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1:1 以下所記的是摩西在約旦河東的曠野、疏弗對面的亞拉巴─就是巴蘭、陀弗、拉班、哈洗錄、底撒哈中間─向以色列眾人所說的話。 These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the desert east of the Jordan--that is, in the Arabah--opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab.
1:2 （從何烈山經過西珥山到加低斯‧巴尼亞有十一天的路程。） (It takes eleven days to go from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by the Mount Seir road.) 1:3 出埃及第四十年十一月初一日，摩西照耶和華藉著他所吩咐以色列人的話都曉諭他們。 In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them. 1:4 那時，他已經擊殺了住希實本的亞摩利王西宏和住以得來、亞斯他錄的巴珊王噩。 This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, and at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth. 1:5 摩西在約旦河東的摩押地講律法說： East of the Jordan in the territory of Moab, Moses began to expound this law, saying: 1:6 「耶和華─我們的 神在何烈山曉諭我們說：你們在這山上住的日子夠了； The LORD our God said to us at Horeb, <<You have stayed long enough at this mountain. 1:7 要起行轉到亞摩利人的山地和靠近這山地的各處，就是亞拉巴、山地、高原、南地，沿海一帶迦南人的地，並黎巴嫩山又到幼發拉底大河。 Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates. 1:8 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亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各起誓應許賜給他們和他們後裔為業之地。」 See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore he would give to your fathers--to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob--and to their descendants after them.>> 1:9 「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, <<You are too heavy a burden for me to carry alone. 1:10 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 increased your numbers so that today you are as many as the stars in the sky. 1:11 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, increase you a thousand times and bless you as he has promised! 1:12 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？ But how can I bear your problems and your burdens and your disputes all by myself? 1:13 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 some wise, understanding and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will set them over you.>> 1:14 你們回答我說：『照你所說的行了為妙。』 You answered me, <<What you propose to do is good.>> 1:15 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 leading men of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them to have authority over you--as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens and as tribal officials. 1:16 「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 disputes between your brothers and judge fairly, whether the case is between brother Israelites or between one of them and an alien. 1:17 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。』 Do not show partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be afraid of any man, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case too hard for you, and I will hear it. 1:18 那時，我將你們所當行的事都吩咐你們了。」 And at that time I told you everything you were to do. 1:19 「我們照著耶和華─我們 神所吩咐的從何烈山起行，經過你們所看見那大而可怕的曠野，往亞摩利人的山地去，到了加低斯‧巴尼亞。 Then, as the LORD our God commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites through all that vast and dreadful desert that you have seen, and so we reached Kadesh Barnea. 1:20 我對你們說：『你們已經到了耶和華─我們 神所賜給我們的亞摩利人之山地。 Then I said to you, <<You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us. 1:21 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 given you the land. Go up and take possession of it as the LORD, the God of your fathers, told you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.>> 1:22 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 to me and said, <<Let us send men ahead to spy out the land for us and bring back a report about the route we are to take and the towns we will come to.>> 1:23 這話我以為美，就從你們中間選了十二個人，每支派一人。 The idea seemed good to me; so I selected twelve of you, one man from each tribe. 1:24 於是他們起身上山地去，到以實各谷，窺探那地。 They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and explored it. 1:25 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。』 Taking with them some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, <<It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.>> 1:26 「你們卻不肯上去，竟違背了耶和華─你們 神的命令， But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. 1:27 在帳棚內發怨言說：『耶和華因為恨我們，所以將我們從埃及地領出來，要交在亞摩利人手中，除滅我們。 You grumbled in your tents and said, <<The LORD hates us; so he brought us out of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us. 1:28 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亞衲族的人。』 Where can we go? Our brothers have made us lose heart. They say, <The people are stronger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the sky. We even saw the Anakites there.> >> 1:29 我就對你們說：『不要驚恐，也不要怕他們。 Then I said to you, <<Do not be terrified; do not be afraid of them. 1:30 在你們前面行的耶和華─你們的 神必為你們爭戰，正如他在埃及和曠野，在你們眼前所行的一樣。 