Deuteronomy 16
1 You are to observe the month of Abib and to celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, because it was in the month of Abib that the Lord your God led you out of Egypt by night.
Shikeni mwezi wa Abibu, na kuiadhimisha Pasaka ya Bwana Mungu wenu, kwa sababu katika mwezi wa Abibu, Mungu aliwatoa Misri usiku.
2 The Passover sacrifice from your herd or flock must be offered to the Lord your God in the place where the Lord will choose to live with you.
Mtatoa dhabihu ya Pasaka ya mnyama kwa Bwana Mungu wenu kutoka kundi lenu la mbuzi na kondoo au la ngʼombe, mahali pale ambapo Bwana atapachagua kama makao kwa ajili ya Jina lake.
3 Don't eat ordinary bread with it. For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast with it, the bread of hardship, because you had to leave Egypt in such a hurry. This way you'll remember day you left Egypt for the rest of your lives.
Msile nyama hiyo pamoja na mikate iliyotiwa chachu, lakini kwa siku saba mtakula mikate isiyotiwa chachu, mikate ya kujitesa, kwa sababu mliondoka Misri kwa haraka, ili kwamba siku zote za maisha yenu mpate kukumbuka wakati wenu wa kuondoka Misri.
4 Don't have yeast anywhere in your country for seven days. Don't keep any of the meat that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day until the morning.
Chachu isionekane katika mali zenu katika nchi yenu yote kwa siku saba. Nyama yoyote ya dhabihu mtakayotoa jioni ya siku ya kwanza isibakizwe mpaka asubuhi.
5 Don't sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the Lord your God is giving you.
Kamwe msitoe dhabihu ya Pasaka katika mji wowote ambao Bwana Mungu wenu amewapa,
6 The Passover sacrifice must be offered by you only at the place where the Lord your God will choose to live with you. You are to do this in the evening at sunset-the same time you left Egypt.
isipokuwa mahali atakapopachagua kama makao kwa ajili ya Jina lake. Hapo ndipo lazima mtoe dhabihu ya Pasaka jioni, jua litakapotua, iwe kumbukumbu yenu ya kutoka Misri.
7 Cook it and eat it in the place the Lord your God will choose. Then in the morning go back to your tents.
Okeni na mle mahali pale ambapo Bwana Mungu wenu atakapopachagua, kisha asubuhi mrudi kwenye mahema yenu.
8 Eat bread without yeast for six days, and the on the seventh day you are to have a holy meeting to honor the Lord your God. You are not to do any work.
Kwa siku sita mtakula mikate isiyotiwa chachu na siku ya saba fanyeni kusanyiko kwa ajili ya Bwana Mungu wenu na msifanye kazi.
9 Count off seven weeks from when you start the grain harvest.
Mhesabu majuma saba tangu wakati mnapoanza kuchukua mundu kuvuna nafaka.
10 Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to honor him the Lord your God by giving him a freewill offering, depending on just how much the Lord your God has blessed you.
Kisha msherehekee Sikukuu ya Majuma kwa Bwana Mungu wenu kwa kutoa sadaka ya hiari kwa kadiri ya baraka ambayo Bwana Mungu wenu amewapa.
11 You will celebrate in the Lord's presence in the place where he will choose to live with you. This includes you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levites who live in your towns, as well as the foreigners, orphans, and widows among you.
Shangilieni mbele za Bwana Mungu wenu mahali atakapopachagua kama makao ya Jina lake, ninyi, wana wenu na binti zenu, watumishi wenu wa kiume na wa kike, Walawi walio katika miji yenu, na wageni, yatima na wajane waishio miongoni mwenu.
12 Don't forget that you were once slaves in Egypt, and be careful to follow these regulations.
Kumbukeni kwamba mlikuwa watumwa kule Misri na mfuate amri hizi kwa uangalifu.
13 Celebrate the Festival of Shelters for seven days once you have finished threshing your grain and pressing your grapes.
Adhimisheni sikukuu ya vibanda kwa siku saba baada ya kukusanya mazao yenu ya nafaka na kukamua zabibu.
14 Enjoy your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levites who live in your towns, as well as the foreigners, orphans, and widows among you.
Mfurahie sikukuu yenu, ninyi, wana wenu, binti zenu, watumishi wenu wa kiume na wa kike, Walawi, wageni, yatima na wajane ambao wanaishi katika miji yenu.
15 Celebrate this Festival for seven days to honor the Lord your God in the place he will choose, because the Lord your God will bless your whole harvest and everything you do, so you will be really happy.
Kwa siku saba mtaiadhimisha sikukuu ya Bwana Mungu wenu katika mahali atakapopachagua Bwana. Kwa kuwa Bwana Mungu wenu atawabariki katika mavuno yenu na katika kazi zote za mikono yenu na furaha yenu itakamilika.
16 All your men must come before the Lord your God in the place He will choose three times every year: the Festival of Bread without Yeast, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters. No one should come before the Lord without an offering.
Wanaume wenu wote lazima wajitokeze mara tatu kwa mwaka mbele za Bwana Mungu wenu mahali atakapopachagua: kwa ajili ya Sikukuu ya Mikate Isiyotiwa Chachu, Sikukuu ya Majuma, na Sikukuu ya Vibanda. Hakuna mtu atakayejitokeza mbele za Bwana mikono mitupu:
17 Each of you is to bring whatever gift you can, depending on how much the Lord your God has blessed you.
Kila mmoja wenu ni lazima alete zawadi kulingana na jinsi ambavyo Bwana Mungu wenu alivyowabariki.
18 Choose judges and officials for each of your tribes in every town that the Lord your God is giving you. They must judge the people fairly.
Wateue waamuzi na maafisa kwa kila kabila lenu katika kila mji ambao Bwana Mungu wenu anawapa, nao watawaamua watu kwa usawa.
19 Don't pervert justice or show favoritism. Don't take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the wise and twists the words of the truthful.
Msipotoshe haki wala msifanye upendeleo. Msikubali rushwa kwa sababu rushwa hupofusha macho ya wenye busara na kugeuza maneno ya wenye haki.
20 Always do what is right and just, so that you may go on living, occupying the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Mfuate haki na haki peke yake, ili mweze kuishi na kuimiliki nchi ambayo Bwana Mungu wenu anawapa.
21 Don't ever set up a wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you build for the Lord your God,
Msisimamishe nguzo yoyote ya Ashera kando ya madhabahu mliyomjengea Bwana Mungu wenu,
22 and don't make for yourselves an idolatrous stone pillar, which the Lord your God hates.
wala msisimamishe jiwe la kuabudu, kwa maana Bwana Mungu wenu anavichukia vitu hivi.
