1.这些是你必须谨慎遵守的律法和规条，在永恒的神，你的祖先的神，将要给你占有的地上，正如你活在世上一样。These are the laws and rules that you must carefully observe in the land that the ETERNAL, God of your ancestors, is giving you to possess, as long as you live on earth.
2.你们必须毁灭你们所要赶出的那些国民所侍奉神的所有敬拜处，无论是在高山上还是在山丘上，或者在任何茂盛的树下。You must destroy all the sites at which the nations you are to dispossess worshiped their gods, whether on lofty mountains and on hills or under any luxuriant tree.
3.拆毁他们的祭坛，打碎他们的柱子，把他们的圣柱扔到火里，砍倒他们神的雕像，并从那地方彻底消除他们神的名号。Tear down their altars, smash their pillars, put their sacred posts to the fire, and cut down the images of their gods, obliterating their name from that site.
4.不要像这样敬拜你们的神，Do not worship the ETERNAL your God in like manner,
5.只是要注视上帝你神所从你所有支派中选择的那块地作为上帝居所的地点，去建立祂的名于其上，你要到那里去，but look only to the site that the ETERNAL your God will choose amidst all your tribes as God’s habitation, to establish the divine name there. There you are to go,
6.并且你们要把燔祭和其他祭物、十分之一的贡品和献物，就是你们手中的供物， 愿祭和甘心祭，以及牛群羊群中头生的带到上帝所选择的地方。and there you are to bring your burnt offerings and other sacrifices, your tithes and contributions, your votive and freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and flocks.
7.你们和你们的家庭要在耶和华你们的神面前在那里欢乐，因为耶和华你的神已经赐福于你一切所作之事。Together with your households, you shall feast there before the ETERNAL your God, happy in all the undertakings in which the ETERNAL your God has blessed you.
8.你们不要像我们现在在这里所行的，人人各随自己的心意，You shall not act at all as we now act here, everyone as they please,
9.因为你们还没有到达永恒的神你们的神所赐给你们的安息之地。because you have not yet come to the allotted haven that the ETERNAL your God is giving you.
10.当你们过了约但河，住在耶和华你们的神所赐给你们的土地上，你们从四周所有的敌人那里得安全，住在安然之中，When you cross the Jordan and settle in the land that the ETERNAL your God is allotting to you, and you are granted safety from all your enemies around you and you live in security,
11.然后你们必须把我所命令的一切带到耶和华你们的神所选择的作为他名的居所，在那里献上你们的燔祭和其他祭物、十分之一的贡品和献给他的礼物，以及你们向神许愿的一切美好的愿献。then you must bring everything that I command you to the site where the ETERNAL your God will choose to establish the divine name: your burnt offerings and other sacrifices, your tithes and contributions, and all the choice votive offerings that you vow to GOD.
12.你们应当在永在的神面前，与你们的儿女和男女奴仆一起，与你们城中无分无地的利未人和他的家眷一同欢乐，因为他在你们中间没有分地。And you shall rejoice before the ETERNAL your God with your sons and daughters and with your male and female slaves, along with the Levite in your settlements, for he has no territorial allotment among you.
13.小心不要在你喜欢的任何地方献燔祭，Take care not to sacrifice your burnt offerings in any place you like,
14.只是在上帝从你们各支派的领地中所选择的地方，你们必须在那里献上燔祭，并在那里遵行我所吩咐的一切。but only in the place that GOD will choose in one of your tribal territories. There you shall sacrifice your burnt offerings and there you shall observe all that I enjoin upon you.
15.但你们随时愿意，可以在各处居所里宰杀并吃肉，这是上帝永在的神所赐福给你们的。无论是不洁的人或是洁的人，都可以像吃羚羊和鹿一样吃它，这是指可以吃的动物（如申命记14:5，利未记11:1），但不用于祭祀（如利未记1:1）。But whenever you desire, you may slaughter and eat meat in any of your settlements, according to the blessing that the ETERNAL your God has granted you. The impure and the pure alike may partake of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.
