¹歷史的教訓“所以你要愛耶和華你的　神，常常遵守他的吩咐、律例、典章和誡命。

¹Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

²今日你們要知道，我並不是與你們的兒女說話，因為他們不知道，也沒有見過耶和華你們的　神的管教、偉大有力的手和伸出來的膀臂，

²Know this day: for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm,

³以及他在埃及向埃及王法老和法老的全國所行的神蹟和作為；

³and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;

⁴他們也沒有見過他怎樣對待埃及的軍隊、馬匹和車輛；他們追趕你們的時候，耶和華怎樣使紅海的水淹沒了他們，把他們滅絕，這事一直傳到今日；

⁴and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea or, Sea of Reeds to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;

⁵並且耶和華在曠野怎樣待你們，直到你們來到了這個地方；

⁵and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place;

⁶也沒有見過他怎樣對待流本的子孫以利押的兒子大坍、亞比蘭；大地怎樣在全體以色列人中間裂開了，把他們和他們的家人、帳棚，以及與他們在一起一切有生命之物都吞下去；

⁶and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel:

⁷只有你們親眼看見了耶和華所作的一切偉大的作為。

⁷but your eyes have seen all the great work of Yahweh which he did.

⁸應許與警告“所以你們要遵守我今日吩咐你的一切誡命，使你們堅強起來，可以進去得著你們將要過去得的那地，

⁸Therefore you shall keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it;

⁹又使你們在耶和華向你們的列祖起誓應許賜給他們和他們後裔的地上，就是流奶與蜜的地，可以長久居住。

⁹and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.

¹⁰因為你要進去得的那地，並不像你出來的埃及地；在那裡你撒了種，還要用腳灌溉，像菜園一樣。

¹⁰For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn’t as the land of Egypt, that you came out from, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;

¹¹但你們要過去得為業的地，卻是一個有山有谷的地，有天上雨水滋潤的地，

¹¹but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water of the rain of the sky,

¹²就是耶和華你的　神眷顧的地；從歲首到年終，耶和華你的　神的眼目常常眷顧這地。

¹²a land which Yahweh your God cares for: the eyes of Yahweh your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.

¹³“如果你們留心聽我今日吩咐你們的誡命，愛耶和華你們的　神，一心一意事奉他，

¹³It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

¹⁴他必按時降雨在你們的地上，就是降秋雨和春雨，使你們可以豐收五穀、新酒和新油。

¹⁴that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.

¹⁵他也必使田野為你的牲畜長出青草來，你也可以吃得飽足。

¹⁵I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

¹⁶你們要謹慎，免得你們的心受迷惑，你們就偏離了我，去事奉別的神，並且敬拜它們；

¹⁶Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

¹⁷叫耶和華的怒氣向你發作，就把天封閉，不降下雨水，地也不生出土產，使你們從耶和華賜給你們的美地上，快快地滅亡。

¹⁷and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.

¹⁸要謹記耶和華的話“所以你們要把我這些話放在心裡，存在意念中；要繫在手上作記號，戴在額上作頭帶。

¹⁸Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.

¹⁹你們也要把這些話教訓你們的兒女，無論你是坐在家裡，行在路上，躺下，或是起來，都要講論。

¹⁹You shall teach them your children, talking 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.

²⁰你要把這些話寫在你房屋的門柱上和城門上，

²⁰You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates;

²¹為要叫你們和你們的子孫的日子，在耶和華向你們列祖起誓應許給他們的地上，可以增多，像天覆地的年日那樣多。

²¹that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

²²如果你們殷勤謹守遵行我吩咐你們的這一切誡命，愛耶和華你們的　神，行他的一切道路，又緊緊地依靠他，

²²For if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him;

²³耶和華就必從你們面前把這些國民都趕出去，你們就必佔領比你們大比你們強的國民的地。

²³then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

²⁴你們腳掌所踏的地，都必屬於你們；從曠野到黎巴嫩，從幼發拉底河直到西海，都要作你們的境界。

²⁴Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your border.

²⁵必沒有一人能在你們面前站立得住；耶和華你們的　神，必照著他對你們所說的，使害怕和驚懼你們的心臨到你們將要踏足之地的居民。

²⁵No man shall be able to stand before you: Yahweh your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has spoken to you.

²⁶“看哪，我今日把祝福和咒詛都擺在你們面前。

²⁶Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:

²⁷如果你們聽從耶和華你們的　神的誡命，就是我今日吩咐你們的，你們就必蒙賜福；

²⁷the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day;

²⁸如果你們不聽從耶和華你們的　神的誡命，偏離了我今日吩咐你們要走的道路，去隨從你們素來不認識的別神，你們就必受咒詛。

²⁸and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.

²⁹耶和華你的　神領你進入你要佔領為業之地以後，你就要把祝福擺在基利心山上，把咒詛擺在以巴路山上。

²⁹It shall happen, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.

³⁰這兩座山不是在約旦河西、日落的地方，在住亞拉巴的迦南人之地，與吉甲相對，靠近摩利橡樹那裡嗎？

³⁰Aren’t they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?

³¹現在你們快要過約旦河，進去得耶和華你們的　神要賜給你們為業之地；你們取得了那地，就住在那裡。

³¹For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein.

³²你們要謹守遵行我今日在你們的面前頒布的一切律例和典章。”

³²You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.