Deuteronomy 17
1 “You do not sacrifice to your God YHWH ox or sheep in which there is a blemish—any bad thing; for it [is] an abomination [to] your God YHWH.
Ne žrtvuj Jahvi, Bogu svome, ni vola ni ovna koji bi na sebi imao manu ili kakvo zlo, jer bi to bilo ružno pred Jahvom, Bogom tvojim.
2 When there is found in your midst, in one of your cities which your God YHWH is giving to you, a man or a woman who does evil in the eyes of your God YHWH by transgressing His covenant,
Ako se u tvojoj sredini - u bilo kojem tvojem gradu što ti ga dade Jahve, Bog tvoj - nađe čovjek ili žena da učini što je zlo u očima Jahve, Boga tvoga, i krši njegov Savez:
3 and he goes and serves other gods, and bows himself to them, and to the sun, or to the moon, or to any of the host of the heavens, which I have not commanded,
otišavši da iskazuje štovanje drugim bogovima te se pokloni njima, suncu, mjesecu ili bilo čemu od nebeske vojske, a što sam ja zabranio,
4 and it has been declared to you, and you have heard, and have searched diligently, and behold, [if] truth, the thing is established; this abomination has been done in Israel—
i tebi se to javi i ti to čuješ, onda pomno istraži; i bude li istina i doista se ta grozota učinila u Izraelu,
5 then you have brought out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing, to your gates—the man or the woman—and you have stoned them with stones, and they have died.
onda toga čovjeka ili tu ženu koji učiniše takvu opačinu izvedi na gradska vrata te ih kamenuj da poginu.
6 By the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses is he who is being put to death put to death; he is not put to death by the mouth of one witness;
Na smrt osuđeni neka se pogubi na iskaz dvojice ili trojice svjedoka. Na riječ jednoga svjedoka ne smije se pogubiti.
7 the hand of the witnesses is on him in the first place to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last; and you have put away evil out of your midst.
Neka najprije svjedoci dignu ruku na nj da ga smaknu, a poslije toga neka je digne sav narod. Tako ćeš iskorijeniti zlo iz svoje sredine.
8 When anything is too hard for you for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke—matters of strife within your gates—then you have risen and gone up to the place on which your God YHWH fixes,
Bude li ti preteško štogod rasuditi: ubojstvo, sukob o pravima, kakvu ozljedu ili svađu u tvome gradu, tada ustani i pođi u mjesto što ga odabere Jahve, Bog tvoj.
9 and have come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who is in those days, and have inquired, and they have declared the word of judgment to you,
Obrati se svećenicima, levitima i sucu koji bude za ono vrijeme. Njih pitaj, oni će ti rasuditi.
10 and you have done according to the tenor of the word which they declare to you ([they] of that place which YHWH chooses); and you have observed to do according to all that they direct you.
I učini onako kako ti budu kazali u mjestu koje Jahve odabere. Pazi: sve učini kako te upute.
11 According to the tenor of the law which they direct you, and according to the judgment which they say to you, you do; you do not turn aside from the word which they declare to you [to] the right or left.
Uradi prema uputi koju ti dadnu i prema presudi koju donesu. Od presude koju ti kažu ne odstupaj ni desno ni lijevo.
12 And the man who acts with presumption, so as not to listen to the priest (who is standing to serve your God YHWH there), or to the judge, even that man has died, and you have put away evil from Israel,
Ako bi se tko drsko odupro i ne bi poslušao ni svećenika koji ondje stoji da služi Jahvi, Bogu tvome, ni suca, neka se taj čovjek pogubi. Tako ćeš iskorijeniti zlo iz Izraela,
13 and all the people hear and fear, and do not presume anymore.
a sav će se narod, kad sazna, bojati i više se neće drsko odupirati.
14 When you come into the land which your God YHWH is giving to you, and have possessed it, and dwelt in it, and you have said, Let me set a king over me like all the nations which [are] around me—
Kad stigneš u zemlju koju ti Jahve, Bog tvoj, daje; kad je zaposjedneš i u njoj se nastaniš, pa onda kažeš: 'Želim da nad sobom postavim kralja, kako ga imaju svi drugi narodi oko mene' -
15 you certainly set a king over you on whom YHWH fixes; you set a king over you from the midst of your brothers; you are not able to set a stranger over you, who is not your brother.
tada ćeš onoga koga Jahve, Bog tvoj, odabere, sebi postaviti za kralja. Nekoga od svoje braće postavi sebi za kralja, a ne smiješ postavljati nad sobom tuđina koji ti nije brat.
16 Only, he does not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, so as to multiply horses, seeing YHWH has said to you, You do not add to return in this way anymore.
Samo neka ne drži mnogo konja i ne šalje naroda u Egipat da poveća broj konja. Jer vam je Jahve rekao: 'Ovim se putem nikada više ne vraćajte!'
17 And he does not multiply wives for himself, and his heart does not turn aside, and he does not exceedingly multiply silver and gold for himself.
I neka nema mnogo žena da mu srce ne pođe stranputicom; i neka sebi ne gomila srebra ni zlata!
18 And it has been, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he has written a copy of this law for himself, on a scroll, from [that] before the priests, the Levites,
A kad sjedne na kraljevsko prijestolje, neka sebi na svitak prepiše ovaj Zakon od svećenika Levijevaca.
19 and it has been with him, and he has read in it all [the] days of his life, so that he learns to fear his God YHWH, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes—to do them,
Neka ga drži uza se; neka ga čita sve vrijeme svoga života da nauči bojati se Jahve, Boga svoga, držati sve riječi ovoga Zakona i vršiti ove odredbe;
20 so that his heart is not high above his brothers, and so as not to turn aside from the command [to] the right or left, so that he prolongs days over his kingdom, he and his sons in the midst of Israel.”
da se svojim srcem ne uzdigne iznad svoje braće i da ne skrene od ove zapovijedi ni desno ni lijevo, kako bi dugo kraljevao, on i sinovi njegovi, u Izraelu.
