今日读经

十二根杖

¹耶和华对摩西说：And the LORD said to Moses,

²“你晓谕以色列人，从他们手下取杖，每支派一根；从他们所有的首领，按着支派，共取十二根。你要将各人的名字写在各人的杖上，“Speak to the Israelites and take from them twelve staffs, one from the leader of each tribe. Write each man’s name on his staff,

³并要将亚伦的名字写在利未的杖上，因为各族长必有一根杖。and write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi, because there must be one staff for the head of each tribe.

⁴你要把这些杖存在会幕内法柜前，就是我与你们相会之处。Place the staffs in the Tent of Meeting in front of the Testimony, where I meet with you.

⁵后来我所拣选的那人，他的杖必发芽。这样，我必使以色列人向你们所发的怨言止息，不再达到我耳中。”The staff belonging to the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid Myself of the constant grumbling of the Israelites against you.”

⁶于是摩西晓谕以色列人，他们的首领就把杖交给他，按着支派，每首领一根，共有十二根；亚伦的杖也在其中。So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff—one for each of the leaders of their tribes, twelve staffs in all. And Aaron’s staff was among them.

⁷摩西就把杖存在法柜的帐幕内，在耶和华面前。Then Moses placed the staffs before the LORD in the Tent of the Testimony.

亚伦的杖发芽

⁸第二天，摩西进法柜的帐幕去。谁知利未族亚伦的杖已经发了芽，生了花苞，开了花，结了熟杏。The next day Moses entered the Tent of the Testimony and saw that Aaron’s staff, representing the house of Levi, had sprouted, put forth buds, blossomed, and produced almonds.

⁹摩西就把所有的杖从耶和华面前拿出来，给以色列众人看；他们看见了，各首领就把自己的杖拿去。Then Moses brought out all the staffs from the LORD’s presence to all the Israelites. They saw them, and each man took his own staff.

¹⁰耶和华吩咐摩西说：“把亚伦的杖还放在法柜前，给这些背叛之子留作记号。这样，你就使他们向我发的怨言止息，免得他们死亡。”The LORD said to Moses, “Put Aaron’s staff back in front of the Testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebellious, so that you may put an end to their grumbling against Me, lest they die.”

¹¹摩西就这样行。耶和华怎样吩咐他，他就怎样行了。So Moses did as the LORD had commanded him.

百姓的惊恐

¹²以色列人对摩西说：“我们死啦！我们灭亡啦！都灭亡啦！Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!

¹³凡挨近耶和华帐幕的是必死的。我们都要死亡吗？”Anyone who comes near the tabernacle of the LORD will die. Are we all going to perish?”

祭司和利未人的职责

¹耶和华对亚伦说：“你和你的儿子，并你本族的人，要一同担当干犯圣所的罪孽。你和你的儿子也要一同担当干犯祭司职任的罪孽。So the LORD said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your father’s house must bear the iniquity involving the sanctuary. And you and your sons alone must bear the iniquity involving your priesthood.

²你要带你弟兄利未人，就是你祖宗支派的人前来，使他们与你联合，服事你，只是你和你的儿子，要一同在法柜的帐幕前供职。But bring with you also your brothers from the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and assist you and your sons before the Tent of the Testimony.

³他们要守所吩咐你的，并守全帐幕，只是不可挨近圣所的器具和坛，免得他们和你们都死亡。And they shall attend to your duties and to all the duties of the Tent; but they must not come near to the furnishings of the sanctuary or the altar, or both they and you will die.

⁴他们要与你联合，也要看守会幕，办理帐幕一切的事，只是外人不可挨近你们。They are to join you and attend to the duties of the Tent of Meeting, doing all the work at the Tent; but no outsider may come near you.

⁵你们要看守圣所和坛，免得忿怒再临到以色列人。And you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and of the altar, so that wrath may not fall on the Israelites again.

⁶我已将你们的弟兄利未人从以色列人中拣选出来归耶和华，是给你们为赏赐的，为要办理会幕的事。Behold, I Myself have selected your fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD to perform the service for the Tent of Meeting.

⁷你和你的儿子要为一切属坛和幔子内的事一同守祭司的职任。你们要这样供职；我将祭司的职任给你们当作赏赐事奉我。凡挨近的外人必被治死。”But only you and your sons shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar and what is inside the veil, and you are to perform that service. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift, but any outsider who comes near the sanctuary must be put to death.”

