今日读经

给利未人的城和郊野

¹耶和华在摩押平原—约旦河边、耶利哥对面晓谕摩西说：Again the LORD spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho:

²“你吩咐以色列人，要从所得为业的地中把些城给利未人居住，也要把这城四围的郊野给利未人。“Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance they will possess, cities for the Levites to live in and pasturelands around the cities.

³这城邑要归他们居住，城邑的郊野可以牧养他们的牛羊和各样的牲畜，又可以安置他们的财物。The cities will be for them to live in, and the pasturelands will be for their herds, their flocks, and all their other livestock.

⁴你们给利未人的郊野，要从城根起，四围往外量一千肘。The pasturelands around the cities you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the wall on every side.

⁵另外东量二千肘，南量二千肘，西量二千肘，北量二千肘，为边界，城在当中；这要归他们作城邑的郊野。You are also to measure two thousand cubits outside the city on the east, two thousand on the south, two thousand on the west, and two thousand on the north, with the city in the center. These areas will serve as larger pasturelands for the cities.

⁶你们给利未人的城邑，其中当有六座逃城，使误杀人的可以逃到那里。此外还要给他们四十二座城。Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.

⁷你们要给利未人的城，共有四十八座，连城带郊野都要给他们。The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands.

⁸以色列人所得的地业从中要把些城邑给利未人；人多的就多给，人少的就少给；各支派要按所承受为业之地把城邑给利未人。”The cities that you apportion from the territory of the Israelites should be given to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one.”

设立六座逃城

⁹耶和华晓谕摩西说：Then the LORD said to Moses,

¹⁰“你吩咐以色列人说：你们过约旦河，进了迦南地，“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

¹¹就要分出几座城，为你们作逃城，使误杀人的可以逃到那里。designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.

¹²这些城可以作逃避报仇人的城，使误杀人的不至于死，等他站在会众面前听审判。You are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.

¹³你们所分出来的城，要作六座逃城。The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.

¹⁴在约旦河东要分出三座城，在迦南地也要分出三座城，都作逃城。Select three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge.

¹⁵这六座城要给以色列人和他们中间的外人，并寄居的，作为逃城，使误杀人的都可以逃到那里。These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.

故意杀人的必被治死

¹⁶“倘若人用铁器打人，以致打死，他就是故杀人的；故杀人的必被治死。If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

¹⁷若用可以打死人的石头打死了人，他就是故杀人的；故杀人的必被治死。Or if anyone has in his hand a stone of deadly size, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

¹⁸若用可以打死人的木器打死了人，他就是故杀人的；故杀人的必被治死。If anyone has in his hand a deadly object of wood, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

¹⁹报血仇的必亲自杀那故杀人的，一遇见就杀他。The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him.

²⁰人若因怨恨把人推倒，或是埋伏往人身上扔物，以致于死，Likewise, if anyone maliciously pushes another or intentionally throws an object at him and kills him,

²¹或是因仇恨用手打人，以致于死，那打人的必被治死。他是故杀人的；报血仇的一遇见就杀他。or if in hostility he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death; he is a murderer. When the avenger of blood finds the murderer, he is to kill him.

误杀人的要住在逃城

²²“倘若人没有仇恨，忽然将人推倒，或是没有埋伏把物扔在人身上，But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,

²³或是没有看见的时候用可以打死人的石头扔在人身上，以致于死，本来与他无仇，也无意害他。or without looking drops a heavy stone that kills him, but he was not an enemy and did not intend to harm him,

²⁴会众就要照典章，在打死人的和报血仇的中间审判。then the congregation must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

²⁵会众要救这误杀人的脱离报血仇人的手，也要使他归入逃城。他要住在其中，直等到受圣膏的大祭司死了。The assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

²⁶但误杀人的，无论什么时候，若出了逃城的境外，But if the manslayer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled

²⁷报血仇的在逃城境外遇见他，将他杀了，报血仇的就没有流血之罪。and the avenger of blood finds him outside of his city of refuge and kills him, then the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed,

²⁸因为误杀人的该住在逃城里，等到大祭司死了。大祭司死了以后，误杀人的才可以回到他所得为业之地。because the manslayer must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may he return to the land he owns.

²⁹这在你们一切的住处，要作你们世世代代的律例典章。This will be a statutory ordinance for you for the generations to come, wherever you live.

凭见证定罪，不可收赎价

³⁰“无论谁故杀人，要凭几个见证人的口把那故杀人的杀了，只是不可凭一个见证的口叫人死。If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness.

³¹故杀人、犯死罪的，你们不可收赎价代替他的命；他必被治死。You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.

³²那逃到逃城的人，你们不可为他收赎价，使他在大祭司未死以先再来住在本地。Nor should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to a city of refuge and allow him to return and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.

³³这样，你们就不污秽所住之地，因为血是污秽地的；若有在地上流人血的，非流那杀人者的血，那地就不得洁净（原文是赎）。Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

³⁴你们不可玷污所住之地，就是我住在其中之地，因为我—耶和华住在以色列人中间。”Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell. For I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.”

