Deuteronomy 12
1 “(I will now tell you again/These, [again], are) the rules and regulations that you must faithfully obey in the land that Yahweh, the God whom our ancestors [worshiped], is giving to you to occupy. You must obey these laws all the time that you are alive.
Hichengse hi napu, napateu khanga Pakai, Pathen in dan leh thupeh jui dinga na peh’u ahi. Hoilai mun hijongleh nadam sunguva najui jing diu ahi.
2 You must destroy all the places where the people-groups that you will expel worship their gods, on the tops of mountains and hills and under big green trees.
Hiche gam khu nalhun uva, nam dangte abonchauva nano mang tenguleh, a pathen milim semthu jouseu molchunga hihen, gammang lah chule thingphung tinchenga hijongleh nasuh manghel diu ahi.
3 You must tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars. Completely burn the statues of their goddess Asherah in fires, and chop down their wooden idols, in order that no one will ever worship them [MTY] in those places again.
Amaicham hou nasuh set diu chule maicham phung jouse jong nasuh chim diu ahi. Asherah ho jong meiya nahal vam diu chule apathen min jouseu aboncha nasuh manghel diu ahi.
4 “Do not worship Yahweh like [the people in Canaan worship their gods].
Hiche Pagan miten pathen ahou banga nanghon nahou lou diu ahi.
5 Instead, you must go to the place that Yahweh will choose. It will be in the area where one of your tribes will live. That is where you must go to worship Yahweh.
Amavang nang hon Pakai, Pathen houna ding muna Israel insung aboncha kikhop khomna muna chu, gin leh jabol tah’a nahou diu ahi.
6 That is the place where you must bring your sacrifices that will be completely burned on the altar, and your other sacrifices, (your tithes/ten percent of all of your crops), other offerings that you decide to give, and the firstborn animals from your cattle and sheep.
Hiche muna chu pumgo thilto nahin choi diu, nathilto diu soma khat, kitepna suhbuh lhitna ding thilto chule na gancha penglha masa jouseu jong na todoh cheh cheh diu ahi.
7 There, in the presence of Yahweh our God, who has [greatly] blessed you, you and your families will eat the good things that you have worked to produce, and you will be happy.
Hiche muna chu nang leh na insung miten Pakai ansunga an neh khom nanei diu, Pakai phatthei naho nachan diu ahi, ajeh chu nangman Pakai thupeh nanit jal ahi.
8 “[When you are in that land], you must not do some of the things that we have been doing. Until now, you have all been worshiping [Yahweh] the way you wanted to,
Pakai kin nabol danu jong kikhel ding ahi. Tunin nabon chauvin natao uve.
9 because you have not yet arrived in the land which Yahweh is giving to you, where you will be able to live peacefully.
Ajeh chu Pakaiyin atumbeh a napeh naugam nangho jouse dinga choldona gam chu na lhun nailou’u ahi.
10 But when you cross the Jordan [River], you will start to live in the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you. He will protect you from all your enemies that will surround you, and you will live peacefully/safely.
Hinlah nanghon chomlou kah’a Jordan vadung nagal kai diu chule gamsung nalhun diu ahi. Pakaiyin nagal mite hou jouse akona choldamna napeh tenguleh,
11 “Yahweh will choose one place where he wants you to worship him. That is the place to which you must bring all the offerings that I command you to bring: The sacrifices that must be completely burned [on the altar], your other sacrifices, other offerings that you yourselves decide to give, (your tithes/ten percent of all your crops), and all the special offerings that you will solemnly promise to give to Yahweh.
na bonchauva keiman ka thupeh chengse nahin choi diu pumgo thilto, na thilto diu ho, kitepna suh bulhit nading thilto hichengse hi, Pakai amintheng loupina ding muna chu nahin choisoh kei diu ahi.
12 Rejoice there in the presence of Yahweh, along with your children, your male and female servants, and the descendants of Levi who live in your towns. Do not forget that the descendants of Levi will not have their own land, like you will have.
