< 申命记 7 >
1 “耶和华—你 神领你进入要得为业之地,从你面前赶出许多国民,就是赫人、革迦撒人、亚摩利人、迦南人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人,共七国的民,都比你强大。
When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
2 耶和华—你 神将他们交给你击杀,那时你要把他们灭绝净尽,不可与他们立约,也不可怜恤他们。
And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, [and] utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
3 不可与他们结亲。不可将你的女儿嫁他们的儿子,也不可叫你的儿子娶他们的女儿;
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
4 因为他必使你儿子转离不跟从主,去事奉别神,以致耶和华的怒气向你们发作,就速速地将你们灭绝。
For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
5 你们却要这样待他们:拆毁他们的祭坛,打碎他们的柱像,砍下他们的木偶,用火焚烧他们雕刻的偶像。
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
6 因为你归耶和华—你 神为圣洁的民;耶和华—你 神从地上的万民中拣选你,特作自己的子民。
For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that [are] upon the face of the earth.
7 “耶和华专爱你们,拣选你们,并非因你们的人数多于别民,原来你们的人数在万民中是最少的。
The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye [were] the fewest of all people:
8 只因耶和华爱你们,又因要守他向你们列祖所起的誓,就用大能的手领你们出来,从为奴之家救赎你们脱离埃及王法老的手。
But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 所以,你要知道耶和华—你的 神,他是 神,是信实的 神;向爱他、守他诫命的人守约,施慈爱,直到千代;
Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he [is] God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
10 向恨他的人当面报应他们,将他们灭绝。凡恨他的人必报应他们,决不迟延。
And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
11 所以,你要谨守遵行我今日所吩咐你的诫命、律例、典章。”
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
12 “你们果然听从这些典章,谨守遵行,耶和华—你 神就必照他向你列祖所起的誓守约,施慈爱。
Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
13 他必爱你,赐福与你,使你人数增多,也必在他向你列祖起誓应许给你的地上赐福与你身所生的,地所产的,并你的五谷、新酒,和油,以及牛犊、羊羔。
And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
14 你必蒙福胜过万民;你们的男女没有不能生养的,牲畜也没有不能生育的。
Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
15 耶和华必使一切的病症离开你;你所知道埃及各样的恶疾,他不加在你身上,只加在一切恨你的人身上。
And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all [them] that hate thee.
16 耶和华—你 神所要交给你的一切人民,你要将他们除灭;你眼不可顾惜他们。你也不可事奉他们的神,因这必成为你的网罗。
And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare unto thee.
17 “你若心里说,这些国的民比我更多,我怎能赶出他们呢?
If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations [are] more than I; how can I dispossess them?
18 你不要惧怕他们,要牢牢记念耶和华—你 神向法老和埃及全地所行的事,
Thou shalt not be afraid of them: [but] shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
19 就是你亲眼所看见的大试验、神迹、奇事,和大能的手,并伸出来的膀臂,都是耶和华—你 神领你出来所用的。耶和华—你 神必照样待你所惧怕的一切人民。
The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
20 并且耶和华—你 神必打发黄蜂飞到他们中间,直到那剩下而藏躲的人从你面前灭亡。
Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
21 你不要因他们惊恐,因为耶和华—你 神在你们中间是大而可畏的 神。
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God [is] among you, a mighty God and terrible.
22 耶和华—你 神必将这些国的民从你面前渐渐赶出;你不可把他们速速灭尽,恐怕野地的兽多起来害你。
And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
23 耶和华—你 神必将他们交给你,大大地扰乱他们,直到他们灭绝了;
But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
24 又要将他们的君王交在你手中,你就使他们的名从天下消灭。必无一人能在你面前站立得住,直到你将他们灭绝了。
And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
25 他们雕刻的神像,你们要用火焚烧;其上的金银,你不可贪图,也不可收取,免得你因此陷入网罗;这原是耶和华—你 神所憎恶的。
The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold [that is] on them, nor take [it] unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it [is] an abomination to the LORD thy God.
26 可憎的物,你不可带进家去;不然,你就成了当毁灭的,与那物一样。你要十分厌恶,十分憎嫌,因为这是当毁灭的物。”
Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: [but] thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it [is] a cursed thing.