Deuteronomy 12
1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess.
「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 Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, 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 Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every 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 worship the LORD your God in this way.
你們不可照他們那樣事奉耶和華－你們的上帝。
5 Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.
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 To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
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, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because 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 are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems 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 have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving 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 When you cross the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you dwell securely,
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 the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings 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 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among 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 not to offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see;
你要謹慎，不可在你所看中的各處獻燔祭。
14 you must offer them only in the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories, 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 But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or 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 but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
只是不可吃血，要倒在地上，如同倒水一樣。
17 Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.
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 Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,
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 and be careful not to neglect the Levites 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 expands your territory as He has promised, and you crave meat and say, “I want to eat meat,” you may eat it whenever you want.
「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 where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.
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 Indeed, you may eat it as you would eat a gazelle or deer; both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.
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 not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must 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 must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
不可吃血，要倒在地上，如同倒水一樣。
25 Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
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 But you are to take your holy things and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD will 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 Present the meat and blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your other sacrifices must be poured out beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may 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 Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
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 before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live 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 not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “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 must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices 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 See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract 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。
