1.所以，你要爱永在的神——常常遵守神的吩咐、律法、典章和诫命。Love, therefore, the ETERNAL your God—and always keep God’s charge, laws, rules, and commandments.
2.摩西就照着上帝所吩咐他的话，对以色列人说。Take thought this day that it was not your children, who neither experienced nor witnessed the lesson of the ETERNAL your God—the majesty, mighty hand, and outstretched arm;
3.埃及法老王和他全地所发生的一切神迹和奇事；the signs and the deeds that were performed in Egypt against Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his land;
4.埃及的军队，它的马和战车，遭遇了什么事，神如何使红海的水回流过来，淹没了正在追赶你们的他们，从此彻底消灭了他们，直到今日what was done to Egypt’s army, its horses and chariots; how GOD rolled back upon them the waters of the Sea of Reeds when they were pursuing you, thus destroying them once and for all;
5.你来到这地方之前，在旷野里所行的；what was done for you in the wilderness before you arrived in this place;
6.当地开口吞了达坦和亚比兰，就是那利乌便的儿子以利押的儿子，他们和他们的家眷、帐幕，并跟随他们的所有活物，都从以色列中被吞下and what was done to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab son of Reuben, when the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them, along with their households, their tents, and every living thing in their train, from amidst all Israel—
7.但你们亲眼看见了上帝所行的所有奇妙的作为。but that it was you who saw with your own eyes all the marvelous deeds that GOD performed.
8.所以你们要谨守我今日所吩咐的一切命令，使你们可以强壮，进去得那地为业，就是耶和华向你们列祖起誓应许给他们的那地。Keep, therefore, all the Instruction that I enjoin upon you today, so that you may have the strength to enter and take possession of the land that you are about to cross into and possess,
9.使你们可以长久地居住在上帝向你们的祖先《祖先》见注在申命记1:35。所起的誓，要将这地赐给他们和他们的后代，这是一片流奶与蜜的美地。and that you may long endure upon the soil that GOD swore to your fathers to assign to them and to their heirs, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10.你即将要进入并占领的土地，不像你所离开的埃及。因为在那里，你所撒的种子必须靠你自己的劳动来浇灌，就像菜园一样；For the land that you are about to enter and possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come. There the grain you sowed had to be watered by your own labors, like a vegetable garden;
11.但你们即将跨过并佔據的土地，是山丘和谷地之地，喝天上的雨水。but the land you are about to cross into and possess, a land of hills and valleys, soaks up its water from the rains of heaven.
12.这是上帝你们的永恒主亲自照看的土地，上帝你们的永恒主时刻关注它，从年头到年尾。It is a land that the ETERNAL your God looks after, on which the ETERNAL your God always keeps an eye, from year’s beginning to year’s end.
13.若是你们今日听从我所吩咐的诫命，爱永在的神，尽心尽魂侍奉他，If, then, you obey the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day, loving the ETERNAL your God and rendering service with all your heart and soul,
14.我 我 即上帝，撒马利亚抄本作文为第三人称 必在来临的适当时节给你们的土地降雨，包括秋雨和春雨，你们就可以收藏新谷、新酒和新油——I will grant the rain for your land in season, the early rain and the late. You shall gather in your new grain and wine and oil—
15.我也会使你们的牲畜在田野中有草吃，你们就可以吃饱。I will also provide grass in the fields for your cattle—and thus you shall eat your fill.
16.要谨慎，不要被引诱去侍奉别的神，并向他们屈膝。Take care not to be lured away to serve other gods and bow to them.
17.因为上帝的怒气要向你发作，封闭天空，使不下雨，地也不产出土产，你就要很快从上帝所赐给你的美好土地上灭亡。For GOD’s anger will flare up against you, shutting up the skies so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its produce; and you will soon perish from the good land that GOD is assigning to you.
18.因此，要把我这些话深深地印在你们心中，作为手上的记号，作为额上的凭证Therefore impress these My words upon your very heart: bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead,
19.并要教导你的孩子，无论你在家里或是在外，在躺下或是在起来的时候，都要诵读；and teach them to your children—reciting them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up;
20.并将它们写在你家门上的门框上和你的城门上—and inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates—
21.使你和你的孩子可以长久地在上帝向你列祖所起誓要赐给他们的土地上居住，直到天在上，地在下。to the end that you and your children may endure, in the land that GOD swore to your fathers to assign to them, as long as there is a heaven over the earth.
22.你们若忠诚遵守我所命令的这一切法则，爱耶和华你们的神，行在耶和华的道中，紧紧依靠祂，If, then, you faithfully keep all this Instruction that I command you—by loving the ETERNAL your God, by walking in all God’s ways, and by holding fast to [God]—
23.永恒的上帝将在你面前驱逐所有这些国家，你将夺取比你更强大、更多的国家。the ETERNAL will dislodge before you all these nations: you will dispossess nations greater and more numerous than you.
24.你们的脚所踏之处，都将归你们所有；你们的境界将从旷野延伸到黎巴嫩，从大河——幼发拉底河——到西海。西海即地中海，参阅申命记34:2。Every spot on which your foot treads shall be yours; your territory shall extend from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River—the Euphrates—to the Western Sea.
25.没有人能在你面前站立，永在的神你的上帝必使所有你所践踏的土地都惧怕和敬畏你，正如他所应许的。No one shall stand up to you: the ETERNAL your God will put the dread and the fear of you over the whole land in which you set foot, as promised.
26.看哪，我今日将祝福和咒诅摆在你们面前：See, this day I set before you blessing and curse:
27.如果你遵守我今日所吩咐你的上帝永恒的诫命，就必得福blessing, if you obey the commandments of the ETERNAL your God that I enjoin upon you this day;
28.并且发誓，如果你们不遵守耶和华你们的神的诫命，偏离我今日所吩咐你们的道路，去随从你们没有认识的其他神。即你们没有经历过的神，参阅何西阿书13:4。and curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the ETERNAL your God, but turn away from the path that I enjoin upon you this day and follow other gods, whom you have not experienced.
29.当你上帝永恒将你带到起誓应许你祖先亚伯拉罕、以撒和雅各的土地上，分给你——那些你没有建造的大而繁荣的城市，When the ETERNAL your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter and possess, you shall pronounce the blessing at Mount Gerizim and the curse at Mount Ebal.—
30.两座都在约旦河东，靠近迦南人之地亚拉巴的西边大路，近基列哈列斯的摩利树旁的吉甲。Both are on the other side of the Jordan, beyond the west road that is in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah—near Gilgal, by the terebinths of Moreh.
31.你们即将过约旦河，进入并占领永恒的神你们的神所赐给你们的土地。当你们占领了它并在那里居住下来，For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the ETERNAL your God is assigning to you. When you have occupied it and are settled in it,
32.今天我将这些律法和规则摆在你们面前，要谨慎遵守。take care to observe all the laws and rules that I have set before you this day.