< Numbers 5 >

1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
上主訓示梅瑟說:「
2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by a dead person:
你命以色列子民把患任何癩病、任何淋病及所有為死屍沾染不潔的人送出營外,
3 both male and female shall ye put out; outside the camp shall ye put them, that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.
不論男女,都應送到營外去,免得我住在他們中的營幕沾染不潔。」
4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp: as Jehovah had said to Moses, so did the children of Israel.
以色列子民就如此做了,將他們送到營外;上主怎樣吩咐了梅瑟,以色列子民就怎樣做了。
5 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
上主訓示梅瑟說:
6 Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any of all the sins of man to work unfaithfulness against Jehovah, and that soul is guilty,
「你訓令以色列子民:不論男女,對近人作了什麼不義的事,因此得罪上主而自覺有罪,
7 then they shall confess their sin which they have done; and he shall recompense his trespass according to the principal thereof, and shall add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.
他該承認自己所作的不義,除賠償全部損失外,還應另加五分之一給他所害的人。
8 And if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, the trespass which is recompensed to Jehovah shall be the priest's, besides the ram of the atonement, wherewith an atonement is made for him.
若此人沒有近親可向他賠償,這賠償就歸上主,屬於司祭。此外尚應獻一贖罪的公綿羊,為自己贖罪。
9 And every heave-offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present unto the priest, shall be his.
以色列子民在奉獻的各種聖物中,凡是給司祭的獻儀,即歸於司祭。
10 And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatever any man giveth the priest shall be his.
每人所奉獻的聖物,應歸自己;但人給與司祭的,應歸於司祭。」
11 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
上主訓示梅瑟說:「
12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go astray, and commit unfaithfulness against him,
你告訴以色列子民說:若某人的妻子背離丈夫,
13 and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and she be defiled in secret, and there be no witness against her, and she have not been caught;
對他不忠,瞞著丈夫讓人與她同睡交媾,在暗中玷污了自己,又沒有見證,也沒有被捉住,
14 and the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she have been defiled, — or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she have not been defiled,
若丈夫心生疑忌,疑忌他的妻子受了玷污;或者心生疑忌疑忌他的妻子,但她實在沒有受玷污;
15 — then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, a tenth part of an ephah of barley-meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an oblation of jealousy, a memorial oblation, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
丈夫就應帶他的妻子到司祭前,為她獻祭,獻十分之一「厄法」的大麥粉,其上不可倒油,也不可加乳香,因為這是因疑忌所獻的素祭,是一回憶罪過的素祭。
16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before Jehovah.
司祭令她前來,站在上主面前;
17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and the priest shall take of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and put it into the water.
然後用陶器取些聖水,再由會幕地上取些塵土,放入水內。
18 And the priest shall set the woman before Jehovah, and uncover the woman's head, and put the memorial oblation in her hands, which is the jealousy offering; and in the hand of the priest shall be the bitter water that bringeth the curse.
司祭叫這女人站在上主面前,鬆開她的頭髮,將回憶的素祭品,即為疑忌所獻的素祭品,放在她的掌上,司祭手內拿著給人招致咒罵的苦水,
19 And the priest shall adjure her, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone astray in uncleanness, in being with another instead of thy husband, be free from this bitter water that bringeth the curse.
然後司祭命那女人起誓,對她說:「若沒有人與你同睡,若你沒有背離丈夫受玷污,願這招致咒罵的苦水於你無害。
20 But if thou hast gone astray to another instead of thy husband, and hast been defiled, and a man other than thy husband have lain with thee,
但是,如果你背離了丈夫受了玷污,讓丈夫以外的男人與你同睡,──
21 — then the priest shall adjure the woman with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman: Jehovah make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when Jehovah doth make thy thigh to shrink, and thy belly to swell;
在此司祭叫那女人以詛咒的誓辭起誓,然後對她說:──願上主使你在你民族中成為可咒罵和詛咒的人,使你大腿萎縮,使你肚腹腫脹,
22 and this water that bringeth the curse shall enter into thy bowels, to make the belly to swell, and the thigh to shrink. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
願這招致咒罵的水進入你的五臟,使你肚腹腫脹,使你大腿萎縮! 」女人答說:「阿們、阿們。」
23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall blot them out with the bitter water,
隨後司祭將這些咒文寫在紙上,用苦水洗去,
24 and he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that bringeth the curse, that the water that bringeth the curse may enter into her for bitterness.
令女人喝這招致咒罵的苦水。這招致咒罵的水一進入她內,就給她帶來苦楚。
25 And the priest shall take out of the woman's hand the oblation of jealousy, and shall wave the oblation before Jehovah, and shall present it at the altar.
司祭再由這女人的手內,接過為疑忌所獻的素祭祭品,在上主面前行過搖禮後,放在祭壇上;
26 And the priest shall take a handful of the oblation as a memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar; and afterwards he shall make the woman drink the water.
再由這素祭祭品內取出一把來作為紀念,放在祭壇上焚燒;以後,纔令女人喝這水。
27 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she have been defiled, and have committed unfaithfulness against her husband, that the water that bringeth the curse shall enter into her, for bitterness, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall shrink; and the woman shall become a curse among her people.
司祭命她喝水以後,事必靈驗:如果她受了玷污,對丈夫不忠,這招致咒罵的水一進入她內,就給她帶來苦楚;她的肚腹必腫脹,大腿必萎縮;這女人在她的民族中,必成為可咒罵的人。
28 But if the woman have not been defiled, and be clean, then she shall be clear, and shall conceive seed.
但是,如果這女人沒有受玷污,而是貞潔的,就不致受害,反要生育子女。
29 This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth astray to another instead of her husband and is defiled,
這是關於疑忌事的法律:幾時一個婦人,背離丈夫,受了玷污;
30 or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man, and he is jealous as regards his wife; then shall he set the woman before Jehovah, and the priest shall do to her according to all this law.
或是一個男人心生疑忌,疑忌自己的妻子,他應帶妻子站在上主面前,司祭應對她執行這法律所規定的一切。
31 Then shall the man be free from iniquity, but that woman shall bear her iniquity.
如此,男人可免無罪,女人應自負罪債。」

< Numbers 5 >