1 These are the words of the covenant that Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he made with them in Horeb.
2 And Moses called to all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his bondmen, and to all his land:
3 the great trials that thine eyes have seen, those great signs and wonders.
4 But Jehovah hath not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes are not grown old upon you, and thy sandal is not grown old upon thy foot;
6 ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink, that ye might know that I am Jehovah your God.
7 And ye came to this place; and Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us for battle, and we smote them.
8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of the Manassites.
9 Ye shall keep then the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
10 Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God: your chiefs {of} your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,
11 your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, as well the hewer of thy wood as the drawer of thy water;
12 that thou mayest enter into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah thy God maketh with thee this day;
13 that he may establish thee this day for a people unto himself, and {that} he may be to thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
15 but with him that standeth here with us this day before Jehovah our God, and with him that is not here with us this day
16 (for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the nations which ye passed;
17 and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);
18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood,
19 and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to sweep away the drunken with the thirsty.
20 Jehovah will not pardon him, but the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will then smoke against that man, and all the curse shall be upon him that is written in this book; and Jehovah will blot out his name from under the heavens;
21 and Jehovah will separate him for mischief out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.
22 And the generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and its sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath visited it,
23 {that} the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, {and} burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury:
24 even all nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? whence the heat of this great anger?
25 And men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah the God of their fathers, which he had made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt;
26 and they went and served other gods, and bowed down to them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not assigned to them.
27 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;
28 and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in fury, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as {it appears} this day.
29 The hidden things belong to Jehovah our God; but the revealed ones are ours and our children's for ever, to do all the words of this law.
1 这些是耶和华在摩押地， 吩咐摩西与以色列人所立的约的话， 是耶和华和他们在何烈山所立的约以外的。（本节在《马索拉抄本》为28:69）
2 摩西把以色列众人召了来， 对他们说： "耶和华在埃及地， 在你们面前， 向法老和他的众臣仆， 以及他的全国所行的一切， 你们都看见了， （本节在《马索拉抄本》为29:1）
3 就是你亲眼见过的大试验和神迹， 以及那些大奇事；
4 但是直到今日， 耶和华还没有给你们一颗能明白的心， 能看见的眼睛， 能听见的耳朵。
5 我在旷野四十年之久领导你们； 你们身上的衣服没有穿破， 脚上的鞋也没有穿坏。
6 饭你们没有吃， 清酒或烈酒你们没有喝， 这是要使你们知道耶和华是你们的 神。
7 你们来到了这地方， 希实本王西宏和巴珊王噩就出来， 与我们交战， 我们击败了他们。
8 夺取了他们的地， 分给流本人、迦得人和玛拿西半个支派作产业。
9 所以你们要谨守这约的话， 并且遵行， 好使你们在所行的一切事上都亨通。
10 "今日你们全都站在耶和华你们的 神面前； 你们的首领、族长、长老、官长和以色列所有的男子，
11 你们的小孩、妻子和在你营中的寄居者， 以及为你们劈柴挑水的人， 都站在耶和华你们的 神面前，
12 为要叫你遵守耶和华你的 神今日与你所立的约， 和他向你所起的誓；
13 这样， 他今日可以立你作他的子民， 他可以作你的 神， 正如他曾经对你说过的， 又对你的列祖亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各起过誓的。
14 "我不但与你们立这约， 起这誓；
15 而且也与那些今日和我们在这里， 一同站在耶和华我们的 神面前的人， 以及那些今日不与我们同在这里的人立这约， 起这誓。
16 你们清楚知道我们怎样在埃及地住过， 怎样从列国中经过；
17 你们也见过他们的可憎之物， 和他们那里那些木、石、金、银的偶像。
18 恐怕你们中间有男人或女人， 家族或支派， 今日心里偏离了耶和华我们的 神， 去事奉那些国的神， 又恐怕你们中间有恶根， 生出毒草和苦堇来；
19 如果人听了这咒诅的话， 心里仍然自夸说： ‘我虽然照着顽梗的心而行， 使好人和恶人一起灭亡， 我还有平安。’
20 耶和华必不肯饶恕他； 耶和华的怒气和愤恨必向这人发作， 这书上所写的一切咒诅都要降在那人身上， 耶和华也必从天下涂抹他的名。
21 耶和华必照着写在这律法书上的约的一切咒诅， 把他从以色列众支派中分别出来， 使他遭受灾祸。
22 "后代的人， 就是你们以后兴起来的子孙， 和从远方来的外族人， 看见了这地的灾难和耶和华降与这地的疾病，
23 又看见了遍地有硫磺， 有盐卤， 有火烧， 没有播种， 没有出产， 寸草不生， 好像耶和华在烈怒和怒火中毁灭的所多玛、蛾摩拉、押玛、洗扁一样，
24 看见了这些的人和万国的人都要问： ‘耶和华为什么向这地这样行呢？为什么大发烈怒呢？’
25 人就必回答： ‘是因为他们离弃了耶和华他们列祖的 神的约， 就是耶和华把他们从埃及地领出来的时候， 与他们所立的；
26 去事奉别的神， 向他们叩拜， 就是他们不认识的神， 也是耶和华没有给他们指定要拜的神；
27 所以耶和华向这地大发烈怒， 把这书上所写的一切咒诅都降在这地上；
28 于是耶和华在烈怒、忿怒和大怒中， 把他们从他们的地土拔出来， 丢在别的地方， 像今天一样。’
29 "奥秘的事， 是属于耶和华我们的 神的， 只有显露的事， 是永远属于我们和我们子孙的， 好叫我们遵行这律法上的一切话。"