1“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。
1Do not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep that has any defect or flaw in it, for that would be detestable to him.
2If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the Lord gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the Lord your God in violation of his covenant, 3and contrary to my command has worshiped other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or the moon or the stars in the sky, 4and this has been brought to your attention, then you must investigate it thoroughly. If it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, 5take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death. 6On the testimony of two or three witnesses a person is to be put to death, but no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness. 7The hands of the witnesses must be the first in putting that person to death, and then the hands of all the people. You must purge the evil from among you.
Law Courts
8If cases come before your courts that are too difficult for you to judge—whether bloodshed, lawsuits or assaults—take them to the place the Lord your God will choose. 9Go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office at that time. Inquire of them and they will give you the verdict. 10You must act according to the decisions they give you at the place the Lord will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you to do. 11Act according to whatever they teach you and the decisions they give you. Do not turn aside from what they tell you, to the right or to the left. 12Anyone who shows contempt for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering there to the Lord your God is to be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel. 13All the people will hear and be afraid, and will not be contemptuous again.
The King
14When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,” 15be sure to appoint over you a king the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite. 16The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the Lord has told you, “You are not to go back that way again.” 17He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.
18When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the Levitical priests. 19It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees 20and not consider himself better than his fellow Israelites and turn from the law to the right or to the left. Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in Israel.
