Reward for Obedience
1“ ‘Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the Lord your God.
2“ ‘Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the Lord.
3“ ‘If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, 4I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit. 5Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land.
6“ ‘I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove wild beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country. 7You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. 8Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
9“ ‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you. 10You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new. 11I will put my dwelling place26:11 Or my tabernacle among you, and I will not abhor you. 12I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. 13I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.
Punishment for Disobedience
14“ ‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, 15and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, 16then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. 17I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.
18“ ‘If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over. 19I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. 20Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.
21“ ‘If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve. 22I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.
23“ ‘If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me, 24I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. 25And I will bring the sword on you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. 26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.
27“ ‘If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me, 28then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over. 29You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. 30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies26:30 Or your funeral offerings on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you. 31I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings. 32I myself will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled. 33I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins. 34Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. 35All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.
36“ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them. 37They will stumble over one another as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies. 38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you. 39Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors’ sins they will waste away.
40“ ‘But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, 41which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin, 42I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. 43For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my laws and abhorred my decrees. 44Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the Lord their God. 45But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’ ”
46These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the Lord established at Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.
遵行诫命蒙祝福
1“你们不可为自己制造偶像，不可竖立神像和神柱，也不可在你们境内安放祭拜用的石像。我是你们的上帝耶和华。 2你们要守我的安息日，敬畏我的圣所。我是耶和华。 3如果你们遵行我的律例，谨守我的诫命， 4我就按时降雨给你们，使土地长出庄稼、田间果树结出果实。 5你们要打粮食打到摘葡萄的时候，摘葡萄摘到播种的时候。你们必丰衣足食，安然居住。
6“我要使你们境内太平，安枕无忧。我要除掉你们境内的猛兽，也要使你们免遭刀剑之灾。 7你们将追赶仇敌，使他们倒在你们刀下。 8你们五人要追赶一百人，一百人要追赶一万人，他们必死在你们刀下。 9我要眷顾你们，使你们生养众多，人丁兴旺，也要坚守与你们所立的约。 10你们存粮充足，甚至要搬出陈粮来储存新粮。 11我要住在你们中间，我必不厌弃你们。 12我要走在你们中间。我要做你们的上帝，你们要做我的子民。 13我是你们的上帝耶和华。我曾带领你们离开埃及，使你们不再做埃及人的奴隶。我打碎了你们身上的重轭，使你们昂首前行。
违背诫命受惩罚
14“如果你们不听从我，不遵行我的这一切诫命； 15如果你们弃绝我的律例，厌弃我的典章，不听从我的命令，破坏我与你们所立的约， 16我要惩罚你们，使你们陷入恐慌、患痨病和热症，使你们眼睛昏花、心力衰竭。你们撒种却一无所获，因为敌人要吃尽你们所种的。 17我要严惩你们，使你们败在敌人手下；你们要被那些恨你们的人统治，即使没有人追赶，你们也要逃命。
18“如果你们经历这些后，仍然不听从我，我要使你为罪多受七倍的惩罚。 19我要重挫你们的傲气，使你们头上的天如铁，脚下的地如铜。 20你们劳作也是徒然，因为你们的土地必不长庄稼，果树也不结果实。
21“如果你们仍然与我作对，不肯听从我，我要用七倍的灾难惩治你们的罪。 22我要让野兽攻击你们，残害你们的子女，吞噬你们的牲畜，使你们人口锐减，道路荒凉。
23“如果你们还是不服管教，继续与我作对， 24我也要与你们作对，用七倍的灾难惩治你们的罪。 25因为你们毁约，我要用战祸报应你们。你们躲进各城的时候，我要在你们中间降下瘟疫，使你们落在敌人手里。 26我要断绝你们的粮源。那时候，十个妇女将用一个烤炉烤饼，按定量分饼给你们，你们吃却吃不饱。
27“如果你们仍然不肯听从我，继续与我作对， 28我也要与你们作对，向你们发烈怒，把比先前严厉七倍的惩罚加在你们身上。 29你们要吃自己儿女的肉。 30我要毁灭你们的丘坛，拆掉你们的香坛，把你们的尸体堆在你们的死偶像上。我必厌恶你们。 31我要使你们的城邑沦为废墟，使你们的敬拜场所荒凉，也不再悦纳你们的馨香之祭。 32我要使你们的土地荒废，连占据那里的敌人也为此而震惊。 33我要把你们驱散到各国，还要拔刀追杀你们。你们的土地将荒废，城邑将沦为废墟。 34你们被掳到敌国的时候，你们的土地将荒废，享受安息。那时土地必休息，享受安息。 35你们住在那里的时候，没有在安息年让土地安息，因此土地在荒废的日子里将享受安息。
36“我要使你们当中的那些幸存者在敌国心惊胆战，过着风声鹤唳、惶恐不安的生活。 37即使无人追赶，他们也将仓皇逃命，互相绊倒，如同躲避刀剑一样。你们必无力抵挡敌人。 38你们将葬身列国，死在敌人的土地上。 39你们当中的幸存者将因自己的罪和祖先的罪而消亡在敌人的土地上。
认罪悔改蒙眷顾
40“如果他们承认自己和祖先的罪，就是背叛我、与我作对的恶行， 41以致我与他们作对，把他们流放到敌国；如果他们顽固26:41 “顽固”希伯来文是“未受割礼”。的心谦卑下来，甘愿为罪受罚， 42我便顾念我与亚伯拉罕、以撒和雅各所立的约，眷顾那片土地。 43土地被他们离弃，荒无人烟，得享安息。他们却要因拒绝遵守我的典章、厌弃我的律例而饱受惩罚。 44然而，他们流落敌国的时候，我不会弃绝他们，不会因厌恶而毁灭他们，也不会违背我与他们所立的约。我是他们的上帝耶和华。 45为了他们的缘故，我必顾念我与他们祖先所立的约。我曾在列国面前带领他们的祖先离开埃及，为要做他们的上帝。我是耶和华。”
46以上是耶和华借摩西在西奈山上颁布给以色列人的律例、典章和法度。
