Deuteronomy 4

1 Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

1 “以色列人啊，要聆听我传授给你们的律例和典章，要切实遵行，以便你们可以存活，并进去占据你们祖先的上帝耶和华赐给你们的那片土地。

2 You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.

2 我吩咐你们的，你们不可做任何增减，你们要遵守你们的上帝耶和华的命令。

3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.

3 你们亲眼看见耶和华在巴力·毗珥事件中的作为，你们的上帝耶和华毁灭了你们中间所有拜巴力·毗珥的人，

4 But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive to this day, every one of you.

4 但你们这些信靠你们的上帝耶和华的人至今都还活着。

5 See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.

5 看啊，遵照我的上帝耶和华的吩咐，我把律例和典章传授给你们，好让你们在将要进去占领的土地上遵守。

6 Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

6 你们要谨遵这些律例和典章，因为这样就会让外族人看见你们的智慧和聪明。他们听见这些律例后，必说，‘这伟大的民族真有智慧和聪明！’

7 For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?

7 我们的上帝耶和华与我们如此亲近，随时垂听我们的呼求，有哪个伟大民族的神明能与之相比？

8 And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?

8 有哪个伟大的民族拥有我今天所传授给你们的如此公义的律例和典章？

9 Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.

9 “要谨慎、小心，不可忘记亲眼所见的事，要一生铭记在心，并且告诉子子孙孙。

10 The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”

10 那天，你们在何烈山站在你们的上帝耶和华面前，耶和华对我说，‘把民众招聚起来，让他们听我的教诲，学习一生敬畏我，并传授给自己的儿女。’

11 You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.

11 你们来到山脚下，站在那里，山上烈焰冲天、乌云密布、极其幽暗。

12 And the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of the words but saw no form; there was only a voice.

12 耶和华在火焰中对你们说话，你们只听见祂的声音，却看不见祂的形象。

13 He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.

13 祂向你们宣告祂的约，就是祂吩咐你们遵守的十诫，并写在两块石版上。

14 At that time the LORD commanded me to teach you the statutes and ordinances you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

14 那时，耶和华吩咐我把律例和典章传授给你们，好让你们在将要占领的土地上遵守。

15 So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful

15 “你们要格外小心，耶和华在何烈山的火焰中对你们说话时，你们没有看见任何形象，

16 that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,

16 所以不可堕落，去为自己制造任何形状的神像——男人、女人、

17 of any beast that is on the earth or bird that flies in the air,

17 飞禽走兽、

18 or of any creature that crawls on the ground or fish that is in the waters below.

18 爬虫或鱼类的像。

19 When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

19 当你们举目观看你们的上帝耶和华赐给天下万民的日、月、星辰等天上万象时，不要受诱惑去跪拜、供奉它们。

20 Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.

20 耶和华拯救你们脱离埃及那座铁熔炉，让你们做祂自己的子民，正如今日的情形。

21 The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

21 因你们的缘故，耶和华向我发怒，起誓不让我过约旦河、进入祂赐给你们作产业的那片佳美之地。

22 For I will not be crossing the Jordan, because I must die in this land. But you shall cross over and take possession of that good land.

22 我将死在约旦河这边，过不了约旦河。但你们必过去得到那片佳美之地。

23 Be careful that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden you.

23 你们要谨慎，不可忘记你们的上帝耶和华与你们所立的约，不可违背你们上帝耶和华的禁令，去制造任何形状的神像。

24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

24 因为你们的上帝耶和华是烈火，是痛恨不贞的上帝。

25 After you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol of any form—doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger—

25 “将来，即使你们在那里安顿已久、子孙满堂，也不可堕落、制造任何形状的神像，不可做你们的上帝耶和华视为邪恶的事，惹祂发怒。

26 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.

26 否则，今天我叫天地作证，你们必很快从约旦河对面将要占领的土地上灭亡，你们必被彻底消灭，不得在那里长久居住。

27 Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

27 耶和华必把你们驱散到列邦，使你们在列邦中的人数所剩无几。

28 And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

28 你们必在那里供奉人用木石造的不会看、不会听、不会吃、不会闻的神像。

29 But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

29 但你们若在那里寻求你们的上帝耶和华，全心全意地寻求祂，就必寻见。

30 When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.

30 日后，当你们遭遇这些事，受尽苦难的时候，必归向你们的上帝耶和华，听从祂。

31 For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.

31 因为你们的上帝耶和华充满怜悯，祂不会抛弃你们，灭绝你们，也不会忘记祂与你们祖先所立的誓约。

32 Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?

32 “你们可以查考历史，自上帝在世上造人以来，这样的奇事，天地之间何曾有过？谁曾听闻？

33 Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?

33 有哪个民族像你们一样，听见了上帝在火中说话，还活了下来？

34 Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?

34 有哪个神明像你们的上帝耶和华那样在埃及当着你们的面降灾祸、行神迹奇事、发起战争、伸出臂膀、施展大能的手、以伟大而可畏的作为拯救一族脱离异邦？

35 You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.

35 耶和华行这样的事，是要叫你们知道祂是上帝，除祂以外，别无他神。

36 He let you hear His voice from heaven to discipline you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the fire.

36 祂让你们听见祂从天上来的声音，好教导你们，又在地上让你们看见祂的烈火，并听见祂在烈火中说的话。

37 Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,

37 因为祂爱你们的祖先，所以拣选他们的子孙，亲自用大能带你们出埃及，

38 to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.

38 赶走比你们强大的民族，领你们进入他们的土地，把他们的土地赐给你们作产业，正如今日的情形。

39 Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.

39 所以，今天你们要知道并谨记，耶和华是天上地下的上帝，此外别无他神。

40 Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.

40 我今天将祂的律例和诫命传授给你们，你们要遵守，以便你们及子孙都蒙福，在你们上帝耶和华所赐的土地上得享长寿。”

41 Then Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan to the east

41 那时，摩西在约旦河东划出三座城作避难城，

42 to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:

42 供素无冤仇却误杀他人者逃往避难。

43 Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau belonging to the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead belonging to the Gadites, or Golan in Bashan belonging to the Manassites.

43 三座城分别是供吕便人避难的比悉，在旷野高原；供迦得人避难的拉末，在基列；供玛拿西人避难的哥兰，在巴珊。

44 This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.

44 以下是摩西颁布给以色列人的律法，

45 These are the testimonies, statutes, and ordinances that Moses proclaimed to them after they had come out of Egypt,

45 即在离开埃及后传授给他们的法度、律例和典章。

46 while they were in the valley across the Jordan facing Beth-peor in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.

46 当时他们在约旦河以东伯·毗珥对面的山谷，那里原属于希实本的亚摩利王西宏。摩西领以色列人离开埃及后消灭了西宏，

47 They took possession of the land belonging to Sihon and to Og king of Bashan—the two Amorite kings across the Jordan to the east—

47 占领了他的土地，还占领了巴珊王噩的土地。西宏和噩是约旦河东亚摩利人的两个王，

48 extending from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Siyon (that is, Hermon),

48 其国土从亚嫩谷边的亚罗珥一直到西云山，即黑门山，

49 including all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.

49 包括约旦河东的整个亚拉巴，远至毗斯迦山脚的亚拉巴海。