¹在示剑重述　神的恩惠

¹And Joshua gathereth all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and calleth for the elders of Israel, and for its heads, and for its judges, and for its authorities, and they station themselves before God.

²约书亚对众民说：“耶和华以色列的　神这样说：‘古时你们的列祖，就是亚伯拉罕和拿鹤的父亲他拉，住在大河那边；他们事奉别的神。

²And Joshua saith unto all the people, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Beyond the River have your fathers dwelt of old — Terah father of Abraham and father of Nachor — and they serve other gods;

³我把你们的祖先亚伯拉罕，从大河那边带来，领他走遍迦南地，使他的后裔增多，把以撒赐给他；

³and I take your father Abraham from beyond the River, and cause him to go through all the land of Canaan, and multiply his seed, and give to him Isaac.

⁴又把雅各和以扫赐给以撒，把西珥山赐给以扫作产业；雅各和他的子孙却下到埃及去。

⁴And I give to Isaac, Jacob and Esau; and I give to Esau mount Seir, to possess it; and Jacob and his sons have gone down to Egypt.

⁵我差派了摩西和亚伦，借着我在埃及所行的神迹，用灾疫击打埃及，然后把你们领出来。

⁵And I send Moses and Aaron, and plague Egypt, as I have done in its midst, and afterwards I have brought you out.

⁶我领你们的列祖离开埃及，他们去到海边；埃及人带着战车和马兵，追赶你们的列祖直到红海。

⁶And I bring out your fathers from Egypt, and ye go into the sea, and the Egyptians pursue after your fathers, with chariot and with horsemen, to the Red Sea;

⁷你们的列祖呼求耶和华，他就以黑暗隔开你们和埃及人，又使海水复流淹没了他们；我在埃及所行的事，你们都亲眼见过；你们在旷野也住了许多日子。

⁷and they cry unto Jehovah, and He setteth thick darkness between you and the Egyptians, and bringeth on them the sea, and covereth them, and your eyes see that which I have done in Egypt; and ye dwell in a wilderness many days.

⁸我领你们到了住在约旦河东的亚摩利人的地，他们和你们争战，我把他们交在你们手里，你们就得了他们的地作产业；我也在你们面前把他们消灭。

⁸`And I bring you in unto the land of the Amorite who is dwelling beyond the Jordan, and they fight with you, and I give them into your hand, and ye possess their land, and I destroy them out of your presence.

⁹那时摩押王西拨的儿子巴勒起来攻击以色列人；他派人把比珥的儿子巴兰召了来，咒诅你们。

⁹`And Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, riseth and fighteth against Israel, and sendeth and calleth for Balaam son of Beor, to revile you,

¹⁰我不肯听巴兰的话，结果他反而一而再祝福你们；这样，我就救了你们脱离他的手。

¹⁰and I have not been willing to hearken to Balaam, and he doth greatly bless you, and I deliver you out of his hand.

¹¹你们过了约旦河，来到耶利哥；耶利哥的居民与你们作战，还有亚摩利人、比利洗人、迦南人、赫人、革迦撒人、希未人、耶布斯人，也跟你们作战；我把他们都交在你们手里。

¹¹`And ye pass over the Jordan, and come in unto Jericho, and fight against you do the possessors of Jericho — the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite — and I give them into your hand.

¹²我派了黄蜂飞在你们前面，把亚摩利人的两个王从你们面前赶走，并不是用你的刀，也不是用你的弓。

¹²And I send before you the hornet, and it casteth them out from your presence — two kings of the Amorite — not by thy sword, nor by thy bow.

¹³我赐给你们的土地，不是你们劳苦开垦的；我赐给你们的城市，不是你们建造的，你们却住在城中；你们享用的葡萄园和橄榄园，也不是你们栽种的。’

¹³`And I give to you a land for which thou hast not laboured, and cities which ye have not built, and ye dwell in them; of vineyards and olive-yards which ye have not planted ye are eating.

¹⁴劝勉众民事奉耶和华“现在你们要敬畏耶和华，真诚地按着真理事奉他，把你们列祖在大河那边和在埃及事奉的神除掉，去事奉耶和华。

¹⁴`And now, fear ye Jehovah, and serve Him, in perfection and in truth, and turn aside the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt, and serve ye Jehovah;

¹⁵如果你们认为事奉耶和华不好，那么今日你们就可以选择你们所要事奉的：是你们列祖在大河那边事奉的神呢，还是你们现在所住亚摩利人之地的神呢？至于我和父家，我们必事奉耶和华。”

¹⁵and if wrong in your eyes to serve Jehovah — choose for you to-day whom ye do serve; — whether the gods whom your fathers served, which [are] beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling; and I and my house — we serve Jehovah.`

¹⁶众民回答：“我们绝对不会离弃耶和华，去事奉别的神；

¹⁶And the people answer and say, `Far be it from us to forsake Jehovah, to serve other gods;

