¹劝人民遵行　神的律例

¹`And now, Israel, hearken unto the statutes, and unto the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that ye live, and have gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah God of your fathers is giving to you.

²我吩咐你们的话，你们不可增加，也不可减少，好使你们遵守我吩咐你们的，就是耶和华你们的　神的命令。

²Ye do not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor diminish from it, to keep the commands of Jehovah your God which I am commanding you.

³耶和华因巴力．毗珥的事所行的，你们都亲眼看见了；所有跟随巴力．毗珥的人，耶和华你们的　神都从你们中间消灭了。

³`Your eyes are seeing that which Jehovah hath done in Baal-Peor, for every man who hath gone after Baal-Peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed him from thy midst;

⁴只有你们紧紧倚靠耶和华你们的　神的人，今日全都活着。

⁴and ye who are cleaving to Jehovah your God, [are] alive, all of you, to-day.

⁵看哪，我照着耶和华我的　神吩咐我的，把律例和典章教训你们，好让你们在将要进去得为业的地上遵行。

⁵`See, I have taught you statutes and judgments, as Jehovah my God hath commanded me — to do so, in the midst of the land whither ye are going in to possess it;

⁶所以你们要谨守遵行，因为在万民的眼中看来，这就是你们的智慧和聪明；他们一听见这一切律例，就必定说：‘这大国的人真是有智慧，有聪明啊。’

⁶and ye have kept and done [them] (for it [is] your wisdom and your understanding) before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these statutes, and they have said, Only, a people wise and understanding [is] this great nation.

⁷哪一个大国的人有神与他们这样亲近，像耶和华我们的　神，在我们每次呼求他的时候，与我们亲近一样呢？

⁷`For which [is] the great nation that hath God near unto it, as Jehovah our God, in all we have called unto him?

⁸又哪一个大国有这样公义的律例和典章，像我今日在你面前颁布的这一切律法呢？

⁸and which [is] the great nation which hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you to-day?

⁹“你只要自己谨慎，又要谨守你的心思，免得你忘了你亲眼看见的事，又免得这些事在你有生之日离开你的心；总要把这些事传给你的子子孙孙，

⁹`Only, take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from thy heart, all days of thy life; and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy sons` sons.

¹⁰免得你忘了你在何烈山，站在耶和华你们的　神面前的那天。那时耶和华对我说：‘你要为我召集众民，我要叫他们听我的话，使他们在那地上生活的日子，可以学习敬畏我，又可以教训自己的儿女。’

¹⁰`The day when thou hast stood before Jehovah thy God in Horeb — in Jehovah`s saying unto me, Assemble to Me the people, and I cause them to hear My words, so that they learn to fear Me all the days that they are alive on the ground, and their sons they teach; —

¹¹那时，你们走前来，站在山下；山上有火烧着，火焰冲天，又有黑暗、密云和幽暗。

¹¹and ye draw near and stand under the mountain, and the mountain is burning with fire unto the heart of the heavens — darkness, cloud, yea, thick darkness:

¹²耶和华从火中对你们说话；你们只听见声音，却没有看见形象；只有声音，

¹²`And Jehovah speaketh unto you out of the midst of the fire; a voice of words ye are hearing and a similitude ye are not seeing, only a voice;

¹³把他的约，就是他吩咐你们遵守的那十条诫命，向你们宣布出来；又把它们写在两块石版上。

¹³and He declareth to you His covenant, which He hath commanded you to do, the Ten Matters, and He writeth them upon two tables of stone.

¹⁴那时，耶和华也吩咐我把律例和典章教训你们，使你们在将要过去得为业的地上遵行。

¹⁴`And me hath Jehovah commanded at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, for your doing them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it;

¹⁵警告人民勿拜偶像“所以你们要特别小心，谨慎自己，因为耶和华在何烈山从火中对你们说话的那一天，你们没有看见什么形象；

¹⁵and ye have been very watchful of your souls, for ye have not seen any similitude in the day of Jehovah`s speaking unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,

¹⁶恐怕你们败坏自己，为自己制造偶像，制造任何神像的形象，无论是男像或是女像，

¹⁶lest ye do corruptly, and have made to you a graven image, a similitude of any figure, a form of male or female —

