Exodus 21
1 “Here are some [other] instructions to give to [the Israeli people]:
| «سایر احکامی که باید اطاعت کنید، اینها هستند: |
2 When/If you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve you for [only] six years. In the seventh year you must free him [from being your slave], and he is not required to pay you anything [for setting him free].
| «اگر غلامی عبرانی بخری فقط باید شش سال تو را خدمت کند. سال هفتم باید آزاد شود بدون اینکه برای کسب آزادی خود قیمتی بپردازد. |
3 If he was not married before he became your slave, and if he marries [someone while he is your slave], his wife is not to be set free [with him]. But if he was married before he became your slave, you must free both him and his wife.
| اگر قبل از اینکه غلام تو شود مجرد بوده، باید مجرد هم از نزد تو برود، اما اگر همسر داشته، همسرش نیز باید همراه او آزاد شود. اما اگر قبل از اینکه غلام تو شود همسری داشته باشد، آنگاه هر دو آنها در یک زمان آزاد شوند. |
4 If a slave’s master gives him a wife, and she gives birth to sons or daughters [while her husband is a slave], only the man is to be freed. His wife and children will continue to be slaves of their master.
| ولی اگر اربابش برای او زن گرفته باشد و او از وی صاحب پسران و دخترانی شده باشد، آنگاه فقط خودش آزاد می‌شود و زن و فرزندانش نزد اربابش باقی می‌مانند. |
5 But when it is time for the slave to be set free, if the slave says, ‘I love my master and my wife and my children, and I do not want to be set free,’
| «اگر آن غلام بگوید:”من ارباب و زن و فرزندانم را دوست می‌دارم و آنها را بر آزادی خود ترجیح می‌دهم و نمی‌خواهم آزاد شوم،“ |
6 then his master must take him to [the place where they worship] God (OR, to [the owner’s] house). There he must make the slave stand against the door or the doorpost. Then the master will use an (awl/pointed metal rod) to make a hole in the slave’s ear. Then [he will fasten a tag to the slave’s ear to indicate that] (he will own that slave for the rest of his life/he will own the slave as long as the slave lives).
| آنگاه اربابش او را پیش قضات قوم ببرد و در حضور همه گوش او را با درفشی سوراخ کند، و او همیشه غلام اربابش باقی خواهد ماند. |
7 If a man sells his daughter to become a slave, she should not be set free [after six years], as the male slaves are.
| «اگر مردی دختر خود را به‌عنوان کنیز بفروشد، آن کنیز مانند غلام در پایان سال ششم آزاد نمی‌شود. |
8 If the man who bought her wanted her to be his wife, but if [later] he is not pleased with her, he must sell her back to her father. He must not sell her to a foreigner, because that would be breaking the contract/agreement [he made with the girl’s father].
| اگر اربابش که آن کنیز را خریده و نامزد خود کرده است، از او راضی نباشد، باید اجازه دهد تا وی بازخرید شود؛ ولی حق ندارد او را به یک غیراسرائیلی بفروشد، چون این کار در حق او خیانت شمرده می‌شود. |
9 If the man who buys her wants her to be a wife for his son, he must then treat her as though she were his own daughter.
| اگر ارباب بخواهد کنیز را برای پسرش نامزد کند، باید مطابق رسوم دختران آزاد با او رفتار کند، نه به عنوان یک کنیز. |
10 If the master takes another slave girl to be another wife for himself, he must continue to give the first slave wife the same amount of food and clothing that he gave to her before, and he must continue to have sex [EUP] with her as before.
| اگر خودش با آن کنیز ازدواج کند و بعد زن دیگری نیز بگیرد، نباید از خوراک و پوشاک و حق همسری او چیزی کم کند. |
11 If he does not do all these three things for her, he must free her [from being a slave], and she is not required to pay anything [for being set free].
