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Израил – Божият народ

(A)(B)Когато Господ, твоят Бог, те въведе в страната, в която навлизаш, за да я завладееш, и прогони пред тебе много народи: хетейците, гергесейците, аморейците, ханаанците, ферезейците, евейците и йевусейците – седем народа, които са по-многобройни и по-силни от тебе, (C)и когато Господ, твоят Бог, ти ги предаде и ти ги разбиеш, тогава трябва да ги унищожиш. Не влизай с тях в съюз и не ги щади! (D)И не се сродявай с тях: дъщеря си не давай на сина му и дъщеря му не взимай за сина си. (E)Защото те ще отвърнат сина ти от Мене, за да служи на други богове, и тогава гневът на Господа ще се разпали върху вас и Той скоро ще те изтреби. (F)С тях постъпете така: жертвениците им разрушете, кумирите им изпотрошете, дървените им стълбове изсечете, изображенията на боговете им с огън изгорете, защото ти си свят народ на Господа, твоя Бог. Тебе избра Господ, твоят Бог, за да Му бъдеш собствен народ измежду всички народи, които са на земята.

Не затова, че сте по-многобройни от всички народи, Господ ви прие и ви избра – та вие сте от всички народи най-малобройни, – а защото Господ ви обича, и за да опази клетвата, с която се е клел на предците ви, затова Господ ви изведе със силна ръка и ви избави от дома на робството, от ръката на фараона, царя на Египет. (G)(H)И така, знай, че Господ, твоят Бог, е Бог, Бог верен, Който пази до хиляда поколения завета и милостта Си към онези, които Го обичат и пазят заповедите Му. 10 (I)А на онези, които Го мразят, отвръща веднага, като ги погубва. Той не забавя да въздаде лично на онзи, който Го мрази. 11 Затова спазвай заповедите, наредбите и законите, които днес ти заповядвам да изпълняваш.

12 (J)(K)И ако слушате тези закони и ги спазвайте и изпълнявате, Господ, твоят Бог, ще спазва завета и милостта Си към тебе, за която се е клел на предците ти. 13 Той ще те обикне, ще те благослови и ще те направи народ многоброен; ще благослови плода на утробата ти и плода на земята ти, житото ти, виното ти, маслото ти, народеното от добитъка и от овцете ти, в страната, за която се е клел на предците ти да ти даде. 14 Благословен ще бъдеш повече от всички народи: няма да има ни безплоден, ни безплодна нито у тебе, нито сред добитъка ти. 15 (L)Господ ще те брани от всяка болест и няма да докара върху тебе египетските злини и напасти, които ти видя, а ще ги стовари върху всички онези, които те мразят. 16 Ти ще изтребиш всички народи, които Господ, твоят Бог, ти предава; нека окото ти не гледа жалостиво към тях. И не служи на боговете им, понеже това е примка за тебе.

17 Ако пък си помислиш: „Тези народи са по-многобройни от мене, как ще мога да ги прогоня?“ – 18 тогава не бива да се боиш от тях! Припомни си какво стори Господ, твоят Бог, на фараона и на всички египтяни, 19 големите изпитания, които видяха очите ти, знаменията и чудесата, силната ръка и издигнатата десница, с която Господ, твоят Бог, те изведе! Така ще стори Господ, твоят Бог, с всички народи, от които ти се боиш; 20 (M)и смут ще причини Господ, твоят Бог, сред тях, докато не изгинат останалите, които са се скрили от тебе. 21 Не изпитвай ужас от тях, защото Господ, твоят Бог, е сред тебе, Бог велик и страшен. 22 (N)И Господ, твоят Бог, малко по малко ще прогони тези народи пред тебе – не бива да ги изтребваш наведнъж, иначе дивите зверове около тебе ще се развъдят прекомерно. 23 Господ, твоят Бог, ще ти ги предаде и ще причини сред тях голям смут, докато бъдат изтребени. 24 Той ще предаде и царете им в твоите ръце и ти ще заличиш името им под небето. Никой няма да устои пред тебе, докато не ги изтребиш. 25 Кумирите на боговете им изгорете с огън! И не си пожелавай да туриш ръка на златото и среброто върху тях, за да не се превърнат в примка за тебе, понеже това е мерзост пред Господа, твоя Бог. 26 И не внасяй мерзост в дома си, за да не бъдеш обречен като нея на гибел. Изпитвай погнуса и отвращение към нея, защото е обречена на гибел.

A Chosen People(A)

“When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you go to (B)possess, and has cast out many (C)nations before you, (D)the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, and when the Lord your God delivers (E)them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. (F)You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. (G)Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; (H)so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly. But thus you shall deal with them: you shall (I)destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their [a]wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.

“For you are a [b]holy people to the Lord your God; (J)the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. The Lord did not set His (K)love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were (L)the least of all peoples; but (M)because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep (N)the oath which He swore to your fathers, (O)the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of [c]bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

“Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, (P)the faithful God (Q)who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments; 10 and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not [d]be (R)slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face. 11 Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.

Blessings of Obedience(S)

12 “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers. 13 And He will (T)love you and bless you and [e]multiply you; (U)He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He [f]swore to your fathers to give you. 14 You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female (V)barren among you or among your livestock. 15 And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the (W)terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you. 16 Also you shall [g]destroy all the peoples whom the Lord your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will (X)be a snare to you.

