申12:1 “你们活在地上的一切日子，在耶和华你列祖的 神赐给你作产业的地上，要谨守遵行的律例和典章，就是这些：
申12:1 These are the laws and the decisions which you are to keep with care in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to be your heritage all the days of your life on earth.
申12:2 你们要把你们赶走的列国的人事奉神的地方，无论是在高山上，在山冈上，或是在各青翠树下，都要完全毁坏；
申12:2 You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:
申12:3 也要拆毁他们的祭坛，打碎他们的神柱；用火焚烧他们的亚舍拉，砍倒他们的神的雕像，并且把他们的名字从这地方除灭。
申12:3 Their altars and their pillars are to be broken down, and their holy trees burned with fire, and the images of their gods cut down; you are to take away their names out of that place.
申12:4 你们不可像他们那样事奉耶和华你的 神。
申12:4 Do not so to the Lord your God.
申12:5 耶和华你们的 神从你们各支派中，选择了什么地方作立他名的居所，你们就当到那里求问他；
申12:5 But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there;
申12:6 把你们的燔祭和其他的祭物、十分之一的礼物和手中的贡献、还愿祭和甘心祭，以及牛群羊群中头生的，都要带到那里去；
申12:6 And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;
申12:7 在那里，就是在耶和华你们的 神面前，你们和你们的家人都可以吃；并且要因你们手所作的一切事，都蒙耶和华你的 神赐福而欢乐。
申12:7 There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.
申12:8 我们今日在这里所行的，是行各人看为正的事，你们将来不可以这样行；
申12:8 You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:
申12:9 因为你们现在还没有到耶和华你的 神赐给你的安息地和产业。
申12:9 For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.
申12:10 但是你们过了约旦河，住在耶和华你们的 神使你们承受为业的地，又使你们太平，脱离你们周围的所有仇敌，安居乐业，
申12:10 But when you have gone over Jordan and are living in the land which the Lord your God is giving you as your heritage, and when he has given you rest from all those on every side who are fighting against you, and you are living there safely;
申12:11 那时，你要把我吩咐你们的燔祭和其他的祭物、十分之一的礼物和手中的贡献，以及你们向耶和华许愿要献的最美的一切还愿祭，都要带到耶和华你们的 神选择作为立他名的地方。
申12:11 Then there will be a place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name, and there you will take all the things which I give you orders to take: your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up, and the offerings of your oaths which you make to the Lord;
申12:12 你们和你们的儿女、仆婢，以及住在你们城里的利未人，都要在耶和华你们的 神面前欢乐，因为利未人在你们中间无分无业。
申12:12 And you will be glad before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, and your men-servants and your women-servants, and the Levite who is with you in your house, because he has no part or heritage among you.
申12:13 你要自己谨慎，不可在你看见的任何地方献上你的燔祭；
申12:13 Take care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see:
申12:14 只要在耶和华从你的一个支派中拣选的地方，在那里献上你的燔祭，在那里行我吩咐你的一切事。
申12:14 But in the place marked out by the Lord in one of your tribes, there let your burned offerings be offered, and there do what I have given you orders to do.
申12:15 “不过在你的各城里，你都可以照着耶和华你的 神赐给你的福分，随意杀牲吃肉。不洁净的人和洁净的人都可以吃，像吃羚羊和鹿的肉一样。
申12:15 Only you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food in any of your towns, at the desire of your soul, in keeping with the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may take of it.
申12:16 只有血，你们不可吃；要倒在地上，像倒水一样。
申12:16 But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.
申12:17 你的五谷、新酒和新油的十分之一，你牛群羊群中头生的和你所许一切还愿的祭、你甘心献的祭和你手中的贡献，都不可在你的城里吃；
申12:17 In your towns you are not to take as food the tenth part of your grain, or of your wine or your oil, or the first births of your herds or of your flocks, or anything offered under an oath, or freely offered to the Lord, or given as a lifted offering;
申12:18 你只要在耶和华你的 神面前，和在耶和华你的 神选择的地方吃，你和你的儿女、仆婢，以及在你城里的利未人，都可以吃；你也要因你手所作的一切事在耶和华你的 神面前欢乐。
申12:18 But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.
申12:19 你要自己谨慎，你在你那地上的日子，永不可丢弃利未人。
申12:19 See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.
申12:20 “耶和华你的 神，照着他应许你的，扩张了你的境界的时候，如果你因心里渴想吃肉，说：‘我想吃肉。’那么，你就可以随意吃肉。
申12:20 When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for.
申12:21 耶和华你的 神选择作立他名的地方，如果离开你太远，你就可以照着我吩咐你的，把耶和华赐给你的牛羊取些宰杀了，可以在你的城里随意地吃。
申12:21 If the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name is far away from you, then take from your herds and from your flocks which the Lord has given you, as I have said, and have a meal of it in the towns where you may be living.
申12:22 你吃那肉，好像人吃羚羊和鹿的肉一样；不洁净的人和洁净的人都可以一起吃。
申12:22 It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it.
申12:23 只是你要心意坚定，不可吃血，因为血就是生命；你不可把生命和肉一起吃。
申12:23 But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.
申12:24 你不可吃血，要倒在地上，像倒水一样。
申12:24 Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water.
申12:25 你不可吃血，好使你和你的子子孙孙得享福乐，因为你行了耶和华看为正的事。
申12:25 Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
申12:26 只是你要把你应有的圣物和你的还愿祭，都带到耶和华选择的地方去，
申12:26 But the holy things which you have, and the offerings of your oaths, you are to take to the place which will be marked out by the Lord:
申12:27 把你的燔祭、肉和血，都献在耶和华你的 神的祭坛上；其他的祭的血，要倒在耶和华你的 神的祭坛上；至于那肉，你却可以吃。
申12:27 Offering the flesh and the blood of your burned offerings on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your offerings is to be drained out on the altar of the Lord your God, and the flesh will be your food.
申12:28 你要谨慎听从我吩咐你的这一切话，好使你和你的子子孙孙永远得享福乐，因为你行了耶和华看为好为正的事。
申12:28 Take note of all these orders I am giving you and give attention to them, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you for ever, while you do what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.
申12:29 “耶和华你的 神把你将要进去赶走的列国的民，从你的面前除灭以后，你就得着他们的地，住在那里。
申12:29 When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it;
申12:30 那时，你要自己谨慎，不可在他们从你的面前被消灭以后，随从他们的恶俗而陷入网罗，也不可求问他们的神，说：‘这些国的人怎样事奉他们的神，我也要这样行。’
申12:30 After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.
申12:31 你不可向耶和华你的 神这样行，因为耶和华恨恶的一切可厌恶的事，他们都向他们的神行了，甚至把自己的儿女用火焚烧，献给他们的神。
申12:31 Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
申12:32 “我吩咐你们的一切话，你们都要谨守遵行，不可加添，也不可减少。”（本节在《马索拉抄本》为13:1）
申12:32 You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing from them.