Hiche muna chu nachanuteu ahin, nachapateu chule nasohte jouseu jaona Pakai henga thangvahna nanei khom diu ahi. Chule khopi sunga nachen khompiu Levi mite nagel doh jing diu ahi. Ajeh chu amahon gam chanvou anei lou’u ahi.
13 Be sure that you do not offer sacrifices anywhere you want to.
Nangho chingtheiyun, ajeh chu mun jousea pumgo thilto na katdoh thei lou diu ahi.
14 You must offer them only in the place that Yahweh will choose for you, in an area that belongs to one of your tribes. That is the only place where he wants you to offer sacrifices that will be completely burned [on the altar], and to do the other things that I am commanding you to do [when you worship him].
Na insung miteu chenna mun, hichu Pakaiyin adeilhenna muna vang chu natodoh thei diu ahi. Hiche muna chu pumgo thilto natodoh diu chule ka thupeh aboncha nabol kimsoh kei diu ahi.
15 “However, you will be permitted to kill and eat the meat of your animals in the places where you live. As often as you want to, you may eat the meat of the animals that Yahweh our God will bless you by giving them to you. Those who have done things that cause them to become unacceptable to God and those who have not done things like that may all eat that meat, just like you would eat the meat of a deer or an antelope.
Nagan chate vang chu na kitha a khopi tinchanga naneh jeng theiyu ahi. Pakai, Pathen in phatthei aboh ganchaho chu nadei chan naneh jeng theiyu ahi. Sakhisa leh Sapeng jong naneh bang bang uva hi nanop chan’u naneh thei diu ahi.
16 But you must not eat the blood [of any animals]; you must let the blood drain onto the ground [before you cook the meat].
Gan thisanho vang chu meiya nago lou diu, chule gan thisan jouse chu tollham a twi kisung banga nasun lhah diu ahi.
17 In the places where you live, you must not eat the things that you are offering [to Yahweh]: You must not eat the (tithes/ten percent) of your grain or of your wine, or of your [olive] oil, or the firstborn of your cattle and sheep, or the offerings that you yourselves decide to give to Yahweh, or any other offerings.
Hinlah nanghon na thilto hou chu na khopi sung uva naneh thei lou diu, hichu soma khat ahin, gathah, Olive thao, nagancha asoh masaho ahin chule kitepna thilto, chule mimal kipehna thilto ho hijongleh khopi dunga naneh thang lou diu ahi.
18 Instead, you and your children and your male and female servants and the descendants of Levi who live in your towns must go to the place that he has chosen and eat those things there in the presence of Yahweh. And you should rejoice in the presence of Yahweh about everything that you do.
Hichengse chu Pakaiyin adeilhen na muna chu naneh diu ahi. Na chateu ahin, nasohteu ahin chule khopi sunga Levi mite jaona hichu Pakai, Pathen ansunga golvah nabol khom diu ahi.
19 Be sure that you take care of the descendants of Levi all during the time that you live in your land.
Chule nadam sung uva Levi mite nageldoh jing diu ahi.
20 “When Yahweh our God gives you much more land [than you will have when you first occupy it], which is what he has promised to do, and you say ‘I would like some meat to eat’ because you are craving/wanting some meat, you will be permitted to eat meat whenever you want to.
Pakaiyin akitepna banga nagam-u ahin keh let ding, nang hon sa nadu chanu hoilai muna hijongleh naneh thei diu ahi.
21 If the place that Yahweh our God chooses to be the place for you to worship him is far [from where you live], you are permitted to kill some of your cattle or sheep that Yahweh has given to you, and you may eat that meat at the places where you live, just like I have told you to do.
Hichu Pakai deilhenna mun, Pakaiyin akinbol nadia adeilhen namun’a jong naneh thei diu nain muna pat kenglama saotah kijot ahi. Chutengleh gancha lah’a nakel hon, na kelngoi hon chule nabong hon lah’a nadei na kitha uva naneh jeng theiyu ahi.
