¹人民沿途埋怨，惹怒耶和华

¹And the people is evil, as those sighing habitually in the ears of Jehovah, and Jehovah heareth, and His anger burneth, and the fire of Jehovah burneth among them, and consumeth in the extremity of the camp.

²人民向摩西呼求，摩西恳求耶和华，火就熄了，

²And the people cry unto Moses, and Moses prayeth unto Jehovah, and the fire is quenched;

³就称那地方作他备拉，因为耶和华的火曾在他们中间焚烧。

³and he calleth the name of that place Taberah, for the fire of Jehovah hath `burned` among them.

⁴他们中间的闲杂人起了贪欲，甚至连以色列人也哭着说：“谁给我们肉吃呢？

⁴And the rabble who [are] in its midst have lusted greatly, and the sons of Israel also turn back and weep, and say, `Who doth give us flesh?

⁵我们记得在埃及的时候，可以不花钱吃鱼，还有黄瓜、西瓜、韭菜、葱和蒜。

⁵We have remembered the fish which we do eat in Egypt for nought, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick;

⁶现在我们的心都枯干了；除了这吗哪以外，在我们眼前，什么都没有。”

⁶and now our soul [is] dry, there is not anything, save the manna, before our eyes.`

⁷这吗哪仿佛芫荽子，又好像珍珠。

⁷And the manna is as coriander seed, and its aspect as the aspect of bdolach;

⁸人民走来走去，把吗哪拾起来，或用磨磨碎，或用臼捣碎，或用锅煮，或做成饼，它的滋味好像油饼的滋味。

⁸the people have turned aside and gathered [it], and ground [it] with millstones, or beat [it] in a mortar, and boiled [it] in a pan, and made it cakes, and its taste hath been as the taste of the moisture of oil.

⁹夜间露水降在营上的时候，吗哪也随着降下来。

⁹And in the descending of the dew on the camp by night, the manna descendeth upon it.

¹⁰摩西听见人民都在各人的帐棚门口哀哭，耶和华就大发烈怒，摩西也不高兴。

¹⁰And Moses heareth the people weeping by its families, each at the opening of his tent, and the anger of Jehovah burneth exceedingly, and in the eyes of Moses [it is] evil.

¹¹摩西对耶和华说：“你为什么苦待你的仆人，为什么我没有在你面前蒙恩呢？竟把管理这人民的重担全放在我身上呢？

¹¹And Moses saith unto Jehovah, `Why hast Thou done evil to Thy servant? and why have I not found grace in Thine eyes — to put the burden of all this people upon me?

¹²这人民岂是我怀的胎，岂是我生的吗？你竟对我说：‘把他们抱在怀里，像养育之父抱吃奶的孩子，直抱到你起誓应许给他们们列祖的地方去。’

¹²I — have I conceived all this people? I — have I begotten it, that Thou sayest unto me, Carry it in thy bosom as the nursing father beareth the suckling, unto the ground which Thou hast sworn to its fathers?

¹³我从哪里得肉给这人民吃呢？因为他们都向我哭着说：‘你给我们肉吃吧！’

¹³Whence have I flesh to give to all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give to us flesh, and we eat.

¹⁴我不能独自担当管理这人民的责任，因为实在太重了。

¹⁴I am not able — I alone — to bear all this people, for [it is] too heavy for me;

¹⁵你既然这样待我，如果我在你面前蒙恩，求你把我杀了，免得我看见自己的苦楚。”

¹⁵and if thus Thou art doing to me — slay me, I pray Thee; slay, if I have found grace in thine eyes, and let me not look on mine affliction.`

¹⁶耶和华叫摩西选立七十长老耶和华对摩西说：“你要从以色列的长老中为我召聚七十个人，就是你认识的民间的长老和官长，领他们到会幕那里，叫他们与你一同站在那里。

¹⁶And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou hast known that they are elders of the people, and its authorities; and thou hast taken them unto the tent of meeting, and they have stationed themselves there with thee,

¹⁷我要在那里降临，与你说话，也要把在你身上的灵，分给他们，他们就与你一同担当管理人民的责任，免得你独自担当。

¹⁷and I have come down and spoken with thee there, and have kept back of the Spirit which [is] upon thee, and have put on them, and they have borne with thee some of the burden of the people, and thou dost not bear [it] thyself alone.

¹⁸你要对人民说：‘你们应当自洁，预备明天可以吃肉，因为你们哭着向耶和华说：“谁给我们肉吃呢？”所以耶和华必给你们肉吃。

¹⁸`And unto the people thou dost say, Sanctify yourselves for to-morrow, and ye have eaten flesh (for ye have wept in the ears of Jehovah, saying, Who doth give us flesh? for we [had] good in Egypt) — and Jehovah hath given to you flesh, and ye have eaten.

