Deuteronomy 1
1 These [are] the words which Moses has spoken to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-Zahab.
以下是梅瑟在約但河東岸，對全以色列所講的話。──即在穌夫對面的阿辣巴曠野中，在帕蘭與托費耳、拉班、哈則洛特和狄匝哈布之間。
2 [It takes] eleven days [to go] from Horeb, the way of Mount Seir, to Kadesh-Barnea.
從曷勒布經色依爾山，到卡得士巴爾乃亞，共有十一天的程路。──
3 And it comes to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, Moses has spoken to the sons of Israel according to all that YHWH has commanded him concerning them,
在第四十年十一月一日，梅瑟將上主吩咐他的一切事，全訓示了以色色列子民。
4 after his striking Sihon king of the Amorite who is dwelling in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan who is dwelling in Ashtaroth in Edrei.
當時他已擊敗住在赫市朋的阿摩黎王息紅，和住在阿舍塔洛特和厄得勒的巴商王敖格。
5 Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses has begun to explain this law, saying,
梅瑟在約但河東岸摩阿布地方開始宣講這法律說：「
6 “Our God YHWH has spoken to us in Horeb, saying, For you dwell at this mountain long enough;
上主，我們的天主，在曷勒布曾訓示我們說：你們在這山下住得夠久了，
7 turn and journey for yourselves, and go to the mountain of the Amorite, and to all its neighboring places in the plain, in the hill-country, and in the low country, and in the south, and in the haven of the sea, the land of the Canaanite, and of Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates River;
現在起身出發，到阿摩黎人的山地去，到那些住在阿辣巴荒野、山地、盆地、乃革布和沿海一帶地方去，到客納罕地，到黎巴嫩，直到大河，即幼發拉的河那一帶地方去。
8 see, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which YHWH has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.
看，我已將此地擺在你們面前，你們應去佔領上主誓許給你們祖先亞巴郎、依撒格、雅各伯和他們後裔的地方。」
9 And I speak to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you by myself;
那時我對你們說過：我個人無法負擔你們。
10 your God YHWH has multiplied you, and behold, today you [are] as the stars of the heavens for multitude;
上主你們的天主使你們的人數增加，看，你們今天多得有如天上的繁星。
11 YHWH, God of your fathers, is adding to you, as you [are], one thousand times, and blesses you as He has spoken to you.
惟願上主你們祖先的天主，再千百倍地增加你們的數目，照他所應許的，祝福你們!
12 How do I bear your pressure, and your burden, and your strife by myself?
但我個人怎能承擔起你們的煩務、重任和訴訟的事!
13 Provide wise and understanding men for yourselves that are known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads;
你們各支派應推舉一些有智慧，有見識，有經驗的人，我好立他們為你們的首領。
14 and you answer me and say, The thing which you have spoken [is] good to do.
你們回答我說：「你建議的事很好。」
15 And I take the heads of your tribes, wise men that are known, and I appoint them [as] heads over you, princes of thousands, and princes of hundreds, and princes of fifties, and princes of tens, and authorities for your tribes.
我遂選了你們各支派中有智慧有經驗的首領，立為你們的首領：即千夫長、百夫長、五十夫長、十人長，並為各支派立了監督，
16 And I command your judges at that time, saying, Listen between your brothers—then you have judged [in] righteousness between a man, and his brother, and his sojourner;
同時我也吩咐你們的判官說：你們要聽斷你們兄弟間的訴訟：無論是兄弟彼此訴訟，或與方外人訴訟，都應秉公審斷。
17 you do not discern faces in judgment; you hear the little as well as the great; you are not afraid of the face of any, for the judgment is God’s, and the thing which is too hard for you, you bring near to me, and I have heard it.
審案時不可偏袒，無論貴賤，同樣聽斷；任何人都不要怕，因為審判是天主的事。若遇有難斷的案件，該呈報給我，我來聽斷。
18 And I command you at that time all the things which you do.
同時，凡你們當做的事，我都吩咐了你們。
19 And we journey from Horeb, and go [through] all that great and fearful wilderness which you have seen, the way of the hill-country of the Amorite, as our God YHWH has commanded us, and we come to Kadesh-Barnea.
我們由曷勒布起程，經過了你們所見的這整個遼闊的可怖的曠野：照上主我們的天主對我們的吩咐，我們向阿摩黎人山地進發，一直來到了卡德士巴爾乃亞。
20 And I say to you, You have come to the hill-country of the Amorite, which our God YHWH is giving to us;
那時我曾對你們說：你們已來到上主我們的天主即將賜給我們的阿摩黎人的山地。
21 see, your God YHWH has set the land before you; go up, possess, as YHWH, God of your fathers, has spoken to you; do not fear, nor be frightened.
看上主你的天主已將這地擺在你面前，你要照上主你祖先的天主對你所許下的，去佔領這地；不要害怕，也不要膽怯。
22 And you come near to me, all of you, and say, Let us send men before us, and they search the land for us, and they bring us back word [concerning] the way in which we go up into it, and the cities to which we come in;
你們眾人便來到我跟前說：「讓我們先派些人去，替我們偵探那地方，然後回報我們，我們當走那條路，當去那些城。」
23 and the thing is good in my eyes, and I take twelve men from you, one man for the tribe.
