व्यवस्था 19

1 परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले ती जातिहरूलाई नष्‍ट गरी तिनीहरूको देश तिमीहरूलाई अधिकार गर्न दिनुहुँदा तिनीहरूपछि तिमीहरू तिनीहरूका सहर र घरहरूमा आएर बस्‍ने छौ ।

When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations, those whose land Yahweh your God is giving you, and when you come after them and live in their cities and houses,

2 तिमीहरूले परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले तिमीहरूलाई अधिकार गर्न दिन लाग्‍नुभएको देशको बिचमा आफ्नो लागि तिनवटा सहर रोज्नू ।

you must select three cities for yourself in the middle of your land that Yahweh your God is giving you to possess.

3 परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले तिमीहरूलाई अधिकार गर्न दिन लाग्‍नुभएको देशलाई तिन भागमा विभाजन गरी ती सहरहरूमा जाने सिमाना निर्धारण गर्नू ताकि ज्यानमारा त्यहाँ भागेर जान सकोस् ।

You must build a road and divide the borders of your land into three parts, the land that Yahweh your God is causing you to inherit, so that everyone who kills another person may flee there.

4 जसले आफ्नो छिमेकीलाई पहिले घृणा गर्दैनथ्यो र त्यसले अजानमा उसलाई मार्‍यो भने मारेर त्यहाँ बस्‍न जाने व्यक्तिको विषयमा भएको व्यवस्था यही हो ।

This is the law for the one who kills another and who flees there to live—anyone who kills his neighbor unintentionally, and did not previously hate him.

5 उदाहरणको लागि, कुनै मानिस आफ्नो छिमेकीसँगै दाउरा काट्न जङ्गलमा जान्छ र रुख ढाल्नलाई बञ्चरो चलाउँदा बञ्चरो बीँडबाट फुस्केर छिमेकीलाई लागेर त्यो मर्‍यो भने त्यो मान्छे यीमध्ये कुनै एउटा सहरमा भागेर आफ्नो ज्यान बचाउन सक्छ ।

For example, if a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his chops with the ax to cut down a tree, and the ax head slips off of the handle and strikes his neighbor and kills him—then that man must flee to one of these cities and save his life.

6 नत्रता बाटो लामो छ भने बदला लिने व्यक्ति त्यो ज्यान मार्नेको पछि गई त्यसको तातो रिसमा त्यसलाई उछिनी त्यसलाई प्रहार गरेर मार्न सक्छ यद्यपि त्यो मानिस मारिने योग्यको भने थिएन किनकि विगतमा त्यसले आफ्नो छिमेकीलाई घृणा गरेको थिएन ।

Otherwise the avenger of blood might go after the one who took a life, and in the heat of his anger overtake him, if the distance is too great, strike him and kill him, even though that man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past.

7 त्यसकारण, तिमीहरूले आफ्ना लागि तिनवटा सहर अलग गर्नू भनी म आज्ञा दिन्छु ।

Therefore I command you to select three cities for yourself.

8 परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले तिमीहरूका पिता-पुर्खाहरूसित प्रतिज्ञा गर्नुभएअनुसार उहाँले तिमीहरूका सिमाना बढाइदिनुभयो र तिमीहरूलाई पिता-पुर्खाहरूलाई दिन्छु भनी प्रतिज्ञा गर्नुभएका सबै देश दिनुभयो भने

If Yahweh your God enlarges your borders, as he has sworn to your ancestors to do, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your ancestors;

9 र आज मैले तिमीहरूलाई आज्ञा गरेका यी सबै आज्ञा अर्थात् परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरलाई प्रेम गर्ने र सधैँ उहाँका मार्गहरूमा हिँड्ने आज्ञाहरू तिमीहरूले पालन गर्‍यौ भने तिमीहरूले यी तिनवटा सहरका अतिरिक्त अन्य तिनवटा पनि थप्‍नुपर्छ ।

if you keep all these commandments to do them, which I am commanding you today—commandments to love Yahweh your God and to always walk in his ways, then you must add three more cities for yourself, besides these three.

