Numbers 14

1 Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.

1 当晚，全体会众放声大哭。

2 All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!

2 全体以色列会众埋怨摩西和亚伦说：“我们还不如死在埃及或旷野！

3 Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

3 耶和华为什么把我们领到这里来，让我们死于刀下？我们的妻儿必被掳去。我们还不如返回埃及。”

4 So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

4 他们彼此议论说：“我们选一位首领带我们回埃及吧！”

5 Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown before the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.

5 摩西和亚伦俯伏在以色列全体会众面前。

6 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes

6 打探迦南的人中，嫩的儿子约书亚和耶孚尼的儿子迦勒撕裂衣服，

7 and said to the whole congregation of Israel, “The land we passed through and explored is an exceedingly good land.

7 对以色列全体会众说：“我们去打探的地方极其美好。

8 If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.

8 如果耶和华喜悦我们，祂必把我们带到那片土地，将那奶蜜之乡赐给我们。

9 Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not be afraid of the people of the land, for they will be like bread for us. Their protection has been removed, and the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them!”

9 你们不要背叛耶和华，也不要害怕那里的人，他们不过是我们的猎物，他们已失去庇护。耶和华与我们同在，不要怕他们。”

10 But the whole congregation threatened to stone Joshua and Caleb. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting.

10 但全体会众威胁要用石头打死他们二人。这时耶和华的荣光在会幕中向全体以色列人显现。

11 And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?

11 耶和华对摩西说：“这些人藐视我要到何时呢？我在他们中间行了这么多神迹，他们还要不信我到何时呢？

12 I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”

12 我要用瘟疫毁灭他们，不让他们承受那片土地。但我要使你成为大国，比他们更强盛。”

13 But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.

13 摩西对耶和华说：“你曾经用大能把以色列人从埃及领出来，埃及人听说这事后，

14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

14 一定会告诉迦南的居民。那里的居民早已听说你耶和华与以色列人同在，你面对面向他们显现，你的云彩停留在他们上面，你白天用云柱、黑夜用火柱引导他们。

15 If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,

15 如果你把他们全部消灭，那些听过你威名的列国就会议论说，

16 ‘Because the LORD was unable to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’

16 ‘耶和华无法把以色列人领到祂起誓要赐给他们的地方，所以在旷野把他们杀了。’

17 So now I pray, may the power of my Lord be magnified, just as You have declared:

17 因此，求主彰显伟大的权能，正如你所宣告的，

18 ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’

18 ‘耶和华不轻易发怒，充满慈爱；祂赦免罪恶和过犯，但决不免除罪责，必向子孙追讨父辈的罪债，直到三四代。’

19 Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”

19 从他们离开埃及直到现在，你一直在饶恕他们，求你以伟大的慈爱再次赦免这些人的罪。”

20 “I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.

20 耶和华说：“我听你的祈求，赦免他们。

21 “Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,

21 但我凭我的永恒起誓，正如大地充满我的荣耀一样确实，

22 not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—

22–23 他们绝对一个也看不到我起誓要赐给他们祖先的土地，藐视我的人都看不到那片土地。这些人见过我的荣耀，见过我在埃及和旷野所行的神迹，却仍然不听我的话，试探我十次之多。

23 not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.

24 But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.

24 但我的仆人迦勒力排众议，全心跟从我，所以我必带他进入那片他去过的土地，让他的子孙拥有那片产业。

25 Now since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”

25 由于亚玛力人和迦南人住在山谷中，明天你们要转回，沿红海的路前往旷野。”

26 Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

26 耶和华对摩西和亚伦说：

27 “How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.

27 “这邪恶的会众向我发怨言要到何时呢？我已听见以色列人对我的埋怨。

28 So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.

28 你们去把我的话告诉他们，‘以色列人啊，我凭我的永恒起誓，我必照你们所说的对待你们。

29 Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.

29 你们当中凡登记在册、二十岁以上向我发怨言的人，必倒毙在这旷野中，

30 Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

30 除耶孚尼的儿子迦勒和嫩的儿子约书亚之外，你们无人能进入我向你们起誓应许之地。

31 But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.

31 你们说你们的儿女会被掳去，但我要把他们带到那里，让他们享有那片你们厌弃的土地。

32 As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.

32 而你们必死在这旷野。

33 Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

33 你们的儿女要在旷野飘泊四十年，为你们的不忠而受苦，直到你们都死在旷野。

34 In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.

34 你们打探了那地方四十天，你们要为自己的罪受苦四十年，一年顶一天。那时，你们就知道与我为敌的后果。’

35 I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”

35 我耶和华已经说过，我必这样对付这群集合起来与我为敌的邪恶会众。他们必死在旷野，全部丧命。”

36 So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land—

36 摩西派去打探迦南的人回来以后危言耸听，以致全体会众向摩西发怨言。

37 those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.

37 这些危言耸听的人因而染上瘟疫，死在耶和华面前。

38 Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.

38 前去打探的人中只有嫩的儿子约书亚和耶孚尼的儿子迦勒得以幸存。

39 And when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly.

39 摩西传达完耶和华的话后，以色列人非常悲伤。

40 Early the next morning they got up and went up toward the ridge of the hill country. “We have indeed sinned,” they said, “but we will go to the place the LORD has promised.”

40 他们清早起来上到山顶，说：“我们知罪了，现在我们要去耶和华应许的地方。”

41 But Moses said, “Why are you transgressing the commandment of the LORD? This will not succeed!

41 摩西说：“你们为什么要违背耶和华的命令？你们不会成功的。

42 Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.

42 不要上去！因为耶和华不与你们同在，你们会被敌人打败。

43 For there the Amalekites and Canaanites will face you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, He will not be with you.”

43 你们会遇见亚玛力人和迦南人，并丧身在他们刀下，因为你们离弃耶和华，祂不再与你们同在。”

44 But they dared to go up to the ridge of the hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the covenant of the LORD moved from the camp.

44 尽管耶和华的约柜和摩西都没有出营，他们却擅自上山顶去。

45 Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them all the way to Hormah.

45 住在山区的亚玛力人和迦南人下来击溃了他们，一路追杀他们到何珥玛。