17 “If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’— 18 you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall (Y)remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: 19 (Z)the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs and the wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. 20 (AA)Moreover the Lord your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed. 21 You shall not be terrified of them; for the Lord your God, the great and awesome God, is among you. 22 And the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you (AB)little by little; you will be unable to [h]destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. 23 But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, and will inflict defeat upon them until they are destroyed. 24 And (AC)He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under heaven; (AD)no one shall be able to stand [i]against you until you have destroyed them. 25 You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not (AE)covet[j] the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. 26 Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, (AF)for it is an [k]accursed thing.

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:5 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
  2. Deuteronomy 7:6 set-apart
  3. Deuteronomy 7:8 slavery
  4. Deuteronomy 7:10 delay
  5. Deuteronomy 7:13 cause you to increase
  6. Deuteronomy 7:13 promised
  7. Deuteronomy 7:16 consume
  8. Deuteronomy 7:22 consume
  9. Deuteronomy 7:24 before
  10. Deuteronomy 7:25 desire
  11. Deuteronomy 7:26 devoted or banned

做上帝的子民

“你们的上帝耶和华带领你们进入将要占领的土地时,会为你们赶走赫人、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。 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。 不可与他们通婚,不可让你们的儿女与他们的儿女通婚, 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。 你们要拆毁他们的祭坛,打碎他们的神柱,砍下他们的亚舍拉神像,焚烧他们的偶像。 因为你们属于你们的上帝耶和华,是圣洁的民族,祂从天下万族中拣选了你们做祂的子民——祂宝贵的产业。

“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—— 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的地方领出来,从埃及王法老手中救赎了你们。 所以你们要知道,你们的上帝耶和华是真神,是信实的真神,祂向爱祂、遵守祂诫命的人守约、施慈爱直到千代。 10 但祂必毫不迟延地报应、毁灭那些恨祂的人。 11 所以,你们要遵行我今天吩咐你们的诫命、律例和典章。

遵守诫命必蒙福

12 “如果你们听从并谨遵这一切,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 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子孙昌盛,牛羊成群,收获丰富的谷物、新酒和油。 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 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 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,不可拜他们的神明,因为那样会使你们陷入网罗。

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 不要怕他们,要牢记你们的上帝耶和华曾如何对付埃及和法老, 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 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 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 你们的上帝耶和华将在你们前面渐渐地赶走那些民族,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 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 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 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 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。

Driving Out the Nations

When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess(A) and drives out before you many nations(B)—the Hittites,(C) Girgashites,(D) Amorites,(E) Canaanites, Perizzites,(F) Hivites(G) and Jebusites,(H) seven nations larger and stronger than you— and when the Lord your God has delivered(I) them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy(J) them totally.[a](K) Make no treaty(L) with them, and show them no mercy.(M) Do not intermarry with them.(N) Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods,(O) and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy(P) you. This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles[b](Q) and burn their idols in the fire.(R) For you are a people holy(S) to the Lord your God.(T) The Lord your God has chosen(U) you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.(V)

The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous(W) than other peoples, for you were the fewest(X) of all peoples.(Y) But it was because the Lord loved(Z) you and kept the oath he swore(AA) to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand(AB) and redeemed(AC) you from the land of slavery,(AD) from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord your God is God;(AE) he is the faithful God,(AF) keeping his covenant of love(AG) to a thousand generations(AH) of those who love him and keep his commandments.(AI) 10 But

those who hate him he will repay to their face by destruction;
    he will not be slow to repay to their face those who hate him.(AJ)

11 Therefore, take care to follow the commands, decrees and laws I give you today.

12 If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the Lord your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your ancestors.(AK) 13 He will love you and bless you(AL) and increase your numbers.(AM) He will bless the fruit of your womb,(AN) the crops of your land—your grain, new wine(AO) and olive oil(AP)—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.(AQ) 14 You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor will any of your livestock be without young.(AR) 15 The Lord will keep you free from every disease.(AS) He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt,(AT) but he will inflict them on all who hate you.(AU) 16 You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God gives over to you.(AV) Do not look on them with pity(AW) and do not serve their gods,(AX) for that will be a snare(AY) to you.

17 You may say to yourselves, “These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?(AZ) 18 But do not be afraid(BA) of them; remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.(BB) 19 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand(BC) and outstretched arm, with which the Lord your God brought you out. The Lord your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.(BD) 20 Moreover, the Lord your God will send the hornet(BE) among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished. 21 Do not be terrified by them, for the Lord your God, who is among you,(BF) is a great and awesome God.(BG) 22 The Lord your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little.(BH) You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you. 23 But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed.(BI) 24 He will give their kings(BJ) into your hand,(BK) and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you;(BL) you will destroy them.(BM) 25 The images of their gods you are to burn(BN) in the fire. Do not covet(BO) the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared(BP) by it, for it is detestable(BQ) to the Lord your God. 26 Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction.(BR) Regard it as vile and utterly detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:2 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 26.
  2. Deuteronomy 7:5 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah; here and elsewhere in Deuteronomy