Deuteronomy 7

1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

1 “你们的上帝耶和华带领你们进入将要占领的土地时，必从你们面前赶走赫人、革迦撒人、亚摩利人、迦南人、比利洗人、希未人和耶布斯人这七个比你们强大的民族。

2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

2 当你们的上帝耶和华把他们交在你们手里、使你们打败他们后，你们必须彻底毁灭他们。不可与他们立约，不可怜悯他们。

3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

3 不可与他们通婚，不可让你们的儿女与他们的儿女通婚，

4 because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.

4 因为他们会让你们的儿女离弃耶和华去拜其他神明，以致耶和华向你们发怒，迅速毁灭你们。

5 Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.

5 你们要这样对待他们：拆毁他们的祭坛，打碎他们的神柱，砍下他们的亚舍拉神像，焚烧他们的偶像。

6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

6 因为你们是你们的上帝耶和华的圣民，祂从天下万族中拣选你们做祂宝贵的子民。

7 The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

7 “耶和华喜爱你们、拣选你们，不是因为你们的人口比别的民族多——其实你们在万族中是最小的——

8 But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

8 而是因为祂爱你们，遵守祂向你们祖先所起的誓。因此，祂用大能的手把你们从受奴役之地领出来，从埃及王法老手中救赎了你们。

9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

9 所以你们要知道，你们的上帝耶和华是上帝，是信实的上帝，祂向爱祂、遵守祂诫命的人守约、施慈爱直到千代。

10 But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him.

10 但祂必毫不迟延地当面报应、毁灭那些恨祂的人。

11 So keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances that I am giving you to follow this day.

11 所以，你们要谨遵我今天吩咐你们的诫命、律例和典章。

12 If you listen to these ordinances and keep them carefully, then the LORD your God will keep His covenant and the loving devotion that He swore to your fathers.

12 “如果你们听从并谨遵这些典章，你们的上帝耶和华就会信守祂给你们祖先的誓约，以慈爱待你们。

13 He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.

13 祂会爱你们，赐福给你们，使你们在祂向你们祖先起誓要赐给你们的土地上人丁兴旺，牛羊成群，收获丰富的谷物、新酒和油。

14 You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.

14 天下万族之中，你们是最蒙福的，你们的男人、女人和牲畜没有不能生育的。

15 And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.

15 耶和华要使你们免患疾病，免遭你们在埃及所见的恶疾，祂要把那些恶疾降在一切憎恶你们的人身上。

16 You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

16 你们必须灭绝你们的上帝耶和华交在你们手里的各族，不可怜悯他们，不可供奉他们的神明，因为那样会使你们陷入网罗。

17 You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”

17 “也许你们心里会说，‘这些民族都比我们强大，我们怎能赶走他们呢？’

18 But do not be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt:

18 不要怕他们，要牢记你们的上帝耶和华曾如何对付法老和整个埃及，

19 the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.

19 你们亲眼目睹祂如何降下大灾难、行神迹奇事、伸出臂膀和大能的手领你们离开埃及，祂也要这样对付你们所惧怕的各族。

20 Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet against them until even the survivors hiding from you have perished.

20 你们的上帝耶和华还要派黄蜂去攻击他们，直到躲藏起来的残存者也全部灭亡。

21 Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.

21 不要惧怕他们，因为你们的上帝耶和华住在你们当中，祂是伟大而可畏的上帝。

22 The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.

22 你们的上帝耶和华将在你们前面逐渐赶走那些民族，你们不可急速地灭尽他们，否则你们周围的野兽会大增，危害你们。

23 But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.

23 你们的上帝耶和华要将他们交给你们，使他们惊恐万状，直到被灭绝。

24 He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.

24 祂要将他们的王交在你们手中，无人能抵挡你们，你们要毁灭他们，使他们的名字从世上绝迹。

25 You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.

25 你们要烧毁他们的神像，不可贪图神像上的金银，不可将那些金银据为己有，免得你们因此陷入网罗；因为那是你们的上帝耶和华所憎恶的。

26 And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.

26 不可把可憎之物带到家里，否则你们会像它们一样被毁灭。你们要极其憎恶、厌弃它们，因为它们是当毁灭之物。