The LORD your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, 1:31 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 desert. There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.>> 1:32 你們在這事上卻不信耶和華─你們的 神。 In spite of this, you did not trust in the LORD your God, 1:33 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 ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go. 1:34 「耶和華聽見你們這話，就發怒，起誓說： When the LORD heard what you said, he was angry and solemnly swore: 1:35 『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 a man of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your forefathers, 1:36 惟有耶孚尼的兒子迦勒必得看見，並且我要將他所踏過的地賜給他和他的子孫，因為他專心跟從我。』 except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land he set his feet on, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.>> 1:37 耶和華為你們的緣故也向我發怒，說：『你必不得進入那地。 Because of you the LORD became angry with me also and said, <<You shall not enter it, either. 1:38 伺候你、嫩的兒子約書亞，他必得進入那地；你要勉勵他，因為他要使以色列人承受那地為業。 But your assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will enter it. Encourage him, because he will lead Israel to inherit it. 1:39 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 the little ones that you said would be taken captive, your children who do not yet know good from bad--they will enter the land. I will give it to them and they will take possession of it. 1:40 至於你們，要轉回，從紅海的路往曠野去。』 But as for you, turn around and set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea.>> 1:40 Hebrew ((Yam Suph)); that is, Sea of Reeds 1:41 「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 replied, <<We have sinned against the LORD. We will go up and fight, as the LORD our God commanded us.>> So every one of you put on his weapons, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country. 1:42 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。』 But the LORD said to me, <<Tell them, <Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you. You will be defeated by your enemies.> >> 1:43 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 told you, but you would not listen. You rebelled against the LORD's command and in your arrogance you marched up into the hill country. 1:44 住那山地的亞摩利人就出來攻擊你們，追趕你們，如蜂擁一般，在西珥殺退你們，直到何珥瑪。 The Amorites who lived in those hills came out against you; they chased you like a swarm of bees and beat you down from Seir all the way to Hormah. 1:45 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。 You came back and wept before the LORD, but he paid no attention to your weeping and turned a deaf ear to you. 1:46 於是你們在加低斯住了許多日子。」 And so you stayed in Kadesh many days--all the time you spent there. This is Alex Markley's PHPScripture v1.2.0, displaying a copy of Chinese Union Version Bible in XOOPS. 本模組中文化由長島基督福音教會的Jack起始, 聖經文字部分由CCIM(網路基督使團)網站下載. 如欲修改經文請洽聖經公會. 荒漠甘泉五合一■ 中文荒漠甘泉（03月19日）
三月十九日 「親愛的阿，有火煉的試驗臨到你們，不要以為奇怪……倒要歡喜；因為你們是與基督一同受苦。」彼得前書四章12節 大衛的遭難使他的古琴發出更悅耳的音樂來，他的遇險使他發出「感謝和歌唱的聲音」（賽五一3）來；他的詩篇直到今天仍能叫地上的許多軟弱信徒得到幫助，叫天上的父神得到快樂。 究竟甚麼東西使耶西的兒子有這般屬靈的藝術呢？ 仇敵的吼叫，逼他發出神的呼籲來。神大能的拯救、豐富的恩慈，使他唱出感謝和歡樂的讚美來。所以，每一次的苦難在他的琴上添一根弦；每一次的拯救給他一個讚美的新題目。 一次痛苦躲過，一次祝福扣留；一次危難避去，一次榮耀失去。平穩度日的人不懂得依靠，所以他們不會看見神的榮耀，也不會唱出讚美來。 如果我們要多明白屬靈的奧祕，我們就不能懼怕在前面等待我們的苦難；因為有許多寶貝的功課，是必須在苦難中方能學到的。 ─薛伯登 「祂試驗我，為要派我服事祂。」（提前一12，韋氏譯本）
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（03月19日）
March 19 "Beloved, do not be surprised at the ordeal that has come to test you....you are sharing what Christ suffered; so rejoice in it."(1 Peter 4:12.) ＭANY a waiting hour was needful to enrich the harp of David, and many a waiting hour in the wilderness will gather for us a psalm of "thanksgiving, and the voice of melody," to cheer the hearts of fainting ones here below, and to make glad our Father's house on high. What was the preparation of the son of Jesse for the songs like unto which none other have ever sounded on this earth? The outrage of the wicked, which brought forth cries for God's help. Then the faint hope in God's goodness blossomed into a song of rejoicing for His mighty deliverances and manifold mercies. Every sorrow was another string to his harp; every deliverance another theme for praise. One thrill of anguish spared, one blessing unmarked or unprized, one difficulty or danger evaded, great would have been our loss in that thrilling Psalmody in which God's people today find the expression of their grief or praise! To wait for God, and to suffer His will, is to know Him in the fellowship of His sufferings, and to be conformed to the likeness of His Son. So now, if the vessel is to be enlarged for spiritual understanding, be not affrighted at the wider sphere of suffering that awaits you. The Divine capacity of sympathy will have a more extended sphere, for the breathing of the Holy Ghost in the new creation never made a stoic, but left the heart's affection tender and true. ─Anna Shipton. "He tested me ere He entrusted me." (1 Tim. 1:12.) (Way's Trans.)
