Deuteronomy 18
1 The priests, the Levites, that is, all the tribe of Levi, will have no part or heritage with Israel: their food and their heritage will be the offerings of the Lord made by fire.
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。
2 And they will have no heritage among their countrymen: the Lord is their heritage, as he has said to them.
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。
3 And this is to be the priests' right: those who make an offering of a sheep or an ox are to give to the priest the top part of the leg and the two sides of the head and the stomach.
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；
4 And in addition you are to give him the first of your grain and wine and oil, and the first wool cut from your sheep.
初收的五穀、酒、油和初剪的羊毛，亦應給他，
5 For he, and his sons after him for ever, have been marked out by the Lord your God from all your tribes, to do the work of priests in the name of the Lord.
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。
6 And if a Levite, moved by a strong desire, comes from any town in all Israel where he is living to the place marked out by the Lord;
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，
7 Then he will do the work of a priest in the name of the Lord his God, with all his brothers the Levites who are there before the Lord.
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，
8 His food will be the same as theirs, in addition to what has come to him as the price of his property.
分享同樣的口糧，不必變賣祖產。
9 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.
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。
10 Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker,
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；
11 Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions.
或念咒、問鬼、算命和求問死者；
12 For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you.
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。
13 You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God.
你應一心一意屬於上主你的天主。
14 For these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do so.
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；
15 The Lord your God will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to him;
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。
16 In answer to the request you made to the Lord your God in Horeb on the day of the great meeting, when you said, Let not the voice of the Lord my God come to my ears again, and let me not see this great fire any more, or death will overtake me.
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。」
17 Then the Lord said to me, What they have said is well said.
上主遂對我說：「他們說得有理，
18 I will give them a prophet from among themselves, like you, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will say to them whatever I give him orders to say.
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。
19 And whoever does not give ear to my words which he will say in my name, will be responsible to me.
若有人不聽信他因我的名所說的話，我要親自同他算賬。
20 But the prophet who takes it on himself to say words in my name which I have not given him orders to say, or who says anything in the name of other gods, will come to his death.
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。」
21 And if you say in your hearts, How are we to be certain that the word does not come from the Lord?
也許你心裏想：「我們怎能知道上主未曾說過這話﹖」
22 When a prophet makes a statement in the name of the Lord, if what he says does not take place and his words do not come true, then his word is not the word of the Lord: the words of the prophet were said in the pride of his heart, and you are to have no fear of him.
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。
