Deuteronomy 7
1 When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;
當上主你的天主領你進入你要去佔領的地方，由你面前驅逐許多民族，即赫特人、基爾加士人、阿摩黎人、客納罕人、培黎齊人、希威人和耶步斯人，那七個比你又多又強的民族時，
2 And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:
當上主你的天主將他們交給你，打敗他們時，你應完全消滅他們，不可與他們立約，也不可恩待他們；
3 Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.
不可與他們通婚，不可將你的女兒嫁給他們的兒子，也不可為你的兒子娶他們的女兒；
4 For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.
因為他們必要使你們的子女遠離我，而去事奉別的神，致使上主向你們大發忿怒，將你們迅速消滅。
5 But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.
你們應這樣對待他們：拆毀他們的祭壇，打碎他們的石碣，砍倒他們的神柱，燒毀他們的雕像。
6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
因為你是屬於上主你天主的聖民，上主你的天主由地面上所有的民族中，揀選了你作自己特屬的人民。
7 The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:
上主喜愛你們，揀選你們，並不是因為你們比其餘的民族人數眾多；其實你們在所有的民族中，是最少的一個；
8 But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
而是由於上主對你們的愛，並為履行他向你們祖先所起的誓，上主纔以大能的手解救你們，將你們由為奴之家，由埃及王法郎的手中救出來。
9 Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws;
所以，你應知道，只有上主你的天主是天主，是對那愛他，遵守他誡命的人，守約施恩直到千代的忠信的天主；
10 Rewarding his haters to their face with destruction; he will have no mercy on his hater, but will give him open punishment.
但對那恨他的人，他必當面報復，將他消滅；對恨他的人，他決不遲延，必當面報復。
11 So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.
所以你要謹慎遵行我今天吩咐你的誡命、法令和規則。
12 And it will be, that if you give attention to these decisions and keep and do them, then the Lord will keep his agreement with you and his mercy, as he said in his oath to your fathers.
如果你們聽從這些法令，謹守遵行，上主你的天主必照他向你祖先起的誓，對你守約施恩。
13 And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.
他必愛你，祝福你，增加你的人數；在向你的祖先起誓許給你的地上，祝福你身生的子女，你地內的出產、五穀、酒、油，以及牛羊的生產。
14 You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring.
萬民中你是最有福的；在你內沒有不育的男女，牲畜中沒有不生殖的雌雄。
15 And the Lord will take away from you all disease, and will not put on you any of the evil diseases of Egypt which you have seen, but will put them on your haters.
上主必使一切疾病遠離你；你所知道的埃及的各種惡疾，決不加在你身上，反而加在一切恨你的人身上。
16 And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.
凡上主你的天主交給你的民族，你都要消滅，不可憐視，也不可奉事他們的神，因為這是陷害你的羅網。
17 If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?
假如你心裏想：這些民族比我人多，我怎能趕走他們﹖
18 Have no fear of them, but keep well in mind what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt;
你不要怕他們，只應記起上主你的天主對法郎和全埃及所做的事。
19 The great punishments which your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders and the strong hand and the stretched-out arm, by which the Lord your God took you out: so will the Lord your God do to all the peoples who are the cause of your fears.
你親眼見了上主你的天主為救你所用的大災難、神蹟、奇事、大能的手和伸展的臂；上主你的天主也必同樣對待你所怕的一切民族。
20 And the Lord will send a hornet among them, till all the rest who have kept themselves safe from you in secret places have been cut off.
此外，上主你的天主必打發黃蜂來攻擊他們，直到那些殘存和由你面前隱藏起來的人完全消滅為止。
21 Have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, a great God greatly to be feared.
在他們面前，你不應畏懼，因為在你中間有上主你的天主，大而可畏的天主。
22 The Lord your God will send out the nations before you little by little; they are not to be rooted out quickly, for fear that the beasts of the field may be increased overmuch against you.
上主你的天主必將這些民族由你面前漸漸驅逐；你不可將他們迅速消滅，免得野獸增多而於你不利。
23 But the Lord your God will give them up into your hands, overpowering them till their destruction is complete.
上主你的天主必將他們交於你，使他們大起恐慌，直到他們全被消滅。
24 He will give their kings into your hands, and you will put their names out of existence under heaven; there is not one of them who will not give way before you, till their destruction is complete.
他必將他們的君王交在你手中，你必使他們的名由天下消滅；沒有一人能對抗你，直到你將他們完全消滅。
25 The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:
你應將他們的神像，投在火中燒掉；不應貪圖神像上的金銀，而留為己有，免得陷於羅網，因為這於上主你的天主是可憎之物。
26 And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.
可憎之物，不可帶進你屋內；免得你與那些東西一同毀滅；你應厭惡憎恨這一切，因為那是應毀滅之物。
