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.
レビびとである祭司すなわちレビの全部族はイスラエルのうちに、分も嗣業も持たない。彼らは主にささげられる火祭の物と、その他のささげ物とを食べなければならない。
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.
彼らはその兄弟のうちに嗣業を持たない。かつて彼らに約束されたとおり主が彼らの嗣業である。
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.
祭司が民から受ける分は次のとおりである。すなわち犠牲をささげる者は、牛でも、羊でも、その肩と、両方のほおと、胃とを祭司に与えなければならない。
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.
また穀物と、ぶどう酒と、油の初物および羊の毛の初物をも彼に与えなければならない。
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.
あなたの神、主がすべての部族のうちから彼を選び出して、彼とその子孫を長く主の名によって立って仕えさせられるからである。
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],
レビびとはイスラエルの全地のうち、どこにいる者でも、彼が宿っている町を出て、主が選ばれる場所に行くならば、
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.
彼は主の前に立っているすべての兄弟レビびとと同じように、その神、主の名によって仕えることができる。
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.
彼が食べる分は彼らと同じである。ただし彼はこのほかに父の遺産を売って獲た物を持つことができる。
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.
あなたの神、主が賜わる地にはいったならば、その国々の民の憎むべき事を習いおこなってはならない。
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).
あなたがたのうちに、自分のむすこ、娘を火に焼いてささげる者があってはならない。また占いをする者、卜者、易者、魔法使、
11 Do not try to talk with spirits of dead people. Do not do/practice magic.
呪文を唱える者、口寄せ、かんなぎ、死人に問うことをする者があってはならない。
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.
主はすべてこれらの事をする者を憎まれるからである。そしてこれらの憎むべき事のゆえにあなたの神、主は彼らをあなたの前から追い払われるのである。
13 But you must always avoid doing any of those things.
あなたの神、主の前にあなたは全き者でなければならない。
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.
あなたが追い払うかの国々の民は卜者、占いをする者に聞き従うからである。しかし、あなたには、あなたの神、主はそうする事を許されない。
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.
あなたの神、主はあなたのうちから、あなたの同胞のうちから、わたしのようなひとりの預言者をあなたのために起されるであろう。あなたがたは彼に聞き従わなければならない。
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].
これはあなたが集会の日にホレブであなたの神、主に求めたことである。すなわちあなたは『わたしが死ぬことのないようにわたしの神、主の声を二度とわたしに聞かせないでください。またこの大いなる火を二度と見させないでください』と言った。
17 Then Yahweh said to me, ‘What they have said is true/wise.
主はわたしに言われた、『彼らが言ったことは正しい。
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.
わたしは彼らの同胞のうちから、おまえのようなひとりの預言者を彼らのために起して、わたしの言葉をその口に授けよう。彼はわたしが命じることを、ことごとく彼らに告げるであろう。
19 He will speak for me. And I will punish anyone who does not heed what he says.
彼がわたしの名によって、わたしの言葉を語るのに、もしこれに聞き従わない者があるならば、わたしはそれを罰するであろう。
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].’
ただし預言者が、わたしが語れと命じないことを、わたしの名によってほしいままに語り、あるいは他の神々の名によって語るならば、その預言者は殺さなければならない』。
21 But if you say to yourself, ‘How can we know if a message [that someone tells us] does not come from Yahweh?’
あなたは心のうちに『われわれは、その言葉が主の言われたものでないと、どうして知り得ようか』と言うであろう。
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].”
もし預言者があって、主の名によって語っても、その言葉が成就せず、またその事が起らない時は、それは主が語られた言葉ではなく、その預言者がほしいままに語ったのである。その預言者を恐れるに及ばない。
