Deuteronomy 29
1 These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab: beside that covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
這是耶和華在摩押地吩咐摩西與以色列人立約的話，是在他和他們於何烈山所立的約之外。
2 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: You have seen all the things that the Lord did before you in the land of Egypt to Pharao, and to all his servants, and to his whole land.
摩西召了以色列眾人來，對他們說：「耶和華在埃及地，在你們眼前向法老和他眾臣僕，並他全地所行的一切事，你們都看見了，
3 The great temptations, which thy eyes have seen, those mighty signs and wonders,
就是你親眼看見的大試驗和神蹟，並那些大奇事。
4 And the Lord hath not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears that may hear, unto this present day.
但耶和華到今日沒有使你們心能明白，眼能看見，耳能聽見。
5 He hath brought you forty years through the desert: your garments are not worn out, neither are the shoes of your feet consumed with age.
我領你們在曠野四十年，你們身上的衣服並沒有穿破，腳上的鞋也沒有穿壞。
6 You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink: that you might know that I am the Lord your God.
你們沒有吃餅，也沒有喝清酒濃酒。這要使你們知道，耶和華是你們的上帝。
7 And you came to this place: sand Sehon king of Hesebon, and Og king of Basan, came out against us to fight. And we slew them.
你們來到這地方，希實本王西宏、巴珊王噩都出來與我們交戰，我們就擊殺了他們，
8 And took their land, and delivered it for a possession to Ruben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses.
取了他們的地給呂便支派、迦得支派，和瑪拿西半支派為業。
9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and fulfill them: that you may understand all that you do.
所以你們要謹守遵行這約的話，好叫你們在一切所行的事上亨通。
10 You all stand this day before the Lord your God, your princes, and tribes, and ancients, and doctors, all the people of Israel,
「今日，你們的首領、族長、長老、官長、以色列的男丁，你們的妻子兒女，和營中寄居的，以及為你們劈柴挑水的人，都站在耶和華－你們的上帝面前，
11 Your children and your wives, and the stranger that abideth with thee in the camp, besides the hewers of wood, and them that bring water:
12 That thou mayst pass in the covenant of the Lord thy God, and in the oath which this day the Lord thy God maketh with thee.
為要你順從耶和華－你上帝今日與你所立的約，向你所起的誓。
13 That he may raise thee up a people to himself, and he may be thy God as he hath spoken to thee, and as he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
這樣，他要照他向你所應許的話，又向你列祖亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各所起的誓，今日立你作他的子民，他作你的上帝。
14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant, and confirm these oaths,
我不但與你們立這約，起這誓，
15 But with all that are present and that are absent.
凡與我們一同站在耶和華－我們上帝面前的，並今日不在我們這裏的人，我也與他們立這約，起這誓。
16 For you know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we have passed through the midst of nations, and passing through them,
「我們曾住過埃及地，也從列國經過；這是你們知道的。
17 You have seen their abominations and filth, that is to say, their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which they worshipped.
你們也看見他們中間可憎之物，並他們木、石、金、銀的偶像。
18 Lest perhaps there should be among you a man or a woman, a family or a tribe, whose heart is turned away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations: and there should be among you a root bringing forth gall and bitterness.
惟恐你們中間，或男或女，或族長或支派長，今日心裏偏離耶和華－我們的上帝，去事奉那些國的神；又怕你們中間有惡根生出苦菜和茵蔯來，
19 And when he shall hear the words of this oath, he should bless himself in his heart saying: I shall have peace, and will walk on in the naughtiness of my heart: and the drunken may consume the thirsty,
聽見這咒詛的話，心裏仍是自誇說：『我雖然行事心裏頑梗，連累眾人，卻還是平安。』
20 And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy against that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all the curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and the Lord should blot out his name from under heaven,
耶和華必不饒恕他；耶和華的怒氣與憤恨要向他發作，如煙冒出，將這書上所寫的一切咒詛都加在他身上。耶和華又要從天下塗抹他的名，
21 And utterly destroy him out of all the tribes of Israel, according to the curses that are contained in the book of this law and covenant:
也必照着寫在律法書上、約中的一切咒詛將他從以色列眾支派中分別出來，使他受禍。
22 And the following generation shall say, and the children that shall be born hereafter, and the strangers that shall come from afar, seeing the plagues of that land and the evils wherewith the Lord hath afflicted it,
你們的後代，就是以後興起來的子孫，和遠方來的外人，看見這地的災殃，並耶和華所降與這地的疾病，
23 Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation:
又看見遍地有硫磺，有鹽鹵，有火跡，沒有耕種，沒有出產，連草都不生長－好像耶和華在忿怒中所傾覆的所多瑪、蛾摩拉、押瑪、洗扁一樣－
24 And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath?
所看見的人，連萬國人，都必問說：『耶和華為何向此地這樣行呢？這樣大發烈怒是甚麼意思呢？』
25 And they shall answer: Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt:
人必回答說：『是因這地的人離棄了耶和華－他們列祖的上帝，領他們出埃及地的時候與他們所立的約，
26 And they have served strange gods, and adored them, whom they knew not, and for whom they had not been assigned:
去事奉敬拜素不認識的別神，是耶和華所未曾給他們安排的。
27 Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this volume:
所以耶和華的怒氣向這地發作，將這書上所寫的一切咒詛都降在這地上。
28 And he hath cast them out of their land, in anger and in wrath, and in very great indignation, and hath thrown them into a strange land, as it is seen this day.
耶和華在怒氣、忿怒、大惱恨中將他們從本地拔出來，扔在別的地上，像今日一樣。』
29 Secret things to the Lord our God: things that are manifest, to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
「隱祕的事是屬耶和華－我們上帝的；惟有明顯的事是永遠屬我們和我們子孫的，好叫我們遵行這律法上的一切話。」
