Deuteronomy 17
1 Don't sacrifice to the Lord your God cattle or a sheep that has a defect or has something seriously wrong, for that is offensive to the Lord your God.
有任何殘缺或瑕疵的牛羊，不可祭獻給上主你的天主，因為這為上主你的天主是可憎惡的事。
2 There may be a report that one of you, whether a man or a woman, living in a town that the Lord your God gave you, has been found to be sinning in the sight of the Lord your God by breaking the Lord's agreement.
在你中間，即在上主你的天主賜給你的一座城內，若發見一個男人或女人，做了上主你的天主眼中視為惡的事，違犯了他的盟約，
3 This person has done this by going to worship other gods, bowing down to them—or to the sun, moon, or any of the stars of heaven—which I have ordered you not to do.
去事奉敬拜其他的神，或太陽，或月亮，或任何天象，反對我所吩咐的事；
4 If you hear such a report, you need to make a full investigation. If you find out that the report is true, and that such an awful sin has been committed in Israel,
如果有人告訴了你，你一聽說，就應詳細調查。如果實有其事，真在以色列中做了這種可惡的事，
5 you must have the man or woman who has committed this terrible act taken outside the town and stoned to death.
就將那做這種惡事的男人或女人，帶到城門外，用石頭砸死他們。
6 That person is to be executed based on the evidence given by two or three witnesses. No one shall be executed on the evidence given by a single witness.
根據兩個或三個見證的口供，即可將這該死的人處以死刑；根據一個見證的口供，卻不可處以死刑。
7 The witnesses must act first in executing the person, and then the rest of those who are present. You must eliminate the evil from among you.
見證人應先下手，然後眾人纔下手將他處死：如此由你中間剷除了這邪惡。
8 If there's a case before your town court that is too problematic for you to settle, whether the argument is over murder or manslaughter, one legal decision against another, or different degrees of assault, you must take the issue to the place the Lord your God will choose.
若在你城鎮內發生了訴訟案件：或是殺人，或是爭訟，或是毆傷，而又是你難以處決的案件，你應起來上到上主你的天主所選的地方，
9 Go to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge in charge. Present the case to them, and they will give you their decision.
去見肋未司祭和那在職的判官，詢問他們，他們要指教你怎樣判斷這案件。
10 You must abide by the decision they give you there at the place the Lord will choose. Make sure you do everything they tell you to do,
你應依照他們在上主所選的地方，有關那案件指教你的話去執行；凡他們教訓你的，應完全遵行。
11 in accordance with the legal instructions they give you and the verdict they delivered. Don't deviate from the decision they give you.
應全依照他們給你的指導，告訴你的判斷去執行；對他們告訴你的定案，不可偏左偏右。
12 Anyone who treats with contempt either the priest (who ministers before the Lord your God) or the judge, must be executed. You must eliminate this evil from Israel.
若有人擅自行事，不聽從那侍立於上主你的天主前供職的司祭，或不聽從判官，應把這人處死。如此你由以色列中剷除了這邪惡；
13 Then everyone else will hear about it and be afraid, and won't act with contempt in the future.
民眾聽見了，必都害怕，再不敢擅自行事。
14 After you've entered the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken it over and settled in it, and you decide, “Let's have a king to rule over us like all the other nations around us do,”
當你進入上主你的天主賜給你的土地，佔據了那地，安住在那裏以後，你如說：「我願照我四周的各民族，設立一位君王統治我，」
15 you can have a king but only one chosen by the Lord your God. He must be an Israelite. You must not have a king who is a foreigner; someone who is not an Israelite.
你應將上主你的天主所揀選的人，立為你的君王。應由你兄弟中立一人，作你的君王，不可讓不屬你兄弟的外方人統治你。
16 Your king must not have large numbers of horses, or send his men to Egypt to buy more horses, because the Lord has declared, “You must never to return there again.”
但是，不可許他養許多馬，免得他叫人民回到埃及去買馬，因為上主曾對你們說過：「你們不可再回到那條路上去；」
17 He must not have many wives, so they don't lead him away from following the Lord. He must not have large quantities of silver and gold.
也不可許他有許多妻妾，免得他的心迷於邪途；也不可許他過於積蓄金銀。
18 Once he is king and sits on his royal throne, he must make a copy for himself of these instructions, writing them on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.
幾時他登上了王位，依照肋未司祭處所存的法律書，給他抄寫一本，
19 He is to keep it with him, and he is to read from it each day throughout his life, so he may learn to respect the Lord his God by being careful to follow every word of these instructions and regulations.
叫他帶在身邊一生天天閱讀，好使他學習敬畏上主他的天主，謹守遵行這法律上的一切話和這些規則。
20 Then he won't think more of himself than his fellow Israelites, and he won't deviate from the commandments, so that he and his sons may have long reigns over the kingdom of Israel.
如此他可避免對自己的同胞心高氣傲，偏離這些誡命，好使他和他的子孫在以色列中間久居王位。
