Deuteronomy 21
1 And if one be found slain with the sword in the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, having fallen in the field, and they do not know who has struck [him];
如果上主你的天主賜給你作產業的地方，發現有人被殺，曝屍原野，卻不知道是誰殺了他，
2 your elders and your judges shall come forth, and shall measure the distances of the cities round about the slain man:
你的長老和官長應出來，從被殺者測量到四周各城，
3 and it shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not laboured, and which has not borne a yoke.
看那一座城離被殺者最近；然後這城的長老應牽來一頭尚未耕作，尚未負軛的母牛犢。
4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer into a rough valley, which has not been tilled and is not sown, and they shall kill the heifer in the valley.
這城的長老應把母牛犢牽到尚未耕耘播種的地方，靠近常流的溪水旁，就在那溪水上砍斷母牛瀆的頸。
5 And the priests the Levites shall come, because the Lord God has chosen them to stand by him, and to bless in his name, and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be [decided].
肋未的子孫司祭們應上前來，因為上主你的天主揀選了他們為事奉自己，因上主之名頒賜祝福，所以一切爭論毆打的事，都應憑他們的裁判來決斷。
6 And all the elders of that city who draw near to the slain man shall wash their hands over the head of the heifer which was slain in the valley;
那離被殺者最近城市的長老，都應用溪水在被砍斷頸項的母牛犢身上洗手，
7 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen [it].
同時聲明說：「這血不是我們的手流的，我們的眼也沒有看見。
8 Be merciful to your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, O Lord, that innocent blood may not be charged on your people Israel: and the blood shall be atoned for to them.
上主! 求你赦免你所救贖的以色列人民，不要讓這流無辜血的罪債，留在你以色列人民中間。」這樣他們算是贖了流血的罪。
9 And you shall take away innocent blood from amongst you, if you should do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord your God.
你由你中間也除去了流無辜血的罪，因為你行了上主眼中視為正直的事。
10 And if when you go out to war against your enemies, the Lord your God should deliver them into your hands, and you should take their spoil,
當你出征進攻你的敵人時，上主你的天主將他們交在你手中，你獲得了一些俘虜；
11 and should see amongst the spoil a woman beautiful in countenance, and should desire her, and take her to yourself for a wife,
你若在俘虜中看見了一個容貌美好的女人，對她愛戀不捨，願娶她為妻，
12 and should bring her within your house: then shall you shave her head, and pare her nails;
你可帶她到你家中，叫她剃去頭髮，剪短指甲，
13 and shall take away her garments of captivity from off her, and she shall abide in your house, and shall bewail her father and mother the days of a month; and afterwards you shall go in to her and dwell with her, and she shall be your wife.
脫去自己被擄時所穿的衣服，住在你家裏，哀悼她的父母一個月；然後，你纔能親近她：你做她的丈夫，她做你的妻子。
14 And it shall be if you do not delight in her, you shall send her out free; and she shall not by any means be sold for money, you shall not treat her contemptuously, because you have humbled her.
以後如果你不喜歡她，應讓她隨意離去，決不能將她賣錢，也不能以她為奴，因為你曾玷污了她。
15 And if a man have two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and both the loved and the hated should have born him [children], and the son of the hated should be firstborn;
一人如有兩妻，一為所愛，一為所惡，所愛所惡的，都給他生了兒子；但是長子卻是他所惡的妻子生的，
16 then it shall be that whenever he shall divide by inheritance his goods to his sons, he shall not be able to give the right of the firstborn to the son of the loved one, having overlooked the son of the hated, which is the firstborn.
在他將自己的產業分給他的兒子的那一天，不能將愛妻的兒子視作長子，而廢棄所惡妻子所生的長子；
17 But he shall acknowledge the firstborn of the hated one to give to him double of all things which shall be found by him, because he is the first of his children, and to him belongs the birthright.
必須承認所惡妻子的兒子為長子，將所有的產業，多分給他一份，因為他是自己壯年時的首生子，應獲得長子的權利。
18 And if any man has a disobedient and contentious son, who hearkens not to the voice of his father and the voice of his mother, and they should correct him, and he should not listen to them;
人若有一個忤逆不孝的兒子，不聽從父母的勸告，責罰他以後仍不聽從，
19 then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him forth to the elders of his city, and to the gate of the place:
父母就該將他捉住，帶到當地的城門前，見本城的長老，
20 and they shall say to the men of their city, This our son is disobedient and contentious, he hearkens not to our voice, he is a reveler and a drunkard.
對本城的長老說：「我們這個兒子忤逆不孝，不聽我們的勸告，是個放蕩的酒徒。」
21 And the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall die; and you shall remove the evil one from yourselves, and the rest shall hear and fear.
本城的眾人就應用石頭將他砸死：這樣由你中間剷除了這邪惡，每個以色列人聽了，必然害怕。
22 And if there be sin in any one, [and] the judgement of death [be upon him], and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree:
若人犯了該死的罪，處死以後，應將他懸在木桿上，
23 his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall by all means bury it in that day; for every one that is hanged on a tree is cursed of God; and you shall by no means defile the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.
但不可讓他的屍體在木桿上過夜，應在當天將他埋葬。因為凡被懸者，是天主所咒罵的；你不可玷污上主你的天主所賜給你作產業的土地。
