Kâboutpoenae 14
1 Nangmouh teh, BAWIPA Cathut e ca lah na o awh. Kadoutnaw hanelah na tak na kâbouk mahoeh. Na mitmuen hai na ngaw mahoeh.
You are the children of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
2 Nangmouh teh BAWIPA Cathut hanelah kathounge miphun lah na o awh. BAWIPA ni talai van dawk kaawm e miphun pueng hlakvah, ama ni tawn e miphun lah na o awh nahanelah nangmouh na rawi awh toe.
For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
3 Panuetkatho e na cat mahoeh.
You shall not eat any abominable thing.
4 Na ca hane saringnaw teh, maito, tu, hmae,
These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
5 sakhi, sazuk, saya, atha, savi, kahrawngmaito, mon dawk e tu ti e
the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois.
6 khoksamen samka ni teh a thepkaai e pueng teh na ca thai awh.
Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.
7 Hatei, a thepkaai niteh, a khoksamen ka samka e naw thung dawk na ca hoeh hane naw teh, kalauk, saveh, cahi, naw heh athepai eiteh, a khoksamen a samka hoeh dawkvah kakhin e lah ao.
Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.
8 Vok teh a khoksamen a samka eiteh, athepai hoeh dawkvah, nangmouh hanelah a khin. a moi na cat awh mahoeh. A ro hai na tek awh mahoeh.
The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses.
9 Tui dawk kaawm e naw thung dawk hetnaw heh na ca awh han. A pathuet hoi a lakep kaawm pueng na ca thai awh.
These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales.
10 A pathuet hoi a lakep kaawm hoeh e pueng na cat awh mahoeh, nangmouh hanelah a khin.
You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.
11 Kathounge tava aphunphun na ca thai awh.
Of all clean birds you may eat.
12 Na ca hoeh hane tavanaw teh, langta, tuilangta, mataw,
But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
13 masi, ungngang,
the red kite, the falcon, the kite of any kind,
14 vonga,
every raven of any kind,
15 kalaukva, basairek, batuiling, pingpit,
the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk of any kind,
16 bukbu, kawhna, balengek,
the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl,
17 tuicawmpai,
the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant,
18 kahrawngcawmpai, bongpi,
the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
19 a rathei a tawn ei, kâva e saring pueng teh nangmouh hanelah a thoung hoeh dawkvah, na cat awh mahoeh.
All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.
20 Kathounge tava pueng na ca thai awh.
Of all clean birds you may eat.
21 A mahmawk kadout e moi na cat mahoeh. Na tengonaw ni a ca hanelah na poe han. Hoehpawiteh, ramlouk e tami longkha thung kaawmnaw koe na yo han. Nangmouh teh nangmae BAWIPA Cathut hanelah kathounge miphun lah na o awh. Hmaeca hah a manu e sanutui hoi mek na thawng mahoeh.
You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
22 Kum tangkuem na law dawk hoi ka tâcawt e pueng pung hra pung touh na kapek awh han.
You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year.
23 Nangmae BAWIPA Cathut ni a min ao nahanelah a rawi e hmuen koe cakang, misurtui, satui hoi tuhu, maitohu naw dawk e camin pung hra pung touh hah a hmalah na ca awh han.
You shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place which he chooses to cause his name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.
24 Nangmae BAWIPA Cathut ni yawhawi na poe awh torei teh, a min ao nahanelah a rawi e hmuen teh, ekvoi ahla dawkvah, pung hra pung touh na phawt thai awh hoeh pawiteh,
If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which the LORD your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you, when the LORD your God blesses you,
25 hote hno hah na yo vaiteh, tangka na sin vaiteh, na BAWIPA Cathut ni a rawi e hmuen koe na cei vaiteh,
then you shall turn it into money, bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose.
26 ca han na ngai e patetlah maito, tu, misurtui, yamu tie ca han na ngai e pueng hah na ran vaiteh, BAWIPA Cathut e hmalah, na imthung abuemlahoi na ca awh vaiteh, kanawm lah na o awh han.
You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
27 Hatei, nangmae longkha thung kaawm e Levih miphunnaw teh, a ham awm hoeh, râw hai ao hoeh dawkvah, na hnoun awh mahoeh.
You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
28 A kum thum dawk na hmu awh e pueng hah pung hra pung touh na tâcokhai awh vaiteh, khothung longkha vah na pâkueng awh han.
At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates.
29 Nangmouh koe kaawm e ham kaawm hoeh e, râw kaawm hoeh e Levihnaw koe kaawm van e Jentelnaw, naranaw, na longkha thung kaawm e lahmainaw a tho awh vaiteh, a ca awh han. Hottelah na sak pawiteh, nangmae BAWIPA Cathut ni na sak e pueng dawk yawhawi na poe awh han.
The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
