Deuteronomy 6

1 These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,

1 “你们的上帝耶和华吩咐我教导你们以下的诫命、律例和典章，以便你们在将要占领的土地上遵行。

2 so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged.

2 这样，你们就会得享长寿，你们及子孙就会终生敬畏你们的上帝耶和华，遵守祂借我吩咐你们的一切律例和诫命。

3 Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

3 以色列人啊，你们要留心听，谨慎遵行，以便你们在那奶蜜之乡可以凡事顺利、人口极其繁盛，正如你们祖先的上帝耶和华给你们的应许。

4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.

4 听啊，以色列人，耶和华是我们的上帝，耶和华是独一的。

5 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

5 你们要全心、全意、全力爱你们的上帝耶和华。

6 These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.

6 要将我今天吩咐你们的话牢记在心，

7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

7 并教导你们的儿女，无论坐在家里或行在路上，或起或卧，都要讲论这些律例和诫命。

8 Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

8 要把它们系在手上、戴在额上作记号，

9 Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.

9 要写在城门上和自家的门框上。

10 And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,

10 “你们的上帝耶和华将带你们进入祂向你们祖先亚伯拉罕、以撒和雅各起誓要赐给你们的土地。那里宏伟壮观的城邑不是你们建造的，

11 with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,

11 满屋的美物不是你们积攒的，井不是你们挖掘的，葡萄园和橄榄树也不是你们栽种的。你们在那里吃饱喝足之后，

12 be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

12 要小心，不可忘记把你们从受奴役之地埃及救出来的耶和华。

13 Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.

13 要敬畏你们的上帝耶和华，事奉祂，凭祂的名起誓。

14 Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.

14 不可随从周围各族的神明，

15 For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.

15 免得你们的上帝耶和华向你们发怒，把你们从世上消灭；因为祂住在你们当中，祂痛恨不贞。

16 Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.

16 “不可像在玛撒那样试探你们的上帝耶和华。

17 You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has given you.

17 要谨遵你们的上帝耶和华吩咐你们的诫命、法度和律例。

18 Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,

18 你们要做耶和华视为正与善的事，以便凡事顺利，得到耶和华起誓要赐给你们祖先的佳美之地，

19 driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.

19 从你们面前赶出所有敌人，正如耶和华所言。

20 In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”

20 “将来你们的子孙会问，‘我们的上帝耶和华给你们颁布这些法度、律例和典章是什么意思？’

21 then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

21 你们要告诉他们，‘我们曾在埃及做法老的奴隶，耶和华用大能的手带我们出埃及。

22 Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household.

22 我们亲眼看见耶和华行伟大而可畏的神迹奇事，惩罚埃及和法老全家。

23 But He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land that He had sworn to our fathers.

23 祂带领我们离开埃及，为要把我们带进祂起誓要赐给我们祖先的这片土地。

24 And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, that we may always be prosperous and preserved, as we are to this day.

24 我们的上帝耶和华吩咐我们遵守这一切律例、敬畏祂，以便我们可以终生受益，生命无忧，正如今日的情形。

25 And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.”

25 我们若按照我们的上帝耶和华的吩咐，在祂面前谨遵这一切诫命，便被算为义人。’