< Deuteronomy 22 >

1 “If you see some Israeli’s ox or sheep that has strayed away, do not act as though you did not see it. Take it back [to its owner].
你如果看見你兄弟的牛羊迷了路,你不可不顧,應牽回交給你的兄弟。
2 But if the owner does not live near you, or if you do not know who the owner is, take the animal to your house. [It can stay with you] until the owner comes, searching for it. Then you must give the animal to him.
如果你的兄弟離你遠,或者你不認識他,你該牽到你家中,留在你處,直到你的兄弟來尋找,你就還給他。
3 You must do the same thing if you see a donkey, or a piece of clothing, or anything else that someone has lost. Do not refuse to do what you should do.
對他的驢你應這樣做,對他的衣服也應這樣做;對你兄弟所失,而由你找到的一切物件,都應這樣做;決不可不管不顧。
4 “And if you see a fellow Israeli’s donkey or cow that has fallen down on the road, do not act as though you did not see it. Help the owner to lift the animal up [so that it can stand on its feet again].
你若看見你兄弟的驢牛在路上跌到了,你不可不顧,務要幫助他將驢牛扶起。
5 “Women must not wear men’s clothes, and men must not wear women’s clothes. Yahweh our God hates people who do things like that.
女人不可穿男人的服裝,男人亦不可穿女人的衣服;上主你的天主厭惡做這種事的人。
6 “If you happen to find a bird’s nest in a tree or on the ground, and the mother bird is sitting in the nest on its eggs or with the baby birds, do not take the mother bird [and kill it].
你在路上,如果發現樹上或地上有鳥窩,裏面有雛或有蛋,母鳥在伏雛或孵卵,你不可連母鳥帶幼雛一併拿去;
7 You are permitted to take the baby birds, but you must allow the mother bird to fly away. Do this in order that things will go well for you and that you will live for a long time.
應讓母鳥飛去,只拿去幼雛:好使你獲得幸福,而享長壽。
8 “If you build a new house, you must put a (railing/low wall) around the edge of the roof. If you do that, and if someone falls off the roof [and dies], (you will not be guilty of causing that person to die/his death [MTY] will not be your fault).
當你建築新屋時,應在屋頂上做上欄杆,免得有人由上跌下,而使流血的罪歸於你家。
9 “Do not plant any crop in the area where your grapevines are growing. If you do, you are not allowed to harvest the crops that you have planted or to harvest the grapes [to make wine from them].
在你的葡萄園內,不可撒上兩樣種子,免得你撒種子的收穫和葡萄園的出產,都成了禁物。
10 “Do not hitch together an ox and a donkey [for plowing your fields].
不可使牛驢一同耕作;
11 “Do not wear clothing that is made by weaving together (wool and linen/two different kinds of thread).
不可穿羊毛和麻混合織成的布料。
12 “[Twist threads together to] make tassels and sew/fasten them on the four bottom corners of your cloak.
你所披的外衣,四邊應做上繸頭。
13 “Suppose a man marries a young woman and has sex with her and later decides that he does not want her any more,
若有人娶妻,與她結合後就憎惡她,
14 and he says false things about her, and claims that she was not a virgin when he married her.
捏造可恥的事,敗壞她的名譽說:「我娶了這個女人,當我與她結合時,我發現她不是處女。」
15 If that happens, the young woman’s parents must take the sheet that was on the bed when that man and their daughter were married, which still has bloodstains on it, and show it to the elders of the city at the (gate of/central meeting place in) the city.
那少女的父母應把少女的處女證,帶到城門,見本城長老。
16 Then the father of the young woman must say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man to be his wife. But now he says that he doesn’t want her any more.
少女的父親應對長老說:「我將我的女兒嫁給這人為妻,他卻憎惡她,
17 And he has falsely said that she was not a virgin when he married her. But look! Here is what proves that my daughter was a virgin! Look at the bloodstains on the sheet where they slept the night that they were married!’ And he will show the sheet to the elders.
捏造可恥的事說:我發現你的女兒不是個處女。然而,請看我女兒的處女證! 」然後就將被單舖在本城的長老前。
18 Then the elders of that city must take that man and whip him.
本城的長老應拿住這人,加以處罰,
19 They shall require that he pay a fine of 100 pieces of silver and give the money to the father of the young woman, because the man caused an Israeli young woman to be disgraced. Also, that woman must continue to live with him; she is his wife. He is not allowed to divorce her during the rest of his life.
並罰他一百銀子,交給少女的父親,因為他壞了一個以色列處女的名譽,這少女仍是他的妻子,他一生不能休她。
20 “But if what the man said is true, and there is nothing to prove that she was a virgin when he married her,
但這事若是真的,發現少女真不是處女,
21 they must take that young woman to the door of her father’s house. Then the men of that city must execute her by throwing stones at her. They must do that because she has done something in Israel that is very disgraceful, by having sex with some man [while she was still living] in her father’s house. By executing her like that, you will get rid of this evil practice among you.
就應將少女領到她父親家門口,本城的人應用石頭砸死她,因為她在以色列中做出了可恥的事,在她父家行了邪淫:這樣你由你中間剷除了這邪惡。
22 “If a man is caught while he is having sex with another man’s wife, both of them must be executed. By doing that, you will get rid of this evil practice in Israel.
若發現一人與一個有夫之婦同寢,與婦人同寢的男人和那婦人,二人都應處以死刑:這樣你由以色列中剷除了這邪惡。
23 “Suppose in some town a man sees a young woman who is engaged/promised to be married to another man, and he is caught having sex with [EUP] her.
若一年輕處女已許配與人,有人在城中遇見她,而與她同寢;
24 You must take both of them to the (gate of/central meeting place in) that town. There you must execute them both by throwing stones at them. You must execute the young woman because she did not shout for help even though she was in the town. And the man must be executed because he had sex [EUP] with someone who was already engaged/promised to be married. By doing that, you will get rid of this evil practice among you.
你們應將他們二人領到當地城門口,用石頭砸死他們:那少女該死,因為她雖在城裏,卻沒有呼救;那男人該死,因為他強姦了人家的妻子:這樣你由你中間剷除了邪惡。
25 “But suppose out in the open countryside a man meets a young woman who is engaged/promised to be married, and he rapes her. If that happens, only that man must be executed.
但若有人在郊野遇見了一個許配與人的少女,強姦了她,與她同寢,只有這與她同寢的人該死,
26 You must not punish the young woman, because she did not do anything for which she deserves to be executed. This case is like when one man attacks another man [in the countryside] and murders him,
對那少女,不可行刑,因為她並沒有犯死罪,因為這件事就如一個人狙擊自己的鄰人,將他殺死一樣;
27 because the man who raped her saw her when she was in the open countryside, and even though she called out for help, there was no one there who could rescue her.
因為那男人在郊野裏遇見了她,縱使許配與人的少女呼救,也沒有人來救她。
28 “If a man rapes a young woman who is not engaged/promised to be married, if someone sees him while he is doing that,
若有人遇見一個尚未許配與人的年輕處女,抓住她而與她同寢,並被人發見。
29 that man must pay 50 pieces of silver to the young woman’s father, and he must marry her, because he forced her to have sex with him. He is not allowed to divorce her for the rest of his life.
這與她同寢的人應給少女的父親五十「協刻耳」銀子外,還該娶她為妻,因為他強姦了她,一生不能休她。
30 “man must not disgrace his father by having sex with any of his father’s wives.”
人不可娶父親的妻子,也不可揭開父親的衣襟。

< Deuteronomy 22 >