惟一的敬拜场所
“你们活在世上的日子，在耶和华─你列祖的神所赐你为业的地上，你们要谨守遵行这些律例典章：
These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
2你们占领的国家所事奉他们众神明的地方，无论是在高山，在小山，在一切的青翠树下，你们要彻底毁坏；Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
3要拆毁他们的祭坛，打碎他们的柱像，用火焚烧他们的亚舍拉，砍断他们神明的雕刻偶像，并要从那地方除去他们的名。And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
4你们不可那样敬拜耶和华－你们的神。Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
5但耶和华－你们的神在你们各支派中选择何处作为立他名的居所，你们就要到那里求问，But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
6将你们的燔祭、祭物、十一奉献、手中的举祭、还愿祭、甘心祭，以及牛群羊群中头生的，都带到那里。And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
7在那里，你们和你们的全家都可以在耶和华─你们神的面前吃，并且因你们手所做的一切蒙耶和华－你的神赐福而欢乐。And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
8你们不可做像我们今日在这里所做的，各人行自己眼中看为正的一切事；Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
9因为你们现在还没有进入耶和华－你神所赐你的安息，所给你的产业。For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.
10你们过了约旦河，住在耶和华─你们神给你们承受为业的地；他又使你们得享太平，不受四围一切仇敌扰乱，使你们安然居住。But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
11那时你们要将我所吩咐你们的燔祭、祭物、十一奉献、手中的举祭，和向耶和华许愿的一切上好的祭，都带到耶和华─你们神所选择立他名的居所。Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
12你们和儿女、仆婢，以及住在你们城里，没有与你们一起分得产业的利未人，都要在耶和华－你们的神面前欢乐。And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
13你要谨慎，不可在自己所看中的各处献燔祭。Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:
14惟独耶和华从你的一个支派中所选择的地方，你要在那里献燔祭，在那里遵行我一切所吩咐你的。But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.
15“然而，你在各城里都可以照着耶和华－你神所赐给你的福分，随心所欲宰牲吃肉；无论洁净的人不洁净的人都可以吃，就如吃羚羊和鹿的肉一样。Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
16只是血，你不可吃，要把它倒在地上，如同倒水一样。Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
17你的五谷、新酒和新油的十分之一，或是牛群羊群中头生的，或是你的许愿祭、甘心祭和手中的举祭，都不可在你的城里吃，Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
18必须在耶和华－你的神面前吃，在耶和华－你神所选择的地方，你和儿女、仆婢，以及住在你城里的利未人都可以吃，并要因你手所做的一切，在耶和华－你神面前欢乐。But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
19你要谨慎，在你所住的地上，你永不可离弃利未人。Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
20“耶和华－你的神照他的应许扩张你疆土的时候，你心里想要吃肉，说：‘我要吃肉’，就可以随心所欲吃肉。When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
21耶和华－你神选择立他名的地方若离你太远，你可以照我所吩咐的，将耶和华赐给你的牛羊取些宰了，随心所欲在你的城里吃。If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
22其实，就如吃羚羊和鹿的肉一样，你要这样吃它，无论洁净的人不洁净的人都可以一起吃。Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
23但是你要坚定，不可吃血，因为血是生命；不可将生命与肉一起吃。Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
24你不可吃血，要把它倒在地上，如同倒水一样。Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
25不可吃血，好让你和你的子孙可以得福，因为你行了耶和华眼中看为正的事。Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
26只是你分别为圣的物和你所还的愿，都要带到耶和华所选择的地方去。Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:
27你的燔祭，连肉带血，都要献在耶和华－你神的坛上。祭物的血要倒在耶和华－你神的坛上；肉你可以吃。And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
28你要谨守听从我所吩咐的一切话，好让你和你的子孙可以永远得福，因为你行耶和华－你神眼中看为善、看为正的事。”Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.
不可敬拜别神
29“耶和华－你神把你要进去赶出的列国从你面前剪除，并且你得了他们的地为业居住，When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
30那时你要谨慎，在他们从你面前被除灭之后，你不可受引诱随从他们，也不可求问他们的神明，说：‘这些国家怎样事奉他们的神明，我也要照样做。’Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
31你不可向耶和华－你的神这样做，因为他们向他们的神明做了耶和华所憎恨、所厌恶的一切事，甚至将自己的儿女用火焚烧，献给他们的神明。Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
32凡我所吩咐你们的事，你们都要谨守遵行，不可加添，也不可删减。”What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.