Deuteronomo 25
1 Anthu akasemphana mawu, ayenera kupita ku bwalo la milandu ndipo woweruza adzaweruza mlanduwo. Adzamasula wosalakwa nalanga wolakwa.
If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
2 Munthu akapezeka wolakwa ayenera kukwapulidwa, woweruza amugoneke pansi wolakwayo ndipo akwapulidwe pamaso pake zikoti zochuluka molingana ndi mlandu wake,
And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
3 koma asamukwapule zikoti zopitirira makumi anayi. Akakwapulidwa kupitirira apo ndiye kuti mʼbale wanuyo anyozeka pamaso panu.
Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.
4 Musamange ngʼombe pakamwa pamene ikupuntha tirigu.
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the corn.
5 Ngati abale akukhala pamodzi ndipo wina mwa iwo akamwalira wosasiya mwana wamwamuna, mkazi wamasiyeyo asakakwatiwe ndi mlendo. Mʼbale wake wa mwamuna wakeyo amukwatire kukwaniritsa chimene akuyenera kuchita kwa mlamu wakeyo.
If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without to a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother to her.
6 Mwana wamwamuna woyamba amene mayiyo angabereke ayenera kutenga dzina la mwamuna wake womwalirayo kuti dzina lake lisafafanizike mu Israeli.
And it shall be, that the firstborn which she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
7 Komabe, ngati munthu sakufuna kukwatira mkazi wa mʼbale wakeyo, mkaziyo ayenera kupita kwa akuluakulu ku chipata cha mzinda ndi kukanena kuti, “Mʼbale wake wa mwamuna wanga akukana kupitiriza dzina la mʼbale wake mu Israeli. Iye akukana kulowa chokolo.”
And if the man like not to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.
8 Pamenepo akuluakulu a mu mzinda wawowo adzamuyitanitsa nakamba naye. Ngati alimbikirabe kunena kuti, “Ine sindikufuna kumukwatira mkaziyu,”
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
9 mkazi wamasiye wa mʼbale wakeyo adzapita kwa iye pamaso pa akuluakuluwo namuvula nsapato imodzi, adzamulavulire kumaso nʼkunena kuti, “Izi ndi zimene amachitira munthu amene safuna kupitiriza mbiri ya banja la mʼbale wake.”
Then shall his brother’s wife come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done to that man that will not build up his brother’s house.
10 Mbiri ya banja la munthu ameneyo idzadziwika mu Israeli kuti ndi Banja la Wovulidwa nsapato.
And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that has his shoe loosed.
11 Ngati anthu awiri akuchita ndewu ndipo mkazi wa mmodzi wa iwo abwera kudzaleretsa mwamuna wake kwa mnzakeyo natambasula dzanja lake kugwira ku maliseche kwa winayo,
When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smites him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets:
12 muyenera kumudula dzanja, osamumvera chisoni.
Then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall not pity her.
13 Musamakhale ndi miyeso iwiri yosiyana mʼthumba mwanu, wolemera ndi wopepuka.
You shall not have in your bag divers weights, a great and a small.
14 Musamakhale ndi milingo iwiri yosiyana mʼnyumba mwanu, waukulu ndi waungʼono.
You shall not have in your house divers measures, a great and a small.
15 Muyenera kukhala ndi miyeso ndi milingo yoyenera ndi yosanyenga kuti mukhalitse mʼdziko limene Yehova Mulungu wanu akukupatsani.
But you shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
16 Pakuti Yehova Mulungu wanu amanyansidwa ndi aliyense wochita za chinyengo zoterezi.
For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.
17 Kumbukirani zimene Aamaleki anakuchitirani pamene munali pa ulendo wochokera ku Igupto.
Remember what Amalek did to you by the way, when you were come forth out of Egypt;
18 Pamene munali otopa ndi ofowoka, iwo anakumana nanu pa ulendo wanu ndi kukantha onse otsalira mʼmbuyo ndipo iwo sanaope Mulungu.
How he met you by the way, and smote the hindmost of you, even all that were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he feared not God.
19 Pamene Yehova Mulungu wanu akupumulitsani kwa adani onse okuzungulirani mʼdziko limene akupatsani inu ngati cholowa chanu, mudzawafafanize Aamaleki, asadzawakumbukirenso pa dziko lapansi. Musadzayiwale chimenechi!
Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget it.