¹⁹你们不是吃一天两天，不是吃五天十天，也不是吃二十天，

¹⁹Ye do not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days; —

²⁰而是吃一个整月，直到肉从你们的鼻孔里喷出来，成为你们厌恶的东西；因为你们轻视了住在你们中间的耶和华，在他面前哭着说：“我们为什么出埃及呢？”’”

²⁰unto a month of days, till that it come out from your nostrils, and it hath become to you an abomination; because that ye have loathed Jehovah, who [is] in your midst, and weep before Him, saying, Why is this? — we have come out of Egypt!`

²¹摩西说：“这与我同住的人，能行的男人就有六十万，你还说：‘我要给他们肉吃，使他们可以吃一个整月。’

²¹And Moses saith, `Six hundred thousand footmen [are] the people in whose midst I [am]; and Thou, Thou hast said, Flesh I give to them, and they have eaten, a month of days!

²²难道把羊群和牛群都给他们宰了，就够他们吃吗？或是把海里所有的鱼都给他们聚了来，就够他们吃吗？”

²²Is flock and herd slaughtered for them, that one hath found for them? — are all the fishes of the sea gathered for them — that one hath found for them?`

²³耶和华对摩西说：“耶和华的手臂缩短了吗？现在你要看看我的话应验不应验。”

²³And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Is the hand of Jehovah become short? now thou dost see whether My word meeteth thee or not.`

²⁴于是摩西出来，把耶和华的话告诉人民，又从民间的长老中召聚了七十个人来，使他们站在会幕的周围。

²⁴And Moses goeth out, and speaketh unto the people the words of Jehovah, and gathereth seventy men of the elders of the people, and causeth them to stand round about the tent,

²⁵耶和华在云中降临，对摩西说话，把摩西身上的灵，分给那七十个长老；灵停在他们身上的时候，他们就说预言，以后却没有再说。

²⁵and Jehovah cometh down in the cloud, and speaketh unto him, and keepeth back of the Spirit which [is] on him, and putteth on the seventy men of the elders; and it cometh to pass at the resting of the Spirit on them, that they prophesy, and do not cease.

²⁶那时还有两个人留在营里；一个名叫伊利达，一个名叫米达；灵也停在他们身上。他们原是在被录取的人中，却没有到会幕那里去；他们就在营里说预言。

²⁶And two of the men are left in the camp, the name of the one [is] Eldad, and the name of the second Medad, and the spirit resteth upon them, (and they are among those written, and have not gone out to the tent), and they prophesy in the camp;

²⁷有个少年人跑来，告诉摩西：“伊利达和米达在营中说预言。”

²⁷and the young man runneth, and declareth to Moses, and saith, `Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.`

²⁸摩西的侍从，嫩的儿子约书亚，就是摩西所拣选的，回答说：“我主，摩西，请你制止他们。”

²⁸And Joshua son of Nun, minister of Moses, [one] of his young men, answereth and saith, `My lord Moses, restrain them.`

²⁹摩西对他说：“你为我的缘故嫉妒吗？但愿耶和华的人民都是先知，但愿耶和华把他的灵降在他们身上。”

²⁹And Moses saith to him, `Art thou zealous for me? O that all Jehovah`s people were prophets! that Jehovah would put His Spirit upon them!`

³⁰于是摩西和以色列的长老，都回营去了。

³⁰And Moses is gathered unto the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

³¹有风从耶和华那里吹起，把鹌鹑由海面刮来，散落在营地；鹌鹑在营的四周，这边约有一天的路程，那边约有一天的路程，离地面约有一公尺。

³¹And a spirit hath journeyed from Jehovah, and cutteth off quails from the sea, and leaveth by the camp, as a day`s journey here, and as a day`s journey there, round about the camp, and about two cubits, on the face of the land.

³²耶和华降下鹌鹑人民起来，那一天终日终夜，并次日一整天，都在捕捉鹌鹑，最少的也捕捉了约二千公升；他们都摆在营地的四周。

³²And the people rise all that day, and all the night, and all the day after, and gather the quails — he who hath least hath gathered ten homers — and they spread them out for themselves round about the camp.

³³肉在他们牙齿之间，还没有嚼烂，耶和华的怒气就向人民发作，用极重的灾祸击打他们。

³³The flesh is yet between their teeth — it is not yet cut off — and the anger of Jehovah hath burned among the people, and Jehovah smiteth among the people — a very great smiting;

³⁴于是那地方名叫基博罗．哈他瓦，因为他们在那里埋葬起了贪欲的人。

³⁴and [one] calleth the name of that place Kibroth-Hattaavah, for there they have buried the people who lust.

³⁵人民从基博罗．哈他瓦起行，到哈洗录去，就住在哈洗录。

³⁵From Kibroth-Hattaavah have the people journeyed to Hazeroth, and they are in Hazeroth.