< Exodus 34 >
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables, which thou brakest.
上主向梅瑟說:「你要鑿兩塊石版,和先前的一樣;我要把你摔碎的石版上的字,再刻在石版上。
2 And be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me on the top of the mount.
明天早晨你要準備好,清早上西乃山,在山頂上站在我前。
3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
不准任何人同你上山,全山不可有一個人,也不准在這山下放牛羊。」
4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand two tables of stone.
梅瑟便鑿了兩塊石版,和先前的一樣;照上主的吩咐,清早起來,上了西乃山,手中拿著兩塊石版。上主顯現
5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
上主乘雲降下,站在梅瑟身旁,他便呼喊「雅威」名號。
6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, the LORD, a God full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy and truth;
上主由他面前經過時,大聲喊說:「雅威,雅威是慈悲寬仁的天主,緩於發怒,富於慈愛忠誠,
7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin: and that will by no means clear [the guilty]; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.
對萬代的人保持仁愛,寬赦過犯、罪行和罪過,但是決不豁免懲罰,父親的過犯向子孫追討,直到三代四代。」
8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
梅瑟急忙俯伏在地朝拜,
9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
說:「吾主,若是我真在你眼中得寵,求吾主與我們同行;這百姓固然執拗,但求你寬免我們的過犯和罪惡,以我們為你的所有物。」約書中的精華
10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD, for it is a terrible thing that I do with thee.
上主說:「看,我要立約:我在你的全百姓前所要行的奇跡,是在普世萬國未行過的;你四周的人民要看見上主的作為因為我藉你所行的是可怕的事。
11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
你應注意我今日吩咐你的事:我要從你面前驅逐阿摩黎人、客納罕人、赫特人、培黎齊人、希威人和耶步斯人。
12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
你要注意:你每到一地,不可與那地方的居民立盟,恐怕他們成了你中間的陷阱。
13 but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim:
你應拆毀他們的祭壇,打碎他們的神柱,砍斷他們的木偶。
14 for thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
不准你朝拜別的神,因為上主名為忌邪者,他是忌邪的天主。
15 lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice;
不准你與當地的人民結盟,免得他們與自己的神行淫,給自己的神獻祭時,請你去吃他們的祭物,
16 and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
又免得你為你自己的兒子娶他們的女兒為妻;當他們的女兒與自己的神行淫的時候,也使你的兒子與她們的神行淫。
17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
不准為你鑄造神像。
18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
你要按照我所吩咐的,在阿彼布月所定的日期內,守無酵節,七天之久吃無酵餅,因為在阿彼布月你出離了埃及。
19 All that openeth the womb is mine; and all thy cattle that is male, the firstlings of ox and sheep.
凡初開母胎的都應歸於我;你的牲畜中,凡首生的公牛羊,都應歸於我。
20 And the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.
首生的驢,應用羊贖回;若不贖回,應打斷牠的頸項。你的子孫中,凡是長子,你應贖回。空著手的,不可到我台前來。
21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
你六天作工,但第七天應安息,連在耕種收穫的時期,也咬安息。
22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, [even] of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
在收穫初熟麥子時,應過七七節;在年尾過收藏節。
23 Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
凡你所有的男子,一年三次應去朝拜主,上主,以色列的天主。
24 For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before the LORD thy God three times in the year.
幾時我從你面前趕走異民,擴展了你的疆域之後,你一年三次上去朝拜上主你天主的時候,沒有人敢圖謀你的國土。
25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
不可同酵麵一起給我祭獻犧牲的血;逾越節的犧牲,不可留到早晨。
26 The first of the firstfruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother’s milk.
你田中最上等的初熟之果,應獻到上主你的天主的殿中。不可煮羊羔在其母奶之中。」
27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
以後上主向梅瑟說:「你要記錄這些話,因為我依據這些話同你和以色列子民立了約。」
28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
梅瑟在那裏同上主一起,停留了四十天四十夜,沒有吃飯,也沒有喝水;把盟約的話,即十句話,寫在石版上。梅瑟面容發光
29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of the testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.
梅瑟從西乃山下來的時候,手中拿著兩塊石版;他下山的時候,未發覺自己的臉皮,因同上主說過話,而發光。
30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
亞郎和全以色列子民一看見他的臉皮發光,都害怕接近他。
31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses spake to them.
梅瑟召呼他們過來,亞郎和全會眾的首領才敢回到他跟前,梅瑟就同他們談了話。
32 And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai.
以後全以色列子民也來到他跟前,他把上主在西乃山同他所說的一切,都吩咐了他們。
33 And when Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.
梅瑟向他們講完話,就用首帕蒙上自己的臉。
34 But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded;
幾時梅瑟到上主台前去同他談話,就揭去首帕,直到出來的時候;他出來後,就對以色列子民講明上主吩咐的事,
35 and the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
以色列子民觀看梅瑟的臉,見梅瑟的臉皮發光。以後梅瑟再用首帕蒙上自己的臉,直到再去同上主談話。