Deuteronomy 4
1 Nowe therefore hearken, O Israel, vnto the ordinances and to the lawes which I teache you to doe, that ye may liue and goe in, and possesse the lande, which the Lord God of your fathers giueth 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 Ye shall put nothing vnto the word which I command you, neither shall ye take ought there from, that ye may keepe the commandements of the Lord your God which I commande 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 haue seene what the Lord did because of Baal-Peor, for al the men that folowed Baal-Peor the Lord thy God hath destroyed euery one from among you.
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 ye that did cleaue vnto the Lord your God, are aliue euery one of you this day.
你們依附上主你們的天主的人，今日都還活著。
5 Behold, I haue taught you ordinances, and lawes, as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should doe euen so within the land whither ye goe to possesse it.
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 Keepe them therefore, and doe them; for that is your wisdome, and your vnderstanding in the sight of the people, which shall heare all these ordinances, and shall say, Onely this people is wise, and of vnderstanding, and a great nation.
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 so great, vnto whome the gods come so neere vnto them, as the Lord our God is neere vnto vs, in all that we call vnto him for?
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 so great, that hath ordinances and lawes so righteous, as all this Lawe, which I set before you this day?
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 But take heede to thy selfe, and keepe thy soule diligently, that thou forget not the thinges which thine eyes haue seene, and that they depart not out of thine heart, all the dayes of thy life: but teach them thy sonnes, and thy sonnes sonnes:
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 Forget not the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said vnto me, Gather me the people together, and I wil cause them heare my wordes, that they may learne to feare me all the dayes that they shall liue vpon the earth, and that they may teache 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 Then came you neere and stoode vnder the mountaine, and the mountaine burnt with fire vnto the mids of heauen, and there was darkenesse, cloudes and mist.
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 spake vnto you out of the middes of the fire, and ye heard the voyce of the wordes, but sawe no similitude, saue a voyce.
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 Then hee declared vnto you his couenant which he commanded you to doe, euen the ten commandements, and wrote them vpon two tables 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 And the Lord commanded me that same time, that I should teach you ordinances and lawes, which ye should obserue in the lande, whither ye goe, to possesse it.
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 Take therefore good heede vnto your selues: for ye sawe no image in the day that the Lord spake vnto you in Horeb out of the middes of the fire:
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 ye corrupt not your selues, and make you a grauen image or representation of any figure: whither it be the likenes of 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 The likenes of any beast that is on earth, or the likenesse of any fethered foule that flieth in the aire:
或地上各種走獸的形狀，或空中各類飛鳥的形狀，
18 Or the likenesse of any thing that creepeth on the earth, or the likenesse of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth,
或地上任何爬蟲的形狀，或地下水裏各種魚類的形狀。
19 And lest thou lift vp thine eyes vnto heauen, and when thou seest the sunne and the moone and the starres with all the host of heauen, shouldest bee driuen to worship them and serue them, which the Lord thy God hath distributed to all people vnder the whole heauen.
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 But the Lord hath taken you and brought you out of the yron fornace: out of Egypt to be vnto him a people and inheritance, as appeareth this day.
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 And the Lord was angrie with me for your words, and sware that I should not goe ouer Iorden, and that I should not goe in vnto that good land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee for 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 must die in this land, and shall not go ouer Iorden: but ye shall goe ouer, and possesse 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 Take heede vnto your selues, least ye forget the couenant of the Lord your God which hee made with you, and least ye make you any grauen image, or likenes of any thing, as the Lord thy God hath charged thee.
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 thy God is a consuming fire, and a ielous God.
因為上主你的天主是吞噬的烈火，忌邪的天主。
25 When thou shalt beget children and childrens children, and shalt haue remained long in the land, if ye corrupt your selues, and make any grauen image, or likenes of any thing, and worke euill in the sight of the Lord thy God, to prouoke 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 heauen and earth to record against you this day, that ye shall shortly perish from the land, whereunto ye goe ouer Iorden to possesse it: ye shall not prolong your dayes therein, but shall vtterly be 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 And the Lord shall scatter you among the people, and ye shall be left few in nomber among the nations, whither the Lord shall bring 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 ye shall serue gods, euen ye worke of mans hand, wood, and stone, which neither see, nor heare, nor eate, nor smelll.
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 thence thou shalt seeke the Lord thy God, thou shalt finde him, if thou seeke him with all thine heart, and with all thy soule.
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 thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come vpon thee, at the length if thou returne to the Lord thy God, and bee obedient vnto his voyce,
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 thy God is a mercifull God) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the couenant of thy fathers, which hee sware vnto them.
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 For inquire now of the dayes that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man vpon the earth, and aske from the one ende of heauen vnto the other, if there came to passe such a great thing as this, or whether any such like thing hath bene heard.
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 Did euer people heare the voyce of God speaking out of the middes of a fire, as thou hast heard, and liued?
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 hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from among nations, by tentations, by signes, and by wonders, and by warre, and by a mightie hand, and by a stretched out arme, and by great feare, according vnto all that the Lord your God did vnto 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 Vnto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest knowe, that the Lord hee is God, and that there is none but he alone.
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 Out of heauen hee made thee heare his voyce to instruct thee, and vpon earth he shewed thee his great fire, and thou heardest his voyce out of the middes 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 And because hee loued thy fathers, therefore hee chose their seede after them, and hath brought thee out of Egypt in his sight by his mightie 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 thrust out nations greater and mightier then thou, before thee, to bring thee in, and to giue thee their land for inheritance: as appeareth 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 Vnderstande therefore this day, and consider in thine heart, that the Lord, he is God in heauen aboue, and vpon the earth beneath: there is none 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 Thou shalt keepe therefore his ordinances, and his commandements which I commaund thee this day, that it may goe well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayst prolong thy dayes vpon the earth, which the Lord thy God giueth thee for euer.
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 separated three cities on this side of Iorden toward the sunne rising:
那時梅瑟在約但河東，向日出之地，劃定了三座城，
42 That the slayer should flee thither, which had killed his neighbour at vnwares, and hated him not in time past, might flee, I say, vnto one of those cities, and liue:
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 That is, Bezer in the wildernesse, in the plaine countrey of the Reubenites: and Ramoth in Gilead among the Gadites: and Golan in Bashan among them of Manasseh.
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 So this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
這是梅瑟在以色列子民面前宣布的法律，
45 These are the witnesses, and the ordinances, and the lawes which Moses declared to the children of Israel after they came 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 On this side Iorden, in the valley ouer against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon King of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were 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 And they possessed his land, and the lande of Og King of Bashan, two Kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Iorden towarde the sunne rising:
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 From Aroer, which is by the banke of the riuer Arnon, euen vnto mount Sion, which 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 And all the plaine by Iorden Eastwarde, euen vnto the Sea, of ye plaine, vnder the springs 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。
