书22:1 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，
书22:1 Then Joshua sent for the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh,
书22:2 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。
书22:2 And said to them, You have kept all the orders of Moses, the Lord's servant, and have done everything I gave you orders to do:
书22:3 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。
书22:3 You have now been with your brothers for a long time; till this day you have been doing the orders of the Lord your God.
书22:4 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。
书22:4 And now the Lord your God has given your brothers rest, as he said: so now you may go back to your tents, to the land of your heritage, which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to you on the other side of Jordan.
书22:5 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。”
书22:5 Only take great care to do the orders and the law which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave you; to have love for the Lord your God and to go in all his ways; and to keep his laws and to be true to him and to be his servants with all your heart and with all your soul.
书22:6 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。
书22:6 Then Joshua gave them his blessing and sent them away: and they went back to their tents.
书22:7 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，
书22:7 Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh, Moses had given a heritage in Bashan; but to the other half, Joshua gave a heritage among their brothers on the west side of Jordan. Now when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he gave them his blessing,
书22:8 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。”
书22:8 And said to them, Go back with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver and gold and brass and iron, and with a very great store of clothing; give your brothers a part of the goods taken in the war.
书22:9 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。
书22:9 So Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went back, parting from the children of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their heritage which had been given to them by the Lord's order to Moses.
书22:10 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。
书22:10 Now when they came to the country by Jordan in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh put up there, by Jordan, a great altar, seen from far.
书22:11 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。”
书22:11 And news came to the children of Israel, See, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have put up an altar opposite the land of Canaan, in the country by Jordan on the side which is Israel's.
书22:12 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。
书22:12 Then all the meeting of the children of Israel, hearing this, came together at Shiloh to go up against them to war.
书22:13 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；
书22:13 And the children of Israel sent Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead,
书22:14 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。
书22:14 And with him they sent ten chiefs, one for every tribe of the children of Israel, every one of them the head of his house among the families of Israel.
书22:15 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：
书22:15 And they came to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and said to them,
书22:16 “耶和华的全体会众这样说：‘你们作的是什么事？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。
书22:16 This is what all the meeting of the people of the Lord has said, What is this wrong which you have done against the God of Israel, turning back this day from the Lord and building an altar for yourselves, and being false to the Lord?
书22:17 从前拜毗珥的罪孽，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。
书22:17 Was not the sin of Baal-peor great enough, from which we are not clear even to this day, though punishment came on the people of the Lord,
书22:18 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。
书22:18 That now you are turned back from the Lord? and, because you are false to him today, tomorrow his wrath will be let loose on all the people of Israel.
书22:19 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。
书22:19 But if the land you now have is unclean, come over into the Lord's land where his House is, and take up your heritage among us: but do not be false to the Lord and to us by building yourselves an altar in addition to the altar of the Lord our God.
书22:20 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！’”
书22:20 Did not Achan, the son of Zerah, do wrong about the cursed thing, causing wrath to come on all the people of Israel? And not on him only came the punishment of death.
书22:21 于是流本人、迦得人和玛拿西半个支派的人回答以色列的统领说：
书22:21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh said in answer to the heads of the families of Israel,
书22:22 “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。
书22:22 God, even God the Lord, God, even God the Lord, he sees, and Israel will see--if it is in pride or in sin against the Lord,
书22:23 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。
书22:23 That we have made ourselves an altar, being false to the Lord, keep us not safe from death this day; and if for the purpose of offering burned offerings on it and meal offerings, or peace-offerings, let the Lord himself send punishment for it;
书22:24 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 神有什么关系呢？
书22:24 And if we have not, in fact, done this designedly and with purpose, having in our minds the fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?
书22:25 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。
书22:25 For the Lord has made Jordan a line of division between us and you, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad; you have no part in the Lord: so your children will make our children give up fearing the Lord.
书22:26 “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，
书22:26 So we said, Let us now make an altar for ourselves, not for burned offerings or for the offerings of beasts:
书22:27 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。’
书22:27 But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings; so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord.
书22:28 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。’
书22:28 For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord's altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you.
书22:29 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。”
书22:29 Never let it be said that we were false to the Lord, turning back this day from him and building an altar for burned offerings and meal offerings and offerings of beasts, in addition to the altar of the Lord our God which is before his House.
书22:30 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。
书22:30 Then Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the meeting and the heads of the families of Israel who were with him, hearing what the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh said, were pleased.
书22:31 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。”
书22:31 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, said to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh, Now we are certain that the Lord is among us, because you have not done this wrong against the Lord: and you have kept us from falling into the hands of the Lord.
书22:32 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。
书22:32 Then Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs went back from the land of Gilead, from the children of Reuben and the children of Gad, and came to the children of Israel in Canaan and gave them the news.
书22:33 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。
书22:33 And the children of Israel were pleased about this; and they gave praise to God, and had no more thought of going to war against the children of Reuben and the children of Gad for the destruction of their land.
书22:34 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。”
书22:34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad gave to that altar the name of Ed. For, they said, It is a witness between us that the Lord is God.