Thothuengnah 18
1 Moses te BOEIPA loh a voek tih,
And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
2 “Israel carhoek te voek lamtah thui pah. Kai tah BOEIPA na Pathen ni.
“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: I [am] your God YHWH;
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 do not do according to the work of the land of Egypt in which you have dwelt, and you do not do according to the work of the land of Canaan to where I am bringing you in, and you do not walk in their statutes.
4 Kai kah laitloeknah he ngai uh lamtah ka khosing te vai ham ngaithuen uh. Kai tah nangmih kah Pathen Yahweh ni.
You do My judgments and you keep My statutes, to walk in them; I [am] your God YHWH.
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.
And you have kept My statutes and My judgments which man does and lives in them; I [am] YHWH.
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 draws near to any relation of his flesh to uncover nakedness; I [am] YHWH.
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 do not uncover the nakedness of your father and the nakedness of your mother, she [is] your mother; you do not uncover her nakedness.
8 Na pa yuu kah a yah, na pa kah a yahte hliphen pah boeh.
You do not uncover the nakedness of the wife of your father; it [is] the nakedness of 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.
The nakedness of your sister, daughter of your father, or daughter of your mother, born at home or born outside—you do not uncover their nakedness.
10 Na capa canu neh na canu canu kah a yah khaw namah kah a yah la a om boeiloeih dongah amih kah a yahte hliphen boeh.
The nakedness of your son’s daughter, or of your daughter’s daughter—you do not uncover their nakedness; for theirs [is] your nakedness.
11 Na pa yuu canu kah a yah khaw, na pa kah pacaboeina, na ngannu kah a yah khaw hliphen boeh.
The nakedness of a daughter of your father’s wife, begotten of your father, she [is] your sister—you do not uncover her nakedness.
12 Na pa ngannu kah, na pa huiko kah a yah khaw hliphen pah boeh.
You do not uncover the nakedness of a sister of your father; she [is] a relation of your father.
13 Na nu kah a tanu, na nu huiko kah a yah khaw hliphen pah boeh.
You do not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she [is] your mother’s relation.
14 Na pa manuca kah a yah khaw hliphen boeh. Anih yuu neh na pi khaw paan pah boeh.
You do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother; you do not draw near to his wife; she [is] your aunt.
15 Na langa kah a yahte hliphen pah boeh. Na ca yuu kah a yah khaw hliphen pah boeh.
You do not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she [is] your son’s wife; you do not uncover her nakedness.
16 Na manuca yuu kah a yah, na manuca kah a yahte hliphen pah boeh.
You do not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it [is] your brother’s nakedness.
17 Na yuu neh a canu, a capa canu neh a canu canu kah a yahte hliphen pah boeh. Na thii na saa kah a yah hliphen pah ham lo boeh. Te bang te khonuen rhamtat ni.
You do not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, nor do you take her son’s daughter and her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they [are] her relations; it [is] wickedness.
18 Na yuu amah a hing lalah a yah hliphen pah ham neh daengdaeh ham a tanu te lo boeh.
And you do not take a woman [in addition] to her sister, to be an adversary, to uncover her nakedness beside her, in her life.
19 Te phoeiah huta te a ti a hnai neh pumom tue vaengah a yah hliphen pah ham paan boeh.
And you do not draw near to a woman in the separation of her uncleanness to uncover her nakedness.
20 Na imben kah a yuu aka poeih ham khaw na tamtah tii te khueh boeh.
And you do not give your seed [from] intercourse to the wife of your fellow, to become unclean 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.
And you do not give from your seed to pass over to the Molech, nor do you defile the Name of your God; I [am] YHWH.
22 tongpa puei khaw huta thingkong bangla yalh puei boeh. Te ta tueilaehkoi ni.
And you do not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it [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.
And you do not commit your intercourse with any beast, to become unclean with it; and a woman does not stand before a beast to mate with it; it [is] perversion.
24 He boeih nen he poeih uh boeh. Namtomrhoekkhaw he boeih nen he a poeih uh dongah ni nangmih mikhmuh ah ka haek.
Do not defile yourselves with all these, for with all these the nations have been defiled which I am sending away from before you;
25 Khohmuen pataeng a poeih uh dongah amah kathaesainah te ka cawh pah tih, khohmuen kah khosa rhoek khaw a lok thil.
and the land is defiled, and I charge its iniquity on it, and the land vomits 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.
And you have kept My statutes and My judgments, and do not do [any] of all these abominations, the native and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst,
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 of the land who [are] before you have done all these abominations and the land is 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.
and the land does not vomit you out in your defiling it, as it has vomited out the nation which [is] before you;
29 U hlang khaw he rhoek kah tueilaehkoi hno khat khat a saii atah aka saii hlanghing boeihte pilnam lamkah hnawt saeh.
for anyone who does [any] of all these abominations—even the persons who are doing [so]—have been cut off from the midst of their people;
30 Te dongah nangmih mikhmuh kah tueilaehkoi khosing aka saiirhoek 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.
and you have kept My charge, so as not to do [any] of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, and you do not defile yourselves with them; I [am] your God YHWH.”
