Olrhaepnah 26

1 BOEIPA na Pathen loh nang taengah rho la m'paek khohmuen te na kun thil tih na pang phoeikah kho na sak vaengah he tlam he om saeh.

“After you occupy the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you, and you (have settled/are living) there,

2 BOEIPA na Pathen loh nang m'paek na khohmuen lamkah diklai thaihtae boeih khuiah thaihcuek te lo lamtah khuen. Te vaengah vaihang dongah khueh lamtah a ming phuk thil ham BOEIPA na Pathen loh a coelh hmuen la cet.

[each of] you must take some of the first crops that you harvest, put them in a basket, and take them to the place that Yahweh will have chosen for you to worship [MTY] there.

3 Te phoeiah amah khohnin vaengkah khosoih la aka om te paan lamtah, “Mamih taengah paek hamla BOEIPA loh a pa rhoek taengah a toemngam sut khohmuen te ka kun thil coeng dongah tihnin ah BOEIPA na Pathen taengla ka puen coeng,” ti nah.

Go to the Supreme Priest who is serving at that time and say to him, ‘[By giving you this first part of my harvest] today, I am declaring to Yahweh our God that I have [picked it in] the land that he vowed to our ancestors to give to us.’

4 Te vaengah na kut dongkah vaihang te khosoih loh doe saeh lamtah BOEIPA na Pathen kah hmueihtuk hmai ah tloeng saeh.

Then the priest must take the basket of food from your hand and put it on the altar where sacrifices are offered to Yahweh our God.

5 Te phoeiah doo lamtah BOEIPA na Pathen kah mikhmuh ah, “A pa Arammi te milh tih Egypt la a suntlak vaengah hlang sii la bakuep sut. Tedae pilnu boeiping neh namtu len la pahoi om coeng.

Then in Yahweh’s presence you must say this: ‘My ancestor [Jacob] was a man from Aram/Syria who was continually wandering [from one place to another]. He took his family to Egypt. They were a small group [when they went there], but they lived there and their descendants became a very large/populous [DOU] and powerful nation.

6 Tedae Egypt he kaimih soah thae uh. Kaimih he m'phaep uh tih kaimih soah thohtatnah neh mangkhak la n'nan uh.

Then the people of Egypt treated them very harshly [DOU], and they forced them to become their slaves and to work very hard.

7 Te dongah a pa rhoek kah BOEIPA Pathen taengla ka pang uh. Kaimih ol te BOEIPA loh a yaak tih kaimih pum dongkah phacipphabaem, thakthaenah neh hnaemtaeknah te a hmuh.

Then our ancestors cried out to you, Yahweh our God, and you heard them. You saw that they were suffering, and that they were forced to work very hard, and were being oppressed.

8 Te dongah BOEIPA loh tlungluen kut neh kaimih he Egypt lamkah ng'khuen. A ban te khaw rhimomnah neh mat a phuel tih miknoek neh kopoekrhai te a saii.

Then by your great power [MTY] and by performing many kinds of miracles [DOU], and other terrifying things, you brought them out of Egypt.

9 Te phoeiah hekah hmuen la ng'khuen tih suktui neh khoitui aka long khohmuen he mamih m'paek.

You brought us to this land and gave it to us, a land that is very fertile [IDM].

10 Tahae atah BOEIPA namah loh kai nan paek khohmuen thaihtae thaihcuek kang khuen coeng he,” ti nah lamtah BOEIPA na Pathen mikhmuh ah tloeng pah. Te phoeiah BOEIPA na Pathen kah a mikhmuh ah bakop pah.

So now, Yahweh, I have brought to you the first part of the harvest from the land that I received.’ Then you must set the basket down in Yahweh’s presence and worship him there.

11 BOEIPA na Pathen loh nang m'paek a then cungkuem dongah namah imkhui neh namah khaw, namah khui kah Levi neh yinlai long khaw na kohoe sakuh.

And you must celebrate [by eating a meal together to thank] Yahweh our God for all the good things that he has given to you and to your family. And you must invite the descendants of Levi and the foreigners who are living among you to also rejoice [and eat] with you.

12 A kum thum khuikah na cangvuei cangthaih parha pakhat boeih na paek te na khah coeng phoeiah kum khat kah parha pakhat te tah Levi, yinlai, cadah neh nuhmai taengah pae lamtah na vongka khuiah kodam la ca uh saeh.

Every third year, you must bring to the descendants of Levi and to the foreigners [who are living among you] and the orphans and the widows (a tithe/10 percent) of your crops, in order that in every town they will have plenty to eat.

13 Te vaengah BOEIPA na Pathen mikhmuh ah, “Na olpaek aka om boeih vanbangla Im lamkah buhcim te ka rhoe tih Levi neh yinlai khaw, cadah neh nuhmai taengah ka paek coeng. Na olpaek kai nan uen te ka poe pawt tih ka hnilh moenih.

Then you must say to Yahweh, ‘I have brought to you, from my house, all of the sacred tithe [from my harvest this year]. I am giving it to the descendants of Levi, to the foreigners, the orphans, and the widows, as you commanded us to do. I have not disobeyed any of your commands [about the tithes], and I have not forgotten any of your commands [about tithes].

14 Te lamkah te boethae la ka ca pawt tih te lamloh rhalawt la n'dom moenih. Te dongah te lamkah te a duek la ka paek moenih. Ka Pathen BOEIPA ol te ka ngai dongah kai nan uen te a cungkuem la ka saii.

[I declare that] I have not eaten any food from the tithe while I was mourning [for someone who died]. And I have not touched any of it while I was unacceptable to you; I have not offered any of it to [spirits of] dead people. Yahweh, I have obeyed you and done everything that you have commanded us [concerning the tithe].

15 Vaan na hmuencim khuirhung lamloh dan lamtah na pilnam Israel neh a pa rhoek taengkah na toemngam bangla kaimih taengah nan paek khohmuen suktui neh khoitui aka long khohmuen he yoethen pae lah,” ti nah.

So [please] look down from your holy place in heaven, and bless us, your Israeli people. Also bless this very fertile [IDM] land which you have given to us, which is what you promised our ancestors that you would do.’

16 He rhoek kah oltlueh neh laitloeknah he tahae khohnin ah na vai ham ni BOEIPA na Pathen loh nang ng'uen. Te dongah ngaithuen lamtah na thinko boeih, na hinglu boeih nen khaw vai.

Today Yahweh our God is commanding you to obey all these rules and regulations. So obey them faithfully, with your entire inner being [DOU].

17 Tihnin ah BOEIPA loh nang taengah Pathen la a om ham neh a longpuei ah pongpa ham khaw, a oltlueh, a olpaek neh a laitloeknah ngaithuen ham neh a ol hnatun ham khaw na thui ni.

Today you have declared that Yahweh is your God, and that you will conduct your lives as he wants you to do, and that you will obey all his commands and rules and regulations, and that you will do all that he tells you to do.

18 Nang taengkah a thui vanbangla tihnin ah amah kah pilnam lungthen la om sak ham neh a olpaek rhoek te boeih ngaithuen sak ham,

And today Yahweh has declared that you are his people, which is what he promised that you would be, and he commands you to obey all his commands.

19 Koehnah, ming then neh boeimang dongah khaw a saii namtom rhoek boeih soah a sang la khueh ham khaw, a thui bangla BOEIPA na Pathen kah pilnam cim la om sak ham BOEIPA loh nang n'ti nah coeng.

If you do that, he will cause you to become greater than any other nation that he has established, and he will enable you to praise him and honor him [DOU]. You will truly belong to Yahweh our God, which is what he has promised.”