Joshua 22
1 Joshua then summoned the leaders of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half of the tribe of Manasseh.
那時若蘇厄將勒烏本人加特人和默納協半支派的人召來，
2 He said to them, “You have done everything that Moses, who served Yahweh [well], told you to do. You have also done what I told you to do.
對他們說：「上主僕人梅瑟吩咐你們的一切，你們都遵守了，在我吩咐他們的一切事上，你們也都聽了我的話。
3 For a long time you have helped the other tribes [to defeat their enemies]. You have obeyed everything that Yahweh your God commanded you to do.
這許多日子，你們從來沒有你們的的弟兄，直到今天，忠信遵守了上主你們天主的命令。
4 He promised to give peace to us Israelis, and he has done what he promised. So now you may go back to your homes, to the land that Moses gave to you, on the east side of the Jordan [River].
現在上主我們的天主，照衪所應許的，使你們的弟兄獲得了安居，你們現在可返回自己的帳幕，回到上主的僕人梅瑟在約旦河東岸，賜你們為產業的地方去，
5 Moses also commanded you to love Yahweh your God and to obey his commands, and to continue to worship him and serve him by everything that you think and everything that you do.”
只要要你們遵守上主的僕人梅瑟吩咐你們的誡命和法律：愛慕上主你們的天主，遵行衪的一切道路，謹守衪的誡命，全心人靈歸屬上主，服事上主。」
6 Then Joshua blessed them and said goodbye to them, and they [prepared to] leave and return to their homes [on the east side of the Jordan River].
若蘇厄於是祝福了他們，打發他們回去；他們就返回了自己的帳幕。──
7 Moses had given the Bashan region to half the tribe of Manasseh, and land on the west side of the Jordan [River] to the other half of the tribe. Before they left, he [asked God to] bless them.
梅瑟在巴商已分給了默納協半支派土地。至於另半個支派，若蘇厄在約旦河西，在他們的弟兄中，也分給了他們土地，此外，當若蘇厄打發他們回帳幕的時候，祝福了他們，
8 He said, “Go back to your homes and to all the things that you have taken from your enemies—the many animals and silver and gold and [things made of] bronze and iron, and many beautiful clothes. But you should share some of those things with other people of your tribe.”
向他們說：「現在你們帶著這許多財物、牛、羊、金銀、銅鐵，和大批衣服回到自己的帳幕，也要將你們從由敵人奪得的財物，分給你們的弟兄! 」
9 So the people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh left the other Israelis at Shiloh in Canaan land, to return to their homes in the Gilead region. That was the area that belonged to them. It had been allotted to them by Moses as Yahweh had commanded.
勒烏本人、召集人和默納協半支派的人，於是從客納罕的史羅起身，離開以色列人，回到自己得為產業的基肋阿得，即上主藉梅瑟吩咐給他們作為產業的地方。
10 The people from those three tribes arrived near the western side of the Jordan River, at a town called Geliloth. There they built a large altar. [Then they crossed the Jordan River to the Gilead region].
當勒烏本人、加得和默納協半支派的人來到屬客納罕地的約旦河附近地區時，在約旦河邊築了一座祭壇，一座高大可觀的祭壇。
11 But the other Israelis who were still at Shiloh heard about the altar that those men had built.
以色列人聽見說：「看，勒烏本人、加得人和默納協半支派的人，在屬客納罕地的約旦河附近地區，以色列子民境內，築了一座祭壇。」
12 They became very angry with the men of those tribes, so they decided to fight them.
以色列子民一聽說這事，全會眾便聚集在史羅，要去作戰攻打他們。
13 The Israelis sent Phinehas, who was the son of Eleazar the Supreme Priest, to [talk with] the people of those three tribes.
以色列子民便委派厄肋阿匝爾的兒子丕乃哈斯司祭，到基肋阿得地方去見勒烏本人、加得人和默納協半支派人，
14 They also sent one leader from each of the ten tribes that were still at Shiloh. Each of them was a leader of his clan.
和他們同去的尚有十位領袖，每支派一個，他們都是以色列各家族的族長。
15 Those leaders went to the Gilead region to talk to the people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh. They said,
他們來到基肋阿得地方，見勒烏本人、加得人和默納協半支派人，向他們說：
16 “All the other Israelis are asking, ‘Why have you rebelled against the God whom we Israelis [worship] by building an altar for yourselves?
「上主的全會眾這樣說：你們相反以色列的天主，犯這不信的罪，有什麼意思﹖為什麼你們今天離開上主，另建立祭壇，公開背叛上主﹖
17 Have you forgotten what happened at Peor, [when some Israelis sinned by worshiping the god that the Moab people-group worship]? Many Israelis became very sick and died because of that sin, and we are still suffering because of their sin.
以前敬拜培敖爾的罪萵為我們還不夠嗎﹖為了那個罪過，災禍降於上主的會眾，直到今天，我們還沒洗淨：
18 Are you now turning away from obeying Yahweh and refusing to do what he wants? If you do not stop rebelling against Yahweh today, he will be angry with all of us Israelis tomorrow.’
看，你們今天又要離開上主，你們今天違背上主，明天衪必向以色列全會眾發怒。
19 “If [you think that Yahweh considers] that your land here is not suitable for worshiping him, come back to our land where Yahweh’s Sacred Tent is. We can share our land with you. But do not rebel against Yahweh and against us by building another altar for Yahweh our God.
