以下所記的是
These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
以下所記的是
These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
（從
It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
出
In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them,
那時，他已經擊殺了住
after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei.
Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to explain this law, saying,
「耶和華──我們的神在
“The LORD our God said to us in Horeb, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain.
要起行轉到
Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negeb and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
如今我將這地擺在你們面前；你們要進去得這地，就是耶和華向你們列祖
See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.’
「那時，我對你們說：『管理你們的重任，我獨自擔當不起。
“At that time I said to you, ‘I am not able to bear you by myself.
耶和華──你們的神使你們多起來。看哪，你們今日像天上的星那樣多。
The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as numerous as the stars of heaven.
惟願耶和華──你們列祖的神使你們比如今更多千倍，照他所應許你們的話賜福與你們。
May the LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!
但你們的麻煩，和管理你們的重任，並你們的爭訟，我獨自一人怎能擔當得起呢？
How can I bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife?
你們要按著各支派選舉有智慧、有見識、為眾人所認識的，我立他們為你們的首領。』
Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.’
你們回答我說：『照你所說的行了為妙。』
And you answered me, ‘The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.’
我便將你們各支派的首領，有智慧、為眾人所認識的，照你們的支派，立他們為官長、千夫長、百夫長、五十夫長、十夫長，管理你們。
So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes.
「當時，我囑咐你們的審判官說：『你們聽訟，無論是弟兄彼此爭訟，是與同居的外人爭訟，都要按公義判斷。
And I charged your judges at that time, ‘Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.
審判的時候，不可看人的外貌；聽訟不可分貴賤，不可懼怕人，因為審判是屬乎神的。若有難斷的案件，可以呈到我這裏，我就判斷。』
You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’
那時，我將你們所當行的事都吩咐你們了。」
And I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do.
「我們照著耶和華──我們神所吩咐的從
“Then we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrifying wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us. And we came to Kadesh-barnea.
我對你們說：『你們已經到了耶和華──我們神所賜給我們的
And I said to you, ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.
看哪，耶和華──你的神已將那地擺在你面前，你要照耶和華──你列祖的神所說的上去得那地為業；不要懼怕，也不要驚惶。』
See, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not fear or be dismayed.’
你們都就近我來說：『我們要先打發人去，為我們窺探那地，將我們上去該走何道，必進何城，都回報我們。』
Then all of you came near me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, that they may explore the land for us and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come.’
這話我以為美，就從你們中間選了十二個人，每支派一人。
The thing seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from you, one man from each tribe.
於是他們起身上山地去，到
And they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out.
他們手裏拿著那地的果子下來，到我們那裏，回報說：『耶和華──我們的神所賜給我們的是美地。』
And they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us, and brought us word again and said, ‘It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.’
「你們卻不肯上去，竟違背了耶和華──你們神的命令，
“Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.
在帳棚內發怨言說：『耶和華因為恨我們，所以將我們從
And you murmured in your tents and said, ‘Because the LORD hated us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
我們上哪裏去呢？我們的弟兄使我們的心消化，說那地的民比我們又大又高，城邑又廣大又堅固，高得頂天，並且我們在那裏看見
Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.”’
我就對你們說：『不要驚恐，也不要怕他們。
Then I said to you, ‘Do not be in dread or afraid of them.
在你們前面行的耶和華──你們的神必為你們爭戰，正如他在
The LORD your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
你們在曠野所行的路上，也曾見耶和華──你們的神撫養你們，如同人撫養兒子一般，直等你們來到這地方。』
and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.’
你們在這事上卻不信耶和華──你們的神。
Yet in spite of this word you did not believe the LORD your God,
他在路上，在你們前面行，為你們找安營的地方；夜間在火柱裏，日間在雲柱裏，指示你們所當行的路。」
who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night and in the cloud by day, to show you by what way you should go.
「耶和華聽見你們這話，就發怒，起誓說：
“And the LORD heard your words and was angered, and he swore,
『這惡世代的人，連一個也不得見我起誓應許賜給你們列祖的美地；
‘Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers,
惟有
except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the LORD!’
耶和華為你的緣故也向我發怒，說：『你必不得進入那地。
Even with me the LORD was angry on your account and said, ‘You also shall not go in there.
伺候你、
Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
並且你們的婦人孩子，就是你們所說、必被擄掠的，和今日不知善惡的兒女，必進入那地。我要將那地賜給他們，他們必得為業。
And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.
至於你們，要轉回，從
But as for you, turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.’
「那時，你們回答我說：『我們得罪了耶和華，情願照耶和華──我們神一切所吩咐的上去爭戰。』於是你們各人帶著兵器，爭先上山地去了。
“Then you answered me, ‘We have sinned against the LORD. We ourselves will go up and fight, just as the LORD our God commanded us.’ And every one of you fastened on his weapons of war and thought it easy to go up into the hill country.
耶和華吩咐我說：『你對他們說：不要上去，也不要爭戰；因我不在你們中間，恐怕你們被仇敵殺敗了。』
And the LORD said to me, ‘Say to them, Do not go up or fight, for I am not in your midst, lest you be defeated before your enemies.’
我就告訴了你們，你們卻不聽從，竟違背耶和華的命令，擅自上山地去了。
So I spoke to you, and you would not listen; but you rebelled against the command of the LORD and presumptuously went up into the hill country.
住那山地的
Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do and beat you down in Seir as far as Hormah.
你們便回來，在耶和華面前哭號；耶和華卻不聽你們的聲音，也不向你們側耳。
And you returned and wept before the LORD, but the LORD did not listen to your voice or give ear to you.
於是你們在
So you remained at Kadesh many days, the days that you remained there.