民數記 14
1 當下，全會眾大聲喧嚷；那夜百姓都哭號。
All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
2 以色列眾人向摩西、亞倫發怨言；全會眾對他們說：「巴不得我們早死在埃及地，或是死在這曠野。
All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!
3 耶和華為甚麼把我們領到那地，使我們倒在刀下呢？我們的妻子和孩子必被擄掠。我們回埃及去豈不好嗎？」
Why does the LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”
4 眾人彼此說：「我們不如立一個首領回埃及去吧！」
They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”
5 摩西、亞倫就俯伏在以色列全會眾面前。
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
6 窺探地的人中，嫩的兒子約書亞和耶孚尼的兒子迦勒撕裂衣服，
Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.
7 對以色列全會眾說：「我們所窺探、經過之地是極美之地。
They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.
8 耶和華若喜悅我們，就必將我們領進那地，把地賜給我們；那地原是流奶與蜜之地。
If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey.
9 但你們不可背叛耶和華，也不要怕那地的居民；因為他們是我們的食物，並且蔭庇他們的已經離開他們。有耶和華與我們同在，不要怕他們！」
Only don’t rebel against the LORD, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and the LORD is with us. Don’t fear them.”
10 但全會眾說：「拿石頭打死他們二人。」忽然，耶和華的榮光在會幕中向以色列眾人顯現。
But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. The LORD’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.
11 耶和華對摩西說：「這百姓藐視我要到幾時呢？我在他們中間行了這一切神蹟，他們還不信我要到幾時呢？
The LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? How long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
12 我要用瘟疫擊殺他們，使他們不得承受那地，叫你的後裔成為大國，比他們強勝。」
I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
13 摩西對耶和華說：「埃及人必聽見這事；因為你曾施展大能，將這百姓從他們中間領上來。
Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.
14 埃及人要將這事傳給迦南地的居民；那民已經聽見你－耶和華是在這百姓中間；因為你面對面被人看見，有你的雲彩停在他們以上。你日間在雲柱中，夜間在火柱中，在他們前面行。
They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you LORD are among this people; for you LORD are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.
15 如今你若把這百姓殺了，如殺一人，那些聽見你名聲的列邦必議論說：
Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
16 『耶和華因為不能把這百姓領進他向他們起誓應許之地，所以在曠野把他們殺了。』
‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’
17 現在求主大顯能力，照你所說過的話說：
Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
18 『耶和華不輕易發怒，並有豐盛的慈愛，赦免罪孽和過犯；萬不以有罪的為無罪，必追討他的罪，自父及子，直到三、四代。』
‘The LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
19 求你照你的大慈愛赦免這百姓的罪孽，好像你從埃及到如今常赦免他們一樣。」
Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
20 耶和華說：「我照着你的話赦免了他們。
The LORD said, “I have pardoned according to your word;
21 然我指着我的永生起誓，遍地要被我的榮耀充滿。
but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the LORD’s glory—
22 這些人雖看見我的榮耀和我在埃及與曠野所行的神蹟，仍然試探我這十次，不聽從我的話，
because all those men who have seen my glory and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
23 他們斷不得看見我向他們的祖宗所起誓應許之地。凡藐視我的，一個也不得看見；
surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it.
24 惟獨我的僕人迦勒，因他另有一個心志，專一跟從我，我就把他領進他所去過的那地；他的後裔也必得那地為業。
But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.
25 亞瑪力人和迦南人住在谷中，明天你們要轉回，從紅海的路往曠野去。」
Since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by the way to the Sea of Suf.”
26 耶和華對摩西、亞倫說：
The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
27 「這惡會眾向我發怨言，我忍耐他們要到幾時呢？以色列人向我所發的怨言，我都聽見了。
“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation that complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel, which they complain against me.
28 你們告訴他們，耶和華說：『我指着我的永生起誓，我必要照你們達到我耳中的話待你們。
Tell them, ‘As I live, says the LORD, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.
29 你們的屍首必倒在這曠野，並且你們中間凡被數點、從二十歲以外、向我發怨言的，
Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,
30 必不得進我起誓應許叫你們住的那地；惟有耶孚尼的兒子迦勒和嫩的兒子約書亞才能進去。
surely you shall not come into the land concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
31 但你們的婦人孩子，就是你們所說、要被擄掠的，我必把他們領進去，他們就得知你們所厭棄的那地。
But I will bring in your little ones that you said should be captured or killed, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
32 至於你們，你們的屍首必倒在這曠野；
But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
33 你們的兒女必在曠野飄流四十年，擔當你們淫行的罪，直到你們的屍首在曠野消滅。
Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.
34 按你們窺探那地的四十日，一年頂一日，你們要擔當罪孽四十年，就知道我與你們疏遠了，
After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’
35 我－耶和華說過，我總要這樣待這一切聚集敵我的惡會眾；他們必在這曠野消滅，在這裏死亡。』」
I, the LORD, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”
36 摩西所打發、窺探那地的人回來，報那地的惡信，叫全會眾向摩西發怨言，
The men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land,
37 這些報惡信的人都遭瘟疫，死在耶和華面前。
even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
38 其中惟有嫩的兒子約書亞和耶孚尼的兒子迦勒仍然存活。
But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.
39 摩西將這些話告訴以色列眾人，他們就甚悲哀。
Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.
40 清早起來，上山頂去，說：「我們在這裏，我們有罪了；情願上耶和華所應許的地方去。」
They rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which the LORD has promised; for we have sinned.”
41 摩西說：「你們為何違背耶和華的命令呢？這事不能順利了。
Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of the LORD, since it shall not prosper?
42 不要上去；因為耶和華不在你們中間，恐怕你們被仇敵殺敗了。
Don’t go up, for the LORD isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.
43 亞瑪力人和迦南人都在你們面前，你們必倒在刀下；因你們退回不跟從耶和華，所以他必不與你們同在。」
For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you will fall by the sword because you turned back from following the LORD; therefore the LORD will not be with you.”
44 他們卻擅敢上山頂去，然而耶和華的約櫃和摩西沒有出營。
But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless, the ark of the LORD’s covenant and Moses didn’t depart out of the camp.
45 於是亞瑪力人和住在那山上的迦南人都下來擊打他們，把他們殺退了，直到何珥瑪。
Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down even to Hormah.
