Deuteronomy 8
1 You shall observe to do all the commands which I charge you today, that you may live and be multiplied, and enter in and inherit the land, which the Lord your God sware [to give] to your fathers.
“我今日所吩咐的一切诫命，你们要谨守遵行，好叫你们存活，人数增多，且进去得耶和华向你们列祖起誓应许的那地。
2 And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God led you in the wilderness, that he might afflict you, and try you, and that the things in your heart might be made manifest, whether you would keep his commandments or no.
你也要记念耶和华—你的 神在旷野引导你这四十年，是要苦炼你，试验你，要知道你心内如何，肯守他的诫命不肯。
3 And he afflicted you and straitened you with hunger, and fed you with manna, which your fathers knew not; that he might teach you that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God shall man live.
他苦炼你，任你饥饿，将你和你列祖所不认识的吗哪赐给你吃，使你知道，人活着不是单靠食物，乃是靠耶和华口里所出的一切话。
4 Your garments grew not old from off you, your shoes were not worn from off you, your feet were not [painfully] hardened, behold! these forty years.
这四十年，你的衣服没有穿破，你的脚也没有肿。
5 And you shall know in your heart, that as if any man should chasten his son, so the Lord your God will chasten you.
你当心里思想，耶和华—你 神管教你，好像人管教儿子一样。
6 And you shall keep the commands of the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
你要谨守耶和华—你 神的诫命，遵行他的道，敬畏他。
7 For the Lord your God will bring you into a good and extensive land, where there are torrents of waters, and fountains of deep places issuing through the plains and through the mountains:
因为耶和华—你 神领你进入美地，那地有河，有泉，有源，从山谷中流出水来。
8 a land of wheat and barley, [wherein are] vines, figs, pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
那地有小麦、大麦、葡萄树、无花果树、石榴树、橄榄树，和蜜。
9 a land on which you shall not eat your bread with poverty, and you shall not lack any thing upon it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of its mountains you shall dig brass.
你在那地不缺食物，一无所缺。那地的石头是铁，山内可以挖铜。
10 And you shall eat and be filled, and shall bless the Lord your God on the good land, which he has given you.
你吃得饱足，就要称颂耶和华—你的 神，因他将那美地赐给你了。”
11 Take heed to yourself that you forget not the Lord your God, so as not to keep his commands, and his judgments, and ordinances, which I command you this day:
“你要谨慎，免得忘记耶和华—你的 神，不守他的诫命、典章、律例，就是我今日所吩咐你的；
12 lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived in them;
恐怕你吃得饱足，建造美好的房屋居住，
13 and your oxen and your sheep are multiplied to you, and your silver and your gold are multiplied to you, and all your possessions are multiplied to you,
你的牛羊加多，你的金银增添，并你所有的全都加增，
14 you should be exalted in heart, and forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage:
你就心高气傲，忘记耶和华—你的 神，就是将你从埃及地为奴之家领出来的，
15 who brought you through that great and terrible wilderness, where [is] the biting serpent, and scorpion, and drought, where there was no water; who brought you a fountain of water out of the flinty rock:
引你经过那大而可怕的旷野，那里有火蛇、蝎子、干旱无水之地。他曾为你使水从坚硬的磐石中流出来，
16 who fed you with manna in the wilderness, which you knew not, and your fathers knew not; that he might afflict you, and thoroughly try you, and do you good in your latter days.
又在旷野将你列祖所不认识的吗哪赐给你吃，是要苦炼你，试验你，叫你终久享福；
17 Lest you should say in your heart, My strength, and the power of mine hand have wrought for me this great wealth.
恐怕你心里说：‘这货财是我力量、我能力得来的。’
18 But you shall remember the Lord your God, that he gives you strength to get wealth; even that he may establish his covenant, which the Lord sware to your fathers, as at this day.
你要记念耶和华—你的 神，因为得货财的力量是他给你的，为要坚定他向你列祖起誓所立的约，像今日一样。
19 And it shall come to pass if you do at all forget the Lord your God, and should go after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall surely perish.
你若忘记耶和华—你的 神，随从别神，事奉敬拜，你们必定灭亡；这是我今日警戒你们的。
20 As also the other nations which the Lord God destroys before your face, so shall you perish, because you listened not to the voice of the Lord your God.
耶和华在你们面前怎样使列国的民灭亡，你们也必照样灭亡，因为你们不听从耶和华—你们 神的话。”
