中英对照

1. 1.你不可将有严重缺陷的牛或羊献给耶和华你的神，因为这是耶和华你的神所憎恶的。You shall not sacrifice to the ETERNAL your God an ox or a sheep that has any defect of a serious kind, for that is abhorrent to the ETERNAL your God.💡
2. 2.你们中间在耶和华你们的神所赐给你们的城邑中，若有男人或女人违背耶和华你们的神，违背他与你们立的约，If there is found among you, in one of the settlements that the ETERNAL your God is giving you, a man or woman who has affronted the ETERNAL your God and transgressed the covenant—💡
3. 3.转向拜其他神，向他们下拜，向太阳、月亮或天上的万象下拜，这是我从未命令过的—turning to the worship of other gods and bowing down to them, to the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, something I never commanded— 💡
4. 4.你们已经听说或知道了，就要详细调查。如果事实属实，证实了这件事在以色列中确实发生了那可憎的事，and you have been informed or have learned of it, then you shall make a thorough inquiry. If it is true, the fact is established, that abhorrent thing was perpetrated in Israel, 💡
5. 5.你要将行了那恶事的男女带到城门外，用石头将他们打死。you shall take the man or the woman who did that wicked thing out to the public place, and you shall stone them, that man or woman, to death.— 💡
6. 6.一个人只有在两个或两个以上的见证人作证的情况下才能被判处死刑，不能凭借一个见证人的证词将某人判处死刑。A person shall be put to death only on the testimony of two or more witnesses; no one shall be put to death on the testimony of a single witness.—💡
7. 7.让证人先下手将他处死，然后是众民。这样，你们就把邪恶从你们中间除掉。Let the hands of the witnesses be the first to put [the condemned] to death, followed by the hands of the rest of the people. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst.💡
8. 8.若是你们审判案件时遇到难以判决的疑难案件，无论是杀人、民事诉讼或打架的争议，在你们的法院中发生的争端，你们应当立即前往永在的神所选择的地方，If a case is too baffling for you to decide, be it a controversy over homicide, civil law, or assault—matters of dispute in your courts—you shall promptly repair to the place that the ETERNAL your God will have chosen,💡
9. 9.并在当时掌管事务的利未祭司或官长面前显现自己，将你的困难呈现给他们。当他们向你宣告案件的判决时，and appear before the levitical priests, or the magistrate in charge at the time, and present your problem. When they have announced to you the verdict in the case, 💡
10. 10.你要按照神所选择的地方宣告给你的判决去做，谨慎地遵守他们所吩咐你的一切命令。you shall carry out the verdict that is announced to you from that place that GOD chose, observing scrupulously all their instructions to you.💡
11. 11.你要按照所指示你的话和所判决给你的案例行事，不可偏离他们所传达给你的判决，无论是向右还是向左。You shall act in accordance with the instructions given you and the ruling handed down to you; you must not deviate from the verdict that they announce to you either to the right or to the left.💡
12. 12.若是那人任性不听从在那里侍奉你神的祭司，或不听从审判官，那人就必死，这样你就可以把邪恶从以色列中除掉：Should the [losing] party act presumptuously and disregard the priest charged with serving there the ETERNAL your God, or the magistrate, that person shall die. Thus you will sweep out evil from Israel:💡
13. 13.众人都要听见而惧怕，不敢再妄为。all the people will hear and be afraid and will not act presumptuously again.💡
14. 14.当你进入耶和华你神所赐给你的那地，得了那地，住在其中，心里说：“我要立一个王，治理我，像四围的国一样，”If, after you have entered the land that the ETERNAL your God has assigned to you, and taken possession of it and settled in it, you decide, “I will set a king over me, as do all the nations about me,”💡
15. 15.你们可以自由地立一个王来治理你们，这王要是永恒的神你们的上帝所拣选的。你们一定要从你们的同胞中立一个王来治理你们，不可以立一个外人来治理你们，除非他是你们的同胞以色列人。you shall be free to set a king over yourself, one chosen by the ETERNAL your God. Be sure to set as king over yourself one of your own people; you must not set a foreigner over you, one who is not your fellow Israelite.💡
16. 16.并且，他不可使马过多，也不可使人回埃及去增加马匹，因为耶和华曾警戒你们说，你们不可再从这条路回去。Moreover, he shall not keep many horses or send people back to Egypt to add to his horses, since GOD has warned you, “You must not go back that way again.”💡
17. 17.他不可多娶妻，免得他的心偏离，也不可使他的银金无数。And he shall not have many wives, lest his heart go astray; nor shall he amass silver and gold to excess.💡
18. 18.他坐在王位上时，要由利未祭司为他写一份这部律法的抄本。When he is seated on his royal throne, he shall have a copy of this Teaching written for him on a scroll by uncertain. the levitical priests.💡
19. 19.让这律法书常在他身边，他应终身研读，好使他学习敬畏他所侍奉的上帝，谨守遵行这训诫的一切话和这些律法。Let it remain with him and let him read in it all his life, so that he may learn to revere the ETERNAL his God, to observe faithfully every word of this Teaching as well as these laws.💡
20. 20.这样，他就不会向他的同胞表现出骄傲，也不会偏离诫命向左或向右，目的是使他和他的后代可以在以色列中长久地作王。Thus he will not act haughtily toward his fellows or deviate from the Instruction to the right or to the left, to the end that he and his descendants may reign long in the midst of Israel.💡