Deuteronomy 25
1 And if there should be a dispute between men, and they should come forward to judgment, and [the judges] judge, and justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked:
Iwapo kutakuwa na malumbano kati ya wanaume na wakaenda mahakamani, na waamuzi wakawahukumu, basi watamwachilia mtakatifu na kumhukumu muovu.
2 then it shall come to pass, if the unrighteous should be worthy of stripes, thou shalt lay him down before the judges, and they shall scourge him before them according to his iniquity.
Iwapo mwanamume mwenye hatia anastahili kupigwa, basi muamuzi atamfanya alale chini na kupigwa mbele zake kwa idadi iliyoamriwa kulingana na kosa lake.
3 And they shall scourge him with forty stripes in number, they shall not inflict more; for if thou shouldest scourge him [with] more stripes beyond these stripes, thy brother will be disgraced before thee.
Muamuzi anaweza kumpatia mapigo arobaini, lakini hapaswi kuvuka idadi hiyo; kwa maana akivuka idadi hiyo na kumpiga kwa mapigo mengi zaidi, basi Muisraeli mwenzako atakuwa kaaibishwa mbele ya macho yenu.
4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treads out the corn.
Haupaswi kumfunga punda wako pua na mdomo anapokuwa akilima shamba lako.
5 And if brethren should live together, and one of them should die, and should not have seed, the wife of the deceased shall not marry out [of the family] to a man not related: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and shall take her to himself for a wife, and shall dwell with her.
Iwapo kaka wanaishi pamoja na mmoja wao akafariki bila kuwa na mwana, basi mke wa marehemu hatakiwi kuolewa na mtu nje ya familia. Badala yake, kaka yake mumewe anapaswa kulala naye na kumchukua kuwa mke wake na kutekeleza wajibu wa kaka wa mume kwake.
6 And it shall come to pass that the child which she shall bear, shall be named by the name of the deceased, and his name shall not be blotted out of Israel.
Hii ni kwamba mtoto wa kwanza atakayezaliwa arithi chini ya jina la kaka yake mwanamume aliyefariki, ili jina lake lisiangamie ndani ya Israeli.
7 And if the man should not be willing to take his brother's wife, then shall the woman go up to the gate to the elders, and she shall say, My husband's brother will not raise up the name of his brother in Israel, my husband's brother has refused.
Lakini kama mwanamume hataki kumchukua mke wa kaka yake awe wake, basi mke wa kaka yake anapaswa kwenda malangoni mpaka kwa wazee na kusema, “Kaka wa mume wangu amekataa kuwajibika kwa niaba ya jina la kaka yake humu Israeli; hataki kufanya wajibu wa kaka wa mume kwangu”.
8 And the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him; and if he stand and say, I will not take her:
Kisha wazee wa mji wake wanapaswa kumuita na kuzungumza naye. Lakini tuseme atasisitiza na kusema, “Sitaki kumchukua”.
9 then his brother's wife shall come forward before the elders, and shall loose one shoe from off his foot, and shall spit in his face, and shall answer and say, Thus shall they do to the man who will not build his brother's house in Israel.
Basi mke wa kaka yake anatakiwa kuja kwake mbele ya wazee, kumvua ndara zake miguuni mwake, na kumtemea usoni. Anapaswa kumjibu na kusema, “Hivi ndivyo kinachofanyika kwa mwanamume asiyetaka kujenga nyumba ya kaka yake”.
10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that has had his shoe loosed.
Jina lake Israeli litaitwa, “Nyumba ya mtu aliyevuliwa ndara zake”.
11 And if men should strive together, a man with his brother, and the wife of one of them should advance to rescue her husband out of the hand of him that smites him, and she should stretch forth her hand, and take hold of his private parts;
Iwapo wanamume wamepigana wao kwa wao, na mke wa mmoja wao kaja kumkomboa mumewe dhidi ya yule aliyempiga, naye akanyosha mkono wake na kumshika sehemu za siri,
12 thou shalt cut off her hand; thine eye shall not spare her.
basi unapaswa kuukata mkono yake; jicho lako halipaswi kuwa na huruma.
13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
Haupaswi kuwa na mizani ya uzito tofauti katika mfuko wako, mkubwa na mdogo.
14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
Hautakiwi kuwa na vipimo tofauti ndani ya nyumba yako, vikubwa na vidogo.
15 Thou shalt have a true and just weight, and a true and just measure, that thou mayest live long upon the land which the Lord thy God gives thee for an inheritance.
Unatakiwa kuwa na uzito kamili na wa haki; unatakiwa kuwa na vipimo kamili na vya haki, ili siku zako ziwe ndefu katika nchi ambayo Yahwe Mungu wako anakupatia.
16 For every one that does this [is] an abomination to the Lord thy God, even every one that does injustice.
Kwa maana wote wanaofanya vitu hivi, wote wanaovunja haki, ni chukizo kwa Yahwe Mungu wako.
17 Remember what things Amalec did to thee by the way, when thou wentest forth out of the land of Egypt:
Kumbuka ni jambo gani Amaleki alichofanya kwako barabarani ulipokuwa ukitoka Misri,
18 how he withstood thee in the way, and harassed thy rear, [even] those that were weary behind thee, and thou didst hunger and wast weary; and he did not fear God.
jinsi alivyokutana na wewe barabarani na kuwashambulia kati yenu kwa nyuma, wale waliokuwa wamelegea nyuma, mlipokuwa dhaifu na kuchoka, hakumheshimu Mungu.
19 And it shall come to pass whenever the Lord thy God shall have given thee rest from all thine enemies round about thee, in the land which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit, thou shalt blot out the name of Amalec from under heaven, and shalt not forget [to do it].
Kwa hiyo, Yahwe Mungu wako atakapowapa pumziko kutoka kwa maadui zako kila sehemu, katika nchi ambayo Yahwe Mungu wako anawapatia kumiliki kama urithi, hautakiwi kusahau kuwa unapaswa kufuta kumbukumbu ya Waamaleki chini ya mbingu.
