Mousese Ea Malasu 18
1 Lifai fi (Gobele Salasu dunu fi) amo dunu da Isala: ili soge amo ganodini soge hame gagumu. Be ilia labe amola ha: i manu da eno dunu ilia Hina Godema hahawane udigili iasu amola gobele salasu liligi i.
“The priests, who are all from the tribe of Levi, will not receive any land in Israel. Instead, they will receive some of the food that other people offer to be burned [on the altar to be sacrificed] to Yahweh and some of the other sacrifices that will be offered to Yahweh.
2 Lifai fi da eno dunu fi defele soge lai amo hame lamu. Be Hina Gode Ea sia: i defele ilia da Hina Gode Ea gobele salasu hamobeba: le, hahawane gaguiwane ba: mu.
They will not be allotted any land like the other tribes will be. What they will receive is the work/privilege of being Yahweh’s [priests], which is what he said that they should have.
3 Isala: ili dunu da bulamagau o sibi Hina Godema gobele salasea, ilia da amo ea gida, magado amola hagomo amo gobele salasu dunuma imunu.
“When the people bring an ox or a sheep to be sacrificed, they must give to the priests the shoulder, the cheeks/jaws, and the stomach of those animals.
4 Amola gobele salasu dunu (Lifai fi dunu) da degabo lai gagoma, waini, olife susuligi amola sibi hinabo lamu.
You must also give to them the first part of the grain that you [harvest], and the first part of the wine [that you make], and the first part of the [olive] oil [that you make], and the first part of the wool that you shear from your sheep.
5 Dilia fi amo ganodini, Hina Gode da Lifai fi amo eso huluane Ema gobele salasu dunu hawa: hamomusa: gini ilegei dagoi.
You must do this because Yahweh our God has chosen the tribe of Levi from all of your tribes, in order that men [from that tribe] would always be the priests who would serve him.
6 Nowa Lifai dunu da hanai galea, e da hi moilai Isala: ili soge ganodini amo yolesili, Godema nodone sia: ne gadosu sogebi afae Gode da ilegei amoga masunu da defea.
“If any man from the tribe of Levi [who has been living] in one of the towns in Israel wants to come from there to the place of worship that Yahweh has chosen, [and start living there],
7 Amogawi e da Lifai dunu eno amoga hawa: hamonana amo defele e da hawa: hamomu da defea.
he is permitted to serve Yahweh there as a priest, just like the other men from the tribe of Levi who have been serving there.
8 E da eno gobele salasu dunu defele ha: i manu lamu amola ea sosogo fi da ema ha: i manu o eno liligi iasisia, e da amo huluane lamu da defea.
He must be given the same amount of food [that the other priests receive]. He is permitted to keep the money [that his relatives give him] for selling some of their possessions.
9 Dilia soge amo dilia Hina Gode da dilima iaha amo ganodini masea, dilia dunu fi waha amo ganodini esala amo ilia wadela: idafa hou defele mae hamoma: mu.
When you enter the land that Yahweh our God is giving you, you must not imitate the disgusting things that the people-groups who are there now do.
10 Dilia mano amo ilia oloda da: iya mae laluga gobesima. Amola dilia fi dunu oda da wamuni dawa: su o yagono hou maedafa hamoma: mu.
You must not sacrifice any of your children by burning them [on your altars]. Do not practice (divination/using supernatural power to reveal [what will happen in] the future). Do not do/practice (soothsaying/magic to find out what will happen in the future). Do not (interpret omens/say that because of something that you have seen you know what will happen). Do not practice sorcery/witchcraft. Do not practice (putting spells on people/saying things to cause bad things to happen to others).
11 Amola ilia gabi amoma hame dawa: mu amola gesami dasu hou da dilima sema bagade.
Do not try to talk with spirits of dead people. Do not do/practice magic.
