¹以色列人发怨言

¹And all the company lifteth up and give forth their voice, and the people weep during that night;

²以色列人向摩西和亚伦发怨言；全体会众都对他们说：“但愿我们早死在埃及地，或死在这旷野。

²and all the sons of Israel murmur against Moses, and against Aaron, and all the company say unto them, `O that we had died in the land of Egypt, or in this wilderness, O that we had died!

³耶和华为什么把我们领到这地来，死在刀剑之下呢？我们的妻子和孩子要被掳掠。我们回埃及去，岂不更好吗？”

³and why is Jehovah bringing us in unto this land to fall by the sword? our wives and our infants are become a prey; is it not good for us to turn back to Egypt?`

⁴于是他们彼此说：“我们另立一个首领，回埃及去吧。”

⁴And they say one unto another, `Let us appoint a head, and turn back to Egypt.`

⁵摩西和亚伦就俯伏在以色列全体会众面前。

⁵And Moses falleth — Aaron also — on their faces, before all the assembly of the company of the sons of Israel.

⁶窥探那地的人中，有嫩的儿子约书亚和耶孚尼的儿子迦勒；他们撕裂衣服，

⁶And Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, of those spying the land, have rent their garments,

⁷对以色列全体会众说：“我们去窥探的那地，是十分美好的地方。

⁷and they speak unto all the company of the sons of Israel, saying, `The land into which we have passed over to spy it, [is] a very very good land;

⁸耶和华若是喜悦我们，就必把我们领进那地，把那地赐给我们，那地原是流奶与蜜的地。

⁸if Jehovah hath delighted in us, then He hath brought us in unto this land, and hath given it to us, a land which is flowing with milk and honey;

⁹只要你们不背叛耶和华，就不必怕那地的人，因为他们是我们的食物；荫庇他们的，已经离开他们了，耶和华却与我们同在；不要怕他们。”

⁹only, against Jehovah rebel not ye: and ye, fear not ye the people of the land, for our bread they [are]; their defence hath turned aside from off them, and Jehovah [is] with us; fear them not.`

¹⁰全体会众都说要用石头打死他们二人。这时，耶和华的荣光在会幕中向以色列众人显现。

¹⁰And all the company say to stone them with stones, and the honour of Jehovah hath appeared in the tent of meeting unto all the sons of Israel.

¹¹摩西为他们代求耶和华对摩西说：“这民藐视我要到几时呢？我虽然在他们中间行了这些神迹，他们还是不信我要到几时呢？

¹¹And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Until when doth this people despise Me? and until when do they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have done in its midst?

¹²我要用瘟疫击杀他们，除灭他们；我要使你成为大国，比他们还强。”

¹²I smite it with pestilence, and dispossess it, and make thee become a nation greater and mightier than it.`

¹³摩西对耶和华说：“这样埃及人必听见这事，因为你曾用大能，把这民从他们中间领上来；

¹³And Moses saith unto Jehovah, `Then have the Egyptians heard! for Thou hast brought up with Thy power this people out of their midst,

¹⁴埃及人也必告诉那地的居民。那地的居民也曾听见你耶和华是在这人民中间，你耶和华曾面对面的向人显现，你的云彩常停在他们上面；日间你在云柱中，夜间你在火柱中，走在他们前面。

¹⁴and they have said [it] unto the inhabitant of this land, they have heard that Thou, Jehovah, [art] in the midst of this people, that eye to eye Thou art seen — O Jehovah, and Thy cloud is standing over them, — and in a pillar of cloud Thou art going before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

¹⁵现在如果你把这人民杀死，像杀死一人，那些听见你名声的万国就必议论说：

¹⁵`And Thou hast put to death this people as one man, and the nations who have heard Thy fame have spoken, saying,

¹⁶‘因为耶和华不能把这民领进他向他们起誓应许的地，所以在旷野把他们杀了。’

¹⁶From Jehovah`s want of ability to bring in this people unto the land which He hath sworn to them — He doth slaughter them in the wilderness.

¹⁷现在求主大发能力，照着你说过的话：

¹⁷`And now, let, I pray Thee, the power of my Lord be great, as Thou hast spoken, saying:

¹⁸‘耶和华不轻易发怒，且有丰盛的慈爱；他赦免罪孽和过犯；绝不以有罪的为无罪，必追讨罪孽，自父到子，直到三四代。’

¹⁸Jehovah [is] slow to anger, and of great kindness; bearing away iniquity and transgression, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on a third [generation], and on a fourth; —

¹⁹求你照着你的大慈爱，饶恕这人民的罪孽，好像你从埃及直到现在，常赦免这人民一样。”

¹⁹forgive, I pray Thee, the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of Thy kindness, and as Thou hast borne with this people from Egypt, even until now.`

²⁰耶和华说：“我就照着你的话，赦免他们；

²⁰And Jehovah saith, `I have forgiven, according to thy word;

²¹但是，我指着我的永生起誓，全地要被耶和华的荣耀充满。

²¹and yet, I live — and it is filled — the whole earth — [with] the honour of Jehovah;

²²这些见过我的荣耀，和我在埃及与旷野所行的神迹的人，仍然试探了我这十次，不听从我的话；

²²for all the men who are seeing My honour, and My signs, which I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and try Me these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice —

²³他们决不得看见我向他们的祖宗起誓应许之地；藐视我的，一个也不能看见那地。

²³they see not the land which I have sworn to their fathers, yea, none of those despising Me see it;

²⁴但是我的仆人迦勒，因他另有一个心志，专心跟从我，我必把他领进他去过的那地；他的子孙也必得着那地为业。

²⁴and My servant Caleb, because there hath been another spirit with him, and he is fully after Me — I have brought him in unto the land whither he hath entered, and his seed doth possess it.