我就由你們中挑選了十二人，每支派一人；
24 And they turn and go up to the hill-country, and come to the Valley of Eshcol, and spy it out,
他們起身上了山地，一直到了厄市苛耳山谷，偵探了那地。
25 and they take in their hand from the fruit of the land, and bring [it] down to us, and bring us back word, and say, The land is good which our God YHWH is giving to us.
他們帶回來那地方的一些果品，並回報我們說：「上主我們的天主即將賜給我們的地方實在好。」
26 And you have not been willing to go up, and you provoke the mouth of your God YHWH,
但你們卻不肯上去，竟違背了上主你們天主的命令，
27 and murmur in your tents, and say, In YHWH’s hating us He has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorite—to destroy us;
在你們的帳幕內抱怨說：「上主因為恨我們，才將我們由埃及地領出來，將我們交在阿摩黎人手中，消滅我們。
28 to where are we going up? Our brothers have melted our heart, saying, [The] people [are] greater and taller than we; [the] cities [are] great and fortified up to the heavens, and we have also seen sons of Anakim there.
我們上那裏去呢﹖我們的兄弟又說了些使我們心灰意冷的話。他們說：我們在那裏看見了一個比我們又大又高的民族，他們的城邑廣大，城牆高聳摩天；我們在那裏還看見了阿納克人的子孫。」
29 And I say to you, Do not be terrified, nor be afraid of them;
我遂對你們說：「不要畏懼，不要害怕。
30 your God YHWH, who is going before you—He fights for you, according to all that He has done with you in Egypt before your eyes,
因為上主你們的天主，走在你們面前，他必為你們作戰，正如他在埃及在你們眼前，為你們所做的一樣；
31 and in the wilderness where you have seen that your God YHWH has carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way which you have gone until your coming to this place.
並且在曠野裏，你也看出上主你的天主在你所走的長途中，攜帶你們，如同人攜帶自己的兒子一樣，直到你們來到這地方。
32 And in this thing you are not steadfast in your God YHWH,
雖然如此，但你們仍不信賴上主你們的天主，
33 who is going before you in the way to search out for you a place for your encamping, in fire by night, to show you in the way in which you go, and in a cloud by day.
他一路原走在你們前面，替你們找安營的地方：夜間藉著火，日間藉著雲彩，指示你們應走的道路。
34 And YHWH hears the voice of your words, and is angry, and swears, saying,
上主一聽見你們的怨聲，就發怒起誓說：「
35 Not one of these men of this evil generation sees the good land which I have sworn to give to your fathers,
這個邪惡世代的人，一個也不得見我誓許要賜給你們祖先的樂土；
36 except Caleb son of Jephunneh—he sees it, and to him I give the land on which he has trodden, and to his sons, because that he has been fully after YHWH.
只要耶孚乃的兒子加肋布除外，他必見到此地，並且我要將他踏過的地，賜給他和他的子孫，因為他一心隨從了上主。」
37 Moreover, YHWH has been angry with me for your sake, saying, Indeed, you do not go in there;
為了你們的緣故，上主也對我發怒說：「連你也不能進入那地。
38 Joshua son of Nun, who is standing before you, he goes in there; strengthen him, for he causes Israel to inherit [it].
那侍候你的農的兒子若蘇厄，要進入那地；你應壯他的膽，因為他要使以色列佔領那地作為產業。
39 And your infants, of whom you have said, They are for a prey, and your sons who today have not known good and evil, they go in there, and I give it to them, and they possess it;
此外，你們所說要成為戰利品的幼童，至今尚不知好歹的子女，他們都要進入那地。我要將那地賜給他們作為產業。
40 but you, turn and journey for yourselves toward the wilderness, the way of the Red Sea.
至於你們應轉向紅海出發，往曠野裏去。」
41 And you answer and say to me, We have sinned against YHWH; we go up and we have fought, according to all that which our God YHWH has commanded us; and you each gird on his weapons of war, and you are ready to go up into the hill-country;
你們回答我說：「我們得罪了上主；現在我們願全照上主我們的天主的吩咐上去交戰。」你們各人遂都武裝起來，輕率地上了山地。
42 and YHWH says to me, Say to them, You do not go up, nor fight, for I am not in your midst, and you are not struck before your enemies.
但上主對我說：「你告訴他們說：你們不要上去，不要作戰，因為我不在你們中間，免得被敵人擊敗。」
43 And I speak to you, and you have not listened, and provoke the mouth of YHWH, and act proudly, and go up into the hill-country;
我立即告訴了你們，你們卻不聽，違背上主的命令，擅自上了山地。
44 and the Amorite who is dwelling in that hill-country comes out to meet you, and they pursue you as the bees do, and strike you in Seir, even to Hormah.
住在山地的阿摩黎人蜂擁而出，攻擊你們，追趕你們，由色依爾直殺到曷爾瑪。
45 And you return and weep before YHWH, and YHWH has not listened to your voice, nor has He given ear to you;
你們回來，在上主面前哭泣哀號，但上主未曾俯聽你們的哭聲，也未向你們側耳；
46 and you dwell in Kadesh [for] many days, according to the days which you had dwelt.”
你們只得長期地停留在卡德士，停留得這樣長久。