10 परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले तिमीहरूलाई दिनुहुने देशमा निर्दोष रगत नबगाइयोस् र त्यसको दोष तिमीहरूमाथि नलागोस् भन्‍नाका लागि यसो गर ।

Do this so that innocent blood is not shed in the midst of the land that Yahweh your God is giving you for as an inheritance, so that no bloodguilt may be on you.

11 तर कसलै आफ्नो छिमेकीलाई घृणा गर्छ र ढुकेर बसी त्यसको विरुद्धमा उठेर त्यसलाई मर्ने गरी हिर्काउँछ र त्यो यी तिनवटा सहरमध्ये एउटामा भाग्छ भने

But if anyone hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, and mortally wounds him so that he dies, and if he then flees into one of these cities—

12 त्यसको सहरका धर्म-गुरुहरूले मान्छे पठाई त्यसलाई त्यहाँबाट ल्याउनुपर्छ र जिम्मेवार नातेदारको हातमा सुम्पनुपर्छ अनि त्यसको रगतको बदला लिइयोस् ।

then the elders of his city must send and bring him back from there, and turn him over into the hand of the responsible relative, so that he may die.

13 तिमीहरूका आँखाले त्यसलाई दया देखाउनुहुँदैन । बरु, तिमीहरूले इस्राएलबाट निर्दोषको हत्याको दोषलाई निर्मूलन गर्नुपर्छ ताकि तिमीहरूको भलो हुन सकोस् ।

Your eye must not pity him; instead, you must eradicate the bloodguilt from Israel, that it may go well with you.

14 परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले तिमीहरूलाई निज सम्पत्तिको रूपमा अधिकार गर्न दिन लाग्‍नुभएको देशमा लामो समयदेखि राखिएको आफ्नो छिमेकीको सिमानाको ढुङ्गो नहटाओ ।

You must not remove your neighbor's landmark that they set in place a long time ago, in your inheritance that you will inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you to possess.

15 कुनै पनि विषयमा कुनै पनि अपराध वा पापको लागि एउटै मात्र साक्षी खडा नहोस् । दुई वा तिन जनाको साक्षीको आधारमा त्यस विषयको पुष्‍टि होस् ।

One sole witness must not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any matter that he sins; at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, must any matter be confirmed.

16 कसैले गलत काम गरेको छ भनी कुनै अधर्मी मानिस खडा हुन सक्छ ।

Suppose that an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing.

17 कुरा नमिलेको दुवै जना व्यक्ति परमप्रभु, पुजारीहरू र ती दिनमा सेवा गर्ने न्यायकर्ताहरूको सामु खडा होऊन् ।

Then both men, the ones between whom the controversy exists, must stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days.

18 न्यायकर्ताहरूले दत्तचित्तसाथ जाँचबुझ गरून् । हेर, साक्षी झुटो रहेछ र त्यसले आफ्नो भाइको विरुद्धमा झुटो गवाही दिएको रहेछ भने

The judges must make diligent inquiries; see, if the witness is a false witness and has testified falsely against his brother,

19 त्यसले आफ्नो भाइलाई जे गर्ने सोच बनाएको थियो, त्यसलाई त्यसै गर्नू । यसरी तिमीहरूले आफ्ना बिचबाट दुष्‍टता हटाउनू ।

then must you do to him, as he had wished to do to his brother; and you will remove the evil from among you.

20 तब बाँकी हुनेहरू यो सुनेर डराने छन्, अनि त्यसपछि कसैले पनि तिमीहरूका बिचमा यस्तो दुष्‍टता गर्ने छैन ।

Then those who remain will hear and fear, and will from then on commit no longer any such evil among you.

21 तिमीहरूले दया नदेखाउनू । ज्यानको सट्टा ज्यान, आँखाको सट्टा आँखा, दाँतको सट्टा दाँत, हातको सट्टा हात र गोडाको सट्टा गोडा हुने छ ।

Your eyes must not pity; life will pay for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.