Deuteronomy 17
1 “कुनै गोरू अथवा भेडामा केही दोष भए परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरलाई चढाउनु हुँदैन। किन? किनभने परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरले यस्तो घृणा गर्नुहुन्छ।
2 “सायद तिमीहरूले सुनेको होला परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरले तिमीहरूलाई दिनु हुँदै गरेका शहरहरू मध्ये एउटा शहरमा केही अनिष्ट हुन्छ। सायद तिमीहरूलाई थाहा होला तिमीहरूकै समूहको कुनै पुरूष अथवा स्त्रीले परमप्रभुको विरूद्ध पाप गरेको छ। यो पनि सुनेकै होला तिनीहरूले परमप्रभुको करार भङ्ग गरेका छन्।
3 तिनीहरूले अरू देवी देवताहरू पूजेका छन्। अथवा यस्तो पनि हुन सक्छ तिनीहरूले घाम, जून अथवा ताराहरूलाई पूजेका छन्। यो मैले तिमीहरूलाई बताएको परमप्रभुको आज्ञाको विरोधमा हो।
4 यदि तिमीहरूले यस्तो नराम्रो समाचार सुनेका छौ, तब तिमीहरूले यसलाई होशियारसँग अवश्यै जाँच गर्नु पर्छ अनि थाहा लगाउनु पर्छ यस्तो भयंङ्कर घटना इस्राएलमा भयो वा भएन। यदि यो साँच्चो प्रमाणित हुन्छ।
5 तब यस्तो अनिष्ट कार्य गर्ने मानिसलाई तिमीहरूले सजाय दिनु पर्छ। त्यस पुरूष अथवा स्त्रीलाई शहरको सार्वजनिक ठाउँको फाटकमा तिमीहरूले लानु पर्छ अनि ढुङ्गाले हानेर मार्नु पर्छ।
6 तर यदि त्यसको कसूर देख्ने साक्षी एक जना मानिस मात्र भए त्यसलाई मार्नु हुँदैन, तर दुई अथवा तीन जनाले उसको कसूर सत्य भनी प्रमाण दिए त्यो मानिसलाई मार्नु नै पर्छ।
7 ती साक्षीहरूले नै त्यस दोषीलाई मार्न पहिलो ढुङ्गा ले हिर्काउनु पर्छ। तब मात्र अरू मानिसहरूले त्यसलाई मार्न ढुङ्गाले हिर्काउनु पर्छ, यस प्रकार तिमीहरूले आफ्नो समूहबाट दुष्टता हटाउने छौ।
8 “केही समस्याहरू हुन सक्छ जो अदालतमा निणर्य लिनु साह्रै अप्ठयारो हुन्छ। यो हत्याको विषयम हुन सक्छ, दुइजना मानिसहरू बीच विवादको विषयमा हुन सक्छ। अथवा झगडामा घाइते भएको मानिसको विषयमा हुन सक्छ। जब यी मामिलाहरू तिमीहरूको शहरहरमा सुनाइ हुन्छ, सही हो पत्तो लगाउन तिमीहरूको न्यायाधीशहरूलाई साह्रै मुश्किल हुन सक्छ। तब तिमीहरू परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरले रोजेको विशेष ठाउँमा जानु पर्छ।
9 तिमीहरूले पूजाहारीहरू र न्यायाधीश कहाँ, जो लेवी कुलका हुन्, समयमा जानु पर्छ। त्यसपछि ती मानिसहरूले त्यो समस्यामा कुन प्रकारले निर्णय लिनु पर्छ बताउने छन्।
10 परमप्रभुको विशेष ठाउँबाट तिनीहरूले आफ्नो निर्णय बताउनेछन् र तिनीहरूको सल्लाह जस्तो हुन्छ, तिमीहरूले त्यस्तै गर्नु पर्छ।
11 तिमीहरूले निर्णय स्वीकार गनु पर्छ अनि तिनीहरूको निर्देश मान्नु पर्छ। तिमीहरूले त्यसै गर्नु पर्छ जस्तो तिनीहरूले गर्नु भन्दछन्। केही परिवर्त्तन नगर।
12 “यदि कुनै मानिसले न्यायकर्त्ता तथा त्यस समयमा परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरको सेवा गरी रहेका पूजाहारीहरूको आज्ञा उलंङ्गन गरे तिमीहरूले त्यसलाई सजाय दिनु नै पर्छ। तिमीहरूले त्यस मानिसलाई इस्राएलबाट लखेटूनु पर्छ, त्यो मर्नु पर्छ।
13 यस्तो सजाय सबै मानिसहरूले थाहा पाउने छन् डर मान्ने छन् र त्यसपछि तिनीहरूले अझै हठ गर्ने छैनन्।
14 “जब तिमीहरू परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरले दिनु भएको भूमिमा पसेर बसो-बास शुरू गर्नेछौ तब तिमीहरूले भन्ने छौ, ‘जस्तो अन्य राज्यहरूमा राजाहरू छन् त्यसरी नै यहाँ पनि हामी राजा राख्छौं।’
15 जब तिमीहरूले यस्तो विचार गर्छौ, तब परमप्रभुले जसलाई राजा रोज्नुहुन्छ तिमीहरूले पनि राजा मनोनित गर्नु पर्छ। तर त्यो मानिस कुनै विदेशी नभएर तिमीहरू कै समूहबाट हुनुपर्छ।
16 राजाले आफ्नो निम्ति धेरै-धेरै घोडाहरू राख्नु हुँदैन अनि उनले मानिसहरूलाई धेरै घोडाहरू लिनु मिश्र देश पठाउनु हुँदैन। किन? किनभने परमप्रभुले तिमीहरूलाई भन्नु भएको छ, ‘तिमीहरू कहिल्यै त्यो बाटो फर्केर जाने छैनौ।’
17 राजाले धेरै पत्नीहरू राख्नु हुँदैन, किनभने त्यसले गर्दा उनी परमप्रभुबाटा पर सर्ने छन्। अनि राजाले धेरै सुन र चाँदी राख्नु हुँदैन।
18 “अनि जब त्यस राजाले शासन गर्न शुरू गर्छ उनले लेवीहरू तथा पूजाहारीहरूकहाँ भएको पुस्तकबाट आफ्नो निम्ति व्यवस्था कानूनको प्रति तयार पारेर आफूसित राख्नु पर्छ।
19 राजाले त्यो पुस्तक आफूसित राख्नुपर्छ। किन? किनभने राजाले परमप्रभु उनको परमेश्वरलाई सम्मान गर्नु पर्छ। राजाले व्यवस्थाले गरेको आज्ञा सम्पूर्ण पालन गर्नु सिक्नु पर्छ।
20 तब राजाले सोच्ने छैन उनी आफ्ना मानिसहरूबाट कसैको तुलनामा असल छ अनि उनी नियम भन्दा टाढा जाने छैनन् तर यसलाई सही रूपमा अनुसरण गर्ने छन् तिनीहरु इस्राएलमा धेरै समयसम्म शानस गर्नेछन्।
1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.
8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose;
9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:
10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:
11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
14 When thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:
19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the Lord: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.
7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.
9 Remember what the Lord thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.
10 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.
14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.
16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
19 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.