Deuteronomy 12
1 “(I will now tell you again/These, [again], are) the rules and regulations that you must faithfully obey in the land that Yahweh, the God whom our ancestors [worshiped], is giving to you to occupy. You must obey these laws all the time that you are alive.
これはあなたの先祖たちの神、主が所有として賜わる地で、あなたがたが世に生きながらえている間、守り行わなければならない定めと、おきてである。
2 You must destroy all the places where the people-groups that you will expel worship their gods, on the tops of mountains and hills and under big green trees.
あなたがたの追い払う国々の民が、その神々に仕えた所は、高い山にあるものも、丘にあるものも、青木の下にあるものも、ことごとくこわし、
3 You must tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars. Completely burn the statues of their goddess Asherah in fires, and chop down their wooden idols, in order that no one will ever worship them [MTY] in those places again.
その祭壇をこぼち、柱を砕き、アシラ像を火で焼き、また刻んだ神々の像を切り倒して、その名をその所から消し去らなければならない。
4 “Do not worship Yahweh like [the people in Canaan worship their gods].
ただし、あなたがたの神、主にはそのようにしてはならない。
5 Instead, you must go to the place that Yahweh will choose. It will be in the area where one of your tribes will live. That is where you must go to worship Yahweh.
あなたがたの神、主がその名を置くために、あなたがたの全部族のうちから選ばれる場所、すなわち主のすまいを尋ね求めて、そこに行き、
6 That is the place where you must bring your sacrifices that will be completely burned on the altar, and your other sacrifices, (your tithes/ten percent of all of your crops), other offerings that you decide to give, and the firstborn animals from your cattle and sheep.
あなたがたの燔祭と、犠牲と、十分の一と、ささげ物と、誓願の供え物と、自発の供え物および牛、羊のういごをそこに携えて行って、
7 There, in the presence of Yahweh our God, who has [greatly] blessed you, you and your families will eat the good things that you have worked to produce, and you will be happy.
そこであなたがたの神、主の前で食べ、あなたがたも、家族も皆、手を労して獲るすべての物を喜び楽しまなければならない。これはあなたの神、主の恵みによって獲るものだからである。
8 “[When you are in that land], you must not do some of the things that we have been doing. Until now, you have all been worshiping [Yahweh] the way you wanted to,
そこでは、われわれがきょうここでしているように、めいめいで正しいと思うようにふるまってはならない。
9 because you have not yet arrived in the land which Yahweh is giving to you, where you will be able to live peacefully.
あなたがたはまだ、あなたがたの神、主から賜わる安息と嗣業の地に、はいっていないのである。
10 But when you cross the Jordan [River], you will start to live in the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you. He will protect you from all your enemies that will surround you, and you will live peacefully/safely.
しかし、あなたがたがヨルダンを渡り、あなたがたの神、主が嗣業として賜わる地に住むようになり、さらに主があなたがたの周囲の敵をことごとく除いて、安息を与え、あなたがたが安らかに住むようになる時、
11 “Yahweh will choose one place where he wants you to worship him. That is the place to which you must bring all the offerings that I command you to bring: The sacrifices that must be completely burned [on the altar], your other sacrifices, other offerings that you yourselves decide to give, (your tithes/ten percent of all your crops), and all the special offerings that you will solemnly promise to give to Yahweh.
あなたがたの神、主はその名を置くために、一つの場所を選ばれるであろう。あなたがたはそこにわたしの命じる物をすべて携えて行かなければならない。すなわち、あなたがたの燔祭と、犠牲と、十分の一と、ささげ物およびあなたがたが主に誓ったすべての誓願の供え物とを携えて行かなければならない。
12 Rejoice there in the presence of Yahweh, along with your children, your male and female servants, and the descendants of Levi who live in your towns. Do not forget that the descendants of Levi will not have their own land, like you will have.
そしてあなたがたのむすこ、娘、しもべ、はしためと共にあなたがたの神、主の前に喜び楽しまなければならない。また町の内におるレビびととも、そうしなければならない。彼はあなたがたのうちに分け前がなく、嗣業を持たないからである。
13 Be sure that you do not offer sacrifices anywhere you want to.
慎んで、すべてあなたがよいと思う場所で、みだりに燔祭をささげないようにしなければならない。
14 You must offer them only in the place that Yahweh will choose for you, in an area that belongs to one of your tribes. That is the only place where he wants you to offer sacrifices that will be completely burned [on the altar], and to do the other things that I am commanding you to do [when you worship him].
ただあなたの部族の一つのうちに、主が選ばれるその場所で、燔祭をささげ、またわたしが命じるすべての事をしなければならない。
15 “However, you will be permitted to kill and eat the meat of your animals in the places where you live. As often as you want to, you may eat the meat of the animals that Yahweh our God will bless you by giving them to you. Those who have done things that cause them to become unacceptable to God and those who have not done things like that may all eat that meat, just like you would eat the meat of a deer or an antelope.
しかし、あなたの神、主が賜わる恵みにしたがって、すべて心に好む獣を、どの町ででも殺して、その肉を食べることができる。すなわち、かもしかや雄じかの肉と同様にそれを、汚れた人も、清い人も、食べることができる。
16 But you must not eat the blood [of any animals]; you must let the blood drain onto the ground [before you cook the meat].