¹⁷或是地上各种走兽的像，或是飞翔在空中各类有翅膀的雀鸟的像，

¹⁷a form of any beast which [is] in the earth — a form of any winged bird which flieth in the heavens —

¹⁸或是地上各种爬行动物的像，或是地底下水里各样鱼类的像。

¹⁸a form of any creeping thing on the ground — a form of any fish which [is] in the waters under the earth;

¹⁹又恐怕你抬头望天，看见日、月、星，就是天上万象的时候，就被勾引，去敬拜和事奉它们，那原是耶和华你们的　神分给天下万民享用的。

¹⁹`And lest thou lift up thine eyes towards the heavens, and hast seen the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and thou hast been forced, and hast bowed thyself to them, and served them, which Jehovah thy God hath apportioned to all the peoples under the whole heavens.

²⁰耶和华却把你们从埃及，从铁炉那里领出来，作他自己的产业，自己的人民，像今日一样。

²⁰`And you hath Jehovah taken, and He is bringing you out from the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be to Him for a people — an inheritance, as [at] this day.

²¹耶和华又因你们的缘故，向我发怒，并且起誓不让我过约旦河，也不容我进入耶和华你的　神赐给你作产业的那美地。

²¹`And Jehovah hath shewed himself wroth with me because of your words, and sweareth to my not passing over the Jordan, and to my not going in unto the good land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee — an inheritance;

²²我只有死在此地，不得过约旦河；你们却可以过去，取得那美地作产业。

²²for I am dying in this land; I am not passing over the Jordan, and ye are passing over, and have possessed this good land.

²³你们要自己谨慎，免得你们忘记了耶和华你们的　神与你们所立的约，你们就为自己制造偶像，制造任何神像的形象，就是耶和华你的　神吩咐你不可作的。

²³`Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which He hath made with you, and have made to yourselves a graven image, a similitude of anything [concerning] which Jehovah thy God hath charged thee:

²⁴因为耶和华你的　神是烈火，是忌邪的　神。

²⁴for Jehovah thy God is a fire consuming — a zealous God.

²⁵“你们生子生孙，在那地住久了的时候，如果你们败坏自己，制造偶像，制造任何神像的形象，行耶和华你的　神看为恶的事，惹他发怒，

²⁵`When thou begettest sons and sons` sons, and ye have become old in the land, and have done corruptly, and have made a graven image, a similitude of anything, and have done the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger: —

²⁶我今日就呼天唤地向你们作证，你们必在过约旦河取得为业的地上迅速灭亡；你们必不能在那地长久生存，必全被消灭。

²⁶I have caused to testify against you this day the heavens and the earth, that ye do perish utterly hastily from off the land whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it; ye do not prolong days upon it, but are utterly destroyed;

²⁷耶和华必使你们分散在万民中；在耶和华要领你们所到的万国中，你们剩下的人数必不多。

²⁷and Jehovah hath scattered you among the peoples, and ye have been left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah leadeth you,

²⁸在那里你们必事奉人手所做的神，就是用木头石头做成的，不能看、不能听、不能吃、不能闻的神。

²⁸and ye have served there gods, work of man`s hands, wood and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

²⁹但你们在那里必寻求耶和华你的　神；如果你一心一意寻找他，就必寻见。

²⁹`And — ye have sought from thence Jehovah thy God, and hast found, when thou seekest Him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,

³⁰日后，你落在患难中，这些事都临到你身上的时候，你必归向耶和华你的　神，听从他的话；

³⁰in distress [being] to thee, and all these things have found thee, in the latter end of the days, and thou hast turned back unto Jehovah thy God, and hast hearkened to His voice;

³¹因为耶和华你的　神原是满有怜悯的　神，他必不丢弃你，不毁灭你，也不忘记他起誓与你的列祖所立的约。

³¹for a merciful God [is] Jehovah thy God; He doth not fail thee, nor destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers, which He hath sworn to them.

³²唯耶和华是　神“你问问在你以前过去的日子，自从　神创造人在地上以来，从天这边到天那边，有没有人行过这样的大事，听过像这样的事呢？

³²`For, ask, I pray thee, at the former days which have been before thee, from the day that God prepared man on the earth, and from the [one] end of the heavens even unto the [other] end of the heavens, whether there hath been as this great thing — or hath been heard like it?

