申命記 18
1 肋未人司祭即全肋未支派，在以色列中沒有分子和產業，他們靠獻與上主的火祭祭品，和他們應得的一分維持生活。
The Priests of the Leuites, and all the tribe of Leui shall haue no part nor inheritace with Israel, but shall eate the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and his inheritance.
2 他在兄弟中間沒有產業；照上主向他所說的，上主自己要作他們的產業。
Therefore shall they haue no inheritance among their brethren: for the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath sayd vnto them.
3 這是司祭由人民應得的一份，就是宰殺牛羊作祭獻的人，應將前腿、兩腮和胃臟給司祭；
And this shalbe the Priests duetie of the people, that they, which offer sacrifice, whether it be bullocke or sheepe, shall giue vnto the Priest the shoulder, and the two cheekes, and the mawe.
4 初收的五穀、酒、油和初剪的羊毛，亦應給他，
The first fruites also of thy corne, of thy wine, and of thine oyle, and the first of the fleece of thy sheepe shalt thou giue him.
5 因為上主你的天主由各支派中揀選了他，叫他和他的子孫，時時以上主的名義服役供職。
For the Lord thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stande and minister in the Name of the Lord, him, and his sonnes for euer.
6 如果一個住在以色列境內任何城鎮的肋未人，離開了本地，一心一意地要到上主所選的地方去，
Also when a Leuite shall come out of any of thy cities of all Israel, where hee remained, and come with all the desire of his heart vnto the place, which the Lord shall chuse,
7 他可因上主的名義供職，如同在那裏侍立於上主面前的肋未弟兄們一樣，
He shall then minister in the Name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Leuites, which remaine there before the Lord.
8 分享同樣的口糧，不必變賣祖產。
They shall haue like portions to eat beside that which commeth of his sale of his patrimonie.
9 幾時你進入了上主你的天主賜給你的土地，不要仿傚那些異民做可憎惡的事。
When thou shalt come into ye land which the Lord thy God giueth thee, thou shalt not learne to do after ye abominations of those nations.
10 在你中間，不可容許人使自己的兒子或女兒經過火，也不可容許人占卜、算卦、行妖術或魔術；
Let none be founde among you that maketh his sonne or his daughter to goe thorough the fire, or that vseth witchcraft, or a regarder of times, or a marker of the flying of foules, or a sorcerer,
11 或念咒、問鬼、算命和求問死者；
Or a charmer, or that counselleth with spirits, or a soothsaier, or that asketh counsel at ye dead.
12 因為凡做這些事的人，都是上主所憎惡的；其實就是為了這些可憎惡的事，上主你的天主纔把他們由你面前趕走。
For all that doe such things are abomination vnto the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doeth cast them out before thee.
13 你應一心一意屬於上主你的天主。
Thou shalt be vpright therefore with the Lord thy God.
14 你要趕走的這些民族，聽信了算卦和占卜的人；但上主你的天主為你卻不是這樣安排；
For these nations which thou shalt possesse, hearken vnto those that regarde the times, and vnto sorcerers: as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffred thee so.
15 上主你的天主，要由你中間，由你兄弟中，為你興起一位像我一樣的先知，你們應聽信他。
The Lord thy God will raise vp vnto thee a Prophet like vnto me, from among you, euen of thy brethren: vnto him ye shall hearken,
16 正如你在曷勒布集會之日，求上主你的天主說：「惟願我再不聽見上主我的天主的聲音，再不看見這烈火，免得我死亡。」
According to al that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, in the day of the assemblie, when thou saidest, Let me heare the voice of my Lord God no more, nor see this great fire any more, that I die not.
17 上主遂對我說：「他們說得有理，
And the Lord sayde vnto me, They haue well spoken.
18 我要由他們的兄弟中，給他們興起一位像你一樣的先知，我要將我的話放在他口中，他要向他們講述我所吩咐他的一切。
I will raise them vp a Prophet from among their brethren like vnto thee, and will put my woordes in his mouth, and he shall speake vnto them all that I shall commaund him.
19 若有人不聽信他因我的名所說的話，我要親自同他算賬。
And whosoeuer will not hearken vnto my wordes, which he shall speake in my Name, I will require it of him.
20 但是，若一位先知擅敢因我的名說我沒有吩咐他說的話，或因其他神的名說話，這位先知應該處死。」
But the prophet that shall presume to speake a worde in my name, which I haue not commanded him to speake, or that speaketh in the name of other gods, euen the same prophet shall die.
21 也許你心裏想：「我們怎能知道上主未曾說過這話﹖」
And if thou thinke in thine heart, Howe shall we knowe the worde which the Lord hath not spoken?
22 幾時一位先知因上主之名說話，若他的話不實現，不應驗，這話就不是上主說的，是先知擅自說的，你不用怕他。
When a prophet speaketh in the Name of the Lord, if the thing follow not nor come to passe, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not therefore be afraid of him.
