Numbers 14
1 And so, crying out, the entire crowd wept throughout that night.
当下，全会众大声喧嚷；那夜百姓都哭号。
2 And all the sons of Israel were murmuring against Moses and Aaron, saying:
以色列众人向摩西、亚伦发怨言；全会众对他们说：“巴不得我们早死在埃及地，或是死在这旷野。
3 “If only we had died in Egypt,” and, “If only we would perish in this vast wilderness,” and, “May the Lord not lead us into this land, lest we fall by the sword, and our wives, as well as our children, be led away as captives. Is it not better to return to Egypt?”
耶和华为什么把我们领到那地，使我们倒在刀下呢？我们的妻子和孩子必被掳掠。我们回埃及去岂不好吗？”
4 And they said to one another, “Let us appoint our leader, and so return to Egypt.”
众人彼此说：“我们不如立一个首领回埃及去吧！”
5 And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell prone on the ground in the sight of the multitude of the sons of Israel.
摩西、亚伦就俯伏在以色列全会众面前。
6 Yet truly, Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who themselves had also viewed the land, tore their garments,
窥探地的人中，嫩的儿子约书亚和耶孚尼的儿子迦勒撕裂衣服，
7 and they said to the entire multitude of the sons of Israel: “The land that we circled through is very good.
对以色列全会众说：“我们所窥探、经过之地是极美之地。
8 If the Lord will be gracious to us, he will lead us into it, and he will give us the land flowing with milk and honey.
耶和华若喜悦我们，就必将我们领进那地，把地赐给我们；那地原是流奶与蜜之地。
9 Do not choose to be rebellious against the Lord. And do not fear the people of this land, for, like bread, so are we able to devour them. All protection has withdrawn from them. The Lord is with us. Do not be afraid.”
但你们不可背叛耶和华，也不要怕那地的居民；因为他们是我们的食物，并且荫庇他们的已经离开他们。有耶和华与我们同在，不要怕他们！”
10 And when the entire multitude cried out, and they wanted to crush them with stones, the glory of the Lord appeared, over the roof of the covenant, to all the sons of Israel.
但全会众说：“拿石头打死他们二人。”忽然，耶和华的荣光在会幕中向以色列众人显现。
11 And the Lord said to Moses: “How long will this people disparage me? How long will they refuse to believe me, despite all the signs that I have wrought before them?
耶和华对摩西说：“这百姓藐视我要到几时呢？我在他们中间行了这一切神迹，他们还不信我要到几时呢？
12 Therefore, I will strike them with a pestilence, and so I will consume them. But you I will make the ruler over a great nation, and one which is mightier than this one.”
我要用瘟疫击杀他们，使他们不得承受那地，叫你的后裔成为大国，比他们强胜。”
13 And Moses said to the Lord: “But then the Egyptians, from whose midst you led out this people,
摩西对耶和华说：“埃及人必听见这事；因为你曾施展大能，将这百姓从他们中间领上来。
14 and the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that you, O Lord, are among this people, and that you are seen face to face, and that your cloud protects them, and that you go before them with a column of cloud by day, and a column of fire by night,
埃及人要将这事传给迦南地的居民；那民已经听见你—耶和华是在这百姓中间；因为你面对面被人看见，有你的云彩停在他们以上。你日间在云柱中，夜间在火柱中，在他们前面行。
15 may hear that you have killed so great a multitude, as if they were one man, and they may say:
如今你若把这百姓杀了，如杀一人，那些听见你名声的列邦必议论说：
16 ‘He was not able to lead the people into the land about which he had sworn. Therefore, he slew them in the wilderness.’
‘耶和华因为不能把这百姓领进他向他们起誓应许之地，所以在旷野把他们杀了。’
17 Therefore, may the strength of the Lord be magnified, just as you swore, saying:
现在求主大显能力，照你所说过的话说：
18 ‘The Lord is patient and full of mercy, taking away iniquity and wickedness, and forsaking no one who is harmless. He visits the sins of the fathers upon the sons, to the third and fourth generation.’
‘耶和华不轻易发怒，并有丰盛的慈爱，赦免罪孽和过犯；万不以有罪的为无罪，必追讨他的罪，自父及子，直到三、四代。’
19 Forgive, I beg you, the sins of this people, according to the greatness of your mercy, just as you have been gracious to them in their journey from Egypt to this place.”
求你照你的大慈爱赦免这百姓的罪孽，好像你从埃及到如今常赦免他们一样。”
20 And the Lord said: “I have forgiven them according to your word.
耶和华说：“我照着你的话赦免了他们。
21 Also, as I live, the entire world shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
然我指着我的永生起誓，遍地要被我的荣耀充满。
22 And yet, all the men who have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, and who have tested me ten times already, and yet have not obeyed my voice,
这些人虽看见我的荣耀和我在埃及与旷野所行的神迹，仍然试探我这十次，不听从我的话，
23 these shall not see the land, about which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who detracted me gaze upon it.
