¹You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish, or anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

¹Ne daruj GOSPODU, svojemu Bogu, ne vola, ne ovce, ki ima hibo ali kaj hudega na sebi, zakaj gnusoba je to GOSPODU, tvojemu Bogu.

²If there is found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant,

²Ako se najde sredi tebe, v kateremkoli iz tvojih mest, ki ti jih da GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, mož ali žena, ki počenja, kar je hudo v očeh GOSPODA, tvojega Boga, prestopajoč zavezo njegovo,

³and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the sky, which I have not commanded;

³ter gre in služi drugim bogovom in se jim klanja, ali pa solncu, ali mesecu, ali vsej vojski nebeški, kar sem prepovedal;

⁴and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently; and behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,

⁴in tebi se sporoči in si slišal o tem: tedaj preišči to natanko. In ako je res in stvar dokazana in se je storila taka gnusoba v Izraelu,

⁵then you shall bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.

⁵izpelji tistega moža ali tisto ženo, ki sta izvršila to hudo reč, k vratom svojega mesta in posuj ju, tistega moža ali tisto ženo, s kamenjem, da umrjeta.

⁶At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

⁶Na izpovedbo dveh ali treh prič bodi izročen smrti, kdor mora umreti, ali na izpovedbo edine priče ga ne daj te v smrt.

⁷The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

⁷Roka prič bodi prva nadenj, da ga usmrti, in potem roke vsega ljudstva. In tako potrebiš hudo izmed sebe.

⁸If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;

⁸Kadar ti bo pretežko kaj razsoditi med krvjo in krvjo, med pravdo in pravdo, med poškodbo in poškodbo, ko so preporne stvari v tvojih vratih, vstani in pojdi gori na mesto, ki si ga izvoli GOSPOD, tvoj Bog;

⁹and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.

⁹in pridi k duhovnikom levitom in k sodniku, ki bode tisti čas, in jih vprašaj, in oznanijo ti razsodbo.

¹⁰You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:

¹⁰Ti pa stori po glasu te razsodbe, ki ti jo oznanijo s tistega kraja, ki si ga izvoli GOSPOD; in pazi, da storiš vse, kakor te pouče.

¹¹according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.

¹¹Po glasu zakona, ki te ga bodo učili, in po sodbi, ki ti jo povedo, stóri; ne ugani se od izreka, ki ti ga naznanijo, ne na desno, ne na levo.

¹²The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Israel.

¹²Mož pa, ki bi drzovito ravnal in ne poslušal duhovnika, ki tam stoji, da opravlja službo pred GOSPODOM, tvojim Bogm, ali pa sodnika, ta mož naj umrje; in potrebi hudo iz Izraela.

¹³All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

¹³In vse ljudstvo naj to sliši in se boji, in nikoli več naj ne ravna predrzno.

¹⁴When you have come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me”;

¹⁴Ko prideš v deželo, ki ti jo daje GOSPOD, Bog tvoj, in si jo prilastiš in boš v njej prebival, in ko porečeš: Hočem si kralja postaviti, kakor ga imajo vsi narodi okoli mene,

¹⁵you shall surely set him king over yourselves, whom Yahweh your God shall choose: one from among your brothers you shall set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

¹⁵tedaj si smeš postaviti za kralja le njega, ki si ga izvoli GOSPOD, tvoj Bog; enega izmed bratov svojih postavi za kralja nad seboj; inostranca, ki ni tvoj brat, si ne smeš postaviti.

¹⁶Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”

¹⁶Samo naj se preveč ne peča s konji, tudi naj ne vodi ljudstva nazaj v Egipt, da bi si nabavil mnogo konj; zakaj GOSPOD vam je rekel: Nikoli več se ne vračajte po tem potu.

¹⁷Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

¹⁷Tudi ne imej mnogo žen, da ne bi se odvrnilo njegovo srce; tudi naj si ne nabira preveč srebra in zlata.

¹⁸It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites:

¹⁸In ko zasede prestol svojega kraljestva, naj si zapiše v knjigo prepis tega zakona, ki ga hranijo duhovniki leviti,

¹⁹and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

¹⁹in ima naj jo pri sebi ter jo bere vse dni svojega življenja, da se nauči bati se GOSPODA, svojega Boga, hraniti vse besede tega zakona in te postave, da bi jih izpolnjeval;da se ne povzdigne njegovo srce nad brate svoje ter da se ne gane od zapovedi ne na desno, ne na levo, da bi podaljšal dni svojega in tudi svojih sinov kraljevanja sredi Izraela.

²⁰that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.

²⁰da se ne povzdigne njegovo srce nad brate svoje ter da se ne gane od zapovedi ne na desno, ne na levo, da bi podaljšal dni svojega in tudi svojih sinov kraljevanja sredi Izraela.