Joshua 22
1 Then Joshua called together the sons of Ruben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse,
那時若蘇厄將勒烏本人加特人和默納協半支派的人召來，
2 and said to them, You have heard all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, and you have listened to my voice in all that he commanded you.
對他們說：「上主僕人梅瑟吩咐你們的一切，你們都遵守了，在我吩咐他們的一切事上，你們也都聽了我的話。
3 You have not deserted your brethren these many days: until this day you have kept the commandment of the Lord your God.
這許多日子，你們從來沒有你們的的弟兄，直到今天，忠信遵守了上主你們天主的命令。
4 And now the Lord our God has given our brethren rest, as he told them: now then return and depart to your homes, and to the land of your possession, which Moses gave you on the other side Jordan.
現在上主我們的天主，照衪所應許的，使你們的弟兄獲得了安居，你們現在可返回自己的帳幕，回到上主的僕人梅瑟在約旦河東岸，賜你們為產業的地方去，
5 But take great heed to do the commands and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you to do; to love the Lord our God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commands, and to cleave to him, and serve him with all your mind, and with all your soul.
只要要你們遵守上主的僕人梅瑟吩咐你們的誡命和法律：愛慕上主你們的天主，遵行衪的一切道路，謹守衪的誡命，全心人靈歸屬上主，服事上主。」
6 And Joshua blessed them, and dismissed them; and they went to their homes.
若蘇厄於是祝福了他們，打發他們回去；他們就返回了自己的帳幕。──
7 And to [one] half the tribe of Manasse Moses gave a portion in the land of Basan, and to [the other] half Joshua gave a portion with his brethren on the other side of Jordan westward: and when Joshua sent them away to their homes, then he blessed them.
梅瑟在巴商已分給了默納協半支派土地。至於另半個支派，若蘇厄在約旦河西，在他們的弟兄中，也分給了他們土地，此外，當若蘇厄打發他們回帳幕的時候，祝福了他們，
8 And they departed with much wealth to their houses, and they divided the spoil of their enemies with their brethren; very much cattle, and silver, and gold, and iron, and much raiment.
向他們說：「現在你們帶著這許多財物、牛、羊、金銀、銅鐵，和大批衣服回到自己的帳幕，也要將你們從由敵人奪得的財物，分給你們的弟兄! 」
9 So the sons of Ruben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse, departed from the children of Israel in Selo in the land of Chanaan, to go away into Galaad, into the land of their possession, which they inherited by the command of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.
勒烏本人、召集人和默納協半支派的人，於是從客納罕的史羅起身，離開以色列人，回到自己得為產業的基肋阿得，即上主藉梅瑟吩咐給他們作為產業的地方。
10 And they came to Galaad of Jordan, which is in the land of Chanaan: and the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to look at.
當勒烏本人、加得和默納協半支派的人來到屬客納罕地的約旦河附近地區時，在約旦河邊築了一座祭壇，一座高大可觀的祭壇。
11 And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the sons of Ruben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse have built an altar at the borders of the land of Chanaan at Galaad of Jordan, on the opposite side to the children of Israel.
以色列人聽見說：「看，勒烏本人、加得人和默納協半支派的人，在屬客納罕地的約旦河附近地區，以色列子民境內，築了一座祭壇。」
12 And all the children of Israel gathered together to Selo, so as to go up and fight against them.
以色列子民一聽說這事，全會眾便聚集在史羅，要去作戰攻打他們。
13 And the children of Israel sent to the sons of Ruben, and the sons of Gad, and to the sons of the half tribe of Manasse into the land of Galaad, both Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest,
以色列子民便委派厄肋阿匝爾的兒子丕乃哈斯司祭，到基肋阿得地方去見勒烏本人、加得人和默納協半支派人，
14 and ten of the chiefs with him; [there was] one chief of every household out of all the tribes of Israel; (the heads of families are the captains of thousands in Israel.)
和他們同去的尚有十位領袖，每支派一個，他們都是以色列各家族的族長。
15 And they came to the sons of Ruben, and to the sons of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasse into the land of Galaad; and they spoke to them, saying,
他們來到基肋阿得地方，見勒烏本人、加得人和默納協半支派人，向他們說：
16 Thus says the whole congregation of the Lord, What [is] this transgression that you have transgressed before the God of Israel, to turn away today from the Lord, in that you have built for yourselves an altar, so that you should be apostates from the Lord?
「上主的全會眾這樣說：你們相反以色列的天主，犯這不信的罪，有什麼意思﹖為什麼你們今天離開上主，另建立祭壇，公開背叛上主﹖
17 Is the sin of Phogor too little for you, whereas we have not been cleansed from it until this day, though there was a plague amongst the congregation of the Lord?
以前敬拜培敖爾的罪萵為我們還不夠嗎﹖為了那個罪過，災禍降於上主的會眾，直到今天，我們還沒洗淨：
18 And you have this day revolted from the Lord; and it shall come to pass if you revolt this day from the Lord, that to-morrow there shall be wrath upon all Israel.
看，你們今天又要離開上主，你們今天違背上主，明天衪必向以色列全會眾發怒。
19 And now if the land of your possession [be too] little, cross over to the land of the possession of the Lord, where the tabernacle of the Lord dwells, and receive you an inheritance amongst us; and do not become apostates from God, neither do you apostatize from the Lord, because of your having built an altar apart from the altar of the Lord our God.
