中英对照

1. 1.当你上帝永恒在你面前剪除你即将进入和取代的各国，你已经取代他们并住在他们的土地上，When the ETERNAL your God has cut down the nations whose land the ETERNAL your God is assigning to you, and you have dispossessed them and settled in their towns and homes,💡
2. 2.你要在永恒你的神使你承受为业的土地上，指定三座城。you shall set aside three cities in the land that the ETERNAL your God is giving you to possess.💡
3. 3.你们要测量距离，将上帝你们的神所赐给你们的土地分为三部分，使任何杀人者都有一个可逃往的地方。You shall survey the distances, and divide into three parts the territory of the country that the ETERNAL your God has allotted to you, so that any manslayer may have a place to flee to.—💡
4. 4.现在，有人无意中杀死了另一个人，没有以前的仇恨，就可以逃到那里而存活。Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live: one who has slain another unwittingly, without having been an enemy in the past. 💡
5. 5.例如，有人与另一个人一起进入树林砍柴，当他挥动斧头砍树时，斧头从斧柄上飞脱，击中另一个人，导致他死亡。那人可以逃到这些城市之一并继续生存。For instance, a man goes with another fellow into a grove to cut wood; as his hand swings the ax to cut down a tree, the ax-head flies off the handle and strikes the other so that he dies. That man shall flee to one of these cities and live.— 💡
6. 6.否则，当距离很远时，报血仇的人在激怒中追赶杀人者，可能会追上并杀死他；然而他不应受死刑，因为他以前从未与被杀者为敌。Otherwise, when the distance is great, the blood-avenger, pursuing the manslayer in hot anger, may overtake him and strike him down; yet he did not incur the death penalty, since he had never been the other’s enemy. 💡
7. 7.因此我命令你：要为以色列人指定三座逃城。That is why I command you: set aside three cities.💡
8. 8.当永恒的神你的神扩大你的境界，正如他向你列祖所起的誓，给你你列祖所应得的全部土地时，And when the ETERNAL your God enlarges your territory, as was sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land that was promised to be given to your fathers—💡
9. 9.如果你们忠诚地遵守我今日所吩咐你们的一切命令，去爱上帝你们的永恒主，时时刻刻遵行上帝的道理，那么你们就要再增设三个避难城，与前三个一起。if you faithfully observe all this Instruction that I enjoin upon you this day, to love the ETERNAL your God and to walk in God’s ways at all times—then you shall add three more towns to those three.💡
10. 10.这样，义人的血就不会在永恒主你的神将要赐给你的地上被流掉，也不会因流血而使你有罪。Thus blood of the innocent will not be shed, bringing bloodguilt upon you in the land that the ETERNAL your God is allotting to you.💡
11. 11.然而，[例如]，一个人若是另一个人的敌人，埋伏着他，攻击他，打了他一击后致他死亡，就逃到这些城中的一座，If, however, [for instance,] a man who is the enemy of another lies in wait for him and sets upon him and strikes a fatal blow and then flees to one of these towns, 💡
12. 12.他所住的城的长老要使他从那里被带回来，将他交给报血仇的人，好将他治死；the elders of his town shall have him brought back from there and shall hand him over to the blood-avenger to be put to death;💡
13. 13.你不可对他存怜悯，因此你才能使以色列除掉无辜人的血，好使你亨通。you must show him no pity. Thus you will purge Israel of the blood of the innocent, and it will go well with you.💡
14. 14.你不可移动你邻舍的界石，就是你祖先所立的界石，在耶和华你神所赐你为业的地上。You shall not move your neighbor’s landmarks, set up by previous generations, in the property that will be allotted to you in the land that the ETERNAL your God is giving you to possess.💡
15. 15.单独一个证人不足以使另一方对任何罪行或过失负责，案件只有在两个或两个以上证人的证词下才是有效的A single witness may not validate against another party any guilt or blame for any offense that may be committed; a case can be valid only on the testimony of two witnesses or more.💡
16. 16.若有人站出来对另一个人作伪证，故意作假证陷害他，If someone appears against another party to testify maliciously and gives incriminating yet false testimony, 💡
17. 17.争讼的双方当在上帝面前，在当时掌权的祭司或官长面前the two parties to the dispute shall appear before GOD, before the priests or magistrates in authority at the time,💡
18. 18.官长要细察明事，如果作假见证的确实是作了假见证，陷害以色列弟兄，and the magistrates shall make a thorough investigation. If the one who testified is a false witness, having testified falsely against a fellow Israelite, 💡
19. 19.你们要按他所谋划对别人所行的那样对待他。这样，你们就可以从你们中间除掉邪恶；you shall do to the one as the one schemed to do to the other. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst;💡
20. 20.别人听见就要害怕，不敢再在你中间行这样恶事。others will hear and be afraid, and such evil things will not again be done in your midst. 💡
21. 21.也不要可怜他们，必须以命偿命，以眼还眼，以牙还牙，以手还手，以脚还脚。Nor must you show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.💡