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。
Love the Lord your God and do everything he says—his rules, regulations, and commandments.
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，
You should realize that it's not your children who have experienced the Lord your God's discipline. It was you who saw his greatness, his power and strength;
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. You saw what he did to Pharaoh king of Egypt and his whole country.
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；
You saw what he did to the Egyptian army and its horses and chariots when he swept them away in the Red Sea, drowning them as they chased after you. The story hasn't changed!
5 並且在曠野裏給你們作了什麼，直到你們來到此地；
You saw what he did for you in the desert until you arrived here.
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；
You saw what he did, right there among you, to Dothan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab of the tribe of Reuben, when the earth split open and swallowed them down—their families, their tents, and all their animals.
7 而且你們親眼見過上主所做的一切偉大作為。
You saw with your own eyes all the amazing things that the Lord has done.
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，
So you must keep every commandment I am giving you today That way you will have the strength to enter and take over the country that you are crossing the Jordan to have as your own,
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。
You will also have long lives in the country that the Lord promised to give your forefathers and their descendants, 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；
The country you're entering to occupy isn't like the country of Egypt that you've come from. There you had to sow your seed and work hard irrigating the ground, like taking care of a vegetable garden.
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 here in the country that you are crossing the Jordan to take over is a land of mountains and valleys that receives plenty of rain
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。
It is a land that the Lord your God takes care of. The Lord your God it is always watching over it, all year long.
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，
So if you pay careful attention to keep the commandments I'm giving you today, if you love the Lord your God and to worship with all your mind and with all your being,
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 I will send rain for your land at the right time, rain in autumn and spring, so that you can harvest your grain, new wine, and olive oil.
15 也必使田野給你的牲畜生出青草；如此你必能吃飽。
I will also provide grass in the fields for your livestock. You will have more than enough to eat.
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，
But make sure you're not that you're not fooled into worshiping and bowing down to other gods,
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。
or the Lord will become angry with you. He won't send any rain, and the land won't produce any crops, and you will soon die, even in the good land that the Lord is giving 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。
Focus your minds on the words that I'm saying. Tie them on your hands as reminders and put them on your foreheads as well.
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；
Teach them to your children and talk about them when you're at home and when you're traveling, when you lie down and when you get up.
20 還應刻在你房屋的門框和門扇上，
Write them on the doorposts of your homes 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。
so that as long as the earth lasts, you and your children may have long lives in the country the Lord promised to give your forefathers.
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，
If you are careful to keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow, if you love the Lord your God and follow all his ways, and hold onto 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 will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will take over the country from nations that are greater and stronger than you.
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。
Everywhere you walk will belong to you. Your territory will extend from the desert all the way to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea.
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 will be able to withstand you; the Lord your God will make everyone living there absolutely terrified of you wherever you go, just as he promised you.
26 你看，我今天將祝福和詛咒，擺在你們面前：
Look! Today I'm placing before you both a blessing and a 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；
You will receive a blessing if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I'm giving you today.
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。
But you will receive a curse if you disobey the commandments of the Lord your God and don't keep to the path I'm ordering you to follow today by worshiping some other unknown gods.
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。──
When the Lord your God takes you into the country you are going in to occupy, announce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
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。
(These mountains are to the west of the Jordan, in the country of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah near Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh.)
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，
Shortly you're going to cross the Jordan to enter and occupy the country the Lord your God is giving you. When you take it over and settle there,
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。
make sure you follow all the rules and regulations that I'm giving you today.
