1 Y ou shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or sheep with a blemish or any defect whatsoever, for that is an abomination to the Lord your God.

«لا تَذْبَحُوا لإلَهِكُمْ ثَوراً أوْ خَرُوفاً فِيهِ مَرَضٌ أوْ تَشّوُّهٌ، لِأنَّ هّذا مَكرُوهٌ لَدَى اللهِ. عُقُوبَةُ عِبادَةِ الأصْنام

2 I f there is found among you within any of your towns which the Lord your God gives you a man or woman who does what is wicked in the sight of the Lord your God by transgressing His covenant,

«إنْ وُجِدَ فَي وَسَطِكُمْ، فِي أيِّ مَدِينَةٍ مِنْ مُدُنَكُمْ، الَّتِي يُعطِيها إلَهُكُمْ لَكُمْ، شَخْصٌ يَفْعَلُ الشَّرَّ أمامَ إلَهِكُمْ وَيَتَجاوَزُ عَهْدَهُ،

3 W ho has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or moon or any of the host of the heavens, which I have forbidden,

وَيَذْهَبُ وَيَعبُدُ آلِهَةً أُخْرَى وَيَسْجُدُ لَها خِلافاً لِوَصايايَ، أوْ يَعْبُدُ الشَّمسَ أوِ القَمَرَ أوِ النُّجُومَ،

4 A nd it is told and you hear of it, then inquire diligently. And if it is certainly true that such an abomination has been committed in Israel,

وَوَصَلَكُمْ هَذا الخَبَرُ، فَسَمِعْتُمْ وَفَحَصْتُمُ الأمْرَ، وَثَبَتَ أنَّ ذَلِكَ الأمرَ البَغِيضَ قَدْ حَدَثَ فِي إسْرائِيلَ،

5 T hen you shall bring forth to your town’s gates that man or woman who has done that wicked thing and you shall stone that man or woman to death.

يَنبَغِي أنْ تُخْرِجُوا مَنْ عَمِلَ ذَلِكَ الشَّرَّ إلَى بَوّاباتِ المَدِينَةِ، – رَجُلاً كانَ أمِ امْرأةً – وَأنْ تَرْجُمُوهُ بِالحِجارَةِ حَتَّى يَمُوتَ.

6 O n the evidence of two or three witnesses he who is worthy of death shall be put to death; he shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.

لا يَنْبَغِي أنْ يُقتَلَ إلّا بِشَهادَةِ شاهِدَينِ أوْ أكثَرَ، وَلا يَجُوزُ قَتلُهُ بِشَهادَةِ شاهِدٍ واحِدٍ.

7 T he hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from among you.

وَالشُّهُودُ هُمْ أوَّلُ الَّذينَ يَرجُمُونَهُ لِقَتلِهِ. بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ يُشارِكُ كُلُّ الشَّعبِ. هَكَذا تُخْرِجُونَ الشَّرَّ مِنْ بَينِكُمْ. القَضايا الصَّعبَة

8 I f there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment—between one kind of bloodshed and another, between one legality and another, between one kind of assault and another, matters of controversy within your towns—then arise and go to the place which the Lord your God chooses.

«إنْ كانَتْ هُناكَ قَضِيَّةٌ يَصعُبُ أنْ تَحكُمُوا فِيها، كَقَضِيَّةِ قَتلٍ أوْ دَعوَى أوْ إيذاءٍ أوْ سِواها، أوْ أيِّ خِلافٍ يَقَعُ فِي مُدُنِكُمْ، فَيَنبَغِي أنْ تَذْهَبُوا عَلَى الفَورِ إلَى المَكانِ الَّذِي يَختارُهُ إلَهُكُمْ.

9 A nd you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them and they shall make clear to you the decision.

اذْهَبُوا إلَى الكَهَنَةِ الَّلاوِيِّينَ وَالقاضِي المَسْؤولِ فِي ذَلِكَ الوَقتِ، وَاعرِضُوا المُشكِلَةَ عَلَيهِمْ، وَهُمْ سَيُخبِرُونَكُمْ بِالحُكْمِ فِي تِلكَ القَضِيَّةِ.

10 A nd you shall do according to the decision which they declare to you from that place which the Lord chooses; and you shall be watchful to do according to all that they tell you;

وَيَنبَغِي أنْ تَعمَلُوا بِحَسَبِ كُلِّ ما يَقُولُونَهُ لَكُمْ فِي ذَلِكَ المَكانِ الَّذِي سَيَختارُهُ اللهُ ، وَاحرِصُوا عَلَى عَمَلِ كُلِّ ما يُعَلِّمُونَهُ لَكُمْ.

11 A ccording to the decision of the law which they shall teach you and the judgment which they shall announce to you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the verdict they give you, either to the right hand or the left.