他们断不得看见我向他们的祖宗所起誓应许之地。凡藐视我的，一个也不得看见；
24 My servant Caleb, who, being full of another spirit, has followed me, I will lead into this land, through which he has wandered, and his offspring shall possess it.
惟独我的仆人迦勒，因他另有一个心志，专一跟从我，我就把他领进他所去过的那地；他的后裔也必得那地为业。
25 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys. Tomorrow, move the camp and return into the wilderness, by the way of the Red Sea.”
亚玛力人和迦南人住在谷中，明天你们要转回，从红海的路往旷野去。”
26 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
耶和华对摩西、亚伦说：
27 “How long will this very wicked multitude murmur against me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel.
“这恶会众向我发怨言，我忍耐他们要到几时呢？以色列人向我所发的怨言，我都听见了。
28 Therefore, say to them: As I live, says the Lord, as you spoke in my hearing, so will I do to you.
你们告诉他们，耶和华说：‘我指着我的永生起誓，我必要照你们达到我耳中的话待你们。
29 In the wilderness, here shall your carcasses lie. All you who were numbered from twenty years and above, and who have murmured against me,
你们的尸首必倒在这旷野，并且你们中间凡被数点、从二十岁以外、向我发怨言的，
30 you shall not enter into the land, over which I lifted up my hand to cause you to live there, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
必不得进我起誓应许叫你们住的那地；惟有耶孚尼的儿子迦勒和嫩的儿子约书亚才能进去。
31 But your little ones, about whom you said that they would be a prey to the enemies, I will lead them in, so that they may see the land that has displeased you.
但你们的妇人孩子，就是你们所说、要被掳掠的，我必把他们领进去，他们就得知你们所厌弃的那地。
32 Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness.
至于你们，你们的尸首必倒在这旷野；
33 Your sons shall wander in the desert for forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers are consumed in the desert.
你们的儿女必在旷野飘流四十年，担当你们淫行的罪，直到你们的尸首在旷野消灭。
34 According to the number of the forty days, during which you examined the land, one year shall be charged for each day. And so, for forty years you shall take back your iniquities, and you shall know my retribution.
按你们窥探那地的四十日，一年顶一日，你们要担当罪孽四十年，就知道我与你们疏远了，
35 For just as I have spoken, so shall I do, to this entire most wicked multitude, which has risen up together against me. In the wilderness, here shall it fade away and die.”
我—耶和华说过，我总要这样待这一切聚集敌我的恶会众；他们必在这旷野消灭，在这里死亡。’”
36 Therefore, all the men, whom Moses had sent to contemplate the land, and who, having returned, had caused the entire multitude to murmur against him, disparaging the land as if it were evil,
摩西所打发、窥探那地的人回来，报那地的恶信，叫全会众向摩西发怨言，
37 suffered death and were struck down in the sight of the Lord.
这些报恶信的人都遭瘟疫，死在耶和华面前。
38 But only Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive, out of all those who had journeyed to examine the land.
其中惟有嫩的儿子约书亚和耶孚尼的儿子迦勒仍然存活。
39 And Moses spoke all these words to all the sons of Israel, and the people mourned exceedingly.
摩西将这些话告诉以色列众人，他们就甚悲哀。
40 And behold, rising up at first light, they climbed to the top of the mountain, and they said, “We are prepared to ascend to the place, about which the Lord has spoken, for we have sinned.”
清早起来，上山顶去，说：“我们在这里，我们有罪了；情愿上耶和华所应许的地方去。”
41 And Moses said to them: “Why do you transgress the word of the Lord, merely because it will not result in prosperity for you?
摩西说：“你们为何违背耶和华的命令呢？这事不能顺利了。
42 Do not ascend, for the Lord is not with you, lest you be overthrown before your enemies.
不要上去；因为耶和华不在你们中间，恐怕你们被仇敌杀败了。
43 The Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, by whose sword you shall be ruined, for you were not willing to consent to the Lord, and so the Lord is not with you.”
亚玛力人和迦南人都在你们面前，你们必倒在刀下；因你们退回不跟从耶和华，所以他必不与你们同在。”
44 But they, having been darkened, ascended to the top of the mountain. But the ark of the testament of the Lord, and Moses, did not withdraw from the camp.
他们却擅敢上山顶去，然而耶和华的约柜和摩西没有出营。
45 And the Amalekites descended, along with those Canaanites who were living in the mountains. And so, striking and cutting them down, they pursued them all the way to Hormah.
于是亚玛力人和住在那山上的迦南人都下来击打他们，把他们杀退了，直到何珥玛。
