申命記 8
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
不可忘記耶和華
8 「你們要謹遵我今日吩咐你們的一切誡命，以便能夠存活，生養眾多，並且得到耶和華起誓要賜給你們祖先的土地。 2 要記住這四十年來你們的上帝耶和華怎樣在曠野引領你們，祂磨煉你們、考驗你們，好知道你們的心意如何、肯不肯遵守祂的誡命。 3 祂讓你們忍饑挨餓，然後賜給你們祖祖輩輩從未見過的嗎哪吃，為了使你們明白人活著不是單靠食物，乃是靠祂口中的每一句話。 4 這四十年來，你們的衣服沒有穿破，雙腳也沒有走腫。 5 你們心裡要明白，你們的上帝耶和華管教你們，如同父親管教兒子。
6 「所以，你們要遵守你們的上帝耶和華的誡命，行祂的道，敬畏祂， 7 因為祂要帶你們到一個佳美之地。那裡的谷中和山間流淌著條條溪流、股股清泉； 8 那裡盛產大麥、小麥、葡萄、無花果、石榴、橄欖油和蜂蜜； 9 那裡食物充足，一無所缺；那裡礦產資源豐富，石頭就是鐵，山中可以採銅。 10 你們吃飽喝足後，要讚美你們的上帝耶和華，因為祂賜給你們那佳美之地。
11 「你們要謹慎，免得忘記你們的上帝耶和華，不遵守我今天吩咐你們的誡命、典章和律例。 12 當你們豐衣足食、居室華美、 13 牛羊眾多、金銀日增的時候， 14 切勿心驕氣傲，忘記你們的上帝耶和華。祂把你們從受奴役之地——埃及救出來， 15 帶領你們走過乾旱、可怕、毒蛇和蠍子出沒的大曠野。祂使堅硬的磐石流出水來給你們喝， 16 在曠野中把你們祖先從未見過的嗎哪賜給你們吃，為要磨煉你們、考驗你們，使你們最終得到益處。 17 你們切勿以為是憑自己的雙手和能力致富的。 18 要記住，是你們的上帝耶和華賜給你們致富的能力，為要堅立祂給你們祖先的誓約，正如今日的情形。
19 「我今天警告你們，如果你們忘記你們的上帝耶和華，去追隨、供奉、祭拜其他神明，你們必滅亡。 20 如果你們不聽從你們的上帝耶和華，你們必滅亡，正如祂使列國在你們面前滅亡一樣。
Deuteronomy 8
Easy-to-Read Version
Remember the Lord
8 “You must obey all the commands that I give you today, because then you will live and grow to become a great nation. You will get the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. 2 And you must remember the entire trip that the Lord your God has led you through these 40 years in the desert. He was testing you. He wanted to make you humble. He wanted to know what is in your heart. He wanted to know if you would obey his commands. 3 He humbled you and let you be hungry. Then he fed you with manna—something you did not know about before. It was something your ancestors had never seen. Why did the Lord do this? Because he wanted you to know that it is not just bread that keeps people alive. People’s lives depend on what the Lord says. 4 These past 40 years, your clothes did not wear out, and your feet did not swell. 5 You must remember that the Lord your God teaches and corrects you as a father teaches and corrects his son.
6 “You must obey the commands of the Lord your God. Follow him and respect him. 7 The Lord your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with rivers and pools of water. Water flows out of the ground in the valleys and hills. 8 It is a land with wheat and barley, grapevines, fig trees, and pomegranates. It is a land with olive oil and honey. 9 There you will have plenty of food and everything you need. It is a land where the rocks are iron. You can dig copper out of the hills. 10 You will have all you want to eat. Then you will praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.
Don’t Forget What the Lord Did
11 “Be careful. Don’t forget the Lord your God! Be careful to obey the commands, laws, and rules that I give you today. 12 Then you will have plenty to eat, and you will build good houses and live in them. 13 Your cattle, sheep, and goats will grow large. You will get plenty of gold and silver. You will have plenty of everything. 14 When that happens, you must be careful not to become proud. You must not forget the Lord your God. You were slaves in Egypt, but he made you free and brought you out of that land. 15 He led you through that great and terrible desert where there were poisonous snakes and scorpions. The ground was dry, and there was no water anywhere. But he gave you water out of a solid rock. 16 In the desert he fed you manna—something your ancestors had never seen. He tested you to make you humble so that everything would go well for you in the end. 17 Don’t ever say to yourself, ‘I got all this wealth by my own power and ability.’ 18 Remember the Lord your God is the one who gives you power to do these things. He does this because he wants to keep the agreement that he made with your ancestors, as he is doing today!
19 “Don’t ever forget the Lord your God. Don’t ever follow other gods or worship and serve them. If you do that, I warn you today: You will surely be destroyed! 20 The Lord is destroying other nations for you. But if you stop listening to the Lord your God, you will be destroyed just like them!
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