Numbers 21
1 The king of Arad [city] lived in the area where the Canaan people-group lived, in the desert in the southern part of the land. He heard a report that the Israelis were approaching on the road to Atharim [village]. So his army attacked the Israelis and captured some of them.
客納罕人的阿辣得王，其時住在乃革布，聽說以色列人沿阿塔陵路前來，就與以色列人交戰，據去了一些人。
2 Then the Israelis solemnly vowed: “Yahweh, if you will help us to defeat these people, we will completely destroy all their towns.”
以色列人於是向上主許願說：「你若將這人民交在我手內，我必將他們的城毀滅」。
3 Yahweh heard what they requested, and he enabled them to defeat the army of the Canaan people-group. The Israeli soldiers killed all the people and destroyed their towns. [Ever since that time], that place has been called Hormah [which means ‘destruction’].
上主遂聽了以色列人的請求，將客納罕人交在他們手裏，以色列人就毀滅了他們和他們的城；人遂給那地方起名叫曷爾瑪。
4 Then the Israelis left Hor Mountain and traveled on the road towards the Red Sea, in order to go around [the land of] Edom. But the people became impatient along the way,
他們由曷爾山沿紅海的路起程出發，繞過地；在路上人民已不耐煩，
5 and they began to grumble/complain against God and against Moses/me. They said, “Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die here in this desert [RHQ]? There is nothing to eat here, and nothing to drink. And we detest this lousy [manna] food!”
抱怨天主和梅瑟說：「你們為什麼由埃及領我們由埃及上來死在曠野﹖這裏沒有糧食，又沒有水，我們對這輕淡的食物已感厭惡」。
6 So Yahweh sent poisonous snakes among them. Many of the people were bitten by the snakes and died.
上主遂打發火蛇到人民中來，咬死了許多以色列人。
7 Then the people came to Moses/me and cried out, saying, “We [now know that we] have sinned against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh, asking that he will take away the snakes!” So Moses/I prayed for the people.
人民於是來到梅瑟前說：「我們犯了罪，抱怨了上主和你；請你轉求上主，給我們趕走這些蛇」。梅瑟遂為人民轉求。
8 Then Yahweh told him/me, “Make a model/image of a poisonous snake, and attach it to the top of a pole. If those who are bitten by the snakes look at that model, they will (recover/get well).”
上主對梅瑟說：「你做一條火蛇，懸在木桿上；凡是被蛇咬的，一瞻仰牠，必得生存」。
9 So Moses/I made a snake from bronze and attached it to the top of a pole. Then, when those who had been bitten by a snake looked at the bronze snake, they recovered!
梅瑟遂做了一條銅蛇，懸在木桿上；那被蛇咬了的人，一瞻仰姛蛇，就保存了生命」。
10 Then the Israelis traveled to Oboth and (camped/set up their tents) there.
以色列子民再起程出發，在敖波特紮了營；
11 Then they left there, and went to Iye-Abarim, in the desert on the eastern border of Moab.
由敖波特天出發，在依耶阿巴陵，即在面朝摩阿布東邊的曠野內紮了營。
12 From there they traveled to the valley where the Zered riverbed is, and camped there.
由那裏又出發，在則勒得河旁紮了營。
13 Then they traveled to the north side of the Arnon [River]. That area is in the desert next to the land where the Amor people-group lived. The Arnon [River] is the boundary between Moab and where the Amor people-group lived.
由那裏又出發，在阿爾農北岸紮了營。這條河是在曠野中，由阿摩黎人的邊境流出；阿爾農就是阿摩黎的邊界，介於摩阿布和阿摩黎之間。
14 That is why in the book called ‘The Book of the Wars of Yahweh’ it tells about “Waheb [town] in the Suphah area, and the ravines there; and the Arnon [River]
為此在「上主的戰書」上說：「在蘇法的瓦赫布和阿爾農山谷，
15 and the ravines there, which extend as far as Ar [village] on the border of Moab.”
以及山谷的斜坡；這斜坡伸展到阿爾地區，緊靠摩阿布的邊境」。
16 From there, the Israelis traveled to Beer. There was a well there, where Yahweh previously had said to Moses/me, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”
由那裏他們到貝爾，那裏有口井，上主曾指這井對梅瑟說：「你召集人民，我要賜給他們水喝」。
17 There the Israelis sang this song: “O well, give us water! Sing about this well!
那時以色列人就唱了這首歌說：「井，湧出水來! 你們應對它歌唱!
