Exodus 32

1 Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!”

1 百姓见摩西迟迟没有下山，就聚集到亚伦那里，对他说：“带我们出埃及的那个摩西不知怎样了，你给我们造神像来带领我们吧。”

2 So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”

2 亚伦对他们说：“你们去摘下妻子、儿女的金耳环，拿来给我。”

3 Then all the people took off their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.

3 百姓就都摘下金耳环交给亚伦。

4 He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

4 亚伦接过这些金耳环，用它们铸造了一头牛犊。他们说：“以色列人啊，这就是带你们出埃及的神明。”

5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before the calf and proclaimed: “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.”

5 亚伦见状便在牛犊前面筑了一座坛，然后宣告说：“明天是耶和华定的节期。”

6 So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.

6 第二天清晨，百姓都上前来献燔祭和平安祭，献完祭后就坐下吃喝，起来狂欢。

7 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.

7 耶和华对摩西说：“你下山吧，你的百姓，就是你从埃及领出来的那些人已经败坏了。

8 How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”

8 他们这么快就偏离了我吩咐他们走的道路，为自己造了一头牛犊来叩拜献祭，说，‘以色列人啊，这就是带你们出埃及的神明。’”

9 The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

9 耶和华又说：“我看到了，这些百姓真是顽固不化。

10 Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

10 你不要阻止我，我要向他们发烈怒，毁灭他们。我要使你成为大国。”

11 But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God, saying, “O LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?

11 摩西恳求他的上帝耶和华说：“耶和华啊，你为什么要向你的子民发烈怒呢？这些子民是你亲自用神迹和大能从埃及领出来的。

12 Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.

12 难道你要让埃及人议论说你领他们出来是出于恶意，是为了在山野之间杀掉他们，从地上灭绝他们吗？求你息怒，施怜悯，不要降祸给你的子民。

13 Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”

13 求你顾念你的仆人亚伯拉罕、以撒和以色列，你曾凭自己向他们起誓说，‘我必使你们的后代像天上的星星那么多。我应许给你们后代的这整片土地，我必赐给他们作永远的产业。’”

14 So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

14 耶和华听了摩西的话，就施怜悯，不把所说的灾祸降在百姓身上。

15 Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.

15 摩西转身下山，手里拿着两块约版，约版的正反两面都有字。

16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

16 石版是上帝做的，字是上帝刻的。

17 When Joshua heard the sound of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “The sound of war is in the camp.”

17 约书亚听见山下百姓嘈杂的喊叫声，便对摩西说：“营地里有打仗的声音。”

18 But Moses replied: “It is neither the cry of victory nor the cry of defeat; I hear the sound of singing!”

18 摩西对他说：“这不是打胜仗的声音，也不是打败仗的声音，而是歌唱的声音。”

19 As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.

19 摩西走近营地的时候，看见牛犊，又看见百姓在跳舞，心中大怒，便把手上的两块石版摔碎在山脚下，

20 Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.

20 又焚烧他们铸造的牛犊，把它磨成粉末撒在水面上，叫以色列百姓喝。

21 “What did this people do to you,” Moses asked Aaron, “that you have led them into so great a sin?”

21 摩西对亚伦说：“这些百姓对你做了什么？你竟使他们陷入大罪中！”

22 “Do not be enraged, my lord,” Aaron replied. “You yourself know that the people are intent on evil.

22 亚伦回答说：“求我主不要动怒，你知道这些人专门作恶。

23 They told me, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!’

23 他们对我说，‘为我们造神明来带领我们吧，因为带我们出埃及的那个摩西不知怎样了。’

24 So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, let him take it off,’ and they gave it to me. And when I threw it into the fire, out came this calf!”

24 于是，我吩咐他们摘下金耳环给我，我把这些金耳环扔进火里，这头牛犊就出来了。”

25 Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them run wild and become a laughingstock to their enemies.

25 摩西见百姓放肆，亚伦纵容他们，使他们成为敌人的笑柄，

26 So Moses stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all the Levites gathered around him.

26 便站在营门口对会众说：“凡跟从耶和华的，都站到我这边来。”所有的利未人都聚集到摩西身边。

27 He told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each of you men is to fasten his sword to his side, go back and forth through the camp from gate to gate, and slay his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”

27 摩西对他们说：“以色列的上帝耶和华这样说，‘你们各人带着刀，从这个门到那个门，走遍整个营，不论遇见的是兄弟、伙伴还是邻居，只管杀他们。’”

28 The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people fell dead.

28 利未人便照摩西的话去做。那一天，约有三千人被杀。

29 Afterward, Moses said, “Today you have been ordained for service to the LORD, since each man went against his son and his brother; so the LORD has bestowed a blessing on you this day.”

29 摩西对利未人说：“今天你们已经把自己奉献给耶和华了，因为你们大义灭亲，祂今天必赐福给你们。”

30 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

30 第二天，摩西对百姓说：“你们犯了大罪，我现在要到耶和华那里，也许可以为你们赎罪。”

31 So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made gods of gold for themselves.

31 摩西回到耶和华那里，说：“唉，百姓犯了大罪，用金子为自己造了神像。

32 Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”

32 恳求你赦免他们的罪，不然请你从你的册子上抹掉我的名字吧。”

33 The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.

33 耶和华对摩西说：“谁得罪我，我就从我的册子上抹掉谁的名字。

34 Now go, lead the people to the place I described. Behold, My angel shall go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin.”

34 你现在回去带领这些百姓，往我指示你的地方去，我的天使必在你前面引路。只是到我惩罚的日子，我必因他们的罪惩罚他们。”

35 And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.

35 耶和华击杀百姓，是因为他们曾与亚伦一起造牛犊。