¹⁷因为耶和华我们的　神把我们和我们的列祖，从埃及地为奴的家领出来，并且在我们眼前行了那些伟大的神迹；又在我们所行的一切路上，和我们经过的一切民族中间，他都保护了我们；

¹⁷for Jehovah our God [is] He who is bringing us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants, and who hath done before our eyes these great signs, and doth keep us in all the way in which we have gone, and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed;

¹⁸耶和华又把所有的民族和住在这地的亚摩利人，都从我们面前赶走；所以我们必事奉耶和华，因为他是我们的　神。”

¹⁸and Jehovah casteth out the whole of the peoples, even the Amorite inhabiting the land, from our presence; we also do serve Jehovah, for He [is] our God.`

¹⁹约书亚对众民说：“你们不能事奉耶和华，因为他是圣洁的　神；他是嫉妒的　神，他必不赦免你们的过犯和罪恶。

¹⁹And Joshua saith unto the people, `Ye are not able to serve Jehovah, for a God most holy He [is]; a zealous God He [is]; He doth not bear with your transgression and with your sins.

²⁰如果你们离弃耶和华，去事奉外族人的神，那么在耶和华赐福给你们之后，他必转而降祸与你们，把你们消灭。”

²⁰When ye forsake Jehovah, and have served gods of a stranger, then He hath turned back and done evil to you, and consumed you, after that He hath done good to you.`

²¹众民对约书亚说：“不，我们必定事奉耶和华。”

²¹And the people saith unto Joshua, `No, but Jehovah we do serve.`

²²约书亚对众民说：“你们选择了耶和华，要事奉他，你们为自己作证吧。”他们说：“我们愿意作证。”

²²And Joshua saith unto the people, `Witnesses ye are against yourselves, that ye have chosen for you Jehovah to serve Him (and they say, `Witnesses!`)

²³约书亚说：“现在你们要除掉在你们中间外族人的神，一心归向耶和华以色列的　神。”

²³and, now, turn aside the gods of the stranger which [are] in your midst, and incline your heart unto Jehovah, God of Israel.`

²⁴众民对约书亚说：“我们必事奉耶和华我们的　神，必听从他的话。”

²⁴And the people say unto Joshua, `Jehovah our God we serve, and to His voice we hearken.`

²⁵约书亚与众民立约那一天，约书亚就与众民立约，在示剑为他们订立律例和典章。

²⁵And Joshua maketh a covenant with the people on that day, and layeth on it a statute and an ordinance, in Shechem.

²⁶约书亚把这些话都写在　神的律法书上；又拿一块大石头，立在耶和华圣所旁边的橡树下。

²⁶And Joshua writeth these words in the Book of the Law of God, and taketh a great stone, and raiseth it up there under the oak which [is] in the sanctuary of Jehovah.

²⁷约书亚对全体人民说：“看哪，这块石头可以向我们作证，因为它听见了耶和华对我们所说的一切话；所以这块石头要向你们作证，免得你们否认你们的　神。”

²⁷And Joshua saith unto all the people, `Lo, this stone is against us for a witness, for it hath heard all the sayings of Jehovah which He hath spoken with us, and it hath been against you for a witness, lest ye lie against your God.`

²⁸于是约书亚打发众民各自回到自己的地业去了。

²⁸And Joshua sendeth the people away, each to his inheritance.

²⁹约书亚逝世这些事以后，耶和华的仆人、嫩的儿子约书亚死了，那时他是一百一十岁。

²⁹And it cometh to pass, after these things, that Joshua son of Nun, servant of Jehovah, dieth, a son of a hundred and ten years,

³⁰以色列人把他埋葬在他自己地业的境内，就是在以法莲山地上的亭拿．西拉，在迦实山的北边。

³⁰and they bury him in the border of his inheritance, in Timnath-Serah, which [is] in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the hill of Gaash.

³¹约书亚在世的日子，和约书亚死后，那些知道耶和华为以色列人所行的一切事的长老还在世的日子，以色列人都事奉耶和华。

³¹And Israel serveth Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who prolonged days after Joshua, and who knew all the work of Jehovah which He did to Israel.

³²附录以色列人从埃及带出来的约瑟骸骨，葬在示剑的一块田里；这块田是雅各从前用一百块银子向示剑的父亲哈抹的子孙那里买来的；这块田就成了约瑟子孙的产业。

³²And the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up out of Egypt, they buried in Shechem, in the portion of the field which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor father of Shechem, with a hundred kesitah; and they are to the sons of Joseph for an inheritance.

³³亚伦的儿子以利亚撒也死了；以色列人就把他埋葬在基比亚，就是他儿子非尼哈在以法莲山地所得的产业。

³³And Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they bury him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given to him in the hill-country of Ephraim.