Deuteronomy 19
1 After Yahweh our God has gotten rid of the people-groups from the land that he is giving to you, and after you have expelled them from their cities and you start to live in their houses,
| هنگامی که یهوه خدایتان قومهایی را که سرزمینشان را به شما می‌دهد، نابود کند و شما در شهرها و خانه‌هایشان ساکن شوید، |
2 you must divide into three parts the land that he is giving to you. Then choose a city in each part. You must make good roads [in order that people can get to those cities easily]. Someone who kills another person can escape to one of those cities [to be safe/protected].
| آنگاه باید سه شهر به عنوان پناهگاه تعیین کنید تا اگر کسی نادانسته شخصی را بکشد، بتواند به آنجا فرار کرده، در امان باشد. کشورتان را به سه منطقه تقسیم کنید به طوری که هر کدام از این سه شهر در یکی از آن سه منطقه واقع گردد. جاده‌هایی را که به این شهرها می‌روند خوب نگه دارید. |
4 “This is the rule about someone who has killed another person. If someone (accidentally/without planning to) kills another person who was not his enemy, he may escape to one of those cities and be safe/protected there.
| اگر کسی نادانسته مرتکب قتل شود می‌تواند به یکی از این شهرها فرار کرده، در آنجا پناه گیرد. |
5 For example, if two men go into the forest to cut some wood, if the axe head comes off the handle while one of them is chopping down a tree and the axe head strikes and kills the other man, the man [who was using the axe] will be allowed to run to one of those cities and be safe there, [because the people of that city will protect him].
| برای مثال، اگر مردی با همسایهٔ خود برای بریدن هیزم به جنگل برود و سر تبر از دسته‌اش جدا شده، باعث قتل همسایه‌اش گردد، آن مرد می‌تواند به یکی از این شهرها گریخته، در امان باشد. |
6 Because he accidentally killed someone, and because the man was not his enemy, he can try to run to one of those cities. If there were only one city, it may be a long distance to that city. Then if the relative of the man who was killed [MTY], the man who is supposed/expected to get revenge, is very angry, he may be able to catch the other person before he arrives at that city.
| بدین ترتیب مدعی خون مقتول نمی‌تواند او را بکشد. این شهرها باید پراکنده باشند تا همه بتوانند به آن دسترسی داشته باشند و گرنه مدعی خشمگین، ممکن است قاتل بی‌گناه را بکشد. |
7 [To prevent that from happening], you must choose three cities, not only one, [in order that someone can get to one of those cities quickly].
8 “If you do everything that I am today commanding you to do, and if you love Yahweh our God, and if you conduct your lives as he wants you to do, Yahweh our God will give you much more land than you will have when you first occupy it, which is what he promised to do. He will give you all the land which he promised your ancestors that he would give to you. When he gives you that land, you must select three more cities [to which people may escape].
| اگر یهوه خدایتان طبق وعده‌ای که با سوگند به پدران شما داده است مرزهای سرزمینتان را وسیعتر کند و تمام سرزمینی را که وعده داده است، به شما ببخشد، |
| در این صورت باید سه شهر پناهگاه دیگر نیز داشته باشید. (البته او وقتی این سرزمین را به شما خواهد داد که از کلیهٔ فرمانهایی که امروز به شما می‌دهم اطاعت نموده یهوه خدایتان را دوست بدارید و همواره در راه او گام بردارید.) |
10 Do this in order that people who (are innocent/have killed someone else without planning to) will not die, and you will not be guilty for [allowing] them to be executed, in the land that Yahweh is giving to you.
| چنین عمل کنید تا در سرزمینی که خداوند به شما می‌دهد اشخاص بی‌گناه کشته نشوند و خون کسی به گردن شما نباشد. |
11 “But suppose someone hates his enemy and hides and waits for that person [to come along the road]. Then [when he passes by, suddenly] he attacks him and murders him. If the attacker flees to one of those cities [to be protected there],
| ولی اگر کسی از همسایهٔ خود نفرت داشته باشد و با قصد قبلی او را بکشد و سپس به یکی از شهرهای پناهگاه فرار نماید، |
12 the elders of the city [where the murdered man lived must not protect the attacker. They]. must send someone to the city to which the other man escaped, and bring him to [MTY] the relative who is supposed/expected to get revenge, so that he may execute that man.
| آنگاه مشایخ شهر باید دنبال او فرستاده، او را بازگردانند و تحویل مدعی خون مقتول بدهند تا او را بکشد. |
13 You must not pity those who murder other people! Instead, you must execute them, in order that the people in the land of Israel will not murder [MTY] innocent people, and in order that things will go well for you.”
| به او رحم نکنید! اسرائیل را از خون بی‌گناه پاک کنید تا در همهٔ کارهایتان کامیاب باشید. |
14 “[When you are living] in the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you, do not move the markers of your neighbors’ property boundaries which were placed there long ago.”
| هنگامی که وارد سرزمینی شدید که خداوند، خدایتان به شما می‌دهد، مواظب باشید مرزهای ملک همسایه‌تان را که از قدیم تعیین شده است به نفع خود تغییر ندهید. |
15 “If someone is accused of committing a crime, one (witness/person who says, ‘I saw him do it’) is not enough. There must be at least two (witnesses/people who say, ‘We saw him do it’). [If there is only one witness], the judge must not believe that what he says is true.
| هرگز کسی را بر اساس شهادت یک نفر محکوم نکنید. حداقل دو یا سه شاهد باید وجود داشته باشند. |
16 “If someone tries to do wrong to another person by falsely accusing him,
| اگر کسی شهادت دروغ بدهد و ادعا کند که شخصی را هنگام ارتکاب جرمی دیده است، |
17 both of them must go to the place where the people worship, to [talk to] the priests and judges who are serving at that time.
| هر دو نفر باید به نزد کاهنان و قضاتی که در آن موقع در حضور خداوند مشغول خدمتند، آورده شوند. |
18 The judges must (investigate the case carefully/try to find out which one is telling the truth). If [the judges determine that] one of them has accused the other falsely,
| قضات باید این امر را به دقت تحقیق کنند. اگر معلوم شد که شاهد دروغ می‌گوید، |
19 that person must be punished in the same way that the other one would have been punished [if the judge decided that he (was guilty/had done what is wrong)]. By punishing such people, you will get rid of this evil practice among you.
| مجازاتش باید همان باشد که او فکر می‌کرد مرد دیگر به آن محکوم می‌شد. به این طریق شرارت را از میان خود پاک خواهید کرد. |
20 And/Because when that person is punished, everyone will hear what has happened, and they will be afraid, and no one will dare to act that way any more.
| بعد از آن، کسانی که این خبر را بشنوند از دروغ گفتن در جایگاه شهود خواهند ترسید. |
21 You must not pity people who are punished like that. The rule should be that a person who has murdered someone else must be executed; one of a person’s eyes must be gouged out if he has gouged out someone else’s eye, one tooth of a person who has knocked out the tooth of another person must be knocked out; one hand of a person who has cut off the hand of another person must likewise be cut off; one foot of a person who has cut off the foot of another person must also be cut off.”
| به شاهد دروغگو نباید رحم کنید. حکم شما در این گونه موارد باید چنین باشد: جان به عوض جان، چشم به عوض چشم، دندان به عوض دندان، دست به عوض دست و پا به عوض پا. |
