Ulangan 17
1 Jangan persembahkan sapi atau domba yang cacat kepada TUHAN Allahmu, karena Ia membencinya.
“You do not sacrifice to your God YHWH ox or sheep in which there is a blemish—any bad thing; for it [is] an abomination [to] your God YHWH.
2 Apabila kamu mendengar bahwa di salah satu kotamu ada orang yang berdosa terhadap TUHAN Allahmu karena melanggar perjanjian
When there is found in your midst, in one of your cities which your God YHWH is giving to you, a man or a woman who does evil in the eyes of your God YHWH by transgressing His covenant,
3 dan perintah-Nya dengan menyembah dan mengabdi kepada ilah-ilah lain atau kepada matahari, bulan atau bintang-bintang,
and he goes and serves other gods, and bows himself to them, and to the sun, or to the moon, or to any of the host of the heavens, which I have not commanded,
4 maka kamu harus menyelidikinya dengan teliti. Sekiranya kejahatan itu benar-benar telah terjadi di Israel,
and it has been declared to you, and you have heard, and have searched diligently, and behold, [if] truth, the thing is established; this abomination has been done in Israel—
5 orang yang bersalah harus dibawa ke luar kota dan dilempari batu sampai mati.
then you have brought out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing, to your gates—the man or the woman—and you have stoned them with stones, and they have died.
6 Tetapi ia hanya boleh dihukum mati kalau ada dua orang saksi atau lebih; seseorang tak boleh dihukum mati berdasarkan keterangan satu orang saksi saja.
By the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses is he who is being put to death put to death; he is not put to death by the mouth of one witness;
7 Para saksi harus lemparkan batu yang pertama kepada orang itu, diikuti seluruh rakyat. Dengan demikian kamu berantas kejahatan itu.
the hand of the witnesses is on him in the first place to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last; and you have put away evil out of your midst.
8 Apabila ada perkara yang tak dapat diputuskan oleh hakim-hakim setempat karena terlalu sulit, misalnya perkara pembunuhan yang disengaja atau tidak disengaja, perselisihan tentang hak milik atau luka-melukai badan, kamu harus pergi ke tempat yang dipilih TUHAN Allahmu.
When anything is too hard for you for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke—matters of strife within your gates—then you have risen and gone up to the place on which your God YHWH fixes,
9 Ajukanlah perkaramu itu kepada imam-imam Lewi dan kepada hakim yang sedang bertugas, lalu biarkan mereka memutuskannya.
and have come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who is in those days, and have inquired, and they have declared the word of judgment to you,
10 Merekalah yang memberi keputusan, dan kamu harus melakukan dengan teliti apa yang mereka katakan kepadamu.
and you have done according to the tenor of the word which they declare to you ([they] of that place which YHWH chooses); and you have observed to do according to all that they direct you.
11 Terimalah keputusan mereka dan laksanakanlah apa yang mereka tetapkan sampai hal yang sekecil-kecilnya.
According to the tenor of the law which they direct you, and according to the judgment which they say to you, you do; you do not turn aside from the word which they declare to you [to] the right or left.
12 Siapa saja yang berani melawan hakim atau imam yang sedang bertugas, harus dihukum mati; dengan demikian kamu memberantas kejahatan itu di Israel.
And the man who acts with presumption, so as not to listen to the priest (who is standing to serve your God YHWH there), or to the judge, even that man has died, and you have put away evil from Israel,
13 Semua orang akan mendengar tentang kejadian itu dan menjadi takut, sehingga tak ada lagi yang berani berbuat begitu."
and all the people hear and fear, and do not presume anymore.
14 "Apabila tanah yang diberikan TUHAN Allahmu kepadamu sudah menjadi milikmu, dan kamu sudah berdiam di situ, mungkin kamu menginginkan seorang raja seperti bangsa-bangsa yang tinggal di sekelilingmu.
When you come into the land which your God YHWH is giving to you, and have possessed it, and dwelt in it, and you have said, Let me set a king over me like all the nations which [are] around me—
15 Perhatikanlah baik-baik supaya orang yang kamu angkat menjadi rajamu adalah orang yang dipilih TUHAN Allahmu. Ia harus seorang dari bangsamu sendiri; jangan mengangkat seorang asing menjadi rajamu.
you certainly set a king over you on whom YHWH fixes; you set a king over you from the midst of your brothers; you are not able to set a stranger over you, who is not your brother.
16 Raja tak boleh memiliki banyak kuda untuk tentaranya dan tak boleh menyuruh bangsa ini kembali ke Mesir untuk membeli kuda, karena TUHAN telah berkata bahwa umat-Nya tak boleh kembali ke negeri itu.
Only, he does not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, so as to multiply horses, seeing YHWH has said to you, You do not add to return in this way anymore.
17 Raja tak boleh punya banyak istri, supaya ia jangan membelakangi TUHAN. Ia juga tak boleh memperkaya diri dengan perak dan emas.
And he does not multiply wives for himself, and his heart does not turn aside, and he does not exceedingly multiply silver and gold for himself.
18 Kalau seorang dinobatkan menjadi raja, ia harus diberi sebuah buku berisi hukum-hukum Allah yang disalin dari buku asli yang disimpan oleh imam-imam Lewi.
And it has been, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he has written a copy of this law for himself, on a scroll, from [that] before the priests, the Levites,
19 Buku itu harus selalu ada di dekatnya, dan seumur hidup ia harus membacanya supaya belajar menghormati TUHAN Allahnya dan dengan setia mentaati segala perintah yang tertulis di dalamnya.
and it has been with him, and he has read in it all [the] days of his life, so that he learns to fear his God YHWH, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes—to do them,
20 Kalau ia membacanya dengan tekun, ia tak akan menganggap dirinya lebih baik dari orang-orang sebangsanya, dan tak akan melanggar perintah TUHAN dengan cara bagaimanapun. Lalu ia dan keturunannya akan memerintah bangsanya sampai turun-temurun."
so that his heart is not high above his brothers, and so as not to turn aside from the command [to] the right or left, so that he prolongs days over his kingdom, he and his sons in the midst of Israel.”
