西藏福音書《伊薩經卷》2

Tibetan Gospel 2

第二章

1 The People Of Israel, Who Inhabited A Most Fertile Land, Yielding Two Crops A Year, And Who Possessed Immense Flocks, Stirred Up The Flow Of Negative Karma Through Their Sins.

以色列人，居住在一塊最肥沃的土地，一年有兩次莊稼收成，擁有極多的羊群，由於他們的罪而捲入了負面的因果報應上。

2 Karmic Law Inflicted Upon Them A Terrible Punishment By Taking Away Their Land, Their Flocks, And All They Possessed; And Israel Was Reduced To Slavery By Rich And Powerful Pharaohs Who Then Reigned In Egypt.

業報法則使他們受到了可怕的懲罰，他們的土地、他們的羊群，還有他們所有的財產都被奪去；以色列人淪為奴隸，受到有錢人和當時統治埃及的有權勢的法老奴役。

3 The Latter Treated The Israelites More Cruelly Than Animals, Loading Them With The Roughest Labor; They Covered Their Bodies With Bruises And Wounds, And Denied Them Food And Shelter.

法老對待以色列人被對待動物更殘酷，粗暴地強迫他們勞動；他們都被弄得遍體鱗傷，也得不到食物和住處。

4 They Were Kept In A State Of Continual Terror And Robbed Of All Semblance Of Humanity.

他們處於一種持續不斷的恐懼中，也被奪去了人的尊嚴。

5 In Their Dire Distress, The Children Of Israel, Remembering Their Heavenly Parents, Addressed Their Prayers To Them And Implored Their Assistance And Mercy.

以色列的兒女們（希伯萊人）在他們可怕的不幸中，記起了他們天上的父母，向他們禱告，祈求他們給予慈悲和援助。

6 An Illustrious Pharaoh Then Reigned In Egypt, Who Had Become Celebrated For His Numerous Victories, The Great Riches He Had Amassed, And The Vast Palaces Which His Slaves Had Erected With Their Own Hands.

一位傑出的法老那時統治著埃及，由於他無數的勝利而變得著名。他積聚了巨大的財富，奴隸們用他們的雙手為他建立起遼闊的宮殿。

 7 This Pharaoh Had Two Sons, The Younger Of Whom Was Called Moshe; And The Learned Israelites Taught Him Diverse Sciences.

這位法老有兩個兒子，較年幼的就叫做穆薩（注：即是摩西，《可蘭經》也把摩西稱為穆薩）；有學問的以色列人教導了他各種不同的科學知識。

8 Moshe Was Beloved Throughout The Land Of Egypt For His Goodness And The Compassion He Displayed For Them That Suffered.

穆薩由於他的善良和仁慈，在整片埃及的土地中深受喜愛。他向他們顯示出受到的那種痛苦。

9 Seeing This, Notwithstanding The Intolerable Sufferings They Endured, The Israelites Refused To Abandon Their Religion To Worship The Manmade Creations Which Were The Idols Of Many Of The Egyptians.

儘管以色列人忍受著難以忍受的痛苦，他們卻拒絕放棄他們自己的宗教，而去崇拜埃及人那些人為創造的眾多偶像。

10 Moshe Believed In Their Invisible Deity, Who Did Not Allow Their Flagging Strength To Fａｌ ｔｅｒ.

穆薩相信他們無形的神，不允許他們衰退（退轉），從而加速了他們的動搖。

11 The Israelite Teachers Encouraged Moshe's Ardor And Had Recourse To Him, Begging Him To Intercede With Pharaoh, His Father, In Favor Of His Fellow Believers.

以色列的導師們被穆薩的熱情所鼓舞，求助於他，懇求他去與他的父親，法老王 進行調解，勸說法老善待他的信徒同伴。

12 Prince Moshe Pleaded With His Father To Soften The Lot Of These Unhappy People, But Pharaoh Became Angry With Him And Only Imposed More Hardships Upon His Slaves.

穆薩王子勸說他的父親要溫和地對待這些不幸的人，然而法老卻對他變得狂怒起來，還對奴隸們更加苛刻。

13 It Came To Pass, Not Long After, That A Great Calamity Fell Upon Egypt; The Plague Decimated The Young And The Old, The Strong And The Sick; And Pharaoh Believed He Had Incurred The Wrath Of His Own Deities Against Him.

不久以後，一場極大的災難降臨到埃及身上；瘟疫奪去了大批年青人和老年人，健壯者和體弱者的生命；法老認為是他已經招致了眾神的憤怒，眾神起來反對他。

14 The Prince Moshe ｄｅ ｃｌａｒｅd To His Father That It Was The Aumen Of His Slaves Who Was Interfering In Favor Of This One’s Unhappy People,And Punishing The Egyptians.

穆薩王子向他父親聲稱，是他的奴隸們的奧曼（注：Aumen，個人認為有可能其詞源上是與印度教阿特曼（Atman），即靈魂的複數形式），為了善待不幸的人，懲罰埃及人而進行干預。

15 Pharaoh Commanded Moshe, His Son, To Gather All The Slaves Of Jewish Race, To Lead Them Away To A Great Distance From The Capital And Found Another City, Where He Should Remain With Them.

法老命令他的兒子穆薩，把所有猶太族的奴隸聚集起來，把他們帶到一個遠離埃及首都的地方，去建立另一個城市。他在那裡仍然會跟他們在一起。

16 Moshe Announced To The Hebrew Slaves That He Had Delivered Them In The Name Of Their Aumen, The Deity Of Israel; And He Went With Them Out Of The Land Of Egypt.

穆薩向希伯萊的奴隸們宣告，他會以他們的奧曼，以色列之神的名義帶他們離開，並且會跟他們一起離開埃及這片土地。

17 He Therefore Led Them Into The Land They Had Lost Through Their Many Sins.

從而，他帶領他們穿越了很多的罪，進入了他們已經失去了的土地。

18 Moshe And Zipporah Gave Them Laws And Enjoined On Them To Always Pray To The Invisible Creator Whose Goodness Is Infinite.

穆薩和西坡拉（Zipporah）頒給了他們律法，囑咐他們要時常向無限慈悲，無形的創造者禱告。

19 At The Death Of The Prince Moshe And Zipporah, The Israelites Rigorously Observed Their Laws, And Aumen Recompensed Them For The Wrongs They Had Suffered In Egypt.

穆薩王子和西坡拉去世後，以色列人嚴厲地遵守他們的律法，奧曼對他們在埃及所犯的過失進行了報償。

20 Their Country Became The Most Powerful In All The World; Their Royal Ones Gained Renown For Their Treasures; And A Long Period Of Peace Prevailed Among The Children Of Israel.

他們的國家成為了世界上最強大的國家；他們的帝王因他們的財寶而得到了名望；希伯萊人裡面持續了一段較長時間的和平。