Deuteronomy 31
1 And Moses goes and speaks these words to all Israel,
梅瑟又繼續用以下的話向全以色列人說：「
2 and he says to them, “I [am] a son of one hundred and twenty years today; I am not able to go out and to come in anymore, and YHWH has said to me, You do not pass over this Jordan.
我今天已經一百二十歲，再不能出入；而且上主曾對我說：『你不能過這約但河。』
3 Your God YHWH—He is passing over before you; He destroys these nations from before you, and you have possessed them; Joshua—he is passing over before you, as YHWH has spoken.
上主你的天主親自要領你過去，親自要由你面前將這些民族消滅，使你佔領他們的土地；按上主所許過的，若蘇厄將領你們過去。
4 And YHWH has done to them as he has done to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorite, and to their land, whom He destroyed.
上主對待那些民族，必像以前對待阿摩黎人王息紅和敖格，以及他們的國一樣，將他們完全消滅。
5 And YHWH has given them before your face, and you have done to them according to all the command which I have commanded you;
上主必將他們交於你們，你們應依照我吩咐你們的一切命令，對待他們。
6 be strong and courageous, do not fear, nor be terrified because of them, for your God YHWH [is] He who is going with you; He does not fail you nor forsake you.”
你們應勇敢堅決，不要害怕，在他們面前也不要畏懼，因為上主你的天主親自與你同行，決不拋棄你，也決不離開你。」
7 And Moses calls for Joshua and says to him before the eyes of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you go in with this people to the land which YHWH has sworn to their fathers to give to them, and you cause them to inherit it;
然後梅瑟召若蘇厄來，當著全以色列的面對他說：「你要勇敢堅決，因為你應領這人民，進入上主向他們祖先誓許要賜予他們的土地；你應將那地分給他們作為基業。
8 and YHWH [is] He who is going before you, He Himself is with you; He does not fail you nor forsake you; do not fear, nor be frightened.”
上主必親自領導你，與你同在，決不拋棄你，也決不離開你；你不要害怕，也不要膽怯。」
9 And Moses writes this law and gives it to the priests (sons of Levi, those carrying the Ark of the Covenant of YHWH), and to all [the] elderly of Israel,
梅瑟寫好這法律，交給抬上主約櫃的肋未子孫司祭，和以色列所有的長老；
10 and Moses commands them, saying, “At the end of seven years, in the appointed time, the year of release, in the Celebration of Shelters,
然後梅瑟吩咐他們說：「每逢七年，即在豁免年間的帳棚節期內，
11 in the coming in of all Israel to see the face of YHWH in the place which He chooses, you proclaim this law before all Israel in their ears.
當全以色列人來到上主你的天主所選的地方朝拜上主時，你應在全以色列人前，大聲宣讀這法律。
12 Assemble the people, the men, and the women, and the infants, and your sojourner who [is] within your gates, so that they hear, and so that they learn, and have feared your God YHWH, and observed to do all the words of this law;
你應召集人民，男女幼小，和你城鎮中的外方人，叫他們都聽到，好學習敬畏上主你們的天主，謹守遵行這法律上的一切話。
13 and their sons, who have not known, hear and have learned to fear your God YHWH [for] all the days which you are living on the ground to where you are passing over the Jordan to possess it.”
尚不認識這法律的子女，也應叫他們聽到，好使他們在你們渡過約但河去佔領的土地上生活的時候，日日學習敬畏上主你們的天主。」
14 And YHWH says to Moses, “Behold, your days have drawn near to die; call Joshua, and station yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, and I charge him”; and Moses goes—Joshua also—and they station themselves in the Tent of Meeting,
上主對梅瑟說：「看，你的死期已近，你召若蘇厄來，你們一起站在會幕那裏，我好吩咐他。」梅瑟於是和若蘇厄前去，一起站在會幕那裏。
15 and YHWH is seen in the tent in a pillar of a cloud; and the pillar of the cloud stands at the opening of the tent.
