出埃及记 13
1 耶和华晓谕摩西说：
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “以色列中凡头生的，无论是人是牲畜，都是我的，要分别为圣归我。”
“Set apart to me all the firstborn, every firstborn male among the Israelites, both of people and animals. The firstborn belongs to me.”
3 摩西对百姓说：“你们要记念从埃及为奴之家出来的这日，因为耶和华用大能的手将你们从这地方领出来。有酵的饼都不可吃。
Moses said to the people, “Call this day to mind, the day on which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, for by Yahweh's strong hand he brought you out from this place. No bread with yeast may be eaten.
4 亚笔月间的这日是你们出来的日子。
You are going out of Egypt on this day, in the month of Aviv.
5 将来耶和华领你进迦南人、赫人、亚摩利人、希未人、耶布斯人之地，就是他向你的祖宗起誓应许给你那流奶与蜜之地，那时你要在这月间守这礼。
When Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and the Jebusites, the land that he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—then you must observe this act of worship in this month.
6 你要吃无酵饼七日，到第七日要向耶和华守节。
For seven days you must eat bread without yeast; on the seventh day there will be a feast to honor Yahweh.
7 这七日之久，要吃无酵饼；在你四境之内不可见有酵的饼，也不可见发酵的物。
Bread without yeast must be eaten throughout the seven days; no bread with yeast may be seen among you. No yeast may be seen with you within any of your borders.
8 当那日，你要告诉你的儿子说：‘这是因耶和华在我出埃及的时候为我所行的事。
On that day you are to say to your children, 'This is because of what Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt.'
9 这要在你手上作记号，在你额上作纪念，使耶和华的律法常在你口中，因为耶和华曾用大能的手将你从埃及领出来。
This will be a reminder for you on your hand, and a reminder on your forehead. This is so the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth, for with a strong hand Yahweh brought you out of Egypt.
10 所以你每年要按着日期守这例。’”
Therefore you must keep this law at its appointed time from year to year.
11 “将来，耶和华照他向你和你祖宗所起的誓将你领进迦南人之地，把这地赐给你，
When Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your ancestors to do, and when he gives the land to you,
12 那时你要将一切头生的，并牲畜中头生的，归给耶和华；公的都要属耶和华。
you must set apart to Yahweh the first offspring of every womb. All the firstborn offspring of your animals that are males, will belong to Yahweh.
13 凡头生的驴，你要用羊羔代赎；若不代赎，就要打折它的颈项。凡你儿子中头生的都要赎出来。
Every firstborn of a donkey you must buy back with a lamb. If you do not buy it back, then you must break its neck. But each of your firstborn males among all your sons—you must buy them back.
14 日后，你的儿子问你说：‘这是什么意思？’你就说：‘耶和华用大能的手将我们从埃及为奴之家领出来。
When your son asks you later, 'What does this mean?' then you are to tell him, 'It was by a strong hand that Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of slavery.
15 那时法老几乎不容我们去，耶和华就把埃及地所有头生的，无论是人是牲畜，都杀了。因此，我把一切头生的公牲畜献给耶和华为祭，但将头生的儿子都赎出来。
When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of people and the firstborn of animals. That is why I sacrifice to Yahweh the firstborn male of every animal, and why I buy back the firstborn of my sons.'
16 这要在你手上作记号，在你额上作经文，因为耶和华用大能的手将我们从埃及领出来。’”
This will become a reminder on your hands, and a reminder on your forehead, for it was by a strong hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt.”
17 法老容百姓去的时候，非利士地的道路虽近， 神却不领他们从那里走；因为 神说：“恐怕百姓遇见打仗后悔，就回埃及去。”
When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that land was nearby. For God said, “Perhaps the people will change their minds when they experience war and will then return to Egypt.”
18 所以 神领百姓绕道而行，走红海旷野的路。以色列人出埃及地，都带着兵器上去。
So God led the people around through the wilderness to the Sea of Reeds. The Israelites went up out of the land of Egypt armed for battle.
19 摩西把约瑟的骸骨一同带去；因为约瑟曾叫以色列人严严地起誓，对他们说：“神必眷顾你们，你们要把我的骸骨从这里一同带上去。”
Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly swear and said, “God will surely rescue you, and you must carry away my bones with you.”
20 他们从疏割起行，在旷野边的以倘安营。
The Israelites journeyed from Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness.
21 日间，耶和华在云柱中领他们的路；夜间，在火柱中光照他们，使他们日夜都可以行走。
Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them on the way. By night he went in a pillar of fire to give them light. In this way they could travel by day and by night.
22 日间云柱，夜间火柱，总不离开百姓的面前。
Yahweh did not take away from before the people the daytime pillar of cloud or the nighttime pillar of fire.