■ 永活之泉（03月19日）
三月十九日 為眾聖徒祈求 「靠著聖靈隨時多方禱告祈求，並要在此儆醒不倦，為眾聖徒祈求。」以弗所書六章18節 保羅一再地重複這些話，說出他的願望是何等迫切巴望這些話能深深印在讀者心中的意念，藉著說出來的話，可以從神得著反應。 保羅深深感覺到基督身體合一的重要，而且他也確知，只有在禱告與愛中才能合一，因此他不斷地要求以弗所的信徒要迫切不斷的為聖徒祈求；不僅請求當地少數信徒為他們禱告，乃是請求在基督裡的全教會、所有的信徒為他們祈求。「合一就是力量」，若是我們常為人多方代禱，我們就會被脫離拯救自己及所有軟弱的禱告，並使自己的度量被擴充到一個程度，不僅使基督的愛充充滿滿流入我們內心，並且從我們身上滿溢出來。 真實的信徒最大的缺欠，就是在禱告中滿了己的成分，滿了要神為他們成就的事。在此，我們須認清神乃是呼召每個信徒一直從事於愛與禱告的事工上。只有當我們在信心中忘記自己時，神才會擔負我們的責任；只有當我們服在可以帶下祝福的偉大有福的事工上時，教會才會使基督傳於萬民。唯有如此將自己完全奉獻給神的人，他的生活才健全、蒙福。 所以，當著神的兒女及各教會禱告，為著他們所從事的事工禱告。隨時在靈裡為神的聖徒禱告，沒有其他事比在交通裡連於神更蒙福。想要達到這種光景，只有生活於代禱中，保羅就是為此而發出呼籲。
■ 中文屬天日子（03月19日）
三月十九日 亞伯拉罕信仰的方法 「出去的時候，還不知往那裡去。」希伯來書十一章8節 舊約裡面，私人與神的關係，因別離而表示出來的是亞伯拉罕。他在別離故鄉和親族的關係上，把他與神的關係象徵出來。今日的別離是著重心理和道德方面的，我們與神發生關係，不與我們最親愛的人抱同一的眼光，那就是精神上的別離。耶穌基督亦曾著重此舉（參路十四26）。 不知道被領到甚麼地方，但是愛而且知道那領導的一位。這是信仰的生活，不是理智的生活，卻是知道誰叫我去的生活。信仰之根是認識祂，而最大的錯誤，是存著神定會叫我們事事順遂的觀念。 信仰生活最後的階段，是人格之上進，人格之改變有許多是暫時的。於我們禱告之時，我們感覺神的祝福包圍著我們，我們覺得當時改變了；但是以後又退到平常的生活中，光榮也隨之消逝了。信仰的生活不是高飛上升的生活，卻是腳踏實地，毫無跌滑的生活。不是成聖的問題，是超過成聖的問題，是經過試練而不敗的信仰問題。亞伯拉罕不是成聖的模範，卻是信心生活的模範。一種經過試練的信仰，建立在真實的神上面。「亞伯拉罕相信神。」
■ 中文上海嗎哪（03月19日）
三月十九日 「把船開到水深之處……」路加福音五章4節 要解決生命中許多與基督徒生活有關的難題、困惑，最好的辦法就是簡單、但大膽地決定，繼續靠著亮光前進，把我們無法斷定的猜測和理論留待以後解決。當我們肩負起現在的責任，完全地順服時，許多不該浪費時間去決定的事，都將會變得清楚明朗。 如果我們大膽地把自己投往水深之處，基督會為我們解決一切我們正左右為難的問題。更可能的是，祂會使我們看出那些事是多麼微不足道，使我們明白，解決那些小事的惟一辦法是不去理它。因為那些事不過是撒但的小詭計，牠想用那些網羅使我們在該前進時，浪費時間、猶豫不定。 神的恩典宛如海洋， 既無邊界，又不可測， 往深水開出去，離開海岸邊， 讓我們沈浸在神的豐富裡。
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