Numbers 14
1 And all the congregation lifts up, and they give forth their voice, and the people weep during that night;
當下，全會眾大聲喧嚷；那夜百姓都哭號。
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 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?”
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 say to one another, “Let us appoint a head and return to Egypt.”
眾人彼此說：「我們不如立一個首領回埃及去吧！」
5 And Moses falls—Aaron also—on their faces, before all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.
摩西、亞倫就俯伏在以色列全會眾面前。
6 And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, of those spying out the land, have torn 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 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;
對以色列全會眾說：「我們所窺探、經過之地是極美之地。
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;
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, 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.”
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 says to stone them with stones, and the glory of YHWH has appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the sons 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 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?
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 strike it with pestilence, and dispossess it, and make you become a nation greater and mightier than it.”
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 says to YHWH, “Then the Egyptians have heard! For with Your power You have brought up this people out of their midst,
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 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.
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 You have put to death this people as one man, and the nations who have heard Your fame have spoken, 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 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.
『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, please let the power of my Lord be great, as You have spoken, saying,
現在求主大顯能力，照你所說過的話說：
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]—
『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 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 YHWH says, “I have forgiven according to your word,
耶和華說：「我照着你的話赦免了他們。
21 but nevertheless, as I live, indeed, the whole earth is filled [with] the glory of YHWH,
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 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 they do not see the land which I have sworn to their fathers, indeed, none of those despising Me 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 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 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.”
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 YHWH speaks to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
耶和華對摩西、亞倫說：
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—a declaration of YHWH—if, as you have spoken in My ears, do I not do so 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 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 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.
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 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;
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 as for you—your carcasses fall in this wilderness,
至於你們，你們的屍首必倒在這曠野；
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 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;
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, 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－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 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,
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 even the men bringing out an evil account of the land, they die by the plague before YHWH;
這些報惡信的人都遭瘟疫，死在耶和華面前。
38 and Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh have lived, of those men who go to spy out the land.
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 speaks these words to all the sons of Israel, and the people mourn exceedingly,
摩西將這些話告訴以色列眾人，他們就甚悲哀。
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.”
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 says, “Why [is] this [that] you are transgressing the command of YHWH? For it does 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 do not go up, for YHWH is not in your midst, and you are not struck before your enemies;
不要上去；因為耶和華不在你們中間，恐怕你們被仇敵殺敗了。
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.”
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 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.
他們卻擅敢上山頂去，然而耶和華的約櫃和摩西沒有出營。
45 And the Amalekite and the Canaanite who are dwelling in that mountain come down and strike them, and beat them down to Hormah.
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。
