1 Chronicles 21
1 Now Satan rose up against Israel, and he incited David so that he would number Israel.
[統計人口得罪上主]撒殫起來反對以色列，慫恿達味統計以色列：
2 And David said to Joab and to the leaders of the people: “Go, and number Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan. And bring me the number, so that I may know it.”
達味對約阿布及人民的首領說：「你們去統計以色列，由貝爾舍巴直到丹，然後回來告訴我，叫我知道他們的數目。」
3 And Joab responded: “May the Lord increase his people a hundred times more than they are. But, my lord the king, are they not all your servants? Why would my lord seek this thing, which may be imputed as a sin to Israel?”
約阿布回答說：「願上主使自己的百姓比現在更增加百倍! 我主大王，他們不都是我主的僕人嗎﹖我主為什麼硬要這樣作﹖為什麼要使以色列陷於罪惡﹖」
4 But the word of the king prevailed instead. And Joab went away, and he traveled around, through all of Israel. And he returned to Jerusalem.
然而君王的命令迫使約阿布；約阿布便去，走遍了全以色列，然後回到耶路撒冷，
5 And he gave to David the number of those whom he had surveyed. And the entire number of Israel was found to be one million and one hundred thousand men who could draw the sword; but from Judah, there were four hundred and seventy thousand men of war.
將統計人民的數目呈報給達味；全以色列能持刀的人有一百一十萬，猶大人能持刀的有四十七萬。
6 But Levi and Benjamin he did not number. For Joab executed the orders of the king unwillingly.
唯有肋未人及本雅明人沒有統計，因為約阿布憎厭君王的命令。
7 Then God was displeased with what had been ordered, and so he struck Israel.
這事使天主不悅，打擊了以色列。
8 And David said to God: “I have sinned exceedingly in doing this. I beg you take away the iniquity of your servant. For I have acted unwisely.”
達味對天主說：「我作這事，實在犯了重罪。現在，求你赦免你僕人的罪，因為我所行的實在昏愚。」
9 And the Lord spoke to Gad, the seer of David, saying:
上主曉諭達味的先見者加得說：「
10 “Go, and speak to David, and tell him: Thus says the Lord: I give to you the option of three things. Choose the one that you will want, and I will do it to you.”
你去告訴達味：上主這樣說：我給你提出三件事，任你選擇一件，我好向你實行。」
11 And when Gad had gone to David, he said to him: “Thus says the Lord: Choose what you will want:
加得來到達味前，對他說：「上主這樣說：任你選擇：
12 Either three years of famine, or three months for you to flee from your enemies, unable to escape from their sword, or three days for the sword of the Lord and a pestilence to turn within the land, with the Angel of the Lord killing in every part of Israel. Now therefore, see what I should respond to him who sent me.”
或者三年饑荒；或者三個月在你敵人前流亡，為敵人持刀追擊；或者三日在你國內遭受上主的刀，即瘟疫，讓上主的使者蹂躪以色列全境。現在你考慮一下，我應向那派遣我來的回覆什麼!」
13 And David said to Gad: “There are difficulties pressing upon me from every side. But it is better for me to fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are many, than into the hands of men.”
達味對加得說：「我很難作，但我寧願落在上主手中，因為他富於仁慈，而不願落在人手中。」[降瘟疫之罰]
14 Therefore, the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel. And there fell from Israel seventy thousand men.
於是上主使瘟疫降於以色列；在以色列因瘟疫死了七萬人。
15 Also, he sent an Angel to Jerusalem, so that he might strike it. And while he was striking, the Lord saw and took pity over the magnitude of the harm. And he commanded the Angel who was striking: “It is enough. Now let your hand cease.” And the Angel of the Lord was standing beside the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
當時，天主派一位天使往耶路撒冷去，要毀滅那城；將要毀損的時候，上主一看，便後悔降災，遂吩咐毀滅的天使說：「夠了，現在收回你的手罷! 」那時，上主的天使正立在耶步斯人敖爾難的禾場上。
16 And David, lifting up his eyes, saw the Angel of the Lord, standing between heaven and earth with a drawn sword in his hand, turned toward Jerusalem. And both he and those greater by birth, being clothed in haircloth, fell prone upon the ground.
