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 百姓见摩西迟延不下山，就大家聚集到亚伦那里，对他说：「起来！为我们做神像，可以在我们前面引路；因为领我们出埃及地的那个摩西，我们不知道他遭了什么事。」

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：「你们去摘下你们妻子、儿女耳上的金环，拿来给我。」

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

3 百姓就都摘下他们耳上的金环，拿来给亚伦。

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 亚伦从他们手里接过来，铸了一只牛犊，用雕刻的器具做成。他们就说：「以色列啊，这是领你出埃及地的神。」

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

5 亚伦看见，就在牛犊面前筑坛，且宣告说：「明日要向耶和华守节。」

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 次日清早，百姓起来献燔祭和平安祭，就坐下吃喝，起来玩耍。

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 耶和华吩咐摩西说：「下去吧，因为你的百姓，就是你从埃及地领出来的，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 他们快快偏离了我所吩咐的道，为自己铸了一只牛犊，向它下拜献祭，说：『以色列啊，这就是领你出埃及地的神。』」

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

9 耶和华对摩西说：「我看这百姓真是硬着颈项的百姓。

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 你且由着我，我要向他们发烈怒，将他们灭绝，使你的后裔成为大国。」

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 摩西便恳求耶和华—他的 神说：「耶和华啊，你为什么向你的百姓发烈怒呢？这百姓是你用大力和大能的手从埃及地领出来的。

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 为什么使埃及人议论说『他领他们出去，是要降祸与他们，把他们杀在山中，将他们从地上除灭』？求你转意，不发你的烈怒，后悔，不降祸与你的百姓。

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 求你记念你的仆人亚伯拉罕、以撒、以色列。你曾指着自己起誓说：『我必使你们的后裔像天上的星那样多，并且我所应许的这全地，必给你们的后裔，他们要永远承受为业。』」

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

14 于是耶和华后悔，不把所说的祸降与他的百姓。

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，手里拿着两块法版。这版是两面写的，这面那面都有字，

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

16 是 神的工作，字是 神写的，刻在版上。

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

17 约书亚一听见百姓呼喊的声音，就对摩西说：「在营里有争战的声音。」

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

18 摩西说：「这不是人打胜仗的声音，也不是人打败仗的声音；我所听见的乃是人歌唱的声音。」

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 摩西挨近营前就看见牛犊，又看见人跳舞，便发烈怒，把两块版扔在山下摔碎了，

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 又将他们所铸的牛犊用火焚烧，磨得粉碎，撒在水面上，叫以色列人喝。

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：「这百姓向你做了什么？你竟使他们陷在大罪里！」

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

22 亚伦说：「求我主不要发烈怒。这百姓专于作恶，是你知道的。

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：『你为我们做神像，可以在我们前面引路；因为领我们出埃及地的那个摩西，我们不知道他遭了什么事。』

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 我对他们说：『凡有金环的可以摘下来』，他们就给了我。我把金环扔在火中，这牛犊便出来了。」

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，使他们在仇敌中间被讥刺），

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 就站在营门中，说：「凡属耶和华的，都要到我这里来！」于是利未的子孙都到他那里聚集。

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 他对他们说：「耶和华—以色列的 神这样说：『你们各人把刀跨在腰间，在营中往来，从这门到那门，各人杀他的弟兄与同伴并邻舍。』」

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

28 利未的子孙照摩西的话行了。那一天百姓中被杀的约有三千。

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 摩西说：「今天你们要自洁，归耶和华为圣，各人攻击他的儿子和弟兄，使耶和华赐福与你们。」

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 到了第二天，摩西对百姓说：「你们犯了大罪。我如今要上耶和华那里去，或者可以为你们赎罪。」

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！这百姓犯了大罪，为自己做了金像。

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 倘或你肯赦免他们的罪......不然，求你从你所写的册上涂抹我的名。」

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，我就从我的册上涂抹谁的名。

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 现在你去领这百姓，往我所告诉你的地方去，我的使者必在你前面引路；只是到我追讨的日子，我必追讨他们的罪。」

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

35 耶和华杀百姓的缘故是因他们同亚伦做了牛犊。