< Numbers 14 >
1 And all the congregation lifts up, and they give forth their voice, and the people weep during that night;
全會眾都大聲喧嚷,人民哭了一夜。
2 and all the sons of Israel murmur against Moses and against Aaron, and all the congregation says to them, “O that we had died in the land of Egypt, or in this wilderness, O that we had died!
以色列子民都抱怨梅瑟和亞郎;全會眾對他們說:「巴不得我們都死在埃及地,都死在曠野裏!
3 And why is YHWH bringing us to this land to fall by the sword, [that] our wives and our infants become a prey? Is it not good for us to return to Egypt?”
為什麼上主引我們到那地方死在刀下,叫我們的妻子兒女當作戰利品﹖再回埃及去,為我們豈不更好﹖」
4 And they say to one another, “Let us appoint a head and return to Egypt.”
於是彼此說:「我們另立頭目,回埃及去。」
5 And Moses falls—Aaron also—on their faces, before all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.
梅瑟和亞郎遂俯伏在以色列子民全會眾前。
6 And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, of those spying out the land, have torn their garments,
偵探那地方的人中,有農的兒子若蘇厄和耶孚乃的兒子加肋布,他們撕裂了自己的衣服,
7 and they speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, “The land into which we have passed over to spy it out [is] a very, very good land;
告訴以色列子民全會眾說:「我們偵探所經過的地方,確是一片極好的地方。
8 if YHWH has delighted in us, then He has brought us into this land, and has given it to us, a land which is flowing with milk and honey;
若上主恩待我們,必引我們到那裏去,將那地方賜給我們。那實在是一塊流奶流蜜的地方。
9 only, do not rebel against YHWH: and you, do not fear the people of the land, for they [are] our bread; their defense has turned aside from off them, and YHWH [is] with us; do not fear them.”
只要你們不反抗上主,就不必怕那地方的人民,因為他們要作我們的掠物;護佑他們的,離開了他們,上主卻與我們同在;所以不要怕他們。」
10 And all the congregation says to stone them with stones, and the glory of YHWH has appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the sons of Israel.
全會眾正說要用石頭砸死他們時,上主的榮耀在會幕上顯示給全以色列子民。
11 And YHWH says to Moses, “Until when does this people despise Me? And until when do they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have done in its midst?
上主對梅瑟說:「這人民輕慢我要到幾時呢﹖我雖在他們中行了那些神蹟,他們仍不相信我,要到幾時呢﹖
12 I strike it with pestilence, and dispossess it, and make you become a nation greater and mightier than it.”
我要用瘟疫打擊他們,剷除他們,使你成為一個比他們更強大,更昌盛的民族。」
13 And Moses says to YHWH, “Then the Egyptians have heard! For with Your power You have brought up this people out of their midst,
但是梅瑟對上主說:「埃及人如果聽說這事,因為你曾用威力由他們中領出這民族來,
14 and they have said [it] to the inhabitant of this land, they have heard that You, YHWH, [are] in the midst of this people, that You are seen eye to eye—O YHWH, and Your cloud is standing over them—and in a pillar of cloud You are going before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.
他們將說什麼﹖這地方的居民也曾聽說:你上主是在這民族中;你上主曾面對面地發顯出來,你的雲彩常停在他們上面;白日你乘雲柱,黑夜你乘火柱,走在他們前面。
15 And You have put to death this people as one man, and the nations who have heard Your fame have spoken, saying,
現在,如果你消滅這民族如消滅一個人一樣,這些曾聽到你聲名的外邦民族必要議論說:『
16 From YHWH’s want of ability to bring in this people to the land which He has sworn to them, He slaughters them in the wilderness.
由於上主不能引這民族進入他對他們所誓許的地方,就在曠野將他們殺了。』
17 And now, please let the power of my Lord be great, as You have spoken, saying,
吾主,如今求你,大發寬容,如你曾聲明說:
18 YHWH [is] slow to anger and of great kindness, bearing away iniquity and transgression, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on a third and on a fourth [generation]—
上主緩於發怒,富於仁慈,寬赦過犯和罪過,但決不豁免懲罰,父親的過犯,要向子孫追討,直到三代四代。
19 please forgive the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of Your kindness, and as You have borne with this people from Egypt, even until now.”
求你大發仁慈,寬恕這人民的罪過,就如從埃及一直到現在,你寬赦了他們一樣。」
20 And YHWH says, “I have forgiven according to your word,
上主回答說:「我就照你祈求的寬赦他們;
21 but nevertheless, as I live, indeed, the whole earth is filled [with] the glory of YHWH,
但是我以我的生命,以充滿全地的上主的榮耀起誓:
22 for all the men who are seeing My glory and My signs which I have done in Egypt and in the wilderness, and try Me these ten times, and have not listened to My voice—
這些見了我的榮耀,見了我在埃及和曠野裏所行的神蹟的人,已十次試探了我,不聽我的話,
23 they do not see the land which I have sworn to their fathers, indeed, none of those despising Me see it;
他們決不能見我對他們祖先誓許的地方;凡輕慢我的人,決不會見到那地方。
24 but My servant Caleb, because there has been another spirit with him, and he is fully after Me—I have brought him into the land to where he has entered, and his seed possesses it.
