申命記 19

1 「耶和華－你上帝將列國之民剪除的時候，耶和華－你上帝也將他們的地賜給你，你接着住他們的城邑並他們的房屋，

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

2 就要在耶和華－你上帝所賜你為業的地上分定三座城。

thou shalt separate for thyself three cities in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God gives thee.

3 要將耶和華－你上帝使你承受為業的地分為三段；又要預備道路，使誤殺人的，都可以逃到那裏去。

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

4 「誤殺人的逃到那裏可以存活，定例乃是這樣：凡素無仇恨，無心殺了人的，

And this shall be the ordinance of the manslayer, who shall flee thither, and shall live, whosoever shall have smitten his neighbour ignorantly, whereas he hated him not in times past.

5 就如人與鄰舍同入樹林砍伐樹木，手拿斧子一砍，本想砍下樹木，不料，斧頭脫了把，飛落在鄰舍身上，以致於死，這人逃到那些城的一座城，就可以存活，

And whosoever shall enter with his neighbour 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 neighbour, and he should die, he shall flee to one of these cities, and live.

6 免得報血仇的，心中火熱追趕他，因路遠就追上，將他殺死；其實他不該死，因為他與被殺的素無仇恨。

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

7 所以我吩咐你說，要分定三座城。

Therefore I charge thee, saying, Thou shalt separate for thy self three cities.

8 耶和華－你上帝若照他向你列祖所起的誓擴張你的境界，將所應許賜你列祖的地全然給你，

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

9 你若謹守遵行我今日所吩咐的這一切誡命，愛耶和華－你的上帝，常常遵行他的道，就要在這三座城之外，再添三座城，

if thou shalt hearken to do all these commands, which I charge thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways continually; thou shalt add for thyself yet three cities to these three.

10 免得無辜之人的血流在耶和華－你上帝所賜你為業的地上，流血的罪就歸於你。

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

11 「若有人恨他的鄰舍，埋伏着起來擊殺他，以致於死，便逃到這些城的一座城，

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

12 本城的長老就要打發人去，從那裏帶出他來，交在報血仇的手中，將他治死。

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 你眼不可顧惜他，卻要從以色列中除掉流無辜血的罪，使你可以得福。」

Thine eye shall not spare him; so shalt thou purge innocent blood from Israel, and it shall be well with thee.

14 「在耶和華－你上帝所賜你承受為業之地，不可挪移你鄰舍的地界，那是先人所定的。」

Thou shalt not move the landmarks of thy neighbour, which thy fathers set in the inheritance, in which thou hast obtained a share in the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit.

15 「人無論犯甚麼罪，作甚麼惡，不可憑一個人的口作見證，總要憑兩三個人的口作見證才可定案。

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 若有凶惡的見證人起來，見證某人作惡，

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

17 這兩個爭訟的人就要站在耶和華面前，和當時的祭司，並審判官面前，

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 審判官要細細地查究，若見證人果然是作假見證的，以假見證陷害弟兄，

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 你們就要待他如同他想要待的弟兄。這樣，就把那惡從你們中間除掉。

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

20 別人聽見都要害怕，就不敢在你們中間再行這樣的惡了。

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

21 你眼不可顧惜，要以命償命，以眼還眼，以牙還牙，以手還手，以腳還腳。」

Thine eye shall not spare him: [thou shalt exact] life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.