申命記 19

1 汝の神ヱホバこの國々の民を滅し絶ち汝の神ヱホバこれが地を汝に賜ふて汝つひにこれを獲その邑々とその家々に住にいたる時は

When the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,

2 汝の神ヱホバの汝に與へて產業となさしめたまふ地の中に三の邑を汝のために區別べし

you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess.

3 而して汝これに道路を開きまた汝の神ヱホバの汝に與へて產業となさしめたまふ地の全體を三の區に分ち凡て人を殺せる者をして其處に逃れしむべし

You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land which the LORD your God causes you to inherit into three parts, that every man slayer may flee there.

4 人を殺せる者の彼處に逃れて生命を全うすべきその事は是のごとし即ち凡て素より惡むことも無く知ずしてその鄰人を殺せる者

This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbour unintentionally, and didn’t hate him in time past—

5 例ば人木を伐んとてその鄰人とともに林に入り手に斧を執て木を斫んと撃おろす時にその頭の鐵柯より脱てその鄰人にあたりて之を死しめたるが如き是なり斯る人は是等の邑の一に逃れて生命を全うすべし

as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbour to chop wood and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbour so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live.

6 恐くは復仇する者心熱してその殺人者を追かけ道路長きにおいては遂に追しきて之を殺さん然るにその人は素より之を惡みたる者にあらざれば殺さるべき理あらざるなり

Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer while hot anger is in his heart and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally, even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past.

7 是をもて我なんぢに命じて三の邑を汝のために區別べしと言り

Therefore I command you to set apart three cities for yourselves.

8 汝の神ヱホバ汝の先祖等に誓ひしごとく汝の境界を廣め汝の先祖等に與へんと言し地を盡く汝に賜ふにいたらん時

If the LORD your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;

9 即ち汝我が今日なんぢに命ずるこの一切の誡命を守りてこれを行なひ汝の神ヱホバを愛し恒にその道に歩まん時はこの三の外にまた三の邑を増加ふべし

and if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to walk ever in his ways, then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, in addition to these three.

10 是汝の神ヱホバの汝に與へて產業となさしめたまふ地に辜なき者の血を流すこと無らんためなり斯せずばその血汝に歸せん

This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.

11 然どもし人その隣人を惡みて之を附覘ひ起かかり撃てその生命を傷ひて之を死しめ而してこの邑の一に逃れたる事あらば

But if any man hates his neighbour, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;

12 その邑の長老等人を遣て之を其處より曳きたらしめ復仇者の手にこれを付して殺さしむべし

then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

13 汝かれを憫み視るべからず辜なき者の血を流せる咎をイスラエルより除くべし然せば汝に福祉あらん

Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you.

14 汝の神ヱホバの汝に與へて獲させたまふ地の中において汝が嗣ぐところの產業に汝の先人の定めたる汝の鄰の地界を侵すべからず

You shall not remove your neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.

15 何の惡にもあれ凡てその犯すところの罪は只一人の證人によりて定むべからず二人の證人の口によりまたは三人の證人の口によりてその事を定むべし

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

16 もし偽妄の證人起りて某の人は惡事をなせりと言たつること有ば

If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

17 その相爭ふ二人の者ヱホバの前に至り當時の祭司と士師の前に立べし

then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;

18 然る時士師詳細にこれを査べ視るにその證人もし偽妄の證人にしてその兄弟にむかひて虚妄の證をなしたる者なる時は

and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother,

19 汝兄弟に彼が蒙らさんと謀れる所を彼に蒙らし斯して汝らの中より惡事を除くべし

then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from amongst you.

20 然せばその遺れる者等聞て畏れその後かさねて斯る惡き事を汝らの中におこなはじ

Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil amongst you.

21 汝憫み視ることをすべからず生命は生命眼は眼歯は歯手は手足は足をもて償はしむべし

Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.