惟有我的僕人加肋布,因懷有另一種精神,全心服從我,我必引他進入他去過的地方,他的後裔必佔有那地方為產業。
25 And the Amalekite and the Canaanite are dwelling in the valley; tomorrow turn and journey for yourselves into the wilderness—the way of the Red Sea.”
現今阿瑪肋克人和客納罕人盤據在山谷中,明天你們應轉身向紅海出發,往曠野去。」
26 And YHWH speaks to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
上主吩咐梅瑟和亞郎說:「
27 “Until when [do I bear] with this evil congregation—they who are murmuring against Me? The murmurings of the sons of Israel, which they are murmuring against Me, I have heard;
這個邪惡的會眾抱怨我要到幾時﹖以色列子民抱怨我的話我都聽見了。
28 say to them: As I live—a declaration of YHWH—if, as you have spoken in My ears, do I not do so to you?
你對他們說:我以我的生命起誓:──上主的斷語──我必照你們在我耳中所說的話,對待你們:
29 Your carcasses fall in this wilderness, even all your numbered ones, to all your number, from a son of twenty years and upward, who have murmured against Me;
你們中凡二十歲以上登過記的,凡抱怨過我的,都要倒斃在這曠野中。
30 you do not come into the land [for] which I have lifted up My hand to cause you to dwell in it, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
你們決不得進入我誓許給你們居住的地方,只有耶孚乃的加肋布和農的兒子若蘇厄除外。
31 As for your infants—of whom you have said, They become a spoil—I have even brought them in, and they have known the land which you have kicked against;
至於你們的幼童,你們曾說他們要當戰利品的,我要領他們進去,使他們享受你們所輕視的地方。
32 as for you—your carcasses fall in this wilderness,
至於你們,你們必倒斃在這曠野中;
33 and your sons are shepherding in the wilderness [for] forty years, and have borne your whoredoms until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness;
你們的子女要在曠野漂流四十年,受你們背信之罰,直到你們的屍首在曠野中爛盡。
34 by the number of the days [in] which you spied out the land, forty days—a day for a year, a day for a year—you bear your iniquities [for] forty years, and you have known My opposition;
你們偵探那地方的日子,共計四十天,一天算一年,你們應受四十年的罪罰,叫你們知道我放棄你們是什麼一回事。
35 I, YHWH, have spoken; if, nonetheless, I do this to all this evil congregation who are meeting against Me—they are consumed in this wilderness, and there they die.”
我上主既說了,也必對這聚集反抗我的邪惡會眾這樣做:在這曠野他們都要滅絕,在這裏都要死盡。」
36 Then the men whom Moses has sent to spy out the land, [who] then return and cause all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing out an evil account concerning the land,
梅瑟派遣去偵探那地方的人,回來以後,對那地方散佈謠言,致使全會眾抱怨梅瑟。
37 even the men bringing out an evil account of the land, they die by the plague before YHWH;
這些對那地方講說壞話的人,都遭了災罰,死在上主面前;
38 and Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh have lived, of those men who go to spy out the land.
前去偵探那地方的人,只有農的兒子若蘇厄和耶孚乃的兒子加肋布,保全了性命。
39 And Moses speaks these words to all the sons of Israel, and the people mourn exceedingly,
梅瑟將這些話告訴了全以色列子民;人民都非常憂悶。
40 and they rise early in the morning, and go up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Here we [are], and we have come up to the place which YHWH has spoken of, for we have sinned.”
次日清晨他們起來,要上山頂去,說:「我們犯了罪,現在我們已準備好,要往上主所說的地方去。」
41 And Moses says, “Why [is] this [that] you are transgressing the command of YHWH? For it does not prosper;
但是梅瑟說:「你們為什麼要違背上主的命令﹖這事必不會成功。
42 do not go up, for YHWH is not in your midst, and you are not struck before your enemies;
不要上去,因為上主不在你們中間,難免不被敵人擊敗。
43 for the Amalekite and the Canaanite [are] there before you, and you have fallen by the sword, because that you have turned back from after YHWH, and YHWH is not with you.”
因為阿瑪肋克人和客納罕人在那裏要抵擋你們,你們必喪身刀下;你們既背離了上主,上主自然不再與你們同在。」
44 And they presume to go up to the top of the mountain, but the Ark of the Covenant of YHWH, and Moses, have not departed out of the midst of the camp.
他們仍擅自上了山頂;但上主的約櫃和梅瑟沒有由營幕中移動。
45 And the Amalekite and the Canaanite who are dwelling in that mountain come down and strike them, and beat them down to Hormah.
住在山中的阿瑪肋克人和客納罕人就下來,擊殺了他們,將他們追擊到曷爾瑪。