Deuteronomy 12

1 These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days that you live on the earth.

「你們存活於世的日子，在耶和華－你們列祖的上帝所賜你們為業的地上，要謹守遵行的律例典章乃是這些：

2 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

你們要將所趕出的國民事奉神的各地方，無論是在高山，在小山，在各青翠樹下，都毀壞了；

3 You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of that place.

也要拆毀他們的祭壇，打碎他們的柱像，用火焚燒他們的木偶，砍下他們雕刻的神像，並將其名從那地方除滅。

4 You shall not do so to the LORD your God.

你們不可照他們那樣事奉耶和華－你們的上帝。

5 But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there.

但耶和華－你們的上帝從你們各支派中選擇何處為立他名的居所，你們就當往那裏去求問，

6 You shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your free will offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock there.

將你們的燔祭、平安祭、十分取一之物，和手中的舉祭，並還願祭、甘心祭，以及牛群羊群中頭生的，都奉到那裏。

7 There you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.

在那裏，耶和華－你們上帝的面前，你們和你們的家屬都可以吃，並且因你手所辦的一切事蒙耶和華－你的上帝賜福，就都歡樂。

8 You shall not do all the things that we do here today, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;

我們今日在這裏所行的是各人行自己眼中看為正的事，你們將來不可這樣行；

9 for you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the LORD your God gives you.

因為你們還沒有到耶和華－你上帝所賜你的安息地，所給你的產業。

10 But when you go over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety,

但你們過了約旦河，得以住在耶和華－你們上帝使你們承受為業之地，又使你們太平，不被四圍的一切仇敵擾亂，安然居住。

11 then it shall happen that to the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the LORD.

那時要將我所吩咐你們的燔祭、平安祭、十分取一之物，和手中的舉祭，並向耶和華許願獻的一切美祭，都奉到耶和華－你們上帝所選擇要立為他名的居所。

12 You shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

你們和兒女、僕婢，並住在你們城裏無分無業的利未人，都要在耶和華－你們的上帝面前歡樂。

13 Be careful that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;

你要謹慎，不可在你所看中的各處獻燔祭。

14 but in the place which the LORD chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

惟獨耶和華從你那一支派中所選擇的地方，你就要在那裏獻燔祭，行我一切所吩咐你的。

15 Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the LORD your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.

「然而，在你各城裏都可以照耶和華－你上帝所賜你的福分，隨心所欲宰牲吃肉；無論潔淨人不潔淨人都可以吃，就如吃羚羊與鹿一般。

16 Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.

只是不可吃血，要倒在地上，如同倒水一樣。

17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your free will offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;

你的五穀、新酒，和油的十分之一，或是牛群羊群中頭生的，或是你許願獻的，甘心獻的，或是手中的舉祭，都不可在你城裏吃。

18 but you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you put your hand to.

但要在耶和華－你的上帝面前吃，在耶和華－你上帝所要選擇的地方，你和兒女、僕婢，並住在你城裏的利未人，都可以吃；也要因你手所辦的，在耶和華－你上帝面前歡樂。

19 Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

你要謹慎，在你所住的地方永不可丟棄利未人。

20 When the LORD your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.

「耶和華－你的上帝照他所應許擴張你境界的時候，你心裏想要吃肉，說：『我要吃肉』，就可以隨心所欲地吃肉。

21 If the place which the LORD your God shall choose to put his name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.

耶和華－你上帝所選擇要立他名的地方若離你太遠，就可以照我所吩咐的，將耶和華賜給你的牛羊取些宰了，可以隨心所欲在你城裏吃。

22 Even as the gazelle and as the deer is eaten, so you shall eat of it. The unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.

你吃那肉，要像吃羚羊與鹿一般；無論潔淨人不潔淨人都可以吃。

23 Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat.

只是你要心意堅定，不可吃血，因為血是生命；不可將血與肉同吃。

24 You shall not eat it. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.

不可吃血，要倒在地上，如同倒水一樣。

25 You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in the LORD’s eyes.

不可吃血。這樣，你行耶和華眼中看為正的事，你和你的子孫就可以得福。

26 Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD shall choose.

只是你分別為聖的物和你的還願祭要奉到耶和華所選擇的地方去。

27 You shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the LORD your God’s altar. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the LORD your God’s altar, and you shall eat the meat.

你的燔祭，連肉帶血，都要獻在耶和華－你上帝的壇上。平安祭的血要倒在耶和華－你上帝的壇上；平安祭的肉，你自己可以吃。

28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the LORD your God’s eyes.

你要謹守聽從我所吩咐的一切話，行耶和華－你上帝眼中看為善，看為正的事。這樣，你和你的子孫就可以永遠享福。」

29 When the LORD your God cuts off the nations from before you where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,

「耶和華－你上帝將你要去趕出的國民從你面前剪除，你得了他們的地居住，

30 be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you, and that you not enquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”

那時就要謹慎，不可在他們除滅之後隨從他們的惡俗，陷入網羅，也不可訪問他們的神說：『這些國民怎樣事奉他們的神，我也要照樣行。』

31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God; for every abomination to the LORD, which he hates, they have done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

你不可向耶和華－你的上帝這樣行，因為他們向他們的神行了耶和華所憎嫌所恨惡的一切事，甚至將自己的兒女用火焚燒，獻與他們的神。

32 Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.

凡我所吩咐的，你們都要謹守遵行，不可加添，也不可刪減。