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.
遵行誡命蒙祝福
1「你們不可為自己製造偶像，不可豎立神像和神柱，也不可在你們境內安放祭拜用的石像。我是你們的上帝耶和華。 2你們要守我的安息日，敬畏我的聖所。我是耶和華。 3如果你們遵行我的律例，謹守我的誡命， 4我就按時降雨給你們，使土地長出莊稼、田間果樹結出果實。 5你們要打糧食打到摘葡萄的時候，摘葡萄摘到播種的時候。你們必豐衣足食，安然居住。
6「我要使你們境內太平，安枕無憂。我要除掉你們境內的猛獸，也要使你們免遭刀劍之災。 7你們將追趕仇敵，使他們倒在你們刀下。 8你們五人要追趕一百人，一百人要追趕一萬人，他們必死在你們刀下。 9我要眷顧你們，使你們生養眾多，人丁興旺，也要堅守與你們所立的約。 10你們存糧充足，甚至要搬出陳糧來儲存新糧。 11我要住在你們中間，我必不厭棄你們。 12我要走在你們中間。我要做你們的上帝，你們要做我的子民。 13我是你們的上帝耶和華。我曾帶領你們離開埃及，使你們不再做埃及人的奴隸。我打碎了你們身上的重軛，使你們昂首前行。
違背誡命受懲罰
14「如果你們不聽從我，不遵行我的這一切誡命； 15如果你們棄絕我的律例，厭棄我的典章，不聽從我的命令，破壞我與你們所立的約， 16我要懲罰你們，使你們陷入恐慌、患癆病和熱症，使你們眼睛昏花、心力衰竭。你們撒種卻一無所獲，因為敵人要吃盡你們所種的。 17我要嚴懲你們，使你們敗在敵人手下；你們要被那些恨你們的人統治，即使沒有人追趕，你們也要逃命。
18「如果你們經歷這些後，仍然不聽從我，我要使你為罪多受七倍的懲罰。 19我要重挫你們的傲氣，使你們頭上的天如鐵，腳下的地如銅。 20你們勞作也是徒然，因為你們的土地必不長莊稼，果樹也不結果實。
21「如果你們仍然與我作對，不肯聽從我，我要用七倍的災難懲治你們的罪。 22我要讓野獸攻擊你們，殘害你們的子女，吞噬你們的牲畜，使你們人口銳減，道路荒涼。
23「如果你們還是不服管教，繼續與我作對， 24我也要與你們作對，用七倍的災難懲治你們的罪。 25因為你們毀約，我要用戰禍報應你們。你們躲進各城的時候，我要在你們中間降下瘟疫，使你們落在敵人手裡。 26我要斷絕你們的糧源。那時候，十個婦女將用一個烤爐烤餅，按定量分餅給你們，你們吃卻吃不飽。
27「如果你們仍然不肯聽從我，繼續與我作對， 28我也要與你們作對，向你們發烈怒，把比先前嚴厲七倍的懲罰加在你們身上。 29你們要吃自己兒女的肉。 30我要毀滅你們的邱壇，拆掉你們的香壇，把你們的屍體堆在你們的死偶像上。我必厭惡你們。 31我要使你們的城邑淪為廢墟，使你們的敬拜場所荒涼，也不再悅納你們的馨香之祭。 32我要使你們的土地荒廢，連佔據那裡的敵人也為此而震驚。 33我要把你們驅散到各國，還要拔刀追殺你們。你們的土地將荒廢，城邑將淪為廢墟。 34你們被擄到敵國的時候，你們的土地將荒廢，享受安息。那時土地必休息，享受安息。 35你們住在那裡的時候，沒有在安息年讓土地安息，因此土地在荒廢的日子裡將享受安息。
36「我要使你們當中的那些倖存者在敵國心驚膽戰，過著風聲鶴唳、惶恐不安的生活。 37即使無人追趕，他們也將倉皇逃命，互相絆倒，如同躲避刀劍一樣。你們必無力抵擋敵人。 38你們將葬身列國，死在敵人的土地上。 39你們當中的倖存者將因自己的罪和祖先的罪而消亡在敵人的土地上。
認罪悔改蒙眷顧
40「如果他們承認自己和祖先的罪，就是背叛我、與我作對的惡行， 41以致我與他們作對，把他們流放到敵國；如果他們頑固26·41 「頑固」希伯來文是「未受割禮」。的心謙卑下來，甘願為罪受罰， 42我便顧念我與亞伯拉罕、以撒和雅各所立的約，眷顧那片土地。 43土地被他們離棄，荒無人煙，得享安息。他們卻要因拒絕遵守我的典章、厭棄我的律例而飽受懲罰。 44然而，他們流落敵國的時候，我不會棄絕他們，不會因厭惡而毀滅他們，也不會違背我與他們所立的約。我是他們的上帝耶和華。 45為了他們的緣故，我必顧念我與他們祖先所立的約。我曾在列國面前帶領他們的祖先離開埃及，為要做他們的上帝。我是耶和華。」
46以上是耶和華藉摩西在西奈山上頒佈給以色列人的律例、典章和法度。