祭司所得的分

⁸耶和华晓谕亚伦说：“我已将归我的举祭，就是以色列人一切分别为圣的物，交给你经管；因你受过膏，把这些都赐给你和你的子孙，当作永得的分。Then the LORD said to Aaron, “Behold, I have put you in charge of My offerings. As for all the sacred offerings of the Israelites, I have given them to you and your sons as a portion and a permanent statute.

⁹以色列人归给我至圣的供物，就是一切的素祭、赎罪祭、赎愆祭，其中所有存留不经火的，都为至圣之物，要归给你和你的子孙。A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons.

¹⁰你要拿这些当至圣物吃；凡男丁都可以吃。你当以此物为圣。You are to eat it as a most holy offering, and every male may eat it. You shall regard it as holy.

¹¹以色列人所献的举祭并摇祭都是你的；我已赐给你和你的儿女，当作永得的分；凡在你家中的洁净人都可以吃。And this is yours as well: the offering of their gifts, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given this to you and your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat it.

¹²凡油中、新酒中、五谷中至好的，就是以色列人所献给耶和华初熟之物，我都赐给你。I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.

¹³凡从他们地上所带来给耶和华初熟之物也都要归与你。你家中的洁净人都可以吃。The firstfruits of everything in their land that they bring to the LORD will belong to you. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat them.

¹⁴以色列中一切永献的都必归与你。Every devoted thing in Israel belongs to you.

¹⁵他们所有奉给耶和华的，连人带牲畜，凡头生的，都要归给你；只是人头生的，总要赎出来；不洁净牲畜头生的，也要赎出来。The firstborn of every womb, whether man or beast, that is offered to the LORD belongs to you. But you must surely redeem every firstborn son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.

¹⁶其中在一月之外所当赎的，要照你所估定的价，按圣所的平，用银子五舍客勒赎出来（一舍客勒是二十季拉）。You are to pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your valuation: five shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs.

¹⁷只是头生的牛，或是头生的绵羊和山羊，必不可赎，都是圣的，要把它的血洒在坛上，把它的脂油焚烧，当作馨香的火祭献给耶和华。But you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat; they are holy. You are to splatter their blood on the altar and burn their fat as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

¹⁸它的肉必归你，像被摇的胸、被举的右腿归你一样。And their meat belongs to you, just as the breast and right thigh of the wave offering belong to you.

¹⁹凡以色列人所献给耶和华圣物中的举祭，我都赐给你和你的儿女，当作永得的分。这是给你和你的后裔、在耶和华面前作为永远的盐约（盐就是不废坏的意思）。”All the holy offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD I give to you and to your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt before the LORD for you and your offspring.”

我就是你的分

²⁰耶和华对亚伦说：“你在以色列人的境内不可有产业，在他们中间也不可有分。我就是你的分，是你的产业。”Then the LORD said to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.

利未人得十分之一

²¹“凡以色列中出产的十分之一，我已赐给利未的子孙为业；因他们所办的是会幕的事，所以赐给他们为酬他们的劳。Behold, I have given to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the service of the Tent of Meeting.

²²从今以后，以色列人不可挨近会幕，免得他们担罪而死。No longer may the Israelites come near to the Tent of Meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.

²³惟独利未人要办会幕的事，担当罪孽；这要作你们世世代代永远的定例。他们在以色列人中不可有产业；The Levites are to perform the work of the Tent of Meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come. The Levites will not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.

²⁴因为以色列人中出产的十分之一，就是献给耶和华为举祭的，我已赐给利未人为业。所以我对他们说：‘在以色列人中不可有产业。’”For I have given to the Levites as their inheritance the tithe that the Israelites present to the LORD as a contribution. That is why I told them that they would not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.”

利未人也要献十分之一

²⁵耶和华吩咐摩西说：And the LORD instructed Moses,

²⁶“你晓谕利未人说：你们从以色列人中所取的十分之一，就是我给你们为业的，要再从那十分之一中取十分之一作为举祭献给耶和华，“Speak to the Levites and tell them: ‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you as your inheritance, you must present part of it as an offering to the LORD—a tithe of the tithe.

²⁷这举祭要算为你们场上的谷，又如满酒榨的酒。Your offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.

²⁸这样，你们从以色列人中所得的十分之一也要作举祭献给耶和华，从这十分之一中，将所献给耶和华的举祭归给祭司亚伦。So you are to present an offering to the LORD from all the tithes you receive from the Israelites, and from these you are to give the LORD’s offering to Aaron the priest.

