Второзаконие 19
1 Егда же погубит Господь Бог твой языки, ихже Господь Бог твой дает тебе землю, и наследиши их и вселишися во градех их и в домех их,
When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations, those whose land Yahweh your God is giving you, and when you come after them and live in their cities and houses,
2 три грады да отлучиши себе среди земли твоея, юже Господь Бог твой дает тебе в наследие.
you must select three cities for yourself in the middle of your land that Yahweh your God is giving you to possess.
3 Уготови себе путь, и на трое раздели пределы земли твоея, юже разделяет тебе Господь Бог твой: и да будет убежище тамо всякому убийце.
You must build a road and divide the borders of your land into three parts, the land that Yahweh your God is causing you to inherit, so that everyone who kills another person may flee there.
4 Сие же да будет заповедание убийце, иже аще убежит тамо, и жив будет: иже аще убиет ближняго своего не ведя, и сей не ненавиде его прежде вчерашняго дне и третияго,
This is the law for the one who kills another and who flees there to live—anyone who kills his neighbor unintentionally, and did not previously hate him.
5 и иже аще пойдет с подругом своим в лес собирати дрова, и поползнется рука его с секирою секущаго дрова, и спадши секира с топорища улучит подруга его, и умрет, сей да убежит во един от градов сих, и жив да будет:
For example, if a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his chops with the ax to cut down a tree, and the ax head slips off of the handle and strikes his neighbor and kills him—then that man must flee to one of these cities and save his life.
6 да не погнав ужик крове вслед убившаго, яко разгорится сердце ему, и постигнет его, аще должайший будет путь, и убиет душу его, и умрет: и сему несть суд смертный, понеже не бе ненавидя его прежде вчерашняго и третияо дне:
Otherwise the avenger of blood might go after the one who took a life, and in the heat of his anger overtake him, if the distance is too great, strike him and kill him, even though that man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past.
7 сего ради заповедаю аз тебе слово сие, глаголя: три грады да отлучиши себе.
Therefore I command you to select three cities for yourself.
8 Аще же разширит Господь Бог твой пределы твоя, якоже клятся отцем твоим, и даст тебе Господь всю землю, юже рече дати отцем твоим,
If Yahweh your God enlarges your borders, as he has sworn to your ancestors to do, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your ancestors;
9 аще послушаеши творити вся заповеди сия, яже аз заповедаю тебе днесь, любити Господа Бога твоего, ходити во всех путех Его вся дни: и да приложиши себе еще три грады к сим трием градом,
if you keep all these commandments to do them, which I am commanding you today—commandments to love Yahweh your God and to always walk in his ways, then you must add three more cities for yourself, besides these three.
10 и да не пролиется кровь безвинна в земли твоей, юже Господь Бог твой дает тебе в жребий, и да не будет в тебе крови повинен.
Do this so that innocent blood is not shed in the midst of the land that Yahweh your God is giving you for as an inheritance, so that no bloodguilt may be on you.
11 Аще же будет у тебе человек ненавидяй ближняго своего, и навет сотворит нань, и востанет нань, и поразит душу его, и умрет, и вбегнет во един от градов сих,
But if anyone hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, and mortally wounds him so that he dies, and if he then flees into one of these cities—
12 да послют старейшины града того, и возмут его оттуду, и да предадят его в руце ужиков крове, и да умрет:
then the elders of his city must send and bring him back from there, and turn him over into the hand of the responsible relative, so that he may die.
13 да не пощадит его око твое, и да очистиши кровь неповинную от Израиля, и благо будет тебе.
Your eye must not pity him; instead, you must eradicate the bloodguilt from Israel, that it may go well with you.
14 Да не предвижеши пределов ближняго своего, яже поставиша отцы твои в наследии твоем, еже наследовал еси в земли, юже Господь Бог твой дает тебе во жребий.
You must not remove your neighbor's landmark that they set in place a long time ago, in your inheritance that you will inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you to possess.
15 Да не пребудет свидетель един во свидетелство на человека по всякой обиде и по всякому преступлению и по всякому греху, имже аще согрешит: при устех двою свидетелей и при устех триех свидетелей да станет всяк глагол.
One sole witness must not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any matter that he sins; at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, must any matter be confirmed.
16 Аще же востанет свидетель неправеден на человека, глаголя на него нечестие,
Suppose that an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing.
17 да станут оба человека, имже есть пря, пред Господем и пред жерцы и пред судиями, иже будут в тыя дни,
Then both men, the ones between whom the controversy exists, must stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days.
18 и да испытают их судии прилежно, и се, свидетель неправеден свидетелствова неправду, воста на брата своего:
The judges must make diligent inquiries; see, if the witness is a false witness and has testified falsely against his brother,
19 да сотворите ему, якоже и он умысли сотворити супротив брата своего, и измите злое от вас самех:
then must you do to him, as he had wished to do to his brother; and you will remove the evil from among you.
20 да и прочии услышавше убоятся, и не приложат ктому творити словесе злаго сего в вас:
Then those who remain will hear and fear, and will from then on commit no longer any such evil among you.
21 да не пощадит его око твое: душу за душу, око за око, зуб за зуб, руку за руку, ногу за ногу, якоже аще кто даст порок на ближняго своего, сице воздастся ему.
Your eyes must not pity; life will pay for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
