中英对照

1. 1.努尼的儿子约书亚暗暗地从示提姆送出两个人去作探子，对他们说，你们去窥探耶利哥。他们就去了，来到一个妓女名叫拉哈的家里，在那里住下。Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two men from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, reconnoiter the region of Jericho.” So they set out, and they came to the house of a certain prostitute named Rahab and lodged there. 💡
2. 2.耶利哥王被告知，有些人今晚来到这里，是以色列人，要探查这片土地。The king of Jericho was told, “Some men have come here tonight, Israelites, to spy out the country.” 💡
3. 3.耶利哥王就打发人去见拉哈布，说：“把那些到你这里来，进了你家的人交出来，因为他们是来窥探全地的。”The king of Jericho thereupon sent orders to Rahab: “Produce the men who came to you and entered your house, for they have come to spy out the whole country.” 💡
4. 4.然而，那女人把两个人带进屋里，隐藏了他们。她说：“是的，那些人来到我这里，但是我不知道他们从哪里来。The woman, however, had taken the two men and hidden them. “It is true,” she said, “the men did come to me, but I didn’t know where they were from. 💡
5. 5.天快黑了，城门就要关的时候，那些人走了，我却不知道他们往哪里去了，你快去追他们，你一定能追上他们。And at dark, when the gate was about to be closed, the men left; and I don’t know where the men went. Quick, go after them, for you can overtake them.”— 💡
6. 6.她已经把他们带到屋顶上，并把他们藏在屋顶上散放的一些亚麻秆下。Now she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under some stalks of flax that she had lying on the roof.—💡
7. 7.于是，人们便向约旦河的渡口追赶他们，追兵刚一出去，城门就在他们后面关上了。So the men pursued them in the direction of the Jordan down to the fords; and no sooner had the pursuers gone out than the gate was shut behind them.💡
8. 8.探子还没有睡觉，拉哈布就上了屋顶，来到他们那里。The spies had not yet gone to sleep when she came up to them on the roof.💡
9. 9.她对那些人说：“我知道上帝已经把这地赐给了你们，因为我们都害怕你们，且这地所有的居民见了你们都胆战心惊。She said to the men, “I know that GOD has given the country to you, because dread of you has fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land are quaking before you.💡
10. 10.因为我们听说了上帝在你们离开埃及时为你们干涸了红海的水，并且知道你们对约旦河东的两个亚摩利王西宏和奥格所做的一切，他们被你们灭绝。For we have heard how GOD dried up the waters of the Sea of Reeds for you when you left Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two Amorite kings across the Jordan, whom you doomed., which meant the annihilation of the inhabitants. Cf. Deut. 2.34ff.💡
11. 11.我们听说这件事以后，就失去了勇气，谁也没有因为你而再有精神了，因为上帝是天上和地上的唯一真神。When we heard about it, we lost heart, and no one had any more spirit left because of you; for the ETERNAL your God is the only God in heaven above and on earth below.💡
12. 12.现在，我既然向你证明了忠诚，请你向上帝起誓，你也要对我的家人表示忠诚。为我提供一个可靠的凭据Now, since I have shown loyalty to you, swear to me by GOD that you in turn will show loyalty to my family. Provide me with a reliable sign💡
13. 13.求你饶恕我父我母，我兄弟我姐妹，并他们一切所有的生命，拯救我们的生命，不叫我们死。that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and save us from death.” 💡
14. 14.那些人对她说，我们的生命为你担保，直到死。只要你不泄露我们的使命，我们等耶和华将这地赐给我们的时候，必以慈爱和诚实待你。The men answered her, “Our lives are pledged for yours, even to death! If you do not disclose this mission of ours, we will show you true loyalty when GOD gives us the land.”💡
15. 15.她从窗户里用绳子把他们放下去，因为她的住所是在城墙的外面，她就住在城墙里。She let them down by a rope through the window—for her dwelling was at the outer side of the city wall and she lived in the actual wall.💡
16. 16.她对他们说：“往山上去吧，免得追赶你们的敌人遇见你们，在那里隐藏三天，等到追赶你们的敌人回去以后，然后你们可以走你的路。”She said to them, “Make for the hills, so that the pursuers may not come upon you. Stay there in hiding three days, until the pursuers return; then go your way.”💡
17. 17.但那些人警告她说，我们从你使我们所起的誓言中得释，But the men warned her, “We will be released from this oath that you have made us take 💡
18. 18.[除非，] 当我们攻取那地的时候，你要把这条朱红绳子系在你从那里放我们下去的窗户上，并要把你的父亲、母亲、兄弟和你所有的家眷都聚集在你家里；[unless,] when we invade the country, you tie this length of crimson cord to the window through which you let us down. Bring your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your family together in your house; 💡
19. 19.如果有人敢从你家门口出去，他们的血就归于他们自己，我们是无辜的。但如果在你家里与你在一起的人受到伤害，他们的血就要归于我们的头上。and if anyone ventures outside the doors of your house, their blood will be on their head, and we shall be clear. But if a hand is laid on anyone who remains in the house with you, their blood shall be on our heads.💡
20. 20.如果你泄露了我们的使命，我们也将从你让我们发的誓言中解脱出来。And if you disclose this mission of ours, we shall likewise be released from the oath that you made us take.” 💡
21. 21.她回答说：“就照你说的办。”她让他们走了，他们就离开了；她又把朱红色绳子系在窗户上。She replied, “Let it be as you say.”She sent them on their way, and they left; and she tied the crimson cord to the window.💡
22. 22.他们一直往山里去，住了三天，等到追赶的人回去了。追赶的人在路上到处寻找，却没有找到他们。They went straight to the hills and stayed there three days, until the pursuers turned back. And so the pursuers, searching all along the road, did not find them.💡
23. 23.于是，两个人又从山上下来，过了河。他们来到努尼的儿子约书亚那里，将他们所遇见的一切事告诉他。Then the two men came down again from the hills and crossed over. They came to Joshua son of Nun and reported to him all that had happened to them.💡
24. 24.他们对约书亚说，耶和华已经将全地交在我们手中，地上所有的居民也都在我们面前屈膝投降。They said to Joshua, “GOD has delivered the whole land into our power; in fact, all the inhabitants of the land are quaking before us.”💡