約書亞記 14

1 以下是以色列子孫在客納罕地所得的產業，那是司祭厄肋阿責爾和農的兒子若蘇厄，以及以色列子孫各支派的族長給他們劃分的，

These are the areas of land that the people of Israel received as their inheritance in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the the tribal leaders of Israel allotted to them.

2 按照上主藉梅瑟吩咐的，以抽籤方式將土地分給又個支派，

Their inheritance was selected by lot for the nine and one-half tribes, just as Yahweh had commanded by the hand of Moses.

3 因為梅瑟在約旦河東，已將產業分給了另兩個支派；在他們中只沒有給肋未人分配產業。

For Moses had given the inheritance of the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance.

4 實際上，若瑟的子孫形成了兩個支派，即默納協和厄弗辣因。雖沒有分配給肋未人產業，卻給了他們一些城市作住所，和城郊草地，為牧放他們的的牲畜和羊群。

The tribe of Joseph was actually two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites were given no portion of the inheritance in the land, but only certain cities to live in, with their pasturelands for livestock and for their own material resources.

5 上主怎樣吩咐梅瑟，以色列子民便怎樣進行劃分土地。

The people of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses, so they assigned the land.

6 猶大的子孫來到基加耳見若蘇厄時，刻納次族耶孚乃的兒子加肋布對若蘇厄說：「上主在卡德士巴爾乃亞，關於你和我對天主的人梅瑟所說的話，你是知道的。

Then the tribe of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, said to him, “You know what Yahweh said to Moses the man of God concerning you and me at Kadesh Barnea.

7 當上主的僕人梅瑟從卡德士巴爾乃亞，派我去偵探這地方時，我正十四歲，我全按我的良心回報了衪。

I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy on the land. I brought him a report again as it was in my heart to make.

8 當與一同上去的弟兄們使百姓喪氣時，我紿終服從了上主我的天主。

But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt with fear. But I completely followed Yahweh my God.

9 那天梅瑟曾起誓說：你的腳所踏過[的地方，必定永久歸你和你們的子孫作為產業，因為你始終服從了上主我的天主。

Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely the land on which your foot has walked will be an inheritance for you and for your children forever, because you have completely followed Yahweh my God.'

10 現在你看，自從上主對梅瑟說了這話，上主便照所應許的，使我又活了四十五歲，經過了以色列人在曠野漂流的時期，現在我已是八十五歲的人了。

Now, look! Yahweh has kept me alive these forty-five years, just as he said—from the time when Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, look! I am this day eighty-five years old.

11 但我現在還很強壯，如派我去的那一天一樣；不拘是打仗或是出入行動，我現在的力量和那時完全一樣。

I am still as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me out. My strength is now as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming.

12 現在，請你將上主所許下的那座山地賜給我，因為那天你也曾聽過這話。固然，那裏有有阿納克人，城池又大又堅固，或許上主會與我同在，照上主所應許的，我能將他們趕走。」

Now therefore give me this hill country, which Yahweh promised me on that day. For you heard on that day that the Anakim were there with great fortified cities. It may be that Yahweh will be with me and that I will drive them out, just as Yahweh said.”

13 若蘇厄就祝福了他，將赫貝龍給了耶孚乃的兒子加肋布作為產業。

Then Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron as an inheritance to Caleb son of Jephunneh.

14 因此赫貝龍直到今日仍為刻納次人耶孚乃的兒子加肋布的產業因為他紿終服從了上主以色列的天主。

Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he completely followed Yahweh, the God of Israel.

15 赫貝龍以前名叫克黎雅特阿爾巴，原是阿納克人中的一個偉人。以後國內昇平，再無戰事。

Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath Arba. (Arba had been the greatest man among the Anakim.) Then the land had rest from war.