申命記 11
1 你應愛上主你的天主，天天遵守他的訓令、法律、規則和誡命。
Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and shall observe his appointments, and his ordinances, and his commandments, and his judgements, always.
2 今天你們應知道：你們的子孫並沒有見過，也沒有經歷過上主你們天主的懲戒、偉大強力的手和伸展的臂，
And you shall know this day; for [I speak] not to your children, who know not and have not seen the discipline of the Lord your God, and his wonderful works, and his strong hand, and his high arm,
3 以及他在埃及對埃及王法郎及其全國所行的神蹟和奇事；
and his miracles, and his wonders, which he wrought in the midst of Egypt on Pharao king of Egypt, and all his land;
4 他如何對待了埃及的軍隊、戰馬和車輛；當他們追趕你們時，上主怎樣使紅海的水淹沒了他們，將他們消滅，直到今日；
and what he did to the host of the Egyptians, and to their chariots, and their cavalry, and their host; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overwhelm the face of them as they pursued after you, and the Lord destroyed them until this day;
5 並且在曠野裏給你們作了什麼，直到你們來到此地；
and all the things which he did to you in the wilderness until you came into this place;
6 他怎樣對待了勒烏本的後裔厄里雅布的兒子達堂和阿彼蘭，地怎樣裂開了口，在全以色列中間吞沒了他們同他們的眷屬，帳棚以及屬他們的一切；
and all the things that he did to Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab the son of Ruben, whom the earth opening her mouth swallowed up, and their houses, and their tents, and all their substance that was with them, in the midst of all Israel:
7 而且你們親眼見過上主所做的一切偉大作為。
for your eyes have seen all the mighty works of the Lord, which he wrought amongst you today.
8 所以你們應該遵守我今日吩咐你們的一切誡命，好能有力量去佔領你們過河要去佔領的地方，
And you shall keep all his commandments, as many as I command you today, that you may live, and be multiplied, and that you may go in and inherit the land, into which you go across Jordan to inherit it:
9 並在上主向你們祖先誓許要給他們和他們後裔的地方，即流奶流蜜的地方，得享長壽。
that you may live long upon the land, which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to them, and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10 因為你要去佔領的地方，不像你們出來的埃及地，在那裏你撒了種，還要用腳灌溉，像灌溉菜園一樣；
For the land into which you go to inherit it, is not as the land of Egypt, whence you came out, whenever they sow the seed, and water it with their feet, as a garden of herbs:
11 但你們過河去佔領的地方，卻是一個有山有谷，有天上的雨水所滋潤的地方，
but the land into which you go to inherit it, is a land of mountains and plains; it shall drink water of the rain of heaven.
12 是上主你的天主自己照管的地方，是上主你的天主，自年首至年尾，時常注目眷視的地方。
A land which the Lord your God surveys continually, the eyes of the Lord your God are upon it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
13 如果你們真聽從我今日吩咐你們的誡命，愛上主你們的天主，全心全靈事奉他，
Now if you will indeed listen to all the commands which I charge you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul,
14 他必按時給你們的土地降下時雨，秋雨和春雨；必使你豐收五穀、新酒和新油；
then he shall give to your land the early and latter rain in its season, and you shall bring in your corn, and your wine, and your oil.
15 也必使田野給你的牲畜生出青草；如此你必能吃飽。
And he shall give food in your fields to your cattle; and when you have eaten and are full,
16 你們應謹慎，免得你們的心受迷惑，離棄正道，去事奉敬拜其他的神，
take heed to yourself that your heart be not puffed up, and you transgress, and serve other gods, and worship them:
17 叫上主對你們發怒，使蒼天封閉，雨不下降，地不生產，你們必由上主賜給你們的肥美土地上迅速滅亡。
and the Lord be angry with you, and restrain the heaven; and there shall not be rain, and the earth shall not yield its fruit, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land, which the Lord has given you.
18 你們應將我這些話銘刻在你們的心靈上，繫在你們的手上，當作標記；懸在你們的額上，當作徽號。
And you shall store these words in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and it shall be fixed before your eyes.
19 應將這些話教給你們的子孫，不論住在家裏，或在路上行走，或臥或立，不斷地講述；
And you shall teach them to your children, so as to speak about them when you sit in the house, and when you walk by the way, and when you sleep, and when you rise up.
20 還應刻在你房屋的門框和門扇上，
And you shall write them on the lintels of your houses, and on your gates;
21 好使你們和你們子孫的歲月，在上主誓許給你們祖先的土地上，如天覆地之久長。
that your days may be long, and the days of your children, upon the land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
22 如果你們謹慎遵守我吩咐你們遵行的這一切誡命，愛上主你們的天主，履行他的一切道路．一心依賴他，
And it shall come to pass that if you will indeed listen to all these commands, which I charge you to observe this day, to love the Lord our God, and to walk in all his ways, and to cleave close to him;
23 上主必由你們面前將這一切民族驅逐，使你們能征服比你們更強大的民族。
then the Lord shall cast out all these nations before you, and you shall inherit great nations and stronger than yourselves.
24 凡你們的腳掌所踏之地，都必成為你們的；由曠野直到黎巴嫩，由大河，即幼發拉的河直到西海，是你們的疆界。
Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be your; from the wilderness and Antilibanus, and from the great river, the river Euphrates, even as far as the west sea shall be your coasts.
25 沒有人能對抗你們，上主你們的天主必照他對你們所許的，將害怕和畏懼你們的心情，散佈在你們所要踏進的地面。
No one shall stand before you; and the Lord your God will put the fear of you and the dread of you on the face of all the land, on which you shall tread, as he told you.
26 你看，我今天將祝福和詛咒，擺在你們面前：
Behold, I set before you this day the blessing and the curse;
27 如果你們聽從上主你們天主的誡命，就是我今天吩咐你們的，你們必蒙祝福；
the blessing, if you listen to the commands of the Lord your God, all that I command you this day;
28 如果你們不聽從上主你們天主的誡命，離棄我今天吩咐你們的道路，去跟隨你們素不相識的其他神祇，必遭詛咒。
and the curse, if you do not listen to the commands of the Lord our God, as many as I command you this day, and you wander from the way which I have commanded you, having gone to serve other gods, which you know not.
29 幾時上主你的天主領你進入你要去佔領的地方，你應在革黎斤山上宣佈祝福，在厄巴耳山上宣佈詛咒。──
And it shall come to pass when the Lord your God shall have brought you into the land into which you go over to inherit it, then you shall put blessing on mount Garizin, and the curse upon mount Gaebal.
30 這兩座位於約但河西，日落之處，在居於阿辣巴荒野的客納罕人的境內，與基耳加耳相對，靠近摩勒橡樹。
Behold! are not these beyond Jordan, behind, westward in the land of Chanaan, which lies westward near Golgol, by the high oak?
31 你們就快要過約但河，去佔領上主你們的天主賜給你們的土地。當你們佔領了那地，居住在那裏時，
For you are passing over Jordan, to go in and inherit the land, which the Lord our God gives you to inherit always, and you shall dwell in it.
32 你們應謹慎遵行我今天在你們面前所頒佈的一切法令和規則。
And you shall take heed to do all his ordinances, and these judgements, as many as I set before you today.
