Deuteronomy 16
1 You are to observe the month of Abib and to celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, because it was in the month of Abib that the Lord your God led you out of Egypt by night.
「你要注意亞筆月，向耶和華－你的上帝守逾越節，因為耶和華－你的上帝在亞筆月夜間領你出埃及。
2 The Passover sacrifice from your herd or flock must be offered to the Lord your God in the place where the Lord will choose to live with you.
你當在耶和華所選擇要立為他名的居所，從牛群羊群中，將逾越節的祭牲獻給耶和華－你的上帝。
3 Don't eat ordinary bread with it. For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast with it, the bread of hardship, because you had to leave Egypt in such a hurry. This way you'll remember day you left Egypt for the rest of your lives.
你吃這祭牲，不可吃有酵的餅；七日之內要吃無酵餅，就是困苦餅－你本是急忙出了埃及地－要叫你一生一世記念你從埃及地出來的日子。
4 Don't have yeast anywhere in your country for seven days. Don't keep any of the meat that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day until the morning.
在你四境之內，七日不可見麵酵，頭一日晚上所獻的肉，一點不可留到早晨。
5 Don't sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the Lord your God is giving you.
在耶和華－你上帝所賜的各城中，你不可獻逾越節的祭；
6 The Passover sacrifice must be offered by you only at the place where the Lord your God will choose to live with you. You are to do this in the evening at sunset-the same time you left Egypt.
只當在耶和華－你上帝所選擇要立為他名的居所，晚上日落的時候，乃是你出埃及的時候，獻逾越節的祭。
7 Cook it and eat it in the place the Lord your God will choose. Then in the morning go back to your tents.
當在耶和華－你上帝所選擇的地方把肉烤了吃，次日早晨就回到你的帳棚去。
8 Eat bread without yeast for six days, and the on the seventh day you are to have a holy meeting to honor the Lord your God. You are not to do any work.
你要吃無酵餅六日，第七日要向耶和華－你的上帝守嚴肅會，不可做工。」
9 Count off seven weeks from when you start the grain harvest.
「你要計算七七日：從你開鐮收割禾稼時算起，共計七七日。
10 Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to honor him the Lord your God by giving him a freewill offering, depending on just how much the Lord your God has blessed you.
你要照耶和華－你上帝所賜你的福，手裏拿着甘心祭，獻在耶和華－你的上帝面前，守七七節。
11 You will celebrate in the Lord's presence in the place where he will choose to live with you. This includes you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levites who live in your towns, as well as the foreigners, orphans, and widows among you.
你和你兒女、僕婢，並住在你城裏的利未人，以及在你們中間寄居的與孤兒寡婦，都要在耶和華－你上帝所選擇立為他名的居所，在耶和華－你的上帝面前歡樂。
12 Don't forget that you were once slaves in Egypt, and be careful to follow these regulations.
你也要記念你在埃及作過奴僕。你要謹守遵行這些律例。」
13 Celebrate the Festival of Shelters for seven days once you have finished threshing your grain and pressing your grapes.
「你把禾場的穀、酒醡的酒收藏以後，就要守住棚節七日。
14 Enjoy your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levites who live in your towns, as well as the foreigners, orphans, and widows among you.
守節的時候，你和你兒女、僕婢，並住在你城裏的利未人，以及寄居的與孤兒寡婦，都要歡樂。
15 Celebrate this Festival for seven days to honor the Lord your God in the place he will choose, because the Lord your God will bless your whole harvest and everything you do, so you will be really happy.
在耶和華所選擇的地方，你當向耶和華－你的上帝守節七日；因為耶和華－你上帝在你一切的土產上和你手裏所辦的事上要賜福與你，你就非常地歡樂。
16 All your men must come before the Lord your God in the place He will choose three times every year: the Festival of Bread without Yeast, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters. No one should come before the Lord without an offering.
你一切的男丁要在除酵節、七七節、住棚節，一年三次，在耶和華－你上帝所選擇的地方朝見他，卻不可空手朝見。
17 Each of you is to bring whatever gift you can, depending on how much the Lord your God has blessed you.
各人要按自己的力量，照耶和華－你上帝所賜的福分，奉獻禮物。」
18 Choose judges and officials for each of your tribes in every town that the Lord your God is giving you. They must judge the people fairly.
「你要在耶和華－你上帝所賜的各城裏，按着各支派設立審判官和官長。他們必按公義的審判判斷百姓。
19 Don't pervert justice or show favoritism. Don't take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the wise and twists the words of the truthful.
不可屈枉正直；不可看人的外貌。也不可受賄賂；因為賄賂能叫智慧人的眼變瞎了，又能顛倒義人的話。
20 Always do what is right and just, so that you may go on living, occupying the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
你要追求至公至義，好叫你存活，承受耶和華－你上帝所賜你的地。
21 Don't ever set up a wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you build for the Lord your God,
「你為耶和華－你的上帝築壇，不可在壇旁栽甚麼樹木作為木偶。
22 and don't make for yourselves an idolatrous stone pillar, which the Lord your God hates.
也不可為自己設立柱像；這是耶和華－你上帝所恨惡的。
