تثنیه 21
| در سرزمینی که یهوه خدایتان به شما می‌دهد، هرگاه جسد مقتولی که قاتلش معلوم نیست در صحرا پیدا شود، | 1 |
“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,
| آنگاه مشایخ و قضات با اندازه‌گیری فاصلهٔ جسد تا شهرهای اطراف، نزدیکترین شهر را تعیین کنند. مشایخ آن شهر، باید گوساله‌ای را که تا به حال بر آن یوغ بسته نشده بگیرند | 2 |
then your elderly and yours [of those] judging have gone out and measured to the cities which [are] around the slain one,
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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,
| و آن را به دره‌ای ببرند که در آن آب جاری باشد، ولی زمینش هرگز شخم نخورده و کشت نشده باشد، و در آنجا گردن گوساله را بشکنند. | 4 |
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.
| آنگاه کاهنان لاوی نزدیک بیایند، زیرا یهوه خدایتان ایشان را انتخاب کرده است تا در حضور او خدمت کنند و به نام خداوند برکت دهند و در مرافعه‌ها و مجازاتها تصمیم بگیرند. | 5 |
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—
| سپس مشایخ آن شهر، دستهای خود را روی آن گوساله بشویند | 6 |
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,
| و بگویند: «دستهای ما این خون را نریخته و چشمان ما هم آن را ندیده است. | 7 |
and they have answered and said, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen—
| ای خداوند، قوم خود، اسرائیل را که نجات داده‌ای ببخش و آنها را به قتل مردی بی‌گناه متهم نکن. گناه خون این مرد را بر ما نگیر.» | 8 |
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,
| به این ترتیب با پیروی از دستورهای خداوند، شما این گناه را از بین خود دور خواهید کرد. | 9 |
and you put away the innocent blood out of your midst, for you do that which [is] right in the eyes of YHWH.
| زمانی که به جنگ می‌روید و خداوند، خدایتان دشمنان شما را به دست شما تسلیم می‌کند و شما آنها را به اسارت خود درمی‌آورید، | 10 |
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,
| چنانچه در میان اسیران، دختر زیبایی را ببینید و عاشق او بشوید، و بخواهید او را به زنی بگیرید، | 11 |
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,
| می‌توانید او را به خانهٔ خود بیاورید و بگذارید سرش را بتراشد، ناخنهایش را بگیرد | 12 |
then you have brought her into the midst of your household, and she has shaved her head, and prepared her nails,
| و لباسهایش را که هنگام اسیر شدن پوشیده بود عوض کند. سپس یک ماه تمام در خانهٔ شما در عزای پدر و مادرش بنشیند. بعد از آن، می‌توانید او را به زنی اختیار کنید. | 13 |
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.
| بعد اگر از او راضی نبودید، نباید او را بفروشید یا مثل برده با او رفتار کنید، زیرا او را به زنی گرفته‌اید؛ پس، بگذارید هر جا می‌خواهد برود. | 14 |
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.
| اگر مردی دو همسر داشته باشد، و از هر دو صاحب پسر شود و پسر بزرگترش فرزند همسر مورد علاقه‌اش نباشد، | 15 |
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,
| حق ندارد ارث بیشتری به پسر کوچکترش یعنی پسر زنی که وی او را دوست دارد بدهد. | 16 |
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.
| او باید دو سهم به پسر بزرگترش که نخستین نشانهٔ قدرتش بوده و حق نخست‌زادگی به او می‌رسد بدهد، هرچند وی پسر همسر مورد علاقه‌اش نباشد. | 17 |
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.
| اگر مردی پسر لجوج و سرکشی داشته باشد که با وجود تنبیهات مکرر والدین، از ایشان اطاعت نکند، | 18 |
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—
| در این صورت باید پدر و مادرش او را نزد مشایخ شهر ببرند | 19 |
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,
| و بگویند: «این پسر ما لجوج و سرکش است، حرف ما را گوش نمی‌کند و به ولخرجی و میگساری می‌پردازد.» | 20 |
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.
| آنگاه اهالی شهر او را سنگسار کنند تا بمیرد. به این طریق، شرارت را از میان خود دور خواهید کرد و همهٔ جوانان اسرائیل این واقعه را شنیده، خواهند ترسید. | 21 |
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.
| اگر مردی مرتکب جرمی شده باشد که جزای آن مرگ است و پس از اعدام، جسد او را به درختی بیاویزند، | 22 |
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,
| جسد او نباید در طول شب روی درخت بماند. باید همان روز او را دفن کنید، زیرا کسی که بر دار آویخته شده باشد ملعون خداست. پس بدن او را دفن کنید تا سرزمینی که خداوند، خدایتان به شما داده است آلوده نشود. | 23 |
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.”