²⁹奉给你们的一切礼物，要从其中将至好的，就是分别为圣的，献给耶和华为举祭。You must present the offering due the LORD from all the best of every gift, the holiest part of it.’

³⁰所以你要对利未人说：你们从其中将至好的举起，这就算为你们场上的粮，又如酒榨的酒。Therefore say to the Levites, ‘When you have presented the best part, it will be reckoned to you as the produce of the threshing floor or winepress.

³¹你们和你们家属随处可以吃；这原是你们的赏赐，是酬你们在会幕里办事的劳。And you and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere; it is the compensation for your work at the Tent of Meeting.

³²你们从其中将至好的举起，就不致因这物担罪。你们不可亵渎以色列人的圣物，免得死亡。”Once you have presented the best part of it, you will not incur guilt because of it. But you must not defile the sacred offerings of the Israelites, or else you will die.’”

红母牛的灰

¹耶和华晓谕摩西、亚伦说：Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

²“耶和华命定律法中的一条律例乃是这样说：你要吩咐以色列人，把一只没有残疾、未曾负轭、纯红的母牛牵到你这里来，“This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red heifer that has no defect and has never been placed under a yoke.

³交给祭司以利亚撒；他必牵到营外，人就把牛宰在他面前。Give it to Eleazar the priest, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.

⁴祭司以利亚撒要用指头蘸这牛的血，向会幕前面弹七次。Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Tent of Meeting.

⁵人要在他眼前把这母牛焚烧；牛的皮、肉、血、粪都要焚烧。Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung.

⁶祭司要把香柏木、牛膝草、朱红色线都丢在烧牛的火中。The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.

⁷祭司必不洁净到晚上，要洗衣服，用水洗身，然后可以进营。Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

⁸烧牛的人必不洁净到晚上，也要洗衣服，用水洗身。The one who burned the heifer must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he too will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

⁹必有一个洁净的人收起母牛的灰，存在营外洁净的地方，为以色列会众调做除污秽的水。这本是除罪的。Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept by the congregation of Israel for preparing the water of purification; this is for purification from sin.

¹⁰收起母牛灰的人必不洁净到晚上，要洗衣服。这要给以色列人和寄居在他们中间的外人作为永远的定例。”The man who has gathered up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will be ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent statute for the Israelites and for the foreigner residing among them.

摸死尸的洁净条例

¹¹“摸了人死尸的，就必七天不洁净。Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.

¹²那人到第三天要用这除污秽的水洁净自己，第七天就洁净了。他若在第三天不洁净自己，第七天就不洁净了。He must purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third and seventh days, he will not be clean.

¹³凡摸了人死尸、不洁净自己的，就玷污了耶和华的帐幕，这人必从以色列中剪除；因为那除污秽的水没有洒在他身上，他就为不洁净，污秽还在他身上。Anyone who touches a human corpse and fails to purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person must be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean, because the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him.

人死在帐棚里的条例

¹⁴“人死在帐棚里的条例乃是这样：凡进那帐棚的，和一切在帐棚里的，都必七天不洁净。This is the law when a person dies in a tent: Everyone who enters the tent and everyone already in the tent will be unclean for seven days,

¹⁵凡敞口的器皿，就是没有扎上盖的，也是不洁净。and any open container without a lid fastened on it is unclean.

¹⁶无论何人在田野里摸了被刀杀的，或是尸首，或是人的骨头，或是坟墓，就要七天不洁净。Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

¹⁷要为这不洁净的人拿些烧成的除罪灰放在器皿里，倒上活水。For the purification of the unclean person, take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, put them in a jar, and pour fresh water over them.

¹⁸必当有一个洁净的人拿牛膝草蘸在这水中，把水洒在帐棚上，和一切器皿并帐棚内的众人身上，又洒在摸了骨头，或摸了被杀的，或摸了自死的，或摸了坟墓的那人身上。Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, or a person who has died or been slain.

¹⁹第三天和第七天，洁净的人要洒水在不洁净的人身上，第七天就使他成为洁净。那人要洗衣服，用水洗澡，到晚上就洁净了。The man who is ceremonially clean is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day. After he purifies the unclean person on the seventh day, the one being cleansed must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and that evening he will be clean.

²⁰“但那污秽而不洁净自己的，要将他从会中剪除，因为他玷污了耶和华的圣所。除污秽的水没有洒在他身上，他是不洁净的。But if a person who is unclean does not purify himself, he will be cut off from the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

²¹这要给你们作为永远的定例。并且那洒除污秽水的人要洗衣服。凡摸除污秽水的，必不洁净到晚上。This is a permanent statute for the people: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and whoever touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.

