申命記 21
1 如果上主你的天主賜給你作產業的地方，發現有人被殺，曝屍原野，卻不知道是誰殺了他，
Someone may be found murdered, lying in a field in the country that the Lord your God is giving you to own, and nobody knows who killed them.
2 你的長老和官長應出來，從被殺者測量到四周各城，
Your elders and judges must come and measure the distance from the body to the surrounding towns.
3 看那一座城離被殺者最近；然後這城的長老應牽來一頭尚未耕作，尚未負軛的母牛犢。
Then the elders of the town that's found to be nearest to the body shall take a cow that has never been put under a yoke or used for work.
4 這城的長老應把母牛犢牽到尚未耕耘播種的地方，靠近常流的溪水旁，就在那溪水上砍斷母牛瀆的頸。
Take the cow to a valley that has a stream running through it and whose ground has never been plowed or sown. Break the cow's neck there beside the stream.
5 肋未的子孫司祭們應上前來，因為上主你的天主揀選了他們為事奉自己，因上主之名頒賜祝福，所以一切爭論毆打的事，都應憑他們的裁判來決斷。
The Levitical priests must be there too, because the Lord your God has chosen them to serve him and to give blessings in his name, and to decide on legal disputes and cases of assault.
6 那離被殺者最近城市的長老，都應用溪水在被砍斷頸項的母牛犢身上洗手，
Then all the elders of the town nearest the body are to wash their hands in the stream over the dead cow, saying,
7 同時聲明說：「這血不是我們的手流的，我們的眼也沒有看見。
“We had nothing to do with this murder, and we didn't see who did it.
8 上主! 求你赦免你所救贖的以色列人民，不要讓這流無辜血的罪債，留在你以色列人民中間。」這樣他們算是贖了流血的罪。
Lord, please forgive your people Israel who you rescued, and do not hold them guilty of shedding of innocent blood In this way the guilt for shedding blood will be forgiven.”
9 你由你中間也除去了流無辜血的罪，因為你行了上主眼中視為正直的事。
This is how you are to remove from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the Lord's sight.
10 當你出征進攻你的敵人時，上主你的天主將他們交在你手中，你獲得了一些俘虜；
When you go to war with your enemies and the Lord your God hands them over to you in defeat, and you capture them,
11 你若在俘虜中看見了一個容貌美好的女人，對她愛戀不捨，願娶她為妻，
you may see that one of them is a beautiful woman who you like and want to marry.
12 你可帶她到你家中，叫她剃去頭髮，剪短指甲，
Take her home and have her shave her head, cut her nails,
13 脫去自己被擄時所穿的衣服，住在你家裏，哀悼她的父母一個月；然後，你纔能親近她：你做她的丈夫，她做你的妻子。
and get rid of the clothes she was wearing when she was captured. After she has lived in your home and has finished her month of mourning for her father and mother, you may sleep with her and marry her, and she shall be your wife.
14 以後如果你不喜歡她，應讓她隨意離去，決不能將她賣錢，也不能以她為奴，因為你曾玷污了她。
However, if you are not happy with her, you must let her leave and go wherever she wants. You are not allowed to sell her for money or treat her like a slave, because you have brought shame on her.
15 一人如有兩妻，一為所愛，一為所惡，所愛所惡的，都給他生了兒子；但是長子卻是他所惡的妻子生的，
If a man has two wives, one he loves and one he doesn't, and both have sons by him, but the firstborn son is from the wife he doesn't love,
16 在他將自己的產業分給他的兒子的那一天，不能將愛妻的兒子視作長子，而廢棄所惡妻子所生的長子；
when the time comes for the man to decide what each son will inherit from him, he must not prefer the son of wife he loves and treat him as the firstborn instead of the son of the wife he doesn't love.
17 必須承認所惡妻子的兒子為長子，將所有的產業，多分給他一份，因為他是自己壯年時的首生子，應獲得長子的權利。
No. He is to recognize the firstborn, the son of the wife he doesn't love through the usual custom of giving him a double portion of all that he owns. The firstborn son is the firstfruits of his father's strength, and so the rights of the firstborn are his.
18 人若有一個忤逆不孝的兒子，不聽從父母的勸告，責罰他以後仍不聽從，
If someone has a obstinate and rebellious son who doesn't obey his parents and doesn't obey them even when he's punished,
19 父母就該將他捉住，帶到當地的城門前，見本城的長老，
his parents must take him to the town elders, to the court in his hometown,
20 對本城的長老說：「我們這個兒子忤逆不孝，不聽我們的勸告，是個放蕩的酒徒。」
and tell them, “Our son is obstinate and rebellious, He doesn't obey us. He's a worthless drunk!”
21 本城的眾人就應用石頭將他砸死：這樣由你中間剷除了這邪惡，每個以色列人聽了，必然害怕。
Then all the men of his home town will stone him to death. You must eliminate the evil from among you, and every Israelite will hear about it and be afraid.
22 若人犯了該死的罪，處死以後，應將他懸在木桿上，
If someone commits a crime punishable by death, and the person is executed by hanging on a tree,
23 但不可讓他的屍體在木桿上過夜，應在當天將他埋葬。因為凡被懸者，是天主所咒罵的；你不可玷污上主你的天主所賜給你作產業的土地。
don't leave the body hanging there overnight. Make sure you bury the body the same day, because anyone who is hung is under God's curse. Don't defile the country that the Lord your God is giving you to own.
