Deuteronomy 6

1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land that you go over to possess;

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，

2 that you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

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。

3 Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

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。

4 Hear, Israel: The LORD is our God. The LORD is one.

以色列! 你要聽：上主我們的天主，是唯一的上主。

5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

你當全心、全靈、全力，愛上主你的天主。

6 These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

我今天吩咐你的這些話，你應牢記在心，

7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

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；

8 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

又該繫在你的手上，當作標記；懸在額上，當作徽號；

9 You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.

刻在你住宅的門框上和門扇上。

10 It shall be, when the LORD your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities which you didn’t build,

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；

11 and houses full of all good things which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full;

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，

12 then beware lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

你應留心，不要忘了領你由埃及地，為奴之家，出來的上主。

13 You shall fear the LORD your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

你要敬畏上主你的天主，只事奉他，只以他的名起誓。

14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you,

不可追隨別的神，即你們四周民族的神，

15 for the LORD your God amongst you is a jealous God, lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

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。

16 You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

你們不可試探上主你們的天主，如同在瑪撒試探了他一樣。

17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

應謹慎遵守上主你們天主所吩咐你的誡命、教訓和法令。

18 You shall do that which is right and good in the LORD’s sight, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to your fathers,

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，

19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.

能由你面前驅逐你的一切仇敵，如上主所應許的。

20 When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD our God has commanded you mean?”

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﹖」

21 then you shall tell your son, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. The LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

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。

22 and the LORD showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;

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；

23 and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.

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。

24 The LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.

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。

25 It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.”

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。