1 « لا يَنبَغِي أنْ تَرَى ثَورَ صاحِبَكَ أوْ خَرُوفَهُ ضالّاً وَتَتَجاهَلهُ، بَلْ يَنْبَغِي أنْ تُعِيدَهُ إلَيهِ.

“ You shall not see your countryman’s ox or his sheep straying away, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly bring them back to your countryman.

2 و َإنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ صاحِبُهُ يَسكُنُ قَرِيباً مِنكَ وَأنتَ لا تَعرِفُهُ، فَأحْضِرْهُ إلَى بَيتِكَ وَاحتَفِظْ بِهِ حَتَّى يَأتِيَ صاحِبُهُ باحِثاً عَنهُ. حِينَئِذٍ تُعِيدُهُ إليهِ.

If your countryman is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall remain with you until your countryman looks for it; then you shall restore it to him.

3 و َهَكَذا تَفعَلُ إنْ وَجَدْتَ حِمارَ صاحِبِكَ أوْ ثِيابَهُ أوْ أيَّ شَيءٍ ضاعَ مِنهُ. فَلا تَتَجاهَلِ الأمرَ.

Thus you shall do with his donkey, and you shall do the same with his garment, and you shall do likewise with anything lost by your countryman, which he has lost and you have found. You are not allowed to neglect them.

4 « إذا رَأيتَ حِمارَ صاحِبَكَ أوْ ثَورَهُ راقِداً فِي الطَّرِيقِ فَلا تَتَجاهَلهُ، بَلْ ساعِدْ صاحِبَهُ عَلَى رَفعِهِ.

You shall not see your countryman’s donkey or his ox fallen down on the way, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly help him to raise them up.

5 « لا يَنبَغِي أنْ تَرتَدِيَ المَرأةُ ثِيابَ رَجُلٍ، وَلا الرَّجُلُ ثِيابَ امْرأةٍ. مَنْ يَفعَلُ هَذا يَمْقُتُهُ إلَهُكَ.

“A woman shall not wear man’s clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.

6 « إنْ وَجَدْتَ وَأنتَ تَمشِي عُشَّ طَيرٍ عَلَى شَجَرَةٍ أوْ عَلَى الأرْضِ وَفِيهِ فِراخٌ أوْ بَيضٌ، وَالأُمُّ تَرقُدُ عَلَى صِغارِها أوْ عَلَى البَيضِ، فَلا تَأخُذِ الأُمَّ مَعَ الفِراخِ،

“If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young;

7 ب َلِ اسْمَحْ لِلأُمَّ بِالذَّهابِ، ثُمَّ خُذِ الفِراخَ، لِكَي يَكُونَ لَكَ خَيرٌ وَتَعِيشَ زَمَناً طَوِيلاً.

you shall certainly let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, in order that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

8 « إذا بَنَيتَ بَيتاً جَدِيداً، فابْنِ سُوراً حَولَ سَطحِهِ، فَلا تُحْسَبُ مُذنِباً إنْ سَقَطَ مِنْ عَلَى سَطحِ بَيتِكَ وَماتَ.

“When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it.

9 « لا تَزرَعْ كَرْمَ العِنَبِ بِالحُبُوبِ، لِأنَّكَ تَخْسَرُ بَذَلِكَ غَلَّةَ العِنَبِ وَمَحْصُولَ الحُبُوبِ كِلَيهِما.

“ You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or all the produce of the seed which you have sown and the increase of the vineyard will become defiled.

10 « لا تَحرُثْ عَلَى ثَورٍ وَحِمارٍ مَعاً.

“ You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

11 « لا تَرتَدِي ثِياباً مِنسُوجَةً مِنَ الصُّوفِ وَالكِتّانِ مَعاً.

“ You shall not wear a material mixed of wool and linen together.

12 « وَضَعْ أهداباً عَلَى الزَّوايا الأربَعَةِ لِثَوبِكَ الَّذِي تَتَغَطَّى بِهِ. شَرائِعُ لَلزَّواج

“ You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of your garment with which you cover yourself. Laws on Morality

13 « إنْ تَزَوَّجَ رَجُلٌ امْرأةً وَعاشَرَها، ثُمَّ كَرِهَها،

“ If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then turns against her,

14 و َاتَّهَمَها بِسُوءِ السُّلُوكِ، وَذَمَّها فَقالَ: ‹تَزَوَّجتُ هَذِهِ الفَتاةَ، وَلَكِنْ حِينَ عاشَرْتُها، وَجَدْتُ أنَّها لَيسَتْ عَذراءَ!›

and charges her with shameful deeds and publicly defames her, and says, ‘I took this woman, but when I came near her, I did not find her a virgin,’

15 ف َإنَّ عَلَى أبِيها وَأُمِّها أنْ يُحضِرا دَلِيلاً عَلَى عُذْريَّتِها إلَى شُيُوخِ المَدِينَةِ عِندَ البَوّابَةِ.

then the girl’s father and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

16 و َيَقُولُ أبُو الفَتاةِ لِلشُّيُوخِ: ‹أعطَيتُ ابْنَتِي لِهَذا الرَّجُلِ زَوجَةً لَهُ، لَكِنَّهُ كَرِهَها.

