民数記 35
1 ヱリコに對するヨルダンの邊なるモアブの平野においてヱホバ、モーセに告て言たまはく
The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
2 イスラエルの子孫に命じてその獲たる產業の中よりレビ人に住べき邑々を與へしめよ汝らまたその邑々の周圍に郊地をつけてレビ人に與ふべし
“Command the children of Israel to give to the Levites cities to dwell in out of their inheritance. You shall give pasture lands for the cities around them to the Levites.
3 その邑々は彼らの住べき所その郊地は彼らの家畜貨財および諸の獣をおくところたるべし
They shall have the cities to dwell in. Their pasture lands shall be for their livestock, and for their possessions, and for all their animals.
4 汝らがレビ人に與ふる邑々の郊地は邑の石垣より外四周一千キユビトなるべし
“The pasture lands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it.
5 すなはち邑の外に於て東の方に二千キユビト南の方に二千キユビト西の方に二千キユビト北の方に二千キユビトを量り邑をその中にあらしむべし彼らの邑の郊地は是のごとくなるべし
You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall be the pasture lands of their cities.
6 汝らがレビ人に與ふる邑々は是のごとくなるべし即ち逃遁邑六を與ふべし是は人を殺せる者の其處に逃るべきための者なり此外にまた邑四十二を與ふべし
“The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you shall give forty-two cities.
7 汝らがレビ人に與ふる邑は都合四十八邑これを其郊地とともに與ふべし
All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their pasture lands.
8 汝らイスラエルの子孫の產業の中よりレビ人に邑を與ふるには多く有る者は多く與へ少く有る者は少く與へ各人その獲たる產業にしたがひてその邑々を之に與ふべし
Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many, and from the few you shall take few. Everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give some of his cities to the Levites.”
9 ヱホバまたモーセに告て言たまはく
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
10 イスラエルの子孫に告てこれに言へ汝らヨルダンを濟りてカナンの地に入ば
“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
11 汝らのために邑を設けて逃遁邑と爲し誤りて人を殺せる者をして其處に逃るべからしむべし
then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
12 其は汝らが仇打する者を避て逃るべき邑なり是あるは人を殺せる者が未だ會衆の前にたちて審判をうけざる先に殺さるること無らんためなり
The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
13 汝らが予ふる邑々の中六をもて逃遁邑とすべし
The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
14 すなはち汝らヨルダンの此旁において三の邑を予ヘカーナンの地において三の邑を予へて逃遁邑となすべし
You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge.
15 この六の邑はイスラエルの子孫と他國人およびその中に寄寓る者の逃遁場たるべし凡て誤りて人を殺せる者は其處に逃るることを得べし
These six cities shall be refuge for the children of Israel, for the stranger, and for the foreigner living among them, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
16 もし鐵の器をもて人を撃て死しめなば是故殺なり故殺人はかならず殺さるべし
“‘But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
17 もし人を殺すほどの石を執て人を撃て死しめなば是故殺なり故殺人はかならず殺さるべし
If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
18 また人を殺すほどの木の器をとりて人を撃て死しめなば是故殺なり故殺人はかならず殺さるべし
Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
19 仇を打つ者その故殺人を殺すことを得すなはち之に遭ふところにて之を殺すことを得るなり
The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.
20 もしまた怨恨のために人を推しまたは意ありて人に物を投うちて死しめ
If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,
21 または敵の心を挾さみ手をもて人を撃て死しめなばその人を撃たる者は必ず殺さるべし是故殺なればなり仇を打つ者これに遭ふところにて之を殺すことを得べし
or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.
22 然どもし敵の心なくして思はず人を推しまたは意なくして人に物を擲ち
“‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,
23 または人あるを見ずして人を殺すほどの石を之に投つけて死しむること有んにその人これが敵にもあらずまた之を害せんとせしにもあらざる時は
or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him so that he died, and he was not his enemy and not seeking his harm,
24 會衆この律法によりてその人を殺せる者と仇打する者とに審判を言わたすべし
then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.
25 即ち會衆はその人を殺せる者を仇打する者の手より救ひ出してこれをその逃れゆきたる逃遁邑に還すべしその者は聖膏を灌れたる祭司の長の死るまで其處に居べし
The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
26 然ど人を殺しし者その逃れし逃遁邑の境を出でたらんに
“‘But if the man slayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge where he flees,
27 仇打する者その逃遁邑の境の外にてこれに遭ことありて仇打する者すなはちその人を殺しし者を殺すことあるとも血をながせる罪あらじ
and the avenger of blood finds him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the man slayer, he shall not be guilty of blood,
28 其は彼は祭司の長の死るまでその逃遁邑に居べき者なればなり祭司の長の死たる後はその人を殺せし者おのれの產業の地にかへることを得べし
because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the man slayer shall return into the land of his possession.
29 汝ら代々その住所において之を審判の法度とすべし
“‘These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
30 凡て人を殺せる者すなはち故殺人は證人の口にしたがひて殺さるべし然ど只一人の證人の言にしたがひて人を殺すことを爲べからず
“‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain based on the testimony of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify alone against any person so that he dies.
31 汝ら死に當る故殺人の生命を贖はしむべからず必ずこれを殺すべし
“‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death.
32 また逃遁邑に逃れたる者の贖を容て祭司の死ざる前にこれを自己の地に歸り住しむる勿れ
“‘You shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.
33 汝らその居ところの地を汚すべからず血は地を汚すなり地の上に流せる血は之を流せる者の血をもてするに非れば贖ふことを得ざるなり
“‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
34 汝らその住ところの地すなはち我が居ところの地を汚すなかれ其は我ヱホバ、イスラエルの子孫の中に居ばなり
You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, where I dwell; for I, the LORD, dwell among the children of Israel.’”
