Deuteronomy 19
1 When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
汝の神ヱホバこの國々の民を滅し絶ち汝の神ヱホバこれが地を汝に賜ふて汝つひにこれを獲その邑々とその家々に住にいたる時は
2 then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
汝の神ヱホバの汝に與へて產業となさしめたまふ地の中に三の邑を汝のために區別べし
3 You are to build roads for yourselves and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer can flee to these cities.
而して汝これに道路を開きまた汝の神ヱホバの汝に與へて產業となさしめたまふ地の全體を三の區に分ち凡て人を殺せる者をして其處に逃れしむべし
4 Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm him:
人を殺せる者の彼處に逃れて生命を全うすべきその事は是のごとし即ち凡て素より惡むことも無く知ずしてその鄰人を殺せる者
5 If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.
例ば人木を伐んとてその鄰人とともに林に入り手に斧を執て木を斫んと撃おろす時にその頭の鐵柯より脱てその鄰人にあたりて之を死しめたるが如き是なり斯る人は是等の邑の一に逃れて生命を全うすべし
6 Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in a rage, overtake him if the distance is great, and strike him dead though he did not deserve to die, since he did not intend any harm.
恐くは復仇する者心熱してその殺人者を追かけ道路長きにおいては遂に追しきて之を殺さん然るにその人は素より之を惡みたる者にあらざれば殺さるべき理あらざるなり
7 This is why I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
是をもて我なんぢに命じて三の邑を汝のために區別べしと言り
8 And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land He promised them,
汝の神ヱホバ汝の先祖等に誓ひしごとく汝の境界を廣め汝の先祖等に與へんと言し地を盡く汝に賜ふにいたらん時
9 and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three.
即ち汝我が今日なんぢに命ずるこの一切の誡命を守りてこれを行なひ汝の神ヱホバを愛し恒にその道に歩まん時はこの三の外にまた三の邑を増加ふべし
10 Thus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.
是汝の神ヱホバの汝に與へて產業となさしめたまふ地に辜なき者の血を流すこと無らんためなり斯せずばその血汝に歸せん
11 If, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,
然どもし人その隣人を惡みて之を附覘ひ起かかり撃てその生命を傷ひて之を死しめ而してこの邑の一に逃れたる事あらば
12 the elders of his city must send for him, bring him back, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to die.
その邑の長老等人を遣て之を其處より曳きたらしめ復仇者の手にこれを付して殺さしむべし
13 You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you.
汝かれを憫み視るべからず辜なき者の血を流せる咎をイスラエルより除くべし然せば汝に福祉あらん
14 You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
汝の神ヱホバの汝に與へて獲させたまふ地の中において汝が嗣ぐところの產業に汝の先人の定めたる汝の鄰の地界を侵すべからず
15 A lone witness is not sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man, regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
何の惡にもあれ凡てその犯すところの罪は只一人の證人によりて定むべからず二人の證人の口によりまたは三人の證人の口によりてその事を定むべし
16 If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime,
もし偽妄の證人起りて某の人は惡事をなせりと言たつること有ば
17 both parties to the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD, before the priests and judges who are in office at that time.
その相爭ふ二人の者ヱホバの前に至り當時の祭司と士師の前に立べし
18 The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is proven to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,
然る時士師詳細にこれを査べ視るにその證人もし偽妄の證人にしてその兄弟にむかひて虚妄の證をなしたる者なる時は
19 you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. So you must purge the evil from among you.
汝兄弟に彼が蒙らさんと謀れる所を彼に蒙らし斯して汝らの中より惡事を除くべし
20 Then the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything so evil among you.
然せばその遺れる者等聞て畏れその後かさねて斯る惡き事を汝らの中におこなはじ
21 You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.
汝憫み視ることをすべからず生命は生命眼は眼歯は歯手は手足は足をもて償はしむべし
