Joshua 24
1 And Joshua gathers all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and calls for [the] elderly of Israel, and for his heads, and for his judges, and for his authorities, and they station themselves before God.
若蘇厄又聚集以色列眾支派來到舍根，也召集了以色列長老、首領，和官長，叫他們立在官長面前，
2 And Joshua says to all the people, “Thus said YHWH, God of Israel: Beyond the River your fathers have dwelt of old—Terah father of Abraham and father of Nachor—and they serve other gods;
若蘇厄對全民眾說：「上主以色列的天主這樣說：從前你們的祖先亞巴郎和納曷爾的父親特辣黑，住在大河那邊，事奉別的神明。
3 and I take your father Abraham from beyond the River, and cause him to go through all the land of Canaan, and multiply his seed, and give Isaac to him.
我將你們的祖先亞巴郎從大河那邊召來，領他們走遍客納罕全地，使他的後裔繁多，賜給了他依撒格。
4 And I give Jacob and Esau to Isaac; and I give Mount Seir to Esau, to possess it; and Jacob and his sons have gone down to Egypt.
我又將雅各伯和厄撒烏賜給了依撒格；將色依爾山區賜給了厄撒烏作產業；雅各伯卻和他的兒子下到了埃及。
5 And I send Moses and Aaron, and plague Egypt, as I have done in its midst, and afterward I have brought you out.
以後，我派遺了梅瑟和亞郎，在埃及行奇跡，打擊了埃及，然後將你們領了出來。
6 And I bring out your fathers from Egypt, and you go to the sea, and the Egyptians pursue after your fathers, with chariot and with horsemen, to the Red Sea;
當我領你們的祖先離開埃及來到海邊時，埃及人率領車輛兵馬，追趕你們的祖先直到紅海。
7 and they cry to YHWH, and He sets thick darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brings the sea over him, and covers them, and your eyes see that which I have done in Egypt; and you dwell in a wilderness [for] many days.
當他們呼求上主時，上主便在你們和埃及人之間突降濃霧，仗海水流回淹沒了他們。我在埃及所行的，你們都親眼見過。以後你們在曠野住了很久。
8 And I bring you into the land of the Amorite who is dwelling beyond the Jordan, and they fight with you, and I give them into your hand, and you possess their land, and I destroy them out of your presence.
當我領你們到了住在約旦河東阿摩黎人的地域時，你們曾攻擊過你們，但我將你們交在你們手中，使你們佔領他們的地方，由你們面前消滅了他們。
9 And Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, rises and fights against Israel, and sends and calls for Balaam son of Beor, to revile you,
那時摩阿布王，漆頗爾的兒子巴拉克起來攻擊以色列，並派人叫貝敖爾的兒子巴郎來詛咒你們。
10 and I have not been willing to listen to Balaam, and he greatly blesses you, and I deliver you out of his hand.
但是我不想俯聽巴郎，他反而祝福了你們。這樣，我從他手中救了你們。
11 And you pass over the Jordan, and come to Jericho, and the possessors of Jericho fight against you—the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—and I give them into your hand.
以後你們渡過約旦河來到耶利哥，耶利哥的居民同你們作，以後有阿摩黎人、培黎齊人、客納罕人。赫特人、基爾加士人、希威人和耶步斯人，都同你們作過戰，但我將他們都交在你們手中。
12 And I send the hornet before you, and it casts them out from your presence—two kings of the Amorite—not by your sword, nor by your bow.
我並派黃蜂在你們前，將阿摩黎人的兩個王子，從你們面前趕走，並未用你們的劍，也未用你們的弓。
13 And I give a land to you for which you have not labored, and cities which you have not built, and you dwell in them; you are eating of vineyards and olive-yards which you have not planted.
這樣，我把未經你們開墾的地，賜給了你們；把未經你們建築的城，賜給了你們居住；將未經你們種植的葡萄園和橄欖樹林，賜給了你們作食物。
14 And now, fear YHWH, and serve Him, in perfection and in truth, and turn aside the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt, and serve YHWH;
所以你們應該敬畏上主，誠心敬地事奉衪，拋棄你們祖先在大河那邊和埃及所事奉的神，惟獨事奉上主。
15 and if [it is] wrong in your eyes to serve YHWH—choose for yourselves today whom you serve—whether the gods whom your fathers served, which [are] beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorite in whose land you are dwelling; but me and my house—we serve YHWH.”
若是你們不樂意事奉上主，那麼今天就揀選你們所願事奉的，或是你們祖先在大河那邊所事奉的神，或是你們現住地的阿摩黎人的神；至於我和我的家族，我們一定要事奉上主。」
16 And the people answer and say, “Far be it from us to forsake YHWH, to serve other gods;
眾百姓回答說：「我們絕對不願背棄上主，去事奉其他的神!