وَاعْمَلُوا بِحَسَبِ التَّعلِيماتِ الَّتِي يُعطُونَها لَكُمْ، وَبِحَسَبِ الحُكْمِ الَّذِي يُخبِرُونَكُمْ بِهِ. وَلا تَحِيدُوا أبَداً عَنْ القَرارِ الَّذِي يُعلِنُونَهُ.

12 T he man who does presumptuously and will not listen to the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God or to the judge, that man shall die; so you shall purge the evil from Israel.

وَكُلُّ مَنْ يَتَجَرَّأُ عَلَى عِصِيانِ الكاهِنِ الَّذِي يَقِفُ هُناكَ لِيَخدِمَ إلَهَكُمْ ، أوْ لا يُطِيعُ حُكمَ القاضِي، فَيَنْبَغِي أنْ يَمُوتَ. وَهَكَذا تُزيلُونَ الشَّرَّ مِنْ إسْرائِيلَ.

13 A nd all the people shall hear and fear, and not act presumptuously again.

وَيَسمَعُ كُلُّ الشَّعبِ ذَلِكَ وَيَخافُونَ، وَلَنْ يَتَجَرَّأوا عَلَى العِصْيانِ ثانِيَةً. كَيفِيَّةُ اختِيار المَلِك

14 W hen you come to the land which the Lord your God gives you and you possess it and live there, and then say, We will set a king over us like all the nations that are about us,

«وَمَتَى دَخَلْتُمُ الأرْضَ الَّتِي يُعطِيها إلَهُكُمْ لَكُمْ، وَامتَلَكْتُمُوها وَسَكَنتُمْ فِيها وَقُلتُمْ: ‹لِنُنَصِّبْ مَلِكاً عَلَينا كَبَقِيَّةِ الأُمَمِ المُحِيطَةِ بِنا،›

15 Y ou shall surely set as king over you him whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner, who is not your brother, over you.

احْرِصُوا عَلَى تَنصيبِ المَلِكِ الَّذِي يَختارُهُ إلَهُكُمْ ، وَأنْ يَكُونَ مِنْ شَعبِكُمْ. فَلا يَجُوزُ أنْ تُنَصِّبُوا أجنَبِياً لَيسَ مِنْ إخْوَتِكُمْ.

16 B ut he shall not multiply horses to himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to multiply horses, since the Lord said to you, You shall never return that way.

وَعَلَى هَذا المَلِكِ أنْ لا يَجمَعَ الكَثِيرَ مِنَ الخُيُولِ لِنَفسِهِ، وَألّا يُرسِلَ الشَّعبَ إلَى مِصْرَ لِشِراءِ المَزِيدِ مِنَ الخُيُولِ، لِأنَّ اللهَ قالَ لَكُمْ: ‹لَنْ تَعُودُوا مِنْ هَذِهِ الطَّرِيقِ أبَداً.›

17 A nd he shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away; neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

وَلا يَنبَغِي أنْ يَتَّخِذَ زَوجاتٍ كَثِيراتٍ لِنَفسِهِ حَتَّى لا يَنْحَرِفَ. وَلا يَنبَغِي أنْ يَجمَعَ لِنَفسِهِ الكَثِيرَ مِنَ الفِضَّةِ وَالذَّهَبِ.

18 A nd when he sits on his royal throne, he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, out of what is before the Levitical priests.

«وَحِينَ يُصبِحُ مَلِكاً، يَنبَغِي أنْ يَكتُبَ نُسخَةً مِنْ هَذِهِ الشَّرِيعَةِ لِنَفسِهِ فِي كِتابٍ مِنَ النُّسخَةِ المَحفُوظَةِ لَدَى الكَهَنَةِ الَّلاوِيِّينَ،

19 A nd he shall keep it with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes and doing them,

وَأنْ يَحتَفِظَ بِها مَعَهُ وَأنْ يَقرَأها كُلَّ أيّامِ حَياتِهِ، لِيَتَعَلَّمَ أنْ يَتَّقِيَ إلَهَهُ ، وَأنْ يَحفَظَ كُلَّ المَكتُوبِ فِي هَذِهِ الشَّرِيعَةِ وَهَذِهِ الفَرائِضِ،

20 T hat his heart may not be lifted up above his brethren and that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left; so that he may continue long, he and his sons, in his kingdom in Israel.

لِئَلّا يَظُنَّ أنَّهُ أفضَلُ مِنْ أيِّ واحِدٍ فِي شَعبِهِ، وَلِئَلّا يَعصَى الوَصايا بِأيَّةِ طَرِيقَةٍ، فَيَحكُمَ المَلِكُ وَنَسلُهُ زَمَناً طَوِيلاً عَلَى مَملَكَةِ إسْرائِيلَ.