U-Eksodusi 21
1 “Nansi imithetho ozayethula phambi kwabo.”
and these [the] justice: judgement which to set: make to/for face: before their
2 “Nxa ungathenga isisebenzi esingumHebheru kumele sikusebenzele okweminyaka eyisithupha. Kodwa emnyakeni wesikhombisa kuzamele usikhulule kungelanhlawulo.
for to buy servant/slave Hebrew six year to serve and in/on/with seventh to come out: come to/for free for nothing
3 Nxa sifike sodwa, kumele sikhululwe sihambe sodwa kodwa nxa silomfazi ekufikeni kwasokumele sihambe laye.
if in/on/with single/height his to come (in): come in/on/with single/height his to come out: come if master: husband woman: wife he/she/it and to come out: come woman: wife his with him
4 Nxa umqhatshi waso angasipha umfazi asizalele amadodana lamadodakazi, owesifazane labantwabakhe bazakuba ngabomqhatshi, njalo indoda izazihambela yodwa ikhululekile.
if lord his to give: give(marriage) to/for him woman: wife and to beget to/for him son: child or daughter [the] woman: wife and youth her to be to/for lord her and he/she/it to come out: come in/on/with single/height his
5 Kodwa nxa isisebenzi singathi, ‘Ngiyayithanda inkosi yami lomkami labantwabami, njalo kangifuni kukhululwa,’
and if to say to say [the] servant/slave to love: lover [obj] lord my [obj] woman: wife my and [obj] son: child my not to come out: come free
6 ngakho inkosi yaso kumele isihambise kubahluleli. Izasisa emnyango kumbe emgubazini abesesibhoboza indlebe yaso ngosungulo. Ngakho-ke sizakuba yisisebenzi sayo okwempilo yaso yonke.
and to approach: bring him lord his to(wards) [the] God and to approach: bring him to(wards) [the] door or to(wards) [the] doorpost and to bore lord his [obj] ear his in/on/with awl and to serve him to/for forever: enduring
7 Nxa indoda ingathengisa indodakazi yayo njengesigqili, indodakazi kayingakhululeki njengalokho okwenza ezinye inceku.
and for to sell man [obj] daughter his to/for maidservant not to come out: come like/as to come out: come [the] servant/slave
8 Nxa singathokozisi umnini waso oyabe esikhethile ukuze sibe ngesakhe kumele asiyekele sihlengwe. Akalamvumo yokusithengisa kwabezizwe, ngoba esikhohlisile.
if be evil in/on/with eye: appearance lord her which (to/for him *Q(K)*) to appoint her and to ransom her to/for people foreign not to rule to/for to sell her in/on/with to act treacherously he in/on/with her
9 Angasikhethela indodana yakhe kumele asinike amalungelo alingana lawendodakazi yakhe.
and if to/for son: child his to appoint her like/as justice [the] daughter to make: do to/for her
10 Angathatha omunye umfazi akumelanga asincitshe ukudla, izigqoko lamalungelo okwenda.
if another to take: marry to/for him flesh her covering her and cohabitation her not to dimish
11 Angayekela ukusipha izinto lezi ezintathu sikhululekile ukuthi sizihambele kungahlawulwanga mali.”
and if three these not to make: do to/for her and to come out: come for nothing nothing silver: money
12 “Wonke umuntu otshaya omunye ambulale laye kumele abulawe.
to smite man: anyone and to die to die to die
13 Kodwa nxa engakwenzanga ngabomo, uNkulunkulu evumele ukuba kwenzakale, kumele abalekele endaweni engizayiphawula.
and which not to ambush and [the] God to meet to/for hand: power his and to set: appoint to/for you place which to flee there [to]
14 Kodwa umuntu angaceba ukubulala omunye ngabomo, msuseni e-alithareni lami liyembulala.
and for to boil man: anyone upon neighbor his to/for to kill him in/on/with craftiness from from with altar my to take: take him to/for to die
15 Wonke umuntu ohlasela uyise kumbe unina kumele abulawe.
and to smite father his and mother his to die to die
16 Wonke umuntu othumba omunye abesemthengisa kumbe aficwe elaye kumele abulawe.
and to steal man: anyone and to sell him and to find in/on/with hand: power his to die to die
17 Wonke umuntu othuka uyise kumbe unina kumele abulawe.
and to lighten father his and mother his to die to die
18 Nxa amadoda angaxabana omunye abesetshaya omunye ngelitshe kumbe ngenqindi, angafi kodwa agule alale phansi,
and for to contend [emph?] human and to smite man: anyone [obj] neighbor his in/on/with stone or in/on/with fist and not to die and to fall: fall to/for bed
19 lowo ophose inqindi kasoze anikwe umlandu nxa omunye angavuka abesehambahamba ephethe intonga yakhe; lanxa kunjalo kumele ahlawule indoda elimeleyo ngokulahlekelwa yisikhathi njalo ayelaphise.
