1 And now, Israel, hearken to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do {them}, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which Jehovah the God of your fathers giveth you.
2 Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall ye take from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you.
3 Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-Peor; for all the men that followed Baal-Peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from among you;
4 but ye that did cleave to Jehovah your God are alive every one of you this day.
5 See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that ye may do so in the land into which ye enter to possess it.
6 And ye shall keep and do them; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Verily this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
7 For what great nation is there that hath God near to them as Jehovah our God is in everything we call upon him for?
8 And what great nation is there that hath righteous statutes and ordinances, as all this law which I set before you this day?
9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things that thine eyes have seen (and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but thou shalt make them known to thy sons and to thy sons' sons),
10 the day that thou stoodest before Jehovah thy God in Horeb, when Jehovah said to me, Gather me the people together, that I may cause them to hear my words, that they may learn them, and fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and teach them to their children.
11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and obscurity.
12 And Jehovah spoke to you from the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but ye saw no form; only {ye heard} a voice.
13 And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, the ten words; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
14 And Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might do them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it.
15 And take great heed to your souls (for ye saw no form on the day that Jehovah spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the fire),
16 lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the form of any figure, the pattern of male or female,
17 the pattern of any beast that is on the earth, the pattern of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven,
18 the pattern of anything that creepeth on the ground, the pattern of any fish that is in the waters under the earth;
19 and lest thou lift up thine eyes to the heavens, and see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, the whole host of heaven, and be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, which Jehovah thy God hath assigned unto all peoples under the whole heaven.
20 But you hath Jehovah taken, and hath brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, that ye might be to him a people of inheritance, as it is this day.
21 And Jehovah was angry with me on your account, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not enter in to that good land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee {for} an inheritance;
22 for I shall die in this land, I shall not go over the Jordan; but ye shall go over, and possess this good land.
23 Take heed to yourselves lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a graven image, the form of anything which Jehovah thy God hath forbidden thee.
24 For Jehovah thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous *God.
25 When thou begettest sons, and sons' sons, and ye have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, the form of anything, and do evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, to provoke him to anger,
26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye pass over the Jordan to possess it: ye shall not prolong your days on it, but shall be utterly destroyed.
27 And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left a small company among the nations to which Jehovah will lead you.
28 And ye shall there serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29 And from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt find him, if thou shalt seek him with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul.
30 In thy tribulation, and when all these things shall come upon thee, at the end of days, thou shalt return to Jehovah thy God, and shalt hearken to his voice,
31 -for Jehovah thy God is a merciful *God, -he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he swore unto them.
32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from one end of the heavens to the other end of the heavens, whether there hath been anything as this great thing is, or if anything hath been heard like it?
33 Did {ever} people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
34 Or hath God essayed to come to take him a nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a powerful hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35 Unto thee it was shewn, that thou mightest know that Jehovah, he is God-there is none other besides him.
36 From the heavens he made thee hear his voice, that he might instruct thee; and on the earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words from the midst of the fire.
37 And because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them, he brought thee out with his countenance, with his great power, out of Egypt,
38 to dispossess nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
39 Thou shalt know therefore this day, and consider it in thy heart, that Jehovah, he is God in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath: {there is} none else.
40 And thou shalt keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee and with thy sons after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days on the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, for ever.
41 Then Moses separated three cities on this side the Jordan toward the sun-rising,
42 that the manslayer might flee thither, who should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not previously, that fleeing to one of these cities, he might live:
43 Bezer in the wilderness, in the plateau, of the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.
44 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
45 these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances that Moses declared to the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt,
46 on this side the Jordan, in the valley opposite to Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote when they came out of Egypt;
47 and they took possession of his land, and the land of Og the king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who were on this side the Jordan, toward the sun-rising;
48 from Aroer, which is on the bank of the river Arnon, as far as mount Sion, which is Hermon,
49 and all the plain on this side the Jordan, eastward, and as far as the sea of the plain, under the slopes of Pisgah.
