Deuteronomy 18
1 The priests, the Levites, even the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; the burnt offerings of the Lord [are] their inheritance, they shall eat them.
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 shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the Lord himself [is] his portion, as he said to him.
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] the due of the priests in the things coming from the people from those who offer sacrifices, whether it be a calf or a sheep; and you shall give the shoulder to the priest, and the cheeks, and the great intestine:
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 the first fruits of your corn, and of your wine, and of your oil; and you shall give to him the first fruits of the fleeces of your sheep:
初收的五穀、酒、油和初剪的羊毛，亦應給他，
5 because the Lord has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand before the Lord your God, to minister and bless in his name, himself and his sons among the children of Israel.
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 come from one of the cities of all the children of Israel, where he himself dwells, accordingly as his mind desires, to the place which he shall have chosen,
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 he shall minister to the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites, who stand there present before the Lord your God.
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 He shall eat an allotted portion, besides the sale of his hereditary property.
分享同樣的口糧，不必變賣祖產。
9 And when you shall have entered into the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to do according to the abominations 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 There shall not be found in you one who purges his son or his daughter with fire, one who uses divination, who deals with omens, and augury,
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 a sorcerer employing incantation, one who has in him a divining spirit, and observer of signs, questioning the dead.
或念咒、問鬼、算命和求問死者；
12 For every one that does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God; for because of these abominations the Lord will destroy them from before your face.
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 shall be perfect before the Lord your God.
你應一心一意屬於上主你的天主。
14 For all these nations whose [land] you shall inherit, they will listen to omens and divinations; but the Lord your God has not permitted you so [to do].
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 shall raise up to you a prophet of your brethren, like me; him shall you hear:
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 according to all things which you did desire of the Lord your God in Choreb in the day of the assembly, saying, We will not again hear the voice of the Lord your God, and we will not any more see this great fire, and [so] we shall not die.
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 And the Lord said to me, They have spoken rightly all that they have said to you.
上主遂對我說：「他們說得有理，
18 I will raise up to them a prophet of their brethren, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them as I shall command him.
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 whatever man shall not listen to whatever words that prophet shall speak in my name, I will take vengeance on him.
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 whoever shall impiously speak in my name a word which I have not commanded him to speak, and whoever shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.
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 But if you shall say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?
也許你心裏想：「我們怎能知道上主未曾說過這話﹖」
22 Whatsoever words that prophet shall speak in the name of the Lord, and they shall not come true, and not come to pass, this [is] the thing which the Lord has not spoken; that prophet has spoken wickedly: you shall not spare 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。
