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1 परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्‍वरले तिमीहरूलाई अधिकार गर्न दिन लाग्‍नुभएको देशको कुनै मैदानमा कोही मारिएको पाइयो र यसको हत्याराको निधो भएन भने,
If someone is found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him,
2 तिमीहरूका धर्म-गुरुहरू र न्यायकर्ताहरू गएर लाशदेखि नजिक भएका सहरहरू पत्ता लगाऊन् ।
then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain.
3 त्यसपछि लाशको निकटतम सहरका धर्म-गुरुहरूले गाईवस्तुबाट काममा नलगाएको र जुवा नहालेको एउटा कोरली लिऊन् ।
It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with and which has not drawn in the yoke.
4 अनि तिनीहरूले त्यस कोरलीलाई नजोतिएको र बिउ नछरिएको खोला भएको उपत्यकामा लैजाऊन्, र त्यहाँ तिनीहरूले त्यसको घाँटी भाँचिदिऊन् ।
The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck 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 ।
The priests the sons of Levi shall come near, for them the LORD your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the LORD’s name; and according to their word shall every controversy and every assault be decided.
6 मारिएको मानिसको निकटतम सहरका सबै धर्म-गुरुले उपत्यकामा घाँटी निमोठिएको कोरलीमाथि आ-आफ्ना हात धोऊन् ।
All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken 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 ।'
They shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
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 ।
Forgive, LORD, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.
9 यसरी तिमीहरूले परमप्रभुको दृष्‍टिमा जे ठिक छ त्यही गरेकाले तिमीहरूले तिमीहरूका बिचबाट निर्दोषको हत्याको दोषलाई हटाउने छौ ।
So you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in the LORD’s eyes.
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 the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you carry them away captive,
11 तब तिमीहरूले बन्दीहरूका बिचमा सुन्दरी स्‍त्री देख्यौ र त्यसलाई आफ्नी पत्‍नी बनाउने इच्छा गर्‍यौ भने
and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her, and desire to take her as your wife,
12 त्यसलाई आफ्नो घरमा लैजानू । त्यसले आफ्नो कपाल खौरन्छे र नङ् काट्छे ।
then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim 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 ।
She shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your 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 ।
It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because 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
If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated,
16 अंशबन्डा गर्दा माया गर्नेको छोरा भनेर माया नगर्नेको खास जेठो छोरोलाई उछिनेर पिताले कान्छोलाई अधिकार दिन मिल्दैन ।
then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is 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 he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
18 कुनै मानिसको हठी र विर्दोही छोरो छ जसले आफ्ना बुबा वा आमाको कुरा मान्दैन वा र तिनीहरूले त्यसलाई सुधार्दा पनि त्यो सुध्रदैन भने
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,
19 त्यसका बुबाआमाले त्यसलाई समातेर सहरका धर्म-गुरुहरूकहाँ सहरका ढोकाहरूमा ल्याऊन् ।
then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders 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 ।'
They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
21 तब सहरका सबै मानिसले त्यसलाई ढुङ्गाले हानेर मारून् । यसरी तिमीहरूले तिमीहरूका बिचबाट दुष्‍टतालाई हटाउने छौ । सारा इस्राएली यो सुनेर डराउने छन् ।
All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.
22 कुनै मानिसले मृत्यु योग्यको पाप गरेको छ र त्यसलाई मृत्युदण्ड दिँदा त्यसलाई रुखमा झुण्ड्यायौ भने
If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang 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 body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.

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