申命記 17

1 「凡有殘疾，或有甚麼惡病的牛羊，你都不可獻給耶和華－你的上帝，因為這是耶和華－你上帝所憎惡的。

Thou shall not sacrifice to Jehovah thy God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish or anything bad, for that is an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

2 「在你們中間，在耶和華－你上帝所賜你的諸城中，無論哪座城裏，若有人，或男或女，行耶和華－你上帝眼中看為惡的事，違背了他的約，

If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God gives thee, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

3 去事奉敬拜別神，或拜日頭，或拜月亮，或拜天象，是主不曾吩咐的；

and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,

4 有人告訴你，你也聽見了，就要細細地探聽，果然是真，準有這可憎惡的事行在以色列中，

and it be told thee, and thou have heard of it, then shall thou inquire diligently. And, behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel,

5 你就要將行這惡事的男人或女人拉到城門外，用石頭將他打死。

then thou shall bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to thy gates, even the man or the woman, and thou shall stone them to death with stones.

6 要憑兩三個人的口作見證將那當死的人治死；不可憑一個人的口作見證將他治死。

At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death. He shall not be put to death at the mouth of one witness.

7 見證人要先下手，然後眾民也下手將他治死。這樣，就把那惡從你們中間除掉。

The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee.

8 「你城中若起了爭訟的事，或因流血，或因爭競，或因毆打，是你難斷的案件，你就當起來，往耶和華－你上帝所選擇的地方

If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates, then thou shall arise, and get thee up to the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose.

9 去見祭司利未人，並當時的審判官，求問他們，他們必將判語指示你。

And thou shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days, and thou shall inquire. And they shall show thee the sentence of judgment.

10 他們在耶和華所選擇的地方指示你的判語，你必照着他們所指教你的一切話謹守遵行。

And thou shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show thee from that place which Jehovah shall choose. And thou shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach thee,

11 要按他們所指教你的律法，照他們所斷定的去行；他們所指示你的判語，你不可偏離左右。

according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shall do. Thou shall not turn aside from the sentence, which they shall show thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.

12 若有人擅敢不聽從那侍立在耶和華－你上帝面前的祭司，或不聽從審判官，那人就必治死；這樣，便將那惡從以色列中除掉。

And the man who does presumptuously, in not hearkening to the priest who stands to minister there before Jehovah thy God, or to the judge, even that man shall die, and thou shall put away the evil from Israel.

13 眾百姓都要聽見害怕，不再擅敢行事。」

And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

14 「到了耶和華－你上帝所賜你的地，得了那地居住的時候，若說：『我要立王治理我，像四圍的國一樣。』

When thou have come to the land which Jehovah thy God gives thee, and shall possess it, and shall dwell in it, and shall say, I will set a king over me like all the nations that are round about me,

15 你總要立耶和華－你上帝所揀選的人為王。必從你弟兄中立一人；不可立你弟兄以外的人為王。

thou shall surely set him king over thee whom Jehovah thy God shall choose. Thou shall set a king over thee from among thy brothers. Thou may not put a foreigner over thee who is not thy brother.

16 只是王不可為自己加添馬匹，也不可使百姓回埃及去，為要加添他的馬匹，因耶和華曾吩咐你們說：『不可再回那條路去。』

Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses, inasmuch as Jehovah has said to you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

17 他也不可為自己多立妃嬪，恐怕他的心偏邪；也不可為自己多積金銀。

Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away. Neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

18 他登了國位，就要將祭司利未人面前的這律法書，為自己抄錄一本，

And it shall be, when he sits upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for him a copy of this law in a book, out of it before the priests the Levites,

19 存在他那裏，要平生誦讀，好學習敬畏耶和華－他的上帝，謹守遵行這律法書上的一切言語和這些律例，

and it shall be with him. And he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Jehovah his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them,

20 免得他向弟兄心高氣傲，偏左偏右，離了這誡命。這樣，他和他的子孫便可在以色列中，在國位上年長日久。」

that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.