Numbers 14
1 That night all the community wept loudly.
當下，全會眾大聲喧嚷；那夜百姓都哭號。
2 All the people of Israel criticized Moses and Aaron. The whole community said to them, “We wish we had died in the land of Egypt, or here in this wilderness!
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 Why did Yahweh bring us to this land to die by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become victims. Is it not better 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 They said to each another, “Let us choose another leader, and let us return to Egypt.”
眾人彼此說：「我們不如立一個首領回埃及去吧！」
5 Then Moses and Aaron lay facedown before all the assembly of the community of the people of Israel.
摩西、亞倫就俯伏在以色列全會眾面前。
6 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were some of those sent to examine the land, tore their clothes.
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 They spoke to all the community of the people of Israel. They said, “The land that we passed through and examined is a 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 Yahweh is pleased with us, then he will take us into this land and give it to us. The land flows 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 But do not rebel against Yahweh, and do not fear the people in the land, for they are bread to us. Their protection will be removed from them, because Yahweh 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 Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But the glory of Yahweh appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people 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 Yahweh said to Moses, “How long must this people despise me? How long must they fail to trust me, despite all the signs of my power that I have done among them?
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 will attack them with plague, disinherit them, and make from your own clan a nation that will be greater and mightier than they are.”
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 Moses said to Yahweh, “If you do this, then the Egyptians will hear about it, because you rescued this people from them by your power.
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 They will tell it to this land's inhabitants. They have heard that you, Yahweh, are present with this people, because you are seen face to face. Your cloud stands over our people. You go before them in a pillar of cloud 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 Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations that have heard of your fame will speak and say,
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 'Because Yahweh could not take this people into the land that he swore to give them, he has killed 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 Now, I beg you, use your great power. For you have said,
現在求主大顯能力，照你所說過的話說：
18 'Yahweh is slow to anger and abundant in covenant faithfulness. He forgives iniquity and transgression. He will by no means clear the guilty when he brings the punishment of the ancestors' sin on their descendants, to the third and 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 Pardon, I plead with you, this people's sin because of the greatness of your covenant faithfulness, just as you have always forgiven this people from the time they were in Egypt 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 Yahweh said, “I have pardoned them in keeping with your request,
耶和華說：「我照着你的話赦免了他們。
21 but truly, as I live, and as all the earth will be filled with my glory,
然我指着我的永生起誓，遍地要被我的榮耀充滿。
22 all those people who saw my glory and the signs of power that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness—they have still tempted 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 So I say that they will certainly not see the land about which I made an oath to their ancestors. Not one of them who despised me will 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 except for my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit. He has followed me fully; I will bring him into the land which he went to examine. His descendants will possess 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 (Now the Amalekites and Canaanites lived in the valley.) Tomorrow turn and go to the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Reeds.”
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 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron. He said,
耶和華對摩西、亞倫說：
27 “How long must I tolerate this evil community that criticizes me? I have heard the complaining of the people of Israel against me.
「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,' says Yahweh, 'as you have spoken in my hearing, I will do this 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 dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, all you who complained against me, you who were counted in the census, the whole number of the people from twenty years old and upward.
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 will certainly not go into the land that I promised to make your home, 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 But your little ones who you said would be victims, I will take them into the land. They will experience the land that you have rejected!
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 dead bodies will fall in this wilderness.
至於你們，你們的屍首必倒在這曠野；
33 Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years. They must bear the consequences of your acts of rebellion until the end of your corpses 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 Just as the number of the days during which you examined the land—forty days, you must likewise bear the consequences of your sins for forty years—one year for every day, and you must know what it is like for me to oppose you.
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, Yahweh, have spoken. I will certainly do this to all this evil community that is gathered together against me. They will be completely cut off, and here they will 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 So the men Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made the entire community grumble against Moses by spreading a bad report about 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 these men who had brought out a bad report about the land were struck down, and they died of a plague before Yahweh.
這些報惡信的人都遭瘟疫，死在耶和華面前。
38 Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.
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 When Moses reported these words to all the people of Israel, they mourned very deeply.
摩西將這些話告訴以色列眾人，他們就甚悲哀。
40 They rose up early in the morning and went to the top of the mountain and said, “Look, we are here, and we will go to the place that Yahweh has promised, 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 But Moses said, “Why are you now violating Yahweh's command? You will not succeed.
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, because Yahweh is not with you to prevent you from being defeated by 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 The Amalekites and Canaanites are there, and you will die by the sword because you turned back from following Yahweh. So he will not be 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 But they presumed to go up into the hill country; however, neither Moses nor the ark of the covenant of Yahweh left 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 Then the Amalekites came down, and also the Canaanites who lived on those hills. They attacked the Israelites and defeated them all the way 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。
