Exodus 24

1 And he said to Moses: Come up to the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel, and you shall adore afar off.

上主以後向梅瑟說：「你和亞郎、納達布、阿彼胡，以及以色列長老中的七十人到上主那裏；你們都在遠處跪下朝拜。

2 And Moses alone shall come up to the Lord, but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people come up with him.

然後梅瑟一人要走近上主，別人不可走近，百姓也不准同他上山。」

3 So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice: We will do all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken.

梅瑟下來將上主的一切話和誡命講述給百姓聽，眾百姓都同聲回答說：「凡上主所吩咐的話，我們全要奉行。」

4 And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord: and rising in the morning he built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve titles according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

梅瑟遂將上主的一切話記錄下來。第二天清晨，梅瑟在山下立了一座祭壇，又按以色列十二支派立了十二根石柱，

5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, and they offered holocausts, and sacrificed pacific victims of calves to the Lord.

又派了以色列子民的一些青年人去奉獻全燔祭，宰殺了牛犢作為獻給上主的和平祭。

6 Then Moses took half of the blood, and put it into bowls: and the rest he poured upon the altar.

梅瑟取了一半血，盛在盆中，取了另一半血洒在祭壇上。

7 And taking the book of the covenant, he read it in the hearing of the people: and they said: All things that the Lord hath spoken we will do, we will be obedient.

然後拿過約書來，唸給百姓聽。以後百姓回答說：「凡上主所吩咐的話，我們必聽從奉行。」

8 And he took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he said: This is the blood of the covenant which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.

梅瑟遂拿血來洒在百姓身上說：「看，這是盟約的血，是上主本著這一切話同你們訂立的約。」

9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel went up:

隨後梅瑟、亞郎、納達布、阿彼胡和以色列長老中的七十人上了山，

10 And they saw the God of Israel: and under his feet as it were a work of sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when clear.

看見了以色列的天主，看見在他腳下好像有一塊藍玉作的薄板，光亮似藍天。

11 Neither did he lay his hand upon those of the children of Israel, that retired afar off, and they saw God, and they did eat and drink.

他們雖看見了天主，天主卻沒有下手害以色列的首領們，他們還能吃能喝。梅瑟獨自留在山上

12 And the Lord said to Moses: Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and the law, and the commandments which I have written: that thou mayst teach them.

以後上主向梅瑟說：「你上山到我台前，停留在那裏，我要將石版，即我為教訓百姓所寫的法律和誡命交給你。」

13 Moses rose up, and his minister Josue: and Moses going up into the mount of God,

梅瑟和他的侍從若蘇厄起身上天主的山，

14 Said to the ancients: Wait ye here till we return to you. You have Aaron and Hur with you: if any question shall arise, you shall refer it to them.

梅瑟巷長老們說：「你們在這裏等候我們回到你們這裏。你們有亞郎和胡爾同你們在一起。誰有爭訟的事，可到他們那裏去。」

15 And when Moses was gone up, a cloud covered the mount.

梅瑟上了山，雲彩就把山蓋住了。

16 And the glory of the Lord dwelt upon Sinai, covering it with a cloud six days: and the seventh day he called him out of the midst of the cloud.

上主的榮耀停在西乃山上，雲彩遮蓋著山共六天之久，第七天上主從雲彩爭召叫了梅瑟。

17 And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like a burning fire upon the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel.

上主的榮耀在以色列子民眼前，好像烈火出現在山頂上。

18 And Moses, entering into the midst of the cloud, went up into the mountain: and he was there forty days, and forty nights.

梅瑟進入雲彩中，上了山；梅瑟在山上停留了四十天，四十夜。