Mousese Ea Malasu 14
1 Dilia da Hina Gode Ea Fi dunu. Amaiba: le, dilia dunu bogobeba: le, didiga: sea, dilia da: i gobiheiga mae abigima amola dilia dialuma mae ougelema.
“We are people who belong to Yahweh our God. So, when people die, do not show that you are grieving by gashing/cutting yourselves or by shaving the hair on your foreheads [like the other people-groups do].
2 Dilia da Hina Gode Ea: dunu fi. E da dunu fifi asi gala amo huluane hodole, dilima fawane ilegei dagoi.
We belong to Yahweh alone. Yahweh chose us from all the other people-groups on the earth to be his special people.
3 Hina Gode da ha: i manu da ledo gala ilegei galea, amo mae moma.
“Do not eat anything that [Yahweh] detests.
4 Ohe fi dilia manu da defea da bulamagau, sibi, goudi,
The animals [whose meat] you are permitted to eat are cattle, sheep, goats,
5 dia, soge sibi, soge goudi, a:deloubi amola
deer, gazelles, wild goats, antelopes, and mountain sheep.
6 adi ohe fi ilia emo sasafo adobo amola ilia gisi hedesini esaga salawane aduga: le guda: le bu hi naha.
Those are animals that have split hoofs and that also (chew their cuds/regurgitate their food [from their stomachs] to chew it again).
7 Be ohe fi ilia emo da sasafo adobo, be ilia gisi hedesini esaga salawane aduga: le guda: le bu hi hame naha, amo da sema - mae moma. ‘Ga: mele’, ‘la: bidi’ amola ‘igi ba: dege’ da ledoba: le mae moma. Ilia ha: i manu da hedesini esaga salawane aduga: le guda: le bu hi naha, be ilia emo da sasafo adobo hame.
But there are other animals that chew their cuds that you must not eat. Those are camels, rabbits, and rock badgers. They chew their cuds, but their hooves are not split. So they are not acceptable for you to eat.
8 Gebodafa mae moma. Ilia da ledo gala. Ilia da emo sasafo adobo gala be ilia ha: i manu da hedesini esaga salawane aduga: le guda: le bu hi naha hame hamosa. Agoaiwane ledo ohe fi amo mae moma amola ilia bogoi da: i hodo mae digili ba: ma.
Do not eat pigs. They are unacceptable for you to eat; their hooves are split, but they do not chew cud. Do not eat the meat of those animals; do not even touch their dead bodies.
9 Menabo amo da aiya galebe, amo dilia manu da defea.
You are permitted to eat any fish that has scales and fins.
10 Be hano ganodini esalebe fi huluane da aiya hame gala amo mae moma. Amo da dilima ledo gala.
But anything else [that lives in the water] that does not have scales and fins, you must not eat, because [if you eat them], you will become unacceptable [to Yahweh].
11 Ledo hamedei sio fi dilia manu da defea.
“You are permitted to eat the flesh of any bird that is acceptable [to Yahweh].
12 Be amo dedei sio mae moma - buhiba, sia, sedia, waialima sononi, wida, aowa ahea, ‘gala: ini’, ‘beliga: ne’ amola ganeba.
But eagles, vultures, black vultures,
buzzards, all kinds of kites,
all kinds of crows,
ostriches, seagulls,
owls, hawks, falcons,
pelicans, vultures that eat dead animals, cormorants,
storks, herons, hoopoes, and bats, you must not eat.
19 Amola agime, gugu, aowaba amola huluane agoaiwane liligi ougia galebe da dilima ledo gala. Amo huluane mae moma.
“All insects with wings [and which walk on the ground] are unacceptable [to Yahweh]; do not eat them.
20 Be ledo hamedei agoaiwane liligi dilia manu da defea.
But other insects with wings [and which hop along the ground] are acceptable to eat.
21 Ohe fi da hi bogoi, amo mae moma. Ga fi dunu dilia fi amo ganodini esala amo ilia manu da defea. O hou eno dilia da ohe hisu bogoi amo ga fi dunu eno ilima bidi lama. Be dilia da Hina Gode Ea fidafa. Amaiba: le, mae moma. Dilia sibi o goudi mano amo ea ame ea dodo maga: me ganodini mae gobema.”
“Do not eat any animal that has died naturally, [because its blood has not been drained out]. You may allow foreigners who live among you to eat those things or you may sell them to other foreigners. But you belong to Yahweh our God; [and those who belong to him are not permitted to eat the meat of animals whose blood has not been drained out]. “You must not cook a young sheep or goat in its mother’s milk.”
22 “Dilia ‘daide’ la: ididili ligisima. Amo da dilia ifabi ha: i manu legei nabuane fifili afadafa Godema ima.
“Once each year you must set apart (a tithe/10 percent) of all the crops that are produced/harvested in your fields.
23 Amasea, Hina Gode Ea dilia Ema nodomusa: ilegei sogebi afae amoga asili, Ea midadi dilia gagoma, waini, olife susuligi, bulamagau magobo amola sibi magobo amo nabuane fifili afae moma. Dilia eso huluane Hina Godema nodoma: ne hamoma.
Take those things to the place that Yahweh our God will choose [for you to worship him]. There eat the tithes of your grain, your wine, your [olive] oil, and the meat of the firstborn male animals of your cattle and your sheep. Do this in order that you may learn to always revere Yahweh, [the one who has blessed you by giving you these things].
24 Be Godema nodomu sogebi da dilia diasu baligili sedade ba: sea, amola ‘daide’ amo Gode da dima hahawane i amo da amoga gaguli masunu da hamedei ba: sea, agoane hamoma.
If the place that Yahweh has chosen [for you to worship him] is very far from your home, with the result that you are not able to take there the tithes [of your crops] with which Yahweh has blessed you, do this:
25 Dia ha: i manu ‘daide’ bidi lale, muni fawane Godema nodone sia: ne gadosu sogebi amoga gaguli masa.
Sell [IDM] the tithes of your crops, wrap the money carefully [in a cloth], and take it with you to the place of worship that Yahweh has chosen.
26 Amogawi, amo muniga dilia hanai lama. Ohe hu, sibi mano, waini hano o agoai hano - amo lale, dilia Hina Gode ba: ma: ne, dilia amola dilia sosogo fi da hahawane moma: mu.
There, [with that money], you may buy whatever you want to—beef or lamb or wine or fermented drinks. And there, in the presence of Yahweh, you and your families should eat [and drink] those things and be happy.
27 Dilia Lifai dunu dilia moilai ganodini esala amo mae gogolema. Bai ilia da soge hame gagusa.
But be sure to not neglect/forget [to help] the descendants of Levi who live in your towns, because they will not own any land.
28 Ode osodayale huluane gidigisia, dilia ha: i manu legei ‘daide’ amo gaguli misini dilia moilai amo ganodini legema.
“At the end of every three years, bring a tithe of all your crops that have been produced/harvested in that year and store it in your towns.
29 Amo ha: i manu da Lifai (bai ilia da soge hame gagusa), ga fi, guluba: mano amola didalo dilia moilai ganodini esala amo moma: ne gilisima. Ilia da misini ilia hanaiga manu. Dilia da agoane hamosea, Hina Gode da dilia hawa: hamosu huluane hahawane dogolegelewane fidimu.
That food is for the descendants of Levi, because they do not have their own land, and for foreigners [who live among you], and for orphans and widows who live in your towns. They are permitted to come [to where the food is stored] and take what they need. Do that in order that Yahweh our God will bless you in everything that you do.”
