Deuteronomy 21
1 “Suppose someone has been murdered in a field in the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you, and you do not know who killed that person.
| در سرزمینی که یهوه خدایتان به شما می‌دهد، هرگاه جسد مقتولی که قاتلش معلوم نیست در صحرا پیدا شود، |
2 [If that happens], your elders and judges must go out to where that person’s corpse was found and measure the distance from there to each of the nearby towns.
| آنگاه مشایخ و قضات با اندازه‌گیری فاصلهٔ جسد تا شهرهای اطراف، نزدیکترین شهر را تعیین کنند. مشایخ آن شهر، باید گوساله‌ای را که تا به حال بر آن یوغ بسته نشده بگیرند |
3 Then the elders in the town that is closest to where the corpse was found must select a young cow that has never been used for doing work.
4 They must take it to a place near a stream where the ground has never been plowed or planted. They must break its neck there in that valley.
| و آن را به دره‌ای ببرند که در آن آب جاری باشد، ولی زمینش هرگز شخم نخورده و کشت نشده باشد، و در آنجا گردن گوساله را بشکنند. |
5 The priests must go there also, because Yahweh our God has chosen them from the tribe of Levi to serve him and to be his representatives [MTY] when they bless people. And he has also chosen them to settle disputes in which someone has been injured.
| آنگاه کاهنان لاوی نزدیک بیایند، زیرا یهوه خدایتان ایشان را انتخاب کرده است تا در حضور او خدمت کنند و به نام خداوند برکت دهند و در مرافعه‌ها و مجازاتها تصمیم بگیرند. |
6 The elders from the closest town must wash their hands over the young cow whose neck was broken,
| سپس مشایخ آن شهر، دستهای خود را روی آن گوساله بشویند |
7 and they must say, ‘We did not murder this person [MTY], and we did not see who did it.
| و بگویند: «دستهای ما این خون را نریخته و چشمان ما هم آن را ندیده است. |
8 Yahweh, forgive us, your Israeli people whom you rescued [from Egypt]. Do not consider (us to be guilty/that we should be punished because) of murdering someone who (is innocent/had not done something that is wrong). Instead, forgive us.’
| ای خداوند، قوم خود، اسرائیل را که نجات داده‌ای ببخش و آنها را به قتل مردی بی‌گناه متهم نکن. گناه خون این مرد را بر ما نگیر.» |
9 By doing that, you will be doing what Yahweh considers to be right, and you will not be considered to be guilty for murdering that person.”
| به این ترتیب با پیروی از دستورهای خداوند، شما این گناه را از بین خود دور خواهید کرد. |
10 “When you [soldiers] go to fight against your enemies, and Yahweh our God enables you to defeat them [IDM], and (they become your prisoners/you capture them),
| زمانی که به جنگ می‌روید و خداوند، خدایتان دشمنان شما را به دست شما تسلیم می‌کند و شما آنها را به اسارت خود درمی‌آورید، |
11 one of you may see among them a beautiful woman that he likes, and he may want to marry her.
| چنانچه در میان اسیران، دختر زیبایی را ببینید و عاشق او بشوید، و بخواهید او را به زنی بگیرید، |
12 He should take her to his home, and there she must shave [all the hair off] her head and cut her fingernails [to signify that now she does not belong to her people-group any more, but instead she is becoming an Israeli].
| می‌توانید او را به خانهٔ خود بیاورید و بگذارید سرش را بتراشد، ناخنهایش را بگیرد |
13 She must take off the clothes that she was wearing when she was captured, [and put on Israeli clothes]. She must stay in that man’s house and mourn for a month because of [leaving] her parents. After that, he will be allowed to marry her.
| و لباسهایش را که هنگام اسیر شدن پوشیده بود عوض کند. سپس یک ماه تمام در خانهٔ شما در عزای پدر و مادرش بنشیند. بعد از آن، می‌توانید او را به زنی اختیار کنید. |
14 Later, if he no longer is pleased with her, he will be permitted to allow her to leave him. But because she was forced to have sex with him, he will not be allowed to treat her like a slave [and sell her to someone else].”
| بعد اگر از او راضی نبودید، نباید او را بفروشید یا مثل برده با او رفتار کنید، زیرا او را به زنی گرفته‌اید؛ پس، بگذارید هر جا می‌خواهد برود. |
15 “Suppose that a man has two wives, but he likes one of them and dislikes the other one. And suppose that they both give birth to sons, and the oldest son is the child of the woman that he does not like.
| اگر مردی دو همسر داشته باشد، و از هر دو صاحب پسر شود و پسر بزرگترش فرزند همسر مورد علاقه‌اش نباشد، |
16 On the day when that man decides how he will divide his possessions for his sons to possess [after he dies], he must not favor the son of the wife that he loves by giving him [a bigger share, ] the share that the older son should receive.
| حق ندارد ارث بیشتری به پسر کوچکترش یعنی پسر زنی که وی او را دوست دارد بدهد. |
17 He must give to the older son, the son of the wife whom he does not like, twice as much of his possessions. That son is his firstborn son, and he must be given the share that he should receive because of his being that man’s firstborn son.”
| او باید دو سهم به پسر بزرگترش که نخستین نشانهٔ قدرتش بوده و حق نخست‌زادگی به او می‌رسد بدهد، هرچند وی پسر همسر مورد علاقه‌اش نباشد. |
18 “Suppose there is a boy who is very stubborn and always (rebelling against/disobeying) [his parents], and who will not heed what they say to him. And suppose that they punish him but he still does not pay attention to what they tell him [MTY].
| اگر مردی پسر لجوج و سرکشی داشته باشد که با وجود تنبیهات مکرر والدین، از ایشان اطاعت نکند، |
19 If that happens, his parents must take him to the (gate of/central meeting place in) the city where he lives and have him stand in front of the elders of the city.
| در این صورت باید پدر و مادرش او را نزد مشایخ شهر ببرند |
20 Then the parents must say to the elders of that city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and always rebelling against us. He will not pay attention to what we tell him [MTY]. He wastes a lot of money (OR, eats too much food) and gets drunk.’
| و بگویند: «این پسر ما لجوج و سرکش است، حرف ما را گوش نمی‌کند و به ولخرجی و میگساری می‌پردازد.» |
21 Then all the elders of that city must execute him by throwing stones at him. By doing that, you will get rid of this evil practice among you. And everyone in Israel will hear [about what happened] and they will be afraid [to do what he did].”
| آنگاه اهالی شهر او را سنگسار کنند تا بمیرد. به این طریق، شرارت را از میان خود دور خواهید کرد و همهٔ جوانان اسرائیل این واقعه را شنیده، خواهند ترسید. |
22 “If someone is executed for having committed a crime for which he deserves to die, and you hang his corpse on a post,
| اگر مردی مرتکب جرمی شده باشد که جزای آن مرگ است و پس از اعدام، جسد او را به درختی بیاویزند، |
23 you must not allow his corpse to remain there all night. You must bury it on the day that he died, because [God] has cursed anyone whose corpse is allowed to remain on a post. [You must bury the corpse that day], in order that you do not defile the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you.”
| جسد او نباید در طول شب روی درخت بماند. باید همان روز او را دفن کنید، زیرا کسی که بر دار آویخته شده باشد ملعون خداست. پس بدن او را دفن کنید تا سرزمینی که خداوند، خدایتان به شما داده است آلوده نشود. |
