Второзаконие 17

1 Да не пожреши Господеви Богу твоему телца или овчате, на немже есть порок, всяк глагол зол: яко мерзость Господеви Богу твоему есть.

“You shall not immolate to the Lord your God a sheep or an ox, in which there is a blemish or any defect at all; for this is an abomination to the Lord your God.

2 Аще же обрящется у тебе во единем от градов твоих, яже Господь Бог твои дает тебе, муж или жена, иже сотворит лукавое пред Господем Богом твоим, преступити завет Его:

When there will have been found among you, within one of your gates which the Lord your God will give to you, a man or a woman who is doing evil in the sight of the Lord your God, and who is transgressing his covenant,

3 и шедше послужат богом иным и поклонятся им, солнцу, или луне, или всякому яже от красоты небесныя, ихже не повелех тебе:

so as to go and serve foreign gods and adore them, such as the sun and the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not instructed,

4 и возвестится тебе, и взыщеши зело, и се, истинно бысть слово, мерзость сотворися сия во Израили:

and when this will have been reported to you, and, upon hearing it, if you have inquired diligently and have found it to be true, that the abomination is being done in Israel:

5 да изведеши человека того, или жену ту, иже сотвориша дело злое сие, пред двери, и побиете их камением, и да умрут.

you shall lead forward the man or the woman who has perpetrated this most wicked thing to the gates of your city, and they shall be stoned to death.

6 При двою свидетелех или при трех да умрет: умираяй да не умрет при единем свидетели:

By the mouth of two or three witnesses, he who is to be put to death shall perish. Let no one be killed with only one person speaking testimony against him.

7 и рука свидетелей да будет на нем в первых, умертвити его, и рука всех людий послежде: и измите злое от вас самех.

First, the hands of the witnesses shall be upon him who will be put to death, and lastly, the hands of the remainder of the people shall be sent forth. So may you take away the evil from your midst.

8 Аще же неудоборешимо слово у тебе в суде между кровию и кровию, и между судом и судом, и между язвою и язвою, и между прением и прением, словеса судная в градех твоих, и востав взыдеши на место, еже изберет Господь Бог твой призвати имя Его тамо:

If you have perceived that there is among you a difficult and doubtful matter of judgment, between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and leprosy, and if you will have seen that the words of the judges within your gates vary: rise up and ascend to the place which the Lord your God will choose.

9 и приидеши к жерцем левитом, и к судии, иже будет в тыя дни, и взыскавше возвестят тебе суд:

And you shall approach the priests of the Levitical stock, and the judge, who shall be among them at that time, and you shall inquire of them, and they will reveal to you the truth of the judgment.

10 и сотвориши по словеси, еже возвестят тебе от места, еже изберет Господь Бог твой призывати имя Его тамо, и да сохраниши зело творити вся, елика законоположатся тебе:

And you shall accept whatever they will say, those who preside in the place which the Lord will choose, and whatever they will teach you,

11 по закону и по суду, егоже рекут тебе, сотвориши, да не уклонишися от словесе, еже известят тебе, ни на десно, ни на лево.

in accord with his law, and you shall follow their sentence. Neither shall you turn aside to the right or to the left.

12 И человек, иже сотворит в гордости, еже не послушати жерца предстоящаго служити во имя Господа Бога твоего, или судии, иже в тыя дни будет, да умрет человек той, и да измеши злое от Израиля:

But whoever will be arrogant, unwilling to obey the order of the priest who ministers at that time to the Lord your God, and the decree of the judge, that man shall die. And so shall you take away the evil from Israel.

13 и вси людие услышавше убоятся, и не будут нечествовати ктому.

And when the people hear about this, they shall be afraid, so that no one, from that time on, will swell with pride.

14 Аще же внидеши в землю, юже Господь Бог твой дает тебе в жребий, и приимеши ю, и вселишися на ней, и речеши: поставлю князя над собою, якоже и прочии языцы, иже окрест мене:

When you will have entered into the land which the Lord your God will give to you, and you possess it, and you live in it, and you say, ‘I will appoint a king over me, just as all the surrounding nations have done,’

15 поставляя да поставиши над собою князя, егоже изберет Господь Бог твой, от братии твоея да поставиши над собою князя, не возможеши поставити над собою князя человека чуждаго, яко не брат твой есть.

you shall appoint him whom the Lord your God will choose from among the number of your brothers. You cannot make a man of another people king, one who is not your brother.

16 Обаче да не умножит себе коней, ниже да возвратит людий во Египет, яко да не умножит себе коней: Господь же рече вам: не приложите возвратитися путем сим ктому:

And when he will have been appointed king, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor lead the people back into Egypt, having been exalted by the number of his horsemen, especially since the Lord has instructed you never to return along the same way.

17 и да не умножит себе жен, да не превратится сердце его: и сребра и злата да не умножит себе зело.

He shall not have many wives, who might allure his mind, and he shall not have immense weights of silver and gold.

18 И будет егда сядет на престоле власти своея, да напишет себе второзаконие сие в книзе от жерцев левитов,

Then, after he has been seated upon the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself the Deuteronomy of this law in a volume, using a copy from the priests of the Levitical tribe.

19 и будет с ним, и да чтет ю во вся дни жития своего, да научится боятися Господа Бога своего и хранити вся заповеди сия и оправдания сия, творити я:

And he shall have it with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, and to keep his words and ceremonies, which are instructed in the law.

20 да не возвысится сердце его от братии его, да не преступит от заповедий ни на десно, ни на лево яко да будет многа лета во власти своей, той и сыны его с ним, в сынех Израилевых.

And so may his heart not become exalted with arrogance over his brothers, nor turn aside to the right or to the left, so that he and his sons may reign for a long time over Israel.”