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约书亚记 22
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约书亚记 22
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
两个半支派返回河东
22 那时，约书亚把流本人、迦得人和玛拿西半个支派的人召了来， 2 对他们说：“耶和华的仆人摩西吩咐你们的一切，你们都遵守了；我吩咐你们的一切，你们也都听从了。 3 这许多日子以来，你们一直没有撇弃你们的兄弟，直到今日；耶和华你们的 神吩咐你们的命令，你们也遵守了。 4 现在耶和华你们的 神，照着他应许的，已经使你们兄弟得享平安；现在你们可以返回自己家里，回到耶和华的仆人摩西在约旦河东赐给你们作产业的地方去。 5 只是你们要谨慎遵守耶和华的仆人摩西吩咐你们的诫命和律法，爱耶和华你们的 神，遵行他的一切道路，谨守他的诫命，紧紧倚靠他，一心一意事奉他。” 6 于是约书亚给他们祝福，打发他们回去，他们就回自己的家里去了。
7 摩西在巴珊已经把产业分给了玛拿西半个支派；至于另外半个支派，约书亚在约旦河西他们的兄弟中间，也把产业分给了他们。约书亚打发他们回家去的时候，给他们祝福， 8 对他们说：“你们带着许多财物，许多牲畜和金、银、铜、铁，以及许多衣服，回自己的家去吧；也要把你们从仇敌夺得的战利品与你们的兄弟同分。” 9 于是流本人、迦得人和玛拿西半个支派的人，从迦南地的示罗起程，离开以色列人，回到他们所得的产业基列地去，就是照着耶和华借着摩西所吩咐，赐给他们的产业。
两个半支派在河畔筑坛
10 流本人、迦得人和玛拿西半个支派的人，来到迦南地靠近约旦河的地区，就在约旦河边那里筑了一座祭坛，那坛十分壮观。 11 以色列人听见了这事，就说：“看哪，流本人、迦得人和玛拿西半个支派的人，在迦南地边境，靠近约旦河的地区，以色列人境内，筑了一座坛。” 12 以色列人听见了这事，以色列全体会众就聚集在示罗，要上去讨伐他们。
其他支派产生疑惑
13 以色列人派以利亚撒祭司的儿子非尼哈，到基列地去见流本人、迦得人和玛拿西半个支派的人； 14 又派十个首领与非尼哈同去，每一个都代表以色列的支派家族；他们是全体以色列各家族的领袖。 15 他们去到基列地，流本人、迦得人和玛拿西半个支派的人那里，对他们说： 16 “耶和华的全体会众这样说：‘你们作的是甚么事？竟对以色列的 神不忠，今日转离不跟从耶和华，为自己筑了一座坛，背叛了耶和华。 17 从前拜毘珥的罪孽，我们还以为是小事吗？虽然有灾疫临到耶和华的会众，直到今日我们还没有洗净这罪呢。 18 你们今日竟转离不跟从耶和华吗？今日你们既然背叛耶和华，明日他必向以色列全体会众发怒了。 19 如果你们认为所得的地业不洁净，你们可以过到耶和华的地业，就是耶和华的帐幕居住的地方，在我们中间得地业；只是不可背叛耶和华，也不可背叛我们，在耶和华我们的 神的坛以外，为自己筑另一座坛。 20 从前谢拉的曾孙亚干，不是在当毁灭的物上犯了不忠的罪，以致 神的忿怒临到以色列全体会众吗？因他的罪孽而死的，还不只他一人呢！’”
释疑
21 于是流本人、迦得人和玛拿西半个支派的人回答以色列各家族的统领说： 22 “大能者 神耶和华！大能者 神耶和华，他是知道的，愿以色列也知道；如果我们存心背叛，或是对耶和华不忠，今日就不要放过我们。 23 我们若是为自己筑坛，转离不跟从耶和华，或是把燔祭、素祭和平安祭献在坛上，愿耶和华亲自追究我们。 24 我们作这事，实在是有理由的，因为顾虑将来你们的子孙对我们的子孙说：‘你们与耶和华以色列的 神有甚么关系呢？ 25 流本人和迦得人啊，耶和华定了约旦河作我们和你们中间的疆界；你们与耶和华无分了。’这样，你们的子孙就使我们的子孙不再敬畏耶和华了。
26 “因此我们说：‘我们筑一座坛吧，不是为了献燔祭，也不是为了献别的祭， 27 而是为了在你们和我们中间，也在我们的后代中间作证据，使我们也可以在耶和华面前用燔祭、别的祭和平安祭事奉耶和华，免得你们的子孙将来对我们的子孙说：你们与耶和华无分了。’ 28 因此我们说：‘将来有人对我们，或是对我们的后代这样说，我们就可以回答：你们看我们列祖所筑的坛，是耶和华的祭坛的模式，这并不是用来献燔祭，也不是用来献别的祭，而是在我们和你们中间作证据。’ 29 我们决没有背叛耶和华的意思，今日要转离不跟从耶和华，在耶和华我们的 神的帐幕前的祭坛以外，另筑一座坛，为了献燔祭、素祭和别的祭。”
彼此谅解
30 非尼哈祭司和会众的领袖，以及与祭司同来的以色列的统领，听了流本人、迦得人和玛拿西人说的话，都很满意。 31 以利亚撒祭司的儿子非尼哈对流本人、迦得人和玛拿西人说：“今天我们知道耶和华是在我们中间的，因为你们并没有对耶和华不忠；现在你们已经救了以色列人脱离耶和华的手。” 32 以利亚撒祭司的儿子非尼哈和众领袖离开了流本人和迦得人，从基列地回到迦南地以色列人那里，把这事向他们报告。 33 以色列人对这事都很满意，就称颂 神，不再说要上去讨伐流本人和迦得人，毁灭他们所住的地方了。 34 流本人和迦得人给那坛起名叫证坛，因为他们说：“这坛在我们中间证明耶和华是 神。”
Joshua 22
Revised Geneva Translation
Joshua 22
Revised Geneva Translation
22 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
2 and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD Commanded you and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you.
3 “You have not forsaken your brethren this long season, until this day, but have diligently kept the Commandment of the LORD your God.
4 “And now, the LORD has given rest to your brethren, as He promised them. Therefore, now, return. And go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses, the servant of the LORD, has given you, beyond Jordan.
5 “But take diligent care to do the Commandment and Law which Moses, the servant of the LORD, commanded you: that you love the LORD your God and walk in all His ways and keep His Commandments and cling to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
