تَثنِيَة 24

١ 1 إِذَا تَزَوَّجَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ فَتَاةٍ وَلَمْ تَرُقْ لَهُ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ لأَنَّهُ اكْتَشَفَ فِيهَا عَيْباً مَا، وَأَعْطَاهَا كِتَابَ طَلاقٍ وَصَرَفَهَا مِنْ بَيْتِهِ،

And if any one should take a wife, and should dwell with her, then it shall come to pass if she should not have found favour before him, because he has found some unbecoming thing in her, that he shall write for her a bill of divorcement, and give it into her hands, and he shall send her away out of his house.

٢ 2 فَتَزَوَّجَتْ مِنْ رَجُلٍ آخَرَ بَعْدَ أَنْ أَصْبَحَتْ طَلِيقَةً،

And [if] she should go away and be married to another man;

٣ 3 ثُمَّ كَرِهَهَا الزَّوْجُ الثَّانِي وَسَلَّمَهَا كِتَابَ طَلاقٍ وَصَرَفَهَا مِنْ بَيْتِهِ، أَوْ إِذَا مَاتَ هَذَا الزَّوْجُ،

and the last husband should hate her, and write for her a bill of divorcement; and should give it into her hands, and send her away out of his house, and the last husband should die, who took her to himself for a wife;

٤ 4 فَإِنَّهُ يُحْظَرُ عَلَى زَوْجِهَا الأَوَّلِ الَّذِي طَلَّقَهَا أَنْ يَتَزَوَّجَهَا مَرَّةً أُخْرَى، بَعْدَ أَنْ تَنَجَّسَتْ. لأَنَّ ذَلِكَ رِجْسٌ لَدَى الرَّبِّ. فَلا تَجْلِبُوا خَطِيئَةً عَلَى الأَرْضِ الَّتِي يَهَبُهَا الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكُمْ لَكُمْ مِيرَاثاً.

the former husband who sent her away shall not be able to return and take her to himself for a wife, after she has been defiled; because it is an abomination before the Lord thy God, and ye shall not defile the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit.

٥ 5 إِذَا تَزَوَّجَ رَجُلٌ حَدِيثاً يُعْفَى مِنَ الْجُنْدِيَّةِ وَالْمَسْؤُولِيَّاتِ الْعَسْكَرِيَّةِ لِمُدَّةِ سَنَةٍ، يَقْضِيهَا حُرّاً فِي بَيْتِهِ لِيُسْعِدَ زَوْجَتَهُ وَيَسُرَّهَا.

And if any one should have recently taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall any thing be laid upon him; he shall be free in his house; for one year he shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

٦ 6 لَا يَسْتَرْهِنْ أَحَدٌ رَحىً أَوْ أَحَدَ حَجَرَيْهَا، لأَنَّهُ يَسْتَرْهِنُ مَصْدَرَ الرِّزْقِ.

Thou shalt not take for a pledge the under millstone, nor the upper millstone; for he who does so takes life for a pledge.

٧ 7 إِذَا خَطَفَ رَجُلٌ أَحَداً مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ إِخْوَتِهِ وَاسْتَعْبَدَهُ وَبَاعَهُ، يَمُوتُ الْخَاطِفُ. فَتَجْتَثُّونَ الشَّرَّ مِنْ بَيْنِكُمْ.

And if a man should be caught stealing one of his brethren of the children of Israel, and having overcome him he should sell him, that thief shall die; so shalt thou remove that evil one from yourselves.

٨ 8 احْرِصُوا عَلَى طَاعَةِ تَعْلِيمَاتِ الْكَهَنَةِ وَاللّاوِيِّينَ فِي حَالَةِ الإِصَابَةِ بِالْبَرَصِ، وَنَفِّذُوا بِدِقَّةٍ مَا أَمَرْتُهُمْ بِهِ.

Take heed to thyself in [regard of] the plague of leprosy: thou shalt take great heed to do according to all the law, which the priests the Levites shall report to you; take heed to do, as I have charged you.

٩ 9 اذْكُرُوا مَا عَاقَبَ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكُمْ بِهِ مَرْيَمَ فِي الطَّرِيقِ لَدَى خُرُوجِكُمْ مِنْ دِيَارِ مِصْرَ.

Remember all that the Lord thy God did to Mariam in the way, when ye were going out of Egypt.

١٠ 10 إِذَا أَقْرَضْتَ جَارَكَ قَرْضاً فَلا تَدْخُلْ بَيْتَهُ لِتَسْتَرْهِنَ مِنْهُ شَيْئاً،

If thy neighbour owe thee a debt, any debt whatsoever, thou shalt not go into his house to take his pledge:

١١ 11 بَلْ تَمْكُثُ خَارِجاً، فَيَأْتِي الرَّجُلُ الَّذِي تُقْرِضُهُ بِالرَّهْنِ إِلَيْكَ حَيْثُ تَقِفُ.

thou shalt stand without, and the man who is in thy debt shall bring the pledge out to thee.

