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 Jehovah thy God doth cut off the nations, whose land Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, and thou hast succeeded them, and dwelt 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，
three cities thou dost separate for thee in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee 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。
Thou dost prepare for thee the way, and hast divided into three parts the border of thy land which Jehovah thy God doth cause thee to inherit, and it hath been for the fleeing thither of every man-slayer.
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 matter of the man-slayer who fleeth thither, and hath lived: He who smiteth his neighbour unknowingly, and is not hating him heretofore,
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，
even he who cometh in with his neighbour into a forest to hew wood, and his hand hath driven with an axe to cut the tree, and the iron hath slipped from the wood, and hath met his neighbour, and he hath died — he doth flee unto one of these cities, and hath lived,
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 redeemer of blood pursue after the man-slayer when his heart is hot, and hath overtaken him (because the way is great), and hath smitten him — the life, and he hath no sentence of death, for he is not hating him heretofore;
7 為此我吩咐你：應劃出三座城。
therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Three cities thou dost separate to thee.
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 Jehovah thy God doth enlarge thy border, as He hath sworn to thy fathers, and hath given to thee all the land which He hath spoken to give to thy 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，
when thou keepest all this command to do it, which I am commanding thee to-day, to love Jehovah thy God, and to walk in His ways all the days — then thou hast added to thee yet three cities to 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。
and innocent blood is not shed in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee — an inheritance, and there hath been upon thee blood.
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，
'And when a man is hating his neighbour, and hath lain in wait for him, and risen against him, and smitten him — the life, and he hath died, and he hath fled unto 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 have sent and taken him from thence, and given him into the hand of the redeemer of blood, and he hath died;
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。
thine eye hath no pity on him, and thou hast put away the innocent blood from Israel, and it is well with thee.
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。
'Thou dost not remove a border of thy neighbour, which they of former times have made, in thine inheritance, which thou dost inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee 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 doth not rise against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin which he sinneth; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, is a thing established.
16 若有人懷有惡意，起來作證控告某人犯法，
'When a violent witness doth rise against a man, to testify against him apostasy,
17 二人應一同站在上主面前，和值班的司祭及判官面前。
then have both the men who have the strife stood before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges who are 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 have searched diligently, and lo, the witness [is] a false witness, a falsehood he hath testified 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 ye have done to him as he devised to do to his brother, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst,
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 who are left do hear and fear, and add not to do any more according to this evil thing in thy midst;
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 thine eye doth not pity — life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
