Deuteronomy 21
1 If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath smitten him:
“在你们的上帝耶和华将要赐给你们的土地上，如果发现有人被杀，陈尸野外，却不知道凶手是谁，
2 then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
当地的长老和审判官就要去测量一下尸体距附近各城邑的距离。
3 and it shall be, that the city which is nearest unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer of the herd, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;
距离尸体最近的那城的长老们要牵一头从未负过轭、从未耕过地的小母牛，
4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley:
去有溪流但无人耕种过的山谷，在那里把它的颈项打断。
5 and the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be:
利未祭司也要去，因为你们的上帝耶和华拣选他们在祂面前事奉、奉祂的名为人祝福，并审理各种纠纷及人身伤害的事。
6 and all the elders of that city, who are nearest unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley:
那城的长老们要在被打断颈项的小母牛上方洗手，
7 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
然后祷告说，‘我们的手没有杀这人，我们的眼也没有看见谁杀了他。
8 Forgive, O LORD, thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and suffer not innocent blood [to remain] in the midst of thy people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
耶和华啊，求你赦免你已经救赎的以色列子民，不要把杀害这无辜之人的罪算在你的子民身上。’这样，杀人的罪便可得到赦免。
9 So shalt thou put away the innocent blood from the midst of thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD.
你们做耶和华视为正的事，就可以从你们中间除去杀害无辜之人的罪。
10 When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God delivereth them into thine hands, and thou carriest them away captive,
“你们和敌人交战时，你们的上帝耶和华会把敌人交给你们，使他们成为你们的俘虏。
11 and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife;
如果你们有人在俘虏中看见美丽的女子，被她吸引，想娶她为妻，
12 then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
就可以带她回家，让她剃去头发，修剪指甲，
13 and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
换掉被俘时所穿的衣服，住在那人家中为她父母哀悼一个月。之后，那人便可以和她结为夫妻。
14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not deal with her as a slave, because thou hast humbled her.
如果那人不喜欢她，则要让她自由离去，绝不可卖掉她，也不可奴役她，因为他已经羞辱了她。
15 If 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 that was hated;
“如果一个人有两个妻子，一个受他宠爱，一个不受他宠爱，二人都给他生了儿子，但长子是不受宠爱的妻子生的，
16 then it shall be, in the day that he causeth his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, which is the firstborn:
分产业的时候，他不可废长立幼，把长子的权利给他所爱之妻生的儿子。
17 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
他必须承认他不爱之妻所生的长子的名分，分给他双份产业，因为长子是他壮年时所生的儿子，应享有长子的权利。
18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them:
“如果一个人的儿子冥顽不灵、悖逆父母、屡教不改，
19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
他父母要抓住他，把他带到城门口去见本城的长老，对他们说，
20 and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a riotous liver, and a drunkard.
‘我们这个儿子冥顽不灵、悖逆成性，不肯听从我们，是个贪吃好酒之徒。’
21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
全城的人都要用石头打死他，从你们中间除掉这种罪恶。所有以色列人听说后，都会感到害怕。
22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree;
“如果有人犯了死罪，被处死后挂在木头上，
23 his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt surely bury him the same day; for he that is hanged is accursed of God; that thou defile not thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
不可让尸体在木头上过夜，必须当天埋葬，因为凡挂在木头上的人都是上帝所咒诅的。你们不可玷污你们的上帝耶和华将要赐给你们的土地。
