Deteronomi 19

1 Tango Yawe, Nzambe na bino, akobebisa bikolo oyo Ye akopesa bino mokili na bango, tango bokobengana bango mpe bokovanda na bamboka mpe na bandako na bango;

And when the Lord your God shall have destroyed the nations, which God gives you, [even] the land, and you shall inherit them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses,

2 bokotia pembeni mpo na bino, bingumba misato oyo ezali na kati-kati ya mokili oyo Yawe, Nzambe na bino, akopesa bino mpo na kozwa.

you shall separate for yourself three cities in the midst of your land, which the Lord your God gives you.

3 Bokosala kuna banzela mpe bokokabola na biteni misato, mokili oyo Yawe, Nzambe na bino, akopesa bino lokola libula mpo ete moto nyonso oyo akoboma moto akoka kokima kuna.

Take a survey of your way, and you shall divide the coasts of your land, which the Lord your God apportions to you, into three parts, and there shall be there a refuge for every manslayer.

4 Tala makambo oyo ekoki kosala ete moto oyo abomi moninga na ye akoka kokima kuna mpo na kobikisa bomoi na ye: ezali tango abomi moninga na ye na nko te, moto oyo ayinaki te liboso.

And this shall be the ordinance of the manslayer, who shall flee there, and shall live, whoever shall have struck his neighbor ignorantly, whereas he hated him not in times past.

5 Ndakisa: moto oyo akei na zamba elongo na moninga na ye mpo na kokata banzete; bongo na tango atomboli loboko na ye mpo na kokata nzete, ebende ya epasola elongwe na esimbelo na yango, ekweyeli moninga wana mpe ebomi ye: moto wana akoki kokima kati na moko ya bingumba wana mpo na kobikisa bomoi na ye.

And whoever shall enter with his neighbor into the thicket, to gather wood, if the hand of him that cuts wood with the axe should be violently shaken, and the axe head falling off from the handle should light on his neighbor, and he should die, he shall flee to one of these cities, and live.

6 Soki bongo te, mobukanisi makila akolanda ye na kanda, akokanga ye mpe akoboma ye soki engumba ya kokimela ezali mosika mingi. Nzokande asengelaki kokufa te, pamba te ayinaki te liboso moto oyo asilaki koboma.

Lest the avenger of blood pursue after the slayer, because his heart is hot, and overtake him, if the way be too long, and kill him, though there is to this man no sentence of death, because he hated him not in time past.

7 Yango wana, napesi bino mitindo ete botia pembeni bingumba misato mpo na bino.

Therefore I charge you, saying, You shall separate for your self three cities.

8 Soki Yawe, Nzambe na bino, ayeisi monene mokili na bino ndenge alakaki epai na bakoko na bino na nzela ya ndayi mpe apesi bino mokili mobimba ndenge alakaki bango,

And if the Lord shall enlarge your borders, as he sware to your fathers, and the Lord shall give to you all the land which he said he would give to your fathers;

9 mpo ete bosili kotosa mibeko nyonso oyo napesi bino lelo, mibeko ya kolinga Yawe, Nzambe na bino, mpe ya kotambola na banzela na Ye, wana bokobakisa lisusu bingumba misato na bingumba misato ya liboso.

if you shall listen to do all these commands, which I charge you this day, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways continually; you shall add for yourself yet three cities to these three.

10 Bosala bongo mpo ete makila ya moto oyo ayebi likambo te esopana te kati na mokili na bino oyo Yawe, Nzambe na bino, akopesa bino lokola libula, soki te bokomema ngambo ya makila.

So innocent blood shall not be spilt in the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, and there shall not be in you one guilty of blood.

11 Kasi soki moto ayini moninga na ye mpe atieli ye motambo, abundisi ye mpe abomi ye na nko, bongo akimi kati na moko ya bingumba wana,

But if there should be in you a man hating his neighbor, and he should lay wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him, that he die, and he should flee to one of these cities,

12 bampaka ya engumba na ye bakolukisa ye, bakozongisa ye na engumba na ye mpe bakotika ye na maboko ya mobukanisi makila mpo ete aboma ye.

then shall the elders of his city send, and take him thence, and they shall deliver him into the hands of the avengers of blood, and he shall die.

13 Boyokela ye mawa te. Na nzela wana nde bokolongola kati na Isalaele mabe ya kosopa makila ya moto oyo ayebi likambo te, mpo ete bozala malamu.

Your eye shall not spare him; so shall you purge innocent blood from Israel, and it shall be well with you.

14 Okoki te kopusa mondelo ya moninga na yo, mondelo oyo bato oyo bayaki liboso na yo na mabele na yo bakataki kati na mokili oyo Yawe, Nzambe na bino, akopesa bino mpo ete bokamata yango.

You shall not move the landmarks of your neighbor, which your fathers set in the inheritance, in which you have obtained a share in the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit.

15 Litatoli ya moto moko ekoki te mpo na kotalisa ete moto songolo abomaki moto to asalaki mabe. Bosolo ya likambo nyonso endimamaka na litatoli ya bato mibale to misato.

One witness shall not stand to testify against a man for any iniquity, or for any fault, or for any sin which he may commit; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, shall every word be established.

16 Soki motatoli ya lokuta atelemi mpo na kofunda moto mosusu ete moto wana abomi moto;

And if an unjust witness rise up against a man, alleging iniquity against him;

17 bato nyonso mibale oyo bazali kowelana bakotelema na miso ya Yawe liboso ya Banganga-Nzambe mpe basambisi oyo bazali kosala mosala kati na bino na tango wana.

then shall the two men between whom the controversy is, stand before the Lord, and before the priests, and before the judges, who may be in those days.

18 Basambisi basengeli koyekola likambo yango malamu penza. Mpe soki emonani ete motatoli akosi, apesi litatoli ya lokuta mpo na ndeko na ye;

And the judges shall make diligent inquiry, and, behold, [if] and unjust witness has borne unjust testimony; [and] has stood up against his brother;

19 bosala ye ndenge akanaki kosala ndeko na ye. Na nzela wana nde bokolongola mabe kati na bino.

then shall you do to him as he wickedly devised to do against his brother, and you shall remove the evil from yourselves.

20 Tango bato oyo batikali bakoyoka yango, bakobanga mpe mabe ya lolenge oyo ekotikala lisusu kosalema te kati na bino.

And the rest shall hear and fear, and do no more according to this evil thing in the midst of you.

21 Boyokela moto ya ndenge wana mawa te! Mobeko ezali: bomoi mpo na bomoi, liso mpo na liso, linu mpo na linu, loboko mpo na loboko, lokolo mpo na lokolo.

Your eye shall not spare him: [you shall exact] life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.