Deuteronomy 17
1 You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep in which is a defect or anything evil; for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.
“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 If there is found amongst you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in the LORD your God’s sight in 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 has gone and served other gods and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, 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 you are told, and you have heard of it, then you shall enquire diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is 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 shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.
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 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
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 hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from amongst you.
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 If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgement, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses.
“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 You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall enquire, and they shall give you the verdict.
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 You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which the LORD chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach 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 decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgement which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the 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 The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the 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 All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
众百姓都要听见害怕，不再擅敢行事。”
14 When you have come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that 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 shall surely set him whom the LORD your God chooses as king over yourselves. You shall set as king over you one from amongst your brothers. You may not put a foreigner 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 shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because the LORD has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”
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 He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
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 It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.
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 It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, 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 that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle 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。”
