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申命记 17
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17 “不可把有缺陷或残疾的牛羊献给你们的上帝耶和华，因为这是祂所憎恶的。

2 “如果有人在你们的上帝耶和华将要赐给你们的各城镇做祂视为恶的事，违背祂的约， 3 不遵守祂的禁令，去供奉和祭拜其他神明，祭拜日、月或星辰， 4 你们得知后，必须彻底调查。如果属实，在以色列确实有人做这种可憎之事， 5 就要把那人带到城门口，用石头打死他。 6 但你们不可单凭一个证人便处死那人，要有两三个证人方可处死他。 7 证人要先扔石头，众人随后，这样就除掉了你们中间的罪恶。

复杂案件的处理

8 “如果案件复杂，难以决断，如谋杀、诉讼、人身伤害等，就要把案件带到你们的上帝耶和华选定的地方， 9 交给当值的利未祭司和审判官去审理。 10 你们必须执行他们在耶和华所选择的地方宣告的判决，你们要谨慎遵行他们的一切指示。 11 他们教导你们律法，宣布判决后，你们必须完全执行，丝毫不可偏离。 12 如果有人不肯接受事奉你们上帝耶和华的祭司和审判官的判决，就必须处死他。如此，你们便从以色列除掉了罪恶， 13 使众人得知后心中害怕，不敢再任意妄为。

立王的条例

14 “你们进入并占领你们的上帝耶和华将要赐给你们的土地，安顿下来后，就会想立自己的王，像周围的国家一样。 15 那么，你们一定要立你们的上帝耶和华拣选的人；必须立你们的以色列同胞为王，不可立外族人。 16 王不可拥有大量马匹，也不可派人到埃及去购买马匹，因为耶和华已经告诉你们不可回埃及。 17 他不可拥有许多妃嫔，恐怕他的心会偏离耶和华，也不可为自己积蓄大量金银。 18 他登基后，要在利未祭司面前为自己抄录一份律法书， 19 把它放在身边，一生诵读，以便学习敬畏他的上帝耶和华，遵守律法书上的一切诫命和律例。 20 这样，他就不会妄自尊大，违背诫命，他和他的子孙就可以长久统治以色列。

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Deuteronomy 17
New English Translation

17 You must not sacrifice to him[a] a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive[b] to the Lord your God. 2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you in one of your villages[c] that the Lord your God is giving you who sins before the Lord your God[d] and breaks his covenant 3 by serving other gods and worshiping them—the sun,[e] moon, or any other heavenly bodies that I have not permitted you to worship.[f] 4 When it is reported to you and you hear about it, you must investigate carefully. If it is indeed true that such a disgraceful thing[g] is being done in Israel, 5 you must bring to your city gates[h] that man or woman who has done this wicked thing—that very man or woman—and you must stone that person to death.[i] 6 At the testimony of two or three witnesses the person must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness. 7 The witnesses[j] must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people[k] are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge the evil from among you.

Appeal to a Higher Court

8 If a matter is too difficult for you to judge—bloodshed,[l] legal claim,[m] or assault[n]—matters of controversy in your villages[o]—you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses.[p] 9 You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict. 10 You must then do as they have determined at that place the Lord chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught. 11 You must do what you are instructed, and the verdict they pronounce to you, without fail. Do not deviate right or left from what they tell you. 12 The person who pays no attention[q] to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the judge—that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel. 13 Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and not be so presumptuous again.

Provision for Kingship

14 When you come to the land the Lord your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say, “I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,” 15 you must select without fail[r] a king whom the Lord your God chooses. From among your fellow citizens[s] you must appoint a king—you may not designate a foreigner who is not one of your fellow Israelites.[t] 16 Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so,[u] for the Lord has said you must never again return that way. 17 Furthermore, he must not marry many[v] wives lest his affections turn aside, and he must not accumulate much silver and gold. 18 When he sits on his royal throne he must make a copy of this law[w] on a scroll[x] given to him by the Levitical priests. 19 It must be with him constantly, and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out. 20 Then he will not exalt himself above his fellow citizens or turn from the commandments to the right or left, and he and his descendants will enjoy many years ruling over his kingdom[y] in Israel.

