Deuteronomy 19
1 And when the Lord your God shall have destroyed the nations, which God gives you, [even] the land, and you shall inherit them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses,
“耶和华—你 神将列国之民剪除的时候，耶和华—你 神也将他们的地赐给你，你接着住他们的城邑并他们的房屋，
2 you shall separate for yourself three cities in the midst of your land, which the Lord your God gives you.
就要在耶和华—你 神所赐你为业的地上分定三座城。
3 Take a survey of your way, and you shall divide the coasts of your land, which the Lord your God apportions to you, into three parts, and there shall be there a refuge for every manslayer.
要将耶和华—你 神使你承受为业的地分为三段；又要预备道路，使误杀人的，都可以逃到那里去。
4 And this shall be the ordinance of the manslayer, who shall flee there, and shall live, whoever shall have struck his neighbor ignorantly, whereas he hated him not in times past.
“误杀人的逃到那里可以存活，定例乃是这样：凡素无仇恨，无心杀了人的，
5 And whoever shall enter with his neighbor into the thicket, to gather wood, if the hand of him that cuts wood with the axe should be violently shaken, and the axe head falling off from the handle should light on his neighbor, and he should die, he shall flee to one of these cities, and live.
就如人与邻舍同入树林砍伐树木，手拿斧子一砍，本想砍下树木，不料，斧头脱了把，飞落在邻舍身上，以致于死，这人逃到那些城的一座城，就可以存活，
6 Lest the avenger of blood pursue after the slayer, because his heart is hot, and overtake him, if the way be too long, and kill him, though there is to this man no sentence of death, because he hated him not in time past.
免得报血仇的，心中火热追赶他，因路远就追上，将他杀死；其实他不该死，因为他与被杀的素无仇恨。
7 Therefore I charge you, saying, You shall separate for your self three cities.
所以我吩咐你说，要分定三座城。
8 And if the Lord shall enlarge your borders, as he sware to your fathers, and the Lord shall give to you all the land which he said he would give to your fathers;
耶和华—你 神若照他向你列祖所起的誓扩张你的境界，将所应许赐你列祖的地全然给你，
9 if you shall listen to do all these commands, which I charge you this day, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways continually; you shall add for yourself yet three cities to these three.
你若谨守遵行我今日所吩咐的这一切诫命，爱耶和华—你的 神，常常遵行他的道，就要在这三座城之外，再添三座城，
10 So innocent blood shall not be spilt in the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, and there shall not be in you one guilty of blood.
免得无辜之人的血流在耶和华—你 神所赐你为业的地上，流血的罪就归于你。
11 But if there should be in you a man hating his neighbor, and he should lay wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him, that he die, and he should flee to one of these cities,
“若有人恨他的邻舍，埋伏着起来击杀他，以致于死，便逃到这些城的一座城，
12 then shall the elders of his city send, and take him thence, and they shall deliver him into the hands of the avengers of blood, and he shall die.
本城的长老就要打发人去，从那里带出他来，交在报血仇的手中，将他治死。
13 Your eye shall not spare him; so shall you purge innocent blood from Israel, and it shall be well with you.
你眼不可顾惜他，却要从以色列中除掉流无辜血的罪，使你可以得福。”
14 You shall not move the landmarks of your neighbor, which your fathers set in the inheritance, in which you have obtained a share in the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit.
“在耶和华—你 神所赐你承受为业之地，不可挪移你邻舍的地界，那是先人所定的。”
15 One witness shall not stand to testify against a man for any iniquity, or for any fault, or for any sin which he may commit; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, shall every word be established.
“人无论犯什么罪，作什么恶，不可凭一个人的口作见证，总要凭两三个人的口作见证才可定案。
16 And if an unjust witness rise up against a man, alleging iniquity against him;
若有凶恶的见证人起来，见证某人作恶，
17 then shall the two men between whom the controversy is, stand before the Lord, and before the priests, and before the judges, who may be in those days.
这两个争讼的人就要站在耶和华面前，和当时的祭司，并审判官面前，
18 And the judges shall make diligent inquiry, and, behold, [if] and unjust witness has borne unjust testimony; [and] has stood up against his brother;
审判官要细细地查究，若见证人果然是作假见证的，以假见证陷害弟兄，
19 then shall you do to him as he wickedly devised to do against his brother, and you shall remove the evil from yourselves.
你们就要待他如同他想要待的弟兄。这样，就把那恶从你们中间除掉。
20 And the rest shall hear and fear, and do no more according to this evil thing in the midst of you.
别人听见都要害怕，就不敢在你们中间再行这样的恶了。
21 Your eye shall not spare him: [you shall exact] life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
你眼不可顾惜，要以命偿命，以眼还眼，以牙还牙，以手还手，以脚还脚。”
