申命记 19
1 “耶和华—你 神将列国之民剪除的时候，耶和华—你 神也将他们的地赐给你，你接着住他们的城邑并他们的房屋，
When the LORD your God cuts 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 就要在耶和华—你 神所赐你为业的地上分定三座城。
you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess.
3 要将耶和华—你 神使你承受为业的地分为三段；又要预备道路，使误杀人的，都可以逃到那里去。
You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land which the LORD your God causes you to inherit into three parts, that every man slayer may flee there.
4 “误杀人的逃到那里可以存活，定例乃是这样：凡素无仇恨，无心杀了人的，
This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbour unintentionally, and didn’t hate him in time past—
5 就如人与邻舍同入树林砍伐树木，手拿斧子一砍，本想砍下树木，不料，斧头脱了把，飞落在邻舍身上，以致于死，这人逃到那些城的一座城，就可以存活，
as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbour to chop wood and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbour so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live.
6 免得报血仇的，心中火热追赶他，因路远就追上，将他杀死；其实他不该死，因为他与被杀的素无仇恨。
Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer while hot anger is in his heart and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally, even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past.
7 所以我吩咐你说，要分定三座城。
Therefore I command you to set apart three cities for yourselves.
8 耶和华—你 神若照他向你列祖所起的誓扩张你的境界，将所应许赐你列祖的地全然给你，
If the LORD your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;
9 你若谨守遵行我今日所吩咐的这一切诫命，爱耶和华—你的 神，常常遵行他的道，就要在这三座城之外，再添三座城，
and if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to walk ever in his ways, then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, in addition to these three.
10 免得无辜之人的血流在耶和华—你 神所赐你为业的地上，流血的罪就归于你。
This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.
11 “若有人恨他的邻舍，埋伏着起来击杀他，以致于死，便逃到这些城的一座城，
But if any man hates his neighbour, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;
12 本城的长老就要打发人去，从那里带出他来，交在报血仇的手中，将他治死。
then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
13 你眼不可顾惜他，却要从以色列中除掉流无辜血的罪，使你可以得福。”
Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you.
14 “在耶和华—你 神所赐你承受为业之地，不可挪移你邻舍的地界，那是先人所定的。”
You shall not remove your neighbour’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.
15 “人无论犯什么罪，作什么恶，不可凭一个人的口作见证，总要凭两三个人的口作见证才可定案。
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
16 若有凶恶的见证人起来，见证某人作恶，
If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,
17 这两个争讼的人就要站在耶和华面前，和当时的祭司，并审判官面前，
then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;
18 审判官要细细地查究，若见证人果然是作假见证的，以假见证陷害弟兄，
and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother,
19 你们就要待他如同他想要待的弟兄。这样，就把那恶从你们中间除掉。
then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from amongst you.
20 别人听见都要害怕，就不敢在你们中间再行这样的恶了。
Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil amongst you.
21 你眼不可顾惜，要以命偿命，以眼还眼，以牙还牙，以手还手，以脚还脚。”
Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
