Joshua 24

1 Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.

1 约书亚在示剑招聚以色列各支派，他召来以色列的长老、族长、审判官和官长。他们一同站在上帝面前。

2 And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.

2 约书亚对全体民众说：“以色列的上帝耶和华这样说，‘从前你们的祖先，包括亚伯拉罕和拿鹤二人的父亲他拉，住在幼发拉底河那边拜其他神明。

3 But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,

3 我把你们的祖先亚伯拉罕从幼发拉底河那边带出来，领他走遍迦南，使他人丁兴旺。我把以撒赐给他，

4 and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

4 把雅各和以扫赐给以撒，把西珥山赐给以扫作产业，雅各和他的子孙则去了埃及。

5 Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I afflicted the Egyptians by what I did there, and afterward I brought you out.

5 后来，我差遣了摩西和亚伦，并用灾祸攻击埃及人，把你们领出来。

6 When I brought your fathers out of Egypt and you reached the Red Sea, the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen as far as the Red Sea.

6 我带你们的祖先出埃及，到达红海，埃及人带领战车骑兵追了上来。

7 So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.

7 你们的祖先大声呼求我，我就降下黑暗，把你们和埃及人分开，又用海水淹没埃及人。你们亲眼见过我在埃及的作为。后来，你们在旷野住了很长时间。

8 Later, I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan. They fought against you, but I delivered them into your hand, that you should possess their land when I destroyed them before you.

8 我领你们来到约旦河东边亚摩利人居住的地方。他们跟你们争战，我把他们交在你们手中，使你们占领他们的土地作自己的产业。我把他们从你们面前全部消灭。

9 Then Balak son of Zippor, the king of Moab, set out to fight against Israel. He sent for Balaam son of Beor to curse you,

9 那时，摩押王西拨的儿子巴勒起兵攻打你们，并派人去召比珥的儿子巴兰来咒诅你们。

10 but I would not listen to Balaam. So he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you from his hand.

10 但我不听巴兰的话，反而使他为你们连连祝福。这样，我从巴勒手中救了你们。

11 After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.

11 你们过了约旦河来到耶利哥。耶利哥人、亚摩利人、比利洗人、迦南人、赫人、革迦撒人、希未人和耶布斯人都跟你们交战，但我把他们交在你们手中。

12 I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you, but not by your own sword or bow.

12 我差黄蜂飞在你们前面，把亚摩利的两个王从你们面前赶走，没有动用你们一刀一弓。

13 So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities that you did not build, and now you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.’

13 你们没有开垦土地，也没有建造城邑，但我赐给你们土地和城邑，使你们住在其中，享用别人栽种的葡萄园和橄榄园的果子。’

14 Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.

14 “所以，你们要敬畏耶和华，诚心诚意地事奉祂，弃绝你们祖先在幼发拉底河那边和在埃及所拜的神明，专心事奉耶和华。

15 But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”

15 你们如果不愿事奉耶和华，今天就选择你们的神明吧，或大河那边你们祖先事奉的神明，或你们这里亚摩利人的神明。至于我和我全家，我们必事奉耶和华。”

16 The people replied, “Far be it from us to forsake the LORD to serve other gods!

16 民众答道：“我们决不背弃耶和华去事奉其他神明，

17 For the LORD our God brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and performed these great signs before our eyes. He also protected us throughout our journey and among all the nations through which we traveled.

17 因为我们的上帝耶和华曾领我们和我们的祖先脱离埃及人的奴役，在我们眼前行大神迹，一路保护我们安然经过列邦。

18 And the LORD drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. We too will serve the LORD, because He is our God!”

18 耶和华把这地方的亚摩利人等外族人从我们面前赶走了，我们必事奉祂，因为祂是我们的上帝。”

19 But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.

19 约书亚说：“你们不能事奉耶和华，祂是圣洁的上帝，祂痛恨不贞，必不赦免你们的过犯和罪恶。

20 If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and consume you, even after He has been good to you.”

20 如果你们背弃耶和华，去拜外族的神明，祂虽然恩待了你们，也必转而降祸给你们，毁灭你们。”

21 “No!” replied the people. “We will serve the LORD!”

21 民众答道：“不，我们一定要事奉耶和华。”

22 Then Joshua told them, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “We are witnesses!” they said.

22 约书亚说：“现在你们自己作证，你们已选择事奉耶和华。”民众答道：“我们愿意自己作证。”

23 “Now, therefore,” he said, “get rid of the foreign gods among you and incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.”

23 约书亚说：“这样，你们现在就要弃绝你们中间的外族神明，专心归向以色列的上帝耶和华。”

24 So the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey His voice.”

24 民众答道：“我们必事奉我们的上帝耶和华，听从祂的话。”

25 On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.

25 当天约书亚与民众立约，在示剑为他们订立律例和典章。

26 Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was near the sanctuary of the LORD.

26 约书亚把这些话都写在上帝的律法书上，又把一块大石头竖立在耶和华圣所旁边的橡树下。

27 And Joshua said to all the people, “You see this stone. It will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us, and it will be a witness against you if you ever deny your God.”

27 然后，他对民众说：“看啊，这块石头可以为我们作证，它听到了耶和华所吩咐我们的话。如果你们背弃上帝，它必作证。”

28 Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.

28 于是，约书亚命民众各自返回自己的地方。

29 Some time later, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.

29 后来，耶和华的仆人、嫩的儿子约书亚去世了，享年一百一十岁。

30 And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

30 以色列人把他葬在他的土地上，就是在迦实山北边、以法莲山区的亭拿·西拉。

31 Israel had served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced all the works that the LORD had done for Israel.

31 约书亚在世的时候，以色列人都事奉耶和华。他死后，在那些经历过耶和华奇妙作为的长老还健在期间，以色列人仍事奉耶和华。

32 And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.

32 以色列人把从埃及带出来的约瑟的骸骨葬在示剑，在从前雅各用一百块银子向哈抹的子孙买的那块地里。哈抹是示剑的父亲。后来那块地成了约瑟子孙的产业。

33 Eleazar son of Aaron also died, and they buried him at Gibeah, which had been given to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.

33 亚伦的儿子以利亚撒也死了，他们把他葬在他儿子非尼哈分到的以法莲山区的基比亚。