今日读经

玛拉的苦水变甜

²²摩西领以色列人从红海往前行，到了书珥的旷野，在旷野走了三天，找不着水。Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they walked in the desert without finding water.

²³到了玛拉，不能喝那里的水；因为水苦，所以那地名叫玛拉。And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)

²⁴百姓就向摩西发怨言，说：“我们喝什么呢？”So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”

²⁵摩西呼求耶和华，耶和华指示他一棵树。他把树丢在水里，水就变甜了。耶和华在那里为他们定了律例、典章，在那里试验他们；And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them,

²⁶又说：“你若留意听耶和华—你　神的话，又行我眼中看为正的事，留心听我的诫命，守我一切的律例，我就不将所加与埃及人的疾病加在你身上，因为我—耶和华是医治你的。”saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”

以琳的水泉和棕树

²⁷他们到了以琳，在那里有十二股水泉，七十棵棕树；他们就在那里的水边安营。Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.

百姓在汛的旷野发怨言

¹以色列全会众从以琳起行，在出埃及后第二个月十五日到了以琳和西奈中间、汛的旷野。On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt, the whole congregation of Israel set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai.

²以色列全会众在旷野向摩西、亚伦发怨言，And there in the desert the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron.

³说：“巴不得我们早死在埃及地、耶和华的手下；那时我们坐在肉锅旁边，吃得饱足。你们将我们领出来，到这旷野，是要叫这全会众都饿死啊！”“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”

⁴耶和华对摩西说：“我要将粮食从天降给你们。百姓可以出去，每天收每天的分，我好试验他们遵不遵我的法度。Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.

⁵到第六天，他们要把所收进来的预备好了，比每天所收的多一倍。”Then on the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on the other days.”

⁶摩西、亚伦对以色列众人说：“到了晚上，你们要知道是耶和华将你们从埃及地领出来的。So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “This evening you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt,

⁷早晨，你们要看见耶和华的荣耀，因为耶和华听见你们向他所发的怨言了。我们算什么，你们竟向我们发怨言呢？”and in the morning you will see the LORD’s glory, because He has heard your grumbling against Him. For who are we, that you should grumble against us?”

⁸摩西又说：“耶和华晚上必给你们肉吃，早晨必给你们食物得饱；因为你们向耶和华发的怨言，他都听见了。我们算什么，你们的怨言不是向我们发的，乃是向耶和华发的。”And Moses added, “The LORD will give you meat to eat this evening and bread to fill you in the morning, for He has heard your grumbling against Him. Who are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against the LORD.”

⁹摩西对亚伦说：“你告诉以色列全会众说：‘你们就近耶和华面前，因为他已经听见你们的怨言了。’”Then Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the whole congregation of Israel, ‘Come before the LORD, for He has heard your grumbling.’”

¹⁰亚伦正对以色列全会众说话的时候，他们向旷野观看，不料，耶和华的荣光在云中显现。And as Aaron was speaking to the whole congregation of Israel, they looked toward the desert, and there in a cloud the glory of the LORD appeared.

¹¹耶和华晓谕摩西说：Then the LORD said to Moses,

¹²“我已经听见以色列人的怨言。你告诉他们说：‘到黄昏的时候，你们要吃肉，早晨必有食物得饱，你们就知道我是耶和华—你们的　神。’”“I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’”

鹌鹑和吗哪

¹³到了晚上，有鹌鹑飞来，遮满了营；早晨在营四围的地上有露水。That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

¹⁴露水上升之后，不料，野地面上有如白霜的小圆物。When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground.

¹⁵以色列人看见，不知道是什么，就彼此对问说：“这是什么呢？”摩西对他们说：“这就是耶和华给你们吃的食物。When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.

¹⁶耶和华所吩咐的是这样：你们要按着各人的饭量，为帐棚里的人，按着人数收起来，各拿一俄梅珥。”This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.’”

¹⁷以色列人就这样行；有多收的，有少收的。So the Israelites did this. Some gathered more, and some less.

¹⁸及至用俄梅珥量一量，多收的也没有余，少收的也没有缺；各人按着自己的饭量收取。When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.

