Ponovljeni zakon 17
1 Ne žrtvuj Jahvi, Bogu svome, ni vola ni ovna koji bi na sebi imao manu ili kakvo zlo, jer bi to bilo ružno pred Jahvom, Bogom tvojim.
You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep in which is a defect or anything evil; for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.
2 Ako se u tvojoj sredini - u bilo kojem tvojem gradu što ti ga dade Jahve, Bog tvoj - nađe čovjek ili žena da učini što je zlo u očima Jahve, Boga tvoga, i krši njegov Savez:
If there is found amongst you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in the LORD your God’s sight in transgressing his covenant,
3 otišavši da iskazuje štovanje drugim bogovima te se pokloni njima, suncu, mjesecu ili bilo čemu od nebeske vojske, a što sam ja zabranio,
and has gone and served other gods and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded,
4 i tebi se to javi i ti to čuješ, onda pomno istraži; i bude li istina i doista se ta grozota učinila u Izraelu,
and you are told, and you have heard of it, then you shall enquire diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,
5 onda toga čovjeka ili tu ženu koji učiniše takvu opačinu izvedi na gradska vrata te ih kamenuj da poginu.
then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.
6 Na smrt osuđeni neka se pogubi na iskaz dvojice ili trojice svjedoka. Na riječ jednoga svjedoka ne smije se pogubiti.
At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
7 Neka najprije svjedoci dignu ruku na nj da ga smaknu, a poslije toga neka je digne sav narod. Tako ćeš iskorijeniti zlo iz svoje sredine.
The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from amongst you.
8 Bude li ti preteško štogod rasuditi: ubojstvo, sukob o pravima, kakvu ozljedu ili svađu u tvome gradu, tada ustani i pođi u mjesto što ga odabere Jahve, Bog tvoj.
If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgement, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses.
9 Obrati se svećenicima, levitima i sucu koji bude za ono vrijeme. Njih pitaj, oni će ti rasuditi.
You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall enquire, and they shall give you the verdict.
10 I učini onako kako ti budu kazali u mjestu koje Jahve odabere. Pazi: sve učini kako te upute.
You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which the LORD chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you.
11 Uradi prema uputi koju ti dadnu i prema presudi koju donesu. Od presude koju ti kažu ne odstupaj ni desno ni lijevo.
According to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgement which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
12 Ako bi se tko drsko odupro i ne bi poslušao ni svećenika koji ondje stoji da služi Jahvi, Bogu tvome, ni suca, neka se taj čovjek pogubi. Tako ćeš iskorijeniti zlo iz Izraela,
The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.
13 a sav će se narod, kad sazna, bojati i više se neće drsko odupirati.
All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
14 Kad stigneš u zemlju koju ti Jahve, Bog tvoj, daje; kad je zaposjedneš i u njoj se nastaniš, pa onda kažeš: 'Želim da nad sobom postavim kralja, kako ga imaju svi drugi narodi oko mene' -
When you have come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,”
15 tada ćeš onoga koga Jahve, Bog tvoj, odabere, sebi postaviti za kralja. Nekoga od svoje braće postavi sebi za kralja, a ne smiješ postavljati nad sobom tuđina koji ti nije brat.
you shall surely set him whom the LORD your God chooses as king over yourselves. You shall set as king over you one from amongst your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
16 Samo neka ne drži mnogo konja i ne šalje naroda u Egipat da poveća broj konja. Jer vam je Jahve rekao: 'Ovim se putem nikada više ne vraćajte!'
Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because the LORD has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”
17 I neka nema mnogo žena da mu srce ne pođe stranputicom; i neka sebi ne gomila srebra ni zlata!
He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
18 A kad sjedne na kraljevsko prijestolje, neka sebi na svitak prepiše ovaj Zakon od svećenika Levijevaca.
It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.
19 Neka ga drži uza se; neka ga čita sve vrijeme svoga života da nauči bojati se Jahve, Boga svoga, držati sve riječi ovoga Zakona i vršiti ove odredbe;
It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
20 da se svojim srcem ne uzdigne iznad svoje braće i da ne skrene od ove zapovijedi ni desno ni lijevo, kako bi dugo kraljevao, on i sinovi njegovi, u Izraelu.
that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.