²²不洁净人所摸的一切物就不洁净；摸了这物的人必不洁净到晚上。”Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.”

到犹太和约旦河外

¹耶稣从那里起身，来到犹太的境界并约旦河外。众人又聚集到他那里，他又照常教训他们。Then Jesus left that place and went into the region of Judea, beyond the Jordan. Again the crowds came to Him and He taught them, as was His custom.

论休妻

²有法利赛人来问他说：“人休妻可以不可以？”意思要试探他。Some Pharisees came to test Him. “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” they inquired.

³耶稣回答说：“摩西吩咐你们的是什么？”“What did Moses command you?” He replied.

⁴他们说：“摩西许人写了休书便可以休妻。”They answered, “Moses permitted a man to write his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away.”

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⁵耶稣说：“摩西因为你们的心硬，所以写这条例给你们；But Jesus told them, “Moses wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart.

⁶但从起初创造的时候，　神造人是造男造女。However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

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⁷因此，人要离开父母，与妻子连合，二人成为一体。‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,

⁸既然如此，夫妻不再是两个人，乃是一体的了。and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

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⁹所以，　神配合的，人不可分开。”Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”

在屋里再教导门徒

¹⁰到了屋里，门徒就问他这事。When they were back inside the house, the disciples asked Jesus about this matter.

¹¹耶稣对他们说：“凡休妻另娶的，就是犯奸淫，辜负他的妻子；So He told them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.

¹²妻子若离弃丈夫另嫁，也是犯奸淫了。”And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”

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让小孩子到我这里来

¹³有人带着小孩子来见耶稣，要耶稣摸他们，门徒便责备那些人。Now people were bringing the little children to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them, and the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

¹⁴耶稣看见就恼怒，对门徒说：“让小孩子到我这里来，不要禁止他们；因为在　神国的，正是这样的人。But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and told them, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them! For the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

¹⁵我实在告诉你们，凡要承受　神国的，若不像小孩子，断不能进去。”Truly I tell you, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

¹⁶于是抱着小孩子，给他们按手，为他们祝福。And He took the children in His arms, placed His hands on them, and blessed them.

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富有的人问永生

¹⁷耶稣出来行路的时候，有一个人跑来，跪在他面前，问他说：“良善的夫子，我当做什么事才可以承受永生？”As Jesus started on His way, a man ran up and knelt before Him. “Good Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

¹⁸耶稣对他说：“你为什么称我是良善的？除了　神一位之外，再没有良善的。“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus replied. “No one is good except God alone.

¹⁹诫命你是晓得的：不可杀人；不可奸淫；不可偷盗；不可作假见证；不可亏负人；当孝敬父母。”You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”

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²⁰他对耶稣说：“夫子，这一切我从小都遵守了。”“Teacher,” he replied, “all these I have kept from my youth.”

²¹耶稣看着他，就爱他，对他说：“你还缺少一件：去变卖你所有的，分给穷人，就必有财宝在天上；你还要来跟从我。”Jesus looked at him, loved him, and said to him, “There is one thing you lack: Go, sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

²²他听见这话，脸上就变了色，忧忧愁愁地走了，因为他的产业很多。But the man was saddened by these words and went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth.

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有钱财的人进神的国何等难

²³耶稣周围一看，对门徒说：“有钱财的人进　神的国是何等地难哪！”Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”

²⁴门徒希奇他的话。耶稣又对他们说：“小子，倚靠钱财的人进　神的国是何等地难哪！And the disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

²⁵骆驼穿过针的眼，比财主进　神的国还容易呢。”It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

²⁶门徒就分外希奇，对他说：“这样谁能得救呢？”They were even more astonished and said to one another, “Who then can be saved?”

²⁷耶稣看着他们，说：“在人是不能，在　神却不然，因为　神凡事都能。”Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”

撇下一切的必得回报

²⁸彼得就对他说：“看哪，我们已经撇下所有的跟从你了。”Peter began to say to Him, “Look, we have left everything and followed You.”

²⁹耶稣说：“我实在告诉你们，人为我和福音撇下房屋，或是弟兄、姊妹、父母、儿女、田地，“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel

³⁰没有不在今世得百倍的，就是房屋、弟兄、姊妹、母亲、儿女、田地，并且要受逼迫，在来世必得永生。will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.

³¹然而，有许多在前的，将要在后，在后的，将要在前。”But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.”

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