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，
When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations, those whose land Yahweh your God is giving you, and when you come after them and live in their cities and houses,
2 就要在耶和華－你上帝所賜你為業的地上分定三座城。
you must select three cities for yourself in the middle of your land that Yahweh your God is giving you to possess.
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。
You must build a road and divide the borders of your land into three parts, the land that Yahweh your God is causing you to inherit, so that everyone who kills another person may flee there.
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，
This is the law for the one who kills another and who flees there to live—anyone who kills his neighbor unintentionally, and did not previously hate him.
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，
For example, if a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his chops with the ax to cut down a tree, and the ax head slips off of the handle and strikes his neighbor and kills him—then that man must flee to one of these cities and save his life.
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。
Otherwise the avenger of blood might go after the one who took a life, and in the heat of his anger overtake him, if the distance is too great, strike him and kill him, even though that man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past.
7 所以我吩咐你說，要分定三座城。
Therefore I command you to select three cities for yourself.
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，
If Yahweh your God enlarges your borders, as he has sworn to your ancestors to do, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your ancestors;
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 you keep all these commandments to do them, which I am commanding you today—commandments to love Yahweh your God and to always walk in his ways, then you must add three more cities for yourself, besides 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。
Do this so that innocent blood is not shed in the midst of the land that Yahweh your God is giving you for as an inheritance, so that no bloodguilt may be on you.
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 anyone hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, and mortally wounds him so that he dies, and if he then flees into 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 the elders of his city must send and bring him back from there, and turn him over into the hand of the responsible relative, so that he may 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。」
Your eye must not pity him; instead, you must eradicate the bloodguilt from Israel, that it may go well with you.
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。」
You must not remove your neighbor's landmark that they set in place a long time ago, in your inheritance that you will inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you to possess.
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 sole witness must not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any matter that he sins; at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, must any matter be confirmed.
16 若有凶惡的見證人起來，見證某人作惡，
Suppose that an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing.
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 both men, the ones between whom the controversy exists, must stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who serve 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，
The judges must make diligent inquiries; see, if the witness is a false witness and has testified falsely 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 must you do to him, as he had wished to do to his brother; and you will remove the evil from among you.
20 別人聽見都要害怕，就不敢在你們中間再行這樣的惡了。
Then those who remain will hear and fear, and will from then on commit no longer any such evil among 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。」
Your eyes must not pity; life will pay for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
