¹历史的教训

¹`And thou hast loved Jehovah thy God, and kept His charge, and His statutes, and His judgments, and His commands, all the days;

²今日你们要知道，我并不是与你们的儿女说话，因为他们不知道，也没有见过耶和华你们的　神的管教、伟大有力的手和伸出来的膀臂，

²and ye have known to-day — for it is not your sons who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Jehovah your God, His greatness, His strong hand, and His stretched-out arm,

³以及他在埃及向埃及王法老和法老的全国所行的神迹和作为；

³and His signs, and His doings, which He hath done in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land;

⁴他们也没有见过他怎样对待埃及的军队、马匹和车辆；他们追赶你们的时候，耶和华怎样使红海的水淹没了他们，把他们灭绝，这事一直传到今日；

⁴and that which He hath done to the force of Egypt, to its horses, and to its chariot, when He hath caused the waters of the Red Sea to flow against their faces in their pursuing after them, and Jehovah destroyeth them, unto this day;

⁵并且耶和华在旷野怎样待你们，直到你们来到了这个地方；

⁵and that which He hath done to you in the wilderness, till your coming in unto this place;

⁶也没有见过他怎样对待流本的子孙以利押的儿子大坍、亚比兰；大地怎样在全体以色列人中间裂开了，把他们和他们的家人、帐棚，以及与他们在一起一切有生命之物都吞下去；

⁶and that which He hath done to Dathan, and to Abiram, sons of Eliab, sons of Reuben, when the earth hath opened her mouth and swalloweth them, and their houses, and their tents, and all that liveth, which is at their feet, in the midst of all Israel:

⁷只有你们亲眼看见了耶和华所作的一切伟大的作为。

⁷`— But [it is] your eyes which are seeing all the great work of Jehovah, which He hath done;

⁸应许与警告“所以你们要遵守我今日吩咐你的一切诫命，使你们坚强起来，可以进去得着你们将要过去得的那地，

⁸and ye have kept all the command which I am commanding thee to-day, so that ye are strong, and have gone in, and possessed the land whither ye are passing over to possess it,

⁹又使你们在耶和华向你们的列祖起誓应许赐给他们和他们后裔的地上，就是流奶与蜜的地，可以长久居住。

⁹and so that ye prolong days on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers to give to them and to their seed — a land flowing with milk and honey.

¹⁰因为你要进去得的那地，并不像你出来的埃及地；在那里你撒了种，还要用脚灌溉，像菜园一样。

¹⁰`For the land whither thou art going in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt whence ye have come out, where thou sowest thy seed, and hast watered with thy foot, as a garden of the green herb;

¹¹但你们要过去得为业的地，却是一个有山有谷的地，有天上雨水滋润的地，

¹¹but the land whither ye are passing over to possess it, [is] a land of hills and valleys; of the rain of the heavens it drinketh water;

¹²就是耶和华你的　神眷顾的地；从岁首到年终，耶和华你的　神的眼目常常眷顾这地。

¹²a land which Jehovah thy God is searching; continually [are] the eyes of Jehovah thy God upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the latter end of the year.

¹³“如果你们留心听我今日吩咐你们的诫命，爱耶和华你们的　神，一心一意事奉他，

¹³`And it hath been — if thou hearken diligently unto My commands which I am commanding you to-day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve Him with all your heart, and with all your soul —

¹⁴他必按时降雨在你们的地上，就是降秋雨和春雨，使你们可以丰收五谷、新酒和新油。

¹⁴that I have given the rain of your land in its season — sprinkling and gathered — and thou hast gathered thy corn, and thy new wine, and thine oil,

¹⁵他也必使田野为你的牲畜长出青草来，你也可以吃得饱足。

¹⁵and I have given herbs in thy field for thy cattle, and thou hast eaten, and been satisfied.

