申命記 8
1 我今日吩咐你的一切誡命，你們應謹守遵行，好使你們生存，人數增多，能去佔領上主向你們的祖先所誓許的地方。
You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.
2 你當記念上主你的天主使你這四十年在曠野中所走的路程，是為磨難你，試探你，願知道你的心懷，是否願遵守他的誡命。
Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
3 他磨難了你，使你感到饑餓，卻以你和你祖先所不認識的「瑪納，」養育了你，叫你知道人生活不但靠食物，而且也靠上主口中所發的一切言語生活。
He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
4 這四十年來，你身上的衣服沒有穿破，你的腳也沒有腫。
Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.
5 為此，你要明瞭：上主你的天主管教你，如人管教自己的兒子一樣；
So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
6 所以你當謹守上主你天主的誡命，遵行他的道路，敬畏他。
Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, walking in His ways and fearing Him.
7 因為上主你的天主快要領你進入肥美的土地，那裏有溪流，有泉水，有深淵之水由谷中和山中流出；
For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
8 那地出產小麥、大麥、葡萄、無花果和石榴；那地出產橄欖、油和蜂蜜；
a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
9 在那地你決不缺糧吃，在那裏你將一無所缺；那地方的石頭是鐵，由山中可以採銅。
a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.
10 幾時你吃飽了，應感謝上主你的天主，因為是他賜給你這樣肥美的土地。
When you eat and are satisfied, you are to bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you.
11 你應小心，別忘記上主你的天主，而不遵守我今天吩咐你的誡命、規則和法令。
Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day.
12 當你吃飽了，建造了華美房屋居住，
Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
13 牛群羊群加多，金銀增加，你所有的一切都增加了，
and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,
14 你要小心，不要心高氣傲，以致忘記了由埃及地，由為奴之家，領你出來的上主你的天主，
then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
15 是他領你經過了遼闊可怖，有火蛇蝎子的曠野，經過了乾旱無水之地；是他使水由堅硬的磐石中為你流出，
He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.
16 是他在曠野內，以你祖先不認識的「瑪納」養育了你；他這樣磨難你，試探你，終究是為使你獲得幸福。
He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
17 你心裏不要想：「這是我的力量，我手臂的能力，給我造就了這樣的財富。」
You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
18 你應記得上主你的天主，因為是他賜給你得財富的能力，為實踐他對你祖先起誓訂立的盟約，就如今日一樣。
But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.
19 如果你真忘記了上主你的天主，而隨從別的神，奉事敬拜他們，我今日對你們作證：你們必要滅亡，
If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.
20 上主怎樣由你們面前毀滅了那些民族，你們也要怎樣遭受毀滅，因為你們沒有聽從上主你們天主的聲音。
Like the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.
