Ulangan 12
1 Selanjutnya Musa mengajarkan kepada umat Israel, “Inilah sejumlah ketetapan dan peraturan yang harus kalian taati dengan cermat selama kalian hidup di bumi ini yaitu di negeri yang diberikan TUHAN, Allah nenek moyang kita, untuk kalian duduki.
“(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.
2 “Musnahkan setiap tempat penyembahan berhala yang dipakai oleh bangsa-bangsa yang akan kalian usir, tempat mereka menyembah dewa-dewa, baik itu di atas gunung, bukit, maupun di bawah pohon-pohon besar.
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.
3 Runtuhkan mezbah-mezbah mereka, hancurkanlah tugu-tugu berhala mereka yang terbuat dari batu. Bakarlah tiang-tiang kayu lambang dewi Asyera. Musnahkan setiap patung berhala, supaya tidak ada seorang pun yang akan teringat apalagi menyembah dewa-dewa itu di tempat itu lagi.
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.
4 “Jangan menyembah TUHAN dengan meniru cara bangsa-bangsa itu beribadah. Mereka menyembah para dewa di mana saja.
“Do not worship Yahweh like [the people in Canaan worship their gods].
5 Namun, kalian harus pergi dan menyembah TUHAN di tempat penyembahan kepada-Nya, yang letaknya akan Dia tentukan dari wilayah salah satu suku Israel.
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.
6 Hanya di tempat itu kalian boleh mempersembahkan segala kurban yang dibakar habis, kurban sembelihan lain, persembahan perpuluhan, berbagai persembahan khusus, persembahan untuk memenuhi janji, persembahan sukarela, dan kurban anak sulung dari kawanan sapi, kambing, dan dombamu.
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.
7 Di sanalah, di hadapan TUHAN, kalian bersama keluargamu akan mengadakan perjamuan dari persembahan kurban dan bergembira, karena semua usahamu diberkati TUHAN.
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.
8 “Ketika kalian sudah tinggal di negeri Kanaan, janganlah berbuat seperti yang kalian lakukan di sini. Sekarang, setiap orang masih menyembah TUHAN sesuka hatinya
“[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,
9 karena kalian belum tinggal dengan tenang di tempat tujuan akhir, yaitu negeri yang TUHAN Allah berikan sebagai milikmu turun temurun.
because you have not yet arrived in the land which Yahweh is giving to you, where you will be able to live peacefully.
10 Tetapi sebentar lagi kalian akan menyeberangi sungai Yordan, dan TUHAN akan menolongmu menguasai wilayah di seberang sungai itu. Setelah Dia memberimu kelegaan dari perang, kalian akan hidup dengan tenang dan aman.
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.
11 TUHAN akan memilih satu tempat bagimu untuk menyembah Dia. Ke tempat itulah kamu semua harus membawa segala macam persembahan yang sudah saya perintahkan, termasuk persembahan perpuluhan, kurban yang dibakar habis, berbagai kurban sembelihan lainnya, dan persembahan untuk memenuhi janjimu kepada TUHAN.
“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.
12 “Pada waktu kamu sekalian mengadakan perjamuan dari persembahan kurban, lakukanlah itu di hadapan TUHAN di tempat penyembahan kepada-Nya, bersama istrimu, anak-anakmu, serta para budakmu laki-laki dan perempuan. Undanglah juga orang-orang suku Lewi yang tinggal di kota-kotamu, karena mereka tidak mendapat bagian tanah seperti yang akan kalian dapatkan.
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.
13 Ingatlah: Jangan mempersembahkan kurban sembelihan di sembarang tempat.
Be sure that you do not offer sacrifices anywhere you want to.
14 Persembahkanlah kurban hanya di tempat itu. Di sana kalian harus melakukan semua tata cara ibadah sesuai dengan perintah TUHAN yang sedang saya sampaikan kepada kalian.
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].
15 “Namun demikian, kamu semua bebas memotong dan memakan daging hewan ternakmu di tempat tinggal masing-masing, seberapa pun yang kamu mau, sesuai dengan berkat yang diberikan TUHAN Allahmu. Memakan daging itu sama seperti ketika memakan daging rusa atau daging kijang. Semua orang boleh memakannya, baik dalam keadaan najis maupun tidak.
“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.
16 Tetapi darahnya jangan ikut dimakan. Keluarkanlah darah binatang itu dengan cara disembelih dan alirkan sampai habis ke tanah seperti air.
But you must not eat the blood [of any animals]; you must let the blood drain onto the ground [before you cook the meat].
