Deuteronomy 21

1 If one be found slain in the land which Jehovah your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't 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 elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain:

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 shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in the 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 elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck 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 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Jehovah your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of Jehovah; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.

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 All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken 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 shall answer and say, "Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

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 Forgive, Jehovah, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and do not allow innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel." The blood shall be forgiven 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 So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

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 forth to battle against your enemies, and Jehovah your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,

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 see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your 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 shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head, and trim 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 she shall remove the clothing she was wearing when captured, and shall remain in your house, and mourn her father and her mother a full month. And after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your 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 It shall be, if you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she wants; but you may not sell her for money or treat her as a commodity, since you have had relations with 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 If a man has two wives, the one loved, and the other unloved, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the unloved; and if the firstborn son is hers who was unloved;

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 shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the loved the firstborn before the son of the unloved, who is 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 he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

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 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will 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 shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders 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 they shall tell the elders of his city, "This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a 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 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

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 If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang 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 body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for everyone who hangs on a tree is cursed by God; that you do not defile your land which Jehovah your God gives 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