¹When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations, whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;

¹TOUPA na Pathian un a gam uh nou a honpiak nam TOUPAN a hihmana na luah ua, a khua khawng ua, a in khawng ua na om chiang un;

²you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

²TOUPA na Pathian un luah dinga nou a honpiak na gam uah nou adingin khaw thum na sep ding uhi.

³You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.

³Mithat taphot a tai lutna ding un, TOUPAN a honluah sak ding gam seh thum na suah ding ua, na gamgite uh na bawl ding ua, lampite na bawl ding uhi.

⁴This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn’t hate him in time past;

⁴Huan, mithatte huailaia tailut a bit theite bel hiaite ahi uhi; min a insakinkhang tumalama huatna leng nei khol loua that kha peuhmahte;

⁵as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:

⁵Mi a insakinkhang toh singphuk dinga gamlaka kuana singphuk dinga a heipia sata, heipi tang tolin a insakinkhang denglum khate bang, huaite lakah khua khatah a tai dinga, a bit ding:

⁶lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn’t hate him in time past.

⁶Sisan phu lamiin a hehna apai laia mithatmi a delha, lampi a sau jiaka delhphain a vasat lum kha ding hi: tumalam a huatna na nei khol lou a hih jiakin si tak lah ahi ngal kei hi.

⁷Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for yourselves.

⁷Huaijiakin, Kho thum nou adingin na sep ding uhi, chiin thu ka hon pia ahi.

⁸If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;

⁸Huan, TOUPA na Pathian un na pi leh pute uh kianga a nakichiam banga na pi leh pute uh piak a nachiam gam a honpiaka;

⁹if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three:

⁹TOUPA na Pathian uh it ding leh a lampi jui gige dinga a thupiak tengteng, tua ka honthupiak na pom ua, na gam uh a hihlet leh hiai kho thumte sim louin nou adingin kho thum dang na behlap nawn ding ua:

¹⁰that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

¹⁰TOUPAN luah dinga a honpiak na gamsung uah poi khoihlou sisan suah a om louha, na tung ua sisan a om louhna dingin.

¹¹But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;

¹¹Himahleh min a insakinkhang a huata, a tana, a suala, si khop hiala a vuaka, huai khote laka khata a tai leh;

¹²then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

¹²A kho upate un mi sawl uhenla, huai akipan va pi uhenla, hihlup dingin sisanphuala mi khutah pe khia uhen.

¹³Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

¹³Na hehpih ding uh ahi keia, nou dia hoih dingin Israel gam akipan poi khoihlou sisan suahna na hihmang ding uh ahi.

¹⁴You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

¹⁴TOUPA na Pathian un luah dinga a honpiak gam, na luah ding uh gama a maa a naphuhsa uh na insakinkhang uh gamgi na suan ding uh ahi kei.

¹⁵One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

¹⁵Mi a thulimlouhna hiam, a khelhna himhim hiam theihpih khat a hun kei dinga; theihpih nih kam hiam, theihpih thum kam hiama thu hihkip ding ahi.

¹⁶If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

¹⁶Theihpih diklouin mi thil diklou hih ahi chi dinga, dem dinga a kisak leh;

¹⁷then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;

¹⁷A kiselna uah a nih un TOUPA maah huai huna siampute leh vaihawmte maah a ding ding uhi;

¹⁸and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;

¹⁸Huan, vaihawmten ngentel takin thu a dong ding ua, huan, ngaiin, thu theihpihmi thutheihpih juau thei a hiha, a unau juaua ngoh a hihleh;

¹⁹then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

¹⁹A unau tunga hih a natup bangin a tungah na hih ding uh; huchibangin na lak ua thil hoih lou na hihmang dinguh ahi.

²⁰Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.

²⁰A omlaiten a za ding ua, a lau ding ua, tunung chiangin huchibang thil hoih lou mawngmawng na lak uah a hih nawnta kei ding uhi. sNa hehpih ding uh ahi keia; hinna tangin hinna, mit tangin mit, ha tangin ha, khut tangin khut, khe tangin khe ahi ding.

²¹Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

²¹Na hehpih ding uh ahi keia; hinna tangin hinna, mit tangin mit, ha tangin ha, khut tangin khut, khe tangin khe ahi ding.