申命记 8
1 “我今日所吩咐的一切诫命，你们要谨守遵行，好叫你们存活，人数增多，且进去得耶和华向你们列祖起誓应许的那地。
Ye shall observe to do all the commands which I charge you to-day, that ye may live and be multiplied, and enter in and inherit the land, which the Lord your God sware [to give] to your fathers.
2 你也要记念耶和华—你的 神在旷野引导你这四十年，是要苦炼你，试验你，要知道你心内如何，肯守他的诫命不肯。
And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee in the wilderness, that he might afflict thee, and try thee, and that the things in thine heart might be made manifest, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no.
3 他苦炼你，任你饥饿，将你和你列祖所不认识的吗哪赐给你吃，使你知道，人活着不是单靠食物，乃是靠耶和华口里所出的一切话。
And he afflicted thee and straitened thee with hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might teach thee that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God shall man live.
4 这四十年，你的衣服没有穿破，你的脚也没有肿。
Thy garments grew not old from off thee, thy shoes were not worn from off thee, thy feet were not [painfully] hardened, lo! these forty years.
5 你当心里思想，耶和华—你 神管教你，好像人管教儿子一样。
And thou shalt know in thine heart, that as if any man should chasten his son, so the Lord thy God will chasten thee.
6 你要谨守耶和华—你 神的诫命，遵行他的道，敬畏他。
And thou shalt keep the commands of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
7 因为耶和华—你 神领你进入美地，那地有河，有泉，有源，从山谷中流出水来。
For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good and extensive land, where there are torrents of waters, and fountains of deep places issuing through the plains and through the mountains:
8 那地有小麦、大麦、葡萄树、无花果树、石榴树、橄榄树，和蜜。
a land of wheat and barley, [wherein are] vines, figs, pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
9 你在那地不缺食物，一无所缺。那地的石头是铁，山内可以挖铜。
a land on which thou shalt not eat thy bread with poverty, and thou shalt not want any thing upon it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of its mountains thou shalt dig brass.
10 你吃得饱足，就要称颂耶和华—你的 神，因他将那美地赐给你了。”
And thou shalt eat and be filled, and shalt bless the Lord thy God on the good land, which he has given thee.
11 “你要谨慎，免得忘记耶和华—你的 神，不守他的诫命、典章、律例，就是我今日所吩咐你的；
Take heed to thyself that thou forget not the Lord thy God, so as not to keep his commands, and his judgments, and ordinances, which I command thee this day:
12 恐怕你吃得饱足，建造美好的房屋居住，
lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them;
13 你的牛羊加多，你的金银增添，并你所有的全都加增，
and thy oxen and thy sheep are multiplied to thee, and thy silver and thy gold are multiplied to thee, and all thy possessions are multiplied to thee,
14 你就心高气傲，忘记耶和华—你的 神，就是将你从埃及地为奴之家领出来的，
thou shouldest be exalted in heart, and forget the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage:
15 引你经过那大而可怕的旷野，那里有火蛇、蝎子、干旱无水之地。他曾为你使水从坚硬的磐石中流出来，
who brought thee through that great and terrible wilderness, where [is] the biting serpent, and scorpion, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee a fountain of water out of the flinty rock:
16 又在旷野将你列祖所不认识的吗哪赐给你吃，是要苦炼你，试验你，叫你终久享福；
who fed thee with manna in the wilderness, which thou knewest not, and thy fathers knew not; that he might afflict thee, and thoroughly try thee, and do thee good in thy latter days.
17 恐怕你心里说：‘这货财是我力量、我能力得来的。’
Lest thou shouldest say in thine heart, My strength, and the power of mine hand have wrought for me this great wealth.
18 你要记念耶和华—你的 神，因为得货财的力量是他给你的，为要坚定他向你列祖起誓所立的约，像今日一样。
But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, that he gives thee strength to get wealth; even that he may establish his covenant, which the Lord sware to thy fathers, as at this day.
19 你若忘记耶和华—你的 神，随从别神，事奉敬拜，你们必定灭亡；这是我今日警戒你们的。
And it shall come to pass if thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, and shouldest go after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall surely perish.
20 耶和华在你们面前怎样使列国的民灭亡，你们也必照样灭亡，因为你们不听从耶和华—你们 神的话。”
As also the other nations which the Lord God destroys before your face, so shall ye perish, because ye hearkened not to the voice of the Lord your God.
