¹勸人民遵行　神的律例“以色列人哪，現在你們要聽我向來教訓你們遵行的律例和典章，使你們可以活著，可以進去得著耶和華你們列祖的　神賜給你們的地作產業。

¹Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.

²我吩咐你們的話，你們不可增加，也不可減少，好使你們遵守我吩咐你們的，就是耶和華你們的　神的命令。

²You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.

³耶和華因巴力．毗珥的事所行的，你們都親眼看見了；所有跟隨巴力．毗珥的人，耶和華你們的　神都從你們中間消滅了。

³Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from the midst of you.

⁴只有你們緊緊倚靠耶和華你們的　神的人，今日全都活著。

⁴But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive this day.

⁵看哪，我照著耶和華我的　神吩咐我的，把律例和典章教訓你們，好讓你們在將要進去得為業的地上遵行。

⁵Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it.

⁶所以你們要謹守遵行，因為在萬民的眼中看來，這就是你們的智慧和聰明；他們一聽見這一切律例，就必定說：‘這大國的人真是有智慧，有聰明啊。’

⁶Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

⁷哪一個大國的人有神與他們這樣親近，像耶和華我們的　神，在我們每次呼求他的時候，與我們親近一樣呢？

⁷For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

⁸又哪一個大國有這樣公義的律例和典章，像我今日在你面前頒布的這一切律法呢？

⁸What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

⁹“你只要自己謹慎，又要謹守你的心思，免得你忘了你親眼看見的事，又免得這些事在你有生之日離開你的心；總要把這些事傳給你的子子孫孫，

⁹Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;

¹⁰免得你忘了你在何烈山，站在耶和華你們的　神面前的那天。那時耶和華對我說：‘你要為我召集眾民，我要叫他們聽我的話，使他們在那地上生活的日子，可以學習敬畏我，又可以教訓自己的兒女。’

¹⁰the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”

¹¹那時，你們走前來，站在山下；山上有火燒著，火燄沖天，又有黑暗、密雲和幽暗。

¹¹You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.

¹²耶和華從火中對你們說話；你們只聽見聲音，卻沒有看見形象；只有聲音，

¹²Yahweh spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.

¹³把他的約，就是他吩咐你們遵守的那十條誡命，向你們宣布出來；又把它們寫在兩塊石版上。

¹³He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.

¹⁴那時，耶和華也吩咐我把律例和典章教訓你們，使你們在將要過去得為業的地上遵行。

¹⁴Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.

¹⁵警告人民勿拜偶像“所以你們要特別小心，謹慎自己，因為耶和華在何烈山從火中對你們說話的那一天，你們沒有看見甚麼形象；

¹⁵Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.

¹⁶恐怕你們敗壞自己，為自己製造偶像，製造任何神像的形象，無論是男像或是女像，

¹⁶Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

¹⁷或是地上各種走獸的像，或是飛翔在空中各類有翅膀的雀鳥的像，

¹⁷the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,

¹⁸或是地上各種爬行動物的像，或是地底下水裡各樣魚類的像。

¹⁸the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;

¹⁹又恐怕你抬頭望天，看見日、月、星，就是天上萬象的時候，就被勾引，去敬拜和事奉它們，那原是耶和華你們的　神分給天下萬民享用的。

¹⁹and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

²⁰耶和華卻把你們從埃及，從鐵爐那裡領出來，作他自己的產業，自己的人民，像今日一樣。

²⁰But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.

²¹耶和華又因你們的緣故，向我發怒，並且起誓不讓我過約旦河，也不容我進入耶和華你的　神賜給你作產業的那美地。

²¹Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance:

²²我只有死在此地，不得過約旦河；你們卻可以過去，取得那美地作產業。

²²but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over, and possess that good land.

²³你們要自己謹慎，免得你們忘記了耶和華你們的　神與你們所立的約，你們就為自己製造偶像，製造任何神像的形象，就是耶和華你的　神吩咐你不可作的。

²³Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.

