Deuteronomy 18
1 “The priests, who are all from the tribe of Levi, will not receive any land in Israel. Instead, they will receive some of the food that other people offer to be burned [on the altar to be sacrificed] to Yahweh and some of the other sacrifices that will be offered to Yahweh.
“祭司利未人和利未全支派必在以色列中无分无业；他们所吃用的就是献给耶和华的火祭和一切所捐的。
2 They will not be allotted any land like the other tribes will be. What they will receive is the work/privilege of being Yahweh’s [priests], which is what he said that they should have.
他们在弟兄中必没有产业；耶和华是他们的产业，正如耶和华所应许他们的。
3 “When the people bring an ox or a sheep to be sacrificed, they must give to the priests the shoulder, the cheeks/jaws, and the stomach of those animals.
祭司从百姓所当得的分乃是这样：凡献牛或羊为祭的，要把前腿和两腮并脾胃给祭司。
4 You must also give to them the first part of the grain that you [harvest], and the first part of the wine [that you make], and the first part of the [olive] oil [that you make], and the first part of the wool that you shear from your sheep.
初收的五谷、新酒和油，并初剪的羊毛，也要给他；
5 You must do this because Yahweh our God has chosen the tribe of Levi from all of your tribes, in order that men [from that tribe] would always be the priests who would serve him.
因为耶和华—你的 神从你各支派中将他拣选出来，使他和他子孙永远奉耶和华的名侍立，事奉。
6 “If any man from the tribe of Levi [who has been living] in one of the towns in Israel wants to come from there to the place of worship that Yahweh has chosen, [and start living there],
“利未人无论寄居在以色列中的哪一座城，若从那里出来，一心愿意到耶和华所选择的地方，
7 he is permitted to serve Yahweh there as a priest, just like the other men from the tribe of Levi who have been serving there.
就要奉耶和华—他 神的名事奉，像他众弟兄利未人侍立在耶和华面前事奉一样。
8 He must be given the same amount of food [that the other priests receive]. He is permitted to keep the money [that his relatives give him] for selling some of their possessions.
除了他卖祖父产业所得的以外，还要得一分祭物与他们同吃。”
9 When you enter the land that Yahweh our God is giving you, you must not imitate the disgusting things that the people-groups who are there now do.
“你到了耶和华—你 神所赐之地，那些国民所行可憎恶的事，你不可学着行。
10 You must not sacrifice any of your children by burning them [on your altars]. Do not practice (divination/using supernatural power to reveal [what will happen in] the future). Do not do/practice (soothsaying/magic to find out what will happen in the future). Do not (interpret omens/say that because of something that you have seen you know what will happen). Do not practice sorcery/witchcraft. Do not practice (putting spells on people/saying things to cause bad things to happen to others).
你们中间不可有人使儿女经火，也不可有占卜的、观兆的、用法术的、行邪术的、
11 Do not try to talk with spirits of dead people. Do not do/practice magic.
用迷术的、交鬼的、行巫术的、过阴的。
12 Yahweh hates people who do any of those disgusting things. And as you advance through that land, he is going to expel the people-groups because they do/practice those disgusting things.
凡行这些事的都为耶和华所憎恶；因那些国民行这可憎恶的事，所以耶和华—你的 神将他们从你面前赶出。
13 But you must always avoid doing any of those things.
你要在耶和华—你的 神面前作完全人。”
14 The people-groups that you are about to expel [from the land that you will occupy] (consult/seek advice from) soothsayers and those who practice divination. But as for you, Yahweh our God does not allow you to do that.
“因你所要赶出的那些国民都听信观兆的和占卜的，至于你，耶和华—你的 神从来不许你这样行。
15 [Some day] he will send from among you a prophet like me. [He is the one who will tell you what will happen in the future], and he is the one whom you must heed.
耶和华—你的 神要从你们弟兄中间给你兴起一位先知，像我，你们要听从他。
16 On the day that your ancestors were gathered at the bottom of Sinai Mountain, they pleaded with me saying, ‘We do not want Yahweh to speak [MTY] to us again, and we do not want to see this huge fire [that is burning on the mountain]!’ [Your ancestors said that because they were afraid] that they would die [if Yahweh spoke to them again].
正如你在何烈山大会的日子求耶和华—你 神一切的话，说：‘求你不再叫我听见耶和华—我 神的声音，也不再叫我看见这大火，免得我死亡。’
17 Then Yahweh said to me, ‘What they have said is true/wise.
耶和华就对我说：‘他们所说的是。
18 So I will send from among them a prophet who will be like you. I will tell him what to say, and then he will tell people everything that I tell him to say.
我必在他们弟兄中间给他们兴起一位先知，像你。我要将当说的话传给他；他要将我一切所吩咐的都传给他们。
19 He will speak for me. And I will punish anyone who does not heed what he says.
谁不听他奉我名所说的话，我必讨谁的罪。
20 But if any other [person says that he is a] prophet [and] dares to speak a message which he falsely says comes from me but which I did not tell him to speak, or if anyone who speaks a message that he says other gods [MTY] have revealed to him, he must be executed [for doing that].’
若有先知擅敢托我的名说我所未曾吩咐他说的话，或是奉别神的名说话，那先知就必治死。’
21 But if you say to yourself, ‘How can we know if a message [that someone tells us] does not come from Yahweh?’
你心里若说：‘耶和华所未曾吩咐的话，我们怎能知道呢？’
22 [The answer is that] when someone speaks a message [about what will happen in the future], a message that he says was revealed by Yahweh, if what he says does not happen, [you will know that] the message did not come from Yahweh. That person has wrongly claimed that it was revealed to him by Yahweh. So you do not need to be afraid of [anything that] he [says].”
先知托耶和华的名说话，所说的若不成就，也无效验，这就是耶和华所未曾吩咐的，是那先知擅自说的，你不要怕他。”
