< Deuteronomy 21 >

1 “When one is found slain, fallen in a field on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you to possess it, [and] it is not known who has struck him,
汝の神ヱホバの汝に與へて獲させたまふ地において若し人殺されて野に仆れをるあらんに之を殺せる者の誰なるかを知ざる時は
2 then your elderly and yours [of those] judging have gone out and measured to the cities which [are] around the slain one,
汝の長老等と士師等出きたりその人の殺されをる處よりその四周の邑々までを度るべし
3 and it has been, the city which [is] near to the slain one, even [the] elderly of that city have taken a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked with, which has not drawn in a yoke,
而してその人の殺されをる處に最も近き邑すなはちその邑の長老等は未だ使はず未だ軛を負せて牽ざるところの少き牝牛を取り
4 and [the] elderly of that city have brought down the heifer to a hard valley, which is not tilled nor sown, and have beheaded the heifer there in the valley.
邑の長老等その牝牛を耕すことも種蒔こともせざる流つきせぬ谷に牽ゆきその谷において牝牛の頸を折べし
5 And the priests, sons of Levi, have come near—for your God YHWH has fixed on them to serve Him and to bless in the Name of YHWH, and by their mouth is every strife and every stroke—
その時は祭司たるレビの子孫等其處に進み來るべし彼らは汝の神ヱホバが選びて己に事へしめまたヱホバの名をもて祝することを爲しめたまふ者にて一切の訴訟と一切の爭競は彼らの口によりて決定るべきが故なり
6 and all [the] elderly of that city, who are near to the slain one, wash their hands over the heifer which is beheaded in the valley,
而してその人の殺されをりし處に最も近き邑の長老等その谷にて頸を折たる牝牛の上において手を洗ひ
7 and they have answered and said, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen—
答へて言べし我らの手はこの血を流さず我らの目はこれを見ざりしなり
8 receive atonement for Your people Israel, whom You have ransomed, O YHWH, and do not permit innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel; and the blood has been pardoned to them,
ヱホバよ汝が贖ひし汝の民イスラエルを赦したまへこの辜なき者の血を流せる罰を汝の民イスラエルの中に降したまふ勿れと斯せば彼らその血の罪を赦されん
9 and you put away the innocent blood out of your midst, for you do that which [is] right in the eyes of YHWH.
汝かくヱホバの善と觀たまふ事をおこなひその辜なき者の血を流せる咎を汝らの中より除くべし
10 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and your God YHWH has given them into your hand, and you have taken captive its captivity,
汝出て汝の敵と戰ふにあたり汝の神ヱホバこれを汝の手に付したまひて汝これを俘虜となしたる時
11 and have seen a woman of beautiful form in the captivity, and have delighted in her, and have taken [her] to yourself for a wife,
汝もしその俘虜の中に貌美しき女あるを見てこれを悦び取て妻となさんとせば
12 then you have brought her into the midst of your household, and she has shaved her head, and prepared her nails,
汝の家の中にこれを携へゆくべし而して彼はその髮を剃り爪を截り
13 and turned aside the raiment of her captivity from off her, and has dwelt in your house, and lamented her father and her mother [for] a month of days, and afterward you go in to her and have married her, and she has been to you for a wife.
まだ俘虜の衣服を脱すてて汝の家に居りその父母のために一月のあひだ哀哭べし然る後なんぢ故の處に入りてこれが夫となりこれを汝の妻とすべし
14 And it has been, if you have not delighted in her, that you have sent her away at her desire, and surely you do not sell her for money; you do not tyrannize over her, because that you have humbled her.
その後汝もし彼を好まずなりなば彼の心のままに去ゆかしむべし決して金のためにこれを賣べからず汝すでにこれを犯したれば之を嚴く待遇べからざるなり
15 When a man has two wives, one loved and the other hated, and they have borne sons to him (the loved one and the hated one), and the firstborn son has been to the hated one,
人二人の妻ありてその一人は愛する者一人は惡む者ならんにその愛する者と惡む者の二人ともに男の子を生ありてその長子もし惡む婦の產る者なる時は
16 then it has been, in the day of his causing his sons to inherit that which he has, he is not able to declare firstborn the son of the loved one, in the face of the son of the hated one—the firstborn.
その子等に己の所有を嗣しむる日にその惡む婦の產る長子を措てその愛する婦の產る子を長子となすべからず
17 But the firstborn, son of the hated one, he acknowledges, to give to him a double portion of all that is found with him, for he [is] the beginning of his strength; to him [is] the right of the firstborn.
必ずその惡む者の產る子を長子となし己の所有を分つ時にこれには二倍を與ふべし是は己の力の始にして長子の權これに屬すればなり
18 When a man has a son apostatizing and being rebellious—he is not listening to the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they have disciplined him, and he does not listen to them—
人にもし放肆にして背悖る子ありその父の言にも母の言にも順はず父母これを責るも聽ことをせざる時は
19 then his father and his mother have laid hold on him, and they have brought him out to [the] elderly of his city, and to the gate of his place,
その父母これを執へてその處の門にいたり邑の長老等に就き
20 and have said to [the] elderly of his city, Our son—this one—is apostatizing and being rebellious; he is not listening to our voice—a glutton and drunkard.
邑の長老たちに言べし我らの此子は放肆にして背悖る者我らの言にしたがはざる者放蕩にして酒に耽る者なりと
21 Then all the men of his city have stoned him with stones and he has died, and you have put away the evil out of your midst, and all Israel hears and fears.
然る時は邑の人みな石をもて之を撃殺すべし汝かく汝らの中より惡事を除き去べし然せばイスラエルみな聞て懼れん
22 And when there is a sin in a man [with] a judgment of death, and he has been put to death, and you have hanged him on a tree,
人もし死にあたる罪を犯して死刑に遇ことありて汝これを木に懸て曝す時は
23 his corpse does not remain on the tree, for you certainly bury him in the day—for he who is hanged [becomes] a curse of God—and you do not defile your ground which your God YHWH is giving to you [for] an inheritance.”
翌朝までその體を木の上に留おくべからず必ずこれをその日の中に埋むべし其は木に懸らるる者はヱホバに詛はるる者なればなり斯するは汝の神ヱホバの汝に賜ふて產業となさしめたまふ地の汚れざらんためなり

< Deuteronomy 21 >