要聽從耶和華
1「你們要愛你們的上帝耶和華，時刻遵守祂的吩咐、律例、典章和誡命。 2要記住，我現在是對你們，而不是對你們的孩子說話。他們沒有親身經歷、親眼見過你們上帝耶和華的管教、威嚴、大能的手和伸出的臂膀； 3祂怎樣在埃及行神蹟奇事對付法老及其國家； 4怎樣使紅海淹沒追趕你們的埃及軍隊和車馬，將他們永遠毀滅； 5怎樣在曠野一路看顧你們，一直來到這裡； 6怎樣對付呂便人以利押的兒子大坍和亞比蘭，使大地在以色列人當中裂開，吞沒了他們及其家人、帳篷和所有隨從。 7你們親眼目睹了耶和華的這些偉大作為。
8「因此，你們要遵守我今天吩咐你們的誡命，以便有力量過河攻取你們將要攻取的土地， 9長久居住在耶和華起誓賜給你們祖先及其後裔的奶蜜之鄉。 10那片土地不像你們離開的埃及。在埃及你們撒種後，要像澆菜園一樣辛勤灌溉11·10 「辛勤灌溉」希伯來文是「用腳灌溉」。。 11而你們將要佔領的那片土地卻有山有谷，雨水充足， 12你們的上帝耶和華從歲首到年終時時看顧那裡。
13「如果你們謹遵我今天吩咐你們的誡命，全心全意地愛你們的上帝耶和華，事奉祂， 14祂就會按時降下秋雨和春雨，使你們收穫穀物、新酒和油， 15有草場飼養牲畜，豐衣足食。 16你們要謹慎，免得被迷惑，轉而祭拜、供奉其他神明。 17否則，耶和華必向你們發怒，使天不下雨、地無出產，以致你們在祂賜給你們的佳美之地上迅速滅亡。
18「所以，你們要把我的這些吩咐銘記在心，繫在手上，戴在額上作記號； 19要用這些話教導你們的兒女，無論在家在外、或起或臥，都要講論； 20也要寫在城門上和自家的門框上。 21這樣，你們及子孫就可以生活在耶和華起誓賜給你們祖先的土地上，與天地同長。 22如果你們謹遵我吩咐你們的這一切誡命——愛你們的上帝耶和華，遵行祂的旨意，依靠祂， 23耶和華就會為你們趕走那些比你們強大的民族，你們也必佔領他們的土地。 24你們腳掌踏過的地方都要歸你們。你們的疆界南到曠野，北到黎巴嫩，東到幼發拉底河，西到地中海。 25所到之處無人能抵擋你們，因為你們的上帝耶和華會使那些地方的人對你們充滿懼怕，正如祂對你們的應許。
26「看啊，我今天把祝福和咒詛擺在你們面前。 27你們若遵行我今天吩咐你們的誡命，就會得到祝福。 28你們若不遵行你們的上帝耶和華的誡命，偏離我今天吩咐你們當走的道路，隨從不認識的神明，必受咒詛。 29你們的上帝耶和華帶領你們進入並佔領那片土地時，你們要在基利心山上宣告祝福，在以巴路山上宣告咒詛。 30基利心山和以巴路山屬於住在亞拉巴的迦南人，位於約旦河西岸的日落之處，在吉甲對面，靠近摩利橡樹。 31你們穿過約旦河，佔領耶和華賜給你們的土地，定居下來以後， 32要謹遵我今天頒佈給你們的一切律例和典章。
1Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway. 2And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm, 3And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land; 4And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day; 5And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place; 6And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:11.6 substance…: or, living substance which followed them11.6 was…: Heb. was at their feet 7But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
8Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it; 9And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
10¶ For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: 11But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: 12A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.11.12 careth…: Heb. seeketh
13¶ And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.11.15 send: Heb. give 16Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17And then the LORD’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
18¶ Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 20And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: 21That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
22¶ For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; 23Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. 24Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. 25There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
26¶ Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; 27A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day: 28And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known. 29And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. 30Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh? 31For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein. 32And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.
