Deuteronomy 8
1 You must keep all the commands that I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that Yahweh swore 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 You will call to mind all the ways that Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order that he might humble you, that he might test you to know what was in your heart, as to whether you would keep his commandments 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 He humbled you, and made you hunger, and fed you with manna, which you had not known and which your fathers had not known. He did that to make you know that it is not by bread alone that people live; rather, it is by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh that people live.
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 clothing did not wear out and fall off you, and your feet did not swell up during those 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 You will think about in your heart, how, as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines 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 You will keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, so that you might walk in his ways and honor 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 Yahweh your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out into valleys and among hills;
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, of vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees 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 It is a land in which you will eat bread without lack, and where you will not go without anything; a land whose stones are made of iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
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 You will eat and be full, and you will bless Yahweh your God for the good land that he has given 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 Be careful that you do not forget Yahweh your God, and that you do not neglect his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes that 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 otherwise, when you eat and are full, and when you build good houses and live in them, your heart will be lifted up.
當你吃飽了，建造了華美房屋居住，
13 Be careful when your herds and flocks multiply and when your silver and gold increase, and all that you have is multiplied,
牛群羊群加多，金銀增加，你所有的一切都增加了，
14 then your heart becomes lifted up and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
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 Do not forget him who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the rock of flint.
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 He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors had never known, so that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the 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 but you may say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand acquired all this wealth.'
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 But you will call to mind Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is today.
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 It will happen that, if you will forget Yahweh your God and walk after other gods, worship them, and reverence them, I testify against you today that you will surely 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 Like the nations that Yahweh is making to perish before you, so will you perish, because you would not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
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。
