申命記 17

1 凡て疵あり惡き處ある牛羊は汝これを汝の神ヱホバに献ぐべからず斯る者は汝の神ヱホバの忌嫌ひたまふ者なればなり

Thou shalt offer vnto the Lord thy God no bullocke nor sheepe wherein is blemish or any euill fauoured thing: for that is an abomination vnto the Lord thy God.

2 汝の神ヱホバの汝に賜ふ邑々の中にて汝らの中間に若し或男または女汝の神ヱホバの目の前に惡事を行ひてその契約に悖り

If there be founde among you in any of thy cities, which the Lord thy God giueth thee, man or woman that hath wrought wickednes in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his couenant,

3 往て他の神々に事へてこれを拝み我が命ぜざる日や月や天の衆群などを拝むあらんに

And hath gone and serued other gods, and worshipped them: as the sunne, or the moone, or any of the hoste of heauen, which I haue not commanded,

4 その事を汝に告る者ありて汝これを聞き細かにこれを査べ見るにその事眞にその言確にしてイスラエルの中に斯る憎むべき事行はれ居たらば

And it be tolde vnto thee, and thou hast heard it, then shalt thou inquire diligently: and if it be true, and the thing certaine, that such abomination is wrought in Israel,

5 汝その惡き事を行へる男または女を汝の門に曳いだし石をもてその男または女を撃殺すべし

Then shalt thou bring foorth that man, or that woman (which haue committed that wicked thing) vnto thy gates, whether it be man or woman, and shalt stone them with stones, til they die.

6 殺すべき者は二人の證人または三人の證人の口に依てこれを殺すべし惟一人の證人の口のみをもて之を殺すことは爲べからず

At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he that is woorthie of death, die: but at the mouth of one witnesse, he shall not die.

7 斯る者を殺すには證人まづその手を之に加へ然る後に民みなその手を加ふべし汝かく惡事を汝らの中より除くべし

The handes of the witnesses shall be first vpon him, to kill him: and afterward the hands of all the people: so thou shalt take the wicked away from among you.

8 汝の門の内に訟へ爭ふ事おこるに當りその事件もし血を相流す事または權理を相爭ふ事または互に相撃たる事などにして汝に裁判かぬる者ならば汝起あがりて汝の神ヱホバの選びたまふ處に上り往き

If there rise a matter too harde for thee in iudgement betweene blood and blood, betweene plea and plea, betweene plague and plague, in the matters of controuersie within thy gates, then shalt thou arise, and goe vp vnto the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse,

9 祭司なるレビ人と當時の士師とに詣りて問べし彼ら裁判の言詞を汝に示さん

And thou shalt come vnto the Priestes of the Leuites, and vnto the iudge that shall be in those daies, and aske, and they shall shewe thee the sentence of iudgement,

10 ヱホバの選びたまふ處にて彼らが汝に示す命令の言のごとくに汝行ひ凡て彼らが汝に敎ふるごとくに愼みて爲べし

And thou shalt do according to that thing which they of that place (which the Lord hath chosen) shewe thee, and thou shalt obserue to doe according to all that they informe thee.

11 即ち故らが汝に敎ふる律法の命令に循がひ彼らが汝に告る裁判に依て行ふべし彼らが汝に示す言に違ふて右にも左にも偏るべからず

According to the Lawe, which they shall teach thee, and according to the iudgement which they shall tell thee, shalt thou doe: thou shalt not decline from the thing which they shall shew thee, neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

12 人もし自ら壇斷にしその汝の神ヱホバの前に立て事ふる祭司またはその士師に聽したがはざる有ばその人を殺しイスラエルの中より惡を除くべし

And that man that wil doe presumptuously, not hearkening vnto the Priest (that standeth before the Lord thy God to minister there) or vnto the iudge, that man shall die, and thou shalt take away euill from Israel.

13 然せば民みな聞て畏れ重て壇斷に事をなさざらん

So all the people shall heare and feare, and doe no more presumptuously.

14 汝の神ヱホバの汝に賜ふ地に汝いたり之を獲て其處に住におよべる時汝もし我周圍の一切の國人のごとくに我も王をわが上に立んと言あらば

Whe thou shalt come vnto ye land which the Lord thy God giueth thee, and shalt possesse it, and dwell therein, if thou say, I will set a King ouer me, like as all the nations that are about me,

15 只なんぢの神ヱホバの選びたまふ人を汝の上にたてて王となすべしまた汝の上に王を立るには汝の兄弟の中の人をもてすべし汝の兄弟ならざる他國の人を汝の上に立べからず

Then thou shalt make him King ouer thee, whome the Lord thy God shall chuse: from among thy brethren shalt thou make a King ouer thee: thou shalt not set a stranger ouer thee, which is not thy brother.

16 但し王となれる者は馬を多く得んとすべからず又馬を多く得んために民を率てエジプトに還るべからず其はヱホバなんぢらに向ひて汝らはこの後かさねて此路に歸るべからずと宣ひたればなり

In any wise he shall not prepare him many horses, nor bring the people againe to Egypt, for to encrease the number of horses, seeing the Lord hath sayd vnto you, Ye shall henceforth goe no more againe that way.

17 また妻を多くその身に有て心を迷すべからずまた金銀を己のために多く蓄積べからず

Neither shall hee take him many wiues, lest his heart turne away, neither shall he gather him much siluer and golde.

18 彼その國の位に坐するにいたらば祭司なるレビ人の前にある書よりしてこの律法を一の書に書寫さしめ

And when he shall sit vpon the throne of his kingdo, then shall he write him this Law repeted in a booke, by the Priests of the Leuites.

19 世に生存ふる日の間つねにこれを己の許に置て誦み斯してその神ヱホバを畏るることを學びこの律法の一切の言と是等の法度を守りて行ふべし

And it shall be with him, and he shall reade therein all daies of his life, that he may learne to feare the Lord his God, and to keepe all ye words of this Lawe, and these ordinances for to doe them:

20 然せば彼の心その兄弟の上に高ぶること無くまたその誡命を離れて右にも左にもまがること無してその子女とともにその國においてイスラエルの中にその日を永うすることを得ん

That his heart be not lifted vp aboue his brethren, and that he turne not from the commandement, to the right hand or to the left, but that he may prolong his daies in his kingdom, he, and his sonnes in the middes of Israel.