6 So Joshua blessed them and sent them away. And they went to their tents.
7 Now, to half of the tribe of Manasseh, Moses had given a possession in Bashan. And to half of it, Joshua gave from among their brethren on this side of Jordan, westward. Therefore, when Joshua sent them away to their tents and blessed them,
8 he spoke to them, saying, “Return to your tents with many riches and with a great multitude of cattle, with silver and with gold, with bronze and with iron, and with great abundance of clothing. Divide the plunder of your enemies with your brethren.”
9 So, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh returned and departed from the children of Israel, from Shiloh (which is in the land of Canaan) to go to the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they had obtained according to the Word of the LORD, by the hand of Moses.
10 And when they came to the borders of Jordan (which are in the land of Canaan), then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built an altar there, by Jordan, a great altar to see too.
11 When the children of Israel heard say, “Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the front of the land of Canaan, upon the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel,”
12 when the children of Israel heard that, then the whole Congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.
13 Then, the children of Israel sent Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the Priest, to the children of Reuben and to the children of Gad and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead.
14 And with him went ten princes, one from each chief house, according to all the tribes of Israel. For each one was chief of their father’s household among the thousands of Israel.
15 So they went to the children of Reuben and to the children of Gad and to the half tribe of Manasseh to the land of Gilead and spoke with them, saying,
16 “Thus says the whole Congregation of the LORD, ‘What transgression is this that you have transgressed against the God of Israel, to turn away from the LORD this day, in that you have built yourself an altar with which to rebel against the LORD this day?
17 “Have we too little for the wickedness of Peor of which we are not cleansed to this day, though a plague came upon the Congregation of the LORD?
18 “You also have turned away from the LORD this day. And seeing that you rebel against the LORD today, tomorrow He will be angry with all the Congregation of Israel.
19 “Nevertheless, if the land of your possession is unclean, come over to the land of the possession of the LORD, in which the LORD’s Tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us. But do not rebel against the LORD, or rebel against us, by building your own altar beside the Altar of the LORD our God.
20 “Did not Achan, the son of Zerah, trespass grievously in the secluded thing, and wrath fell on all the Congregation of Israel? But it wasn’t only this one man who perished in his wickedness.”
