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;

¹Keď vyplieni Hospodin, tvoj Bôh, národy, ktorých zem dá Hospodin, tvoj Bôh, tebe, a zaujmeš ich do dedičstva a budeš bývať v ich mestách a v ich domoch,

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

²oddelíš si tri mestá prostred svojej zeme, ktorú ti dá Hospodin, tvoj Bôh, aby si ju zaujal do dedičstva.

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.

³Spravíš si cestu a rozdelíš na tri diely územie svojej zeme, ktorú ti dá Hospodin, tvoj Bôh, do dedičstva, a bude to nato, aby sa ta utiekol každý, kto by niekoho zabil.

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;

⁴A toto bude vec vraha, ktorý by sa ta utiekol, aby žil: kto by zabil svojho blížneho nevedome, nechcúc, a keď ho nemal v nenávisti pred tým,

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:

⁵ako na príklad keby niekto vošiel so svojim blížnym do hory rúbať drevo, a zahnala by sa jeho ruka sekerou uťať drevo, a železo by sa sklzlo a odletelo s poriska a ponašlo by jeho blížneho, takže by zomrel, ten sa utečie do niektorého z tých miest a bude žiť,

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.

⁶aby snáď pomstiteľ krvi nehonil vraha, keď by sa rozpálilo jeho srdce, a nedostihnul ho, keby bolo mnoho cesty, a zabil by ho bez toho, že by bol zaslúžil smrť, pretože ho nemal v nenávisti ani vtedy ani pred tým.

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

⁷Preto ti ja prikazujem a hovorím: Oddelíš si tri mestá.

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;

⁸A jestli rozšíri Hospodin, tvoj Bôh, tvoje územie, ako prisahal tvojim otcom, a dá ti celú zem, o ktorej hovoril, že ju dá tvojim otcom,

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:

⁹keď budeš ostríhať všetky tieto prikázania činiac ich, ktoré ti ja prikazujem dnes, aby si miloval Hospodina, svojho Boha, aby si chodil po jeho cestách po všetky dni, vtedy si pridáš ešte druhé tri mestá ku tým trom,

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.

¹⁰aby sa nevyliala nevinná krv vprostred tvojej zeme, ktorú ti dá Hospodin, tvoj Bôh, do dedičstva, a bola by na tebe krv.

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;

¹¹Ale keby niekto nenávidel svojho blížneho a úkladil by mu a povstanúc na neho uderil by ho smrteľne, takže by zomrel, a keby sa utiekol do niektorého z tých miest,

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.

¹²vtedy pošlú starší jeho mesta a vezmú ho odtiaľ a oddajú ho do ruky pomstiteľa krvi, a zomrie.

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

¹³Nezľutuje sa nad ním tvoje oko, ale odpraceš nevinnú krv z Izraela, a bude ti dobre.

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.

¹⁴Neprenesieš medze svojho blížneho, ktorú vymedzili predkovia v tvojom dedičstve, ktoré zdedíš v zemi, ktorú ti dá Hospodin, tvoj Bôh, aby si ju zaujal do dedičstva.

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.

¹⁵Nepovstane jeden svedok proti niekomu vzťahom na jakúkoľvek neprávosť alebo na jakýkoľvek hriech, nech už by to bol akýkoľvek hriech, ktorým hrešieva človek. Na ústach dvoch svedkov alebo na ústach troch svedkov bude stáť slovo.

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

¹⁶Keby povstal ukrutný svedok falošný proti niekomu, aby svedčil na neho, že odstúpil od Boha,

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;

¹⁷vtedy sa postavia tí dvaja mužovia, ktorí majú taký spor pred Hospodinom, pred kňazov a pred sudcov, ktorí budú v tých dňoch.

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

¹⁸A sudcovia dobre vyšetria vec, a keď sa dokáže, že hľa, svedok je falošný svedok a že hovoril lož na svojho brata,

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.

¹⁹učiníte mu to isté, čo on zamýšľal učiniť svojmu bratovi, a odpraceš také zlo zo svojho stredu.

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

²⁰A ostatní, keď to počujú, budú sa báť a nevykonajú viac takej zlej veci v tvojom strede.

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

²¹A nezľutuje sa tvoje oko, ale dá život za život, oko za oko, zub za zub, ruku za ruku, nohu za nohu.