व्यवस्था 21

1 परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले तिमीहरूलाई अधिकार गर्न दिन लाग्‍नुभएको देशको कुनै मैदानमा कोही मारिएको पाइयो र यसको हत्याराको निधो भएन भने,

“When one is found slain, fallen in a field on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you to possess it, [and] it is not known who has struck him,

2 तिमीहरूका धर्म-गुरुहरू र न्यायकर्ताहरू गएर लाशदेखि नजिक भएका सहरहरू पत्ता लगाऊन् ।

then your elderly and yours [of those] judging have gone out and measured to the cities which [are] around the slain one,

3 त्यसपछि लाशको निकटतम सहरका धर्म-गुरुहरूले गाईवस्तुबाट काममा नलगाएको र जुवा नहालेको एउटा कोरली लिऊन् ।

and it has been, the city which [is] near to the slain one, even [the] elderly of that city have taken a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked with, which has not drawn in a yoke,

4 अनि तिनीहरूले त्यस कोरलीलाई नजोतिएको र बिउ नछरिएको खोला भएको उपत्यकामा लैजाऊन्, र त्यहाँ तिनीहरूले त्यसको घाँटी भाँचिदिऊन् ।

and [the] elderly of that city have brought down the heifer to a hard valley, which is not tilled nor sown, and have beheaded the heifer there in the valley.

5 पुजारीहरू अर्थात् लेवीका सन्तानहरू अगाडि आऊन् किनकि परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले तिमीहरूलाई उहाँको सेवा गर्न र परमप्रभुको नाउँमा आशिष् दिन अनि हरेक वादविवाद मिलाइदिन छान्‍नुभएको छ ।

And the priests, sons of Levi, have come near—for your God YHWH has fixed on them to serve Him and to bless in the Name of YHWH, and by their mouth is every strife and every stroke—

6 मारिएको मानिसको निकटतम सहरका सबै धर्म-गुरुले उपत्यकामा घाँटी निमोठिएको कोरलीमाथि आ-आफ्ना हात धोऊन् ।

and all [the] elderly of that city, who are near to the slain one, wash their hands over the heifer which is beheaded in the valley,

7 अनि तिनीहरूले त्यस मामललाई जवाफ दिई यसो भनून्, 'हाम्रा हातले यो रगत बगाएका होइनन्, न त हाम्रा आँखाले यसलाई देखेका छन् ।'

and they have answered and said, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen—

8 हे परमप्रभु इस्राएललाई क्षमा दिनुहोस् जसलाई तपाईंले छुटकारा दिनुभएको छ, र तपाईंको जाति इस्राएलको बिचमा यो निर्दोषको हत्याको दोष नलगाउनुहोस् ।' तब हत्याको दोषलाई क्षमा हुने छ ।

receive atonement for Your people Israel, whom You have ransomed, O YHWH, and do not permit innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel; and the blood has been pardoned to them,

9 यसरी तिमीहरूले परमप्रभुको दृष्‍टिमा जे ठिक छ त्यही गरेकाले तिमीहरूले तिमीहरूका बिचबाट निर्दोषको हत्याको दोषलाई हटाउने छौ ।

and you put away the innocent blood out of your midst, for you do that which [is] right in the eyes of YHWH.

10 जब तिमीहरू आफ्ना शत्रुहरूको विरुद्धमा युद्ध गर्न जान्छौ र परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले तिमीहरूलाई विजय दिई तिनीहरूलाई तिमीहरूको वशमा ल्याउनुहुन्छ अनि जब तिमीहरूले तिनीहरूलाई बन्दी बनाई ल्याउँछौ,

When you go out to battle against your enemies, and your God YHWH has given them into your hand, and you have taken captive its captivity,

11 तब तिमीहरूले बन्दीहरूका बिचमा सुन्दरी स्‍त्री देख्यौ र त्यसलाई आफ्नी पत्‍नी बनाउने इच्छा गर्‍यौ भने

and have seen a woman of beautiful form in the captivity, and have delighted in her, and have taken [her] to yourself for a wife,

12 त्यसलाई आफ्नो घरमा लैजानू । त्यसले आफ्नो कपाल खौरन्छे र नङ् काट्छे ।

then you have brought her into the midst of your household, and she has shaved her head, and prepared her nails,

13 त्यसपछि त्यसले निर्वासनमा छँदा आफूले लगाएको लुगा फुकाल्छे र त्यो तिम्रो घरमा बसी आफ्ना बुबाआमाको लागि एक वर्षसम्म शोक गर्छे । त्यसपछि तिमी त्योसित सुत्‍न सक्छौ र त्यसको पति हुन सक्छौ र त्यो तिम्री पत्‍नी हुन्छे ।

and turned aside the raiment of her captivity from off her, and has dwelt in your house, and lamented her father and her mother [for] a month of days, and afterward you go in to her and have married her, and she has been to you for a wife.

