约书亚记 22
1 当时，约书亚召了吕便人、迦得人，和玛拿西半支派的人来，
Then Joshua sent for the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh,
2 对他们说：“耶和华仆人摩西所吩咐你们的，你们都遵守了；我所吩咐你们的，你们也都听从了。
And said to them, You have kept all the orders of Moses, the Lord's servant, and have done everything I gave you orders to do:
3 你们这许多日子，总没有撇离你们的弟兄，直到今日，并守了耶和华—你们 神所吩咐你们当守的。
You have now been with your brothers for a long time; till this day you have been doing the orders of the Lord your God.
4 如今耶和华—你们 神照着他所应许的，使你们弟兄得享平安，现在可以转回你们的帐棚，到耶和华的仆人摩西在约旦河东所赐你们为业之地。
And now the Lord your God has given your brothers rest, as he said: so now you may go back to your tents, to the land of your heritage, which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to you on the other side of Jordan.
5 只要切切地谨慎遵行耶和华仆人摩西所吩咐你们的诫命律法，爱耶和华—你们的 神，行他一切的道，守他的诫命，专靠他，尽心尽性事奉他。”
Only take great care to do the orders and the law which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave you; to have love for the Lord your God and to go in all his ways; and to keep his laws and to be true to him and to be his servants with all your heart and with all your soul.
6 于是约书亚为他们祝福，打发他们去，他们就回自己的帐棚去了。
Then Joshua gave them his blessing and sent them away: and they went back to their tents.
7 玛拿西那半支派，摩西早已在巴珊分给他们地业。这半支派，约书亚在约旦河西，在他们弟兄中，分给他们地业。约书亚打发他们回帐棚的时候为他们祝福，
Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh, Moses had given a heritage in Bashan; but to the other half, Joshua gave a heritage among their brothers on the west side of Jordan. Now when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he gave them his blessing,
8 对他们说：“你们带许多财物，许多牲畜和金、银、铜、铁，并许多衣服，回你们的帐棚去，要将你们从仇敌夺来的物，与你们众弟兄同分。”
And said to them, Go back with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver and gold and brass and iron, and with a very great store of clothing; give your brothers a part of the goods taken in the war.
9 于是吕便人、迦得人、玛拿西半支派的人从迦南地的示罗起行，离开以色列人，回往他们得为业的基列地，就是照耶和华借摩西所吩咐的得了为业之地。
So Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went back, parting from the children of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their heritage which had been given to them by the Lord's order to Moses.
10 吕便人、迦得人，和玛拿西半支派的人到了靠近约旦河的一带迦南地，就在约旦河那里筑了一座坛；那坛看着高大。
Now when they came to the country by Jordan in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh put up there, by Jordan, a great altar, seen from far.
11 以色列人听说吕便人、迦得人、玛拿西半支派的人靠近约旦河边，在迦南地属以色列人的那边筑了一座坛。
And news came to the children of Israel, See, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have put up an altar opposite the land of Canaan, in the country by Jordan on the side which is Israel's.
12 全会众一听见，就聚集在示罗，要上去攻打他们。
Then all the meeting of the children of Israel, hearing this, came together at Shiloh to go up against them to war.
13 以色列人打发祭司以利亚撒的儿子非尼哈，往基列地去见吕便人、迦得人、玛拿西半支派的人；
And the children of Israel sent Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead,
14 又打发十个首领与非尼哈同去，就是以色列每支派的一个首领，都是以色列军中的统领。
And with him they sent ten chiefs, one for every tribe of the children of Israel, every one of them the head of his house among the families of Israel.
15 他们到了基列地，见吕便人、迦得人，和玛拿西半支派的人，对他们说：
And they came to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and said to them,
16 “耶和华全会众这样说，你们今日转去不跟从耶和华，干犯以色列的 神，为自己筑一座坛，悖逆了耶和华，这犯的是什么罪呢？
This is what all the meeting of the people of the Lord has said, What is this wrong which you have done against the God of Israel, turning back this day from the Lord and building an altar for yourselves, and being false to the Lord?
17 从前拜毗珥的罪孽还算小吗？虽然瘟疫临到耶和华的会众，到今日我们还没有洗净这罪。
Was not the sin of Baal-peor great enough, from which we are not clear even to this day, though punishment came on the people of the Lord,
18 你们今日竟转去不跟从耶和华吗？你们今日既悖逆耶和华，明日他必向以色列全会众发怒。
That now you are turned back from the Lord? and, because you are false to him today, tomorrow his wrath will be let loose on all the people of Israel.
