Numbers 11
1 And the people murmured sinfully before the Lord; and the Lord heard [them] and was very angry; and fire was kindled among them from the Lord, and devoured a part of the camp.
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。
2 And the people cried to Moses: and Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire was quenched.
人民遂向梅瑟求救；梅瑟懇求了上主，火就熄滅了，
3 And the name of that place was called Burning; for a fire was kindled among them from the Lord.
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。
4 And the mixed multitude among them lusted exceedingly; and they and the children of Israel sat down and wept and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
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﹖
5 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt freely; and the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the garlic, and the onions.
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。
6 But now our soul is dried up; our eyes [turn] to nothing but to the manna.
現在我們的心靈憔悴，我們眼見的除「瑪納」外，什麼也沒有。」「
7 And the manna is as coriander seed, and the appearance of it the appearance of hoar-frost.
瑪納」形似胡荽種子，色彩有如珍珠。
8 And the people went through the field, and gathered, and ground it in the mill, or pounded it in a mortar, and baked it in a pan, and made cakes of it; and the sweetness of it was as the taste [of] wafer made with oil.
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。
9 And when the dew came upon the camp by night, the manna came down upon it.
夜間露水降在營上時，也降下「瑪納。」
10 And Moses heard them weeping by their families, every one in his door: and the Lord was very angry; and the thing was evil in the sight of Moses.
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，
11 And Moses said to the Lord, Why hast thou afflicted thy servant, and why have I not found grace in thy sight, that thou shouldest lay the weight of this people upon me?
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﹖
12 Have I conceived all this people, or have I born them? that thou sayest to me, Take them into thy bosom, as a nurse would take her suckling, into the land which thou swarest to their fathers?
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﹖
13 Whence have I flesh to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
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!
14 I shall not be able to bear this people alone, for this thing is too heavy for me.
我獨自不能抱著這百姓，這為我太重。
15 And if thou doest thus to me, slay me utterly, if I have found favour with thee, that I may not see my affliction.
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。」
16 And the Lord said to Moses, Gather me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom thou thyself knowest that they are the elders of the people, and their scribes; and thou shalt bring them to the tabernacle of witness, and they shall stand there with thee.
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。
17 And I will go down, and speak there with thee; and I will take of the spirit that is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear together with thee the burden of the people, and thou shalt not bear them alone.
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。
18 And to the people thou shalt say, Purify yourselves for the morrow, and ye shall eat flesh; for ye wept before the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: and the Lord shall allow you to eat flesh, and ye shall eat flesh.
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；
19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days;
不但是一天、兩天、五天、十天、二十天，你們有肉吃，
20 ye shall eat for a full month, until [the flesh] come out at your nostrils; and it shall be nausea to you, because ye disobeyed the Lord, who is among you, and wept before him, saying, What had we to do to come out of Egypt?
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﹖」
21 And Moses said, The people among whom I am are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou saidst, I will give them flesh to eat, and they shall eat a whole month.
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。
22 Shall sheep and oxen be slain for them, and shall it suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and shall it suffice them?
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﹖」
23 And the Lord said to Moses, Shall not the hand of the Lord be fully sufficient? now shalt thou know whether my word shall come to pass to thee or not.
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。」
24 And Moses went out, and spoke the words of the Lord to the people; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and he set them round about the tabernacle.
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。
25 And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy men that were elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied and ceased.
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。
26 And there were two men left in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Modad; and the spirit rested upon them, and these were of the number of them that were enrolled, but they did not come to the tabernacle; and they prophesied in the camp.
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。
27 And a young man ran and told Moses, and spoke, saying, Eldad and Modad prophesy in the camp.
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。」
28 And Joshua the son of Naue, who attended on Moses, the chosen one, said, [My] lord Moses, forbid them.
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。」
29 And Moses said to him, Art thou jealous on my account? and would that all the Lord's people were prophets; whenever the Lord shall put his spirit upon them.
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! 」
30 And Moses departed into the camp, himself and the elders of Israel.
梅瑟遂與以色列的長老回到了營內。
31 And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails over from the sea; and it brought them down upon the camp a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on that side, round about the camp, as it were two cubits from the earth.
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。
32 And the people rose up all the day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered quails; he that gathered least, gathered ten measures; and they refreshed themselves round about the camp.
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。
33 The flesh was yet between their teeth, before it failed, when the Lord was wroth with the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.
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。
34 And the name of that place was called the Graves of Lust; for there they buried the people that lusted.
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。
35 The people departed from the Graves of Lust to Aseroth; and the people halted at Aseroth.
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。