16.只是你们不可吃血，都要把血倒在地上，如同水一样。But you must not partake of the blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
17.你不可在你的住处吃你新粒或新酒或新油的十分之一，或你牛群羊群的头生，或你许愿的任何奉献，或你甘心献的礼物，或你献给耶和华的举祭。You may not partake in your settlements of the tithes of your new grain or wine or oil, or of the firstlings of your herds and flocks, or of any of the votive offerings that you vow, or of your freewill offerings, or of your contributions.
18.你们必须在耶和华你们的神所选择的地方，在耶和华你们的神面前吃用这些——你们、你们的儿子和女儿、你们的男仆和女仆，以及住在你们城邑中的利未人，皆要在耶和华你们的神面前欢乐，在你们一切所作所为中都要欢乐。These you must consume before the ETERNAL your God in the place that the ETERNAL your God will choose—you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levite in your settlements—happy before the ETERNAL your God in all your undertakings.
19.在你们的土地上居住的时候，要小心不要忽略了利未人。Be sure not to neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.
20.当上帝按照所应许的扩大你的境界，你说“我要吃肉”，因为你有吃肉的欲望，你可以随时吃肉。When GOD enlarges your territory, as promised, and you say, “I shall eat some meat,” for you have the urge to eat meat, you may eat meat whenever you wish.
21.如果上帝所选择来立他圣名的地方离你太远，你可以按照我的吩咐从上帝赐给你的牛群或羊群中宰杀任何一种，并可以在你的住所随心所欲地吃。If the place where GOD has chosen to establish the divine name is too far from you, you may slaughter any of the cattle or sheep that GOD gives you, as I have instructed you; and you may eat to your heart’s content in your settlements.
22.然而你们要像吃羚羊和鹿一样吃它，不洁的人可以和洁的人一起吃。Eat it, however, as the gazelle and the deer are eaten: the impure may eat it together with the pure.
23.只是你们要谨慎，不可吃血，因为血是生命，凡吃血的，都不得与肉同吃。But make sure that you do not partake of the blood; for the blood is the life, and you must not consume the life with the flesh.
24.你不可吃，应将其倒在地上，如同倒水一样：You must not partake of it; you must pour it out on the ground like water:
25.你不可吃它，好使你和你的后代都得平安，因为你行了耶和华眼中所看为正的事。you must not partake of it, in order that it may go well with you and with your descendants to come, for you will be doing what is right in GOD’s sight.
26.但你们所献的圣物和应许的祭物都要拿到耶和华所选择的地方But such sacred and votive donations as you may have shall be taken by you to the site that GOD will choose.
27.你们应当在永恒你们的神的坛上献上燔祭，连同肉和血；至于你们的其他祭物，血应当倒在永恒你们的神的坛上，你们可以吃肉。You shall offer your burnt offerings, both the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the ETERNAL your God; and of your other sacrifices, the blood shall be poured out on the altar of the ETERNAL your God, and you shall eat the flesh.
28.要谨慎遵守我今日所吩咐的一切命令，这样你和你后代永远都会得平安，因为你行了上帝你神眼中所看为善、所看为右的事。Be careful to heed all these commandments that I enjoin upon you; thus it will go well with you and with your descendants after you forever, for you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the ETERNAL your God.
29.当你上帝永恒在你面前剪除你即将进入和取代的各国，你已经取代他们并住在他们的土地上，When the ETERNAL your God has cut down before you the nations that you are about to enter and dispossess, and you have dispossessed them and settled in their land,
30.要警惕他们被你灭绝以后，不要陷入他们的恶习中，不要探问他们的神，说“那些国民是怎样侍奉他们的神，我也要照样行”beware of being lured into their ways after they have been wiped out before you! Do not inquire about their gods, saying, “How did those nations worship their gods? I too will follow those practices.”
31.你们不可用他们供奉神的方式来侍奉耶和华你们的神，因为他们为自己的神所行的，都是耶和华所憎恶的，他们甚至将自己的儿女用火烧给他们的神。You shall not act thus toward the ETERNAL your God, for they perform for their gods every abhorrent act that GOD detests; they even offer up their sons and daughters in fire to their gods.