西罗非哈众女儿的产业

¹约瑟的后裔，玛拿西的孙子，玛吉的儿子基列，他子孙中的诸族长来到摩西和作首领的以色列人族长面前，说：Now the family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, one of the clans of Joseph, approached Moses and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families and addressed them,

²“耶和华曾吩咐我主拈阄分地给以色列人为业，我主也受了耶和华的吩咐将我们兄弟西罗非哈的产业分给他的众女儿。saying, “When the LORD commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot, He also commanded him to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.

³她们若嫁以色列别支派的人，就必将我们祖宗所遗留的产业加在她们丈夫支派的产业中。这样，我们拈阄所得的产业就要减少了。But if they marry any of the men from the other tribes of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the portion of our fathers and added to the tribe into which they marry. So our allotted inheritance would be taken away.

⁴到了以色列人的禧年，这女儿的产业就必加在她们丈夫支派的产业上。这样，我们祖宗支派的产业就减少了。”And when the Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to the tribe into which they marry and taken away from the tribe of our fathers.”

⁵摩西照耶和华的话吩咐以色列人说：“约瑟支派的人说得有理。So at the word of the LORD, Moses commanded the Israelites: “The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks correctly.

⁶论到西罗非哈的众女儿，耶和华这样吩咐说：她们可以随意嫁人，只是要嫁同宗支派的人。This is what the LORD has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may marry anyone they please, provided they marry within a clan of the tribe of their father.

⁷这样，以色列人的产业就不从这支派归到那支派，因为以色列人要各守各祖宗支派的产业。No inheritance in Israel may be transferred from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

⁸凡在以色列支派中得了产业的女子必作同宗支派人的妻，好叫以色列人各自承受他祖宗的产业。Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any Israelite tribe must marry within a clan of the tribe of her father, so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of his fathers.

⁹这样，他们的产业就不从这支派归到那支派，因为以色列支派的人要各守各的产业。”No inheritance may be transferred from one tribe to another, for each tribe of Israel must retain its inheritance.”

女儿们嫁给同宗的人

¹⁰耶和华怎样吩咐摩西，西罗非哈的众女儿就怎样行。So the daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

¹¹西罗非哈的女儿玛拉、得撒、曷拉、密迦、挪阿都嫁了他们伯叔的儿子。Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to cousins on their father’s side.

¹²她们嫁入约瑟儿子、玛拿西子孙的族中；她们的产业仍留在同宗支派中。They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained within the tribe of their father’s clan.

民数记的结语

¹³这是耶和华在摩押平原—约旦河边、耶利哥对面—借着摩西所吩咐以色列人的命令典章。These are the commandments and ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

公会把耶稣交给彼拉多

¹一到早晨，祭司长和长老、文士、全公会的人大家商议，就把耶稣捆绑，解去交给彼拉多。Early in the morning, the chief priests, elders, scribes, and the whole Sanhedrin devised a plan. They bound Jesus, led Him away, and handed Him over to Pilate.

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彼拉多审问耶稣

²彼拉多问他说：“你是犹太人的王吗？”耶稣回答说：“你说的是。”So Pilate questioned Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” “You have said so,” Jesus replied.

³祭司长告他许多的事。And the chief priests began to accuse Him of many things.

⁴彼拉多又问他说：“你看，他们告你这么多的事，你什么都不回答吗？”Then Pilate questioned Him again, “Have You no answer? Look how many charges they are bringing against You!”

⁵耶稣仍不回答，以致彼拉多觉得希奇。But to Pilate’s amazement, Jesus made no further reply.

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节期释放囚犯的惯例

⁶每逢这节期，巡抚照众人所求的，释放一个囚犯给他们。Now it was Pilate’s custom at the feast to release to the people a prisoner of their choosing.

⁷有一个人名叫巴拉巴，和作乱的人一同捆绑。他们做乱的时候，曾杀过人。And a man named Barabbas was imprisoned with the rebels who had committed murder during the insurrection.

⁸众人上去求巡抚，照常例给他们办。So the crowd went up and began asking Pilate to keep his custom.

⁹彼拉多说：“你们要我释放犹太人的王给你们吗？”“Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?” Pilate asked.

¹⁰他原晓得，祭司长是因为嫉妒才把耶稣解了来。For he knew it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed Jesus over.

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祭司长挑唆众人

¹¹只是祭司长挑唆众人，宁可释放巴拉巴给他们。But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas to them instead.

¹²彼拉多又说：“那么样，你们所称为犹太人的王，我怎么办他呢？”So Pilate asked them again, “What then do you want me to do with the One you call the King of the Jews?”

¹³他们又喊着说：“把他钉十字架！”And they shouted back, “Crucify Him!”

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¹⁴彼拉多说：“为什么呢？他做了什么恶事呢？”他们便极力地喊着说：“把他钉十字架！”“Why?” asked Pilate. “What evil has He done?” But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify Him!”

释放巴拉巴，交出耶稣

¹⁵彼拉多要叫众人喜悦，就释放巴拉巴给他们，将耶稣鞭打了，交给人钉十字架。And wishing to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed Him over to be crucified.

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