< Deuteronomy 5 >
1 Then Moses called all Israiel, and saide vnto them, Heare, O Israel, the ordinances and the lawes which I propose to you this day, that yee may learne them, and take heede to obserue them.
梅瑟召集了全以色列人,對他們說:「請聽我今日向你們耳中所宣示的法令和規則,務要學習遵行。
2 The Lord our God made a couenant with vs in Horeb.
上主我們的天主在曷勒布與我們立了約。
3 The Lord made not this couenant with our fathers onely, but with vs, euen with vs all here aliue this day.
上主並不是與我們的祖先立了這約,而是與我們今日在這裏尚生存的眾人。
4 The Lord talked with you face to face in the Mount, out of the middes of the fire.
上主在山上,從火中面對面地與你們談過話。
5 (At that time I stoode betweene the Lord and you, to declare vnto you ye word of the Lord: for ye were afraid at the sight of the fire, and went not vp into the mount, and he said,
那時我站在上主和你們中間,給你們傳達上主的話,因為你們一見火便害了怕,沒有上到山上去。上主說:「
6 I am the Lord thy God, which haue brought thee out of the lande of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
我是上主,你的天主,我曾領你離開埃及地,那為奴之家,
7 Thou shalt haue none other gods before my face.
除我以外,你不可有別的神。
8 Thou shalt make thee no grauen image or any likenesse of that that is in heauen aboue, or which is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters vnder the earth.
你不可為自己雕刻偶像,或製造任何上天下地,或地下水中所有各物的形像。
9 Thou shalt neither bowe thy selfe vnto them, nor serue them: for I the Lord thy God am a ielous God, visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, euen vnto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
你不可叩拜,也不可事奉這樣的偶像,因為我上主,你的天主是忌邪的天主。對於恨我的人,我必在子孫身上追罰他們祖先的罪惡,直到第三代,第四代;
10 And shewing mercie vnto thousandes of them that loue me, and keepe my commandements.
對於愛我,守我誡命的人,我對他們施行仁慈,直到千代。
11 Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vaine: for the Lord will not holde him giltlesse that taketh his Name in vaine.
你不可妄呼上主,你天主的名,因為上主決不放過妄呼他名的人。
12 Keepe the Sabbath day, to sanctifie it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.
當照上主,你的天主吩咐的,遵守安息日,奉為聖日。
13 Sixe dayes thou shalt labour, and shalt doe all thy worke:
六天你當勞作,做你一切工作;
14 But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt not doe any worke therein, thou, nor thy sonne, nor thy daughter, nor thy man seruant, nor thy mayd, nor thine oxe, nor thine asse, neither any of thy cattel, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: that thy man seruant and thy mayde may rest aswell as thou.
第七天是上主你天主的安息日,你和你的子女、僕婢、牛驢、你所有的牲畜,以及住在你城內的外方人,都不應做任何工作,好使你的僕婢能和你一樣獲得安息。
15 For, remember that thou wast a seruant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence by a mightie hand and a stretched out arme: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to obserue the Sabbath day.
你應記得:你在埃及地也曾做過奴隸,上主你的天主以大能的手和伸展的臂,將你從那裏領出來;為此,上主你的天主吩咐你守安息日。
16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath comanded thee, that thy dayes may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee vpon the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee.
應照上主你的天主吩咐你的,孝敬你的父母,好使你能享高壽,並在上主你的天主賜給你的土地內,獲享幸福。
18 Neither shalt thou commit adulterie.
不可姦淫。
19 Neither shalt thou steale.
不可偷盜。
20 Neither shalt thou beare false witnesse against thy neighbour.
不可作假見證害你的近人。
21 Neither shalt thou couet thy neighbours wife, neither shalt thou desire thy neighbours house, his fielde, nor his man seruant, nor his mayd, his oxe, nor his asse, nor ought that thy neighbour hath.
不可貪戀你近人的妻子;不可貪圖你近人的房屋、田地、僕婢、牛驢,以及屬於你近人的一切事物。」
22 These wordes the Lord spake vnto all your multitude in the mount out of the mids of the fire, the cloude and the darkenes, with a great voyce, and added no more thereto: and wrote them vpon two tables of stone, and deliuered them vnto me.
這是上主在山上,由火中,由濃雲黑暗裏,大聲對你們會眾所說的話,再沒有加添什麼;並將這些話寫在兩塊石版上,交給了我。
23 And when ye heard the voyce out of the middes of the darkenes, (for the mountaine did burne with fire) then ye came to me, all the chiefe of your tribes, and your Elders:
當山上火燄四射,你們聽到由黑暗中發出來的聲音時,你們各支派的首領和長老,都來到我跟前,
24 And ye sayd, Beholde, the Lord our God hath shewed vs his glory and his greatnes, and we haue heard his voyce out of the middes of the fire: we haue seene this day that God doeth talke with man, and he liueth.
說:「看,上主我們的天主,使我們看見了他的榮耀和偉大,我們也聽見了他由火中發出的聲音;今日我們見了天主與人說話,而人還能生存!
25 Now therefore, why should we dye? for this great fire wil consume vs: if we heare ye voyce of the Lord our God any more, we shall dye.
現在,我們為什麼要冒死,為這大火所吞滅﹖如果我們繼續聽上主我們天主的聲音,我們必死無疑。
26 For what flesh was there euer, that heard the voyce of the liuing God speaking out of the middes of the fire as we haue, and liued?
因為凡有血肉的人,有誰如我們一樣,聽到永生的天主由火中說話的聲音,而仍能生存呢﹖
27 Go thou neere and heare all that the Lord our God saith: and declare thou vnto vs all that the Lord our God saith vnto thee, and we will heare it, and doe it.
請你近前去,聆聽上主我們的天主所說的一切;然後你將上主我們的天主對你所說的話,轉告給我們;我們必聽從,也必遵行。」
28 Then the Lord heard the voyce of your wordes, when ye spake vnto me: and the Lord sayd vnto me, I haue heard the voyce of ye wordes of this people, which they haue spoken vnto thee: they haue well sayd, all that they haue spoken.
你們對我所說的話,上主聽見了;遂對我說:「我聽見了這人民對你所說的話;他們所說的都對。
29 Oh that there were such an heart in them to feare me, and to keepe all my commandements alway: that it might go well with them, and with their children for euer.
惟願他們常存這樣的心思,敬畏我,遵行我的一切誡命,好使他們和他們的子孫永享幸福。
30 Go, say vnto them, Returne you into your tentes.
你去對他們說:你們回到你們的帳幕內去。
31 But stand thou here with me, and I wil tell thee all the commandements, and the ordinances, and the lawes, which thou shalt teach them: that they may doe them in the land which I giue them to possesse it.
但是,你應留在我這裏,我要將一切誡命。法令和規則訓示你,你再教訓他們,好叫他們在我賜給他們作為產業的地上遵行。」
32 Take heede therefore, that ye doe as the Lord your God hath commanded you: turne not aside to the right hand nor to the left,
所以你們應完全照上主你們的天主所吩咐你們的行事,不可偏右偏左。
33 But walke in all the wayes which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may liue, and that it may goe well with you: and that ye may prolong your dayes in the land which ye shall possesse.
在一切事上,只應履行上主你們的天主給你們指定的道路,好使你們在你們要去佔領的地方,得以生存、興盛、長壽。