申命記 21
1 「在耶和華－你上帝所賜你為業的地上，若遇見被殺的人倒在田野，不知道是誰殺的，
If someone is found killed in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you to possess, lying in the field, and it is not known who has attacked him;
2 長老和審判官就要出去，從被殺的人那裏量起，直量到四圍的城邑，
then your elders and your judges must go out, and they must measure to the cities that are around him who has been killed.
3 看哪城離被殺的人最近，那城的長老就要從牛群中取一隻未曾耕地、未曾負軛的母牛犢，
Then the elders of the town nearest to the dead man's body must take a heifer from the herd, one that has never been put to work, and that has not borne the yoke.
4 把母牛犢牽到流水、未曾耕種的山谷去，在谷中打折母牛犢的頸項。
Then they must lead the heifer down to a valley with running water, a valley that has been neither plowed nor sown, and there in the valley they must break the heifer's neck.
5 祭司利未的子孫要近前來；因為耶和華－你的上帝揀選了他們事奉他，奉耶和華的名祝福，所有爭訟毆打的事都要憑他們判斷。
The priests, descendants of Levi, must come forward, for Yahweh your God has chosen them to serve him and give blessing in the name of Yahweh and to decide every case of dispute and assault by their word.
6 那城的眾長老，就是離被殺的人最近的，要在那山谷中，在所打折頸項的母牛犢以上洗手，
All the elders of the city that is the nearest to the killed man must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;
7 禱告說：『我們的手未曾流這人的血；我們的眼也未曾看見這事。
and they must answer to the case and say, 'Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
8 耶和華啊，求你赦免你所救贖的以色列民，不要使流無辜血的罪歸在你的百姓以色列中間。』這樣，流血的罪必得赦免。
Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and do not put guilt for innocent bloodshed in the midst of your people Israel.' Then the bloodshed will be forgiven them.
9 你行耶和華眼中看為正的事，就可以從你們中間除掉流無辜血的罪。」
In this way you will put away the innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
10 「你出去與仇敵爭戰的時候，耶和華－你的上帝將他們交在你手中，你就擄了他們去。
When you go out to do battle against your enemies and Yahweh your God gives you victory and puts them under your control, and you take them away as captives,
11 若在被擄的人中見有美貌的女子，戀慕她，要娶她為妻，
if you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire for her and wish to take her for yourself as a wife,
12 就可以領她到你家裏去；她便要剃頭髮，修指甲，
then you will bring her home to your house; she will shave her head and cut her nails.
13 脫去被擄時所穿的衣服，住在你家裏哀哭父母一個整月，然後可以與她同房。你作她的丈夫，她作你的妻子。
Then she will take off the clothes she was wearing when she was taken captive and she will remain in your house and mourn for her father and her mother a full month. After that you may sleep with her and be her husband, and she will be your wife.
14 後來你若不喜悅她，就要由她隨意出去，決不可為錢賣她，也不可當婢女待她，因為你玷污了她。」
But if you take no delight in her, then you may let her go where she wishes. But you must not sell her at all for money, and you must not treat her like a slave, because you have humiliated her.
15 「人若有二妻，一為所愛，一為所惡，所愛的、所惡的都給他生了兒子，但長子是所惡之妻生的。
If a man has two wives and one is loved and the other is hated, and they have both borne him children—both the beloved wife and the hated wife—if the firstborn son is of her that is hated,
16 到了把產業分給兒子承受的時候，不可將所愛之妻生的兒子立為長子，在所惡之妻生的兒子以上，
then on the day that the man causes his sons to inherit what he possesses, he may not make the son of the beloved wife the firstborn before the son of the hated wife, the son who is actually the firstborn.
17 卻要認所惡之妻生的兒子為長子，將產業多加一分給他；因這兒子是他力量強壯的時候生的，長子的名分本當歸他。」
Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated wife, by giving him a double portion of all that he possesses; for that son is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.
18 「人若有頑梗悖逆的兒子，不聽從父母的話，他們雖懲治他，他仍不聽從，
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, even though they correct him, will not listen to them;
19 父母就要抓住他，將他帶到本地的城門、本城的長老那裏，
then his father and his mother must lay hold on him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his city.
20 對長老說：『我們這兒子頑梗悖逆，不聽從我們的話，是貪食好酒的人。』
They must say to the elders of his city, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.'
21 本城的眾人就要用石頭將他打死。這樣，就把那惡從你們中間除掉，以色列眾人都要聽見害怕。」
Then all the men of his city must stone him to death with stones; and you will remove the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and fear.
22 「人若犯該死的罪，被治死了，你將他掛在木頭上，
If a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
23 他的屍首不可留在木頭上過夜，必要當日將他葬埋，免得玷污了耶和華－你上帝所賜你為業之地。因為被掛的人是在上帝面前受咒詛的。
then his body must not remain all night on the tree. Instead, you must surely bury him the same day; for whoever is hanged is cursed by God. Obey this commandment so that you do not defile the land that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance.
