Numbers 14
1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried; and the people wept all that night.
全會眾都大聲喧嚷，人民哭了一夜。
2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron; and all the congregation said to them,
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!
3 Would we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness, would we had died! and why does the Lord bring us into this land to fall in war? our wives and our children shall be for a prey: now then it is better to return into Egypt.
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﹖」
4 And they said one to another, Let us make a ruler, and return into Egypt.
於是彼此說：「我們另立頭目，回埃及去。」
5 And Moses and Aaron fell upon their face before all the congregation of the children of Israel.
梅瑟和亞郎遂俯伏在以色列子民全會眾前。
6 But Joshua the [son] of Naue, and Chaleb the [son] of Jephonne, of [the number of] them that spied out the land, tore their garments,
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，
7 and spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land which we surveyed is indeed extremely good.
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。
8 If the Lord choose us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
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。
9 Only depart not from the Lord; and fear you not the people of the land, for they are meat for us; for the season [of prosperity] is departed from them, but the Lord [is] amongst us: fear them not.
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。」
10 And all the congregation bade stone them with stones; and the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud on the tabernacle of witness to all the children of Israel.
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。
11 And the Lord said to Moses, How long does this people provoke me? and how long do they refuse to believe me for all the signs which I have wrought amongst them?
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﹖
12 I will strike them with death, and destroy them; and I will make of you and of your father's house a great nation, and much greater than this.
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。」
13 And Moses said to the Lord, So Egypt shall hear, for you have brought up this people from them by your might.
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，
14 Moreover all the dwellers upon this land have heard that you are Lord in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, are seen [by them] face to face, and your cloud rests upon them, and you go before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire.
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。
15 And [if] you shall destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard your name shall speak, saying,
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：『
16 Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which he sware to them, he has overthrown them in the wilderness.
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。』
17 And now, O Lord, let your strength be exalted, as you spoke, saying,
吾主，如今求你，大發寬容，如你曾聲明說：
18 The Lord [is] longsuffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.
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。
19 Forgive this people their sin according to your great mercy, as you were favourable to them from Egypt until now.
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。」
20 And the Lord said to Moses, I am gracious to them according to your word.
上主回答說：「我就照你祈求的寬赦他們；
21 But [as] I live and my name is living, so the glory of the Lord shall fill all the earth.
但是我以我的生命，以充滿全地的上主的榮耀起誓：
22 For all the men who see my glory, and the signs which I wrought in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me this tenth time, and have not listened to my voice,
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，
23 surely they shall not see the land, which I sware to their fathers; but their children which are with me here, as many as know not good or evil, every inexperienced youth, to them will I give the land; but none who have provoked me shall see it.
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。
24 But my servant Chaleb, because there was another spirit in him, and he followed me, I will bring him into the land into which he entered, and his seed shall inherit it.
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。
25 But Amalec and the Chananite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn and depart for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
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。」
26 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
上主吩咐梅瑟和亞郎說：「
27 How long [shall I endure] this wicked congregation? I have heard their murmurings against me, [even] the murmuring of the children of Israel, which they have murmured concerning you.
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。
28 Say to them, [As] I live, says the Lord: surely as you spoke into my ears, so will I do to you.
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：
29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all those of you that were reviewed, and those of you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, all that murmured against me,
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。
30 you shall not enter into the land for which I stretched out my hand to establish you upon it; except only Chaleb the son of Jephonne, and Joshua the [son] of Naue.
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。
31 And your little ones, who you said should be a prey, them will I bring into the land; and they shall inherit the land, which you rejected.
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。
32 And your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.
至於你們，你們必倒斃在這曠野中；
33 And your sons shall be fed in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, until your carcases be consumed in the wilderness.
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。
34 According to the number of the days during which you spied the land, forty days, a day for a year, you shall bear your sins forty years, and you shall know my fierce anger.
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。
35 I the Lord have spoken, Surely will I do thus to this evil congregation that has risen up together against me: in this wilderness they shall be utterly consumed, and there they shall die.
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。」
36 And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who came and murmured against it to the assembly so as to bring out evil words concerning the land, —
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。
37 the men that spoke evil reports against the land, even died of the plague before the Lord.
這些對那地方講說壞話的人，都遭了災罰，死在上主面前；
38 And Joshua the son of Naue and Chaleb the son of Jephonne [still] lived of those men that went to spy out the land.
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。
39 And Moses spoke these words to all the children of Israel; and the people mourned exceedingly.
梅瑟將這些話告訴了全以色列子民；人民都非常憂悶。
40 And they rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Behold, we that are here will go up to the place of which the Lord has spoken, because we have sinned.
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。」
41 And Moses said, Why do you transgress the word of the Lord? you shall not prosper.
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。
42 Go not up, for the Lord is not with you; so shall you fall before the face of your enemies.
不要上去，因為上主不在你們中間，難免不被敵人擊敗。
43 For Amalec and the Chananite [are] there before you, and you shall fall by the sword; because you have disobeyed the Lord and turned aside, and the Lord will not be amongst you.
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。」
44 And having forced their passage, they went up to the top of the mountain; but the ark of the covenant of the Lord and Moses stirred not out of the camp.
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。
45 And Amalec and the Chananite that lived in that mountain came down, and routed them, and destroyed them to Herman; and they returned to the camp.
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。
