Numbers 11
1 Meanwhile, there arose a murmur among the people against the Lord, as if they were grief-stricken because of their labors. And when the Lord had heard it, he was angry. And when the fire of the Lord was enflamed against them, it devoured those who were at the extreme end 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 when the people had cried out to Moses, Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire was consumed.
人民遂向梅瑟求救；梅瑟懇求了上主，火就熄滅了，
3 And he called the name of that place, ‘The Burning,’ because the fire of the Lord had burned against them.
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 So then, the mix of common people, who had ascended with them, were enflamed with desire, and sitting and weeping, with the sons of Israel joining them, they said, “Who will 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 that we ate freely in Egypt; we call to mind the cucumbers, and melons, and leeks, and onions, and garlic.
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 Our life is dry; our eyes look out to see nothing but 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 Now the manna was like coriander seed, but with the color of bdellium.
瑪納」形似胡荽種子，色彩有如珍珠。
8 And the people wandered about, gathering it, and they crushed it with a millstone, or ground it with a mortar; then they boiled it in a pot, and made biscuits out of it, with a taste like bread 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 descended in the night over the camp, the manna descended together with it.
夜間露水降在營上時，也降下「瑪納。」
10 And so, Moses heard the people weeping by their families, each one at the door of his tent. And the fury of the Lord was greatly enflamed. And to Moses also the matter seemed intolerable.
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 so he said to the Lord: “Why have you afflicted your servant? Why do I not find favor before you? And why have you imposed the weight of this entire 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 Could I have conceived this entire multitude, or have given birth to them, so that you might say to me: Carry them in your bosom, as a nursemaid usually carries a little infant, and bring them into the land, about which you have sworn 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 From where would I obtain the flesh to give to so great a multitude? They weep against me, saying, ‘Give us flesh, so 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 alone am unable to sustain this entire people, because it is too heavy for me.
我獨自不能抱著這百姓，這為我太重。
15 But if it seems to you otherwise, I beg you to put me to death, and so may I find grace in your eyes, lest I be afflicted with such evils.”
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 to me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom you know to be elders, as well as teachers, of the people. And you shall lead them to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant, and you shall cause them to stand there with you,
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 so that I may descend and speak to you. And I will take from your spirit, and I will deliver it to them, so that, with you, they may sustain the burden of the people, and so that you will not be weighed down 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 You shall also say to the people: Be sanctified. Tomorrow you will eat flesh. For I have heard you say: ‘Who will give us flesh to eat? It was well with us in Egypt.’ So then, may the Lord give you flesh. And you will eat,
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 not for one day, nor for two, nor for five, nor for ten, nor even for twenty,
不但是一天、兩天、五天、十天、二十天，你們有肉吃，
20 but for up to a month of days, until it exits from your nostrils, and until it turns into nausea for you, because you have slipped away from the Lord, who is in your midst, and because you have wept before him, saying: ‘Why did we go forth 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: “There are six hundred thousand footmen of this people, and yet you say, ‘I will give them flesh to eat for 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 Could a multitude of sheep and oxen be slain, so that there would be enough food? Or will the fishes of the sea be gathered together, in order to satisfy 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 answered him: “Can the hand of the Lord be ineffective? Soon now, you shall see whether my word will be fulfilled in this work.”
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 so, Moses went and explained the words of the Lord to the people. Gathering together seventy men from the elders of Israel, he caused them to stand around 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 descended in a cloud, and he spoke to him, taking from the Spirit which was in Moses, and giving to the seventy men. And when the Spirit had rested in them, they prophesied; nor did they cease afterwards.
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 Now there had remained in the camp two of the men, of whom one was called Eldad, and the other Medad, upon whom the Spirit rested; for they also had been enrolled, but they did not go forth to the tabernacle.
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 when they were prophesying in the camp, a boy ran and reported to Moses, saying: “Eldad and Medad 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 Promptly, Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses and chosen from many, said: “My lord Moses, prohibit 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 But he said, “Why are you jealous on my behalf? Who decides that any of the people may prophesy and that God may give to them his Spirit?”
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 returned, with those greater by birth of Israel, into the camp.
梅瑟遂與以色列的長老回到了營內。
31 Then a wind, going out from the Lord and moving forcefully across the sea, brought quails and cast them into the camp, across a distance of one day’s journey, in every part of the camp all around, and they flew in the air two cubits high above the ground.
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 Therefore, the people, rising up, gathered quails all that day and night, and the next day; he who did least well gathered ten homers. And they dried them throughout 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 still between their teeth, neither had this kind of food ceased, and behold, the fury of the Lord was provoked against the people, and he struck them with an exceedingly great scourge.
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 that place was called, ‘The Graves of Lust.’ For there, they buried the people who had desired.
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 Then, departing from the Graves of Lust, they arrived in Hazeroth, and they stayed there.
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。
