¹ 以下所记的是摩西在约但河东的旷野、疏弗对面的亚拉巴─就是巴兰、陀弗、拉班、哈洗录、底撒哈中间─向以色列众人所说的话。

² 从何烈山经过西珥山到加低斯巴尼亚有十一天的路程。）

³ 出埃及第四十年十一月初一日，摩西照耶和华藉着他所吩咐以色列人的话都晓谕他们。

⁴ 那时，他已经击杀了住希实本的亚摩利王西宏和住以得来、亚斯他录的巴珊王噩。

⁵ 摩西在约但河东的摩押地讲律法说：

⁶ 耶和华─我们的神在何烈山晓谕我们说：你们在这山上住的日子够了；

⁷ 要起行转到亚摩利人的山地和靠近这山地的各处，就是亚拉巴、山地、高原、南地，沿海一带迦南人的地，并利巴嫩山又到伯拉大河。

⁸ 如今我将这地摆在你们面前；你们要进去得这地，就是耶和华向你们列祖亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各起誓应许赐给他们和他们後裔为业之地。

⁹ 那时，我对你们说：管理你们的重任，我独自担当不起。

¹⁰ 耶和华─你们的神使你们多起来。看哪，你们今日像天上的星那样多。

¹¹ 惟愿耶和华─你们列祖的神使你们比如今更多千倍，照他所应许你们的话赐福与你们。

¹² 但你们的麻烦，和管理你们的重任，并你们的争讼，我独自一人怎能担当得起呢？

¹³ 你们要按着各支派选举有智慧、有见识、为众人所认识的，我立他们为你们的首领。

¹⁴ 你们回答我说：照你所说的行了为妙。

¹⁵ 我便将你们各支派的首领，有智慧、为众人所认识的，照你们的支派，立他们为官长、千夫长、百夫长、五十夫长、十夫长，管理你们。

¹⁶ 当时，我嘱咐你们的审判官说：你们听讼，无论是弟兄彼此争讼，是与同居的外人争讼，都要按公义判断。

¹⁷ 审判的时候，不可看人的外貌；听讼不可分贵贱，不可惧怕人，因为审判是属乎神的。若有难断的案件，可以呈到我这里，我就判断。

¹⁸ 那时，我将你们所当行的事都吩咐你们了。

¹⁹ 我们照着耶和华─我们神所吩咐的从何烈山起行，经过你们所看见那大而可怕的旷野，往亚摩利人的山地去，到了加低斯巴尼亚。

²⁰ 我对你们说：你们已经到了耶和华─我们神所赐给我们的亚摩利人之山地。

²¹ 看哪，耶和华─你的神已将那地摆在你面前，你要照耶和华─你列祖的神所说的上去得那地为业；不要惧怕，也不要惊惶。

²² 你们都就近我来说：我们要先打发人去，为我们窥探那地，将我们上去该走何道，必进何城，都回报我们。

²³ 这话我以为美，就从你们中间选了十二个人，每支派一人。

²⁴ 於是他们起身上山地去，到以实各谷，窥探那地。

²⁵ 他们手里拿着那地的果子下来，到我们那里，回报说：耶和华─我们的神所赐给我们的是美地。

²⁶ 你们却不肯上去，竟违背了耶和华─你们神的命令，

²⁷ 在帐棚内发怨言说：耶和华因为恨我们，所以将我们从埃及地领出来，要交在亚摩利人手中，除灭我们。

²⁸ 我们上那里去呢？我们的弟兄使我们的心消化，说那地的民比我们又大又高，城邑又广大又坚固，高得顶天，并且我们在那里看见亚衲族的人。

²⁹ 我就对你们说：不要惊恐，也不要怕他们。

³⁰ 在你们前面行的耶和华─你们的神必为你们争战，正如他在埃及和旷野，在你们眼前所行的一样。

³¹ 你们在旷野所行的路上，也曾见耶和华─你们的神抚养你们，如同人抚养儿子一般，直等你们来到这地方。

³² 你们在这事上却不信耶和华─你们的神。

³³ 他在路上，在你们前面行，为你们找安营的地方；夜间在火柱里，日间在云柱里，指示你们所当行的路。

³⁴ 耶和华听见你们这话，就发怒，起誓说：

³⁵ 这恶世代的人，连一个也不得见我起誓应许赐给你们列祖的美地；

³⁶ 惟有耶孚尼的儿子迦勒必得看见，并且我要将他所踏过的地{赐给他和他的子孙，因为他专心跟从我。

³⁷ 耶和华为你们的缘故也向我发怒，说：你必不得进入那地。

³⁸ 伺候你、嫩的儿子约书亚，他必得进入那地；你要勉励他，因为他要使以色列人承受那地为业。

³⁹ 并且你们的妇人孩子，就是你们所说、必被掳掠的，和今日不知善恶的儿女，必进入那地。我要将那地赐给他们，他们必得为业。

⁴⁰ 至於你们，要转回，从红海的路往旷野去。

⁴¹ 那时，你们回答我说：我们得罪了耶和华，情愿照耶和华─我们神一切所吩咐的上去争战。於是你们各人带着兵器，争先上山地去了。

⁴² 耶和华吩咐我说：你对他们说：不要上去，也不要争战；因我不在你们中间，恐怕你们被仇敌杀败了。

⁴³ 我就告诉了你们，你们却不听从，竟违背耶和华的命令，擅自上山地去了。

⁴⁴ 住那山地的亚摩利人就出来攻击你们，追赶你们，如蜂拥一般，在西珥杀退你们，直到何珥玛。

⁴⁵ 你们便回来，在耶和华面前哭号；耶和华却不听你们的声音，也不向你们侧耳。

⁴⁶ 於是你们在加低斯住了许多日子。

¹ The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,

² Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Wail, Alas for the day!

³ For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.

⁴ A sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.

⁵ Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mixed people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is allied with them, shall fall with them by the sword.

⁶ Thus says Yahweh: They also who uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh.

⁷ They shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

⁸ They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed.

⁹ In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.

¹⁰ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

¹¹ He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

¹² I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

¹³ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis; and there shall be no more a prince from the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments on No.

¹⁵ I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.

¹⁶ I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken up; and Memphis [shall have] adversaries in the daytime.

¹⁷ The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these [cities] shall go into captivity.

¹⁸ At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

¹⁹ Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

²⁰ It happened in the eleventh year, in the first [month], in the seventh [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

²¹ Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and behold, it has not been bound up, to apply [healing] medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the sword.

²² Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong [arm], and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

²³ I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

²⁴ I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.

²⁵ I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out on the land of Egypt.

²⁶ I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.