申命記 6

1 以下是上主你們的天主吩咐我教給你們的誡命、法令和規則，叫你們在過河後去佔領的地內遵行，

And these [are] the commands, and the ordinances, and the judgments, as many as the Lord our God gave commandment to teach you to do so in the land on which ye enter to inherit it.

2 好使你和你的子子孫孫，終生日日敬畏上主你的天主，遵守我吩咐你的一切法令和誡命，使你獲享長壽。

That ye may fear the Lord your God, keep ye all his ordinances, and his commandments, which I command thee to-day, thou, and thy sons, and thy sons' sons, all the days of thy life, that ye may live many days.

3 以色列! 你要聽，且謹守遵行，好使你在流奶流蜜的地方，獲得幸福，人數增多，如上主你祖先的天主所許給你的。

Hear, therefore, O Israel, and observe to do them, that it may be well with thee, and that ye may be greatly multiplied, as the Lord God of thy fathers said that he would give thee a land flowing with milk and honey: and these [are] the ordinances, and the judgments, which the Lord commanded the children of Israel in the wilderness, when they had gone forth from the land of Egypt.

4 以色列! 你要聽：上主我們的天主，是唯一的上主。

Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God is one Lord.

5 你當全心、全靈、全力，愛上主你的天主。

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy mind, and with all thy soul, and all thy strength.

6 我今天吩咐你的這些話，你應牢記在心，

And these words, all that I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart and in thy soul.

7 並將這些話灌輸給你的子女。不論你住在家裏，或在路上行走，或臥或立，常應講論這些話；

And thou shalt teach them to thy children, and thou shalt speak of them sitting in the house, and walking by the way, and lying down, and rising up.

8 又該繫在你的手上，當作標記；懸在額上，當作徽號；

And thou shalt fasten them for a sign upon thy hand, and it shall be immoveable before thine eyes.

9 刻在你住宅的門框上和門扇上。

And ye shall write them on the lintels of your houses and of your gates.

10 上主你的天主，幾時領你進入他向你的祖先亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯起誓，要賜給你的地方，那裏有高大壯觀的城邑，而不是你所建造的；

And it shall come to pass when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware to thy fathers, to Abraam, and to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and beautiful cities which thou didst not build,

11 有充滿各樣寶物的住宅，而不是你裝滿的；有蓄水池，而不是你挖掘的；有葡萄園和橄欖樹林，而不是你栽植的；──當你吃飽時，

houses full of all good things which thou didst not fill, wells dug in the rock which thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards which thou didst not plant, then having eaten and been filled,

12 你應留心，不要忘了領你由埃及地，為奴之家，出來的上主。

beware lest thou forget the Lord thy God that brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

13 你要敬畏上主你的天主，只事奉他，只以他的名起誓。

Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve; and thou shalt cleave to him, and by his name thou shalt swear.

14 不可追隨別的神，即你們四周民族的神，

Go ye not after other gods of the gods of the nations round about you;

15 因為在你中間的上主你的天主，是忌邪的天主，免得上主你的天主發怒，將你由地上消滅。

for the Lord thy God in the midst of thee [is] a jealous God, lest the Lord thy God be very angry with thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

16 你們不可試探上主你們的天主，如同在瑪撒試探了他一樣。

Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as ye tempted him in the temptation.

17 應謹慎遵守上主你們天主所吩咐你的誡命、教訓和法令。

Thou shalt by all means keep the commands of the Lord thy God, the testimonies, and the ordinances, which he commanded thee.

18 應做上主眼中視為正義和美善的事，使你能獲得幸福，能去佔領上主誓許與你祖先的那塊肥美的土地，

And thou shalt do that which is pleasing and good before the Lord thy God, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and inherit the good land, which the Lord sware to your fathers,

19 能由你面前驅逐你的一切仇敵，如上主所應許的。

to chase all thine enemies from before thy face, as the Lord said.

20 假使日後你的兒子問你說：「上主我們的天主吩咐你們的這些教訓、法令和規則，究竟有什麼意思﹖」

And it shall come to pass when thy son shall ask thee at a future time, saying, What are the testimonies, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which the Lord our God has commanded us?

21 你應對你的兒子說：我們曾在埃及作過法郎的奴隸，上主卻以大能的手將我們由埃及領了出來。

Then shalt thou say to thy son, We were slaves to Pharao in the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought us forth thence with a mighty hand, and with a high arm.

22 上主在我們的眼前，對埃及，對法郎和他全家，行了轟轟烈烈的神蹟和奇事；

And the Lord wrought signs and great and grievous wonders in Egypt, on Pharao and on his house before us.

23 將我們從那裏領出來，領我們進入他誓許給我們的祖先，要賜給我們的土地。

And he brought us out thence to give us this land, which he sware to give to our fathers.

24 那時，上主吩咐我們遵行這一切法令，為敬畏上主我們的天主，為使我們時時得享幸福，得保生命，就如今日一樣。

And the Lord charged us to observe all these ordinances; to fear the Lord our God, that it may be well with us for ever, that we may live, as even to-day.

25 我們在上主我們的天主面前，照他所吩咐我們的，謹慎遵行這一切誡命，就是我們的義德。

And there shall be mercy to us, if we take heed to keep all these commands before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.