Numbers 14
1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried; and the people wept all that night.
當下，全會眾大聲喧嚷；那夜百姓都哭號。
2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron; and all the congregation said to them,
以色列眾人向摩西、亞倫發怨言；全會眾對他們說：「巴不得我們早死在埃及地，或是死在這曠野。
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.
耶和華為甚麼把我們領到那地，使我們倒在刀下呢？我們的妻子和孩子必被擄掠。我們回埃及去豈不好嗎？」
4 And they said one to another, Let us make a ruler, and return into Egypt.
眾人彼此說：「我們不如立一個首領回埃及去吧！」
5 And Moses and Aaron fell upon their face before all the congregation of the children of Israel.
摩西、亞倫就俯伏在以色列全會眾面前。
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,
窺探地的人中，嫩的兒子約書亞和耶孚尼的兒子迦勒撕裂衣服，
7 and spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land which we surveyed is indeed extremely good.
對以色列全會眾說：「我們所窺探、經過之地是極美之地。
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.
耶和華若喜悅我們，就必將我們領進那地，把地賜給我們；那地原是流奶與蜜之地。
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] among us: fear them not.
但你們不可背叛耶和華，也不要怕那地的居民；因為他們是我們的食物，並且蔭庇他們的已經離開他們。有耶和華與我們同在，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.
但全會眾說：「拿石頭打死他們二人。」忽然，耶和華的榮光在會幕中向以色列眾人顯現。
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 among them?
耶和華對摩西說：「這百姓藐視我要到幾時呢？我在他們中間行了這一切神蹟，他們還不信我要到幾時呢？
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.
我要用瘟疫擊殺他們，使他們不得承受那地，叫你的後裔成為大國，比他們強勝。」
13 And Moses said to the Lord, So Egypt shall hear, for you have brought up this people from them by your might.
摩西對耶和華說：「埃及人必聽見這事；因為你曾施展大能，將這百姓從他們中間領上來。
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.
埃及人要將這事傳給迦南地的居民；那民已經聽見你－耶和華是在這百姓中間；因為你面對面被人看見，有你的雲彩停在他們以上。你日間在雲柱中，夜間在火柱中，在他們前面行。
15 And [if] you shall destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard your name shall speak, saying,
如今你若把這百姓殺了，如殺一人，那些聽見你名聲的列邦必議論說：
16 Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which he sware to them, he has overthrown them in the wilderness.
『耶和華因為不能把這百姓領進他向他們起誓應許之地，所以在曠野把他們殺了。』
17 And now, O Lord, let your strength be exalted, as you spoke, saying,
現在求主大顯能力，照你所說過的話說：
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.
『耶和華不輕易發怒，並有豐盛的慈愛，赦免罪孽和過犯；萬不以有罪的為無罪，必追討他的罪，自父及子，直到三、四代。』
19 Forgive this people their sin according to your great mercy, as you were favourable to them from Egypt until now.
求你照你的大慈愛赦免這百姓的罪孽，好像你從埃及到如今常赦免他們一樣。」
20 And the Lord said to Moses, I am gracious to them according to your word.
耶和華說：「我照着你的話赦免了他們。
21 But [as] I live and my name is living, so the glory of the Lord shall fill all the earth.
然我指着我的永生起誓，遍地要被我的榮耀充滿。
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,
這些人雖看見我的榮耀和我在埃及與曠野所行的神蹟，仍然試探我這十次，不聽從我的話，
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.
他們斷不得看見我向他們的祖宗所起誓應許之地。凡藐視我的，一個也不得看見；
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.
惟獨我的僕人迦勒，因他另有一個心志，專一跟從我，我就把他領進他所去過的那地；他的後裔也必得那地為業。
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.
亞瑪力人和迦南人住在谷中，明天你們要轉回，從紅海的路往曠野去。」
26 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
耶和華對摩西、亞倫說：
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.
「這惡會眾向我發怨言，我忍耐他們要到幾時呢？以色列人向我所發的怨言，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.
你們告訴他們，耶和華說：『我指着我的永生起誓，我必要照你們達到我耳中的話待你們。
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,
你們的屍首必倒在這曠野，並且你們中間凡被數點、從二十歲以外、向我發怨言的，
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.
必不得進我起誓應許叫你們住的那地；惟有耶孚尼的兒子迦勒和嫩的兒子約書亞才能進去。
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.
但你們的婦人孩子，就是你們所說、要被擄掠的，我必把他們領進去，他們就得知你們所厭棄的那地。
32 And your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.
至於你們，你們的屍首必倒在這曠野；
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.
你們的兒女必在曠野飄流四十年，擔當你們淫行的罪，直到你們的屍首在曠野消滅。
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.
按你們窺探那地的四十日，一年頂一日，你們要擔當罪孽四十年，就知道我與你們疏遠了，
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－耶和華說過，我總要這樣待這一切聚集敵我的惡會眾；他們必在這曠野消滅，在這裏死亡。』」
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, —
摩西所打發、窺探那地的人回來，報那地的惡信，叫全會眾向摩西發怨言，
37 the men that spoke evil reports against the land, even died of the plague before the Lord.
這些報惡信的人都遭瘟疫，死在耶和華面前。
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.
其中惟有嫩的兒子約書亞和耶孚尼的兒子迦勒仍然存活。
39 And Moses spoke these words to all the children of Israel; and the people mourned exceedingly.
摩西將這些話告訴以色列眾人，他們就甚悲哀。
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.
清早起來，上山頂去，說：「我們在這裏，我們有罪了；情願上耶和華所應許的地方去。」
41 And Moses said, Why do you transgress the word of the Lord? you shall not prosper.
摩西說：「你們為何違背耶和華的命令呢？這事不能順利了。
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；因為耶和華不在你們中間，恐怕你們被仇敵殺敗了。
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 among you.
亞瑪力人和迦南人都在你們面前，你們必倒在刀下；因你們退回不跟從耶和華，所以他必不與你們同在。」
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.
他們卻擅敢上山頂去，然而耶和華的約櫃和摩西沒有出營。
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.
於是亞瑪力人和住在那山上的迦南人都下來擊打他們，把他們殺退了，直到何珥瑪。