21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh answered and said to the heads over the thousands of Israel,
22 “The LORD, God of gods, the LORD, God of gods! He knows and Israel himself shall know! If by rebellion, or by transgression against the LORD, do not save us this day!
23 “If we have built ourselves an altar to turn away from the LORD, either to offer burnt offering on it, or meat offering, or to offer peace offerings on it, let the LORD Himself require it!
24 “But rather, we have done it out of fear, saying, ‘In time to come, your children might say to our children, “What have you to do with the LORD God of Israel?”’
25 “For the LORD has made Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and of Gad. Therefore, you have no part in the LORD. So shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD.
26 “Therefore we said, ‘We will now go about to make ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering or for sacrifice,
27 ‘but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, to execute the service of the LORD before Him, in our Burnt Offerings and in our Sacrifices and in our Peace Offerings, and so that your children would not say to our children in time to come, “You have no part in the LORD.”’
28 “Therefore we said, ‘If so be that they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, then will we answer, “Behold, the fashion of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made not for burnt offering or for sacrifice, but it is a witness between us and you.
29 “Far be it from us that we should rebel against the LORD and turn away from the LORD this day, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meat offering, or for sacrifice, except the Altar of the LORD our God that is before His Tabernacle.”’”
30 And when Phinehas the Priest and the princes of the Congregation, and heads over the thousands of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, they were well content.
31 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the Priest, said to the children of Reuben and to the children of Gad and to the children of Manasseh, “This day we perceive that the LORD is among us, because you have not done this trespass against the LORD. Now you have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.”
32 Then, Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the Priest, with the princes, returned from the children of Reuben and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them answer.
33 And the saying pleased the children of Israel. And the children of Israel blessed God and did not mind to go against them in battle, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
34 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar: Witness. “For it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God.”
Josua 22
nuBibeln (Swedish Contemporary Bible)
Josua 22
nuBibeln (Swedish Contemporary Bible)
Stammarna i öster bygger ett altare
22 Josua sammankallade Rubens och Gads stammar och halva Manasses stam 2 och sa till dem: ”Ni har gjort allt vad Herrens tjänare Mose befallde er och ni har följt varje order jag gett er. 3 Under hela denna långa tid har ni inte övergett era bröder utan hållit vad Herren, er Gud, befallt er i sina bud. 4 Nu har Herren, er Gud, låtit era bröder få fred, som han lovade. Vänd nu tillbaka hem till det land som ni fått som egendom av Herrens tjänare Mose, landet på andra sidan floden Jordan. 5 Men var angelägna om att också i fortsättningen följa alla de befallningar och den lag Herrens tjänare Mose gav er. Älska Herren, vandra hans vägar och lyd alla hans bud! Håll fast vid honom och tjäna honom av hela ert hjärta och av hela er själ[a]!”
6 Sedan välsignade Josua dem och skickade hem dem.
7 Mose hade gett ena halvan av Manasses stam landet Bashan, medan den andra halvan av stammen hade Josua gett land åt på västra sidan av Jordan. När Josua nu välsignade de hemvändande trupperna, 8 sa han till dem: ”Återvänd nu hem med de rikedomar ni fått och mängder av boskap, silver, guld, koppar, järn och kläder. Dela bytet ni tagit från fienden med era bröder.”
9 Rubens och Gads stammar och ena halvan av Manasses stam lämnade israeliterna i Shilo i Kanaan och återvände till sitt hemland Gilead, den egendom de tagit i besittning enligt Herrens befallning genom Mose. 10 Men när de kom till Gelilot vid Jordanfloden i Kanaan, byggde de där ett stort ansenligt altare.
