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。
Love and Obey the Lord
1Love the Lord your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always. 2Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the Lord your God: his majesty, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm; 3the signs he performed and the things he did in the heart of Egypt, both to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his whole country; 4what he did to the Egyptian army, to its horses and chariots, how he overwhelmed them with the waters of the Red Sea11:4 Or the Sea of Reeds as they were pursuing you, and how the Lord brought lasting ruin on them. 5It was not your children who saw what he did for you in the wilderness until you arrived at this place, 6and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth right in the middle of all Israel and swallowed them up with their households, their tents and every living thing that belonged to them. 7But it was your own eyes that saw all these great things the Lord has done.
8Observe therefore all the commands I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 9and so that you may live long in the land the Lord swore to your ancestors to give to them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10The land you are entering to take over is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as in a vegetable garden. 11But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven. 12It is a land the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the Lord your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end.
13So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul— 14then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil. 15I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.
16Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them. 17Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you. 18Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 19Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, 21so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.
22If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast to him— 23then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you. 24Every place where you set your foot will be yours: Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea. 25No one will be able to stand against you. The Lord your God, as he promised you, will put the terror and fear of you on the whole land, wherever you go.
26See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse— 27the blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today; 28the curse if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known. 29When the Lord your God has brought you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim on Mount Gerizim the blessings, and on Mount Ebal the curses. 30As you know, these mountains are across the Jordan, westward, toward the setting sun, near the great trees of Moreh, in the territory of those Canaanites living in the Arabah in the vicinity of Gilgal. 31You are about to cross the Jordan to enter and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you. When you have taken it over and are living there, 32be sure that you obey all the decrees and laws I am setting before you today.
