Deuteronomy 29
1 These are the words that Yahweh commanded Moses to tell the people of Israel in the land of Moab, words that were added to the covenant that he had made with them at Horeb.
這是耶和華在摩押地吩咐摩西與以色列人立約的話，是在他和他們於何烈山所立的約之外。
2 Moses called to all Israel and said to them, “You have seen everything that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his servants, and to all his land—
摩西召了以色列眾人來，對他們說：「耶和華在埃及地，在你們眼前向法老和他眾臣僕，並他全地所行的一切事，你們都看見了，
3 the great sufferings that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.
就是你親眼看見的大試驗和神蹟，並那些大奇事。
4 But until today Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
但耶和華到今日沒有使你們心能明白，眼能看見，耳能聽見。
5 I have led you for forty years in the wilderness; your clothes did not wear out on you, and your sandals did not wear out on your feet.
我領你們在曠野四十年，你們身上的衣服並沒有穿破，腳上的鞋也沒有穿壞。
6 You did not eat any bread, and you did not drink any wine or other alcoholic drinks, so that you might know that I am Yahweh your God.
你們沒有吃餅，也沒有喝清酒濃酒。這要使你們知道，耶和華是你們的上帝。
7 When you came to this place, Sihon, the king of Heshbon, and Og, the king of Bashan, came out against us to fight, and we struck them down.
你們來到這地方，希實本王西宏、巴珊王噩都出來與我們交戰，我們就擊殺了他們，
8 We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
取了他們的地給呂便支派、迦得支派，和瑪拿西半支派為業。
9 Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, so that you may prosper in everything that you do.
所以你們要謹守遵行這約的話，好叫你們在一切所行的事上亨通。
10 You stand today, all of you, before Yahweh your God; your chiefs, your tribes, your elders, and your officers—all the men of Israel,
「今日，你們的首領、族長、長老、官長、以色列的男丁，你們的妻子兒女，和營中寄居的，以及為你們劈柴挑水的人，都站在耶和華－你們的上帝面前，
11 your little ones, your wives, and the foreigner who is among you in your camp, from him who cuts your wood to him who draws your water.
12 You are here in order to enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God and into the oath that Yahweh your God is making with you today,
為要你順從耶和華－你上帝今日與你所立的約，向你所起的誓。
13 so that he may make you today into a people for himself, and that he may be God for you, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
這樣，他要照他向你所應許的話，又向你列祖亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各所起的誓，今日立你作他的子民，他作你的上帝。
14 For it is not only with you that I am making this covenant and this oath—
我不但與你們立這約，起這誓，
15 with everyone standing here with us today before Yahweh our God—but also with those who are not here with us today.
凡與我們一同站在耶和華－我們上帝面前的，並今日不在我們這裏的人，我也與他們立這約，起這誓。
16 You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed.
「我們曾住過埃及地，也從列國經過；這是你們知道的。
17 You have seen their disgusting idols made of wood and stone, silver and gold, that were among them.
你們也看見他們中間可憎之物，並他們木、石、金、銀的偶像。
18 Make sure there is not among you any man, woman, clan, or tribe whose heart is turning away today from Yahweh our God, so as to go worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is not among you any root that produces gall and wormwood.
惟恐你們中間，或男或女，或族長或支派長，今日心裏偏離耶和華－我們的上帝，去事奉那些國的神；又怕你們中間有惡根生出苦菜和茵蔯來，
19 When that person hears the words of this curse, he will bless himself in his heart and say, 'I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' This would destroy the wet together with the dry.
聽見這咒詛的話，心裏仍是自誇說：『我雖然行事心裏頑梗，連累眾人，卻還是平安。』
20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but instead, the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smolder against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book will come on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven.
耶和華必不饒恕他；耶和華的怒氣與憤恨要向他發作，如煙冒出，將這書上所寫的一切咒詛都加在他身上。耶和華又要從天下塗抹他的名，
21 Yahweh will set him apart for disaster out of all the tribes of Israel, in keeping with all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law.
也必照着寫在律法書上、約中的一切咒詛將他從以色列眾支派中分別出來，使他受禍。
22 The generation to come, your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, will speak when they see the plagues on this land and the diseases with which Yahweh has made it sick—
你們的後代，就是以後興起來的子孫，和遠方來的外人，看見這地的災殃，並耶和華所降與這地的疾病，
23 and when they see that the whole land has become sulfur and burning salt, where nothing is sown or bears fruit, where no vegetation grows, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, that Yahweh destroyed in his anger and wrath—
又看見遍地有硫磺，有鹽鹵，有火跡，沒有耕種，沒有出產，連草都不生長－好像耶和華在忿怒中所傾覆的所多瑪、蛾摩拉、押瑪、洗扁一樣－
24 they will say together with all the other nations, 'Why has Yahweh done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?'
所看見的人，連萬國人，都必問說：『耶和華為何向此地這樣行呢？這樣大發烈怒是甚麼意思呢？』
25 Then people will say, 'It is because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, that he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,
人必回答說：『是因這地的人離棄了耶和華－他們列祖的上帝，領他們出埃及地的時候與他們所立的約，
26 and because they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods that they had not known and that he had not given to them.
去事奉敬拜素不認識的別神，是耶和華所未曾給他們安排的。
27 Therefore the anger of Yahweh has been kindled against this land, so as to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book.
所以耶和華的怒氣向這地發作，將這書上所寫的一切咒詛都降在這地上。
28 Yahweh has uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great fury, and has thrown them into another land, as today.'
耶和華在怒氣、忿怒、大惱恨中將他們從本地拔出來，扔在別的地上，像今日一樣。』
29 The secret matters belong alone to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong forever to us and to our descendants, so that we may do all the words of this law.
「隱祕的事是屬耶和華－我們上帝的；惟有明顯的事是永遠屬我們和我們子孫的，好叫我們遵行這律法上的一切話。」
