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;

¹Ko GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, iztrebi narode, katerih deželo ti daje GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, in se je polastiš in boš prebival v njih mestih in hišah,

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

²si oddeliš tri mesta sredi dežele, ki ti jo daje GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, da jo posedeš.

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.

³Napravi si dobro pot do njih in razdeli ozemlje svoje dežele, ki ti jo da v dediščino GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, v tri dele, da zbeži tja vsak ubijalec.

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;

⁴In to je pravilo zastran ubijalca, ki naj tja zbeži, da ostane živ: kdor udari svojega bližnjega nehotoma in ga ni v prejšnjem času sovražil;

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:

⁵kakor če gre kdo z bližnjim svojim v gozd drva sekat in zamahne s sekiro, da bi drevo posekal, in železo odleti s toporišča in zadene njegovega bližnjega, da umrje: tisti naj zbeži v eno teh mest, in ostane živ;

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.

⁶da ne bi se maščevalec krvi spustil za njim, ko mu je še srce razljučeno, in ga dohitel, ker bi bila pot dolga, in ga smrtno udaril, ko vendar ni bil vreden smrti, ker ga doslej ni še sovražil.

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

⁷Zatorej ti zapovedujem tole: Oddeli si tri mesta.

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;

⁸In ko razširi GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, tvoje meje, kakor je prisegel tvojim očetom, in ti da vso deželo, ki jo je obljubil dati tvojim očetom,

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:

⁹ako boš pazil na vso to zapoved, ki ti jo danes zapovedujem, izpolnjujoč jo s tem, da ljubiš GOSPODA, svojega Boga, in hodiš vse dni po njegovih potih: tedaj si prideni še tri mesta k onim trem,

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.

¹⁰da se ne prelije nedolžna kri v tvoji deželi, ki ti jo da v dediščino GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, in tako ne pride krivda krvi nad tebe.

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;

¹¹A če je kdo sovražen bližnjemu svojemu in ga zalezuje, in vstane zoper njega in ga smrtno udari, da umrje, potem pa zbeži v eno teh mest:

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.

¹²tedaj pošljejo starejšine njegovega mesta, da se pripelje odondod, in ga izroče maščevalcu krvi, da naj umrje.

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

¹³Naj mu ne prizanese tvoje oko, temuč odpravi kri nedolžnih iz Izraela, da se ti bo dobro godilo.

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.

¹⁴Ne premakni bližnjemu svojemu mejnika, ki so ga ob meji postavili predniki, ob tvoji dediščini, ki jo podeduješ v deželi, ki ti jo daje GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, da jo posedeš.

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.

¹⁵Ne vstane naj edina priča zoper koga zaradi katerekoli krivice ali kateregakoli greha, s kakršnimkoli grehom se ta zagreši; na dveh ali treh prič izpovedbo naj se opira vsaka stvar.

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

¹⁶Ako vstane zoper koga krivična priča, da ga okrivi prestopa,

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;

¹⁷naj stopita oba moža, med katerima je ta prepir, pred GOSPODA, pred duhovnike in sodnike, ki bodo v tem času;

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

¹⁸in sodniki naj preiščejo vse natanko, in glej, ta pričevalec je kriva priča, laž je izpovedal zoper bližnjega svojega;

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.

¹⁹tedaj mu storite, kakor je hotel storiti bratu svojemu: tako odpraviš hudo izmed sebe.

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

²⁰In ko bodo slišali drugi, se bodo bali in poslej ne bodo počenjali takega hudega sredi tebe.In tvoje oko ne prizanašaj: življenje za življenje, oko za oko, zob za zob, roka za roko, noga za nogo.

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

²¹In tvoje oko ne prizanašaj: življenje za življenje, oko za oko, zob za zob, roka za roko, noga za nogo.