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 17:1 tn Heb “to the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.
  2. Deuteronomy 17:1 tn The Hebrew word תּוֹעֵבָה (toʿevah, “an abomination”; cf. NAB) describes persons, things, or practices offensive to ritual or moral order. See M. Grisanti, NIDOTTE 4:314-18; see also the note on the word “abhorrent” in Deut 7:25.
  3. Deuteronomy 17:2 tn Heb “gates.”
  4. Deuteronomy 17:2 tn Heb “does the evil in the eyes of the Lord your God.”
  5. Deuteronomy 17:3 tc The MT reads “and to the sun,” thus including the sun, the moon, and other heavenly spheres among the gods. However, Theodotion and Lucian read “or to the sun,” suggesting perhaps that the sun and the other heavenly bodies are not in the category of actual deities.
  6. Deuteronomy 17:3 tn Heb “which I have not commanded you.” The words “to worship” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
  7. Deuteronomy 17:4 tn Heb “an abomination” (תּוֹעֵבָה); see note on the word “offensive” in v. 1.
  8. Deuteronomy 17:5 tn Heb “gates.”
  9. Deuteronomy 17:5 tn Heb “stone them with stones so that they die” (KJV similar); NCV “throw stones at that person until he dies.”
  10. Deuteronomy 17:7 tn Heb “the hand of the witnesses.” This means the two or three witnesses are to throw the first stones (cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).
  11. Deuteronomy 17:7 tn Heb “the hand of all the people.”
  12. Deuteronomy 17:8 tn Heb “between blood and blood.”
  13. Deuteronomy 17:8 tn Heb “between claim and claim.”
  14. Deuteronomy 17:8 tn Heb “between blow and blow.”
  15. Deuteronomy 17:8 tn Heb “gates.”
  16. Deuteronomy 17:8 tc Several Greek recensions add “to place his name there,” thus completing the usual formula to describe the central sanctuary (cf. Deut 12:5, 11, 14, 18; 16:6). However, the context suggests that the local Levitical towns, and not the central sanctuary, are in mind.
  17. Deuteronomy 17:12 tn Heb “who acts presumptuously not to listen” (cf. NASB).
  18. Deuteronomy 17:15 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, indicated in the translation by the words “without fail.”
  19. Deuteronomy 17:15 tn Heb “your brothers,” but not referring to siblings (cf. NIV “your brother Israelites”; NLT “a fellow Israelite”). The same phrase also occurs in v. 20.
  20. Deuteronomy 17:15 tn Heb “your brothers.” See the preceding note on “fellow citizens.”
  21. Deuteronomy 17:16 tn Heb “in order to multiply horses.” The translation uses “do so” in place of “multiply horses” to avoid redundancy (cf. NAB, NIV).
  22. Deuteronomy 17:17 tn Heb “must not multiply” (cf. KJV, NASB); NLT “must not take many.”
  23. Deuteronomy 17:18 tn Or “instruction.” The LXX reads here τὸ δευτερονόμιον τοῦτο (to deuteronomion touto, “this second law”). From this Greek phrase the present name of the book, “Deuteronomy” or “second law” (i.e., the second giving of the law), is derived. However, the MT’s expression מִשְׁנֶה הַתּוֹרָה הַזֹּאת (mishneh hattorah hazzoʾt) is better rendered “copy of this law.” Here the term תּוֹרָה (torah) probably refers only to the book of Deuteronomy and not to the whole Pentateuch.
  24. Deuteronomy 17:18 tn The Hebrew term סֵפֶר (sefer) means a “writing” or “document” and could be translated “book” (so KJV, ASV, TEV). However, since “book” carries the connotation of a modern bound book with pages (an obvious anachronism) it is preferable to render the Hebrew term “scroll” here and elsewhere.
  25. Deuteronomy 17:20 tc Heb “upon his kingship.” Smr supplies כִּסֵא (kiseʾ, “throne”) so as to read “upon the throne of his kingship.” This overliteralizes what is a clearly understood figure of speech.
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