| اگر ارباب در رعایت این سه نکته کوتاهی کند، آنگاه آن کنیز آزاد است و می‌تواند بدون پرداخت مبلغی، ارباب خود را ترک کند. |
12 You must execute anyone who strikes another person with the result that the person who is struck dies.
| «اگر کسی انسانی را طوری بزند که منجر به مرگ وی گردد، او نیز باید کشته شود. |
13 But if the one who struck the other did not intend to kill that person, the one who struck him can escape to a place that I will choose for you, [and he will be safe there].
| اما اگر او قصد کشتن نداشته و مرگ، تصادفی بوده باشد، آنگاه مکانی برایش تعیین می‌کنم تا به آنجا پناهنده شده، در امان باشد. |
14 But if someone gets angry with another person and kills him, even if the murderer runs to the altar, [a place that God designated as a place to be safe], you must execute him.
| ولی اگر شخصی، به عمد و با قصد قبلی به کسی حمله کند و او را بکشد، حتی اگر به مذبح من نیز پناه برده باشد، باید از بست بیرون کشیده، کشته شود. |
15 Anyone who strikes his father or mother must surely be executed.
| «هر که پدر یا مادرش را بزند، باید کشته شود. |
16 Anyone who kidnaps another person, either in order to sell that person or to keep him as a slave, must be executed.
| «هر کس انسانی را بدزدد، خواه او را فروخته و خواه نفروخته باشد، باید کشته شود. |
17 Anyone who reviles/curses his father or his mother must be executed.
| «هر کس پدر یا مادر خود را لعنت کند، باید کشته شود. |
18 Suppose two people fight, and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist. And suppose the person he strikes does not die but is injured and has to stay in bed [for a while],
| «اگر دو نفر با هم گلاویز بشوند و یکی از آنها دیگری را با سنگ یا با مشت چنان بزند که او مجروح و بستری شود اما نمیرد، |
19 and later he is able to walk outside using a cane. Then the person who struck him does not have to be punished. However, he must pay the injured person the money he could not earn [while he was recovering], and he must also pay the injured person’s medical expenses until that person is well.
| و بعد از اینکه حالش خوب شد بتواند با کمک عصا راه برود، آنگاه ضارب بخشیده می‌شود، به شرطی که تمام مخارج معالجه و تاوان روزهای بیکاری مجروح را تا وقتی که کاملاً خوب نشده بپردازد. |
20 If someone strikes his male or female slave with a stick, if the slave dies (immediately/as a result) [IDM], the one who struck him must be punished.
| «اگر کسی غلام یا کنیز خود را طوری با چوب بزند که منجر به مرگ او گردد، باید مجازات شود. |
21 But if the slave lives for a day or two after he is struck [and then dies], you must not punish the one who struck him. Not having that slave to be able to work for him any longer is enough punishment.
| اما اگر آن غلام یا کنیز چند روزی پس از کتک خوردن زنده بماند، اربابش مجازات نمی‌شود، زیرا آن غلام یا کنیز به او تعلق دارد. |
22 Suppose two people are fighting and they hurt a pregnant woman with the result that (she has a miscarriage/her baby is born prematurely and dies). If the woman is not harmed in any other way, the one who injured her must pay a fine. He must pay whatever the woman’s husband demands, after a judge approves of the fine.
| «اگر عده‌ای با هم درگیر شوند و در جریان این دعوا، زن حامله‌ای را طوری بزنند که بچۀ او پیش از موعد به دنیا بیاید، ولی آسیب جدی به خود او وارد نیاید، ضارب هر مبلغی را که شوهر آن زن بخواهد و قاضی آن را تأیید کند، باید جریمه بدهد. |
23 But if the woman is injured in some additional way, the one who injured her must be caused to suffer in exactly the same way [that he caused her to suffer]. If she dies, he must be executed.
| ولی اگر به خود آن زن صدمه‌ای وارد شود، باید همان صدمه به ضارب نیز وارد گردد: جان به عوض جان، |
24 If her eye is injured or destroyed, or if he knocks out one of her teeth, or her hand or foot is injured, or if she is burned or bruised, the one who injured her must be injured in the same way.
