Deuteronomy 17
1 “Do not sacrifice to Yahweh our God any cattle or sheep or goats that have any defects, because Yahweh hates that kind of gift.”
Dilia Hina Godema gobele salimusa: , wadela: i o bahoi bulamagau o sibi mae ima. Hina Gode da amo hou higasa.
2 “When you are living in any of the towns [in the land] that Yahweh our God is giving to you, suppose you hear that there is some man or woman who sins by disobeying the agreement that Yahweh has made with you.
Dilia moilai amo ganodini dunu o uda afae da Hina Godema wadela: le hamosea amola Ea gousa: su gugunufinisisia,
3 Suppose someone tells you that that person has worshiped and served other gods, or the sun, or the moon, or the stars.
e da eno ogogosu ‘gode’ liligi o eso o oubi o gasumuni, Gode Ea sia: wadela: musa: ilima nodone sia: ne gadosea,
4 If you hear that some person has been doing that, you must investigate it thoroughly. If [you find out that] it is true that this detestable thing has happened in Israel,
amo sia: nabasea, dilia bai dawa: ma: ne noga: le hogoma. Amo wadela: i hou da dafawane Isala: ili soge ganodini hamoi dagoi ba: sea,
5 you must take outside the town the man or woman who has done it. Then you must kill that person by throwing stones at him or her.
amo dunu moilai gadili oule asili, igiga gala: le, medole legema.
6 But you are allowed to execute such people only if at least two witnesses testify that they saw them [doing that]. They must not be executed if there is only one witness.
Be hedolo mae medole legema. Ba: su dunu aduna o aduna baligi da ea wadela: i hou dafawane ba: i dagoiba: le fawane, medole legema. Be dunu afae fawane da ba: su dunu esalea, mae medole legema.
7 The (witnesses/ones who saw them doing it) must be the first ones to throw stones at them. Then the other people [MTY] [should throw stones at them]. By doing that, you will get rid of this evil practice among you.”
Ba: su dunu da degabo amo dunu medole legema: ne, igiga gala: ma: ma. Amasea, dunu huluane da amo igiga medomu. Amasea, dilia da wadela: i hou Isala: ili amo ganodini fadegale fasimu.
8 “Sometimes it will be very difficult for a judge to decide what really happened. He might be trying to decide whether, when someone injured or killed another person, he did it accidentally or deliberately. Or he might be trying to decide if some person is suing another person unfairly. If in some town it is very difficult to know what really happened, with the result that the judge cannot decide it, you should go to the place that Yahweh our God has chosen for you [to worship him].
Be moilai fofada: su dunu da fofada: su eno da ilima hamedei agoane ba: sea - amo da medole legesu o sogega gegesu o fasu - dilia da amo dunu dilia Hina Gode Ea ilegei sogebi amoga oule masa.
9 There you should present the case to the descendants of Levi who are the priests, and to the judge who is serving at that time, and they should decide what should be done.
Dilia gobele salasu dunu (Lifai dunu) amola fofada: su dunu bagade amoga adole ba: musa: masa. Ilia da fofada: lalu, sia: dilima olelemu.
10 After they make their decision, you must do what they tell you to do.
Ilia da Hina Gode Ea ilegei sogebi amogawi dilima hou olelemu. Dawa: ma! Dilia ilia sia: huluane defele hamoma.
11 Accept what they have decided, and do what they say that you should do. Do not try to change in any way what they have decided [IDM].
Ilia da sema amola hou huluane dilima olelemu. Ilia olelei defele, noga: le hamoma. Lobodafa la: ididili o lobo fofadi la: ididili amoga mae masa be moloidafa gusuba: i masa.
12 You must execute anyone who proudly/arrogantly disobeys the judge or the priest who stands there in the presence of Yahweh [and decides what should be done]. By doing that, you will get rid of evil practices among you.
Be nowa dunu da fofada: su bagade dunu o gobele salasu dunu (amo da Godema hawa: hamonana) amo higasea, amo dunu dilia medole legema. Amo wadela: i hou Isala: ili fi ganodini diala, dilia fadegale fasima.
13 Then [after that person is executed], all the people will hear about it, and they will be afraid, and none of them will act that way any more.”
Dunu huluane da amo hou nababeba: le, beda: mu. Amasea, ilia da amo higasu hou bu hame hamomu.
14 “[I know that] after you have occupied the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you, and you are living there, you will say, ‘We should have a king to rule over us, like the kings that other nations around us have.’
Dilia da soge amo dilia Hina Gode da dilima iaha amo ganodini fi dagosea, dilia da na: iyado fi dilima gadenene esala defele hina bagade dunu ilegemusa: dawa: mu.
15 Yahweh our God will permit you to have a king, but be sure that you appoint someone whom he has chosen. That man must be an Israeli; you must not appoint someone who is a foreigner to be your king.
Be dilia hina bagade ilegemusa: dawa: sea, noga: le dawa: ma! Hina Gode Ea ilegei dunu fawane lama. Dilia fidafa dunu fawane lama. Ga fi dunu amo maedafa ilegema.
16 [After he becomes the king], he should not acquire a large number of horses for himself. He should not send people to Egypt to buy horses for him, because Yahweh said to you, ‘Never return to Egypt [for anything’]!
Amo hina bagade dunu da hosi bagohame hame gagumu. Amola e da ea fi dunu hosi bidi lama: ne Idibidi sogega hame asunasimu. Bai Hina Gode da Ea fi dunu da Idibidi sogega hamedafa buhagima: ne sia: i dagoi.
17 And he must not have a lot of wives, because if he did that, they would turn him [SYN] away from [worshiping only] Yahweh. And he must not acquire a lot of silver and gold.
Hina bagade dunu da uda bagohame, amo hame lama: mu. Bai e da Hina Gode Ea hou fisisa: besa: le, uda eno hame lama: mu. E da silifa, gouli amola muni bagade hame lama: mu.
18 “When he becomes your king, he must [appoint someone to] copy these laws. He must copy them from the scroll that is kept by the priests who are descended from Levi.
E da hina bagade hawa: hamosu lalegagusia, e da Gode Ea sema amola Ea olelesu (amo Lifai gobele salasu dunu ilia gagusa) amo huluane dedene gaguma: mu.
19 He must keep this new scroll near him and read from it every day of his life, in order that he may learn to revere Yahweh, and to faithfully obey [DOU] all the rules and regulations [that are written] in these laws.
E da amo buga lalegaguli, eso huluane idilalumu. Amasea, e da amo dawa: le Hina Godema nodone dawa: mu amola mae yolesili, Gode Ea sia: defele lalumu.
20 If he does that, he [SYN] will not think that he is (better/more important) than [IDM] his fellow Israelis, and he will completely obey [LIT] Yahweh’s commands. As a result, he and his descendants will rule as kings in Israel for many years.”
Amasea, e da gasa fi hou mae hamone, ea hou da ea na: iyado Isala: ili fi amo baligisa e da hame dawa: mu. E da Gode Ea sia: amo giadofamu da hamedei ba: mu. E da hina bagade ouligisu hou ode bagohame hamoma: mu. Amola ea mano da Isala: ili dunu ilima hina bagade ouligisu dunu ode bagohame esalumu.
