Deuteronomy 18
1 The priests, the Levites, even the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; the burnt offerings of the Lord [are] their inheritance, they shall eat them.
「祭司利未人和利未全支派必在以色列中無分無業；他們所吃用的就是獻給耶和華的火祭和一切所捐的。
2 And they shall have no inheritance amongst their brethren; the Lord himself [is] his portion, as he said to him.
他們在弟兄中必沒有產業；耶和華是他們的產業，正如耶和華所應許他們的。
3 And this [is] the due of the priests in the things coming from the people from those who offer sacrifices, whether it be a calf or a sheep; and you shall give the shoulder to the priest, and the cheeks, and the great intestine:
祭司從百姓所當得的分乃是這樣：凡獻牛或羊為祭的，要把前腿和兩腮並脾胃給祭司。
4 and the first fruits of your corn, and of your wine, and of your oil; and you shall give to him the first fruits of the fleeces of your sheep:
初收的五穀、新酒和油，並初剪的羊毛，也要給他；
5 because the Lord has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand before the Lord your God, to minister and bless in his name, himself and his sons amongst the children of Israel.
因為耶和華－你的上帝從你各支派中將他揀選出來，使他和他子孫永遠奉耶和華的名侍立，事奉。
6 And if a Levite come from one of the cities of all the children of Israel, where he himself dwells, accordingly as his mind desires, to the place which he shall have chosen,
「利未人無論寄居在以色列中的哪一座城，若從那裏出來，一心願意到耶和華所選擇的地方，
7 he shall minister to the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites, who stand there present before the Lord your God.
就要奉耶和華－他上帝的名事奉，像他眾弟兄利未人侍立在耶和華面前事奉一樣。
8 He shall eat an allotted portion, besides the sale of his hereditary property.
除了他賣祖父產業所得的以外，還要得一分祭物與他們同吃。」
9 And when you shall have entered into the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.
「你到了耶和華－你上帝所賜之地，那些國民所行可憎惡的事，你不可學着行。
10 There shall not be found in you one who purges his son or his daughter with fire, one who uses divination, who deals with omens, and augury,
你們中間不可有人使兒女經火，也不可有占卜的、觀兆的、用法術的、行邪術的、
11 a sorcerer employing incantation, one who has in him a divining spirit, and observer of signs, questioning the dead.
用迷術的、交鬼的、行巫術的、過陰的。
12 For every one that does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God; for because of these abominations the Lord will destroy them from before your face.
凡行這些事的都為耶和華所憎惡；因那些國民行這可憎惡的事，所以耶和華－你的上帝將他們從你面前趕出。
13 You shall be perfect before the Lord your God.
你要在耶和華－你的上帝面前作完全人。」
14 For all these nations whose [land] you shall inherit, they will listen to omens and divinations; but the Lord your God has not permitted you so [to do].
「因你所要趕出的那些國民都聽信觀兆的和占卜的，至於你，耶和華－你的上帝從來不許你這樣行。
15 The Lord your God shall raise up to you a prophet of your brethren, like me; him shall you hear:
耶和華－你的上帝要從你們弟兄中間給你興起一位先知，像我，你們要聽從他。
16 according to all things which you did desire of the Lord your God in Choreb in the day of the assembly, saying, We will not again hear the voice of the Lord your God, and we will not any more see this great fire, and [so] we shall not die.
正如你在何烈山大會的日子求耶和華－你上帝一切的話，說：『求你不再叫我聽見耶和華－我上帝的聲音，也不再叫我看見這大火，免得我死亡。』
17 And the Lord said to me, They have spoken rightly all that they have said to you.
耶和華就對我說：『他們所說的是。
18 I will raise up to them a prophet of their brethren, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them as I shall command him.
我必在他們弟兄中間給他們興起一位先知，像你。我要將當說的話傳給他；他要將我一切所吩咐的都傳給他們。
19 And whatever man shall not listen to whatever words that prophet shall speak in my name, I will take vengeance on him.
誰不聽他奉我名所說的話，我必討誰的罪。
20 But the prophet whoever shall impiously speak in my name a word which I have not commanded him to speak, and whoever shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.
若有先知擅敢託我的名說我所未曾吩咐他說的話，或是奉別神的名說話，那先知就必治死。』
21 But if you shall say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?
你心裏若說：『耶和華所未曾吩咐的話，我們怎能知道呢？』
22 Whatsoever words that prophet shall speak in the name of the Lord, and they shall not come true, and not come to pass, this [is] the thing which the Lord has not spoken; that prophet has spoken wickedly: you shall not spare him.
先知託耶和華的名說話，所說的若不成就，也無效驗，這就是耶和華所未曾吩咐的，是那先知擅自說的，你不要怕他。」
