5 Mosebog 1
1 Dette er de Ord, Moses talte til hele Israel hinsides Jordan i Ørkenen, i Arabalavningen, lige over for Suf, mellem Paran og Tofel, Laban, Hazerot og Di Zahab,
These are the words which Moses said to all Israel on the far side of Jordan, in the waste land in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran on the one side, and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab on the other.
2 elleve Dagsrejser fra Horeb, regnede over Seirs Bjerge til Kadesj Barnea.
It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
3 I det fyrretyvende År på den første Dag i den elevte Måned kundgjorde Moses Israelitterne alt, hvad HERREN havde pålagt ham angående dem,
Now in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses gave to the children of Israel all the orders which the Lord had given him for them;
4 efter at han havde slået Amoriterkongen Sihon, der boede i Hesjbon, og Kong Og af Basan, der boede i Asjtarot og Edrei.
After he had overcome Sihon, king of the Amorites, ruling in Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, ruling in Ashtaroth, at Edrei:
5 Hinsides Jordan i Moabs Land tog Moses sig for at fremsætte følgende Lovudlægning:
On the far side of Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses gave the people this law, saying,
6 HERREN vor Gud talede til os ved Horeb og sagde: "I har nu længe nok opholdt eder ved Bjerget her;
The Lord our God said to us in Horeb, You have been long enough in this mountain:
7 bryd derfor op og drag til Amoriternes Bjerge og til alle deres Naboer i Arabalavningen, på Bjergene, i Lavlandet, i Sydlandet og ved Kysten, til Kana'anæernes Land og Libanon, lige til den store Flod, Eufratfloden.
Make a move now, and go on your way into the hill-country of the Amorites and the places near it, in the Arabah and the hill-country and in the lowlands and in the South and by the seaside, all the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
8 Se, jeg giver Landet i eders Magt; drag derind og tag det Land i Besiddelse, som jeg tilsvor eders Fædre, Abraham, Isak og Jakob, at ville give dem og deres Afkom efter dem."
See, all the land is before you: go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their seed after them.
9 Dengang talte jeg til eder og sagde: "Jeg kan ikke ene bære eder.
At that time I said to you, I am not able to undertake the care of you by myself;
10 HERREN eders Gud har gjort eder talrige, og se, I er nu så mange som Stjernerne på Himmelen;
The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.
11 måtte kun HERREN, eders Fædres Gud, gøre eder tusinde Gange så talrige endnu og velsigne eder, som han har forjættet eder;
May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times greater in number than you are, and give you his blessing as he has said!
12 men hvorledes skal jeg ene kunne bære hele Besværet og Arbejdet med eder og eders Stridigheder?
How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?
13 Sørg derfor for at finde nogle kloge, forstandige. og erfarne Mænd i hver Stamme, som jeg kan sætte i Spidsen for eder!"
Take for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and respected among you, from your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
14 Dertil svarede I og sagde: "Det Forslag, du har fremsat, er godt!"
And you made answer and said to me, It is good for us to do as you say.
15 Derfor tog jeg Overhovederne for eders Stammer, kloge og erfarne Mænd, og satte dem i Spidsen for eder som Øverste over tusinde, hundrede, halvtredsindstyve eller ti og som Tilsynsmænd over eders Stammer.
So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and respected, and made them rulers over you, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of fifties and captains of tens, and overseers of your tribes.
16 Dengang gav jeg så eders Dommere det Påbud: "Hold Forhør, når der er Stridigheder mellem eders Landsmænd, og døm retfærdigt, når en Mand har en Sag, enten det er med en Landsmand eller med en, der bor som fremmed hos ham;
And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.
17 vis ingen Personsanseelse for Retten; hør på den ringeste som på den største og frygt ikke for nogen; thi Dommen er Guds! Men Sager, som er eder for vanskelige, skal I forebringe mig, så skal jeg holde Forhør i dem!"
In judging, do not let a man's position have any weight with you; give hearing equally to small and great; have no fear of any man, for it is God who is judge: and any cause in which you are not able to give a decision, you are to put before me and I will give it a hearing.
18 Og dengang gav jeg eder så Pålæg om alt, hvad I skulde gøre.
And at that time I gave you all the orders which you were to do.
19 Derpå brød vi op fra Horeb og drog gennem hele denne store, grufulde Ørken, som I selv har set, i Retning af Amoriternes Bjerge, således som HERREN vor Gud havde pålagt os. Og vi kom til Kadesj Barnea.
Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw, on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
20 Da sagde jeg til eder: "I er nu kommet til Amoriternes Bjerge, som HERREN vor Gud vil give os.
And I said to you, You have come to the hill-country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us.
21 Se, HERREN din Gud har givet Landet i din Magt, drag derfor op og tag det i Besiddelse, således som HERREN, dine Fædres Gud, har sagt til dig. Frygt ikke, men vær uforsagt!"
See now, the Lord your God has put the land into your hands: go up and take it, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said to you; have no fear and do not be troubled.
22 Da kom I alle hen til mig og sagde: "Lad os sende nogle Mænd i forvejen til at udspejde Landet for os og bringe os Underretning om den Vej, vi skal drage op ad, og om de Byer, vi kommer til!"
And you came near to me, every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us to go through the land with care and give us an account of the way we are to go and the towns to which we will come.
23 Jeg billigede det og udtog tolv Mænd iblandt eder, en af hver Stamme.
And what you said seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from among you, one from every tribe;
24 De begav sig på Vej og drog op i Bjergene og kom til Esjkoldalen og udspejdede den;
And they went up into the hill-country and came to the valley of Eshcol, and saw what was there.