達味舉目，見上主的使者立在天地中間，手持脫鞘的刀，朝向耶路撒冷。達味與眾長老都身穿麻衣，俯伏在地。
17 And David said to God: “Am I not the one who ordered that the people be numbered? It is I who sinned; it is I who did evil. This flock, what does it deserve? O Lord my God, I beg you to let your hand be turned against me and against the house of my father. But let not your people be struck down.”
達味對天主說：「不是我下了令統計百姓麼﹖是我犯了罪，是我這個牧者作了惡。但這羊群作了什麼﹖上主，我的天主! 願你的手打擊我和我的父家，但不要將瘟疫降在你百姓身上! [建築祭壇平息主怒]
18 Then the Angel of the Lord instructed Gad to tell David that he should ascend and build an altar to the Lord God on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
上主的天使吩咐加得去告訴達味，叫他上去，在耶步斯人敖爾難的禾場上，為上主建立一座祭壇。
19 Therefore, David ascended, in accord with the word of Gad, which he had spoken to him in the name of the Lord.
達味就照加得奉上主的名所說的話上去了。
20 Now when Ornan had looked up and seen the Angel, he and his four sons hid themselves. For at that time, he was threshing wheat upon the floor.
敖爾難回頭看見君王和他的四個兒子經過；那時敖爾難正在打麥子。
21 Then, as David was approaching Ornan, Ornan saw him, and he went out from the threshing floor to meet him. And he reverenced him prone on the ground.
達味走到敖爾難那裏，敖爾難一看見達味，便走出禾場，俯首至地叩拜達味。
22 And David said to him: “Give this place of your threshing floor to me, so that I may build an altar to the Lord upon it. And you shall accept from me as much money as it is worth, so that the plague may cease from the people.”
達味對敖爾難說：「請將這塊禾場地段讓給我，我要在這禾場上為上主建立一座祭壇，請照足價讓給我，為止息民間的災禍。」
23 But Ornan said to David: “Take it, and may my lord the king do whatever pleases him. Moreover, I give the oxen also as a holocaust, and the plow for wood, and the wheat for a sacrifice. I will offer all freely.”
敖爾爾對達味說：「儘管用吧! 我主大王看著好，就去行吧! 看我將牛給你作全燔祭，打禾具作木柴，麥子作素祭：這一切我都供給你」。
24 And king David said to him: “By no means shall it be so. Instead, I will give money to you, as much as it is worth. For I must not take it from you, and thereby offer to the Lord holocausts that cost nothing.”
達味對敖爾難說：「不成! 我一定要照足價來買；我不能拿你的東西獻於上主，不能用沒有代價的東西，獻作全燔祭」。
25 Therefore, David gave Ornan, for the place, the very just weight of six hundred shekels of gold.
於是，達味為那塊地付給敖爾難六百「協刻耳」重的金子。
26 And he built an altar to the Lord there. And he offered holocausts and peace offerings, and he called upon the Lord. And he heeded him by sending fire from heaven upon the altar of the holocaust.
達味在那裏為上主建立了一座祭壇，奉獻了全燔祭與和平祭，呼求了上主，上住由天上垂聽了他，使火降在全燔祭壇上，
27 And the Lord instructed the Angel, and he turned his sword back into its sheath.
並命天使將刀收入鞘中。[選定建殿地點]
28 Then, seeing that the Lord had heeded him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, David immediately immolated victims there.
那時，達味見上主在耶步斯人敖爾難的禾場上垂聽了他，就在那裏獻了祭。─
29 But the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses had made in the desert, and the altar of holocausts, were at that time on the high place of Gibeon.
梅瑟在曠野所造的會幕和全燔祭壇，那時雖都在基貝紅高處，
30 And David was unable to go to the altar, so that he might pray to God there. For he had been struck with an exceedingly great fear, seeing the sword of the Angel of the Lord.
但達味不敢前去求問天主，因為害怕上主使者的刀。
