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];
“在耶和华—你 神所赐你为业的地上，若遇见被杀的人倒在田野，不知道是谁杀的，
2 your elders and your judges shall come forth, and shall measure the distances of the cities round about the slain man:
长老和审判官就要出去，从被杀的人那里量起，直量到四围的城邑，
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.
看哪城离被杀的人最近，那城的长老就要从牛群中取一只未曾耕地、未曾负轭的母牛犊，
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.
把母牛犊牵到流水、未曾耕种的山谷去，在谷中打折母牛犊的颈项。
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].
祭司利未的子孙要近前来；因为耶和华—你的 神拣选了他们事奉他，奉耶和华的名祝福，所有争讼殴打的事都要凭他们判断。
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;
那城的众长老，就是离被杀的人最近的，要在那山谷中，在所打折颈项的母牛犊以上洗手，
7 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen [it].
祷告说：‘我们的手未曾流这人的血；我们的眼也未曾看见这事。
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.
耶和华啊，求你赦免你所救赎的以色列民，不要使流无辜血的罪归在你的百姓以色列中间。’这样，流血的罪必得赦免。
9 And you shall take away innocent blood from among you, if you should do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord your God.
你行耶和华眼中看为正的事，就可以从你们中间除掉流无辜血的罪。”
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,
“你出去与仇敌争战的时候，耶和华—你的 神将他们交在你手中，你就掳了他们去。
11 and should see among the spoil a woman beautiful in countenance, and should desire her, and take her to yourself for a wife,
若在被掳的人中见有美貌的女子，恋慕她，要娶她为妻，
12 and should bring her within your house: then shall you shave her head, and pare her nails;
就可以领她到你家里去；她便要剃头发，修指甲，
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.
脱去被掳时所穿的衣服，住在你家里哀哭父母一个整月，然后可以与她同房。你作她的丈夫，她作你的妻子。
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.
后来你若不喜悦她，就要由她随意出去，决不可为钱卖她，也不可当婢女待她，因为你玷污了她。”
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;
“人若有二妻，一为所爱，一为所恶，所爱的、所恶的都给他生了儿子，但长子是所恶之妻生的。
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.
到了把产业分给儿子承受的时候，不可将所爱之妻生的儿子立为长子，在所恶之妻生的儿子以上，
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.
却要认所恶之妻生的儿子为长子，将产业多加一分给他；因这儿子是他力量强壮的时候生的，长子的名分本当归他。”
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;
“人若有顽梗悖逆的儿子，不听从父母的话，他们虽惩治他，他仍不听从，
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:
父母就要抓住他，将他带到本地的城门、本城的长老那里，
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.
对长老说：‘我们这儿子顽梗悖逆，不听从我们的话，是贪食好酒的人。’
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.
本城的众人就要用石头将他打死。这样，就把那恶从你们中间除掉，以色列众人都要听见害怕。”
22 And if there be sin in any one, [and] the judgment of death [be upon him], and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree:
“人若犯该死的罪，被治死了，你将他挂在木头上，
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.
他的尸首不可留在木头上过夜，必要当日将他葬埋，免得玷污了耶和华—你 神所赐你为业之地。因为被挂的人是在 神面前受咒诅的。
