申命記 21

1 如果上主你的天主賜給你作產業的地方，發現有人被殺，曝屍原野，卻不知道是誰殺了他，

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

2 你的長老和官長應出來，從被殺者測量到四周各城，

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

3 看那一座城離被殺者最近；然後這城的長老應牽來一頭尚未耕作，尚未負軛的母牛犢。

and 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;

4 這城的長老應把母牛犢牽到尚未耕耘播種的地方，靠近常流的溪水旁，就在那溪水上砍斷母牛瀆的頸。

and 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.

5 肋未的子孫司祭們應上前來，因為上主你的天主揀選了他們為事奉自己，因上主之名頒賜祝福，所以一切爭論毆打的事，都應憑他們的裁判來決斷。

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

6 那離被殺者最近城市的長老，都應用溪水在被砍斷頸項的母牛犢身上洗手，

All 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;

7 同時聲明說：「這血不是我們的手流的，我們的眼也沒有看見。

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

8 上主! 求你赦免你所救贖的以色列人民，不要讓這流無辜血的罪債，留在你以色列人民中間。」這樣他們算是贖了流血的罪。

Forgive, LORD, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and do not allow innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel." The blood shall be forgiven them.

9 你由你中間也除去了流無辜血的罪，因為你行了上主眼中視為正直的事。

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

10 當你出征進攻你的敵人時，上主你的天主將他們交在你手中，你獲得了一些俘虜；

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

11 你若在俘虜中看見了一個容貌美好的女人，對她愛戀不捨，願娶她為妻，

and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife;

12 你可帶她到你家中，叫她剃去頭髮，剪短指甲，

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

13 脫去自己被擄時所穿的衣服，住在你家裏，哀悼她的父母一個月；然後，你纔能親近她：你做她的丈夫，她做你的妻子。

and she shall remove the clothing she was wearing when captured, and shall remain in your house, and mourn her father and her mother a full month. And after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

14 以後如果你不喜歡她，應讓她隨意離去，決不能將她賣錢，也不能以她為奴，因為你曾玷污了她。

It shall be, if you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she wants; but you may not sell her for money or treat her as a commodity, since you have had relations with her.

15 一人如有兩妻，一為所愛，一為所惡，所愛所惡的，都給他生了兒子；但是長子卻是他所惡的妻子生的，

If a man has two wives, the one loved, and the other unloved, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the unloved; and if the firstborn son is hers who was unloved;

16 在他將自己的產業分給他的兒子的那一天，不能將愛妻的兒子視作長子，而廢棄所惡妻子所生的長子；

then 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 loved the firstborn before the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn:

17 必須承認所惡妻子的兒子為長子，將所有的產業，多分給他一份，因為他是自己壯年時的首生子，應獲得長子的權利。

but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, 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.

18 人若有一個忤逆不孝的兒子，不聽從父母的勸告，責罰他以後仍不聽從，

If 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;

19 父母就該將他捉住，帶到當地的城門前，見本城的長老，

then 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;

20 對本城的長老說：「我們這個兒子忤逆不孝，不聽我們的勸告，是個放蕩的酒徒。」

and 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."

21 本城的眾人就應用石頭將他砸死：這樣由你中間剷除了這邪惡，每個以色列人聽了，必然害怕。

All 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.

22 若人犯了該死的罪，處死以後，應將他懸在木桿上，

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

23 但不可讓他的屍體在木桿上過夜，應在當天將他埋葬。因為凡被懸者，是天主所咒罵的；你不可玷污上主你的天主所賜給你作產業的土地。

his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for everyone who hangs on a tree is cursed by God; that you do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.