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 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 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 clothing did not wear out and fall off you, and your feet did not swell up during those forty years.
這四十年，你的衣服沒有穿破，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.
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 You will keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, so that you might walk in his ways and honor him.
你要謹守耶和華－你上帝的誡命，遵行他的道，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, of vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees 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 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.
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 You will eat and be full, and you will bless Yahweh your God for the good land that he has given 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 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 otherwise, when you eat and are full, and when you build good houses and live in them, your heart will be lifted up.
恐怕你吃得飽足，建造美好的房屋居住，
13 Be careful when your herds and flocks multiply and when your silver and gold increase, and all that you have is multiplied,
你的牛羊加多，你的金銀增添，並你所有的全都加增，
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 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.
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 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,
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 but you may say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand acquired all this wealth.'
恐怕你心裏說：『這貨財是我力量、我能力得來的。』
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 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.
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 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.
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。」