ただし、その血は食べてはならない。水のようにそれを地に注がなければならない。
17 In the places where you live, you must not eat the things that you are offering [to Yahweh]: You must not eat the (tithes/ten percent) of your grain or of your wine, or of your [olive] oil, or the firstborn of your cattle and sheep, or the offerings that you yourselves decide to give to Yahweh, or any other offerings.
あなたの穀物と、ぶどう酒と、油との十分の一および牛、羊のういご、ならびにあなたが立てる誓願の供え物と、自発の供え物およびささげ物は、町の内で食べることはできない。
18 Instead, you and your children and your male and female servants and the descendants of Levi who live in your towns must go to the place that he has chosen and eat those things there in the presence of Yahweh. And you should rejoice in the presence of Yahweh about everything that you do.
あなたの神、主が選ばれる場所で、あなたの神、主の前でそれを食べなければならない。すなわちあなたのむすこ、娘、しもべ、はしため、および町の内におるレビびとと共にそれを食べ、手を労して獲るすべての物を、あなたの神、主の前に喜び楽しまなければならない。
19 Be sure that you take care of the descendants of Levi all during the time that you live in your land.
慎んで、あなたが世に生きながらえている間、レビびとを捨てないようにしなければならない。
20 “When Yahweh our God gives you much more land [than you will have when you first occupy it], which is what he has promised to do, and you say ‘I would like some meat to eat’ because you are craving/wanting some meat, you will be permitted to eat meat whenever you want to.
あなたの神、主が約束されたように、あなたの領域を広くされるとき、あなたは肉を食べたいと願って、『わたしは肉を食べよう』と言うであろう。その時、あなたはほしいだけ肉を食べることができる。
21 If the place that Yahweh our God chooses to be the place for you to worship him is far [from where you live], you are permitted to kill some of your cattle or sheep that Yahweh has given to you, and you may eat that meat at the places where you live, just like I have told you to do.
もしあなたの神、主がその名を置くために選ばれる場所が、遠く離れているならば、わたしが命じるように、主が賜わる牛、羊をほふり、門の内で、ほしいだけ食べることができる。
22 Those who have done things that cause them to become unacceptable to God, and those who have not done things like that, are all permitted to all eat that meat, just like you would eat the meat of a deer or an antelope.
かもしかや、雄じかを食べるように、それを食べることができる。すなわち汚れた人も、清い人も一様にそれを食べることができる。
23 But be sure that you do not eat the blood [of any animal], because it is the blood that sustains life in living beings, and so you must not eat the life along with the meat.
ただ堅く慎んで、その血を食べないようにしなければならない。血は命だからである。その命を肉と一緒に食べてはならない。
24 Do not eat the blood; instead, let it drain onto the ground.
あなたはそれを食べてはならない。水のようにそれを地に注がなければならない。
25 If you obey this command and do what Yahweh says is right [for you to do], things will go well for you and for your descendants.
あなたはそれを食べてはならない。こうして、主が正しいと見られる事を行うならば、あなたにも後の子孫にも、さいわいがあるであろう。
26 “But the sacred offerings that Yahweh has told you to give and the other offerings that you yourselves decide to give, you must take to the place that Yahweh will choose.
ただあなたのささげる聖なる物と、誓願の物とは、主が選ばれる場所へ携えて行かなければならない。
27 You must offer there the sacrifices that will be completely burned [on Yahweh’s altar]. You must also offer there the sacrifices from which you may eat some of meat after you [kill the animals and] drain out the blood and some of it is thrown on the [sides of the] altar.
そして燔祭をささげる時は、肉と血とをあなたの神、主の祭壇の上にささげなければならない。犠牲をささげる時は、血をあなたの神、主の祭壇にそそぎかけ、肉はみずから食べることができる。
28 Faithfully obey all these things that I have commanded you. If you do that, things will go well forever for you and your descendants, because you will be doing what Yahweh our God says is right [for you to do] and what pleases him.
あなたはわたしが命じるこれらの事を、ことごとく聞いて守らなければならない。こうしてあなたの神、主が見て良いとし、正しいとされる事を行うならば、あなたにも後の子孫にも、長くさいわいがあるであろう。
29 “When you enter the land that you will occupy, as you advance, Yahweh our God will get rid of the people-groups that live there.
あなたの神、主が、あなたの行って追い払おうとする国々の民を、あなたの前から断ち滅ぼされ、あなたがついにその国々を獲て、その地に住むようになる時、
30 After he does that, be sure that you do not [worship the gods] that they have been worshiping, because if you do that, you will be caught in the same trap [that they were caught in] [MET]. Do not ask anyone about those gods, saying, ‘Tell me how they worshiped their gods, in order that I can [worship them] also.’
あなたはみずから慎み、彼らがあなたの前から滅ぼされた後、彼らにならって、わなにかかってはならない。また彼らの神々を尋ね求めて、『これらの国々の民はどのようにその神々に仕えたのか、わたしもそのようにしよう』と言ってはならない。
31 Do not try to worship Yahweh our God like they have worshiped their gods, because when they worship them, they do disgusting things, things that Yahweh hates. [The worst thing that they do is] that they sacrifice their own children and burn them [on their altars].
あなたの神、主に対しては、そのようにしてはならない。彼らは主の憎まれるもろもろの忌むべき事を、その神々にむかって行い、むすこ、娘をさえ火に焼いて、神々にささげたからである。
32 “Be sure to do everything that I have commanded you to do. Do not add anything to these commands, and do not take anything away from them.”
あなたがたはわたしが命じるこのすべての事を守って行わなければならない。これにつけ加えてはならない。また減らしてはならない。