25 og de tog nogle af Landets Frugter med og bragte dem ned til os, og de meldte os tilbage: "Det er et herligt Land, HERREN vor Gud vil give os!"
And taking in their hands some of the fruit of the land, they came down again to us, and gave us their account, saying, It is a good land which the Lord our God is giving us.
26 Men I vilde ikke drage op, I var genstridige mod HERREN eders Guds Befaling.
But going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up:
27 I knurrede i eders Telte og sagde: "Af Had til os førte HERREN os ud af Ægypten for at give os i Amoriternes Hånd og lade os gå til Grunde!
And you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said, In his hate for us the Lord has taken us out of the land of Egypt, to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction.
28 Hvor er det dog, vi skal hen? Vore Brødre tog Modet fra os, da de sagde: Det er et Folk, der er større og højere end vi, og der er store Byer med himmelhøje Fæstningsværker, ja, vi så endog Efterkommere af Anakiterne der!"
Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
29 Men jeg sagde til eder: "Lad eder ikke skræmme og frygt ikke for dem!
Then I said to you, Have no fear of them.
30 HERREN eders Gud, der vandrer foran eder, vil selv stride for eder, som I så, han gjorde det for eder i Ægypten
The Lord your God who goes before you will be fighting for you, and will do such wonders as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
31 og i Ørkenen, hvor du så, at HERREN din Gud bar dig, som en Mand bærer sin Søn, hele den Vej I har vandret, lige til I nåede hertil!"
And in the waste land, where you have seen how the Lord was supporting you, as a man does his son, in all your journeying till you came to this place.
32 Men alligevel troede I ikke på HERREN eders Gud,
But for all this, you had no faith in the Lord your God,
33 skønt han vandrede foran eder på Vejen for at udsøge Lejrpladser til eder, om Natten i Ilden, for at I kunde se, hvor I skulde gå, og om dagen i Skyen.
Who goes before you on your way, looking for a place where you may put up your tents, in fire by night, lighting up the way you are to go, and in a cloud by day.
34 Men da HERREN hørte eders Ord, blev han vred og svor:
And the Lord, hearing your words, was angry, and said with an oath,
35 "Ikke en eneste af disse Mænd, af denne onde Slægt, skal få det herlige Land at se, som jeg svor at ville give eders Fædre,
Truly, not one of this evil generation will see that good land which I said I would give to your fathers,
36 undtagen Kaleb, Jefunnes Søn; han alene skal få det at se, og ham og hans Børn vil jeg give det Land, han har betrådt, fordi han har vist HERREN fuld Lydighed!"
But only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he will see it; and to him and to his children I will give the land over which his feet have gone, because he has been true to the Lord with all his heart.
37 Også på mig blev HERREN vred for eders Skyld, og han sagde: "Heller ikke du skal komme derind!
And, in addition, the Lord was angry with me because of you, saying, You yourself will not go into it:
38 Josua, Nuns Søn, der står i din Tjeneste, han skal komme derind; sæt Mod i ham, thi han skal skaffe Israel det i Eje."
Joshua, the son of Nun, your servant, he will go into the land: say to him that he is to be strong, for he will be Israel's guide into their heritage.
39 Og dets små Børn, som I sagde skulde blive til Bytte, eders Børn, som i Dag ikke kender Forskel på godt og ondt, de skal komme derind, dem vil jeg give det, og de skal tage det i Besiddelse.
And your little ones, who, you said, would come into strange hands, your children, who now have no knowledge of good or evil, they will go into that land, and to them I will give it and it will be theirs.
40 I selv derimod skal vende om og begive eder på Vej til Ørkenen i Retning af det røde Hav!"
But as for you, go back, journeying into the waste land by the way of the Red Sea.
41 Da svarede I og sagde til mig: "Vi har syndet imod HERREN! Vi vil drage op og kæmpe, som HERREN vor Gud har befalet os!" Og alle iførte I eder eders Våben og vilde i Letsindighed drage op i Bjergene.
Then you said to me, We have done evil against the Lord, we will go up to the attack, as the Lord our God has given us orders. And arming yourselves every one, you made ready to go up without care into the hill-country.
42 Men HERREN sagde til mig: Sig til dem: Drag ikke op og indlad eder ikke i Kamp, thi jeg er ikke iblandt eder; gør I det, bliver I slået af eders Fjender!"
And the Lord said to me, Say to them, Do not go up to the attack; for I am not among you, and you will be overcome by those who are against you.
43 Men da jeg sagde det til eder, adlød I ikke, men var genstridige mod HERRENs Bud og formastede eder til at drage op i Bjergene.
This I said to you, but you gave no attention and went against the orders of the Lord, and in your pride went up into the hill-country.
44 Da drog Amoriterne, der bor i Bjergene der, ud imod eder, og de forfulgte eder som Bier og slog eder fra Seir til Horma.
And the Amorites who were in the hill-country came out against you and put you to flight, rushing after you like bees, and overcame you in Seir, driving you even as far as Hormah.
45 Da I så kom tilbage, græd I for HERRENs Åsyn; men HERREN vilde ikke høre eder og låne eder Øre.
And you came back, weeping before the Lord; but the Lord gave no attention to your cries and did not give ear to you.
46 Så blev I hele den lange Tid i Kadesj.
So you were kept waiting in Kadesh for a long time.
