Levitike 18
1 Yawe alobaki na Moyize:
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 « Yebisa bana ya Isalaele: ‹ Ngai nazali Yawe, Nzambe na bino.
Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, I [am] the Lord your God.
3 Bokoki te kosala makambo ndenge esalemaka na Ejipito epai wapi bozalaki kovanda to na Kanana epai wapi nazali komema bino.
You shall not do according to the devices of Egypt, in which you lived: and according to the devices of the land of Chanaan, into which I bring you, you shall not do; and you shall not walk in their ordinances.
4 Bosengeli kotosa bobele mibeko mpe bikateli na Ngai. Nazali Yawe, Nzambe na bino.
You shall observe my judgments, and shall keep my ordinances, and shall walk in them: I [am] the Lord your God.
5 Bobatela mitindo mpe mibeko na Ngai, pamba te moto oyo akosalela yango akobika bomoi na ye na nzela na yango. Nazali Yawe.
So you shall keep all my ordinances, and all my judgments, and do them; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I [am] the Lord your God.
6 Mobali moko te akosangisa nzoto na mwasi ya libota na ye penza. Nazali Yawe.
No man shall draw near to any of his near kindred to uncover their nakedness; I [am] the Lord.
7 Okosambwisa te tata na yo na kosangisa nzoto na mama na yo. Lokola azali mama na yo, kosambwisa ye te.
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, or the nakedness of your mother, for she is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
8 Okosangisa nzoto te na mwasi mosusu ya tata na yo, soki te okosambwisa tata na yo.
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.
9 Okosangisa nzoto te na ndeko na yo ya mwasi, ezala na mwana mwasi ya tata na yo to ya mama na yo, oyo abotami na ndako to na libanda ya ndako.
The nakedness of your sister by your father or by your mother, born at home or abroad, their nakedness you shall not uncover.
10 Okosangisa nzoto te na mwana mwasi ya mwana na yo ya mobali to ya mwasi; kosambwisa ye te.
The nakedness of your son's daughter, or your daughter's daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; because it is your nakedness.
11 Okosangisa nzoto te na mwana mwasi ya mwasi ya tata na yo, azali ndeko na yo ya mwasi.
You shall not uncover the nakedness of the daughter of your father's wife; she is your sister by the same father: you shall not uncover her nakedness.
12 Okosangisa nzoto te na ndeko mwasi ya tata na yo, azali tata mwasi na yo.
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister, for she is near akin to your father.
13 Okosangisa nzoto te na ndeko mwasi ya mama na yo, azali mama leki to mama kulutu na yo.
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is near akin to your mother.
14 Okosambwisa te ndeko mobali ya tata na yo na kosangisa nzoto na mwasi na ye. Azali mama na yo.
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, and you shall not go in to his wife; for she is your relation.
15 Okosangisa nzoto te na bokilo na yo. Azali mwasi ya mwana na yo, kosangisa na ye nzoto te.
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law, for she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
16 Okosambwisa te ndeko na yo ya mobali na kosangisa nzoto na mwasi na ye.
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.
17 Okosangisa nzoto te na mama mpe na mwana na ye ya mwasi to na mwana mwasi ya mwana na ye ya mobali mpe ya mwasi; pamba te bazali makila moko mpe ekozala likambo ya nkele penza na miso ya Nzambe.
The nakedness of a woman and her daughter shall you not uncover; her son's daughter, and her daughter's daughter, shall you not take, to uncover their nakedness, for they are your kinswomen: it is impiety.
18 Okosangisa nzoto te na ndeko mwasi ya mwasi na yo, wana mwasi na yo azali nanu na bomoi, noki te ekoyeisa bombanda.
You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, as a rival, to uncover her nakedness in opposition to her, while she is yet living.
19 Okosangisa nzoto te na mwasi oyo azali komona makila na ye ya sanza, pamba te azali mbindo.
And you shall not go in to a woman under separation for her uncleanness, to uncover her nakedness.
20 Okosangisa nzoto te na mwasi ya moninga na yo, noki te okokoma mbindo elongo na ye.
And you shall not lie with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.
21 Okopesa moko kati na bana na yo te lokola mbeka epai ya nzambe Moloki, pamba te osengeli te kobebisa lokumu ya Kombo ya Nzambe na yo. Ngai nazali Yawe.
And you shall not give of your seed to serve a ruler; and you shall not profane my holy name; I [am] the Lord.
22 Okosangisa nzoto te na mwana mobali ndenge basangisaka nzoto na mwana mwasi; ezali likambo ya nkele.
And you shall not lie with a man as with a woman, for it is an abomination.
23 Okosangisa nzoto te na nyama, noki te okokoma mbindo elongo na yango. Ndenge moko mpe mwasi akosangisa nzoto te na nyama: ezali kotiola Nzambe.
Neither shall you lie with any quadruped for copulation, to be polluted with it: neither shall a woman present herself before any quadruped to have connexion with it; for it is an abomination.
24 Bomikomisa mbindo te na moko ya makambo oyo, pamba te ezali na nzela na yango nde bato ya bikolo oyo nazali kobengana liboso na bino bamikomisaki mbindo.
Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for in all these things the nations are defiled, which I drive out before you,
25 Lokola mboka yango moko mpe ekomaki mbindo, napesaki yango mpe etumbu mpo na lisumu na yango; bongo esanzaki bavandi na yango.
and the land is polluted; and I have recompensed their iniquity to them because of it, and the land is aggrieved with them that dwell upon it.
26 Kasi, ezala mwana mboka to mopaya oyo bazali kati na bino, bosengeli kotosa malako mpe bikateli na Ngai; mpe bosengeli koboya kosala makambo nyonso oyo ya nkele na miso ya Nzambe.
And you shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and you shall do none of these abominations; neither the native, nor the stranger that joins himself with you:
27 Pamba te bato oyo bazalaki kovanda na mboka oyo liboso na bino babandaki kosala makambo oyo nyonso, bongo mboka ekomaki mbindo.
(for all these abominations the men of the land did who were before you, and the land was defiled, )
28 Bino bokeba ete bokomisa mboka mbindo te, mpo ete yango esanza bino te ndenge esanzaki bato ya bikolo oyo bazalaki liboso na bino.
and lest the land be aggrieved with you in your polluting it, as it was aggrieved with the nations before you.
29 Moto nyonso oyo akosala moko ya makambo oyo ya nkele na miso ya Nzambe, esengeli balongola ye kati na bato na ye.
For whoever shall do any of these abominations, the souls that do them shall be destroyed from among their people.
30 Boye, bobatela malako na Ngai mpe bolanda ata likambo moko te kati na makambo mabe oyo ezalaki kosalema liboso ete bino boya, mpo ete bomikomisa mbindo te na nzela na yango. Nazali Yawe, Nzambe na bino. › »
And you shall keep mine ordinances, that you may not do any of the abominable practices, which have taken place before your time: and you shall not be polluted in them; for I [am] the Lord your God.