The girl’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man for a wife, but he turned against her;

17 و َقَدِ اتَّهَمَها بِسُوءِ السُّلُوكِ فَقالَ: وَجَدتُ أنَّ ابْنَتَكَ لَيسَتْ عَذراءَ. وَلَكِنْ هَذا هُوَ دَلِيلُ عُذْريَّتِها.› ثُمَّ يَبسُطُ الثَّوبَ أمامَ شُيُوخِ المَدِينَةِ.

and behold, he has charged her with shameful deeds, saying, “I did not find your daughter a virgin.” But this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

18 ح ِينَئِذٍ، يَأخُذُ شُيُوخُ تِلكَ المَدِينَةِ ذَلِكَ الرَّجُلَ وَيُؤَدِّبُوهُ.

So the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him,

19 و َيَفْرِضُونَ عَلَيهِ غَرامَةً مِقدارُها مِئَةُ مِثْقالٍ مِنَ الفِضَّةِ، يُعطُونَها لِأبِي الفَتاةِ، لِأنَّ ذَلِكَ الرَّجُلَ شَوَّهَ سُمعَةَ عَذراءٍ فِي إسْرائِيلَ. وَسَتَبقَى زَوجَةً لَهُ، وَلَنْ يَستَطِيعَ أنْ يُطَلِّقَها مَدَى حَياتِهِ.

and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl’s father, because he publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. And she shall remain his wife; he cannot divorce her all his days.

20 « وَلَكِنْ إنْ كانَتِ التُّهمَةُ صَحِيحَةً، وَلَمْ يَكُنْ هُناكَ دَلِيلٌ عَلَى عُذْرِيَّةِ الفَتاةِ،

“But if this charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin,

21 ف َليُؤتَ بِها إلَى بابِ بَيتِ أبِيها. حَيثُ يَرجُمُها رِجالُ المَدِينَةِ حَتَّى المَوتِ، لِأنَّها ارتَكَبَتْ عَمَلاً مُشِيناً فِي إسْرائِيلَ، إذْ أقامَتْ عَلاقَةً جِنسيَّةً قَبلَ الزَّواجِ، وَهِيَ فِي بَيتِ أبِيها. وَهَكَذا تُزِيلُونَ الشَّرَّ مِنْ وَسَطِ شَعبِكُمْ. عقوباتُ الزِّنَى وَالاغتِصاب

then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

22 « إنْ عاشَرَ رَجُلٌ زَوجَةَ رَجُلٍ آخَرَ، تَقتُلُونَهُما كِلَيهِما: الرَّجُلَ الَّذِي عاشَرَ المَرأةَ، وَالمَرأةَ نَفْسَها. هَكَذا تُزِيلُونَ الشَّرَّ مِنْ إسْرائِيلَ.

“ If a man is found lying with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.

23 « إنْ وَجَدَ رَجُلٌ امْرأةً مَخطُوبَةً فِي المَدِينَةِ وَعاشَرَها،

“ If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her,

24 ي َنبَغِي أنْ تُحضِرُوهُما مَعاً إلَى بَوّابَةِ المَدِينَةِ، وَأنْ تَرجُمُوهُما حَتَّى المَوتِ. تَرجُمُونَ الفَتاةَ لِأنَّها لَمْ تَصْرُخْ لِطَلَبِ المُساعَدَةِ مِنْ أهلِ المَدِينَةِ، وَتَرجُمُونَ الرَّجُلَ لِأنَّهُ أهانَ زَوجَةَ رَجُلٍ آخَرَ. وَهَكَذا تُزِيلُونَ الشَّرَّ مِنْ وَسَطِكُمْ.

then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them to death; the girl, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

25 « لَكِنْ إنْ وَجَدَ الرَّجُلُ الفَتاةَ المَخطُوبَةَ فِي الخَلاءِ، وَاغتَصَبَها، فَإنَّ الرَّجُلَ الَّذِي اضطَجَعَ مَعَها هُوَ وَحْدَهُ الَّذِي يَنبَغي أنْ يَمُوتَ.

“But if in the field the man finds the girl who is engaged, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lies with her shall die.

26 ف َلا تُعاقِبُوا الفَتاةَ لِأنَّها لَمْ تَرتَكِبْ خَطِيَّةً تَستَحِقُّ المَوتَ. فَهَذِهِ الحالَةُ تُشبِهُ حالَةَ رَجُلٍ يُمسِكُ بِآخَرَ وَيَقتُلُهُ،

But you shall do nothing to the girl; there is no sin in the girl worthy of death, for just as a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, so is this case.

27 إ ذْ قَدْ وَجَدَها فِي الخَلاءِ. وَرُبَّما تَكُونُ قَدْ صَرَخَتْ طَلَباً لِلمُساعَدَةِ، وَلَكِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ أحَدٌ لِيُساعِدَها.

When he found her in the field, the engaged girl cried out, but there was no one to save her.

28 « وَإنْ وَجَدَ رَجُلٌ فَتاةً عَذراءَ غَيرَ مَخطُوبَةٍ، وَأجبَرَها عَلَى مُعاشَرَتِهِ، ثُمَّ اكتُشِفا،

“ If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her and they are discovered,

29 ف َإنَّ عَلَى ذَلِكَ الرَّجُلِ الَّذِي اغْتَصَبَها أنْ يُعطِيَ أبا الفَتاةِ خَمْسِينَ مِثْقالاً مِنَ الفِضَّةِ. وَأمّا هِيَ، فَتُصبِحُ زَوجَةً لَهُ. وَلِأنَّهُ أذَلَّها، لَنْ يَستَطِيعَ أنْ يُطَلِّقَها.

then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days.

30 « لا يَجُوزُ لِأحَدٍ أنْ يَتَزَوَّجَ زَوجَةَ أبِيهِ، لِأنَّ هَذا سَيُعِيبُ أباهُ.

“ A man shall not take his father’s wife so that he will not uncover his father’s skirt.