Deuteronomy 12

1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess.

1 “只要你们生活在你们祖先的上帝耶和华赐给你们的土地上，就要谨遵以下律例和典章。

2 Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

2 “你们赶走那里的列邦后，要彻底摧毁他们在高山上、丘陵上、绿树下供奉其神明的地方。

3 Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.

3 你们要拆毁他们的祭坛，打碎他们的神柱，焚烧他们的亚舍拉神像，砍倒他们神明的雕像，使他们的名字从那里消失。

4 You shall not worship the LORD your God in this way.

4 你们不可按照他们的方式敬拜你们的上帝耶和华。

5 Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.

5 你们的上帝耶和华要在你们众支派中选一个地方作祂的居所，你们要去那里敬拜祂，

6 To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

6 把你们的燔祭及其他祭物、十一奉献、举祭、还愿祭、自愿献的祭和头生的牛羊带到那里。

7 There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.

7 你们和家人要在那里，在你们的上帝耶和华面前吃喝；要为你们所做的一切蒙祂赐福而欢喜快乐。

8 You are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes.

8 “你们不可再像今日这样各行其是，

9 For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.

9 因为到如今你们还没有进入你们的上帝耶和华赐给你们作产业的安歇之地。

10 When you cross the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you dwell securely,

10 但不久你们将渡过约旦河，定居在那片土地上。你们的上帝耶和华将使你们四境太平，安然居住，

11 then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.

11 你们要把我吩咐你们献的燔祭、各种牲祭、十一奉献、举祭和一切还愿祭，带到你们的上帝耶和华选定的敬拜场所。

12 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.

12 在那里，你们和儿女、仆婢及同城中没有分到土地作产业的利未人，要一起在你们的上帝耶和华面前欢喜快乐。

13 Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see;

13 你们切不可随处向耶和华献燔祭。

14 you must offer them only in the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories, and there you shall do all that I command you.

14 耶和华会在你们的一个支派中选定敬拜的场所，你们只可以在那里献燔祭，做我吩咐你们的一切事。

15 But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,

15 “你们可以随意在居住的各城宰杀牲畜吃，享受你们的上帝耶和华所赐的福，像吃羚羊和鹿一样。洁净的人和不洁净的人都可以吃。

16 but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

16 但你们不可吃血。要把血倒在地上，像倒水一样。

17 Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.

17 不可在你们的城里吃十一奉献的谷物、新酒和油、头生的牛羊、还愿祭、自愿献的祭和举祭；

18 Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,

18 要在你们的上帝耶和华选定的地方，与儿女、仆婢及同城的利未人一起在你们的上帝耶和华面前吃。要为你们所做的一切，在你们的上帝耶和华面前欢喜快乐。

19 and be careful not to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.

19 切记，只要你们还住在自己的土地上，就不可忘记利未人。

20 When the LORD your God expands your territory as He has promised, and you crave meat and say, “I want to eat meat,” you may eat it whenever you want.

20 “你们的上帝耶和华按照祂的应许扩展你们的疆域后，你们若想吃肉，随时都可以吃。

21 If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.

21 如果你们的上帝耶和华选定的敬拜场所离你们太远，你们可以在自己的城里，按照我的吩咐，随时宰杀耶和华赐给你们的牛羊吃，

22 Indeed, you may eat it as you would eat a gazelle or deer; both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.

22 就像你们吃羚羊和鹿一样。洁净的人和不洁净的人都可以吃。

23 Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

23 但你们切不可吃血，因为血就是生命；你们不可把生命和肉一起吃。

24 You must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

24 你们切不可吃血，要把血倒在地上，像倒水一样。

25 Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

25 你们要做耶和华视为正的事——不可吃血，以便你们及子孙凡事顺利。

26 But you are to take your holy things and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD will choose.

26 你们要把圣物和还愿祭带到耶和华选定的地方。

27 Present the meat and blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your other sacrifices must be poured out beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat.

27 你们要在你们的上帝耶和华的祭坛上献燔祭，连肉带血都要献上。要把其他祭牲的血倒在坛上，但可以吃祭肉。

28 Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

28 你们要认真听从我给你们的这些吩咐，做你们的上帝耶和华视为正与善的事，以便你们及子孙凡事顺利，直到永远。

29 When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,

29 “你们的上帝耶和华将为你们铲除列国。你们要赶走他们，住在他们的土地上。

30 be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”

30 他们从你们面前被毁灭之后，你们要谨慎，不可受诱惑去效法他们的习俗，不可打听他们神明的事，说，‘这些民族怎样供奉他们的神明呢？我也要效法。’

31 You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

31 你们不可按照他们的方式敬拜你们的上帝耶和华。他们祭拜自己神明的种种行为令耶和华憎恶，他们甚至焚烧自己的儿女献给他们的神明。

32 See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.

32 “你们要谨遵我的一切吩咐，不可增添，也不可删减。