11 När de övriga israeliterna fick höra att de byggt ett altare[b] i Gelilot vid Jordan vid den kanaaneiska gränsen på israeliternas område, 12 drog hela menigheten samman en armé i Shilo och förberedde krig mot dem. 13 Först skickade man emellertid iväg Pinechas, prästen Elasars son, till Gilead till Rubens och Gads stammar och halva Manasses stam. 14 Med honom fanns tio ledare från Israel, en från varje stam, och dessa var också huvudmän för sina familjer. 15 När de kommit in i Gileads land, sa de till rubeniterna, gaditerna och ena hälften av Manasses stam:
16 ”Hela Herrens församling[c] vill veta varför ni gör uppror mot Israels Gud och vänder er bort från Herren genom att bygga ett altare. 17 Var det inte nog med att vi syndade vid Pegor?[d] Var inte denna synd som vi ännu inte blivit renade från, trots alla plågor som drabbat Herrens församling, tillräckligt stor? 18 Ska ni nu göra uppror mot Herren igen? Om ni reser er upp mot Herren idag, kommer han att straffa hela Israels menighet imorgon. 19 Om ert eget land är orent, då kan ni komma över till oss och slå er ner här på vår sida av floden där Herren bor bland oss i sitt tält. Men sätt er inte upp mot Herren och dra inte skuld över oss andra genom att bygga ett annat altare än det som redan finns rest till Herren, vår Gud! 20 Straffades inte hela den israelitiska menigheten den gången när Akan, Serachs ättling, hade stulit av det som var vigt åt förintelse? Fler än han fick sätta livet till på grund av hans synd![e]”
21 Då svarade Rubens och Gads stammar och ena hälften av Manasses stam de israelitiska släktöverhuvudena: 22 ”Gud den mäktige, Herren den mäktige, Herren Gud vet och Israel ska också veta det! Om vi har byggt detta altare i uppror och otrohet mot Herren, så rädda oss inte i dag! 23 Vi har inte rest detta altare för att offra brännoffer eller matoffer eller gemenskapsoffer. Må Herren själv straffa oss om det var därför vi gjorde det! 24 Vi gjorde det därför att vi är rädda för att era barn i framtiden ska säga till våra barn: ’Vad har ni med Herren, Israels Gud, att göra? 25 Herren har låtit Jordan bli en gräns mellan oss och er, ni rubeniter och gaditer. Ni har ingen del i Herren!’ Era barn kanske får våra barn att sluta frukta Herren. 26 Därför beslöt vi att bygga altaret, inte för bränn- eller slaktoffer, 27 utan som ett vittne för oss och er för att visa våra barn och era barn att vi också tillber Herren med våra bränn- och slaktoffer och gemenskapsoffer. På så sätt ska inte era barn ha någon anledning att säga till våra barn: ’Ni har ingen del i Herren’. 28 Vi tänkte att om de skulle säga detta till oss och våra barn, då kan vi svara: ’Se på altaret som våra förfäder byggde med Herrens altare som förebild. Det är inte avsett för brännoffer eller slaktoffer utan står som ett vittne mellan oss och er.’
29 Vi skulle aldrig komma på tanken att vända oss bort från Herren eller att göra uppror mot honom genom att bygga ett eget altare för brännoffer, matoffer eller slaktoffer. Det är bara altaret framför Herrens, vår Guds, boning som ska användas till detta.”
30 När prästen Pinechas och ledarna och överhuvudena för de andra stammarna hörde detta från Rubens och Gads stammar och ena hälften av Manasses stam, godtog de förklaringen.
31 Pinechas, prästen Elasars son svarade dem: ”Idag vet vi att Herren är mitt ibland oss, eftersom ni inte har varit trolösa mot Herren som vi trodde. Ni har räddat Israel från Herrens straff.”
32 Sedan gick Pinechas, prästen Elasars son och de andra ledarna tillbaka från Rubens och Gads stammar i Gilead till de övriga israeliterna i Kanaan och talade om vad som hade hänt. 33 Israeliterna var nöjda med förklaringen och alla prisade Gud. Sedan talade man inte längre om att börja krig mot Rubens och Gads stammar och ödelägga deras land.
34 Rubeniterna och gaditerna gav altaret namnet: ”Ett vittne mellan oss att Herren är Gud.”
Footnotes
- 22:5 Hjärta och själ innebär att både känslan och förståndet, människans hela väsen, ska vara med.
- 22:11 Herren hade sagt att ingen fick offra på någon annan plats än den som han själv valde ut.
- 22:16 Herrens församling är detsamma som Israels folk.
- 22:17,18 I Pegor hade folket börjat delta i fruktbarhetsriter inför den moabitiske guden Baal-Pegor. Se 4 Mos 25.
- 22:20 Se Jos 7.
