中英对照

1. 1.列维族的祭司，整个利未支派，在以色列中不得有分地，他们只可以靠上帝的火祭为他们的分The levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no territorial portion with Israel. They shall live only off GOD’s offerings by fire as their portion,💡
2. 2.他们在他们的兄弟支派中不得有份：上帝是他们的份，正如所应许的。and shall have no portion among their brother tribes: GOD is their portion, as promised.💡
3. 3.这是祭司从民间所得的份：凡献牛羊为祭的，祭司必得其肩、腮和肚。This, then, shall be the priests’ due from the people: Everyone who offers a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep, must give the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach to the priest. 💡
4. 4.你也要把你新收的谷物、酒和油的初熟之果，以及你羊的初次剪毛，都给他。You shall also give him the first fruits of your new grain and wine and oil, and the first shearing of your sheep. 💡
5. 5.因为永恒的神拣选了他和他的后代，在你们所有的支派中，永远侍奉神的名，供职。For the ETERNAL your God has chosen him and his descendants, out of all your tribes, to be in attendance for service in the name of GOD for all time.💡
6. 6.如果一个利未人从以色列各处的居所中，到上帝所选择的地方去，他可以随时前往。If a Levite would go, from any of the settlements throughout Israel where he has been residing, to the place that GOD has chosen, he may do so whenever he pleases.💡
7. 7.他可以像在那里侍奉上帝的所有他的同伴利未人一样，侍奉他所侍奉的上帝耶和华的名。He may serve in the name of the ETERNAL his God like all his fellow Levites who are there in attendance before GOD.💡
8. 8.他们将平等地分享这些应得之物，不论个人恩赐或家产。They shall receive equal shares of the dues, without regard to personal gifts or patrimonies.💡
9. 9.当你进入永恒的神你的神所赐给你的土地时，你不可学着效法那些国家所行的可憎之事。When you enter the land that the ETERNAL your God is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the abhorrent practices of those nations.💡
10. 10.你们中间不可有人将儿女献给摩勒火，也不可有人行占卜、行法术、观兆、用巫术、Let no one be found among you who consigns a son or daughter to the fire, or who is an augur, a soothsayer, a diviner, a sorcerer, 💡
11. 11.施行邪术的人，或是与鬼魂或邪灵商议的人，或是向死人求问的人。one who casts spells, or one who consults ghosts or familiar spirits, or one who inquires of the dead. 💡
12. 12.凡行这些事的，都是上帝所憎恶的。正是因为这些可憎之事，你的上帝永恒主才在你面前把他们赶出去。For anyone who does such things is abhorrent to GOD, and it is because of these abhorrent things that the ETERNAL your God is dispossessing them before you.💡
13. 13.你必须尽心尽意地侍奉你所信靠的上帝。You must be wholehearted with the ETERNAL your God.💡
14. 14.你即将驱逐的那些国家，确实都有占卜的和观鸟的，但对于你，耶和华你的神却没有这样安排。Those nations that you are about to dispossess do indeed resort to soothsayers and augurs; to you, however, the ETERNAL your God has not assigned the like.💡
15. 15.你们中间，永恒的神你们的神必从你们中间兴起一位先知像我一样，你们必须听从他。From among your own people, the ETERNAL your God will raise up for you a prophet like myself—whom you shall heed.💡
16. 16.这正是你们在何烈山上、在大会的日子，求问耶和华你们的神说：“不要再使我们听见耶和华我们的神的声音，不要再使我们看见这大火，否则我们必死。”This is just what you asked of the ETERNAL your God at Horeb, on the day of the Assembly, saying, “Let me not hear the voice of the ETERNAL my God any longer or see this wondrous fire anymore, lest I die.”💡
17. 17.于是　神对我说，他们这样说是对的。Whereupon GOD said to me, “They have done well in speaking thus.💡
18. 18.我必从他们的兄弟中立一个先知像你，我要将我的话传给他，他就要将我所吩咐的一切话告诉他们I will raise up for them from among their own people a prophet like yourself, in whose mouth I will put My words and who will speak to them all that I command; 💡
19. 19.任何不听从人以我的名所说的话的人，我自己必追究他的责任。and anybody who fails to heed the words spoken in My name, I Myself will call to account. 💡
20. 20.但任何先知擅自以我的名义说我未曾吩咐他说的话，或是以别的神的名义说预言的，那先知必然要死。But any prophet who presumes to speak in My name an oracle that I did not command to be uttered, or who speaks in the name of other gods—that prophet shall die.” 💡
21. 21.你们也可以问自己，“我们怎么知道这话不是上帝说的呢？”——And should you ask yourselves, “How can we know that the oracle was not spoken by GOD?”—💡
22. 22.若先知奉上帝的名说预言，预言若不应验，就是上帝没有说过的，先知是擅自说的，你们不必怕他们。if the prophet speaks in GOD’s name and the oracle does not come true, that oracle was not spoken by GOD; the prophet has uttered it presumptuously: do not stand in dread of them.💡