如果你們認為所得的地方不潔，可以回到上主的地方，上主帳幕的所在地，住在我們中間；決不可違背上主，激怒我們，在上主我們的祭壇以外，為自己另築祭壇。
20 Behold! did not Achar the [son] of Zara commit a trespass [taking] of the accursed thing, and there was wrath on the whole congregation of Israel? and he himself died alone in his own sin.
以前則辣黑的子孫阿干，在應毀滅的財物上犯了不忠之罪，雖只他一人犯罪，憤怒豈不是臨到以色列全會眾﹖死在他罪過中的不只他一人」。
21 And the sons of Ruben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse answered, and spoke to the captains of the thousands of Israel, saying,
勒烏本人、加得和默納協半支派的人，回答以色列的首長說：
22 God [even] God is the Lord, and God [even] God himself knows, and Israel he shall know; if we have transgressed before the Lord by apostasy, let him not deliver us this day.
「大能者天主上主，大能者天主上主清楚知道，以色列也明白：如果我們有違背或干犯上主的事，願衪今天別救我們!
23 And if we have built to ourselves an altar, so as to apostatize from the Lord our God, so as to offer upon it a sacrifice of whole burnt offerings, so as to offer upon it a sacrifice of peace-offering, —the Lord shall require it.
如果我們建築這祭壇，有意離開上主，或有意在祭壇上祭全燔祭、素祭或和平祭，願上主自己懲罰我們!
24 But we have done this for the sake of precaution [concerning this] thing, saying, Lest hereafter your sons should say to our sons, What have you to do with the Lord God of Israel?
我們做這事，其實正是顧慮到：將來你們的子孫會對我們的子孫說：你們和上主以色列的天主有什麼關係﹖
25 Whereas the Lord has set boundaries between us and you, even Jordan, and you have no portion in the Lord: so your sons shall alienate our sons, that they should not worship the Lord.
天主定了約旦河為我們和你們勒烏本和和得人之間的界限，你們和上主已沒有分子。這樣你們的子孫必使我們的的子孫不再敬畏上主。
26 And we gave orders to do thus, to build this altar, not for burnt offerings, nor for meat-offerings;
因此我們想：我們還是建築一座祭壇，不是為獻全燔祭，也不是為祭獻犧牲，
27 but that this may be a witness between you and us, and between our posterity after us, that we may do service to the Lord before him, with our burnt offerings and our meat-offerings and our peace-offerings: so your sons shall not say to our sons, hereafter, You have no portion in the Lord.
只是為在你我之間，在你我後人之間作一證據，證明我們願在上主面前以全燔祭犧牲及和平祭敬禮上主，免得日後你們的子孫對我們的子孫說：你們與上主已沒有分子o
28 And we said, If ever it should come to pass that they should speak [so] to us, or to our posterity hereafter; then shall they say, Behold the likeness of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for the sake of burnt offerings, nor for the sake of meat-offerings, but it is a witness between you and us, and between our sons.
因此我們想：日後如有人對我們或我們的子孫說，我們可以說：你們試看我們的祖先所築的上主的祭壇的式樣，不是為獻全燔祭，也不是為獻犧牲，而是為作你我之間的證劇。
29 Far be it from us therefore that we should turn away from the Lord this day so as to apostatize from the Lord, so as that we should build an altar for burnt offerings, and for peace-offerings, besides the altar of the Lord which is before his tabernacle.
我們今天沒有意思違背上主，離開上主，在上主我們天主的帳幕前的祭壇以外，為獻全墦祭、素祭和犧牲，另建立一祭壇。」
30 And Phinees the priest and all the chiefs of the congregation of Israel who were with him heard the words which the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse spoke; and it pleased them.
司祭丕乃哈斯和同他同來的會眾的首領，即以色列人的族長，聽了勒烏本人、加得人和默納協人所的話，都表示滿意。
31 And Phinees the priest said to the sons of Ruben, and to the sons of Gad, and to the half of the tribe of Manasse, To-day we know that the Lord [is] with us, because you have not trespassed grievously against the Lord, and because you have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord.
厄肋阿則爾的兒子丕乃哈司祭對勒烏本人、加得人和默納協人說：「今天我們知道上主是在我們中間，因為你們對上主沒有犯過這樣不忠信的罪，現在你們由上主手中救了以色列子民。」
32 So Phinees the priest and the princes departed from the children of Ruben, and from the children of Gad, and from the half tribe of Manasse out of Galaad into the land of Chanaan to the children of Israel; and reported the words to them.
厄肋阿則爾的兒子丕乃哈司祭和首領便離開勒烏本人、加得人和默納協半支派的人，從基肋阿得地方回到客納罕地見以色列子民，給他們報告了這事。
33 And it pleased the children of Israel; and they spoke to the children of Israel, and blessed the God of the children of Israel, and told them to go up no more to war against the others to destroy the land of the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse: so they lived upon it.
以色列子民對這報告都表示滿意，遂頌揚上主，不再想作戰攻打勒烏本人和加得人，毀滅他們所住的地方。
34 And Joshua gave a name to the altar of the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse; and said, It is a testimony in the midst of them, that the Lord is their God.
勒烏本人和加得人給那祭壇起名叫「赫得，」因為他們說：「這祭壇在我們中間證明上主是真天主。」
