书7:1 以色列人在那当毁灭的物上犯了不忠实的罪；因为犹大支派中，谢拉的曾孙、撒底的孙子、迦米的儿子亚干，取了当毁灭的物，耶和华就向以色列人发怒。
书7:1 But the children of Israel did wrong about the cursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the family of Judah, took of the cursed thing, moving the Lord to wrath against the children of Israel.
书7:2 以色列人战败那时，约书亚从耶利哥派人到伯特利东边，靠近伯．亚文的艾城去，吩咐他们说：“你们上去窥探那地。”那些人就上去，窥探艾城。
书7:2 Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is by the side of Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and said to them, Go up and make a search through the land. And the men went up and saw how Ai was placed.
书7:3 他们回来，对约书亚说：“不需要全体人民都上去；只要大约二三千人就可以上去攻打艾城了；不必劳动全体人民都上那里去，因为那里的人很少。”
书7:3 Then they came back to Joshua and said to him, Do not send all the people up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and make an attack on Ai; there is no need for all the people to be tired with the journey there, for it is only a small town.
书7:4 于是人民中约有三千人上那里去，但他们竟在艾城的人面前逃跑了。
书7:4 So about three thousand of the people went up, and were sent in flight by the men of Ai.
书7:5 艾城的人击杀了他们约三十六人；从城门前追赶他们，一直追到示巴琳；在山坡上把他们击溃；人民的心就极其惊怕。
书7:5 The men of Ai put to death about thirty-six of them, driving them from before the town as far as the stoneworks, and overcoming them on the way down: and the hearts of the people became like water.
书7:6 约书亚就撕裂自己的衣服，和以色列人的长老，在耶和华的约柜前，一同俯伏在地，直到晚上，也把尘土撒在头上。
书7:6 Then Joshua, in great grief, went down on the earth before the ark of the Lord till the evening, and all the chiefs of Israel with him, and they put dust on their heads.
书7:7 约书亚说：“唉！主耶和华啊，你为什么领这人民过约旦河，为要把我们交在亚摩利人的手中，使我们灭亡呢？我们宁愿住在约旦河那边倒好。
书7:7 And Joshua said, O Lord God, why have you taken us over Jordan only to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction? If only it had been enough for us to keep on the other side of Jordan!
书7:8 主啊！以色列人既然在仇敌面前转身逃跑，我还有什么可说的呢？
书7:8 O Lord, what am I to say now that Israel have given way before their attackers?
书7:9 迦南人和这地所有的居民听见了，就必围困我们，把我们的名字从这世上剪除，那时你为你的大名要怎样行呢？”
书7:9 For when the news comes to the Canaanites and all the people of the land, they will come up, shutting us in and cutting off our name from the earth: and what will you do for the honour of your great name?
书7:10 耶和华对约书亚说：“你起来，为什么这样脸伏在地呢？
书7:10 Then the Lord said to Joshua, Get up; what are you doing with your face to the earth?
书7:11 以色列人犯了罪，违背了我吩咐他们的约定，因为他们取了那当毁灭的物，他们偷窃，并且说谎，又把那当毁灭的物放在自己的对象中。
书7:11 Israel has done wrong, sinning against the agreement which I made with them: they have even taken of the cursed thing; acting falsely like thieves they have put it among their goods.
书7:12 所以，以色列人在他们的仇敌面前站立不住，在他们的仇敌面前转身逃跑，因为他们成了当毁灭的。如果你们不把那当毁灭的物从你们中间除掉，我就必不再与你们同在了。
书7:12 For this reason the children of Israel have given way, turning their backs in flight before their attackers, because they are cursed: I will no longer be with you, if you do not put the cursed thing away from among you.
书7:13 你起来，要人民自洁，对他们说：‘你们要自洁，预备明天；因为耶和华以色列的 神这样说：以色列啊！你们中间有那当毁灭的物；除非你们把那当毁灭的物从你们中间除去，你们在仇敌的面前就不能站立得住。
书7:13 Up! make the people holy; say to them, Make yourselves holy before tomorrow, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said, There is a cursed thing among you, O Israel, and you will give way before your attackers in the fight till the cursed thing has been taken away from among you.
