¹暗杀悬案的条例

¹`When one is found slain on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it — fallen in a field — it is not known who hath smitten him,

²这样，你的长老和审判官就要出去，量一下从被杀的人那里到四周城市的距离。

²then have thine elders and thy judges gone out and measured unto the cities which [are] round about the slain one,

³看看哪一座城离那被杀的人最近，那城的长老就要从牛群中取一只母牛犊，就是还没有耕过地、没有负过轭的。

³and it hath been, the city which [is] near unto the slain one, even the elders of that city have taken a heifer of the herd, which hath not been wrought with, which hath not drawn in the yoke,

⁴那城的长老要把母牛犊牵下去，到一个有活水长流的山谷，就是未曾耕种过、未曾撒过种的地方，在那里要打折母牛犊的颈项。

⁴and the elders of that city have brought down the heifer unto a hard valley, which is not tilled nor sown, and have beheaded there the heifer in the valley.

⁵利未支派的祭司的子孙要上前来，因为耶和华你的　神拣选了他们事奉他，奉耶和华的名祝福。一切争讼和一切殴打的事，都要凭他们的话决定。

⁵`And the priests, sons of Levi, have come nigh — for on them hath Jehovah thy God fixed to serve Him, and to bless in the name of Jehovah, and by their mouth is every strife, and every stroke —

⁶那城所有的长老，就是离那被杀的人最近的，都要在山谷中，在被折断颈项的母牛犊以上洗手。

⁶and all the elders of that city, who are near unto the slain one, do wash their hands over the heifer which is beheaded in the valley,

⁷他们要声明，说：‘我们的手未曾流过这人的血，我们的眼也未曾看见这事。

⁷and they have answered and said, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen —

⁸耶和华啊，求你赦免你的子民以色列，就是你救赎的，不要使流无辜人的血的罪归在你的子民以色列中间。’这样，他们流人血的罪就得到赦免了。

⁸receive atonement for Thy people Israel, whom Thou hast ransomed, O Jehovah, and suffer not innocent blood in the midst of Thy people Israel; and the blood hath been pardoned to them,

⁹如果你行耶和华看为正的事，就可以从你中间除掉流无辜人的血的罪了。

⁹and thou dost put away the innocent blood out of thy midst, for thou dost that which [is] right in the eyes of Jehovah.

¹⁰娶女战俘为妻的条例“你出去和仇敌作战的时候，耶和华你的　神把他们交在你手里，你就把他们掳了去。

¹⁰`When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God hath given them into thy hand, and thou hast taken captive its captivity,

¹¹如果你在被掳的人中看见了容貌美好的女子，就恋慕她，要娶她作妻子，

¹¹and hast seen in the captivity a woman of fair form, and hast delighted in her, and hast taken to thee for a wife,

¹²那么，你可以把她带进你的家里；她要剃头修甲，

¹²then thou hast brought her in unto the midst of thy household, and she hath shaved her head, and prepared her nails,

¹³脱去被掳时所穿的衣服，住在你家里，为自己的父母哀哭一个月，然后你才可以亲近她；你作她的丈夫，她作你的妻子。

¹³and turned aside the raiment of her captivity from off her, and hath dwelt in thy house, and bewailed her father and her mother a month of days, and afterwards thou dost go in unto her and hast married her, and she hath been to thee for a wife:

¹⁴如果将来你不喜欢她，就要让她随意离去，决不可为了钱把她出卖，也不可以她为奴，因为你已经污辱了她。

¹⁴`And it hath been — if thou hast not delighted in her, that thou hast sent her away at her desire, and thou dost not at all sell her for money; thou dost not tyrannize over her, because that thou hast humbled her.

¹⁵勿因私爱废长立幼“如果人有两个妻子，一个是他喜爱的，一个是他不喜爱的，两个都给他生了儿子；但长子是他不喜爱的妻子生的；

¹⁵`When a man hath two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and they have borne to him sons (the loved one and the hated one), and the first-born son hath been to the hated one;

¹⁶到了他把所有的产业分给儿子承受的日子，他不可把他喜爱的妻子的儿子立为长子，排在他不喜爱的妻子的儿子以上，他才是长子；

¹⁶then it hath been, in the day of his causing his sons to inherit that which he hath, he is not able to declare first-born the son of the loved one, in the face of the son of the hated one — the first-born.

¹⁷却要承认他不喜爱的妻子的儿子为长子，把所有的产业分两分给他，因为这儿子是他强壮有力的时候所生的头生子，长子的权利本是属于他的。

¹⁷But the first-born, son of the hated one, he doth acknowledge, 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 first-born.

¹⁸对待逆子的条例“如果人有忤逆倔强的儿子，不听从父母的话；父母管教他以后，他还是不听从；

¹⁸`When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious — he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them —

¹⁹他的父母就要捉住他，把他带到当地的城门，去见本城的长老，

¹⁹then laid hold on him have his father and his mother, and they have brought him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place,

²⁰对本城的长老说：‘我们这个儿子忤逆倔强，不听从我们的话，是个贪食好酒的人。’

²⁰and have said unto the elders of his city, Our son — this one — is apostatizing and rebellious; he is not hearkening to our voice — a glutton and drunkard;

²¹全城的人就要用石头打死他；这样，你就把那恶从你们中间除掉。以色列众人听见了，就都惧怕。

²¹and all the men of his city have stoned him with stones, and he hath died, and thou hast put away the evil out of thy midst, and all Israel do hear and fear.

²²其他各种条例“如果人犯了该死的罪，被处死以后，你就把他挂在木头上；

²²`And when there is in a man a sin — a cause of death, and he hath been put to death, and thou hast hanged him on a tree,

²³他的尸体不可留在树上过夜，必须在当日把他埋葬，因为被挂在木头上的，是受　神咒诅的；这样，你就不至于玷污耶和华你的　神赐给你作产业的地了。”

²³his corpse doth not remain on the tree, for thou dost certainly bury him in that day — for a thing lightly esteemed of God [is] the hanged one — and thou dost not defile thy ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee — an inheritance.