Deuteronomy 19
1 “When the Lord your God will have destroyed the nations, whose land he will deliver to you, and when you possess it and live in its cities and buildings,
當上主你天主消滅了那些異民，上主你的天主將他們的土地賜給了你，而你佔領了那地，住在他們的城鎮和房屋裏以後，
2 you shall separate for yourselves three cities in the midst of the land, which the Lord will give to you as a possession,
應在上主你的天主賜給你作產業的地方，劃出三座城，
3 paving the road carefully. And you shall divide the entire province of your land equally into three parts, so that he who is forced to flee because of manslaughter may have a place nearby to which he may be able to escape.
修好到那裏去的道路，將上主你的天主給你作產業的地方，分為三個區域，這樣使殺了人的，可逃到那裏去。
4 This shall be the law of the killer who flees, whose life is to be saved. Whoever strikes down his neighbor unwillingly, and who has been proven to have had no hatred against him yesterday and the day before,
殺人犯逃到那裏得保全性命的案件應是這樣：假使有人無意殺了鄰人，彼此又素無仇怨：
5 such that he had gone with him into the forest simply to cut wood, and in cutting down the tree, the axe slipped from his hand, or the iron slipped from the handle, and it struck his friend and killed him: he shall flee to one of the cities stated above, and he shall live.
比如他與鄰人同去林中伐樹，當他手揮斧子伐樹時，斧頭脫了柄，落在鄰人身上，以致斃命，他就可逃到這些城中的一座城去，為保全性命，
6 Otherwise, perhaps the near relative of him whose blood was shed, impelled by his grief, might pursue and apprehend him, unless the way is too long, and he might strike down the life of him who is not guilty unto death, since he had demonstrated that he had no prior hatred against him who was slain.
以免報血仇者心中發火追趕殺人者，因路途遙遠，而能趕上他，將他殺死；其實他與那人素無仇怨，罪不該死。
7 For this reason, I instruct you to separate three cities at equal distance from one another.
為此我吩咐你：應劃出三座城。
8 And when the Lord your God will have enlarged your borders, just as he swore to your fathers, and when he will have given to you all the land that he has promised to them,
當上主你的天主，照他向你的祖先誓許的，擴展了你的疆域，將許下要給你祖先的整個土地賜給你時，──
9 (but this is only so if you will keep his commandments and do the things which I instruct to you this day, so that you love the Lord your God, and walk in his ways at all times) you shall add for yourselves three other cities, and so you shall double the number of the three cities stated above.
倘若你謹守遵行我今日吩咐你的這一切誡命，愛上主你的天主，日日履行他的道路，──你應在這三座城以外，另設三座城，
10 So may innocent blood not be shed in the midst of the land which the Lord your God will give you to possess, lest you be guilty of blood.
免得無罪者的血，流在上主你的天主賜給你作產業的土地上，血債歸在你身上。
11 But if anyone, having hatred for his neighbor, will have lain in ambush for his life, and, rising up, will have struck him, and he will have died, and if he will have fled to one of the cities stated above,
但是，如果有人懷恨自己的鄰人，埋伏突擊他，而將他殺死，然後逃到這些城中的一座，
12 the elders of his city shall send, and they shall take him from the place of refuge, and they shall deliver him into the hand of the relative of him whose blood was shed, and he shall die.
他本城的長老應派人去，將他從那裏逮回，交於報血仇者手中，將他處死；
13 You shall not take pity on him, and so shall you take away the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may be well with you.
你不可憐視他，而應由以色列中洗除無辜的血：如此你纔能平安無事。
14 You shall not take up or move the landmark of your neighbor, which those before you have placed, in your possession that the Lord your God will give to you, in the land you will receive to possess.
在上主你的天主賜給你作產業所分得的土地上，不可移動你鄰人的地界，因為是先人所劃定的。
15 One witness shall not stand against another, no matter what the sin or outrage may be. For every word shall stand by the mouth of two or three witnesses.
人無論犯了什麼不義，什麼罪惡，或什麼過錯，只憑一個見證，罪名不得成立；須憑兩個或三個見證的口供，纔可定案。
16 If a lying witness will have stood against a man, accusing him of a transgression,
若有人懷有惡意，起來作證控告某人犯法，
17 both of those whose case it is shall stand before the Lord in the sight of the priests and the judges who shall be in those days.
二人應一同站在上主面前，和值班的司祭及判官面前。
18 And when, after a very diligent examination, they will have found that the false witness had told a lie against his brother,
判官應仔細考問。若那作證的是一個假證人，誣告自己的兄弟，
19 they shall render to him just as he intended to do to his brother. And so shall you take away the evil from your midst.
你就應對付他，如同他想對付自己的兄弟一樣：這樣你便由你中間剷除了這邪惡，
20 Then the others, upon hearing this, will be afraid, and they will by no means dare to do such things.
其餘的人聽了，必然害怕，在你中間再不致有這樣的惡事發生。
21 You shall not take pity on him. Instead, you shall require a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot.”
你不可發慈悲，要以命償命，以眼還眼，以牙還牙，以手還手，以腳還腳。
