民数記 35
1 ヱリコに對するヨルダンの邊なるモアブの平野においてヱホバ、モーセに告て言たまはく
Again the LORD spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho:
2 イスラエルの子孫に命じてその獲たる產業の中よりレビ人に住べき邑々を與へしめよ汝らまたその邑々の周圍に郊地をつけてレビ人に與ふべし
“Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance they will possess, cities for the Levites to live in and pasturelands around the cities.
3 その邑々は彼らの住べき所その郊地は彼らの家畜貨財および諸の獣をおくところたるべし
The cities will be for them to live in, and the pasturelands will be for their herds, their flocks, and all their other livestock.
4 汝らがレビ人に與ふる邑々の郊地は邑の石垣より外四周一千キユビトなるべし
The pasturelands around the cities you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the wall on every side.
5 すなはち邑の外に於て東の方に二千キユビト南の方に二千キユビト西の方に二千キユビト北の方に二千キユビトを量り邑をその中にあらしむべし彼らの邑の郊地は是のごとくなるべし
You are also to measure two thousand cubits outside the city on the east, two thousand on the south, two thousand on the west, and two thousand on the north, with the city in the center. These areas will serve as larger pasturelands for the cities.
6 汝らがレビ人に與ふる邑々は是のごとくなるべし即ち逃遁邑六を與ふべし是は人を殺せる者の其處に逃るべきための者なり此外にまた邑四十二を與ふべし
Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.
7 汝らがレビ人に與ふる邑は都合四十八邑これを其郊地とともに與ふべし
The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands.
8 汝らイスラエルの子孫の產業の中よりレビ人に邑を與ふるには多く有る者は多く與へ少く有る者は少く與へ各人その獲たる產業にしたがひてその邑々を之に與ふべし
The cities that you apportion from the territory of the Israelites should be given to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one.”
9 ヱホバまたモーセに告て言たまはく
Then the LORD said to Moses,
10 イスラエルの子孫に告てこれに言へ汝らヨルダンを濟りてカナンの地に入ば
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
11 汝らのために邑を設けて逃遁邑と爲し誤りて人を殺せる者をして其處に逃るべからしむべし
designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
12 其は汝らが仇打する者を避て逃るべき邑なり是あるは人を殺せる者が未だ會衆の前にたちて審判をうけざる先に殺さるること無らんためなり
You are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.
13 汝らが予ふる邑々の中六をもて逃遁邑とすべし
The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.
14 すなはち汝らヨルダンの此旁において三の邑を予ヘカーナンの地において三の邑を予へて逃遁邑となすべし
Select three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge.
15 この六の邑はイスラエルの子孫と他國人およびその中に寄寓る者の逃遁場たるべし凡て誤りて人を殺せる者は其處に逃るることを得べし
These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
16 もし鐵の器をもて人を撃て死しめなば是故殺なり故殺人はかならず殺さるべし
If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
17 もし人を殺すほどの石を執て人を撃て死しめなば是故殺なり故殺人はかならず殺さるべし
Or if anyone has in his hand a stone of deadly size, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
18 また人を殺すほどの木の器をとりて人を撃て死しめなば是故殺なり故殺人はかならず殺さるべし
If anyone has in his hand a deadly object of wood, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
19 仇を打つ者その故殺人を殺すことを得すなはち之に遭ふところにて之を殺すことを得るなり
The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him.
20 もしまた怨恨のために人を推しまたは意ありて人に物を投うちて死しめ
Likewise, if anyone maliciously pushes another or intentionally throws an object at him and kills him,
21 または敵の心を挾さみ手をもて人を撃て死しめなばその人を撃たる者は必ず殺さるべし是故殺なればなり仇を打つ者これに遭ふところにて之を殺すことを得べし
or if in hostility he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death; he is a murderer. When the avenger of blood finds the murderer, he is to kill him.
22 然どもし敵の心なくして思はず人を推しまたは意なくして人に物を擲ち
But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,
23 または人あるを見ずして人を殺すほどの石を之に投つけて死しむること有んにその人これが敵にもあらずまた之を害せんとせしにもあらざる時は
or without looking drops a heavy stone that kills him, but he was not an enemy and did not intend to harm him,
24 會衆この律法によりてその人を殺せる者と仇打する者とに審判を言わたすべし
then the congregation must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.
25 即ち會衆はその人を殺せる者を仇打する者の手より救ひ出してこれをその逃れゆきたる逃遁邑に還すべしその者は聖膏を灌れたる祭司の長の死るまで其處に居べし
The assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
26 然ど人を殺しし者その逃れし逃遁邑の境を出でたらんに
But if the manslayer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled
27 仇打する者その逃遁邑の境の外にてこれに遭ことありて仇打する者すなはちその人を殺しし者を殺すことあるとも血をながせる罪あらじ
and the avenger of blood finds him outside of his city of refuge and kills him, then the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed
28 其は彼は祭司の長の死るまでその逃遁邑に居べき者なればなり祭司の長の死たる後はその人を殺せし者おのれの產業の地にかへることを得べし
because the manslayer must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may he return to the land he owns.
29 汝ら代々その住所において之を審判の法度とすべし
This will be a statutory ordinance for you for the generations to come, wherever you live.
30 凡て人を殺せる者すなはち故殺人は證人の口にしたがひて殺さるべし然ど只一人の證人の言にしたがひて人を殺すことを爲べからず
If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness.
31 汝ら死に當る故殺人の生命を贖はしむべからず必ずこれを殺すべし
You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.
32 また逃遁邑に逃れたる者の贖を容て祭司の死ざる前にこれを自己の地に歸り住しむる勿れ
Nor should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to a city of refuge and allow him to return and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.
33 汝らその居ところの地を汚すべからず血は地を汚すなり地の上に流せる血は之を流せる者の血をもてするに非れば贖ふことを得ざるなり
Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
34 汝らその住ところの地すなはち我が居ところの地を汚すなかれ其は我ヱホバ、イスラエルの子孫の中に居ばなり
Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell. For I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.”
