
申命记21:1~9
有关未结案的谋杀案件
1「在耶和华-你 神所赐你为业的地上,若遇见被杀的人倒在田野,不知道是谁杀的,
2长老和审判官就要出去,从被杀的人那里量起,直量到四围的城邑,
3看哪城离被杀的人最近,那城的长老就要从牛群中取一只未曾耕地、未曾负轭的母牛犊,
4把母牛犊牵到流水、未曾耕种的山谷去,在谷中打折母牛犊的颈项。
5祭司利未的子孙要近前来;因为耶和华-你的 神拣选了他们事奉他,奉耶和华的名祝福,所有争讼殴打的事都要凭他们判断。
6那城的众长老,就是离被杀的人最近的,要在那山谷中,在所打折颈项的母牛犊以上洗手,
7祷告说:『我们的手未曾流这人的血;我们的眼也未曾看见这事。
8耶和华啊,求你赦免你所救赎的以色列民,不要使流无辜血的罪归在你的百姓以色列中间。』这样,流血的罪必得赦免。
9你行耶和华眼中看为正的事,就可以从你们中间除掉流无辜血的罪。」
Atonement for an Unsolved Murder
1If someone is found slain, lying in a field in the land the Lordyour God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who the killer was,
2your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns.
3Then the elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked and has never worn a yoke
4and lead it down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and where there is a flowing stream. There in the valley they are to break the heifer’s neck.
5The Levitical priests shall step forward, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister and to pronounce blessings in the name of the Lord and to decide all cases of dispute and assault.
6Then all the elders of the town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,
7and they shall declare: “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done.
8Accept this atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, Lord, and do not hold your people guilty of the blood of an innocent person.” Then the bloodshed will be atoned for,
9and you will have purged from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
内容观察
1.摩西说,如果发现不知被谁杀害的尸体时,当如何处理?(2~4节)
2.离被杀之地最近城邑的长老在打断母牛犊颈项的同时,要说些什么?
(7~8节)
思考与默想
个人感受
决心与应用
5.你如何看待“一人犯罪,众人皆有责任”的想法?
若是如此,面对自己、周遭之人与整个社群,你如何有具体的关怀行动?
来9:22“按着律法,几乎每样东西都是用血洁净的;没有流血,就没有赦罪。”
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