出埃及記 33
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Traditional)
耶和華不欲與民偕往
33 耶和華吩咐摩西說：「我曾起誓應許亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各說：『要將迦南地賜給你的後裔。』現在你和你從埃及地所領出來的百姓，要從這裡往那地去。 2 我要差遣使者在你前面，攆出迦南人、亞摩利人、赫人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人， 3 領你到那流奶與蜜之地。我自己不同你們上去，因為你們是硬著頸項的百姓，恐怕我在路上把你們滅絕。」 4 百姓聽見這凶信就悲哀，也沒有人佩戴裝飾。 5 耶和華對摩西說：「你告訴以色列人說：『耶和華說：你們是硬著頸項的百姓，我若一霎時臨到你們中間，必滅絕你們。現在你們要把身上的裝飾摘下來，使我可以知道怎樣待你們。』」 6 以色列人從住何烈山以後，就把身上的裝飾摘得乾淨。
7 摩西素常將帳篷支搭在營外，離營卻遠，他稱這帳篷為會幕。凡求問耶和華的，就到營外的會幕那裡去。 8 當摩西出營到會幕去的時候，百姓就都起來，各人站在自己帳篷的門口，望著摩西，直等到他進了會幕。 9 摩西進會幕的時候，雲柱降下來，立在會幕的門前，耶和華便與摩西說話。 10 眾百姓看見雲柱立在會幕門前，就都起來，各人在自己帳篷的門口下拜。 11 耶和華與摩西面對面說話，好像人與朋友說話一般。摩西轉到營裡去，唯有他的幫手，一個少年人嫩的兒子約書亞，不離開會幕。
摩西祈耶和華與之偕往
12 摩西對耶和華說：「你吩咐我說：『將這百姓領上去』，卻沒有叫我知道你要打發誰與我同去，只說：『我按你的名認識你，你在我眼前也蒙了恩。』 13 我如今若在你眼前蒙恩，求你將你的道指示我，使我可以認識你，好在你眼前蒙恩。求你想到這民是你的民。」 14 耶和華說：「我必親自和你同去，使你得安息。」 15 摩西說：「你若不親自和我同去，就不要把我們從這裡領上去。 16 人在何事上得以知道我和你的百姓在你眼前蒙恩呢？豈不是因你與我們同去，使我和你的百姓與地上的萬民有分別嗎？」
17 耶和華對摩西說：「你這所求的我也要行，因為你在我眼前蒙了恩，並且我按你的名認識你。」 18 摩西說：「求你顯出你的榮耀給我看。」 19 耶和華說：「我要顯我一切的恩慈，在你面前經過，宣告我的名。我要恩待誰就恩待誰，要憐憫誰就憐憫誰。」 20 又說：「你不能看見我的面，因為人見我的面不能存活。」 21 耶和華說：「看哪，在我這裡有地方，你要站在磐石上。 22 我的榮耀經過的時候，我必將你放在磐石穴中，用我的手遮掩你，等我過去。 23 然後我要將我的手收回，你就得見我的背，卻不得見我的面。」
出埃及 33
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
33 耶和华对摩西说：“我曾向亚伯拉罕、以撒和雅各起誓，应许把迦南赐给他们的后代。现在你和你从埃及领出来的百姓要动身去那里。 2 我必差遣天使走在你们前面，赶出当地的迦南人、亚摩利人、赫人、比利洗人、希未人和耶布斯人， 3 带你们进入那奶蜜之乡。但我不会跟你们一起去，免得我在途中就把你们灭绝了，因为你们是顽固不化的百姓。”
4 百姓听见这坏消息，都非常哀伤，不再佩戴饰物了。 5 耶和华对摩西说：“你去向以色列百姓宣布，‘你们这些顽固不化的人，我就是跟你们在一起待一刻，都恐怕会灭绝你们。现在你们要摘下自己身上的饰物，我再决定怎样处置你们。’” 6 因此，以色列百姓从何烈山开始就不再佩戴饰物了。
耶和华的会幕
7 摩西通常把帐幕支搭在营外离百姓较远的地方，摩西称帐幕为会幕。凡求问耶和华的，都会去那里。 8 当摩西离营去会幕的时候，百姓就都一同起来，各人站在自己的帐篷门口目送摩西走进会幕。 9 摩西进入会幕后，便有云柱降下来，停在会幕门口，耶和华就跟摩西说话。 10 每当百姓看见这景象，他们都站在自己的帐篷门口敬拜耶和华。 11 在会幕内，耶和华跟摩西面对面说话，好像两个朋友谈话一样。然后，摩西返回营中，但他的年轻助手、嫩的儿子约书亚仍然留在会幕。
耶和华的荣耀
12 摩西对耶和华说：“你吩咐我带领这些百姓，却没有告诉我你将要派谁与我同去，只说，‘我凭名字认识你，你在我面前蒙了恩。’ 13 我若已经在你面前蒙恩，就求你把你的道路指示我，好让我认识你，继续在你面前蒙恩。求你顾念这些百姓是你的子民。” 14 耶和华回答他说：“我必亲自与你同去，使你平安稳妥。” 15 摩西说：“你若不与我们同去，就不要让我们离开这里。 16 你若不与我们同去，谁会知道我和你的子民在你面前蒙了恩呢？岂不是因为你的同在才使我们不同于地上其他民族吗？”
17 耶和华回答说：“我答应你的请求，因为你在我面前蒙了恩，我凭名字认识你。” 18 摩西说：“求你向我彰显你的荣耀。” 19 耶和华说：“我必叫你看见我一切的美善，我要在你面前宣告我的名——耶和华，我要恩待谁就恩待谁，我要怜悯谁就怜悯谁。 20 但你不能看我的脸，因为凡看见的，都不能存活。 21 你要站在我旁边的磐石上， 22 我的荣耀经过你面前的时候，我会先把你安置在石缝里，用我的手遮掩你，直到我从你面前走过。 23 然后我会收回我的手，你就可以看见我的背，但看不到我的脸。”
Exodus 33
The Voice
33 Eternal One (instructing Moses): The time has now arrived. Leave, and take all the people you have led out of Egypt with you. Go to the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to whom I said, “I will give this land to your future generations.” 2 I will send a messenger to guide you, and I will force out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and the Jebusites. 3 Travel to the land that flows with milk and honey, the land of your inheritance. However, because you are such an incredibly stubborn people, I will not be going with you. Otherwise, I would completely destroy you during the journey.
