Deuteronomy 4
1 Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
以色列! 現在你要聽我教訓你們的法令和規律，盡力遵行：這樣你們纔能生活，纔能進入佔領，上主你們祖先的天主賜給你們的地方。
2 You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.
我吩咐你們的話，你們不可增刪，而應全守我向你們所訓示的，上主你們天主的誡命。
3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.
你們親眼見了上主在巴耳培敖爾所做的事：凡隨從巴耳培敖爾的人，上主你們的天主都由你們中間消滅了；
4 But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive to this day, every one of you.
你們依附上主你們的天主的人，今日都還活著。
5 See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
看，我授與你們法令和規律，都是上主我的天主吩咐與我的，好叫你們在你們要去佔領的土地內，依照遵行。
6 Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
你們要謹守遵行，因為這樣，在萬民眼中，纔能顯出你們的智慧和見識；他們一聽到這一切法令說：「這實在是一個有智慧，有見識的大民族! 」
7 For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?
有那個大民族的神這樣接近他們，如同上主我們的天主，在我們每次呼求他時，這樣親近我們呢﹖
8 And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?
又有那個大民族，有這樣公正的法令和規律，如同我今天在你們面前，所頒佈的這一切法律呢﹖
9 Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
你應謹慎，加意留心，不要忘了你親眼所見的奇事，終生日日不要讓這些事遠離你的心，並要將這一切傳於你的子子孫孫。
10 The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”
當你在曷勒布，站在上主你的天主面前的那一天，上主曾對我說：「你給我召集民眾，我要叫他們聽清我的話，使他們在世有生之日，學習敬畏我，以此教訓自己的子女。」
11 You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.
你們遂走上前來，站在山腳下，其時山上火燄沖天，且為黑暗和烏雲籠罩著。
12 And the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of the words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.
上主由火中對你們說話，你們聽到說話的聲音，卻見不到什麼形狀，只有聲音。
13 He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.
他將他的盟約，即那十條誡命，給你們宣布出來，吩咐你們遵守，又將這誡命寫在兩塊石版上；
14 At that time the LORD commanded me to teach you the statutes and ordinances you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
同時上主也吩咐我將法令和規律教訓你們．叫你們在要去佔領的土地內遵行。
15 So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful
你們應極其謹慎：因為上主你們的天主，在曷勒布由火中對你們說話的那天，你們既然沒有見到什麼形狀，
16 that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,
那麼，你們切不要墮落，為自己製造任何形狀的神像，無論是男或者是女的形狀，
17 of any beast that is on the earth or bird that flies in the air,
或地上各種走獸的形狀，或空中各類飛鳥的形狀，
18 or of any creature that crawls on the ground or fish that is in the waters below.
或地上任何爬蟲的形狀，或地下水裏各種魚類的形狀。
19 When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
當你舉目望天，觀看日月星辰，和天上的眾星宿時，切不要為之勾引，而去敬拜事奉。那原是上主，你的天主分賜給普天下萬民享用的；
20 Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.
至於你們，上主揀選了你們，將你們由鐵爐中──埃及──領出來，作他特有的子民，就如今日一樣。
21 The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
可是，上主為了你們的緣故，對我發怒起誓，不讓我過約但河，不許我進入，上主你的天主賜給你作產業的那肥美的土地；
22 For I will not be crossing the Jordan, because I must die in this land. But you shall cross over and take possession of that good land.
我只有死在這地方，不得過約但河；你們都要過去，佔領那肥美的土地為產業，
23 Be careful that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden you.
那麼你們應謹慎，不要忘記上主你們的天主與你們所訂立的盟約，不要製造任何形狀的神像，有如上主你的天主所禁止的，
24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
因為上主你的天主是吞噬的烈火，忌邪的天主。
25 After you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol of any form—doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger—
當你們生養了子孫，在那地住得久了，如果你們墮落下去，製造任何形狀的偶像，行了上主你的天主眼中視為邪惡的事，惹他發怒，
26 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
我今天就指著上天下地對你們作證，你們必在過約但河後所佔領的土地上迅速滅亡，決不會在那地長久生存，必全被消滅。
27 Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
上主要將你們分散到萬民之中，在上主領你們所到的外邦中，你們剩下的人，必為數不多。
28 And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
在那裏你們要事奉人手所製造的神，即各種看不見，聽不見，不會吃，不能聞的木石神像。
29 But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
你在那裏必要尋求上主你的天主，只要你全心全靈尋求，你就可尋到他。
30 When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.
日後，當這些事都臨於你，使你困惱時，你必回心歸向上主你的天主，聽從他的聲音；
31 For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.
因為上主你的天主原是仁慈的天主，他不會捨棄你，不會毀滅你，也不會忘卻他起誓與你祖先所立的盟約。
32 Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?
你且考察在你以前過去的世代，從天主在地上造了人以來，由天這邊到天那邊，是否有過像這樣的大事，是否聽過像這樣的事﹖
33 Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?
是否有一民族，如同你一樣，聽到了天主由火中說話的聲音，還仍然活著﹖
34 Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
或者，是否有過一個神，以災難、神蹟、奇事、戰爭、強力的手、伸展的臂和可怕的威能，企圖將某一民族由另一民族中領出來，如上主你們的天主在埃及於你們眼前，對你們所做的一切一樣﹖
35 You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.
這一切只顯示給你，是要你知道，只有上主是天主，除他以外再沒有別的神。
36 He let you hear His voice from heaven to discipline you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the fire.
他由天上使你聽到他的聲音，是為教訓你；在地上使你見到他的烈火，叫你聽到他由火中發出的言語。
37 Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,
他由於愛你的祖先，纔揀選了他們的後裔，親自以強力把你由埃及領出來，
38 to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.
由你面前趕走比你更大的民族，領你進入他們的國土，賜給你作為產業，就如今日一樣。
39 Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.
所以今日你該知道，且要牢記在心：天上地下，只有上主是天主，再沒有別的神。
40 Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
你應遵守他的法令和誡命，就是我今日所訓示與你的，好使你和你的後代子孫得享幸福，在上主你的天主永久賜給你的土地內，能以久住。」
41 Then Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan to the east
那時梅瑟在約但河東，向日出之地，劃定了三座城，
42 to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:
使那素無仇恨而又無心殺死同胞的人，可逃到那裏去避難；凡逃入其中的一座，就可獲救。
43 Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau belonging to the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead belonging to the Gadites, or Golan in Bashan belonging to the Manassites.
為勒烏本人指定了位於曠野高原的貝責爾；為加得人指地了基肋阿得的辣摩特；為默納協人指定了巴商的哥藍。
44 This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.
這是梅瑟在以色列子民面前宣布的法律，
45 These are the testimonies, statutes, and ordinances that Moses proclaimed to them after they had come out of Egypt,
就是梅瑟在以色列子民出埃及後，對他們所發表的勸告、法令和規則。
46 while they were in the valley across the Jordan facing Beth-peor in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.
地點是在約但河東，貝特培敖爾對面的山谷中，即在位於赫市朋的阿摩黎王息紅的國土內。息紅已為梅瑟和以色列子民由埃及出來後所殺，
47 They took possession of the land belonging to Sihon and to Og king of Bashan—the two Amorite kings across the Jordan to the east—
他的土地為他們所佔領，並且也佔了巴商王敖格的土地。──這兩個阿摩黎人王，住在約但河東，向日出之地，
48 extending from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Siyon (that is, Hermon),
從阿爾農河岸的阿洛厄爾，直到息爾翁山，即赫爾孟山，
49 including all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.
連約但河東的全阿辣巴荒野在內，直到位於丕斯加山坡下的阿辣巴海。