18 Sing about this well which our leaders dug; they dug out [the dirt] with their royal scepters and their walking sticks.” Then the Israelis left that desert and went through Mattanah,
這井是領袖挖掘的，是民間的貴人，以權杖和棍棒挖鑿的」。他們由曠野到瑪塔納，
19 Nahaliel, and Bamoth [villages].
由瑪塔納到了納哈里耳；由納哈里耳了到巴摩特；
20 Then they went to the valley in Moab where Pisgah [Mountain] rises above the desert.
由巴摩特到了摩阿布的山谷，到了俯瞰曠野的斯加高峰。
21 Then the Israelis sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group. This was the message [that they/we gave him]:
以色列人派遺使者到阿摩黎人的君王息紅前說：
22 “Allow us to travel through your country. We will stay on the king’s highway, [the main road that goes from the south to the north], until we have finished traveling through your land. We will not walk through any field or vineyard, or drink water from your wells.”
「請讓我由你國內經過，我們決不闖入莊田或葡萄園，也不喝井中的水，只沿王道而行，直至走你的國境」。
23 But King Sihon refused. He would not allow them to walk through his land. Instead, he sent his whole army to attack the Israelis in the desert. They attacked the Israelis at Jahaz [village].
息紅卻不讓以色列人經過他的國境；且調集他己所有的人民，往曠野裏去對抗以色列人；一來到雅哈茲，就與以色列人交戰。
24 But the Israelis completely defeated them and occupied their land, from the Arnon [River in the south] to the Jabbok [River in the north]. They stopped at the border of the land where the Ammon people-group lived, because [the Ammon army was defending] the border strongly.
以色列人用刀劍將他擊敗，佔領了他的國境，自阿爾農河直到雅波克河，直到阿孟子民的邊界。
25 So the Israelis occupied all the cities and towns where the Amor people-group lived, and some of the Israelis began to live in them. They occupied Heshbon [city] and the nearby villages.
於是以色列人佔領了那裏所有的城鎮，就住在阿摩黎人所有的城鎮內，並住在赫市朋及其附屬城內。
26 Heshbon was the capital of the country. It was the city where King Sihon ruled. His army had previously defeated the army of the king of Moab, and then his people had begun to live in all of the land of Moab as far as the Arnon [River in the south].
赫市朋原是阿摩黎人王息紅的都城。息紅與前任阿摩黎王交戰，佔領了他所有的土地，直到阿爾農河。
27 For that reason, one of the poets wrote long ago, “Come to Heshbon, the city where King Sihon [ruled]. We want the city to be restored/rebuilt.
為此詩人吟詠說：「你們到修建鞏固的赫市朋去，那穩固的息紅城；
28 A fire blazed from Heshbon; it burned down Ar [city] in Moab, it destroyed [everything on] the hills along the Arnon [River].
因為由赫市朋發出了火，從息紅的城冒出了火焰，吞滅了摩阿布的阿爾，消滅了阿爾農的高丘。
29 You people of Moab, terrible things have happened to you! You people who [worship your god] Chemosh have been (annihilated/wiped out)! The men who [worshiped] [MET] Chemosh have run away and are now refugees, and the women [who worshiped him] have been captured by [the army of] Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group.
禍哉，摩阿布! 革摩市人民，你已滅亡! 他的兒子已經逃亡，女兒已被俘，交給了阿摩黎人的君王息紅。
30 But we have defeated [Sihon and] those descendants of Amor, all the way from Heshbon [in the north] to Dibon [city in the south]. We have completely obliterated/destroyed them as far as Nophah and Medeba [towns].”
但我們一襲擊他們，赫市朋直到狄朋，盡成廢壚；我們蹂躝一切直到諾法黑，直到默德巴」。
31 So the Israeli people began to live in the land where the Amor people-group lived.
這樣以色列人就住在阿摩黎的區域內。
32 After Moses/I sent some men to explore the area near Jazer [city], Israeli people began to live in all the towns in that region and expelled the Amor people-group who lived there.
梅瑟又派人去偵探雅則爾；他們佔領了這城及其附屬城鎮，驅逐了那裏的阿摩黎人。
33 Then they turned [north] toward the Bashan region, but King Og of Bashan and all his army attacked them at Edrei [town].
此後前進，上了往巴商的路。巴商王敖格同他全國的人民，就出來對抗他們，在厄德勒與他們交戰。
34 Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Do not be afraid of Og, because I am going to enable your men to defeat him and his army, and to take possession of all his land. You will do to him what you did to Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group, who ruled in Heshbon.”
上主對梅瑟說：「不必怕他，因為我已將他，他的人民和國土，都交在你手裏了；你要待他，如同待住在赫市朋 木阿摩黎人的君王一樣」。
35 And that is what happened. We Israelis defeated Og’s army, and killed King Og and his sons and all his people. Not a person survived! And then we Israelis began to live in their land.
他們擊殺了他，他的兒子和他所有的人民，沒有剩下一個；遂佔據了他的國土。
