< Deuteronomy 7 >

1 When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possesse it, and shall roote out many nations before thee: the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, seuen nations greater and mightier then thou,
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 the Lord thy God shall giue them before thee, then thou shalt smite them: thou shalt vtterly destroy them: thou shalt make no couenant with them, nor haue compassion 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 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them, neither giue thy daughter vnto his sonne, nor take his daughter vnto thy sonne.
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 they wil cause thy sonne to turne away from me, and to serue other gods: then will the wrath of the Lord waxe hote against you and destroy thee suddenly.
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 thus ye shall deale with them, Ye shall ouerthrowe their altars, and breake downe their pillars, and ye shall cut downe their groues, and burne their grauen images 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 thou art an holy people vnto the Lord thy God, the Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be a precious people vnto himselfe, aboue all people that are vpon 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 set his loue vpon you, nor chose you, because ye were more in number then any people: for ye were the fewest of all people:
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 the Lord loued you, and because hee would keepe the othe which hee had sworne vnto your fathers, the Lord hath brought you out by a mightie hand, and deliuered you out of the house of bondage 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 That thou mayest knowe, that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithfull God which keepeth couenant and mercie vnto them that loue him and keepe his commandements, euen to a thousand generations,
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 And rewardeth them to their face that hate him, to bring them to destruction: he wil not deferre to reward him that hateth him, to his face.
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 Keepe thou therefore the commandements, and the ordinances, and the lawes, which I commaund thee this day to doe them.
所以你要謹慎遵行我今天吩咐你的誡命、法令和規則。
12 For if ye hearken vnto these lawes, and obserue and doe them, then the Lord thy God shall keepe with thee the couenant, and the mercie which he sware vnto thy 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 wil loue thee, and blesse thee, and multiplie thee: he will also blesse the fruite of thy wombe, and the fruite of thy land, thy corne and thy wine, and thine oyle and the increase of thy kine, and the flockes of thy sheepe in the land, which he sware vnto thy fathers to giue thee.
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 Thou shalt be blessed aboue all people: there shall be neither male nor female barren among you, nor among your cattell.
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 Moreouer, the Lord will take away from thee all infirmities, and will put none of the euill diseases of Egypt (which thou knowest) vpon thee, but wil send them vpon all that hate thee.
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 Thou shalt therefore consume all people which the Lord thy God shall giue thee: thine eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serue their gods, for that shalbe thy destruction.
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 thou say in thine heart, These nations are moe then I, how can I cast them out?
假如你心裏想:這些民族比我人多,我怎能趕走他們﹖
18 Thou shalt not feare them, but remember what the Lord thy God did vnto Pharaoh, and vnto 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 tentations which thine eyes sawe, and the signes and wonders, and the mighty hand and stretched out arme, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do vnto all ye people, whose face thou fearest.
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 Moreouer, the Lord thy God will send hornets among them vntil they that are left, and hide themselues from thee, be destroyed.
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 Thou shalt not feare them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a God mightie and dreadful.
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 And the Lord thy God wil roote out these nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, least the beasts of the fielde increase vpon thee.
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 thy God shall giue them before thee, and shall destroy them with a mightie destruction, vntill they be brought to naught.
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 And he shall deliuer their Kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from vnder heauen: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, vntill thou hast destroyed them.
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 grauen images of their gods shall ye burne with fire, and couet not the siluer and golde, that is on them, nor take it vnto thee, least thou be snared therewith: for it is an abomination before the Lord thy 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 Bring not therefore abomination into thine house, lest, thou be accursed like it, but vtterly abhorre it, and count it most abominable: for it is accursed.
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。

< Deuteronomy 7 >