Numbers 13
1 Yahweh said to Moses/me,
上主訓示梅瑟說：「
2 “Send some men to Canaan [land] to explore it. That is the land that I will give to you Israelis. Send men who are leaders in their tribes.”
你要派遣一些人去窺探我要賜給以色列子民的客納罕地；每一宗族支派應派遣一人去，個個都應是他們中的領袖。」
3 So Moses/I did what Yahweh commanded him/me. He/I sent out twelve Israeli men who were all leaders of their tribes. He/I sent them from their/our camp at Paran in the desert.
梅瑟就依照上主的命令，從帕蘭曠野派遣他們去了；這些人全是以色列民的首領。
4 These are the names of the men [and the tribes they belonged to: ] Shammua, the son of Zaccur, from the tribe of Reuben;
以下是他們的名字：勒烏本支派是匝雇爾的兒子沙慕亞；
5 Shaphat, the son of Hori, from the tribe of Simeon;
西默盎支派是曷黎的兒子沙法特；
6 Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, from the tribe of Judah;
猶大支派是耶孚乃的兒子加肋布；
7 Igal, the son of Joseph, from the tribe of Issachar;
依撒加爾支派，是若瑟的兒子依卡耳；
8 Hoshea, the son of Nun, from the tribe of Ephraim;
厄弗辣因支派是農的兒子曷舍亞；
9 Palti, the son of Raphu, from the tribe of Benjamin;
本雅明支派是辣富的兒子帕耳提；
10 Gaddiel, the son of Sodi, from the tribe of Zebulun;
則步隆支派是索狄的兒子加狄耳；
11 Gaddi, the son of Susi, from the tribe of Manasseh;
若瑟支派，即默納協支派是穌息的兒子加狄；
12 Ammiel, the son of Gemalli, from the tribe of Dan;
丹支派是革瑪里的兒子阿米耳；
13 Sethur, the son of Michael, from the tribe of Asher;
阿協爾支派是米加耳的兒子色突爾；
14 Nahbi, the son of Vophsi, from the tribe of Naphtali;
納斐塔里支派是沃斐息的兒子納赫彼；
15 and Geuel, the son of Maki, from the tribe of Gad.
加得支派是瑪基的兒子革烏耳：
16 Those are the names of the men whom Moses/I sent out to explore Canaan. [Before they left], Moses/I gave Hoshea a new name, Joshua, [which means ‘Yahweh is the one who saves].’
以上是梅瑟派去窺探那地方的人名；梅瑟給農的兒子曷舍亞起名叫若蘇厄。
17 Before Moses/I sent them to explore Canaan, he/I said to them, “Go through the southern part of Canaan, and then go [north] into the hilly area.
當梅瑟派遣他們窺探客納罕地時，向他們說：「你們由此上乃革布去，然後上山區去，
18 See what the land is like. See if the people who live there are strong or weak. See if there are many people or only a few people.
窺看那地方怎樣，看住在那地方的人民是強盛或是軟弱，是稀少或是眾多；
19 Find out what kind of land they live in [RHQ]. Is it good or bad? Find out about the towns in which they live [RHQ]. Do they have walls around them or not?
他們住的地方是好，或是壞；他們居住的城鎮是不設防，或是設防的；
20 Find out about the soil [RHQ]. Is it (fertile/good for growing crops) or not? Find out if there are trees there [RHQ]. Try to bring back some of the fruit that grows in that land.” [He/I said that because] it was the beginning of the time to harvest grapes.
有什麼土壤，是肥沃或是貧瘠；在那裏有沒有樹木。你們應勇敢，帶些那地方的果子來。」那時是葡萄初熟的時節。
21 So those men went to Canaan. They went [through the entire land], from the Zin desert [in the south] all the way to Rehob [town] near Lebo-Hamath [in the north].
他們遂上去，窺探了那地方，從親曠野直到勒曷布，哈瑪特關口。
22 In the south, they went to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, [huge men] descended from Anak, lived. Hebron was a city that was built seven years before Zoan [city] was built in Egypt.
他們上到乃革布，來到了赫貝龍。在那裏有阿納克的後裔阿希曼、舍瑟和塔耳買。──赫貝龍城比埃及左罕城早建七年。
23 In one valley, they cut from a grapevine one cluster of grapes. [Because it was very large, they needed] two men to carry it on a pole. They also picked some pomegranates and some figs [to carry back to their camp].
他們一直來到厄市苛耳山谷，砍下了一枝只有一嘟嚕的葡萄，兩人用槓子抬著，又摘了些石榴和無花果。
24 They called that place Eshcol [which means ‘cluster’] because they had cut that [huge] cluster of grapes there.
人稱那地方為厄市苛耳山谷，因為以色列子民從那裏砍去了一嘟嚕葡萄。
25 After they explored the land for 40 days, they returned to their camp.
四十天後，他們由偵探的地方回來，
26 They came to Aaron and Moses/me and the rest of the Israeli people in the desert at Paran. They reported to everyone what they had seen. They also showed them the fruit that they had brought back.
到了帕蘭曠野的卡德士去見梅瑟、亞郎和以色列子民的全會眾，給他們和全會眾報告，叫他們看那地方的果子。
27 But this is what they reported to Moses/me: “We arrived in the land that you sent us to explore. It is truly a beautiful land, and it is very fertile [IDM]. Here is some of the fruit.
他們向梅瑟報告說：「我們到了你派遣我們去的那個地方，實在是流奶流蜜的地方；這是那地方的出產。
28 But the people who live there are very strong. Their cities are large and are surrounded by walls. We even saw some of the [huge] descendants of Anak there.
只是住在那地方的人強盛，城鎮堅固廣大，而且我們在那裏也見到了阿納克的後裔。
29 The descendants of Amalek live in the southern part [of the land], and the descendants of Heth, Jebus, and Amor live in the hilly area [to the north]. The descendants of Canaan live along the coast of the [Mediterranean] sea and along the Jordan [River].”
阿瑪肋克人住在乃革布地方；赫特人、耶步斯人和阿摩黎人住在山區；客納罕人住在海濱和約但河沿岸一帶。」
30 [When they said that, the people were afraid and started to cry out very loudly]. But Caleb told the people who were standing near Moses/me to be quiet. Then he said, “We should go there and take the land, because we are certainly able to conquer it!”
加肋布使百姓在梅瑟前鎮靜說：「我們儘管上去，必要佔領那地方。我們必能戰勝。」
31 But the men who had gone with him said, “No, we cannot attack [and defeat] those people! They are much stronger than we are!”
但是與他同去的人卻說：「我們不能前去攻打那民族，因為他們比我們強盛。」
32 So those men gave to the Israeli people a bad report about the land that they had explored. They said, “The land that we explored is very large; we cannot conquer it. And all the people whom we saw are very tall.
於是他們在以色列子民中，對所偵探的地方散佈謠言說：「我們偵探所經過的地方，是個吞噬當地居民的地方；我們在那裏所見到的民族，都是高大的人。
33 We even saw the descendants of Nephili there. The descendants of Anak [whom we saw there] are descended from the giant Nephili people. When we saw them, we felt [as small] as grasshoppers [SIM], and they thought that we looked like grasshoppers too!”
在那裏還見到了巨人，即巨人的後裔，阿納克的子孫；我們看自己好像是蚱蜢；在他們看來，我們也實在如此。」
