Deuteronomy 17
1 “You do not sacrifice to your God YHWH ox or sheep in which there is a blemish—any bad thing; for it [is] an abomination [to] your God YHWH.
“凡有残疾，或有什么恶病的牛羊，你都不可献给耶和华—你的 神，因为这是耶和华—你 神所憎恶的。
2 When there is found in your midst, in one of your cities which your God YHWH is giving to you, a man or a woman who does evil in the eyes of your God YHWH by transgressing His covenant,
“在你们中间，在耶和华—你 神所赐你的诸城中，无论哪座城里，若有人，或男或女，行耶和华—你 神眼中看为恶的事，违背了他的约，
3 and he goes and serves other gods, and bows himself to them, and to the sun, or to the moon, or to any of the host of the heavens, which I have not commanded,
去事奉敬拜别神，或拜日头，或拜月亮，或拜天象，是主不曾吩咐的；
4 and it has been declared to you, and you have heard, and have searched diligently, and behold, [if] truth, the thing is established; this abomination has been done in Israel—
有人告诉你，你也听见了，就要细细地探听，果然是真，准有这可憎恶的事行在以色列中，
5 then you have brought out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing, to your gates—the man or the woman—and you have stoned them with stones, and they have died.
你就要将行这恶事的男人或女人拉到城门外，用石头将他打死。
6 By the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses is he who is being put to death put to death; he is not put to death by the mouth of one witness;
要凭两三个人的口作见证将那当死的人治死；不可凭一个人的口作见证将他治死。
7 the hand of the witnesses is on him in the first place to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last; and you have put away evil out of your midst.
见证人要先下手，然后众民也下手将他治死。这样，就把那恶从你们中间除掉。
8 When anything is too hard for you for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke—matters of strife within your gates—then you have risen and gone up to the place on which your God YHWH fixes,
“你城中若起了争讼的事，或因流血，或因争竞，或因殴打，是你难断的案件，你就当起来，往耶和华—你 神所选择的地方
9 and have come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who is in those days, and have inquired, and they have declared the word of judgment to you,
去见祭司利未人，并当时的审判官，求问他们，他们必将判语指示你。
10 and you have done according to the tenor of the word which they declare to you ([they] of that place which YHWH chooses); and you have observed to do according to all that they direct you.
他们在耶和华所选择的地方指示你的判语，你必照着他们所指教你的一切话谨守遵行。
11 According to the tenor of the law which they direct you, and according to the judgment which they say to you, you do; you do not turn aside from the word which they declare to you [to] the right or left.
要按他们所指教你的律法，照他们所断定的去行；他们所指示你的判语，你不可偏离左右。
12 And the man who acts with presumption, so as not to listen to the priest (who is standing to serve your God YHWH there), or to the judge, even that man has died, and you have put away evil from Israel,
若有人擅敢不听从那侍立在耶和华—你 神面前的祭司，或不听从审判官，那人就必治死；这样，便将那恶从以色列中除掉。
13 and all the people hear and fear, and do not presume anymore.
众百姓都要听见害怕，不再擅敢行事。”
14 When you come into the land which your God YHWH is giving to you, and have possessed it, and dwelt in it, and you have said, Let me set a king over me like all the nations which [are] around me—
“到了耶和华—你 神所赐你的地，得了那地居住的时候，若说：‘我要立王治理我，像四围的国一样。’
15 you certainly set a king over you on whom YHWH fixes; you set a king over you from the midst of your brothers; you are not able to set a stranger over you, who is not your brother.
你总要立耶和华—你 神所拣选的人为王。必从你弟兄中立一人；不可立你弟兄以外的人为王。
16 Only, he does not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, so as to multiply horses, seeing YHWH has said to you, You do not add to return in this way anymore.
只是王不可为自己加添马匹，也不可使百姓回埃及去，为要加添他的马匹，因耶和华曾吩咐你们说：‘不可再回那条路去。’
17 And he does not multiply wives for himself, and his heart does not turn aside, and he does not exceedingly multiply silver and gold for himself.
他也不可为自己多立妃嫔，恐怕他的心偏邪；也不可为自己多积金银。
18 And it has been, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he has written a copy of this law for himself, on a scroll, from [that] before the priests, the Levites,
他登了国位，就要将祭司利未人面前的这律法书，为自己抄录一本，
19 and it has been with him, and he has read in it all [the] days of his life, so that he learns to fear his God YHWH, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes—to do them,
存在他那里，要平生诵读，好学习敬畏耶和华—他的 神，谨守遵行这律法书上的一切言语和这些律例，
20 so that his heart is not high above his brothers, and so as not to turn aside from the command [to] the right or left, so that he prolongs days over his kingdom, he and his sons in the midst of Israel.”
免得他向弟兄心高气傲，偏左偏右，离了这诫命。这样，他和他的子孙便可在以色列中，在国位上年长日久。”
