申命記 19
1 當上主你天主消滅了那些異民，上主你的天主將他們的土地賜給了你，而你佔領了那地，住在他們的城鎮和房屋裏以後，
When the LORD your God has cut off the nations, whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;
2 應在上主你的天主賜給你作產業的地方，劃出三座城，
You shall separate three cities for you in the middle of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess it.
3 修好到那裏去的道路，將上主你的天主給你作產業的地方，分為三個區域，這樣使殺了人的，可逃到那裏去。
You shall prepare you a way, and divide the coasts of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
4 殺人犯逃到那裏得保全性命的案件應是這樣：假使有人無意殺了鄰人，彼此又素無仇怨：
And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;
5 比如他與鄰人同去林中伐樹，當他手揮斧子伐樹時，斧頭脫了柄，落在鄰人身上，以致斃命，他就可逃到這些城中的一座城去，為保全性命，
As when a man goes into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the helve, and lights on his neighbor, that he die; he shall flee to one of those cities, and live:
6 以免報血仇者心中發火追趕殺人者，因路途遙遠，而能趕上他，將他殺死；其實他與那人素無仇怨，罪不該死。
Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
7 為此我吩咐你：應劃出三座城。
Why I command you, saying, You shall separate three cities for you.
8 當上主你的天主，照他向你的祖先誓許的，擴展了你的疆域，將許下要給你祖先的整個土地賜給你時，──
And if the LORD your God enlarge your coast, as he has sworn to your fathers, and give you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;
9 倘若你謹守遵行我今日吩咐你的這一切誡命，愛上主你的天主，日日履行他的道路，──你應在這三座城以外，另設三座城，
If you shall keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shall you add three cities more for you, beside these three:
10 免得無罪者的血，流在上主你的天主賜給你作產業的土地上，血債歸在你身上。
That innocent blood be not shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.
11 但是，如果有人懷恨自己的鄰人，埋伏突擊他，而將他殺死，然後逃到這些城中的一座，
But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and flees into one of these cities:
12 他本城的長老應派人去，將他從那裏逮回，交於報血仇者手中，將他處死；
Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
13 你不可憐視他，而應由以色列中洗除無辜的血：如此你纔能平安無事。
Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
14 在上主你的天主賜給你作產業所分得的土地上，不可移動你鄰人的地界，因為是先人所劃定的。
You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess it.
15 人無論犯了什麼不義，什麼罪惡，或什麼過錯，只憑一個見證，罪名不得成立；須憑兩個或三個見證的口供，纔可定案。
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
16 若有人懷有惡意，起來作證控告某人犯法，
If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
17 二人應一同站在上主面前，和值班的司祭及判官面前。
Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
18 判官應仔細考問。若那作證的是一個假證人，誣告自己的兄弟，
And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;
19 你就應對付他，如同他想對付自己的兄弟一樣：這樣你便由你中間剷除了這邪惡，
Then shall you do to him, as he had thought to have done to his brother: so shall you put the evil away from among you.
20 其餘的人聽了，必然害怕，在你中間再不致有這樣的惡事發生。
And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall from now on commit no more any such evil among you.
21 你不可發慈悲，要以命償命，以眼還眼，以牙還牙，以手還手，以腳還腳。
And your eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