17 for our God YHWH [is] He who is bringing us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants, and who has done these great signs before our eyes, and keeps us in all the way in which we have gone, and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed;
因為上主是我們的天主，是衪領我們和我們的祖先出離了埃及地，為奴之家，在我們眼前行了絕大的神蹟，在我們所走的一切路上，在我們所經過的一切民族中，紿終保護了我們。
18 and YHWH casts out the whole of the peoples, even the Amorite inhabiting the land, from our presence; we also serve YHWH, for He [is] our God.”
上主更從我們面前，趕走了所有的異族，和住在這地的阿摩黎人。為此我們必要事奉上主，因為衪是我們的天主。」
19 And Joshua says to the people, “You are not able to serve YHWH, for He [is] a most holy God; He [is] a zealous God; He does not bear with your transgression and with your sins.
若蘇厄對百姓說：「你們不能事奉上主，因為衪是神聖不可侵犯的天主，是忌邪的天主，衪決不寬赦你們的過犯和罪惡，
20 When you forsake YHWH, and have served gods of a stranger, then He has turned back and done harm to you, and consumed you, after that He has done good to you.”
如果你們背棄上主，去事奉外邦的神，在衪恩待你們之後，衪必轉而向你們降禍，消滅你們。
21 And the people say to Joshua, “No, but we serve YHWH!”
百姓答覆若蘇厄說：「決不! 我們一定要事奉上主! 」
22 And Joshua says to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves, that you have chosen YHWH for yourselves, to serve Him,” and they say, “Witnesses!”
若蘇厄對百姓說：「這是你們自己對自己作證，要選擇事奉上主! 」他們答說：「我們自己作證。」
23 “And now, turn aside the gods of the stranger which [are] in your midst, and incline your heart to YHWH, God of Israel.”
「那麼，你們應除掉你們中間的外邦神，一心歸向上主，以色列的天主。」
24 And the people say to Joshua, “We serve our God YHWH, and we listen to His voice.”
百姓答覆若蘇厄說：「我們決定事奉上主，我們的天主，必聽從衪的聲音。」
25 And Joshua makes a covenant with the people on that day, and lays a statute and an ordinance on it, in Shechem.
當天若蘇厄便與百姓立約，在舍根為他們立定了誡命和典章。
26 And Joshua writes these words in the Scroll of the Law of God, and takes a great stone, and raises it up there under the oak which [is] in the sanctuary of YHWH.
若蘇厄將這些話都寫在天主的法律書上；又取了一塊一石，立在上主聖所旁邊的篤耨樹下。
27 And Joshua says to all the people, “Behold, this stone is for a witness against us, for it has heard all the sayings of YHWH which He has spoken with us, and it has been for a witness against you, lest you lie against your God.”
g寸全民眾說：「看! 這塊石頭將作我們的見證，因為這塊石頭聽見了上主對我們所說的一切話。這塊石頭也將作你們的見證，以免你們背棄你們的天主。」
28 And Joshua sends the people away, each to his inheritance.
此後，若蘇厄便打發百姓各回到的地業去了。
29 And it comes to pass, after these things, that Joshua son of Nun, servant of YHWH, dies, a son of one hundred and ten years,
這事以後，上主的僕人，農的兒子若蘇厄便去了世，享年一百一十歲。
30 and they bury him in the border of his inheritance, in Timnath-Serah, which [is] in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the hill of Gaash.
人將埋葬在阿士山北，厄弗辣因山區的提默納特色辣黑自己的產業內。
31 And Israel serves YHWH all [the] days of Joshua, and all [the] days of the elderly who prolonged days after Joshua, and who knew all the work of YHWH which He did to Israel.
若蘇厄在世時以及在他死後，那些知道上主為以色列所行的一切事蹟的長老們在世時，以色列人常事奉了上主。
32 And the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up out of Egypt, they buried in Shechem, in the portion of the field which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor father of Shechem, with one hundred kesitah; and they are for an inheritance to the sons of Joseph.
以色列子民也將從埃及抬回來的若瑟遺骸，埋葬在舍根的田裏。那塊地是雅各伯用一百銀錢，由舍根的父親，哈摩爾的子孫手中買來的；這塊地便成了若瑟子孫的產業。
33 And Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they bury him in a hill of his son Phinehas, which was given to him in the hill-country of Ephraim.
亞郎的兒子厄肋阿匝爾也死了。人將他埋葬在基貝亞，即他的兒子丕乃哈斯在厄弗辣因山地分得的城內。
