Deuteronomy 8
1 “All the command which I am commanding you today you observe to do, so that you live, and have multiplied, and gone in, and possessed the land which YHWH has sworn to your fathers;
我今日吩咐你的一切誡命，你們應謹守遵行，好使你們生存，人數增多，能去佔領上主向你們的祖先所誓許的地方。
2 and you have remembered all the way which your God YHWH has caused you to go these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you to try you, to know that which [is] in your heart, whether you keep His commands or not.
你當記念上主你的天主使你這四十年在曠野中所走的路程，是為磨難你，試探你，願知道你的心懷，是否願遵守他的誡命。
3 And He humbles you, and causes you to hunger, and causes you to eat the manna (which you have not known, even your fathers have not known), in order to cause you to know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything proceeding [from] the mouth of YHWH.
他磨難了你，使你感到饑餓，卻以你和你祖先所不認識的「瑪納，」養育了你，叫你知道人生活不但靠食物，而且也靠上主口中所發的一切言語生活。
4 Your raiment has not worn out from off you, and your foot has not swelled these forty years,
這四十年來，你身上的衣服沒有穿破，你的腳也沒有腫。
5 and you have known with your heart that as a man disciplines his son, your God YHWH is disciplining you,
為此，你要明瞭：上主你的天主管教你，如人管教自己的兒子一樣；
6 and you have kept the commands of your God YHWH, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.
所以你當謹守上主你天主的誡命，遵行他的道路，敬畏他。
7 For your God YHWH is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of waters, of fountains, and of depths coming out in valley and in mountain;
因為上主你的天主快要領你進入肥美的土地，那裏有溪流，有泉水，有深淵之水由谷中和山中流出；
8 a land of wheat, and barley, and vine, and fig, and pomegranate; a land of oil olive and honey;
那地出產小麥、大麥、葡萄、無花果和石榴；那地出產橄欖、油和蜂蜜；
9 a land in which you eat bread without scarcity—you do not lack anything in it; a land whose stones [are] iron, and you dig bronze out of its mountains.
在那地你決不缺糧吃，在那裏你將一無所缺；那地方的石頭是鐵，由山中可以採銅。
10 And you have eaten and been satisfied, and have blessed your God YHWH on the good land which he has given to you.
幾時你吃飽了，應感謝上主你的天主，因為是他賜給你這樣肥美的土地。
11 Take heed to yourself lest you forget your God YHWH so as not to keep His commands, and His judgments, and His statutes which I am commanding you today;
你應小心，別忘記上主你的天主，而不遵守我今天吩咐你的誡命、規則和法令。
12 lest you eat and have been satisfied, and build good houses and have inhabited [them],
當你吃飽了，建造了華美房屋居住，
13 and your herd and your flock are multiplied, and silver and gold are multiplied to you, and all that is yours is multiplied,
牛群羊群加多，金銀增加，你所有的一切都增加了，
14 and your heart has been high, and you have forgotten your God YHWH who is bringing you out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;
你要小心，不要心高氣傲，以致忘記了由埃及地，由為奴之家，領你出來的上主你的天主，
15 who is causing you to go in the great and the terrible wilderness [with] burning serpent, and scorpion, and thirst—where there is no water; who is bringing out waters to you from the flinty rock;
是他領你經過了遼闊可怖，有火蛇蝎子的曠野，經過了乾旱無水之地；是他使水由堅硬的磐石中為你流出，
16 who is causing you to eat manna in the wilderness, which your fathers have not known, in order to humble you, and in order to try you, to do you good in your latter end;
是他在曠野內，以你祖先不認識的「瑪納」養育了你；他這樣磨難你，試探你，終究是為使你獲得幸福。
17 and you have said in your heart, My power and the might of my hand have made this wealth for me.
你心裏不要想：「這是我的力量，我手臂的能力，給我造就了這樣的財富。」
18 And you have remembered your God YHWH, for it [is] He who is giving power to you to make wealth, in order to establish His covenant which He has sworn to your fathers, as [at] this day.
你應記得上主你的天主，因為是他賜給你得財富的能力，為實踐他對你祖先起誓訂立的盟約，就如今日一樣。
19 And it has been, if you really forget your God YHWH, and have gone after other gods, and served them, and bowed yourself to them, I have testified against you today that you utterly perish.
如果你真忘記了上主你的天主，而隨從別的神，奉事敬拜他們，我今日對你們作證：你們必要滅亡，
20 As the nations whom YHWH is destroying from your presence, so you perish, because you do not listen to the voice of your God YHWH.”
上主怎樣由你們面前毀滅了那些民族，你們也要怎樣遭受毀滅，因為你們沒有聽從上主你們天主的聲音。
