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

¹历史的教训

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,

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，

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;

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；

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;

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；

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

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；

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:

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；

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

⁷只有你们亲眼看见了耶和华所作的一切伟大的作为。

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;

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，

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.

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。

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;

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。

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,

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，

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.

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。

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,

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，

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.

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。

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

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。

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

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；

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.

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。

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.

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。

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.

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。

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

²⁰你要把这些话写在你房屋的门柱上和城门上，

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.

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。

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;

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，

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

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。

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.

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。

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.

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。

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

²⁶“看哪，我今日把祝福和咒诅都摆在你们面前。

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

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；

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.

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。

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.

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。

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?

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？

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.

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。

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

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。”