Deuteronomy 29
1 These [are] the words of the covenant which Jehovah hath commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, apart from the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.
這是上主在曷勒布山與以色列子民訂立的盟約以外，在摩阿布地方吩咐梅瑟同以色列子民訂立盟約的言辭。
2 And Moses calleth unto all Israel, and saith unto them, 'Ye — ye have seen all that which Jehovah hath done before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
梅瑟將所有的以色列人召來，對他們說：你們親自看見了上主當著你們的面，在埃及地對法郎，對他的臣僕，對他全國所做的一切，
3 the great trials which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders;
那些驚人的折磨、神蹟和偉大的奇事，你們都親眼看見過。
4 and Jehovah hath not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, till this day,
但是，直到今天，上主還沒有給你們一顆能明瞭的心，能看見的眼，能聽見的耳。
5 and I cause you to go forty years in a wilderness; your garments have not been consumed from off you, and thy shoe hath not worn away from off thy foot;
我在曠野四十年之久領導你們，你們身上的衣服沒有穿壞，腳上的鞋也沒有穿破；
6 bread ye have not eaten, and wine and strong drink ye have not drunk, so that ye know that I [am] Jehovah your God.
當時你們沒有吃糧食，也沒有喝清酒醇酒，這是要你們知道，我上主是你們的天主。
7 'And ye come in unto this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon — also Og king of Bashan — doth come out to meet us, to battle, and we smite them,
你們一來到此地，赫市朋王息紅和巴商王敖格出來與我們交戰，我們擊敗了他們，
8 and take their land, and give it for an inheritance to the Reubenite, and to the Gadite, and to the half of the tribe of Manasseh;
佔領了他們的土地，分給了勒烏本人和加得人以及默納協半個支派作產業。
9 and ye have kept the words of this covenant, and done them, so that ye cause all that ye do to prosper.
所以你們應謹守遵行這盟約的話，好使你們在所做的一切事上，都能順利。
10 'Ye are standing to-day, all of you, before Jehovah your God — your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your authorities — every man of Israel;
今天你們全都站在上主你們的天主面前，──你們的首領、族長、長老、官長、和以色列所有的男子，
11 your infants, your wives, and thy sojourner who [is] in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water —
你們的幼小和妻子，以及在你營中的外方人，從為你砍柴到為你汲水的人，──
12 for thy passing over into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into His oath which Jehovah thy God is making with thee to-day;
都來同上主你的天主締結盟約。即上主你的天主今天與你所立附有詛咒的誓約，
13 in order to establish thee to-day to Him for a people, and He Himself is thy God, as He hath spoken to thee, and as He hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
好叫他今天，有如他向你所許過的，有如他向你祖先亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯所誓許的：立你做他的人民，他做你的天主。
14 'And not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath;
我不但與你們立這約和這誓，
15 but with him who is here with us, standing to-day before Jehovah our God, and with him who is not here with us to-day,
而且也與那些今天與我們同站在上主我們的天主面前的人，和那些今天不與我們同在這裏的人立約。
16 for ye have known how ye dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we passed by through the midst of the nations which ye have passed by;
你們清楚知道，我們怎樣在埃及地住過，怎樣由一些民族中間走過；
17 and ye see their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which [are] with them,
你們也見過他們的醜惡之物和他們那裏所有的木、石、金、銀的偶像。
18 lest there be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart is turning to-day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations, lest there be in you a root fruitful of gall and wormwood:
惟願在你們中沒有一個男人或女人，或家族，或支派，今日存心遠離上主我們的天主，去奉事這些民族的神；惟願在他們中沒有一根生出毒草和苦艾的根子，
19 'And it hath been, in his hearing the words of this oath, and he hath blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though in the stubbornness of my heart I go on, in order to end the fulness with the thirst.
以致有人在聽了這咒誓之後心中慶幸說：「我雖隨心所欲地行事，仍平安無事。」這要使濕地與乾地同歸於盡。
20 Jehovah is not willing to be propitious to him, for then doth the anger of Jehovah smoke, also His zeal, against that man, and lain down on him hath all the oath which is written in this book, and Jehovah hath blotted out his name from under the heavens,
上主決不肯寬恕他；上主的烈怒和憤恨必向這人發作，這書上載的一切詛咒都要降在他身上，上主必由天下抹去他的名字。
21 and Jehovah hath separated him for evil, out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the oaths of the covenant which is written in this book of the law.
上主將把他由以色列各支派中分出，照這法律書上所載的一切詛咒，使他遭受災禍。
22 'And the latter generation of your sons who rise after you, and the stranger who cometh in from a land afar off, have said when they have seen the strokes of that land, and its sicknesses which Jehovah hath sent into it, —
未來的一代，即繼你們而興起的子孫，和遠地來的外方人，見了這地的災禍和上主所降的災殃，
23 ([with] brimstone and salt is the whole land burnt, it is not sown, nor doth it shoot up, nor doth there go up on it any herb, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overturned in His anger, and in His fury, ) —
見了硫磺、鹽鹵和被焚毀的整個地區，不能耕種，沒有出產，寸草不生，正如上主在忿怒和氣憤中消滅的索多瑪、哈摩辣、阿瑪得和責波殷所受的破壞一樣，
24 yea, all the nations have said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land? what the heat of this great anger?
各民族要問說：「為什麼上主這樣對待了這地﹖這盛怒為何如此猛烈﹖」
25 'And they have said, Because that they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah, God of their fathers, which He made with them in His bringing them out of the land of Egypt,
人必回答說：「這是因為他們離棄了上主他們祖先的天主，領他們出埃及地時，與他們所締結的盟約，
26 and they go and serve other gods, and bow themselves to them — gods which they have not known, and which He hath not apportioned to them;
而去事奉了其他的神，叩拜了他們素不認識，沒有給他們指定的神；
27 and the anger of Jehovah burneth against that land, to bring in on it all the reviling that is written in this book,
上主於是向這地大發忿怒，使這書上記載的一切詛咒都降在這地上。
28 and Jehovah doth pluck them from off their ground in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath, and doth cast them unto another land, as [at] this day.
上主遂在忿怒激忿和烈怒中，將他們由本地拔除，拋棄在異國，就像今天一樣。」
29 'The things hidden [are] to Jehovah our God, and the things revealed [are] to us and to our sons — to the age, to do all the words of this law.
隱密的事，屬於上主我們的天主，已啟示的事，卻永遠與我們和我們的子孫有關，為叫我們實行這法律上的一切話。
