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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09日）
三月九日 「從……頂……往下觀看。」雅歌四章8節 重壓使基督人飛騰。似乎是矛盾，其實是真理。大衛在苦難中喊叫說：「但願我有翅膀像鴿子，我就飛去，得享安息。」（詩五五6）他的禱告尚未完畢，他似乎已經承認他的心願已經達到，真生了翅膀。因為他不再覺得重擔，並且還能憑他的經驗勸人說：「你要把你的重擔卸給耶和華，祂必撫養你。」（22節） 「重擔」在聖經的邊註裏譯作「神所給你的東西」。信徒的重擔原是神給的；重擔帶領我們等候神、依賴神；甚麼時候我們能滿足神的用意，甚麼時候身上的重擔就化成翅膀，我們就能「如鷹展翅上騰。」（賽四十31） ─譯自主日學報 一日， 我在街上奔走， 事業的重負使我憂心忡忡， 種種煩慮有如陣雨之欲來， 胸中烏雲密佈。 於是自憐的心對自己說： 「可憐的人啊！你要做的事太多。 你實在太勞苦。 這沈重負擔不久會使你困苦。」 心中起了強烈的反應， 好如暴露在炎熱陽光下， 更如街車疾駛而過， 灰塵飛揚， 喧嘩雜鬧和刺耳的噪音， 緊張更添了刺激， 疲累而困惱的心， 已經達到了崩裂的邊疆。 「哦！是的， 它會壓碎我的生命； 我無法忍受無窮無盡的緊張， 不斷而來的憂慮， 對我真是重壓難當。」 我的心哪自安自慰說： 「安心於不幸吧！」 忽然聽到細微之聲清晰地說： 「這不是來壓碎你， 而是來支持你。」 我立刻發現落入重大錯誤中， 我的地位不在重負下， 卻在重負上！ 神的美意不是讓我去背負， 而是神背負我。 神在安排祂旨意之前， 祂早已知道我的缺點， 亦看清了我的脆弱靈魂， 祂的子民需要恩典和能力， 一枝嫩芽需要陽光雨露來培養。 祂未作幫助之前把一切看清， 然後按照祂的旨意與周詳的慈念， 把它放在它應站的地位上， 這是生死兩可的關鍵。 在重負之下畏縮癱瘓下死亡， 有勇氣站起身來， 就得生命力量。 我們的負擔就是我們的翅膀； 藉此可以飛昇到天上恩慈座旁； 如果沒有信心的翅膀， 我們信心將永不成熟仰望。 「信心非經困難環境的鍛鍊， 決不成長」。 這是天國奧秘的真理。 我們以為有那壓碎我們生命的重負， 其實是背負我們飛向天上神的翅膀。 向上爬吧！ 決不會被壓碎， 除非你沈滯在重負之下， 我們怎樣向上爬！ 如何能凌駕在憂患與苦悶之上； 哦神，您的話顯示向上的階梯， 就是我們先隱退一時， 和基督單獨相處； 就是凌駕一切憂患重負的秘方， 因著主耶穌基督， 得到祂安息與慈祥。 ─白德菲
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（03月09日）
March 9 "Look from the top." (Song of Solomon 4:8.) ＣRUSHING weights give the Christian wings. It seems like a contradiction in terms, but it is a blessed truth. David out of some bitter experience cried: "Oh, that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest" (Psa. 55:6.) But before he finished this meditation he seems to have realized that his wish for wings was a realizable one. For he says, "Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain thee." The word "burden" is translated in the Bible margin, "what he (Jehovah) hath given thee." The saints' burdens are God-given; they lead him to "wait upon Jehovah," and when that is done, in the magic of trust, the "burden" is metamorphosed into a pair of wings, and the weighted one "mounts up with wings as eagles." ─Sunday School Times. One day when walking down the street, On business bent, while thinking hard About the "hundred cares" which seemed, Like thunder clouds about to break In torrents, Self-pity said to me: "You poor, poor thing, you have too much To do. Your life is far too hard. This heavy load will crush you soon." A swift response of sympathy Welled up within. The burning sun Seemed more intense. The dust and noise, Of puffing motors flying past With rasping blast of blowing horn, Incensed still more the whining nerves, The fabled last back-breaking straw, To weary, troubled, fretting mind. "Ah, yes, 'twill break and crush my life; I cannot bear this constant strain Of endless, aggravating cares; They are too great for such as I." So thus my heart condoled itself, "Enjoying misery," when lo! A 11still small voice" distinctly said, "'Twas sent to lift you─not to crush." I saw at once my great mistake. My place was not beneath the load But on the top! God meant it not, That I should carry it. He sent It here to carry me. Full well, He knew my incapacity Before the plan was made. He saw A child of His in need of grace And power to serve; a puny twig, Requiring sun and rain to grow; An undeveloped chrysalis; A weak soul lacking faith in God. He could not help but see all this And more. And then, with tender tought He placed it where it had to grow─ Or die. To lie and cringe beneath One's load means death, but life and power, Await all those who dare to rise above. Our burdens are our wings; on them, We soar to higher realms of grace; Without them we must roam for aye On planes of undeveloped faith, (For faith grows but by exercise, In circumstance impossible). Oh, paradox of Heaven. The load, We think will crush was sent to lift us Up to God! Then, soul of mine, Climb up! for naught can e'er be crushed Save what is underneath the weight. How may we climb! By what ascent Shall we surmount the carping cares Of life! Within His word is found The key which opes His secret stairs; Alone with Christ, secluded there, We mount our loads, and rest in Him. ─Miss Mary Butterfield.