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¹⁹摩西对他们说：“所收的，不许什么人留到早晨。”Then Moses said to them, “No one may keep any of it until morning.”

²⁰然而他们不听摩西的话，内中有留到早晨的，就生虫变臭了；摩西便向他们发怒。But they did not listen to Moses; some people left part of it until morning, and it became infested with maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.

²¹他们每日早晨，按着各人的饭量收取，日头一发热，就消化了。Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.

第六天收双倍，第七天安息

²²到第六天，他们收了双倍的食物，每人两俄梅珥。会众的官长来告诉摩西；On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much food—two omers per person—and all the leaders of the congregation came and reported this to Moses.

²³摩西对他们说：“耶和华这样说：‘明天是圣安息日，是向耶和华守的圣安息日。你们要烤的就烤了，要煮的就煮了，所剩下的都留到早晨。’”He told them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it until morning.’”

²⁴他们就照摩西的吩咐留到早晨，也不臭，里头也没有虫子。So they set it aside until morning as Moses had commanded, and it did not smell or contain any maggots.

²⁵摩西说：“你们今天吃这个吧！因为今天是向耶和华守的安息日；你们在田野必找不着了。“Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a Sabbath to the LORD. Today you will not find anything in the field.

²⁶六天可以收取，第七天乃是安息日，那一天必没有了。”For six days you may gather, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, it will not be there.”

²⁷第七天，百姓中有人出去收，什么也找不着。Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find anything.

²⁸耶和华对摩西说：“你们不肯守我的诫命和律法，要到几时呢？Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?

²⁹你们看！耶和华既将安息日赐给你们，所以第六天他赐给你们两天的食物，第七天各人要住在自己的地方，不许什么人出去。”Understand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He will give you bread for two days. On the seventh day, everyone must stay where he is; no one may leave his place.”

³⁰于是百姓第七天安息了。So the people rested on the seventh day.

吗哪的样子，留作纪念

³¹这食物，以色列家叫吗哪；样子像芫荽子，颜色是白的，滋味如同搀蜜的薄饼。Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

³²摩西说：“耶和华所吩咐的是这样：‘要将一满俄梅珥吗哪留到世世代代，使后人可以看见我当日将你们领出埃及地，在旷野所给你们吃的食物。’”Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”

³³摩西对亚伦说：“你拿一个罐子，盛一满俄梅珥吗哪，存在耶和华面前，要留到世世代代。”So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.”

³⁴耶和华怎么吩咐摩西，亚伦就怎么行，把吗哪放在法柜前存留。And Aaron placed it in front of the Testimony, to be preserved just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

³⁵以色列人吃吗哪共四十年，直到进了有人居住之地，就是迦南的境界。The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.

³⁶（俄梅珥就是伊法十分之一。）(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

磐石出水：玛撒和米利巴

¹以色列全会众都遵耶和华的吩咐，按着站口从汛的旷野往前行，在利非订安营。百姓没有水喝，Then the whole congregation of Israel left the Desert of Sin, moving from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

²所以与摩西争闹，说：“给我们水喝吧！”摩西对他们说：“你们为什么与我争闹？为什么试探耶和华呢？”So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”

³百姓在那里甚渴，要喝水，就向摩西发怨言，说：“你为什么将我们从埃及领出来，使我们和我们的儿女并牲畜都渴死呢？”But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”

⁴摩西就呼求耶和华说：“我向这百姓怎样行呢？他们几乎要拿石头打死我。”Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”

⁵耶和华对摩西说：“你手里拿着你先前击打河水的杖，带领以色列的几个长老，从百姓面前走过去。And the LORD said to Moses, “Walk on ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you. Take along in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.

⁶我必在何烈的磐石那里，站在你面前。你要击打磐石，从磐石里必有水流出来，使百姓可以喝。”摩西就在以色列的长老眼前这样行了。Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

⁷他给那地方起名叫玛撒（就是试探的意思），又叫米利巴（就是争闹的意思）；因以色列人争闹，又因他们试探耶和华，说：“耶和华是在我们中间不是？”He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”

战胜亚玛力人

⁸那时，亚玛力人来在利非订，和以色列人争战。After this, the Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.