²⁴因為耶和華你的　神是烈火，是忌邪的　神。

²⁴For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

²⁵“你們生子生孫，在那地住久了的時候，如果你們敗壞自己，製造偶像，製造任何神像的形象，行耶和華你的　神看為惡的事，惹他發怒，

²⁵When you shall father children, and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke him to anger;

²⁶我今日就呼天喚地向你們作證，你們必在過約旦河取得為業的地上迅速滅亡；你們必不能在那地長久生存，必全被消滅。

²⁶I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

²⁷耶和華必使你們分散在萬民中；在耶和華要領你們所到的萬國中，你們剩下的人數必不多。

²⁷Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh shall lead you away.

²⁸在那裡你們必事奉人手所做的神，就是用木頭石頭做成的，不能看、不能聽、不能吃、不能聞的神。

²⁸There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

²⁹但你們在那裡必尋求耶和華你的　神；如果你一心一意尋找他，就必尋見。

²⁹But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

³⁰日後，你落在患難中，這些事都臨到你身上的時候，你必歸向耶和華你的　神，聽從他的話；

³⁰When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice:

³¹因為耶和華你的　神原是滿有憐憫的　神，他必不丟棄你，不毀滅你，也不忘記他起誓與你的列祖所立的約。

³¹for Yahweh your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

³²唯耶和華是　神“你問問在你以前過去的日子，自從　神創造人在地上以來，從天這邊到天那邊，有沒有人行過這樣的大事，聽過像這樣的事呢？

³²For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?

³³有沒有一個民族聽見　神在火中說話的聲音，像你聽見的一樣，還能活著呢？

³³Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

³⁴有沒有一位神嘗試藉著試驗、神蹟、奇事、戰爭、大能的手和伸出來的膀臂，以及大而可畏的事，把一國的人民從別的國中領出來，像耶和華你們的　神在埃及，在你們面前為你們所作的一切事呢？

³⁴Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

³⁵這是要顯明給你看，使你知道，只有耶和華是　神；除了他以外，再沒有別的神。

³⁵It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.

³⁶他從天上使你聽見他的聲音，為要教導你；又在地上使你看見他的大火，並且叫你聽到他從火中所說的話。

³⁶Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and on earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.

³⁷因為他愛你的列祖，所以才揀選了他們的後裔，用大能親自把你從埃及領出來，

³⁷Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

³⁸為要把比你大比你強的民族，從你面前趕走，然後領你進去，把他們的地賜給你作產業，像今日一樣。

³⁸to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day.

³⁹所以今天你要知道，也要記在心裡；天上地下，只有耶和華是　神；除他以外，再沒有別的神了。

³⁹Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that Yahweh he is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is none else.

⁴⁰你要遵守我今日吩咐你的律例和誡命，使你和你的子孫得享福樂，也使你在耶和華你的　神賜給你的那地上得享長壽。”

⁴⁰You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.

⁴¹約旦河東之避難城那時，摩西在約旦河東，日出的方向，把三座城分別出來，

⁴¹Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;

⁴²讓那些素無仇恨、無心誤殺人的，可以逃到那裡去；逃到這三座城的一座去的，都可以活著：

⁴²that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn’t hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

⁴³為流本人，分出了在曠野平原的比悉；為迦得人，分出了基列的拉末；為瑪拿西人，分出了巴珊的哥蘭。

⁴³Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

⁴⁴　神的法典以下是摩西在以色列人面前所立的律法，

⁴⁴This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:

⁴⁵就是摩西在以色列人出埃及以後，對他們所說的法度、律例和典章；

⁴⁵these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt,

⁴⁶地點是在約旦河東，伯．毗珥對面的谷中，就是住在希實本的亞摩利人的王西宏的地。這西宏是摩西和以色列人出埃及後擊殺的。

⁴⁶beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck, when they came forth out of Egypt.

⁴⁷他們佔領了他的地和巴珊王噩的地，就是兩個亞摩利人的王，是住在約旦河東，日出的方向的；

⁴⁷They took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;

⁴⁸從亞嫩谷邊的亞羅珥，直到西雲山，西雲山就是黑門山；

⁴⁸from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (the same is Hermon),

⁴⁹還有約旦河東的亞拉巴全地，直到亞拉巴海，就是毗斯迦的山坡下。

⁴⁹and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.