Joshua 22
New International Version
Joshua 22
New International Version
Eastern Tribes Return Home
22 Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh 2 and said to them, “You have done all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded,(A) and you have obeyed me in everything I commanded. 3 For a long time now—to this very day—you have not deserted your fellow Israelites but have carried out the mission the Lord your God gave you. 4 Now that the Lord your God has given them rest(B) as he promised, return to your homes(C) in the land that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side of the Jordan.(D) 5 But be very careful to keep the commandment(E) and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: to love the Lord(F) your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands,(G) to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.(H)”
6 Then Joshua blessed(I) them and sent them away, and they went to their homes. 7 (To the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan,(J) and to the other half of the tribe Joshua gave land on the west side(K) of the Jordan along with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home, he blessed them,(L) 8 saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth—with large herds of livestock,(M) with silver, gold, bronze and iron,(N) and a great quantity of clothing—and divide(O) the plunder(P) from your enemies with your fellow Israelites.”
9 So the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh(Q) in Canaan to return to Gilead,(R) their own land, which they had acquired in accordance with the command of the Lord through Moses.
10 When they came to Geliloth(S) near the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an imposing altar(T) there by the Jordan. 11 And when the Israelites heard that they had built the altar on the border of Canaan at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side, 12 the whole assembly of Israel gathered at Shiloh(U) to go to war against them.
13 So the Israelites sent Phinehas(V) son of Eleazar,(W) the priest, to the land of Gilead—to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh. 14 With him they sent ten of the chief men, one from each of the tribes of Israel, each the head of a family division among the Israelite clans.(X)
15 When they went to Gilead—to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh—they said to them: 16 “The whole assembly of the Lord says: ‘How could you break faith(Y) with the God of Israel like this? How could you turn away from the Lord and build yourselves an altar in rebellion(Z) against him now? 17 Was not the sin of Peor(AA) enough for us? Up to this very day we have not cleansed ourselves from that sin, even though a plague fell on the community of the Lord! 18 And are you now turning away from the Lord?
“‘If you rebel against the Lord today, tomorrow he will be angry with the whole community(AB) of Israel. 19 If the land you possess is defiled, come over to the Lord’s land, where the Lord’s tabernacle(AC) stands, and share the land with us. But do not rebel against the Lord or against us by building an altar(AD) for yourselves, other than the altar of the Lord our God. 20 When Achan son of Zerah was unfaithful in regard to the devoted things,[a](AE) did not wrath(AF) come on the whole community(AG) of Israel? He was not the only one who died for his sin.’”(AH)
21 Then Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh replied to the heads of the clans of Israel: 22 “The Mighty One, God, the Lord! The Mighty One, God,(AI) the Lord!(AJ) He knows!(AK) And let Israel know! If this has been in rebellion or disobedience to the Lord, do not spare us this day. 23 If we have built our own altar to turn away from the Lord and to offer burnt offerings and grain offerings,(AL) or to sacrifice fellowship offerings on it, may the Lord himself call us to account.(AM)
24 “No! We did it for fear that some day your descendants might say to ours, ‘What do you have to do with the Lord, the God of Israel? 25 The Lord has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you—you Reubenites and Gadites! You have no share in the Lord.’ So your descendants might cause ours to stop fearing the Lord.
26 “That is why we said, ‘Let us get ready and build an altar—but not for burnt offerings or sacrifices.’ 27 On the contrary, it is to be a witness(AN) between us and you and the generations that follow, that we will worship the Lord at his sanctuary with our burnt offerings, sacrifices and fellowship offerings.(AO) Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to ours, ‘You have no share in the Lord.’
28 “And we said, ‘If they ever say this to us, or to our descendants, we will answer: Look at the replica of the Lord’s altar, which our ancestors built, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices, but as a witness(AP) between us and you.’
29 “Far be it from us to rebel(AQ) against the Lord and turn away from him today by building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings and sacrifices, other than the altar of the Lord our God that stands before his tabernacle.(AR)”
30 When Phinehas the priest and the leaders of the community—the heads of the clans of the Israelites—heard what Reuben, Gad and Manasseh had to say, they were pleased. 31 And Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, said to Reuben, Gad and Manasseh, “Today we know that the Lord is with us,(AS) because you have not been unfaithful to the Lord in this matter. Now you have rescued the Israelites from the Lord’s hand.”
32 Then Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, and the leaders returned to Canaan from their meeting with the Reubenites and Gadites in Gilead and reported to the Israelites.(AT) 33 They were glad to hear the report and praised God.(AU) And they talked no more about going to war against them to devastate the country where the Reubenites and the Gadites lived.
34 And the Reubenites and the Gadites gave the altar this name: A Witness(AV) Between Us—that the Lord is God.
Footnotes
- Joshua 22:20 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.
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