19 你们所得为业之地，若嫌不洁净，就可以过到耶和华之地，就是耶和华的帐幕所住之地，在我们中间得地业。只是不可悖逆耶和华，也不可得罪我们，在耶和华—我们 神的坛以外为自己筑坛。
But if the land you now have is unclean, come over into the Lord's land where his House is, and take up your heritage among us: but do not be false to the Lord and to us by building yourselves an altar in addition to the altar of the Lord our God.
20 从前谢拉的曾孙亚干岂不是在那当灭的物上犯了罪，就有忿怒临到以色列全会众吗？那人在所犯的罪中不独一人死亡。”
Did not Achan, the son of Zerah, do wrong about the cursed thing, causing wrath to come on all the people of Israel? And not on him only came the punishment of death.
21 于是吕便人、迦得人、玛拿西半支派的人回答以色列军中的统领说：
Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh said in answer to the heads of the families of Israel,
22 “大能者 神耶和华！大能者 神耶和华！他是知道的！以色列人也必知道！我们若有悖逆的意思，或是干犯耶和华（愿你今日不保佑我们），
God, even God the Lord, God, even God the Lord, he sees, and Israel will see — if it is in pride or in sin against the Lord,
23 为自己筑坛，要转去不跟从耶和华，或是要将燔祭、素祭、平安祭献在坛上，愿耶和华亲自讨我们的罪。
That we have made ourselves an altar, being false to the Lord, keep us not safe from death this day; and if for the purpose of offering burned offerings on it and meal offerings, or peace-offerings, let the Lord himself send punishment for it;
24 我们行这事并非无故，是特意做的，说：恐怕日后你们的子孙对我们的子孙说：‘你们与耶和华—以色列的 神有何关涉呢？
And if we have not, in fact, done this designedly and with purpose, having in our minds the fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?
25 因为耶和华把约旦河定为我们和你们这吕便人、迦得人的交界，你们与耶和华无分了。’这样，你们的子孙就使我们的子孙不再敬畏耶和华了。
For the Lord has made Jordan a line of division between us and you, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad; you have no part in the Lord: so your children will make our children give up fearing the Lord.
26 因此我们说：‘不如为自己筑一座坛，不是为献燔祭，也不是为献别的祭，
So we said, Let us now make an altar for ourselves, not for burned offerings or for the offerings of beasts:
27 乃是为你我中间和你我后人中间作证据，好叫我们也在耶和华面前献燔祭、平安祭，和别的祭事奉他，免得你们的子孙日后对我们的子孙说，你们与耶和华无分了。’
But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings; so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord.
28 所以我们说：‘日后你们对我们，或对我们的后人这样说，我们就可以回答说，你们看我们列祖所筑的坛是耶和华坛的样式；这并不是为献燔祭，也不是为献别的祭，乃是为作你我中间的证据。’
For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord's altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you.
29 我们在耶和华—我们 神帐幕前的坛以外，另筑一座坛，为献燔祭、素祭，和别的祭，悖逆耶和华，今日转去不跟从他，我们断没有这个意思。”
Never let it be said that we were false to the Lord, turning back this day from him and building an altar for burned offerings and meal offerings and offerings of beasts, in addition to the altar of the Lord our God which is before his House.
30 祭司非尼哈与会中的首领，就是与他同来以色列军中的统领，听见吕便人、迦得人、玛拿西人所说的话，就都以为美。
Then Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the meeting and the heads of the families of Israel who were with him, hearing what the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh said, were pleased.
31 祭司以利亚撒的儿子非尼哈对吕便人、迦得人、玛拿西人说：“今日我们知道耶和华在我们中间，因为你们没有向他犯了这罪。现在你们救以色列人脱离耶和华的手了。”
And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, said to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh, Now we are certain that the Lord is among us, because you have not done this wrong against the Lord: and you have kept us from falling into the hands of the Lord.
32 祭司以利亚撒的儿子非尼哈与众首领离了吕便人、迦得人，从基列地回往迦南地，到了以色列人那里，便将这事回报他们。
Then Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs went back from the land of Gilead, from the children of Reuben and the children of Gad, and came to the children of Israel in Canaan and gave them the news.
33 以色列人以这事为美，就称颂 神，不再提上去攻打吕便人、迦得人、毁坏他们所住的地了。
And the children of Israel were pleased about this; and they gave praise to God, and had no more thought of going to war against the children of Reuben and the children of Gad for the destruction of their land.
34 吕便人、迦得人给坛起名叫证坛，意思说：这坛在我们中间证明耶和华是 神。
And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad gave to that altar the name of Ed. For, they said, It is a witness between us that the Lord is God.