12 Amo hou huluane da wadela: idafa amola Hina Gode da amo hou higasa. Ga: ina: ne soge dunu da amo wadela: i hou hamonana. Amaiba: le, dilia da ilia soge ganodini gusuba: i ahoasea, Hina Gode da amo dunu gadili sefasimu.
Yahweh hates people who do any of those disgusting things. And as you advance through that land, he is going to expel the people-groups because they do/practice those disgusting things.
13 Dilia moloidafa mae fisili, Hina Gode Ea sia: nabawane hamoma.”
But you must always avoid doing any of those things.
14 Amalalu, Mousese da eno amane sia: i, “Ga: ina: ne dunu wali dilia gesowale fimu soge ganodini esala da gesami dasu amola wadela: i ba: la: lusu dunu ilia sia: naba. Be dilia Hina Gode da amo hou da dilima sema bagade sia: sa.
The people-groups that you are about to expel [from the land that you will occupy] (consult/seek advice from) soothsayers and those who practice divination. But as for you, Yahweh our God does not allow you to do that.
15 Be fa: no, E da balofede dunu na (Mousese) defele, dilia fi dunu, amo dilima asunasimu. Dilia ea sia: noga: le nabima.
[Some day] he will send from among you a prophet like me. [He is the one who will tell you what will happen in the future], and he is the one whom you must heed.
16 Dilia da musa: Sainai gilisilalu, dilia da Hina Godema bu “mae sia: ma” amola Ea hadigi bu mae ba: ma: ne sia: i. Bai dilia da bogosa: besa: le, bagade beda: i.
On the day that your ancestors were gathered at the bottom of Sinai Mountain, they pleaded with me saying, ‘We do not want Yahweh to speak [MTY] to us again, and we do not want to see this huge fire [that is burning on the mountain]!’ [Your ancestors said that because they were afraid] that they would die [if Yahweh spoke to them again].
17 Amaiba: le, Hina Gode da Goumia nama amane sia: i, ‘Ilia da dawa: iwane adole ba: i.
Then Yahweh said to me, ‘What they have said is true/wise.
18 Na da Isala: ili fi balofede dunu, di agoane, ilima asunasimu. E da Na sia: amo Isala: ili dunuma olelemu.
So I will send from among them a prophet who will be like you. I will tell him what to say, and then he will tell people everything that I tell him to say.
19 E da Na Dioba: le sia: mu amola nowa dunu da ea sia: hame nabasea, Na da ema se dabe imunu.
He will speak for me. And I will punish anyone who does not heed what he says.
20 Be balofede dunu afae da hi sia: fawane Na sia: mae nabawane, ogogole Na Dioba: le sia: sea, defea, amo dunu medole legema. Amola balofede dunu da eno ogogosu ‘gode’ liligi amo ilia dioba: le sia: sea, amo dunu medole legema.
But if any other [person says that he is a] prophet [and] dares to speak a message which he falsely says comes from me but which I did not tell him to speak, or if anyone who speaks a message that he says other gods [MTY] have revealed to him, he must be executed [for doing that].’
21 Amabela: ? Dilia da gilisili sia: dasea agoane, ‘Ninia da habodane balofede dunu da ogogole Gode Ea sia: mae nabawane hi sia: fawane olelesa, amo habodane dawa: ma: bela: ?’
But if you say to yourself, ‘How can we know if a message [that someone tells us] does not come from Yahweh?’
22 Dilia da agoane dawa: mu. Balofede dunu da Hina Gode Ea Dioba: le amo hou da fa: no misunu sia: sa amola amo hou da hame doaga: sea, defea, amo dunu da Gode Ea sia: hame olelesa dawa: ma. E da hisu hi asigi dawa: su fawane olelesa amola dilia ema mae beda: ma.
[The answer is that] when someone speaks a message [about what will happen in the future], a message that he says was revealed by Yahweh, if what he says does not happen, [you will know that] the message did not come from Yahweh. That person has wrongly claimed that it was revealed to him by Yahweh. So you do not need to be afraid of [anything that] he [says].”