³³有没有一个民族听见　神在火中说话的声音，像你听见的一样，还能活着呢？

³³Hath a people heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, thou — and doth live?

³⁴有没有一位神尝试借着试验、神迹、奇事、战争、大能的手和伸出来的膀臂，以及大而可畏的事，把一国的人民从别的国中领出来，像耶和华你们的　神在埃及，在你们面前为你们所作的一切事呢？

³⁴Or hath God tried to go in to take to Himself, a nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors — according to all that Jehovah your God hath done to you, in Egypt, before your eyes?

³⁵这是要显明给你看，使你知道，只有耶和华是　神；除了他以外，再没有别的神。

³⁵Thou, thou hast been shewn [it], to know that Jehovah He [is] God; there is none else besides Him.

³⁶他从天上使你听见他的声音，为要教导你；又在地上使你看见他的大火，并且叫你听到他从火中所说的话。

³⁶`From the heavens He hath caused thee to hear His voice, to instruct thee, and on earth He hath shewed thee His great fire, and His words thou hast heard out of the midst of the fire.

³⁷因为他爱你的列祖，所以才拣选了他们的后裔，用大能亲自把你从埃及领出来，

³⁷`And because that He hath loved thy fathers, He doth also fix on their seed after them, and doth bring thee out, in His presence, by His great power, from Egypt:

³⁸为要把比你大比你强的民族，从你面前赶走，然后领你进去，把他们的地赐给你作产业，像今日一样。

³⁸to dispossess nations greater and stronger than thou, from thy presence, to bring thee in to give to thee their land — an inheritance, as [at] this day.

³⁹所以今天你要知道，也要记在心里；天上地下，只有耶和华是　神；除他以外，再没有别的神了。

³⁹`And thou hast known to-day, and hast turned [it] back unto thy heart, that Jehovah He [is] God, in the heavens 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诫命，使你和你的子孙得享福乐，也使你在耶和华你的　神赐给你的那地上得享长寿。”

⁴⁰and thou hast kept His statutes and His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, so that it is well to thee, and to thy sons after thee, and so that thou prolongest days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee — all the days.`

⁴¹约旦河东之避难城那时，摩西在约旦河东，日出的方向，把三座城分别出来，

⁴¹Then Moses separateth three cities beyond the Jordan, towards the sun-rising,

⁴²让那些素无仇恨、无心误杀人的，可以逃到那里去；逃到这三座城的一座去的，都可以活着：

⁴²for the fleeing thither of the man-slayer, who slayeth his neighbour unknowingly, and he is not hating him heretofore, and he hath fled unto one of these cities, and he hath lived:

⁴³为流本人，分出了在旷野平原的比悉；为迦得人，分出了基列的拉末；为玛拿西人，分出了巴珊的哥兰。

⁴³Bezer, in the wilderness, in the land of the plain, of the Reubenite; and Ramoth, in Gilead, of the Gadite; and Golan, in Bashan, of the Manassahite.

⁴⁴　神的法典以下是摩西在以色列人面前所立的律法，

⁴⁴And this [is] the law which Moses hath set before the sons of Israel;

⁴⁵就是摩西在以色列人出埃及以后，对他们所说的法度、律例和典章；

⁴⁵these [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses hath spoken unto the sons of Israel, in their coming out of Egypt,

⁴⁶地点是在约旦河东，伯．毗珥对面的谷中，就是住在希实本的亚摩利人的王西宏的地。这西宏是摩西和以色列人出埃及后击杀的。

⁴⁶beyond the Jordan, in the valley over-against Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorite, who is dwelling in Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel have smitten, in their coming out of Egypt,

⁴⁷他们占领了他的地和巴珊王噩的地，就是两个亚摩利人的王，是住在约旦河东，日出的方向的；

⁴⁷and they possess his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorite who [are] beyond the Jordan, [towards] the sun-rising;

⁴⁸从亚嫩谷边的亚罗珥，直到西云山，西云山就是黑门山；

⁴⁸from Aroer, which [is] by the edge of the brook Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which [is] Hermon —

⁴⁹还有约旦河东的亚拉巴全地，直到亚拉巴海，就是毗斯迦的山坡下。

⁴⁹and all the plain beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.