17 “Di kotamu, janganlah memakan berbagai macam perpuluhan yang seharusnya diberikan kepada TUHAN, misalnya perpuluhan gandum-ganduman, hasil perasan anggur yang baru, atau minyak zaitun. Selain itu, anak sulung dari sapi dan kambing dombamu juga tidak boleh dimakan, karena harus dipersembahkan kepada TUHAN. Begitu juga persembahan sukarela, berbagai persembahan khusus, dan persembahan untuk memenuhi janjimu kepada TUHAN tidak boleh dimakan di sembarang tempat.
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.
18 Sebaliknya, bagian dari persembahanmu itu harus dimakan di tempat penyembahan khusus yang akan ditentukan oleh TUHAN. Berarti kamu beserta istrimu, anak-anakmu, budakmu laki-laki dan perempuan, maupun keturunan suku Lewi yang tinggal di dekatmu harus pergi ke tempat itu dan mengadakan acara persembahan dan memakan bagiannya di hadapan TUHAN di tempat itu saja. Pada waktu itu, hendaklah kalian bersukacita di hadapan TUHAN Allahmu karena kelimpahan segala hasil usahamu.
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.
19 Selama kalian hidup di negeri itu, pastikanlah kebutuhan hidup orang-orang suku Lewi tercukupi.
Be sure that you take care of the descendants of Levi all during the time that you live in your land.
20 “Sesudah TUHAN Allahmu memperluas daerah kalian seperti yang Dia janjikan, sehingga tempat yang Dia pilih sebagai tempat penyembahan kepada-Nya terlalu jauh dari rumahmu, maka ketika kamu ingin makan daging, kamu boleh memotong ternakmu dan memakannya di kotamu masing-masing. Jadi, seperti yang sudah saya perintahkan, kalian dapat makan daging sesuka hati.
“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.
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.
22 Orang-orang dalam keadaan tidak najis maupun najis boleh memakan daging itu, seperti sekarang ini kalian makan daging rusa dan kijang.
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.
23 Tetapi darahnya tidak boleh ikut dimakan, sebab darah adalah lambang kehidupan yang TUHAN berikan kepada setiap makhluk hidup. Darah binatang atau burung harus dikeluarkan sampai habis, dengan cara dialirkan ke tanah seperti air, sebelum kamu memakan dagingnya.
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.
Do not eat the blood; instead, let it drain onto the ground.
25 Jangan sekali-kali makan darah! Maka kamu dan keturunanmu akan senantiasa hidup sejahtera karena melakukan apa yang benar dalam pandangan TUHAN.
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.
26 “Tetapi semua hal yang kamu khususkan untuk dipersembahkan kepada TUHAN, termasuk persembahan untuk memenuhi janji, bawalah itu ke tempat penyembahan kepada-Nya.
“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.
27 Semua kurban yang dibakar habis harus dipersembahkan di mezbah TUHAN Allahmu, baik dagingnya maupun darahnya. Darah kurban harus ditumpahkan di sisi mezbah TUHAN, tetapi ada beberapa jenis kurban yang dagingnya boleh dimakan.
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.
28 Taatilah dengan cermat semua perintah yang saya ajarkan kepadamu, agar kamu dan keturunanmu senantiasa hidup sejahtera. Itu hanya bisa terjadi kalau kamu melakukan hal-hal yang baik dan hidup benar dalam pandangan TUHAN Allahmu.”
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.
29 “Ketika kalian memasuki negeri yang akan kalian duduki dan maju menyerang setiap daerah, TUHAN Allah kita akan mengusir dan menghabisi bangsa yang tinggal di sana.
“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.
30 Sesudah itu, berhati-hatilah! Jangan sampai kalian meniru adat-adat mereka dan menyembah dewa-dewa mereka, karena perbuatan itu pasti mendatangkan bencana atasmu. Jangan meminta petunjuk kepada siapa pun dengan berkata, ‘Beritahu kami bagaimana penduduk sebelumnya menyembah dewa-dewa mereka, agar kami juga menyembah para dewa itu.’
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.’
31 Janganlah menyembah TUHAN Allahmu dengan meniru cara bangsa lain menyembah dewa-dewa mereka, karena dalam penyembahan dewa, mereka melakukan semua hal yang sangat TUHAN benci, misalnya membakar anak-anak mereka sendiri di atas mezbah sebagai kurban untuk para dewa.
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].
32 “Lakukanlah dengan teliti semua yang saya perintahkan ini. Jangan menambah atau mengurangi sedikit pun darinya.”
“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.”
