Thothuengnah 18
1 Moses te BOEIPA loh a voek tih,
Then the LORD said to Moses,
2 “Israel ca rhoek te voek lamtah thui pah. Kai tah BOEIPA na Pathen ni.
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am the LORD your God.
3 Egypt kho ah na om uh vaengkah bibi bangla saii uh boeh. Te phoeiah kai. loh nangmih kam pha sak Kanaan kho kah khoboe bangla om uh boel lamtah amih kah khosing te awt uh boeh.
You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.
4 Kai kah laitloeknah he ngai uh lamtah ka khosing te vai ham ngaithuen uh. Kai tah nangmih kah Pathen Yahweh ni.
You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.
5 Te dongah kai kah khosing aka ngaithuen tih ka laitloeknah aka ngai hlang te tah tekah khosing dongah hing van ni. Kai tah BOEIPA ni.
Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
6 Hlang la aka om hlang long tah amah kah a pum a saa boeih te ayah hliphen ham paan boel saeh. Kai tah BOEIPA ni.
None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.
7 Na pa kah a yah khaw, na nu kah a yah khaw, na manu khaw hliphen boeh. A yah khaw hliphen pah boeh.
You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.
8 Na pa yuu kah a yah, na pa kah a yah te hliphen pah boeh.
You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.
9 Na ngannu, na pa kah a ngannu, na nu kah a tanu kah a yah khaw, im kah pacaboeina neh kholong kah pacaboeina yah khaw hliphen boeh.
You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.
10 Na capa canu neh na canu canu kah a yah khaw namah kah a yah la a om boeiloeih dongah amih kah a yah te hliphen boeh.
You must not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would shame your family.
11 Na pa yuu canu kah a yah khaw, na pa kah pacaboeina, na ngannu kah a yah khaw hliphen boeh.
You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.
12 Na pa ngannu kah, na pa huiko kah a yah khaw hliphen pah boeh.
You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.
13 Na nu kah a tanu, na nu huiko kah a yah khaw hliphen pah boeh.
You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.
14 Na pa manuca kah a yah khaw hliphen boeh. Anih yuu neh na pi khaw paan pah boeh.
You must not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations with her; she is your aunt.
15 Na langa kah a yah te hliphen pah boeh. Na ca yuu kah a yah khaw hliphen pah boeh.
You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her.
16 Na manuca yuu kah a yah, na manuca kah a yah te hliphen pah boeh.
You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.
17 Na yuu neh a canu, a capa canu neh a canu canu kah a yah te hliphen pah boeh. Na thii na saa kah a yah hliphen pah ham lo boeh. Te bang te khonuen rhamtat ni.
You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.
18 Na yuu amah a hing lalah a yah hliphen pah ham neh daengdaeh ham a tanu te lo boeh.
You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.
19 Te phoeiah huta te a ti a hnai neh pumom tue vaengah a yah hliphen pah ham paan boeh.
You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.
20 Na imben kah a yuu aka poeih ham khaw na tamtah tii te khueh boeh.
You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.
21 Na tiingan te Molek taengah khumpael sak ham pae boeh. Te dongah na Pathen ming te poeih boeh. Kai tah BOEIPA ni.
You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
22 tongpa puei khaw huta thingkong bangla yalh puei boeh. Te ta tueilaehkoi ni.
You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.
23 Rhamsa khat khat neh aka poeih uh ham khaw na tamtah khueh boeh. Huta long khaw rhamsa neh pitpom tih, anih kui hamla duen boel saeh.
You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.
24 He boeih nen he poeih uh boeh. Namtom rhoek khaw he boeih nen he a poeih uh dongah ni nangmih mikhmuh ah ka haek.
Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.
25 Khohmuen pataeng a poeih uh dongah amah kathaesainah te ka cawh pah tih, khohmuen kah khosa rhoek khaw a lok thil.
Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
26 Tedae nangmih. loh ka khosing neh ka laitloeknah he ngaithuen uh. Te dongah te bang tueilaehkoi boeih te tolrhum mupoe long khaw, nangmih taengah aka bakuep yinlai long khaw saii boel saeh.
But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.
27 Nangmih mikhmuh kah tolrhum hlang rhoek loh he rhoek kah tueilaehkoi boeih he a saii uh dongah khohmuen khaw a poeih uh.
For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.
28 Te dongah nangmih mikhmuh kah namtom a tha bangla na khohmuen na poeih uh van tih nangmih khaw khohmuen loh n'tha boel saeh.
So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.
29 U hlang khaw he rhoek kah tueilaehkoi hno khat khat a saii atah aka saii hlanghing boeih te pilnam lamkah hnawt saeh.
Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.
30 Te dongah nangmih mikhmuh kah tueilaehkoi khosing aka saii rhoek te vai pawt ham kamah loh ka kuek te ngaithuen uh. Te daengah ni amih taengah pum te na poeih uh pawt eh. Kai tah nangmih kah Pathen BOEIPA ni,” a ti nah.
You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”