如果你們認為所得的地方不潔，可以回到上主的地方，上主帳幕的所在地，住在我們中間；決不可違背上主，激怒我們，在上主我們的祭壇以外，為自己另築祭壇。
20 Do you remember what happened when Zerah’s son Achan refused to obey [Yahweh’s command to destroy everything in Jericho]? That one man disobeyed God’s command, but many [HYP] other Israelis were punished. Achan died because of his sin, but other Israelis also died.”
以前則辣黑的子孫阿干，在應毀滅的財物上犯了不忠之罪，雖只他一人犯罪，憤怒豈不是臨到以色列全會眾﹖死在他罪過中的不只他一人」。
21 The [leaders of the] tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh replied,
勒烏本人、加得和默納協半支派的人，回答以色列的首長說：
22 “Yahweh, the Almighty God, knows [why we did that], and we want you to know, too. If we have done something wrong [against Yahweh], you may kill us.
「大能者天主上主，大能者天主上主清楚知道，以色列也明白：如果我們有違背或干犯上主的事，願衪今天別救我們!
23 If we have disobeyed one of Yahweh’s laws, we request that he should punish us. We did not build that new altar to completely burn animals as sacrifices to Yahweh, or to offer on it sacrifices of grain or sacrifices to maintain fellowship with God.
如果我們建築這祭壇，有意離開上主，或有意在祭壇上祭全燔祭、素祭或和平祭，願上主自己懲罰我們!
24 “This is the reason that we built that altar: We were afraid/worried that some day your descendants would say that our descendants are not true Israelis. We were afraid that then they would say, ‘You are not allowed to worship Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [worship].
我們做這事，其實正是顧慮到：將來你們的子孫會對我們的子孫說：你們和上主以色列的天主有什麼關係﹖
25 Yahweh caused the Jordan River to be a boundary between us and you people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad. So you are not allowed to worship Yahweh.’ We were worried that your descendants would force our descendants to stop worshiping Yahweh.
天主定了約旦河為我們和你們勒烏本和和得人之間的界限，你們和上主已沒有分子。這樣你們的子孫必使我們的的子孫不再敬畏上主。
26 “That is the reason that we decided to build that [new] altar. But it is not an altar for completely burning sacrifices of animals and [burning other] sacrifices.
因此我們想：我們還是建築一座祭壇，不是為獻全燔祭，也不是為祭獻犧牲，
27 We built that new altar to prove/show to you and to us and to all of our descendants that we worship Yahweh by completely burning animal sacrifices and offerings of grain and offerings to maintain fellowship with Yahweh [only at the place Yahweh chooses]. We do not want your descendants to say to our descendants, ‘You do not belong to Yahweh.’
只是為在你我之間，在你我後人之間作一證據，證明我們願在上主面前以全燔祭犧牲及和平祭敬禮上主，免得日後你們的子孫對我們的子孫說：你們與上主已沒有分子o
28 “In the future, if your descendants say that, our descendants can say, ‘Look at the altar that our ancestors made! It is exactly like Yahweh’s altar [that our ancestors built], but we do not burn sacrifices on it. It only shows that we are Israelis!’
因此我們想：日後如有人對我們或我們的子孫說，我們可以說：你們試看我們的祖先所築的上主的祭壇的式樣，不是為獻全燔祭，也不是為獻犧牲，而是為作你我之間的證劇。
29 We certainly do not want to rebel against Yahweh or stop doing what he desires, by building an altar for completely burning some sacrifices and burning grain offerings and making [other] sacrifices. [We know that] there is only one true altar for Yahweh our God, and it is in front of the Sacred Tent [at Shiloh].”
我們今天沒有意思違背上主，離開上主，在上主我們天主的帳幕前的祭壇以外，為獻全墦祭、素祭和犧牲，另建立一祭壇。」
30 When Phinehas the priest and the other [ten] leaders heard what they said, they were pleased.
司祭丕乃哈斯和同他同來的會眾的首領，即以色列人的族長，聽了勒烏本人、加得人和默納協人所的話，都表示滿意。
31 So Phinehas said to them, “Now we know that Yahweh is with all of us Israelis, and that you were not rebelling against him [when you built that altar]. And we know that Yahweh will not punish us Israelis [because of your having done that].”
厄肋阿則爾的兒子丕乃哈司祭對勒烏本人、加得人和默納協人說：「今天我們知道上主是在我們中間，因為你們對上主沒有犯過這樣不忠信的罪，現在你們由上主手中救了以色列子民。」
32 Then Phinehas and the Israeli leaders left the people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad in the Gilead region, and returned to Canaan. There they told the other Israelis what had happened.
厄肋阿則爾的兒子丕乃哈司祭和首領便離開勒烏本人、加得人和默納協半支派的人，從基肋阿得地方回到客納罕地見以色列子民，給他們報告了這事。
33 They were pleased, and they thanked God. And they did not talk any more about fighting against the people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad and destroying everything in their land.
以色列子民對這報告都表示滿意，遂頌揚上主，不再想作戰攻打勒烏本人和加得人，毀滅他們所住的地方。
34 The people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad named their new altar ‘A reminder to us all that Yahweh is God’.
勒烏本人和加得人給那祭壇起名叫「赫得，」因為他們說：「這祭壇在我們中間證明上主是真天主。」
