Yasa'Nin Tekrari 18
1 “Levili kâhinlerin, bütün Levi oymağının öbür İsrailliler gibi payı ve mülkü olmayacak. RAB için yakılan sunularla, RAB'be düşen payla geçinecekler.
“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.
2 Kardeşleri arasında mülkleri olmayacak. RAB'bin onlara verdiği söz uyarınca, RAB'bin kendisi onların mirası olacak.
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.
3 “Halktan sığır ya da koyun kurban edenlerin kâhinlere vereceği pay şu olacak: Kol, çene, işkembe.
“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.
4 Tahılınızın, yeni şarabınızın, zeytinyağınızın ilk ürününü ve koyunlarınızdan kırktığınız ilk yünü kâhine vereceksiniz.
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.
5 Çünkü Tanrınız RAB, önünde dursunlar, her zaman adıyla hizmet etsinler diye bütün oymaklarınız arasından onu ve oğullarını seçti.
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.
6 “Eğer bir Levili, yaşadığı herhangi bir İsrail kentinden RAB'bin seçeceği yere kendi isteğiyle gelirse,
“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],
7 orada Tanrısı RAB'bin önünde duran Levili kardeşleri gibi RAB'bin adıyla hizmet edebilir.
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.
8 Aile mülkünün satışından eline geçen para dışında, eşit pay olarak bölüşecekler.”
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.
9 “Tanrınız RAB'bin size vereceği ülkeye girdiğinizde, oradaki ulusların iğrenç törelerini öğrenip uygulamayın.
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.
10 Aranızda oğlunu ya da kızını ateşte kurban eden, falcı, büyücü, muskacı, medyum, ruh çağıran ya da ölülerin ruhlarına danışan kimse olmasın.
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).
Do not try to talk with spirits of dead people. Do not do/practice magic.
12 Çünkü RAB bunları yapanlardan tiksinir. Tanrınız RAB, bu iğrenç töreleri yüzünden bu ulusları önünüzden kovacaktır.
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.
13 Tanrınız RAB'bin önünde yetkin olun.”
But you must always avoid doing any of those things.
14 “Ülkelerini alacağınız uluslar büyücülerin, falcıların öğüdüne kulak verirler. Ama Tanrınız RAB buna izin vermiyor.
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.
15 Tanrınız RAB size aranızdan, kendi kardeşlerinizden benim gibi bir peygamber çıkaracak. Onu dinleyin.
[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.
16 Horev'de toplandığınız gün Tanrınız RAB'den şunu dilemiştiniz: ‘Bir daha ne Tanrımız RAB'bin sesini duyalım, ne de o büyük ateşi görelim, yoksa ölürüz.’
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].
17 RAB bana, ‘Söyledikleri doğrudur’ dedi.
Then Yahweh said to me, ‘What they have said is true/wise.
18 ‘Onlara kardeşleri arasından senin gibi bir peygamber çıkaracağım. Sözlerimi onun ağzından işiteceksiniz. Kendisine buyurduklarımın tümünü onlara bildirecek.
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.
19 Adıma konuşan peygamberin ilettiği sözleri dinlemeyeni ben cezalandıracağım.
He will speak for me. And I will punish anyone who does not heed what he says.
20 Ancak, kendisine buyurmadığım bir sözü benim adıma söylemeye kalkışan ya da başka ilahlar adına konuşan peygamber öldürülecektir.’
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].’
21 “‘Bir sözün RAB'den olup olmadığını nasıl bilebiliriz?’ diye düşünebilirsiniz.
But if you say to yourself, ‘How can we know if a message [that someone tells us] does not come from Yahweh?’
22 Eğer bir peygamber RAB'bin adına konuşur, ama konuştuğu söz yerine gelmez ya da gerçekleşmezse, o söz RAB'den değildir. Peygamber saygısızca konuşmuştur. Ondan korkmayın.”
[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].”
