< Deuteronomy 14 >
1 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
「你們是耶和華-你們上帝的兒女。不可為死人用刀劃身,也不可將額上剃光;
2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
因為你歸耶和華-你上帝為聖潔的民,耶和華從地上的萬民中揀選你特作自己的子民。」
3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
「凡可憎的物都不可吃。
4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
可吃的牲畜就是牛、綿羊、山羊、
5 the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the chamois.
鹿、羚羊、誁子、野山羊、麋鹿、黃羊、青羊。
6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and hath the hoof cloven in two, [and] cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
凡分蹄成為兩瓣又倒嚼的走獸,你們都可以吃。
7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the coney, because they chew the cud but part not the hoof, they are unclean unto you:
但那些倒嚼或是分蹄之中不可吃的乃是駱駝、觠子、沙番-因為是倒嚼不分蹄,就與你們不潔淨;
8 and the swine, because he parteth the hoof but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you: of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcases ye shall not touch.
豬-因為是分蹄卻不倒嚼,就與你們不潔淨。這些獸的肉,你們不可吃,死的也不可摸。
9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales shall ye eat:
「水中可吃的乃是這些:凡有翅有鱗的都可以吃;
10 and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.
凡無翅無鱗的都不可吃,是與你們不潔淨。
11 Of all clean birds ye may eat.
「凡潔淨的鳥,你們都可以吃。
12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the gier eagle, and the ospray;
不可吃的乃是鵰、狗頭鵰、紅頭鵰、
13 and the glede, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind;
鸇、小鷹、鷂鷹與其類,
14 and every raven after its kind;
烏鴉與其類,
15 and the ostrich, and the night hawk, and the seamew, and the hawk after its kind;
鴕鳥、夜鷹、魚鷹、鷹與其類,
16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl;
鴞鳥、貓頭鷹、角鴟、
17 and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant;
鵜鶘、禿鵰、鸕鶿、
18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
鸛、鷺鷥與其類,戴鵀與蝙蝠。
19 And all winged creeping things are unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
凡有翅膀爬行的物是與你們不潔淨,都不可吃。
20 Of all clean fowls ye may eat.
凡潔淨的鳥,你們都可以吃。
21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou mayest give it unto the stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother’s milk.
「凡自死的,你們都不可吃,可以給你城裏寄居的吃,或賣與外人吃,因為你是歸耶和華-你上帝為聖潔的民。 「不可用山羊羔母的奶煮山羊羔。」
22 Thou shalt surely tithe all the increase of thy seed, that which cometh forth of the field year by year.
「你要把你撒種所產的,就是你田地每年所出的,十分取一分;
23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.
又要把你的五穀、新酒、和油的十分之一,並牛群羊群中頭生的,吃在耶和華-你上帝面前,就是他所選擇要立為他名的居所。這樣,你可以學習時常敬畏耶和華-你的上帝。
24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God shall bless thee:
當耶和華-你上帝賜福與你的時候,耶和華-你上帝所選擇要立為他名的地方若離你太遠,那路也太長,使你不能把這物帶到那裏去,
25 then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:
你就可以換成銀子,將銀子包起來,拿在手中,往耶和華-你上帝所要選擇的地方去。
26 and thou shalt bestow the money for whatsoever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thine household:
你用這銀子,隨心所欲,或買牛羊,或買清酒濃酒,凡你心所想的都可以買;你和你的家屬在耶和華-你上帝的面前吃喝快樂。
27 and the Levite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee.
「住在你城裏的利未人,你不可丟棄他,因為他在你們中間無分無業。
28 At the end of every three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase in the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
每逢三年的末一年,你要將本年的土產十分之一都取出來,積存在你的城中。
29 and the Levite, because he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
在你城裏無分無業的利未人,和你城裏寄居的,並孤兒寡婦,都可以來,吃得飽足。這樣,耶和華-你的上帝必在你手裏所辦的一切事上賜福與你。」