Deuteronômio 19
1 Quando o Senhor teu Deus desarraigar as nações cuja terra te dará o Senhor teu Deus, e tu as possuires, e morares nas suas cidades e nas suas casas;
“When the Lord your God will have destroyed the nations, whose land he will deliver to you, and when you possess it and live in its cities and buildings,
2 Tres cidades separarás no meio da tua terra que te dará o Senhor teu Deus para a possuir.
you shall separate for yourselves three cities in the midst of the land, which the Lord will give to you as a possession,
3 Preparar-te-has o caminho; e os termos da tua terra, que te fará possuir o Senhor teu Deus, partirás em tres: e isto será para que todo o homicida se acolha ali.
paving the road carefully. And you shall divide the entire province of your land equally into three parts, so that he who is forced to flee because of manslaughter may have a place nearby to which he may be able to escape.
4 E este é o caso tocante ao homicida, que se acolher ali, para que viva: aquelle que por erro ferir o seu proximo, a quem não aborrecia d'antes:
This shall be the law of the killer who flees, whose life is to be saved. Whoever strikes down his neighbor unwillingly, and who has been proven to have had no hatred against him yesterday and the day before,
5 Como aquelle que entrar com o seu proximo no bosque, para cortar lenha, e, pondo força na sua mão com o machado para cortar a arvore, o ferro saltar do cabo e ferir o seu proximo, e morrer, o tal se acolherá a uma d'estas cidades, e viverá:
such that he had gone with him into the forest simply to cut wood, and in cutting down the tree, the axe slipped from his hand, or the iron slipped from the handle, and it struck his friend and killed him: he shall flee to one of the cities stated above, and he shall live.
6 Para que o vingador do sangue não vá após o homicida, quando se esquentar o seu coração, e o alcançar, por ser comprido o caminho, e lhe tire a vida; porque não é culpado de morte, pois o não aborrecia d'antes.
Otherwise, perhaps the near relative of him whose blood was shed, impelled by his grief, might pursue and apprehend him, unless the way is too long, and he might strike down the life of him who is not guilty unto death, since he had demonstrated that he had no prior hatred against him who was slain.
7 Portanto te dou ordem, dizendo: Tres cidades separarás.
For this reason, I instruct you to separate three cities at equal distance from one another.
8 E, se o Senhor teu Deus dilatar os teus termos, como jurou a teus paes, e te dér toda a terra que disse daria a teus paes
And when the Lord your God will have enlarged your borders, just as he swore to your fathers, and when he will have given to you all the land that he has promised to them,
9 (Quando guardares todos estes mandamentos, que hoje te ordeno, para fazel-os, amando ao Senhor teu Deus e andando nos seus caminhos todos os dias), então accrescentarás outras tres cidades além d'estas tres.
(but this is only so if you will keep his commandments and do the things which I instruct to you this day, so that you love the Lord your God, and walk in his ways at all times) you shall add for yourselves three other cities, and so you shall double the number of the three cities stated above.
10 Para que o sangue innocente se não derrame no meio da tua terra, que o Senhor teu Deus te dá por herança, e haja sangue sobre ti
So may innocent blood not be shed in the midst of the land which the Lord your God will give you to possess, lest you be guilty of blood.
11 Mas, havendo alguem que aborrece a seu proximo, e lhe arma ciladas, e se levanta contra elle, e o fere na vida, que morra, e se acolhe a alguma d'estas cidades,
But if anyone, having hatred for his neighbor, will have lain in ambush for his life, and, rising up, will have struck him, and he will have died, and if he will have fled to one of the cities stated above,
12 Então os anciãos da sua cidade mandarão, e d'ali o tirarão, e o entregarão na mão do vingador do sangue, para que morra
the elders of his city shall send, and they shall take him from the place of refuge, and they shall deliver him into the hand of the relative of him whose blood was shed, and he shall die.
13 O teu olho o não poupará; antes tirarás o sangue innocente de Israel, para que bem te succeda.
You shall not take pity on him, and so shall you take away the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may be well with you.
14 Não mudes o limite do teu proximo, que limitaram os antigos na tua herança, que possuires na terra, que te dá o Senhor teu Deus para a possuires.
You shall not take up or move the landmark of your neighbor, which those before you have placed, in your possession that the Lord your God will give to you, in the land you will receive to possess.
15 Uma só testemunha contra ninguem se levantará por qualquer iniquidade, ou por qualquer peccado, seja qual fôr o peccado que peccasse: pela bocca de duas testemunhas, ou pela bocca de tres testemunhas, se estabelecerá o negocio.
One witness shall not stand against another, no matter what the sin or outrage may be. For every word shall stand by the mouth of two or three witnesses.
16 Quando se levantar testemunha falsa contra alguem, para testificar contra elle ácerca de desvio,
If a lying witness will have stood against a man, accusing him of a transgression,
17 Então aquelles dois homens, que tiverem a demanda, se apresentarão perante o Senhor, diante dos sacerdotes e dos juizes que houver n'aquelles dias;
both of those whose case it is shall stand before the Lord in the sight of the priests and the judges who shall be in those days.
18 E os juizes bem inquirirão; e eis que, sendo a testemunha falsa testemunha, que testificou falsidade contra seu irmão,
And when, after a very diligent examination, they will have found that the false witness had told a lie against his brother,
19 Far-lhe-heis como cuidou fazer a seu irmão: e assim tirarás o mal do meio de ti.
they shall render to him just as he intended to do to his brother. And so shall you take away the evil from your midst.
20 Para que os que ficarem o ouçam e temam, e nunca mais tornem a fazer tal mal no meio de ti.
Then the others, upon hearing this, will be afraid, and they will by no means dare to do such things.
21 O teu olho não poupará: vida por vida, olho por olho, dente por dente, mão por mão, pé por pé.
You shall not take pity on him. Instead, you shall require a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot.”
