Deuteronomy 19
1 And when the Lord your God shall have destroyed the nations, which God gives you, [even] the land, and you shall inherit them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses,
Kadar je Gospod, tvoj Bog, iztrebil narode, katerih deželo ti daje Gospod, tvoj Bog in jih naslediš, prebivaš v njihovih mestih in v njihovih hišah,
2 you shall separate for yourself three cities in the midst of your land, which the Lord your God gives you.
si boš v sredi svoje dežele, ki ti jo Gospod, tvoj Bog, daje v last, oddvojil tri mesta.
3 Take a survey of your way, and you shall divide the coasts of your land, which the Lord your God apportions to you, into three parts, and there shall be there a refuge for every manslayer.
Pripravil si boš pot in na tri dele razdelil pokrajine svoje dežele, ki ti jo daje Gospod, tvoj Bog, da jo podeduješ, da lahko vsak ubijalec pobegne tja.
4 And this shall be the ordinance of the manslayer, who shall flee there, and shall live, whoever shall have struck his neighbour ignorantly, whereas he hated him not in times past.
In to je primer ubijalca, ki bo pobegnil tja, da bo lahko živel: ›Kdorkoli nevede ubije svojega bližnjega, ki ga v preteklem času ni sovražil,
5 And whoever shall enter with his neighbour into the thicket, to gather wood, if the hand of him that cuts wood with the axe should be violently shaken, and the axe head falling off from the handle should light on his neighbour, and he should die, he shall flee to one of these cities, and live.
kot ko gre mož s svojim bližnjim v gozd, da sekata les in njegova roka zamahne udarec s sekiro, da poseka drevo in glava zdrsne iz toporišča in pade na njegovega bližnjega, da ta umre, bo pobegnil v eno izmed teh mest in živel,
6 Lest the avenger of blood pursue after the slayer, because his heart is hot, and overtake him, if the way be too long, and kill him, though there is to this man no sentence of death, because he hated him not in time past.
da ne bi krvni maščevalec zasledoval ubijalca, medtem ko je njegovo srce vroče in ga dohitel, ker je dolga pot in ga ubil medtem ko ta ni bil vreden smrti, ker ga v preteklem času ni sovražil.
7 Therefore I charge you, saying, You shall separate for your self three cities.
Zato ti zapovedujem, rekoč: ›Zase si boš oddvojil tri mesta.‹
8 And if the Lord shall enlarge your borders, as he sware to your fathers, and the Lord shall give to you all the land which he said he would give to your fathers;
Če Gospod, tvoj Bog, poveča tvojo pokrajino, kakor je prisegel tvojim očetom in ti da vso deželo, ki jo je obljubil dati tvojim očetom;
9 if you shall listen to do all these commands, which I charge you this day, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways continually; you shall add for yourself yet three cities to these three.
če boš ohranjal vse te zapovedi, ki ti jih ta dan zapovedujem, da jih izvršuješ, da ljubiš Gospoda, svojega Boga in da vedno hodiš po njegovih poteh, potem si boš poleg teh treh dodal še tri mesta,
10 So innocent blood shall not be spilt in the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, and there shall not be in you one guilty of blood.
da nedolžna kri ne bo prelita v tvoji deželi, ki ti jo daje v dediščino Gospod, tvoj Bog in bi bila tako na tebi kri.
11 But if there should be in you a man hating his neighbour, and he should lay wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him, that he die, and he should flee to one of these cities,
Toda če katerikoli mož sovraži svojega bližnjega in nanj preži v zasedi in se dvigne zoper njega in ga smrtno udari, da ta umre in pobegne v eno izmed teh mest,
12 then shall the elders of his city send, and take him thence, and they shall deliver him into the hands of the avengers of blood, and he shall die.
potem bodo starešine njegovega mesta poslali in ga dobili od tam in ga izročili v roko krvnega maščevalca, da bo ta lahko umrl.
13 Your eye shall not spare him; so shall you purge innocent blood from Israel, and it shall be well with you.
Tvoje oko se ga ne bo usmililo, temveč boš iz Izraela odstranil krivdo nedolžne krvi, da bo lahko dobro s teboj.
14 You shall not move the landmarks of your neighbour, which your fathers set in the inheritance, in which you have obtained a share in the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit.
Ne boš odstranil mejnika svojega bližnjega, ki so ga od starih časov postavili v tvojo dediščino, ki jo boš podedoval v deželi, ki ti jo Gospod, tvoj Bog, daje v last.
15 One witness shall not stand to testify against a man for any iniquity, or for any fault, or for any sin which he may commit; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, shall every word be established.
Ena priča se ne bo dvignila zoper človeka zaradi katerekoli krivičnosti ali zaradi kateregakoli greha, s katerimkoli grehom je grešil. Zadeva se bo potrdila pri ustih dveh prič ali pri ustih treh prič.
16 And if an unjust witness rise up against a man, alleging iniquity against him;
Če kriva priča vstane zoper kateregakoli, da priča zoper njega to, kar je napačno,
17 then shall the two men between whom the controversy is, stand before the Lord, and before the priests, and before the judges, who may be in those days.
potem bosta oba človeka, med katerima je polemika, stala pred Gospodom, pred duhovniki in sodniki, ki bodo v tistih dneh
18 And the judges shall make diligent enquiry, and, behold, [if] and unjust witness has borne unjust testimony; [and] has stood up against his brother;
in sodniki bodo naredili marljivo zasliševanje. Glej, če je priča kriva priča in je lažno pričevala zoper svojega brata,
19 then shall you do to him as he wickedly devised to do against his brother, and you shall remove the evil from yourselves.
potem mu boste storili kakor je sam mislil storiti svojemu bratu. Tako boste izmed sebe iztrebili zlo.
20 And the rest shall hear and fear, and do no more according to this evil thing in the midst of you.
Tisti, ki preostanejo, bodo slišali in se bali in odslej med vami ne bodo več zagrešili nobenega takšnega zla.
21 Your eye shall not spare him: [you shall exact] life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Tvoje oko se ne bo usmililo, temveč bo življenje šlo za življenje, oko za oko, zob za zob, roka za roko, stopalo za stopalo.
