Deuteronomy 8 – NIV & CCB

New International Version

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Do Not Forget the Lord

1Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors. 2Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. 3He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. 4Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. 5Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.

6Observe the commands of the Lord your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him. 7For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills; 8a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; 9a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.

10When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. 11Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. 12Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, 13and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, 14then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 15He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock. 16He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you. 17You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” 18But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.

19If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. 20Like the nations the Lord destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the Lord your God.

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)

申命记 8:1-20

不可忘记耶和华

1“你们要谨遵我今日吩咐你们的一切诫命,以便能够存活,生养众多,并且得到耶和华起誓要赐给你们祖先的土地。 2要记住这四十年来你们的上帝耶和华怎样在旷野引领你们,祂磨炼你们、考验你们,好知道你们的心意如何、肯不肯遵守祂的诫命。 3祂让你们忍饥挨饿,然后赐给你们祖祖辈辈从未见过的吗哪吃,为了使你们明白人活着不是单靠食物,乃是靠祂口中的每一句话。 4这四十年来,你们的衣服没有穿破,双脚也没有走肿。 5你们心里要明白,你们的上帝耶和华管教你们,如同父亲管教儿子。

6“所以,你们要遵守你们的上帝耶和华的诫命,行祂的道,敬畏祂, 7因为祂要带你们到一个佳美之地。那里的谷中和山间流淌着条条溪流、股股清泉; 8那里盛产大麦、小麦、葡萄、无花果、石榴、橄榄油和蜂蜜; 9那里食物充足,一无所缺;那里矿产资源丰富,石头就是铁,山中可以采铜。 10你们吃饱喝足后,要赞美你们的上帝耶和华,因为祂赐给你们那佳美之地。

11“你们要谨慎,免得忘记你们的上帝耶和华,不遵守我今天吩咐你们的诫命、典章和律例。 12当你们丰衣足食、居室华美、 13牛羊众多、金银日增的时候, 14切勿心骄气傲,忘记你们的上帝耶和华。祂把你们从受奴役之地——埃及救出来, 15带领你们走过干旱、可怕、毒蛇和蝎子出没的大旷野。祂使坚硬的磐石流出水来给你们喝, 16在旷野中把你们祖先从未见过的吗哪赐给你们吃,为要磨炼你们、考验你们,使你们最终得到益处。 17你们切勿以为是凭自己的双手和能力致富的。 18要记住,是你们的上帝耶和华赐给你们致富的能力,为要坚立祂给你们祖先的誓约,正如今日的情形。

19“我今天警告你们,如果你们忘记你们的上帝耶和华,去追随、供奉、祭拜其他神明,你们必灭亡。 20如果你们不听从你们的上帝耶和华,你们必灭亡,正如祂使列国在你们面前灭亡一样。