14 तर तिमीले त्यसमा रुचि देखाएनौ भने त्यसलाई इच्छा लागेको ठाउँमा जान दिनू । तथापि तिमीले त्यसलाई पैसामा नबेच्नू, त्यसलाई कमारीलाई जस्तै व्यवहार नगर्नू किनकि तिमीले त्यसको सतीत्व नष्‍ट गरेका छौ ।

And it has been, if you have not delighted in her, that you have sent her away at her desire, and surely you do not sell her for money; you do not tyrannize over her, because that you have humbled her.

15 कुनै मानिसका दुई पत्‍नी छन् र त्यसले एउटालाई माया गर्छ र अर्कीलाई घृणा गर्छ अनि दुवै जनाले सन्तान जन्माएका छन् भने अनि घृणा गरिनेले चाहिँ जेठो छोरो जन्माएको छ भने

When a man has two wives, one loved and the other hated, and they have borne sons to him (the loved one and the hated one), and the firstborn son has been to the hated one,

16 अंशबन्डा गर्दा माया गर्नेको छोरा भनेर माया नगर्नेको खास जेठो छोरोलाई उछिनेर पिताले कान्छोलाई अधिकार दिन मिल्दैन ।

then it has been, in the day of his causing his sons to inherit that which he has, he is not able to declare firstborn the son of the loved one, in the face of the son of the hated one—the firstborn.

17 बरु, त्यसले घृणा गरिएकी पत्‍नीको छोरोलाई नै आफ्ना सबै सम्पत्तिको दोब्बर भाग दिएर जेठो हो भनी मान्यता देओस् । किनकि त्यो छोरो नै त्यसको शक्तिको सुरु हो । जेठोको हक त्यसको नै हो ।

But the firstborn, son of the hated one, he acknowledges, to give to him a double portion of all that is found with him, for he [is] the beginning of his strength; to him [is] the right of the firstborn.

18 कुनै मानिसको हठी र विर्दोही छोरो छ जसले आफ्ना बुबा वा आमाको कुरा मान्दैन वा र तिनीहरूले त्यसलाई सुधार्दा पनि त्यो सुध्रदैन भने

When a man has a son apostatizing and being rebellious—he is not listening to the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they have disciplined him, and he does not listen to them—

19 त्यसका बुबाआमाले त्यसलाई समातेर सहरका धर्म-गुरुहरूकहाँ सहरका ढोकाहरूमा ल्याऊन् ।

then his father and his mother have laid hold on him, and they have brought him out to [the] elderly of his city, and to the gate of his place,

20 तिनीहरूले धर्म-गुरुहरूलाई यसो भनून्, 'यो हाम्रो छोरो हठी र विर्दोही छ । यसले हाम्रो कुरा मान्दैन । यो लफङ्गो र मतवाला हो ।'

and have said to [the] elderly of his city, Our son—this one—is apostatizing and being rebellious; he is not listening to our voice—a glutton and drunkard.

21 तब सहरका सबै मानिसले त्यसलाई ढुङ्गाले हानेर मारून् । यसरी तिमीहरूले तिमीहरूका बिचबाट दुष्‍टतालाई हटाउने छौ । सारा इस्राएली यो सुनेर डराउने छन् ।

Then all the men of his city have stoned him with stones and he has died, and you have put away the evil out of your midst, and all Israel hears and fears.

22 कुनै मानिसले मृत्यु योग्यको पाप गरेको छ र त्यसलाई मृत्युदण्ड दिँदा त्यसलाई रुखमा झुण्ड्यायौ भने

And when there is a sin in a man [with] a judgment of death, and he has been put to death, and you have hanged him on a tree,

23 त्यसको लाश रातभरि रुखमा नरहोस् । बरु, त्यसलाई त्यही दिनमा नै गाडिदिनू । किनकि जो झुण्ड्याइन्छ त्यो परमप्रभुबाट श्रापित हुन्छ । परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले तिमीहरूलाई सम्पत्तिको रूपमा दिनुहुने देशलाई तिमीहरूले बिटुलो नपार भनेर यो आज्ञा पालन गर ।

his corpse does not remain on the tree, for you certainly bury him in the day—for he who is hanged [becomes] a curse of God—and you do not defile your ground which your God YHWH is giving to you [for] an inheritance.”