22 Those who have done things that cause them to become unacceptable to God, and those who have not done things like that, are all permitted to all eat that meat, just like you would eat the meat of a deer or an antelope.
Nalah uva koi hijongleh atheng hihen, aboh hileh hichu aneh jeng thei ding, Sapeng le Sakhisa banga naneh diu ahi.
23 But be sure that you do not eat the blood [of any animal], because it is the blood that sustains life in living beings, and so you must not eat the life along with the meat.
Gan thisan vang chu meiya nago vam thei lou diu ahi. Ajeh chu thisan hi hinkho tobang ahin, hinna thisan chule gancha meiya na gotha lou diu ahi.
24 Do not eat the blood; instead, let it drain onto the ground.
Hiche khel chun ganthisan chu, twi banga tol lhama nasun lhah diu ahi.
25 If you obey this command and do what Yahweh says is right [for you to do], things will go well for you and for your descendants.
Gan thisan chu meiya nago vam louhel diu ahi. Chutileh nangho leh nachateu nabon chau chunga, ijakai phacham kimsoh kei ding ahi. Ajeh chu nanghon Pakai lunglam nabol jeh’u ahi.
26 “But the sacred offerings that Yahweh has told you to give and the other offerings that you yourselves decide to give, you must take to the place that Yahweh will choose.
Atumbeh a nathilpeh diu leh kitepna thilto chu choiyun lang, Pakaiyin adei lhenna muna chu naga koi diu ahi.
27 You must offer there the sacrifices that will be completely burned [on Yahweh’s altar]. You must also offer there the sacrifices from which you may eat some of meat after you [kill the animals and] drain out the blood and some of it is thrown on the [sides of the] altar.
Nanghon Pakai, Pathen maicham phunga chu pumgo thilto gan thisan naga todoh teitei diu ahi. Gan thisan jouse chu Pakai maicham kimvela nathe khum soh kei diu, asa vang naneh thei diu ahi.
28 Faithfully obey all these things that I have commanded you. If you do that, things will go well forever for you and your descendants, because you will be doing what Yahweh our God says is right [for you to do] and what pleases him.
Chingtheiyun ka thupeh aboncha najui kim soh kei diu ahi. Chutileh nangho leh nachateu chunga ijakai phacham kimsoh ding ahi, ajeh chu Pakai lunglama nachon jalu ahi.
29 “When you enter the land that you will occupy, as you advance, Yahweh our God will get rid of the people-groups that live there.
Pakai, Pathen na-masang lamuva che jing ding, chuteng nam dangte jam gam diu agamsunga kona asuh manghel diu ahi.
30 After he does that, be sure that you do not [worship the gods] that they have been worshiping, because if you do that, you will be caught in the same trap [that they were caught in] [MET]. Do not ask anyone about those gods, saying, ‘Tell me how they worshiped their gods, in order that I can [worship them] also.’
Hiche muna chu achon chan’u jui ding nagot louhel diu chule apathen hou kin jong nabol lou heldiu ahi. A pathen hou chungchang hetnomna jong nei louva, hiche nam mite hin pathen iti ahou uham tiajong nadoh lou diu ahi.
31 Do not try to worship Yahweh our God like they have worshiped their gods, because when they worship them, they do disgusting things, things that Yahweh hates. [The worst thing that they do is] that they sacrifice their own children and burn them [on their altars].
Nanghon nam dangten apathen’u ahou bang uva Pakai, Pathen nahou louhel diu ahi. Ajeh chu amahon Pakai lama dinga doumah jeng abol uvin, achapateu leh achanute hou jeng jong apathen diuva akat doh jiu ahi.
32 “Be sure to do everything that I have commanded you to do. Do not add anything to these commands, and do not take anything away from them.”
Hijeh chun ka thupeh jouse hi chingthei tah’a najui diu ahi. Nanghoa kona ima ki lahdoh sah hih unlang chule amahoa kona jong imacha lah ding nagot lou diu ahi.