if to arise: rise and to go: walk in/on/with outside upon staff his and to clear [the] to smite except cessation his to give: pay and to heal to heal
20 Nxa umuntu angatshaya isigqili sakhe sesilisa kumbe esesifazane ngomqwayi, isigqili besesisifa ngenxa yalesisenzo, kumele ajeziswe,
and for to smite man: anyone [obj] servant/slave his or [obj] maidservant his in/on/with tribe: staff and to die underneath: owning hand: owner his to avenge to avenge
21 kodwa kasoze ajeziswe nxa isigqili singasila ngemva kwelanga elilodwa kumbe insuku ezimbili, ngoba isigqili siyimpahla yakhe.
surely if day or day to stand: stand not to avenge for silver: money his he/she/it
22 Nxa amadoda alwayo angatshaya umfazi ozithweleyo abesebeletha isikhathi sakhe singakafiki, kodwa engalimalanga kakubi, owonileyo kumele ahlawuliswe lokho okuyabe kubizelwe yindoda yomfazi kwasekuvunywa ngumthethwandaba.
and for to struggle human and to strike woman pregnant and to come out: produce youth her and not to be harm to fine to fine like/as as which to set: make upon him master: husband [the] woman and to give: pay in/on/with judge
23 Kodwa kungangabi lokulimala okubi, kumele impilo ibhadalwe ngempilo,
and if harm to be and to give: pay soul: life underneath: instead soul: life
24 ilihlo ngelihlo, izinyo ngezinyo, isandla ngesandla, unyawo ngonyawo.
eye underneath: instead eye tooth underneath: instead tooth hand underneath: instead hand foot underneath: instead foot
25 Ukutshiswa ngokutshiswa, isilonda ngesilonda, ukulimala ngokulimala.
burning underneath: instead burning wound underneath: instead wound wound underneath: instead wound
26 Nxa umuntu angatshaya isigqili sakhe sesilisa kumbe esesifazane elihlweni alipatshaze, kumele asiyekele isisebenzi sizihambele kube yinhlawulo yelihlo.
and for to smite man: anyone [obj] eye servant/slave his or [obj] eye maidservant his and to ruin her to/for free to send: let go him underneath: because of eye his
27 Angatshaya akhumule izinyo lesigqili sesilisa kumbe esesifazane, kumele asiyekele isisebenzi sizihambele kube yinhlawulo yezinyo.
and if tooth servant/slave his or tooth maidservant his to fall: deserting to/for free to send: let go him underneath: because of tooth his
28 Nxa inkunzi ingahlaba indoda kumbe umfazi afe, leyonkunzi kumele itshaywe ngamatshe ize ife njalo inyama yayo kayingadliwa. Kodwa umnikazi wenkunzi akumelanga etheswe umlandu.
and for to gore cattle [obj] man or [obj] woman and to die to stone to stone [the] cattle and not to eat [obj] flesh his and master [the] cattle innocent
29 Kodwa nxa inkunzi ivele ilomkhuba wokuhlaba abantu, njalo umnikazi eseke wakhuzwa kodwa wekela ukuyivalela ibisibulala indoda kumbe umfazi, inkunzi kumele ibulawe ngamatshe lomnikazi abulawe.
and if cattle goring he/she/it from yesterday three days ago and to testify in/on/with master his and not to keep: look at him and to die man or woman [the] cattle to stone and also master his to die
30 Kodwa kungathiwa kahlawule, angahlenga impilo yakhe ngokuhlawula lokho okuyabe kubiziwe.
if ransom to set: make upon him and to give: pay redemption soul: life his like/as all which to set: make upon him
31 Umthetho lo uyasebenza njalo nxa inkunzi ingahlaba indodana kumbe indodakazi.
or son: child to gore or daughter to gore like/as justice: judgement [the] this to make: do to/for him
32 Nxa inkunzi ingahlaba isigqili sesilisa kumbe esesifazane, umnikazi kumele ahlawule amashekeli angamatshumi amathathu esiliva kumnini wesigqili, njalo inkunzi kumele ibulawe ngamatshe.
if servant/slave to gore [the] cattle or maidservant silver: money thirty shekel to give: pay to/for lord his and [the] cattle to stone
33 Nxa umuntu etshiya umgodi ukhamisile, loba esimba umgodi angawusibekeli kuwele kuwo inkabi ingabe ubabhemi,
and for to open man: anyone pit or for to pierce man: anyone pit and not to cover him and to fall: fall there [to] cattle or donkey
34 umninimgodi kahlawule; kahlawule umnikazi, isifuyo esifileyo besesisiba ngesakhe.
master [the] pit to complete silver: money to return: pay to/for master his and [the] to die to be to/for him
35 Nxa inkunzi yomuntu ingalimaza eyomunye kuzamele ukuthi bathengise leyo ephilayo, babelane imali lesidumbu saleyo efileyo ngokulinganayo.
and for to strike cattle man: anyone [obj] cattle neighbor his and to die and to sell [obj] [the] cattle [the] alive and to divide [obj] silver: price his and also [obj] [the] to die to divide [emph?]
36 Kodwa nxa kusaziwa ukuthi inkunzi ivele ilomkhuba wokuhlaba ezinye, kodwa umnikazi engayivaleli esibayeni, umnikazi kumele ahlawule isifuyo ngesinye isifuyo, njalo isifuyo esifileyo sizakuba ngesakhe.”
or to know for cattle goring he/she/it from yesterday three days ago and not to keep: look at him master his to complete to complete cattle underneath: instead [the] cattle and [the] to die to be to/for him
