¹If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him;

¹Ko najdejo v deželi, ki ti jo daje GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, da jo posedeš, ubitega človeka, ki leži na polju, pa se ne ve, kdo ga je ubil:

²then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain:

²naj pridejo starejšine in sodniki tvoji in merijo od ubitega do vsakega mesta, ki je v okolici.

³and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;

³Starejšine mesta pa, ki je najbliže ubitemu, naj vzamejo junico iz črede, s katero se še ni delalo in ki še ni vlekla v jarmu;

⁴and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

⁴in starejšine tistega mesta naj peljejo junico v dolino, kjer vedno teče voda, v kateri se ne orje in ne seje, in naj ji zlomijo šijnjak tam v dolini.

⁵The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.

⁵Nato naj pristopijo duhovniki, sinovi Levijevi, zakaj nje je izvolil GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, da mu strežejo ter blagoslavljajo v imenu GOSPODOVEM, in po njih besedi naj se poravna vsaka pravda in vsaka poškodba.

⁶All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;

⁶In vsi starejšine tistega mesta, ki je najbliže truplu ubitega človeka, naj si umijejo roke nad junico, ki so ji bili šijnjak zlomili v dolini,

⁷and they shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

⁷in izpregovore ter reko: Naše roke niso prelile te krvi in naše oči niso videle tega.

⁸Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.

⁸Odpusti, o GOSPOD, svojemu ljudstvu Izraelu, ki si ga odrešil, in ne prištej nedolžne krvi ljudstvu svojemu Izraelu! In krivda krvi jim bo odpuščena.

⁹So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

⁹Tako odpraviš nedolžno kri izmed sebe, ko storiš, kar je prav v očeh GOSPODOVIH.

¹⁰When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,

¹⁰Ko pojdeš na vojsko zoper svoje sovražnike in GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, ti jih da v roke ter odpelješ izmed njih ujetnike

¹¹and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;

¹¹in vidiš med ujetniki lepe postave žensko ter se vanjo zaljubiš, da bi jo vzel za ženo,

¹²then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

¹²vpelji jo v hišo svojo in naj si postriže lase in obreže nohte.

¹³and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

¹³In naj sleče oblačilo ujetništva svojega in ostane v hiši tvoji ter joka cel mesec po svojem očetu in po svoji materi; in potem pojdi k njej in bodi njen mož, in ona bodi žena tvoja.

¹⁴It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

¹⁴Ako pa nimaš veselja ž njo, pusti jo, kamor hoče iti, ali za denar je nikakor ne smeš prodati, tudi ne kot s sužnico ž njo ravnati, zato ker si jo ponižal.

¹⁵If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;

¹⁵Ako ima kdo dve ženi, eno, ki jo ljubi, in eno, ki mu je zoprna, in obe mu rodita otroke, ljubljena in neljubljena, in ako je prvorojenec tiste neljubljene:

¹⁶then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn:

¹⁶ko pride dan, da bo delil svojim sinovom v dediščino, kar ima, ne sme storiti sinú ljubljene za prvenca mimo sina neljubljene, ki je prvenec;

¹⁷but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

¹⁷temuč pripoznaj sina neljubljene za prvorojenca s tem, da mu da dvojni del vsega, kar ima; zakaj ta je začetek njegove moči in njegova je pravica prvenstva.

¹⁸If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;

¹⁸Ako ima kdo svojevoljnega in upornega sina, ki ne posluša glasu svojega očeta in svoje matere, in ga kaznujeta, pa ju noče poslušati,

¹⁹then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;

¹⁹naj ga primeta oče in mati ter ga pripeljeta k starejšinam svojega mesta, k vratom svojega kraja,

²⁰and they shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.”

²⁰ter rečeta mestnim starejšinam: Ta najin sin je svojevoljen in uporen, najinega glasu noče poslušati, požrešnik je in pijanec.

²¹All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

²¹Nato naj ga vsi možje njegovega mesta posujejo s kamenjem, da umrje. Tako odpravi hudo izmed sebe, in vsak Izraelec bo slišal in se bal.

²²If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree;

²²In če kdo zakrivi greh, ki je smrti vreden, in bo umorjen in ga obesiš na les,naj ne ostane njegovo truplo čez noč na lesu, temuč ga moraš tisti dan pokopati, zakaj kletev Božja je obešenec; ti pa ne smeš onečiščati dežele svoje, ki ti jo da v dediščino GOSPOD, tvoj Bog.

²³his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

²³naj ne ostane njegovo truplo čez noč na lesu, temuč ga moraš tisti dan pokopati, zakaj kletev Božja je obešenec; ti pa ne smeš onečiščati dežele svoje, ki ti jo da v dediščino GOSPOD, tvoj Bog.