1奉獻初熟土產的條例“將來,你進了耶和華你的 神賜給你作產業的地,佔領那地,並且住在那裡以後,
1It shall be, when you have come in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein,
2就要從耶和華你的 神賜給你的地上,把地上各種初熟果子取些來,放在籃子裡,到耶和華你的 神選擇立為他名的居所的地方,
2that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
3去見當時作祭司的,對他說:‘我今日向耶和華你的 神表明,我已經來到了耶和華向我們的列祖起誓應許要賜給我們的地。’
3You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, “I profess this day to Yahweh your God, that I am come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.”
4祭司就要從你手裡接過籃子,放在耶和華你的 神的祭壇前面。
4The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of Yahweh your God.
5然後你要在耶和華你的 神面前說:‘我的祖先原是個飄泊流亡的亞蘭人;他下到埃及,在那裡寄居;他人數稀少,在那裡卻成了又大又強、人數又多的國。
5You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
6埃及人惡待我們,苦害我們,把苦工加在我們身上。
6The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage:
7於是我們向耶和華我們列祖的 神呼求,耶和華聽見了我們的聲音,看見了我們所受的困苦、勞碌和壓迫,
7and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression;
8耶和華就用大能的手和伸出來的膀臂,以及大而可畏的事、神蹟和奇事,把我們從埃及領出來。
8and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs, and with wonders;
9把我們領進這地方,把這地賜給我們,就是流奶與蜜的地。
9and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10耶和華啊,現在你看,我把你賜給我的土地的初熟果子帶了來。’隨後你要把籃子放在耶和華你的 神面前,在耶和華你的 神面前下拜。
10Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me.” You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.
11你和利未人,以及住在你們中間的外族人,都要因耶和華你的 神賜給你和你的家的一切好處而歡樂。
11You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is in the midst of you.
12奉獻什一之物的條例“每逢第三年,就是十分獻一之年,你把一切出產的十分之一完全取出,分給利未人、寄居的和孤兒寡婦,使他們在你的城中吃飽了以後,
12When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.
13你就要在耶和華你的 神面前說:‘我已經把聖物從家裡除去了,也分給了利未人、寄居的和孤兒寡婦,都照著你吩咐我的一切誡命;你的命令我都沒有違背,也沒有忘記。
13You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
14我守喪的時候,沒有吃這聖物;我不潔的時候,沒有把它除去,也沒有把它送給死人;我聽從了耶和華我的 神的話,都照著你吩咐我的一切行了。
14I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away of it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done according to all that you have commanded me.
15求你從天上你聖潔的居所垂看,賜福給你的子民以色列,和你賜給我們的土地,就是你向我們的列祖起誓應許的那流奶與蜜的地。’
15Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”
16作耶和華聖潔的子民“耶和華你的 神今日吩咐你遵行這些律例和典章,所以你要一心一意謹守遵行。
16This day Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart, and with all your soul.
17你今日承認了耶和華是你的 神,要遵行他的道,謹守他的律例、誡命和典章,聽從他的話。
17You have declared Yahweh this day to be your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice:
18耶和華今日照著他應許你的,也承認了你是他珍貴的子民,使你謹守他的一切誡命;
18and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments;
19他又使你得稱讚、名譽和尊貴,超過他所造的列國之上,並且照著他說過的使你作聖潔的子民,歸於耶和華你的 神。”
19and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.