Olrhaepnah 19

1 BOEIPA na Pathenloh namtomrhoek tea phae. Amih kah khohmuen te BOEIPA na Pathenloh nang ham ni a khueh. Te dongah amih te na haek tih a khopueirhoek neh amih im dongah kho na sak vaengah,

And when the Lord your God shall have destroyed the nations, which God gives you, [even] the land, and you shall inherit them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses,

2 BOEIPA na Pathenloh nang pang sak hama khueh na khohmuen khui ah khopuei pathumte namah loh hoep.

you shall separate for yourself three cities in the midst of your land, which the Lord your God gives you.

3 BOEIPA na Pathenloh nang m'pang sak na khohmuen rhiah longpuei sael lamtah pathum la saii. Te daengah ni hlang aka ngawn tholh boeihloh te lamte rhaelrham vetih a om thai eh.

Take a survey of your way, and you shall divide the coasts of your land, which the Lord your God apportions to you, into three parts, and there shall be there a refuge for every manslayer.

4 Tahae olka he tah hlang aka ngawntih pahoiaka rhaelrham hamla om pah saeh. Te daengahni hlaem hlaemvai ah khaw hmuhuet ngawn pawt dae poek mueh la a huiaka ngawn tea hing eh.

And this shall be the ordinance of the manslayer, who shall flee there, and shall live, whoever shall have struck his neighbor ignorantly, whereas he hated him not in times past.

5 Thing top hamla a hui neh duup la cet tih thinga vung vaengah a kut dongkah hai te vik tling mai ni. Te vaengah haitueng dongkah thi coe tih a hui tea dae dongaha duek atah terhoek kah khopuei khat khat khuila rhaelrham saeh lamtah hing saeh.

And whoever shall enter with his neighbor into the thicket, to gather wood, if the hand of him that cuts wood with the axe should be violently shaken, and the axe head falling off from the handle should light on his neighbor, and he should die, he shall flee to one of these cities, and live.

6 Thii phu aka sukloh a thin ling tih hlang aka ngawn hnuk te a hloem vaengah longpuei sen vetiha kae vaengah a hinglu vik ngawn pah ve. A duek te hlaem hlavai vaengah khaw a hmuhuet van oeh pawt dongaha dueknah ham tah laitloeknah khueh boeh.

Lest the avenger of blood pursue after the slayer, because his heart is hot, and overtake him, if the way be too long, and kill him, though there is to this man no sentence of death, because he hated him not in time past.

7 Te dongahni kai loh, “Namah ham khopuei pathum hoep,” ka titih nang kang uen.

Therefore I charge you, saying, You shall separate for your self three cities.

8 Na parhoek taengkaha toemngam vanbangla na khorhi te BOEIPA na Pathenloh a aeh tih na parhoek taengah paek hamlaa thui khohmuen pum nang taengah m'paek vaengah,

And if the Lord shall enlarge your borders, as he sware to your fathers, and the Lord shall give to you all the land which he said he would give to your fathers;

9 tihninah kailoh nang kang uen olpaek boeih hena vai ham neh BOEIPA na Pathen tena lungnah tih a longpuei ah hnin takuem pongpa hamla ngaithuen lamtah herhoek pathum he khopuei pathum nen khaw namah loh koep thap.

if you shall listen to do all these commands, which I charge you this day, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways continually; you shall add for yourself yet three cities to these three.

10 Te dongah BOEIPA na Pathenloh nang ham rho la m'paek na khohmuen ah ommongsitoekaha thii he long boel saeh. Na pum dongah hlang thii kap van ve.

So innocent blood shall not be spilt in the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, and there shall not be in you one guilty of blood.

11 Tedae hlang pakhat aka omloh a hui tea hmuhuet tih aniha rhongngol thil mai ni. Te phoeiaha pai thil tiha hinglu te a ngawn. A hui te duek tih hlang aka ngawn te herhoek kah khopuei khat khat laa rhaelrham atah.

But if there should be in you a man hating his neighbor, and he should lay wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him, that he die, and he should flee to one of these cities,

12 A khopuei kah patong rhoek te tueih uh saeh lamtah hlang aka ngawn te lo uh saeh. Te phoeiah anih te thii phu aka suk kut ah tloeng uh saeh lamtah duek saeh.

then shall the elders of his city send, and take him thence, and they shall deliver him into the hands of the avengers of blood, and he shall die.

13 Anih te na mik long khaw rhen boel saeh. Ommongsitoe kah thii aka long sak te Israelkhui lamlohna voeih daengahni namah ham khaw a then.

Your eye shall not spare him; so shall you purge innocent blood from Israel, and it shall be well with you.

14 BOEIPA na Pathenloh nang kahna pang ham m'paek khohmuen kah rho na pang dongah hlamat kah rhoek loh a suemuh na hui kah rhite rhawt pah boeh.

You shall not move the landmarks of your neighbor, which your fathers set in the inheritance, in which you have obtained a share in the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit.

15 Thaesainah khat khat dongah khaw, tholhnah khat khat neh lai a hmuh vaengkah boirhaem lai khat khat dongah khaw hlang pakhat taengah laipai pakhat bueng pai tarha boel saeh. Laipai panit pathum kah olthui nen mah olka khaw cak sak saeh.

One witness shall not stand to testify against a man for any iniquity, or for any fault, or for any sin which he may commit; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, shall every word be established.

16 Laipailoh koeknah doo ham rhung la hlang taengah kuthlahnahlaa pai atah,

And if an unjust witness rise up against a man, alleging iniquity against him;

17 Tuituknah aka om hlang panitte BOEIPA mikhmuh, khosoih neh amah khohnin kah laitloek la aka omrhoek kah mikhmuh ah pai rhoi saeh.

then shall the two men between whom the controversy is, stand before the Lord, and before the priests, and before the judges, who may be in those days.

18 Te vaengah laitloek rhoek loh khaeh khaeh cae saeh. Tedae laithae kah laipai mai loh a manuca te laithae laipai ol neh a doo atah,

And the judges shall make diligent inquiry, and, behold, [if] and unjust witness has borne unjust testimony; [and] has stood up against his brother;

19 a manuca taengah saii hama mangtaeng vanbangla anih ham khaw saiiuh. Na khui lamkah boethae te te tlam ni na hnawt eh.

then shall you do to him as he wickedly devised to do against his brother, and you shall remove the evil from yourselves.

20 Te daengah ni aka sueng rhoek loh a yaakuh vaengaha rhihuh vetih na khui ah hebang hno thae koep saii hama khoepuh pawt eh.

And the rest shall hear and fear, and do no more according to this evil thing in the midst of you.

21 Te dongah hinglu yueng la hinglu van, mik yueng la mik, no yueng la no, kut yueng la kut, kho yueng la kho om saeh lamtah na mik long khaw rhen boel saeh.

Your eye shall not spare him: [you shall exact] life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.