申命記 8

1 「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。

All the commandment which I command thee this day ye shall observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers.

2 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。

And thou shall remember all the way which Jehovah thy God has led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.

3 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。

And he humbled thee, and allowed thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knew not, neither did thy fathers know, that he might make thee know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Jehovah.

4 這四十年，你的衣服沒有穿破，你的腳也沒有腫。

Thy raiment did not grow old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

5 你當心裏思想，耶和華－你上帝管教你，好像人管教兒子一樣。

And thou shall consider in thy heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so Jehovah thy God chastens thee.

6 你要謹守耶和華－你上帝的誡命，遵行他的道，敬畏他。

And thou shall keep the commandments of Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

7 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。

For Jehovah thy God brings thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;

8 那地有小麥、大麥、葡萄樹、無花果樹、石榴樹、橄欖樹，和蜜。

a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,

9 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。

a land in which thou shall eat bread without scarceness. Thou shall not lack anything in it, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou may dig copper.

10 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。」

And thou shall eat and be full, and thou shall bless Jehovah thy God for the good land which he has given thee.

11 「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；

Beware lest thou forget Jehovah thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command thee this day.

12 恐怕你吃得飽足，建造美好的房屋居住，

Lest, when thou have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelt in it,

13 你的牛羊加多，你的金銀增添，並你所有的全都加增，

and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou have is multiplied,

14 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，

then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget Jehovah thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,

15 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，

who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness-fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water-who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint,

16 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；

who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers did not know, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end.

17 恐怕你心裏說：『這貨財是我力量、我能力得來的。』

And lest thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.

18 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。

But thou shall remember Jehovah thy God, for it is he who gives thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to thy fathers, as at this day.

19 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。

And it shall be, if thou shall forget Jehovah thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

20 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。」

As the nations that Jehovah makes to perish before you, so shall ye perish, because ye would not hearken to the voice of Jehovah your God.