申命記 6
1 以下是上主你們的天主吩咐我教給你們的誡命、法令和規則，叫你們在過河後去佔領的地內遵行，
These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,
2 好使你和你的子子孫孫，終生日日敬畏上主你的天主，遵守我吩咐你的一切法令和誡命，使你獲享長壽。
so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged.
3 以色列! 你要聽，且謹守遵行，好使你在流奶流蜜的地方，獲得幸福，人數增多，如上主你祖先的天主所許給你的。
Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
4 以色列! 你要聽：上主我們的天主，是唯一的上主。
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.
5 你當全心、全靈、全力，愛上主你的天主。
And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
6 我今天吩咐你的這些話，你應牢記在心，
These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.
7 並將這些話灌輸給你的子女。不論你住在家裏，或在路上行走，或臥或立，常應講論這些話；
And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
8 又該繫在你的手上，當作標記；懸在額上，當作徽號；
Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
9 刻在你住宅的門框上和門扇上。
Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
10 上主你的天主，幾時領你進入他向你的祖先亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯起誓，要賜給你的地方，那裏有高大壯觀的城邑，而不是你所建造的；
And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
11 有充滿各樣寶物的住宅，而不是你裝滿的；有蓄水池，而不是你挖掘的；有葡萄園和橄欖樹林，而不是你栽植的；──當你吃飽時，
with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,
12 你應留心，不要忘了領你由埃及地，為奴之家，出來的上主。
be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
13 你要敬畏上主你的天主，只事奉他，只以他的名起誓。
Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.
14 不可追隨別的神，即你們四周民族的神，
Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.
15 因為在你中間的上主你的天主，是忌邪的天主，免得上主你的天主發怒，將你由地上消滅。
For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.
16 你們不可試探上主你們的天主，如同在瑪撒試探了他一樣。
Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.
17 應謹慎遵守上主你們天主所吩咐你的誡命、教訓和法令。
You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has given you.
18 應做上主眼中視為正義和美善的事，使你能獲得幸福，能去佔領上主誓許與你祖先的那塊肥美的土地，
Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,
19 能由你面前驅逐你的一切仇敵，如上主所應許的。
driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.
20 假使日後你的兒子問你說：「上主我們的天主吩咐你們的這些教訓、法令和規則，究竟有什麼意思﹖」
In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”
21 你應對你的兒子說：我們曾在埃及作過法郎的奴隸，上主卻以大能的手將我們由埃及領了出來。
then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
22 上主在我們的眼前，對埃及，對法郎和他全家，行了轟轟烈烈的神蹟和奇事；
Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household.
23 將我們從那裏領出來，領我們進入他誓許給我們的祖先，要賜給我們的土地。
But He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land that He had sworn to our fathers.
24 那時，上主吩咐我們遵行這一切法令，為敬畏上主我們的天主，為使我們時時得享幸福，得保生命，就如今日一樣。
And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, that we may always be prosperous and preserved, as we are to this day.
25 我們在上主我們的天主面前，照他所吩咐我們的，謹慎遵行這一切誡命，就是我們的義德。
And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.”