书7:14 到了早晨，你们要按着支派前来，耶和华抽签抽中的支派，要按着宗族前来；耶和华抽签抽中的宗族，要按着家庭前来；耶和华抽签抽中的家庭，男丁要一个一个前来。
书7:14 So in the morning you are to come near, tribe by tribe; and the tribe marked out by the Lord is to come near, family by family; and the family marked out by the Lord is to come near, house by house; and the house marked out by the Lord is to come near, man by man.
书7:15 如果那藏有当毁灭的物的人被抽签抽中了，他和他所有的一切都要用火焚烧；因为他违背了耶和华的约，又因为他在以色列中作了愚昧的事。’”
书7:15 Then the man who is taken with the cursed thing is to be burned, with everything which is his; because he has gone against the agreement of the Lord and has done an act of shame in Israel.
书7:16 约书亚清早起来，要以色列人按着支派前来；结果，犹大支派被抽签抽中了；
书7:16 So Joshua got up early in the morning, and made Israel come before him by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken;
书7:17 他要犹大宗族前来，结果，谢拉的家族被抽签抽中了；他要谢拉家族的男丁一个一个前来，结果，撒底被抽签抽中了；
书7:17 Then he made Judah come forward, and the family of the Zerahites was taken; and he made the family of the Zerahites come forward man by man; and Zabdi was taken;
书7:18 他要撒底家中的男丁一个一个前来，结果，亚干被抽签抽中了，亚干是迦米的儿子、撒底的孙子、谢拉的曾孙，是属于犹大支派的。
书7:18 Then the house of Zabdi came forward man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.
书7:19 约书亚对亚干说：“我儿，我劝你把荣耀归给耶和华以色列的 神，向他认罪，告诉我你作了什么事，不可向我隐瞒。”
书7:19 And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give glory and praise to the Lord, the God of Israel; give me word now of what you have done, and keep nothing back from me.
书7:20 亚干回答约书亚，说：“我实在得罪了耶和华以色列的 神；我作过的事是这样的。
书7:20 And Achan, answering, said to Joshua, Truly I have done wrong against the Lord, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done:
书7:21 我在战利品中，看见了一件美丽的示拿衣服、二千二百八十克银子，和一条重五百七十克的金条；我因贪爱这些对象，就把它们拿去了；现在埋藏在我帐棚的地里，银子在底下。”
书7:21 When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.
书7:22 约书亚就派人跑到亚干的帐棚里，果然见到东西埋藏在那里，银子在底下。
书7:22 So Joshua sent men quickly, and looking in his tent, they saw where the robe had been put away secretly with the silver under it.
书7:23 他们就把东西从帐棚中拿出来，带到约书亚和以色列人那里，摆在耶和华面前。
书7:23 And they took them from the tent and came back with them to Joshua and the children of Israel, and put them before the Lord.
书7:24 约书亚和全体以色列人一起把谢拉的曾孙亚干和那银子、那件衣服、那金条，以及亚干的儿女、牛、驴、羊、帐棚和他所有的一切，都带上亚割谷去。
书7:24 Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver and the robe and the mass of gold, and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and everything he had; and they took them up into the valley of Achor.
书7:25 约书亚说：“你为什么给我们招惹灾祸呢？今天耶和华必使你遭受灾祸。”于是全体以色列人用石头把他打死。他们用石头打死他们以后，就把一切用火烧了。
书7:25 And Joshua said, Why have you been a cause of trouble to us? Today the Lord will send trouble on you. And all Israel took part in stoning him; they had him stoned to death and then burned with fire.
书7:26 众人又在亚干身上堆起了一大堆石头，这堆石头一直存到今日；于是耶和华就回心转意，不发烈怒。因此那地方名叫亚割谷，直到今日。
书7:26 And over him they put a great mass of stones, which is there to this day; then the heat of the Lord's wrath was turned away. So that place was named, The Valley of Achor, to this day.