■ 永活之泉（03月09日）
三月九日 奉主名禱告是代禱的能力 「向來你們沒有奉我的名求甚麼。」「到那日你們要奉我的名祈求；如今你們求就必得著叫你們的喜樂可以滿足。」約翰福音十六章24、26節 當基督活在地上的時候，門徒們並不知道多少禱告的能力。在客西馬尼，彼得與其他門徒都全然失敗了。他們根本不明白奉主名祈求就必得著是怎麼回事。主應許他們等那日來到，他們奉祂的名禱告將得著何等能力，他們無論向父求甚麼都必得著。 「向來沒有。」「到那日你們要奉我的名祈求，……就必得著……。」這兩種光景至今仍在教會中顯出。今天絕大多數的基督徒缺乏認識禱告的靈，乃是我們與主耶穌及聖靈合一的靈，我們甚至不嘗試向主支取祂所應許的權利。甚麼時候神的兒女知道何謂住在基督裡，以及與祂生命的聯合，順服聖靈的教訓，他們就會知道代禱的功效何等大！並且神將賜聖靈的大能，來答應他們的禱告。 唯有當我們相信主名的能力，並我們有權使用主名的時候，我們才會得著力量，承擔神呼召我們做代禱者的聖職。我們的主耶穌在祂離世前的談話中將此禱告的無限應許給了門徒，祂就差遣他們出去讓他們知道「那位坐在寶座上也住在我心中的，已應許我無論奉祂的名求甚麼就必得著。祂要作我這事。」 哦！基督徒若能知道，我們若將自己全然絕對地交給耶穌基督並服事祂，我們的眼睛將會被開啟而看見，迫切不止的禱告乃是我們健全屬靈生活最重要的標記；且大有功效的代禱力量成了那些只住在主裡，且為主而活之人生活的一部份。 禱告： 可稱頌的救主，求賜下聖靈的恩賜，使我們得以住在您裡面，與您合一，為您而活，使我們能坦然仰望您，確知您已垂聽了我們的禱告。阿們。
■ 中文屬天日子（03月09日）
三月九日 重蹈覆轍之時 「你們也要去麼？」約翰福音六章67節 這是一句刺探的問語。當主以最簡單的方法說話的時候，祂的話是最有力的。我們知道耶穌是誰，雖是如此，祂還得要問：「你們也要去麼？」我們對於祂要時時保持一種冒險的態度。 「從此，祂門徒中多有退去的，不再和祂同行。」（約六66）他們撇下耶穌而去，不是再去犯罪，卻是離開祂。今日有許多人為耶穌基督的工作耗財又耗力，卻不和祂同行。神希望我們不放鬆的一事，就是與耶穌基督合而為一。成聖以後，我們靈性生活的訓練，就是沿著這條路線。如果神使你知道祂所需要於你靈的是甚麼，就不要死死守著某種特殊方式的關係，而要過一種絕對倚靠耶穌基督的生活。切不要在非神的路線而與神同在，是要在神的路線而與神同在。這條路線是絕對忠於祂。我確知我是不知的──那才得到了與耶穌同行的祕訣。 彼得只感覺耶穌是他和世界的主，我們的主卻要我們作祂負軛的同工。第70節，耶穌補滿彼得的大缺點，我們不能補滿別人的缺點。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（03月09日）
三月九日 「……知道該怎麼行，可以討神的喜悅……。」帖撒羅尼迦前書四章1節 許多基督徒的信心正仰賴在神所派給他們的崗位上，但是撒但卻不斷使他們覺得自己並不能討神的喜悅。假使他們能夠信實且充滿愛心地堅守神給他們的職務，不僅心中會更喜樂，在其生命中也會更有能力。神把我們放在不同的地方事奉祂，能有最高成就的秘訣，在於接納我們的職務是祂所任命的，並且相信我們在這崗位上的事奉能討祂的喜悅。雖然在最大的工廠或是最複雜的機器中，大的主動輪及活塞很重要，但最小的螺旋釘和包頭釘也有存在的價值。神的確也用「小零件」，祂給那些人簡單的職務，讓他們能固定在某個地方，而且相信神要他們在那小小的空間中，盡一切地為祂而活。 每個人都能做一些事， 雖然你我既不聰明又不強壯。 我們依舊能做個好幫手。 當某人朋友離散時，你可以支持他。 孤單寂寞的人需要你時， 你也可以做他們隨時的安慰。
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