²⁵现在亚玛力人和迦南人住在山谷中，明天你们要回转，从到红海路上，起行到旷野去。”

²⁵`And the Amalekite and the Canaanite are dwelling in the valley; to-morrow turn ye and journey for yourselves into the wilderness — the way of the Red Sea.`

²⁶耶和华惩罚以色列人（申1:34-40）耶和华吩咐摩西和亚伦说：

²⁶And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying,

²⁷“这恶会众向我发怨言要到几时呢？以色列人向我所发的怨言，我都听见了。

²⁷`Until when hath this evil company that which they are murmuring against Me? the murmurings of the sons of Israel, which they are murmuring against Me, I have heard;

²⁸你要对他们说：‘耶和华说，我指着我的永生起誓，我必照着你们所说给我听的，对待你们：

²⁸say unto them, I live — an affirmation of Jehovah — if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears — so I do not to you;

²⁹你们的尸体必倒在这旷野；你们中间被数点过的，就是按着你们的数目，从二十岁以上，向我发过怨言的，

²⁹in this wilderness do your carcases fall, even all your numbered ones, to all your number, from a son of twenty years and upward, who have murmured against Me;

³⁰都不得进入我起誓给你们居住的那地；只有耶孚尼的儿子迦勒和嫩的儿子约书亚才可以进去。

³⁰ye — ye come not in unto the land which I have lifted up My hand to cause you to tabernacle in it, except Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua son of Nun.

³¹但是你们的孩子，就是你们所说他们必被掳掠的，我要把他们领进去，他们必得着你们厌弃的那地。

³¹`As to your infants — of whom ye have said, A spoil they are become — I have even brought them in, and they have known the land which ye have kicked against;

³²至于你们，你们的尸体必倒在这旷野。

³²as to you — your carcases do fall in this wilderness,

³³你们的儿女必在旷野飘流四十年，担当你们背信之罪，直到你们的尸体在旷野都灭尽了。

³³and your sons are evil in the wilderness forty years, and have borne your whoredoms till your carcases are consumed in the wilderness;

³⁴照着你们窥探那地的日数共四十天，一天算一年，你们要担当罪孽四十年，你们就知道我为什么与你们作对。’

³⁴by the number of the days [in] which ye spied the land, forty days, — a day for a year, a day for a year — ye do bear your iniquities, forty years, and ye have known my breaking off;

³⁵我耶和华已经说了，我必要这样对待这聚集反抗我的恶会众；他们要在这旷野灭尽，在这里死亡。”

³⁵I [am] Jehovah, I have spoken; if I do not this to all this evil company who are meeting against me; — in this wilderness they are consumed, and there they die.`

³⁶摩西派去窥探那地的人回来，因为带回有关那地的恶信，以致全体会众都向摩西发怨言，

³⁶And the men whom Moses hath sent to spy the land, and they turn back and cause all the company to murmur against him, by bringing out an evil account concerning the land,

³⁷这些带回有关那地的恶信的人，都遭受瘟疫死在耶和华面前。

³⁷even the men bringing out an evil account of the land die by the plague before Jehovah;

³⁸只有嫩的儿子约书亚和耶孚尼的儿子迦勒，仍然活着。

³⁸and Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, have lived of those men who go to spy out the land.

³⁹擅自出击，大败而逃（申1:41-46）摩西把这些话告诉以色列众人，他们就非常悲哀。

³⁹And Moses speaketh these words unto all the sons of Israel, and the people mourn exceedingly,

⁴⁰他们清早起来，上山顶去，说：“我们在这里；我们要上耶和华应许的地方去，因为我们犯了罪。”

⁴⁰and they rise early in the morning, and go up unto the top of the mountain, saying, `Here we [are], and we have come up unto the place which Jehovah hath spoken of, for we have sinned.`

⁴¹摩西说：“你们为什么又违背耶和华的命令呢？这事必不能成功。

⁴¹And Moses saith, `Why [is] this? — ye are transgressing the command of Jehovah, and it doth not prosper;

⁴²你们不要上去，因为耶和华不在你们中间，免得你们在仇敌面前被杀败。

⁴²go not up, for Jehovah is not in your midst, and ye are not smitten before your enemies;

⁴³因为亚玛力人和迦南人都在那里，在你们面前，你们必倒在刀下；因为你们转离不跟随耶和华，耶和华不与你们同在。”

⁴³for the Amalekite and the Canaanite [are] there before you, and ye have fallen by the sword, because that ye have turned back from after Jehovah, and Jehovah is not with you.`

⁴⁴他们却擅自上山顶去，但是耶和华的约柜和摩西并没有离开营地。

⁴⁴And they presume to go up unto the top of the mountain, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah and Moses have not departed out of the midst of the camp.

⁴⁵于是，亚玛力人和住在那山上的迦南人就下来，击杀他们，粉碎他们，直到何珥玛。

⁴⁵And the Amalekite and the Canaanite who are dwelling in that mountain come down and smite them, and beat them down — unto Hormah.