١٢ 12 وَإِنْ كَانَ الْمُقْتَرِضُ فَقِيراً فَلا يَبِتْ رَهْنُهُ عِنْدَكَ،

And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge.

١٣ 13 بَلْ رُدَّهُ إِلَيْهِ عِنْدَ غُرُوبِ الشَّمْسِ لِيَنَامَ فِي ثَوْبِهِ وَيُبَارِكَكَ، فَيَحْسِبَ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكَ ذَلِكَ لَكَ بِرّاً.

Thou shalt surely restore his pledge at sunset, and he shall sleep in his garment, and he shall bless thee; and it shall be mercy to thee before the Lord thy God.

١٤ 14 لَا تَظْلِمْ أَجِيراً وَفَقِيراً، سَوَاءٌ كَانَ مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ أَوْ مِنَ الْغُرَبَاءِ الْمُقِيمِينَ فِي مَدِينَتِكَ.

Thou shalt not unjustly withhold the wages of the poor and needy of thy brethren, or of the strangers who are in thy cities.

١٥ 15 ادْفَعْ لَهُ أُجْرَتَهُ فِي يَوْمِهِ قَبْلَ غُرُوبِ الشَّمْسِ لأَنَّهُ فَقِيرٌ، أَجْهَدَ نَفْسَهُ لِلْحُصُولِ عَلَيْهَا. وَإلَّا تَوَجَّهَ إِلَى الرَّبِّ بِالشَّكْوَى ضِدَّكَ، فَتَكُونُ هَذِهِ عَلَيْكَ خَطِيئَةً.

Thou shalt pay him his wages the same day, the sun shall not go down upon it, because he is poor and he trusts in it; and he shall cry against thee to the Lord, and it shall be sin in thee.

١٦ 16 لَا يُقْتَلُ الآبَاءُ عِوَضاً عَنِ الأَبْنَاءِ، وَلا يُقْتَلُ الأَبْنَاءُ بَدَلاً مِنَ الآبَاءِ، فَكُلُّ إِنْسَانٍ يَتَحَمَّلُ وِزْرَ نَفْسِهِ.

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, and the sons shall not be put to death for the fathers; every one shall be put to death for his own sin.

١٧ 17 لَا تُحَرِّفُوا حُكْمَ الْعَدَالَةِ فَتَظْلِمُوا الْغَرِيبَ وَالْيَتِيمَ، وَلا تَسْتَرْهِنُوا ثَوْبَ الأَرْمَلَةِ،

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the stranger and the fatherless, and widow; thou shalt not take the widow's garment for a pledge.

١٨ 18 وَاذْكُرُوا أَنَّكُمْ كُنْتُمْ عَبِيداً فِي دِيَارِ مِصْرَ فَأَنْقَذَكُمُ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكُمْ. لِهَذَا أُوصِيكُمْ بِالْعَدْلِ.

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee from thence; therefore I charge thee to do this thing.

١٩ 19 إِذَا حَصَدْتُمْ غَلّاتِكُمْ وَنَسِيْتُمْ حُزْمَةً فِي الْحَقْلِ فَلا تَرْجِعُوا لأَخْذِهَا، بَلِ اتْرُكُوهَا لِلْغَرِيبِ وَالْيَتِيمِ وَالأَرْمَلَةِ، لِيُبَارِكَكُمُ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكُمْ فِي كُلِّ مَا تَعْمَلُهُ أَيْدِيكُمْ.

And when thou shalt have reaped corn in thy field, and shalt have forgotten a sheaf in thy field, thou shalt not return to take it; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands.

٢٠ 20 إِذَا هَزَزْتُمْ أَشْجَارَ زَيْتُونِكُمْ لإِسْقَاطِ ثِمَارِهَا، فَلا تَلْتَقِطُوا مَا بَقِيَ فِي الأَغْصَانِ مِنْهَا، بَلِ اتْرُكُوهَا وَرَاءَكُمْ لِلْغَرِيبِ وَالْيَتِيمِ وَالأَرْمَلَةِ.

And if thou shouldest gather thine olives, thou shalt not return to collect the remainder; it shall be for the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, and thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.

٢١ 21 إِذَا قَطَفْتُمْ كُرُومَكُمْ فَلا تُعَاوِدُوا قَطْفَ مَا بَقِيَ مِنْ عَنَاقِيدَ وَرَاءَكُمْ، بَلِ اتْرُكُوهَا لِلْغَرِيبِ وَالْيَتِيمِ وَالأَرْمَلَةِ.

And when soever thou shalt gather the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean what thou hast left; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow:

٢٢ 22 وَاذْكُرُوا أَنَّكُمْ كُنْتُمْ عَبِيداً فِي دِيَارِ مِصْرَ. مِنْ أَجْلِ هَذَا أُوصِيكُمْ أَنْ تُنَفِّذُوا هَذَا الأَمْرَ.

and thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.