Joshua 24
1 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
若蘇厄又聚集以色列眾支派來到舍根，也召集了以色列長老、首領，和官長，叫他們立在官長面前，
2 Joshua said to all the people, “The LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods.
若蘇厄對全民眾說：「上主以色列的天主這樣說：從前你們的祖先亞巴郎和納曷爾的父親特辣黑，住在大河那邊，事奉別的神明。
3 I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his offspring, and gave him Isaac.
我將你們的祖先亞巴郎從大河那邊召來，領他們走遍客納罕全地，使他的後裔繁多，賜給了他依撒格。
4 I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
我又將雅各伯和厄撒烏賜給了依撒格；將色依爾山區賜給了厄撒烏作產業；雅各伯卻和他的兒子下到了埃及。
5 “‘I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did amongst them: and afterward I brought you out.
以後，我派遺了梅瑟和亞郎，在埃及行奇跡，打擊了埃及，然後將你們領了出來。
6 I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea.
當我領你們的祖先離開埃及來到海邊時，埃及人率領車輛兵馬，追趕你們的祖先直到紅海。
7 When they cried out to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness many days.
當他們呼求上主時，上主便在你們和埃及人之間突降濃霧，仗海水流回淹沒了他們。我在埃及所行的，你們都親眼見過。以後你們在曠野住了很久。
8 “‘I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their land, and I destroyed them from before you.
當我領你們到了住在約旦河東阿摩黎人的地域時，你們曾攻擊過你們，但我將你們交在你們手中，使你們佔領他們的地方，由你們面前消滅了他們。
9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you,
那時摩阿布王，漆頗爾的兒子巴拉克起來攻擊以色列，並派人叫貝敖爾的兒子巴郎來詛咒你們。
10 but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand.
但是我不想俯聽巴郎，他反而祝福了你們。這樣，我從他手中救了你們。
11 “‘You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.
以後你們渡過約旦河來到耶利哥，耶利哥的居民同你們作，以後有阿摩黎人、培黎齊人、客納罕人。赫特人、基爾加士人、希威人和耶步斯人，都同你們作過戰，但我將他們都交在你們手中。
12 I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.
我並派黃蜂在你們前，將阿摩黎人的兩個王子，從你們面前趕走，並未用你們的劍，也未用你們的弓。
13 I gave you a land on which you had not laboured, and cities which you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’
這樣，我把未經你們開墾的地，賜給了你們；把未經你們建築的城，賜給了你們居住；將未經你們種植的葡萄園和橄欖樹林，賜給了你們作食物。
14 “Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve the LORD.
所以你們應該敬畏上主，誠心敬地事奉衪，拋棄你們祖先在大河那邊和埃及所事奉的神，惟獨事奉上主。
15 If it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
若是你們不樂意事奉上主，那麼今天就揀選你們所願事奉的，或是你們祖先在大河那邊所事奉的神，或是你們現住地的阿摩黎人的神；至於我和我的家族，我們一定要事奉上主。」
16 The people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
眾百姓回答說：「我們絕對不願背棄上主，去事奉其他的神!
17 for it is the LORD our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and amongst all the peoples through the middle of whom we passed.
因為上主是我們的天主，是衪領我們和我們的祖先出離了埃及地，為奴之家，在我們眼前行了絕大的神蹟，在我們所走的一切路上，在我們所經過的一切民族中，紿終保護了我們。
18 The LORD drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the LORD; for he is our God.”
上主更從我們面前，趕走了所有的異族，和住在這地的阿摩黎人。為此我們必要事奉上主，因為衪是我們的天主。」
19 Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve the LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.
若蘇厄對百姓說：「你們不能事奉上主，因為衪是神聖不可侵犯的天主，是忌邪的天主，衪決不寬赦你們的過犯和罪惡，
20 If you forsake the LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”
如果你們背棄上主，去事奉外邦的神，在衪恩待你們之後，衪必轉而向你們降禍，消滅你們。
21 The people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve the LORD.”
百姓答覆若蘇厄說：「決不! 我們一定要事奉上主! 」
22 Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”
若蘇厄對百姓說：「這是你們自己對自己作證，要選擇事奉上主! 」他們答說：「我們自己作證。」
23 “Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are amongst you, and incline your heart to the LORD, the God of Israel.”
「那麼，你們應除掉你們中間的外邦神，一心歸向上主，以色列的天主。」
24 The people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God, and we will listen to his voice.”
百姓答覆若蘇厄說：「我們決定事奉上主，我們的天主，必聽從衪的聲音。」
25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
當天若蘇厄便與百姓立約，在舍根為他們立定了誡命和典章。
26 Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
若蘇厄將這些話都寫在天主的法律書上；又取了一塊一石，立在上主聖所旁邊的篤耨樹下。
27 Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the LORD’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.”
g寸全民眾說：「看! 這塊石頭將作我們的見證，因為這塊石頭聽見了上主對我們所說的一切話。這塊石頭也將作你們的見證，以免你們背棄你們的天主。」
28 So Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.
此後，若蘇厄便打發百姓各回到的地業去了。
29 After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred and ten years old.
這事以後，上主的僕人，農的兒子若蘇厄便去了世，享年一百一十歲。
30 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
人將埋葬在阿士山北，厄弗辣因山區的提默納特色辣黑自己的產業內。
31 Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of the LORD, that he had worked for Israel.
若蘇厄在世時以及在他死後，那些知道上主為以色列所行的一切事蹟的長老們在世時，以色列人常事奉了上主。
32 They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
以色列子民也將從埃及抬回來的若瑟遺骸，埋葬在舍根的田裏。那塊地是雅各伯用一百銀錢，由舍根的父親，哈摩爾的子孫手中買來的；這塊地便成了若瑟子孫的產業。
33 Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
亞郎的兒子厄肋阿匝爾也死了。人將他埋葬在基貝亞，即他的兒子丕乃哈斯在厄弗辣因山地分得的城內。
