter to thee, that thou hast brought us out of a land that flowed with milk and honey, to kill us in the desert, except thou rule also like a lord over us?
14 並且你沒有將我們領到流奶與蜜之地，也沒有把田地和葡萄園給我們為業。難道你要剜這些人的眼睛嗎？我們不上去！」
Thou best brought us indeed into a land that floweth with rivers of milk and honey, and hast given us possessions of fields and vineyards; wilt thou also pull out our eyes? We will not come.
15 摩西就甚發怒，對耶和華說：「求你不要享受他們的供物。我並沒有奪過他們一匹驢，也沒有害過他們一個人。」
Moses therefore being very angry, raid to the Lord: Respect not their sacrifices: thou knowest that I have not taken of them so much as a young ass at any time, nor have injured any of them.
16 摩西對可拉說：「明天，你和你一黨的人，並亞倫，都要站在耶和華面前；
And he said to Core: Do thou and thy congregation stand apart before the Lord tomorrow, and Aaron apart.
17 各人要拿一個香爐，共二百五十個，把香放在上面，到耶和華面前。你和亞倫也各拿自己的香爐。」
Take every one of you censers, and put incense upon them, offering to the Lord two hundred and fifty censers: let Aaron also hold his censer.
18 於是他們各人拿一個香爐，盛上火，加上香，同摩西、亞倫站在會幕門前。
When they had done this, Moses and Aaron standing,
19 可拉招聚全會眾到會幕門前，要攻擊摩西、亞倫；耶和華的榮光就向全會眾顯現。
And had drawn up all the multitude against them to the door of the tabernacle, the glory of the Lord appeared to them all.
20 耶和華曉諭摩西、亞倫說：
And the Lord speaking to Moses and Aaron, said:
21 「你們離開這會眾，我好在轉眼之間把他們滅絕。」
Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may presently destroy them.
22 摩西、亞倫就俯伏在地，說：「上帝，萬人之靈的上帝啊，一人犯罪，你就要向全會眾發怒嗎？」
They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God of the spirits of all flesh, for one man’s sin shall thy wrath rage against all?
23 耶和華曉諭摩西說：
And the Lord said to Moses:
24 「你吩咐會眾說：『你們離開可拉、大坍、亞比蘭帳棚的四圍。』」
Command the whole people to separate themselves from the tents of Core and Dathan and Abiron.
25 摩西起來，往大坍、亞比蘭那裏去；以色列的長老也隨着他去。
And Moses arose, and went to Dathan and Abiron: and the ancients of Israel following him,
26 他吩咐會眾說：「你們離開這惡人的帳棚吧，他們的物件，甚麼都不可摸，恐怕你們陷在他們的罪中，與他們一同消滅。」
He said to the multitude: Depart from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be involved in their sins.
27 於是眾人離開可拉、大坍、亞比蘭帳棚的四圍。大坍、亞比蘭帶着妻子、兒女、小孩子，都出來，站在自己的帳棚門口。
And when they were departed from their tents round about, Dathan and Abiron coming out stood in the entry of their pavilions with their wives and children, and all the people.
28 摩西說：「我行的這一切事本不是憑我自己心意行的，乃是耶和華打發我行的，必有證據使你們知道。
And Moses said: By this you shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all things that you see, and that I have not forged them of my own head:
29 這些人死若與世人無異，或是他們所遭的與世人相同，就不是耶和華打發我來的。
If these men die the common death of men, and if they be visited with a plague, wherewith others also are wont to be visited, the Lord did not send me.
But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord. (Sheol h7585)
31 摩西剛說完了這一切話，他們腳下的地就開了口，
And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke asunder under their feet:
32 把他們和他們的家眷，並一切屬可拉的人丁、財物，都吞下去。
And opening her mouth, devoured them with their tents and all their substance.
And they went down alive into hell the ground closing upon them, and they perished from among the people. (Sheol h7585)
34 在他們四圍的以色列眾人聽他們呼號，就都逃跑，說：「恐怕地也把我們吞下去。」
But all Israel, that was standing round about, fled at the cry of them that were perishing: saying: Lest perhaps the earth swallow us up also.
35 又有火從耶和華那裏出來，燒滅了那獻香的二百五十個人。
And a fire coming out from the Lord, destroyed the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
36 耶和華曉諭摩西說：
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
37 「你吩咐祭司亞倫的兒子以利亞撒從火中撿起那些香爐來，把火撒在別處，因為那些香爐是聖的。
Command Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers that lie in the burning, and to scatter the fire of one side and the other: because they are sanctified
38 把那些犯罪、自害己命之人的香爐，叫人錘成片子，用以包壇。那些香爐本是他們在耶和華面前獻過的，所以是聖的，並且可以給以色列人作記號。」
In the deaths of the sinners: and let him beat them into plates, and fasten them to the altar, because incense hath been offered in them to the Lord, and they are sanctified, that the children of Israel may see them for a sign and a memorial.
39 於是祭司以利亞撒將被燒之人所獻的銅香爐拿來，人就錘出來，用以包壇，
Then Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, wherein they had offered, whom the burning fire had devoured, and beat them into plates, fastening them to the altar:
40 給以色列人作紀念，使亞倫後裔之外的人不得近前來在耶和華面前燒香，免得他遭可拉和他一黨所遭的。這乃是照耶和華藉着摩西所吩咐的。
That the children of Israel might have for the time to come wherewith they should be admonished, that no stranger or any one that is not of seed of Aaron should come near to offer incense to the Lord, lest he should suffer as Core suffered, and all his congregation, according as the Lord spoke to Moses.
41 第二天，以色列全會眾都向摩西、亞倫發怨言說：「你們殺了耶和華的百姓了。」
The following day all the multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying: You have killed the people of the Lord.
42 會眾聚集攻擊摩西、亞倫的時候，向會幕觀看，不料，有雲彩遮蓋了，耶和華的榮光顯現。
And when there arose a sedition, and the tumult increased,
43 摩西、亞倫就來到會幕前。
Moses and Aaron fled to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when the were gone into it, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.
44 耶和華吩咐摩西說：
And the Lord said to Moses:
45 「你們離開這會眾，我好在轉眼之間把他們滅絕。」他們二人就俯伏於地。
Get you out from the midst of this multitude, this moment will I destroy them. And as they were lying on the ground,
46 摩西對亞倫說：「拿你的香爐，把壇上的火盛在其中，又加上香，快快帶到會眾那裏，為他們贖罪；因為有忿怒從耶和華那裏出來，瘟疫已經發作了。」
Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and putting fire in it from the altar, put incense upon it, and go quickly to the people to pray for them: for already wrath is gone out from the Lord, and the plague rageth.
47 亞倫照着摩西所說的拿來，跑到會中，不料，瘟疫在百姓中已經發作了。他就加上香，為百姓贖罪。
When Aaron had done this, and had run to the midst of the multitude which the burning fire was now destroying, he offered the incense:
48 他站在活人死人中間，瘟疫就止住了。
And standing between the dead and the living, he prayed for the people, and the plague ceased.
49 除了因可拉事情死的以外，遭瘟疫死的，共有一萬四千七百人。
And the number of them that were slain was fourteen thousand and seven hundred men, besides them that had perished in the sedition of Core.
50 亞倫回到會幕門口，到摩西那裏，瘟疫已經止住了。
And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant after the destruction was over.