4 When everyone heard the dreadful news, they began to grieve and stopped wearing their jewelry to remind them of the calf made from their gold earrings. 5 You see the Eternal One had instructed Moses, “Give the Israelites this message: ‘You are such an incredibly stubborn people, therefore I am not going to travel with you. If I allowed Myself to travel with you for only a moment, I would completely destroy you. Stop wearing your jewelry so I can figure out what to do with you.’” 6 So the Israelites took off all of their jewelry from the time they left Mount Horeb.
7 Moses used to take a tent[a] and put it up far away from the camp. He referred to it as the meeting tent. Everyone who sought the Eternal One would go out to the meeting tent, which was located well outside the camp. 8 When the people heard that Moses was going out to the tent, they would get up and stand at the entrance of their own tents and watch him until he had gone inside. 9 When Moses entered the tent, the cloud pillar descended to the tent’s entrance, and the Eternal would talk with Moses. 10 When people witnessed the cloud pillar standing at the meeting tent’s entrance, they would stand and bow in worship at the entrance of their own tents. 11 The Eternal spoke with Moses face-to-face, just as a friend speaks to another friend. After they were done, Moses would come back to camp but his young assistant Joshua (Nun’s son) would remain behind.
The golden-calf incident creates a deep rift between God and His people. For their safety, God refuses to travel with them to the land of promise; instead, He sends His messenger to guide them. The people’s response to God’s threatened absence is to mourn and refuse to wear their jewelry and fine clothes. The meeting tent and the congregation tent reflect this rift too. The congregation tent is to be God’s unique dwelling with His people, so it is located right in the middle of the camp. But now there is another tent, the meeting tent set up a long way from camp, far from the contagion of evil spreading there. From time to time, God and Moses meet there to talk; and Joshua stands watch over this intimate encounter, for only Joshua and Moses are not imperiled when the rest of Israel violates God’s directive and worships the golden calf. Moses speaks with God and does his best to get God back on good terms with His covenant people.
Moses (to the Lord): 12 Look, You tell me, “Lead these people!” but You haven’t yet told me whom You will send to accompany me. Yet You tell me, “I know you by name, and you have gained My trust and blessing.” 13 If I have gained Your trust and blessing, reveal Your way to me so that I can truly know You, and so that I may gain Your favor. Remember that this nation is Your covenant people.
Eternal One: 14 My presence will travel with you, and I will give you rest.
Moses: 15 If Your presence doesn’t travel with me, then don’t lead us away from here. 16 How will the people know that I have gained Your trust and blessing if You do not travel with us? Isn’t it the very fact that Your presence travels with us that distinguishes us from every other people on earth?
Eternal One: 17 I will do what you have said because you have gained My trust and blessing, and I know you by name.
Moses: 18 If Your presence will go with us, then let me see Your glory!
Eternal One: 19 I will cause all My goodness to pass before you, and I will declare My name, the Eternal One, before you. I will show mercy to whomever I choose to show mercy, and I will demonstrate compassion on whomever I choose to have compassion.[b] 20 You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live. 21 Look, there is a place next to Me on the rock where you may stand. 22 While My glory is passing by you, I will place you in a large crevice of the rock and hide you beneath My hand until I have completely passed by. 23 Then I will remove My hand, and you will see only My back. But you won’t be able to see My face.
Footnotes
- 33:7 Greek manuscripts read “his tent.”
- 33:19 Romans 9:15
Exodus 33
King James Version
33 And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
2 And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
3 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
5 For the Lord had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the Lord went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.
8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.
9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.
10 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.
11 And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
12 And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
14 And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
17 And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
18 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
21 And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
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