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;
「我今日所吩咐的一切誡命，你們要謹守遵行，好叫你們存活，人數增多，且進去得耶和華向你們列祖起誓應許的那地。
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.
你也要記念耶和華－你的上帝在曠野引導你這四十年，是要苦煉你，試驗你，要知道你心內如何，肯守他的誡命不肯。
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.
他苦煉你，任你飢餓，將你和你列祖所不認識的嗎哪賜給你吃，使你知道，人活着不是單靠食物，乃是靠耶和華口裏所出的一切話。
4 Your raiment has not worn out from off you, and your foot has not swelled these forty years,
這四十年，你的衣服沒有穿破，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,
你當心裏思想，耶和華－你上帝管教你，好像人管教兒子一樣。
6 and you have kept the commands of your God YHWH, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.
你要謹守耶和華－你上帝的誡命，遵行他的道，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;
因為耶和華－你上帝領你進入美地，那地有河，有泉，有源，從山谷中流出水來。
8 a land of wheat, and barley, and vine, and fig, and pomegranate; a land of oil olive and honey;
那地有小麥、大麥、葡萄樹、無花果樹、石榴樹、橄欖樹，和蜜。
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.
你在那地不缺食物，一無所缺。那地的石頭是鐵，山內可以挖銅。
10 And you have eaten and been satisfied, and have blessed your God YHWH on the good land which he has given to you.
你吃得飽足，就要稱頌耶和華－你的上帝，因他將那美地賜給你了。」
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;
「你要謹慎，免得忘記耶和華－你的上帝，不守他的誡命、典章、律例，就是我今日所吩咐你的；
12 lest you eat and have been satisfied, and build good houses and have inhabited [them],
恐怕你吃得飽足，建造美好的房屋居住，
13 and your herd and your flock are multiplied, and silver and gold are multiplied to you, and all that is yours is multiplied,
你的牛羊加多，你的金銀增添，並你所有的全都加增，
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;
你就心高氣傲，忘記耶和華－你的上帝，就是將你從埃及地為奴之家領出來的，
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;
引你經過那大而可怕的曠野，那裏有火蛇、蠍子、乾旱無水之地。他曾為你使水從堅硬的磐石中流出來，
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;
又在曠野將你列祖所不認識的嗎哪賜給你吃，是要苦煉你，試驗你，叫你終久享福；
17 and you have said in your heart, My power and the might of my hand have made this wealth for me.
恐怕你心裏說：『這貨財是我力量、我能力得來的。』
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.
你要記念耶和華－你的上帝，因為得貨財的力量是他給你的，為要堅定他向你列祖起誓所立的約，像今日一樣。
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.
你若忘記耶和華－你的上帝，隨從別神，事奉敬拜，你們必定滅亡；這是我今日警戒你們的。
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.”
耶和華在你們面前怎樣使列國的民滅亡，你們也必照樣滅亡，因為你們不聽從耶和華－你們上帝的話。」
