Deuteronômio 19

1 When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their houses, 2 you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess. 3 You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit into three parts, that every man slayer may flee there. 4 This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him in time past— 5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live. 6 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 Therefore I command you to set apart three cities for yourselves. 8 If Yahweh 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 and if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways, then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, in addition to these three. 10 This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you. 11 But if any man hates his neighbor, 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 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 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you.

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

15 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 If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, 17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days; 18 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother, 19 then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you. 20 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you. 21 Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Ngā Pā Whakaora

1 E whakangaromia ana e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, ngā iwi nō rātou nei te whenua ka hōmai nei e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, ki a koe, ā, ka riro tō rātou wāhi i a koe, ā, ka noho koe ki ō rātou pā, ki ō rātou whare; 2 me wehe e koe kia toru ngā pā mōu i waenganui o tōu whenua, ka hōmai nei e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, ki a koe, hei kāinga pūmau. 3 Whakapaia e koe he huarahi, ka tapahi i ngā rohe o tōu whenua, ka whakawhiwhia nei e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, ki a koe, kia toru ngā wāhanga, hei rerenga atu mō ngā tāngata whakamate katoa.

4 Ā, ko te āhua tēnei mō te tangata whakamate, e rere ai ki reira, e ora ai hoki; arā ki te patua e ia tōna hoa he mea urupā, kāhore hoki ōna kino ki a ia i mua atu: 5 Pēnei me te tangata ka haere tahi rāua ko tōna hoa ki te ngahere ki te tapahi rākau, ā, ka āki atu tōna ringa i te toki ki te tua i te rākau, nā, ka maunu te pane i te kakau, pono tonu ki tōna hoa, ā mate iho. Nā, ka rere atu ia ki tētahi o aua pā, ā, ka ora. 6 Kei whai te kaitakitaki toto i te tangata whakamate, i te mea e pāwerawera ana tōna ngākau, ā, ka hopu i a ia, he roa hoki nō te huarahi, ā, ka patu i a ia; kīhai ia i tika te mate mōna, nō te mea kāhore ia i kino ki a ia i mua atu. 7 Koia tāku e whakahau atu nei ki a koe, e mea nei: Me wehe e koe kia toru ngā pā mōu.

8 Ā, ki te whakanui a Ihowā, tōu Atua, i tōu rohe, ki te rite ki tāna i oati ai ki ōu mātua – ā, ka hōmai e ia te whenua katoa i mea ai ia kia hōmai ki ōu mātua; 9 ki te puritia e koe, ki te mahia ēnei whakahau katoa, e whakahau atu nei ahau ki a koe i tēnei rā, arā kia aroha ki a Ihowā, ki tōu Atua, kia haere hoki i ōna huarahi i ngā rā katoa – ko reira koe tango ai kia toru atu ngā pā mōu, hei tāpiri mō ēnā pā e toru. 10 Kei whakahekea te toto harakore ki waenganui o tōu whenua, ka hōmai nei e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, ki a koe hei kāinga, kei whakairia hoki te toto ki runga ki a koe.

11 Engari ia ki te kino tētahi ki tōna hoa, ā, ka whanga ki a ia, ka whakatika hoki ki a ia, ka patu rawa i a ia, nō ka mate ia; ā, ka rere ia ki tētahi o aua pā. 12 Nā, me tono e ngā kaumātua o tōna pā, ka tiki atu hoki i a ia i reira, ka hoatu i a ia ki te ringa o te kaitakitaki toto, kia mate ai ia. 13 Kei tohu tōu kanohi i a ia, engari me whakakāhore e koe te toto harakore i roto i a Īharaira, kia whiwhi ai koe ki te pai.

Ngā Rohe Onamata

14 Kei nekehia kētia e koe te rohe o tōu hoa, i rohea ai e ngā tāngata onamata, ki tōu kāinga e nohoia e koe i te whenua ka hōmai nei e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, ki a koe hei kāinga.

Te Ture mō te Kaiwhakaatu Teka

15 Kei whakatika ki te tangata te kaiwhakaatu kotahi mō te kino, mō tētahi hara rānei, ahakoa he aha, e hara ai ia. Mā te kupu a ngā kaiwhakaatu tokorua, mā te kupu rānei a ngā kaiwhakaatu tokotoru, e whakatikaia ai te kōrero.

16 Ki te whakatika tētahi kaiwhakaatu teka ki tētahi tangata, hei kōrero teka i mahi ia i te hē; 17 nā, me tū ngā tāngata tokorua, nā rāua nei te totohe, ki te aroaro o Ihowā, ki te aroaro hoki o ngā tohunga rātou ko ngā kaiwhakawā e whakariterite ana i aua rā. 18 Nā, me whakataki mārie e ngā kaiwhakawā; ā, ka kitea he kaiwhakaatu teka te kaiwhakaatu, he teka tāna kōrero mō tōna teina; 19 nā, pērātia ia e koutou me tāna i whakaaro ai kia meatia ki tōna teina; pēnei ka whakakorea te kino i roto i a koe. 20 Ā, ka rongo te nuinga, ā, ka wehi, e kore hoki e mea i te kino pērā i roto i a koe ā muri. 21 Kaua anō tōu kanohi e tohu: ko tō te ora utu he ora, tō te kanohi he kanohi, tō te niho he niho, tō te ringa he ringa, tō te waewae he waewae.