1 "以色列人哪， 现在你们要听我向来教训你们遵行的律例和典章， 使你们可以活着， 可以进去得着耶和华你们列祖的 神赐给你们的地作产业。
2 我吩咐你们的话， 你们不可增加， 也不可减少， 好使你们遵守我吩咐你们的， 就是耶和华你们的 神的命令。
3 耶和华因巴力．毗珥的事所行的， 你们都亲眼看见了； 所有跟随巴力．毗珥的人， 耶和华你们的 神都从你们中间消灭了。
4 只有你们紧紧倚靠耶和华你们的 神的人， 今日全都活着。
5 看哪， 我照着耶和华我的 神吩咐我的， 把律例和典章教训你们， 好让你们在将要进去得为业的地上遵行。
6 所以你们要谨守遵行， 因为在万民的眼中看来， 这就是你们的智慧和聪明； 他们一听见这一切律例， 就必定说： ‘这大国的人真是有智慧， 有聪明啊。’
7 哪一个大国的人有神与他们这样亲近， 像耶和华我们的 神， 在我们每次呼求他的时候， 与我们亲近一样呢？
8 又哪一个大国有这样公义的律例和典章， 像我今日在你面前颁布的这一切律法呢？
9 "你只要自己谨慎， 又要谨守你的心思， 免得你忘了你亲眼看见的事， 又免得这些事在你有生之日离开你的心； 总要把这些事传给你的子子孙孙，
10 免得你忘了你在何烈山， 站在耶和华你们的 神面前的那天。那时耶和华对我说： ‘你要为我召集众民， 我要叫他们听我的话， 使他们在那地上生活的日子， 可以学习敬畏我， 又可以教训自己的儿女。’
11 那时， 你们走前来， 站在山下； 山上有火烧着， 火焰冲天， 又有黑暗、密云和幽暗。
12 耶和华从火中对你们说话； 你们只听见声音， 却没有看见形象； 只有声音，
13 把他的约， 就是他吩咐你们遵守的那十条诫命， 向你们宣布出来； 又把它们写在两块石版上。
14 那时， 耶和华也吩咐我把律例和典章教训你们， 使你们在将要过去得为业的地上遵行。
15 "所以你们要特别小心， 谨慎自己， 因为耶和华在何烈山从火中对你们说话的那一天， 你们没有看见什么形象；
16 恐怕你们败坏自己， 为自己制造偶像， 制造任何神像的形象， 无论是男像或是女像，
17 或是地上各种走兽的像， 或是飞翔在空中各类有翅膀的雀鸟的像，
18 或是地上各种爬行动物的像， 或是地底下水里各样鱼类的像。
19 又恐怕你抬头望天， 看见日、月、星， 就是天上万象的时候， 就被勾引， 去敬拜和事奉它们， 那原是耶和华你们的 神分给天下万民享用的。
20 耶和华却把你们从埃及， 从铁炉那里领出来， 作他自己的产业， 自己的人民， 像今日一样。
21 耶和华又因你们的缘故， 向我发怒， 并且起誓不让我过约旦河， 也不容我进入耶和华你的 神赐给你作产业的那美地。
22 我只有死在此地， 不得过约旦河； 你们却可以过去， 取得那美地作产业。
23 你们要自己谨慎， 免得你们忘记了耶和华你们的 神与你们所立的约， 你们就为自己制造偶像， 制造任何神像的形象， 就是耶和华你的 神吩咐你不可作的。
24 因为耶和华你的 神是烈火， 是忌邪的 神。
25 "你们生子生孙， 在那地住久了的时候， 如果你们败坏自己， 制造偶像， 制造任何神像的形象， 行耶和华你的 神看为恶的事， 惹他发怒，
26 我今日就呼天唤地向你们作证， 你们必在过约旦河取得为业的地上迅速灭亡； 你们必不能在那地长久生存， 必全被消灭。
27 耶和华必使你们分散在万民中； 在耶和华要领你们所到的万国中， 你们剩下的人数必不多。
28 在那里你们必事奉人手所做的神， 就是用木头石头做成的， 不能看、不能听、不能吃、不能闻的神。
29 但你们在那里必寻求耶和华你的 神； 如果你一心一意寻找他， 就必寻见。
30 日后， 你落在患难中， 这些事都临到你身上的时候， 你必归向耶和华你的 神， 听从他的话；
31 因为耶和华你的 神原是满有怜悯的 神， 他必不丢弃你， 不毁灭你， 也不忘记他起誓与你的列祖所立的约。
32 "你问问在你以前过去的日子， 自从 神创造人在地上以来， 从天这边到天那边， 有没有人行过这样的大事， 听过像这样的事呢？
33 有没有一个民族听见 神在火中说话的声音， 像你听见的一样， 还能活着呢？
34 有没有一位神尝试借着试验、神迹、奇事、战争、大能的手和伸出来的膀臂， 以及大而可畏的事， 把一国的人民从别的国中领出来， 像耶和华你们的 神在埃及， 在你们面前为你们所作的一切事呢？
35 这是要显明给你看， 使你知道， 只有耶和华是 神； 除了他以外， 再没有别的神。
36 他从天上使你听见他的声音， 为要教导你； 又在地上使你看见他的大火， 并且叫你听到他从火中所说的话。
37 因为他爱你的列祖， 所以才拣选了他们的后裔， 用大能亲自把你从埃及领出来，
38 为要把比你大比你强的民族， 从你面前赶走， 然后领你进去， 把他们的地赐给你作产业， 像今日一样。
39 所以今天你要知道， 也要记在心里； 天上地下， 只有耶和华是 神； 除他以外， 再没有别的神了。
40 你要遵守我今日吩咐你的律例和诫命， 使你和你的子孙得享福乐， 也使你在耶和华你的 神赐给你的那地上得享长寿。"
41 那时， 摩西在约旦河东， 日出的方向， 把三座城分别出来，
42 让那些素无仇恨、无心误杀人的， 可以逃到那里去； 逃到这三座城的一座去的， 都可以活着：
43 为流本人， 分出了在旷野平原的比悉； 为迦得人， 分出了基列的拉末； 为玛拿西人， 分出了巴珊的哥兰。
44 以下是摩西在以色列人面前所立的律法，
45 就是摩西在以色列人出埃及以后， 对他们所说的法度、律例和典章；
46 地点是在约旦河东， 伯．毗珥对面的谷中， 就是住在希实本的亚摩利人的王西宏的地。这西宏是摩西和以色列人出埃及后击杀的。
47 他们占领了他的地和巴珊王噩的地， 就是两个亚摩利人的王， 是住在约旦河东， 日出的方向的；
48 从亚嫩谷边的亚罗珥， 直到西云山， 西云山就是黑门山；
49 还有约旦河东的亚拉巴全地， 直到亚拉巴海， 就是毗斯迦的山坡下。