Numbers 11

1 Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

1 民众因为困难而发怨言，传到耶和华耳中。耶和华听见后便向他们发怒，使火在他们中间燃烧，烧毁了营地的边缘部分。

2 And the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.

2 民众呼求摩西，摩西便向耶和华祷告，火就熄了。

3 So that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.

3 那地方叫他备拉，因为耶和华的火曾在他们中间燃烧。

4 Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?

4 他们中间有一群乌合之众贪恋美食，以色列人也哭着说：“要是有肉吃多好啊！

5 We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

5 还记得在埃及的时候，我们不花钱就可以吃鱼，还有黄瓜、西瓜、韭菜、葱和蒜。

6 But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”

6 我们现在毫无胃口，眼前除了吗哪外，什么都没有。”

7 Now the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin.

7 吗哪的形状像芫荽籽，又像珍珠。

8 The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.

8–9 每天晚上露水降在营地上时，吗哪也随着降下来。早晨民众到四周捡吗哪，把吗哪用磨磨碎或在臼中捣碎后，放在锅里煮，再做成饼，味道就像油饼。

9 When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

10 Then Moses heard the people of family after family weeping at the entrances to their tents, and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, and Moses was also displeased.

10 摩西感到难过，因为他听见民众都在自己帐篷门口哭泣，以致耶和华大发烈怒。

11 So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people?

11 他对耶和华说：“你为什么苦待仆人？我做了什么令你不悦的事，你竟把管理这些民众的重担放在我身上？

12 Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?

12 难道是我孕育生养了他们吗？为什么你要我像父亲呵护吃奶的婴儿一样，把他们抱到你应许给他们祖先的地方呢？

13 Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’

13 他们都哭着向我要肉吃，我去哪里找肉给他们吃呢？

14 I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.

14 管理民众的责任实在是太重了，我一个人担当不起啊！

15 If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”

15 你既然这样对待我，求你施恩杀了我吧，别让我受苦了！”

16 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them stand there with you.

16 耶和华对摩西说：“你给我招聚七十个以色列人的长老，就是你所了解的长老和首领，把他们带到会幕，让他们站在你身边。

17 And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.

17 我要在那里降临，对你说话，把降在你身上的灵也赐给他们，让他们为你分担管理民众的责任，免得你独自承担。

18 And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have cried out in the hearing of the LORD, saying: ‘Who will feed us meat? For we were better off in Egypt!’ Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.

18 你要叫民众洁净自己，明天就会有肉吃。因为我听见了他们哭着要肉吃、说埃及的日子更好，我必给他们肉吃。

19 You will eat it not for one or two days, nor for five or ten or twenty days,

19 他们将不止吃一天、两天、五天、十天或二十天，

20 but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”

20 而是要吃整整一个月，直到肉从他们鼻孔里喷出来，令他们厌腻。因为他们厌弃住在他们中间的我，在我面前哭诉，后悔离开埃及。”

21 But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’

21 摩西说：“和我同行的，仅男子就有六十万，你还说要让他们吃整整一个月的肉！

22 If all our flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would they have enough? Or if all the fish in the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”

22 就是把牛羊都宰了，够他们吃吗？就是把海里的鱼都捕来，够他们吃吗？”

23 The LORD answered Moses, “Is the LORD’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not My word will come to pass.”

23 耶和华说：“难道我的臂膀短小无力吗？你很快将看见我的话会不会应验。”

24 So Moses went out and relayed to the people the words of the LORD, and he gathered seventy of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.

24 摩西就出去把耶和华的话转告民众，又召集了七十位长老，叫他们站在会幕周围。

25 Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed that Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but they never did so again.

25 耶和华在云中降临，对摩西说话，把降在摩西身上的灵也赐给七十位长老。灵一降在他们身上，他们就说起预言来，但只说了这一次。

26 Two men, however, had remained in the camp—one named Eldad and the other Medad—and the Spirit rested on them. They were among those listed, but they had not gone out to the tent, and they prophesied in the camp.

26 七十位长老中的伊利达和米达没有到会幕去，但耶和华的灵也降在他们身上，他们就在营中说起预言来。

27 A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”

27 有一个青年跑去禀告摩西说：“伊利达和米达正在营中说预言。”

28 Joshua son of Nun, the attendant to Moses since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”

28 摩西拣选的助手嫩的儿子约书亚就说：“我主摩西，请你禁止他们。”

29 But Moses replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would place His Spirit on them!”

29 摩西说：“你是为我的缘故而嫉妒吗？愿耶和华的子民都成为先知！愿耶和华把祂的灵降在他们身上！”

30 Then Moses returned to the camp, along with the elders of Israel.

30 之后，摩西和以色列的长老都返回营中。

31 Now a wind sent by the LORD came up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the ground, for a day’s journey in every direction around the camp.

31 耶和华刮起一阵风，把鹌鹑从海面刮到营地四周，约一米厚，方圆数公里。

32 All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.

32 民众花了两天一夜的时间去捕捉鹌鹑，每人至少捉了一吨半。他们把鹌鹑摊在营地的周围。

33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague.

33 他们口中的肉还没嚼烂，耶和华的怒气就已向他们发作，降下了大灾。

34 So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

34 因此，那地方叫基博罗·哈他瓦 ，因为那些贪食之徒埋葬在那里。

35 From Kibroth-hattaavah the people moved on to Hazeroth, where they remained for some time.

35 民众从基博罗·哈他瓦前往哈洗录，在哈洗录住了下来。