Deuteronomy 7
1 When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Emorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations, greater in number and mightier than 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 when the Lord thy God shall give them up before thee, and thou dost smite them: thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt not make any covenant with them, nor show mercy unto 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; thy daughters shalt thou not give unto his son, and his daughter shalt thou not take unto thy son.
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 he would turn away thy son from following me, so that they might serve other gods; and the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy thee speedily.
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 shall ye do unto them: their altars shall ye pull down, and their statues shall ye break, and their groves shall ye cut down, and their graven images shall ye burn 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 a holy people unto the Lord thy God; of thee the Lord thy God hath made choice to be unto himself a special people, above all the nations that are upon the face of 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 Not because ye are more in number than all the nations, did the Lord desire you and make choice of you; for ye are the fewest of all the nations;
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 on account of the love of the Lord for you, and because he keepeth the oath which he hath sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bond-men, out of the hand of Pharaoh the 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 Know then that the Eternal thy God, is the God, the faithful God, who keepeth the covenant and the mercy with those that love him and with those that keep his commandments to the thousandth generation;
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 repayeth those that hate him to their face, to destroy them; he will not delay to him that hateth him, he will repay 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 Therefore shalt thou keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.
所以你要謹慎遵行我今天吩咐你的誡命、法令和規則。
12 And it shall come to pass in reward for that ye will hearken to these ordinances, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God will keep unto thee the covenant and the kindness which he hath sworn unto 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 will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; and he will bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flocks, in the land which he hath sworn unto thy fathers to give unto 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 Blessed shalt thou be above all the nations; there shall not be a barren male or female among thee, nor among thy cattle.
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 And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness; and all the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, will he not put upon thee; but he will lay them upon all those 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 And thou shalt consume all the nations which the Lord thy God giveth unto thee; thy eye shall not look with pity upon them: and thou shalt not serve their gods; for that would be a snare unto thee.
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 shouldst say in thy heart, These nations are more numerous than I: how shall I be able to dispossess them?
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 be afraid of them; [but] thou shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto 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 proofs which thy eyes have seen, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: in this wise will the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
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 Moreover the hornet will the Lord thy God send out against them, until they that are left, and hide themselves 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 be affrighted at them; for the Lord thy God is in the midst of thee, a mighty and terrible God.
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 will chase out these nations before thee, little by little: thou shalt not be able to make an end of them speedily, lest the beasts of the field increase upon 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 And the Lord thy God will give them up before thee, and he will bring among them a mighty confusion, until they be destroyed.
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 will give their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under the heavens: no man shall be able to stand up before thee, until thou have 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 graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver or gold that is on them, so that thou wouldst take it unto thyself, lest thou be ensnared thereby; for it is an abomination to 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 And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, lest thou become accursed like it: thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; 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。