上主出現在會幕上，在雲柱中，這雲柱停在會幕門口上面。
16 And YHWH says to Moses, “Behold, you are lying down with your fathers, and this people has risen and gone whoring after the gods of the stranger of the land, into the midst of which it has entered, and it has forsaken Me and broken My covenant which I made with it;
上主對梅瑟說：「看，你快與你的祖先同眠；這人民要起來，在要去的地方內，同異邦之神行淫，而離棄我，破壞我與他們所訂立的盟約。
17 and My anger has burned against it in that day, and I have forsaken them, and hidden My face from them, and it has been for consumption, and many evils and distresses have found it, and it has said in that day, [Is] it not because my God is not in my midst that these evils have found me?
那時，我必要對他們大發忿怒，拋棄他們，掩面不顧他們，讓他們被人吞併，使他們遭遇許多災禍和艱難；到那日他們必說：『我遭遇了這些災禍，豈不是因為我的天主已不在我中間了麼﹖』
18 And I certainly hide My face in that day for all the evil which it has done, for it has turned to other gods.
因了他們歸向其他的神所作的一切邪惡，那天我必掩面不顧他們。
19 And now, write this song for yourselves, and teach it [to] the sons of Israel; put it in their mouths, so that this song is to Me for a witness against the sons of Israel.
所以，現在你應寫下這篇詩歌，教給以色列子民的證據。
20 When I bring them to the ground flowing with milk and honey, which I have sworn to their fathers, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, and been fat, and have turned to other gods, and they have served them, and despised Me, and broken My covenant,
因我領他們進了我對他們的祖先所誓許的流奶流蜜的土地，他們吃飽了，吃肥了，卻歸向了其他的神，事奉他們，而蔑視我，破壞我的盟約。
21 then it has been, when many evils and distresses meet it, that this song has testified to its face for a witness; for it is not forgotten out of the mouth of its seed, for I have known its imagining which it is doing today, before I bring them into the land of which I have sworn.”
當他們遭遇到許多災禍和艱難時，這詩歌就成為反對他們的證據，因為這詩歌總不會由他們後裔的口中失傳。的確，在我領他們進入我誓許的地方以前，我早已知道他們今天所懷的企圖。」
22 And Moses writes this song on that day, and teaches it [to] the sons of Israel.
梅瑟遂在那一天寫下了這篇詩歌，教給了以色列子民。
23 Then He commands Joshua son of Nun, and says, “Be strong and courageous, for you bring in the sons of Israel to the land which I have sworn to them, and I am with you.”
此後，上主吩咐農的兒子若蘇厄說：「你要勇敢堅決，因為你要領以色列子民進入我給他們誓許的土地，我必與你同在。」
24 And it comes to pass, when Moses finishes to write the words of this law on a scroll, until their completion,
梅瑟將這法律的話在書上寫完以後，
25 that Moses commands the Levites carrying the Ark of the Covenant of YHWH, saying,
便吩咐抬上主約櫃的肋未人說：「
26 “Take this Scroll of the Law, and you have set it on the side of the Ark of the Covenant of your God YHWH, and it has been against you for a witness there;
你們將這法律書拿去，放在上主你們天主的約櫃旁，留在那裏作為反對你的證據。
27 for I have known your rebellion and your stiff neck; behold, in my being yet alive with you today, you have been rebelling against YHWH, and surely also after my death.
因為我知道你是如何頑固執拗。看，我還同你們生活在一起的今天，你們就這樣反抗了上主；何況在我死後!
28 Assemble to me all the elderly of your tribes, and your authorities, and I speak these words in their ears, and cause the heavens and the earth to testify against them,
你們給我將你們支派所有的長老和官員召來，我要將這些話說給他們聽，指著天地對他們作證。
29 for I have known that you act very corruptly after my death, and have turned aside from the way which I commanded you, and evil has met you in the latter end of the days, because you do evil in the eyes of YHWH, to make Him angry with the work of your hands.”
因為我知道在我死後，你們必定完全敗壞，離棄我吩咐你們的道；最後，你們必要遭受災禍，因為作了上主視為邪惡的事，以你們的作為，使他發怒。」
30 And Moses speaks the words of this song in the ears of all the assembly of Israel, until their completion:
梅瑟遂在以色列全體會眾前，由頭至尾，大聲朗誦了這篇詩歌的話。
