1 You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox or a sheep in which is a defect or anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
2 If there is found among you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight in transgressing his covenant, 3 and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded, 4 and you are told, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel, 5 then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones. 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
8 If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses. 9 You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict. 10 You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which Yahweh chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you. 11 According to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the left. 12 The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel. 13 All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
14 When you have come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, "I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me," 15 you shall surely set him whom Yahweh your God chooses as king over yourselves. You shall set as king over you one from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. 16 Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, "You shall not go back that way again." 17 He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
18 It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests. 19 It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them; 20 that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.
1 "有残疾， 或有什么缺点的牛羊， 都不可献给耶和华你的 神， 因为这是耶和华你的 神所憎恶的。
2 "在你中间， 就是耶和华你的 神赐给你的任何一座城里， 如果发现有人， 无论是男是女， 行耶和华你的 神眼中看为恶的事， 违犯了他的约，
3 去事奉别的神， 并且敬拜它们， 敬拜太阳或月亮， 或任何天象， 是我耶和华没有吩咐的；
4 有人告诉你， 你也听见了， 就要好好调查； 如果确有这些事， 真的在以色列中行了这可憎可厌的事；
5 你就要把那个行了这恶事的男人或女人带出来， 到城门那里去， 用石头把他们打死。
6 凭着两个或三个见证人的口供， 就可以把那该死的人处死； 只是凭着一个见证人的口供， 却不可以把人处死。
7 见证人要先下手， 然后众民也下手， 把他处死。这样， 你就把那恶从你中间除掉。
8 "在你的城里如果有什么争讼的事： 或是流血， 或是诉讼， 或是殴打， 是你很难处决的案件， 你就要起来， 上到耶和华你的 神选择的地方，
9 去见利未支派的祭司和当时的审判官， 询问他们， 他们就必指示你们怎样判断这案件。
10 你要照着他们从耶和华选择的那地方， 向你指示的话去行； 他们指教你的， 你都要谨守遵行。
11 你要按着他们指教你的律法， 和照着他们告诉你的判断去行； 他们告诉你的话， 你不可偏左或偏右。
12 如果有人擅自行事， 不听从祭司， 就是侍立在那里事奉耶和华你的 神的， 或是不听从审判官， 那人就必须处死； 这样， 你就可以把这恶从以色列中肃清了。
13 众民都会听见， 而且惧怕， 也不再擅自行事了。
14 "你进了耶和华你的 神赐给你的地， 占领了那地， 居住在那里的时候， 如果你说： ‘我要立一位君王治理我， 像我四围的列国一样。’
15 你总要立耶和华你的 神拣选的人作君王管理你； 你要从你的兄弟中立一位作你的君王； 不可立你的兄弟以外的人作王管理你。
16 只是君王不可为自己加添马匹， 也不可使人民回埃及去， 为要加添马匹， 因为耶和华曾经对你们说过： ‘你们不可再回到那条路去。’
17 他也不可为自己加添妃嫔， 恐怕他的心偏离了耶和华； 也不可为自己积蓄极多的金钱。
18 "他登上了国位的时候， 就要把利未支派的祭司面前的律法书， 为自己抄录一份副本。
19 那份副本要常在他身边， 他一生的年日都要诵读， 好学习敬畏耶和华他的 神， 谨守遵行这律法书上的一切话和这些律例。
20 这样， 他的心就不会高傲， 轻看自己的兄弟， 也不会偏左偏右， 离了这诫命； 好使他和他的子孙在以色列中， 在他的国位上， 可以日子长久。"