申命記 29
1 這是上主在曷勒布山與以色列子民訂立的盟約以外，在摩阿布地方吩咐梅瑟同以色列子民訂立盟約的言辭。
These [are] the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Choreb.
2 梅瑟將所有的以色列人召來，對他們說：你們親自看見了上主當著你們的面，在埃及地對法郎，對他的臣僕，對他全國所做的一切，
And Moses called all the sons of Israel and said to them, You have seen all things that the Lord did in the land of Egypt before you to Pharao and his servants, and all his land;
3 那些驚人的折磨、神蹟和偉大的奇事，你們都親眼看見過。
the great temptations which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders.
4 但是，直到今天，上主還沒有給你們一顆能明瞭的心，能看見的眼，能聽見的耳。
Yet the Lord God has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.
5 我在曠野四十年之久領導你們，你們身上的衣服沒有穿壞，腳上的鞋也沒有穿破；
And he led you forty years in the wilderness; your garments did not grow old, and your sandals were not worn away off your feet.
6 當時你們沒有吃糧食，也沒有喝清酒醇酒，這是要你們知道，我上主是你們的天主。
You did not eat bread, you did not drink wine or strong drink, that you might know that I [am] the Lord your God.
7 你們一來到此地，赫市朋王息紅和巴商王敖格出來與我們交戰，我們擊敗了他們，
And you came as far as this place; and there came forth Seon king of Esebon, and Og king of Basan, to meet us in war.
8 佔領了他們的土地，分給了勒烏本人和加得人以及默納協半個支派作產業。
And we struck them and took their land, and I gave it for an inheritance to Ruben and Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasse.
9 所以你們應謹守遵行這盟約的話，好使你們在所做的一切事上，都能順利。
And you shall take heed to do all the words of this covenant, that you may understand all things that you shall do.
10 今天你們全都站在上主你們的天主面前，──你們的首領、族長、長老、官長、和以色列所有的男子，
You all stand today before the Lord your God, the heads of your tribes, and your elders, and your judges, and your officers, every man of Israel,
11 你們的幼小和妻子，以及在你營中的外方人，從為你砍柴到為你汲水的人，──
your wives, and your children, and the stranger who is in the midst of your camp, from your hewer of wood even to your drawer of water,
12 都來同上主你的天主締結盟約。即上主你的天主今天與你所立附有詛咒的誓約，
that you should enter into the covenant of the Lord your God and into his oaths, as many as the Lord your God appoints you this day;
13 好叫他今天，有如他向你所許過的，有如他向你祖先亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯所誓許的：立你做他的人民，他做你的天主。
that he may appoint you to himself for a people, and he shall be your God, as he said to you, and as he sware to your fathers, Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob.
14 我不但與你們立這約和這誓，
And I do not appoint to you alone this covenant and this oath;
15 而且也與那些今天與我們同站在上主我們的天主面前的人，和那些今天不與我們同在這裏的人立約。
but to those also who are here with you today before the Lord your God, and to those who are not here with you today.
16 你們清楚知道，我們怎樣在埃及地住過，怎樣由一些民族中間走過；
For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, how we came through the midst of the nations through whom you came.
17 你們也見過他們的醜惡之物和他們那裏所有的木、石、金、銀的偶像。
And you saw their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which are among them.
18 惟願在你們中沒有一個男人或女人，或家族，或支派，今日存心遠離上主我們的天主，去奉事這些民族的神；惟願在他們中沒有一根生出毒草和苦艾的根子，
Lest there be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart has turned aside from the Lord your God, having gone to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be in you a root springing up with gall and bitterness.
19 以致有人在聽了這咒誓之後心中慶幸說：「我雖隨心所欲地行事，仍平安無事。」這要使濕地與乾地同歸於盡。
And it shall be if one shall hear the words of this curse, and shall flatter himself in his heart, saying, Let good happen to me, for I will walk in the error of my heart, lest the sinner destroy the guiltless with [him]:
20 上主決不肯寬恕他；上主的烈怒和憤恨必向這人發作，這書上載的一切詛咒都要降在他身上，上主必由天下抹去他的名字。
God shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the wrath of the Lord and his jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this covenant shall attach themselves to him, which are written in this book, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.
21 上主將把他由以色列各支派中分出，照這法律書上所載的一切詛咒，使他遭受災禍。
And the Lord shall separate that man for evil of all the children of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in the book of this law.
22 未來的一代，即繼你們而興起的子孫，和遠地來的外方人，見了這地的災禍和上主所降的災殃，
And another generation shall say—even your sons who shall rise up after you, and the stranger who shall come from a land afar off, and shall see the plagues of that land and their diseases, which the Lord has sent upon it,
23 見了硫磺、鹽鹵和被焚毀的整個地區，不能耕種，沒有出產，寸草不生，正如上主在忿怒和氣憤中消滅的索多瑪、哈摩辣、阿瑪得和責波殷所受的破壞一樣，
brimstone and burning salt, (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green thing spring, nor rise upon it, as Sodom and Gomorrha were overthrown, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord overthrew in his wrath and anger: )—
24 各民族要問說：「為什麼上主這樣對待了這地﹖這盛怒為何如此猛烈﹖」
and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? what [is] this great fierceness of anger?
25 人必回答說：「這是因為他們離棄了上主他們祖先的天主，領他們出埃及地時，與他們所締結的盟約，
And [men] shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, the things which he appointed to their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt:
26 而去事奉了其他的神，叩拜了他們素不認識，沒有給他們指定的神；
and they went and served other gods, which they knew not, neither did he assign [them] to them.
27 上主於是向這地大發忿怒，使這書上記載的一切詛咒都降在這地上。
And the Lord was exceedingly angry with that land to bring upon it according to all the curses which are written in the book of this law.
28 上主遂在忿怒激忿和烈怒中，將他們由本地拔除，拋棄在異國，就像今天一樣。」
And the Lord removed them from their land in anger, and wrath, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land as at present.
29 隱密的事，屬於上主我們的天主，已啟示的事，卻永遠與我們和我們的子孫有關，為叫我們實行這法律上的一切話。
The secret things [belong] to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed [belong] to us and to our children for ever, to do all the words of this law.