¹⁶你们要谨慎，免得你们的心受迷惑，你们就偏离了我，去事奉别的神，并且敬拜它们；

¹⁶`Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be enticed, and ye have turned aside, and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them,

¹⁷叫耶和华的怒气向你发作，就把天封闭，不降下雨水，地也不生出土产，使你们从耶和华赐给你们的美地上，快快地灭亡。

¹⁷and the anger of Jehovah hath burned against you, and He hath restrained the heavens, and there is no rain, and the ground doth not give her increase, and ye have perished hastily from off the good land which Jehovah is giving to you.

¹⁸要谨记耶和华的话“所以你们要把我这些话放在心里，存在意念中；要系在手上作记号，戴在额上作头带。

¹⁸`And ye have placed these my words on your heart, and on your soul, and have bound them for a sign on your hand, and they have been for frontlets between your eyes;

¹⁹你们也要把这些话教训你们的儿女，无论你是坐在家里，行在路上，躺下，或是起来，都要讲论。

¹⁹and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

²⁰你要把这些话写在你房屋的门柱上和城门上，

²⁰and hast written them on the side-posts of thy house, and on thy gates,

²¹为要叫你们和你们的子孙的日子，在耶和华向你们列祖起誓应许给他们的地上，可以增多，像天覆地的年日那样多。

²¹so that your days are multiplied, and the days of your sons, on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers to give to them, as the days of the heavens on the earth.

²²如果你们殷勤谨守遵行我吩咐你们的这一切诫命，爱耶和华你们的　神，行他的一切道路，又紧紧地依靠他，

²²`For, if ye diligently keep all this command which I am commanding you — to do it, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave to Him,

²³耶和华就必从你们面前把这些国民都赶出去，你们就必占领比你们大比你们强的国民的地。

²³then hath Jehovah dispossessed all these nations from before you, and ye have possessed nations, greater and mightier than you;

²⁴你们脚掌所踏的地，都必属于你们；从旷野到黎巴嫩，从幼发拉底河直到西海，都要作你们的境界。

²⁴every place on which the sole of your foot treadeth is yours; from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Phrat, even unto the farther sea is your border;

²⁵必没有一人能在你们面前站立得住；耶和华你们的　神，必照着他对你们所说的，使害怕和惊惧你们的心临到你们将要踏足之地的居民。

²⁵no man doth station himself in your presence; your dread and your fear doth Jehovah your God put on the face of all the land on which ye tread, as He hath spoken to you.

²⁶“看哪，我今日把祝福和咒诅都摆在你们面前。

²⁶`See, I am setting before you to-day a blessing and a reviling:

²⁷如果你们听从耶和华你们的　神的诫命，就是我今日吩咐你们的，你们就必蒙赐福；

²⁷the blessing, when ye hearken unto the commands of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you to-day;

²⁸如果你们不听从耶和华你们的　神的诫命，偏离了我今日吩咐你们要走的道路，去随从你们素来不认识的别神，你们就必受咒诅。

²⁸and the reviling, if ye do not hearken unto the commands of Jehovah your God, and have turned aside out of the way which I am commanding you to-day, to go after other gods which ye have not known.

²⁹耶和华你的　神领你进入你要占领为业之地以后，你就要把祝福摆在基利心山上，把咒诅摆在以巴路山上。

²⁹`And it hath been, when Jehovah thy God doth bring thee in unto the land whither thou art going in to possess it, that thou hast given the blessing on mount Gerizim, and the reviling on mount Ebal;

³⁰这两座山不是在约旦河西、日落的地方，在住亚拉巴的迦南人之地，与吉甲相对，靠近摩利橡树那里吗？

³⁰are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going in of the sun, in the land of the Canaanite, who is dwelling in the plain over-against Gilgal, near the oaks of Moreh?

³¹现在你们快要过约旦河，进去得耶和华你们的　神要赐给你们为业之地；你们取得了那地，就住在那里。

³¹for ye are passing over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you; and ye have possessed it, and dwelt in it,

³²你们要谨守遵行我今日在你们的面前颁布的一切律例和典章。”

³²and observed to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you to day.