| چشم به عوض چشم، دندان به عوض دندان، دست به عوض دست، پا به عوض پا، |
| داغ به عوض داغ، زخم به عوض زخم، و کبودی به عوض کبودی. |
26 If the owner of a slave strikes the eye of his male or female slave and ruins it, he must free that slave because of [what he did to] the slave’s eye.
| «اگر کسی با وارد کردن ضربه‌ای به چشم غلام یا کنیزش او را کور کند، باید او را به عوض چشمش آزاد کند. |
27 If someone knocks out one of his slave’s teeth, he must free the slave because of [what he did to] the slave’s tooth.
| اگر کسی دندان غلام یا کنیز خود را بشکند، باید او را به عوض دندانش آزاد کند. |
28 If a bull gores a man or woman with the result that the person dies, you [must kill the bull by] throwing stones at it, but you must not punish the owner of the bull.
| «اگر گاوی به مرد یا زنی شاخ بزند و او را بکشد، آن گاو باید سنگسار شود و گوشتش هم خورده نشود، اما صاحب آن گاو بی‌گناه شمرده می‌شود. |
29 But suppose the bull had attacked people several times before, and its owner had been warned, but he did not keep the bull inside a fence. Then you [must kill the bull by] throwing stones at it, but you must also execute its owner.
| ولی اگر آن گاو قبلاً سابقهٔ شاخ زنی داشته و صاحبش هم از این موضوع باخبر بوده، اما گاو را نبسته باشد، در این صورت باید هم گاو سنگسار گردد و هم صاحبش کشته شود. |
30 However, if the owner of the bull is allowed to pay a fine (to save his own life/in order not to be executed), he must pay the full amount that the judges say that he must pay.
| ولی اگر بستگان مقتول راضی شوند که خون‌بها را قبول کنند، صاحب گاو می‌تواند با پرداخت خونبهای تعیین شده، جان خود را نجات دهد. |
31 If someone’s bull attacks and gores another person’s son or daughter, you must treat the bull’s owner according to that same rule.
| «اگر گاوی به دختر یا پسری شاخ بزند و او را بکشد، همین حکم اجرا شود. |
32 If a bull attacks and gores a male or female slave, its owner must pay to the slave’s owner 30 pieces of silver. Then you must [kill the bull by] throwing stones at it.
| اما اگر گاو به غلام یا کنیزی شاخ بزند و او را بکشد، باید سی مثقال نقره به ارباب آن غلام یا کنیز داده شود و گاو هم سنگسار گردد. |
33 Suppose someone has a pit/cistern and does not keep it covered, and someone’s bull or donkey falls into it [and dies].
| «اگر کسی چاهی بکند و روی آن را نپوشاند و گاو یا الاغی در آن بیفتد، |
34 Then the owner of the pit/cistern must pay for the animal that died. He must give the money to the animal’s owner, but then he can take away the animal that died and [do whatever he wants to with it].
| صاحب چاه باید قیمت آن حیوان را به صاحبش بپردازد و حیوان مرده از آن او باشد. |
35 If someone’s bull hurts another person’s bull with the result that it dies, the owners of both bulls must sell the bull that is living, and they must divide [between them] the money [that they receive] for it. They must also divide [between them the meat of] the animal that died.
| «اگر گاوی، گاو دیگری را بزند و بکشد، صاحبان آن دو گاو باید گاو زنده را بفروشند و قیمت آن را میان خود تقسیم کنند، و هر یک از آنها هم می‌تواند نیمی از گاو کشته شده را برای خود بردارد. |
36 However, if people know that the bull often attacked other animals previously, and its owner did not keep it inside a fence, then the owner of that bull must give the owner of the bull that died one of his own bulls, but he can take away the animal that died [and do with it whatever he wants to do].”
| ولی اگر گاوی که زنده مانده، سابقهٔ شاخ زنی داشته و صاحبش آن را نبسته باشد، باید گاو زنده‌ای به عوض گاو کشته بدهد و گاو کشته شده را برای خود بردارد. |
