Deuteronomy 18

1 The Levitical priests—indeed the whole tribe of Levi—shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They are to eat the food offerings to the LORD; that is their inheritance.

1 “利未祭司及其他利未支派的人在以色列不可拥有土地。他们吃的是献给耶和华的火祭，那是他们的产业。

2 Although they have no inheritance among their brothers, the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them.

2 他们在众支派中没有自己的产业，因为耶和华是他们的产业，这是祂的应许。

3 This shall be the priests’ share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether a bull or a sheep: the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.

3 众人所献的牛羊的前腿、腮颊和胃应归祭司。

4 You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.

4 你们要给祭司初收的五谷、新酒、新油和初剪的羊毛。

5 For the LORD your God has chosen Levi and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in His name for all time.

5 因为你们的上帝耶和华从各支派中拣选了利未人，让他们世代奉祂的名侍立供职。

6 Now if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,

6 “以色列境内任何地方的利未人若愿意离开自己所住的城，一心要去耶和华选定的地方，

7 then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.

7 他可以像在耶和华面前事奉的其他利未人一样，在那里奉他的上帝耶和华之名事奉。

8 They shall eat equal portions, even though he has received money from the sale of his father’s estate.

8 除了变卖产业所得之外，他还可以分到与其他祭司同等分量的祭物。

9 When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.

9 “你们进入你们的上帝耶和华将要赐给你们的土地后，不可仿效当地民族的可憎行径。

10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,

10 你们当中不可有人焚烧自己的子女作祭物，不可有人占卜、算命、作法、行邪术、

11 casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead.

11 念咒、做灵媒、行巫术或求问亡灵。

12 For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.

12 凡做这些事的人都是耶和华所憎恶的。正是因为当地的民族做这些可憎之事，你们的上帝耶和华才要当着你们的面把他们赶走。

13 You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

13 你们要在你们的上帝耶和华面前纯全无过。

14 Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.

14 “你们将要赶走的那些民族听信术士和巫师，但你们的上帝耶和华不准你们仿效他们。

15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.

15 你们的上帝耶和华要在你们中间兴起一位像我一样的先知，你们要听从他。

16 This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, so that we will not die!”

16 这正是你们在何烈山聚会时向你们的上帝耶和华所求的，当时你们说，‘不要让我们再听见我们上帝耶和华的声音，也不要让我们再看见这烈火，免得我们死亡。’

17 Then the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well.

17 于是，耶和华对我说，‘他们说的对。

18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.

18 我要在他们当中选立一位像你一样的先知，我会告诉他该说的话，他要把我的一切吩咐告诉他们。

19 And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name.

19 如果有人不听从他奉我的名所说的话，我必亲自惩罚那人。

20 But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put to death.”

20 若有先知冒我的名说我未曾吩咐他的话，或以其他神明的名义说话，必须处死他。’

21 You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”

21 你们也许心里会问，‘我们如何知道是否是耶和华说的话呢？’

22 When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.

22 如果先知奉耶和华的名说的话没有应验，他的话就不是耶和华说的。他是妄自说预言，你们不用怕他。