⁹摩西对约书亚说：“你为我们选出人来，出去和亚玛力人争战。明天我手里要拿着　神的杖，站在山顶上。”So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with the staff of God in my hand.”

¹⁰于是约书亚照着摩西对他所说的话行，和亚玛力人争战。摩西、亚伦，与户珥都上了山顶。Joshua did as Moses had instructed him and fought against the Amalekites, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

¹¹摩西何时举手，以色列人就得胜，何时垂手，亚玛力人就得胜。As long as Moses held up his hands, Israel prevailed; but when he lowered them, Amalek prevailed.

¹²但摩西的手发沉，他们就搬石头来，放在他以下，他就坐在上面。亚伦与户珥扶着他的手，一个在这边，一个在那边，他的手就稳住，直到日落的时候。When Moses’ hands grew heavy, they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. Then Aaron and Hur held his hands up, one on each side, so that his hands remained steady until the sun went down.

¹³约书亚用刀杀了亚玛力王和他的百姓。So Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his army with the sword.

¹⁴耶和华对摩西说：“我要将亚玛力的名号从天下全然涂抹了；你要将这话写在书上作纪念，又念给约书亚听。”Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

¹⁵摩西筑了一座坛，起名叫“耶和华尼西”（就是耶和华是我旌旗的意思），And Moses built an altar and named it The LORD Is My Banner.

¹⁶又说：“耶和华已经起了誓，必世世代代和亚玛力人争战。”“Indeed,” he said, “a hand was lifted up toward the throne of the LORD. The LORD will war against Amalek from generation to generation.”

叶忒罗带摩西的家人来

¹摩西的岳父，米甸祭司叶忒罗，听见　神为摩西和　神的百姓以色列所行的一切事，就是耶和华将以色列从埃及领出来的事，Now Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about all that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

²便带着摩西的妻子西坡拉，就是摩西从前打发回去的，After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,

³又带着西坡拉的两个儿子，一个名叫革舜，因为摩西说：“我在外邦作了寄居的”；along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”

⁴一个名叫以利以谢，因为他说：“我父亲的　神帮助了我，救我脱离法老的刀。”The other son was named Eliezer, for Moses had said, “The God of my father was my helper and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.”

⁵摩西的岳父叶忒罗带着摩西的妻子和两个儿子来到　神的山，就是摩西在旷野安营的地方。Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses’ wife and sons, came to him in the desert, where he was encamped at the mountain of God.

⁶他对摩西说：“我是你岳父叶忒罗，带着你的妻子和两个儿子来到你这里。”He sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.”

⁷摩西迎接他的岳父，向他下拜，与他亲嘴，彼此问安，都进了帐棚。So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent.

⁸摩西将耶和华为以色列的缘故向法老和埃及人所行的一切事，以及路上所遭遇的一切艰难，并耶和华怎样搭救他们，都述说与他岳父听。Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

⁹叶忒罗因耶和华待以色列的一切好处，就是拯救他们脱离埃及人的手，便甚欢喜。And Jethro rejoiced over all the good things the LORD had done for Israel, whom He had rescued from the hand of the Egyptians.

¹⁰叶忒罗说：“耶和华是应当称颂的；他救了你们脱离埃及人和法老的手，将这百姓从埃及人的手下救出来。Jethro declared, “Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from the hand of the Egyptians.

¹¹我现今在埃及人向这百姓发狂傲的事上得知，耶和华比万神都大。”Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with arrogance.”

¹²摩西的岳父叶忒罗把燔祭和平安祭献给　神。亚伦和以色列的众长老都来了，与摩西的岳父在　神面前吃饭。Then Moses’ father-in-law Jethro brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law in the presence of God.

叶忒罗建议分层审判

¹³第二天，摩西坐着审判百姓，百姓从早到晚都站在摩西的左右。The next day Moses took his seat to judge the people, and they stood around him from morning until evening.

¹⁴摩西的岳父看见他向百姓所做的一切事，就说：“你向百姓做的是什么事呢？你为什么独自坐着，众百姓从早到晚都站在你的左右呢？”When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he asked, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone as judge, with all the people standing around you from morning till evening?”

¹⁵摩西对岳父说：“这是因百姓到我这里来求问　神。“Because the people come to me to inquire of God,” Moses replied.

¹⁶他们有事的时候就到我这里来，我便在两造之间施行审判；我又叫他们知道　神的律例和法度。”“Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me to judge between one man and another, and I make known to them the statutes and laws of God.”

¹⁷摩西的岳父说：“你这做的不好。But Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.

¹⁸你和这些百姓必都疲惫；因为这事太重，你独自一人办理不了。Surely you and these people with you will wear yourselves out, because the task is too heavy for you. You cannot handle it alone.

¹⁹现在你要听我的话。我为你出个主意，愿　神与你同在。你要替百姓到　神面前，将案件奏告　神；Now listen to me; I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the people’s representative before God and bring their causes to Him.

²⁰又要将律例和法度教训他们，指示他们当行的道，当做的事；Teach them the statutes and laws, and show them the way to live and the work they must do.

²¹并要从百姓中拣选有才能的人，就是敬畏　神、诚实无妄、恨不义之财的人，派他们作千夫长、百夫长、五十夫长、十夫长，管理百姓，Furthermore, select capable men from among the people—God-fearing, trustworthy men who are averse to dishonest gain. Appoint them over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

²²叫他们随时审判百姓，大事都要呈到你这里，小事他们自己可以审判。这样，你就轻省些，他们也可以同当此任。Have these men judge the people at all times. Then they can bring you any major issue, but all minor cases they can judge on their own, so that your load may be lightened as they share it with you.

²³你若这样行，　神也这样吩咐你，你就能受得住，这百姓也都平平安安归回他们的住处。”If you follow this advice and God so directs you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people can go home in peace.”

²⁴于是，摩西听从他岳父的话，按着他所说的去行。Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.

²⁵摩西从以色列人中拣选了有才能的人，立他们为百姓的首领，作千夫长、百夫长、五十夫长、十夫长。So Moses chose capable men from all Israel and made them heads over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

²⁶他们随时审判百姓，有难断的案件就呈到摩西那里，但各样小事他们自己审判。And they judged the people at all times; they would bring the difficult cases to Moses, but any minor issue they would judge themselves.

²⁷此后，摩西让他的岳父去，他就往本地去了。Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and Jethro returned to his own land.

洁净圣殿

¹²耶稣进了　神的殿，赶出殿里一切做买卖的人，推倒兑换银钱之人的桌子，和卖鸽子之人的凳子，Then Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.

¹³对他们说：“经上记着说：我的殿必称为祷告的殿，你们倒使它成为贼窝了。”And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”

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¹⁴在殿里有瞎子、瘸子到耶稣跟前，他就治好了他们。The blind and the lame came to Him at the temple, and He healed them.

小孩子称颂，祭司长恼怒

¹⁵祭司长和文士看见耶稣所行的奇事，又见小孩子在殿里喊着说：“和散那归于大卫的子孙！”就甚恼怒，But the chief priests and scribes were indignant when they saw the wonders He performed and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David!”

¹⁶对他说：“这些人所说的，你听见了吗？”耶稣说：“是的。经上说‘你从婴孩和吃奶的口中完全了赞美’的话，你们没有念过吗？”“Do You hear what these children are saying?” they asked. “Yes,” Jesus answered. “Have you never read: ‘From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise’?”

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¹⁷于是离开他们，出城到伯大尼去，在那里住宿。Then He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where He spent the night.

咒诅无花果树

¹⁸早晨回城的时候，他饿了，In the morning, as Jesus was returning to the city, He was hungry.

¹⁹看见路旁有一棵无花果树，就走到跟前，在树上找不着什么，不过有叶子，就对树说：“从今以后，你永不结果子。”那无花果树就立刻枯干了。Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.

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信心与祷告

²⁰门徒看见了，便希奇说：“无花果树怎么立刻枯干了呢？”When the disciples saw this, they marveled and asked, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?”

²¹耶稣回答说：“我实在告诉你们，你们若有信心，不疑惑，不但能行无花果树上所行的事，就是对这座山说：‘你挪开此地，投在海里！’也必成就。“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.

²²你们祷告，无论求什么，只要信，就必得着。”If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

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