UDutheronomi 14
1 Lingabantwana beNkosi uNkulunkulu wenu. Kaliyikuzisika, lingenzi impabanga phakathi laphakathi kwamehlo enu ngenxa yabafileyo.
You are the people of Yahweh your God. Do not cut yourselves, nor shave any part of your face for the dead.
2 Ngoba uyisizwe esingcwele eNkosini uNkulunkulu wakho; leNkosi ikukhethile ukuthi ube yisizwe esikhethekileyo kuyo, ngaphezu kwezizwe zonke ezisebusweni bomhlaba.
For you are a nation that is set apart to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, more than all peoples that are on the surface of the earth.
3 Ungadli loba yikuphi okunengekayo.
You must not eat any abominable thing.
4 Yilezi inyamazana elingazidla: Inkabi, imvu, lembuzi,
These are the animals that you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
5 indluzele, lomziki, lomziki olempondo ezilembaxambaxa, lembuzi yeganga, lomtshwayeli, lenkabi yeganga, legogo,
the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, and ibex, and the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
6 layo yonke inyamazana edabula isondo, edabula okudabukileyo kube zinklagu ezimbili, eyetshisayo phakathi kwezinyamazana; leyo lingayidla.
You may eat any animals that parts the hoof, that is, that has the hoof divided in two, and that chews the cud.
7 Kodwa lezi kaliyikuzidla kuzo ezetshisayo, lakuzo ezidabula isondo elidabukileyo: Ikamela lomvundla lembila, ngoba ziyetshisa kodwa kazidabulanga isondo; zingcolile kini.
Nevertheless, you must not eat some animals that chew the cud or that have the hoof divided in two: the camel, the rabbit, and the rock badger; because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, they are unclean to you.
8 Lengulube, ngoba idabula isondo kodwa kayetshisi; ingcolile kini. Lingadli okwenyama yazo, lingathinti izidumbu zazo.
The pig is unclean to you as well because he parts the hoof but does not chew the cud; he is unclean to you. Do not eat pig meat, and do not touch their carcasses.
9 Lezi lingazidla kuzo zonke ezisemanzini: Zonke ezilempiko lamaxolo lingazidla.
Of these things that are in water you may eat: whatever has fins and scales;
10 Kodwa loba yikuphi okungelampiko lamaxolo lingakudli; kungcolile kini.
but whatever has no fins and scales you must not eat; they are unclean to you.
11 Zonke inyoni ezihlambulukileyo lingazidla.
All clean birds you may eat.
12 Kodwa yilezi elingayikudla kuzo: Ukhozi lelinqe lengqungqulu edla inhlanzi,
But these are the birds that you must not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
13 lomzwazwa, lohelwane, lelinqe ngohlobo lwalo,
the red kite and black kite, any kind of falcon.
14 lalo lonke iwabayi ngohlobo lwalo,
You must not eat any kind of raven,
15 lesikhova, lomandukulo, lenkanku, lokhozi ngohlobo lwalo,
and the ostrich, and the night hawk, the sea gull, any kind of hawk,
16 isikhova esincinyane, lesikhova esikhulu, lesikhova esimhlophe,
the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,
17 lewunkwe, lelinqe elikhulu, letshayamanzi,
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant.
18 lengabuzane, lehemu ngohlobo lwalo, lemvenduna, lolulwane.
You must not eat the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
19 Lazo zonke izibungu ezilempiko zingcolile kini; kazingadliwa.
All winged, swarming things are unclean to you; they must not be eaten.
20 Zonke izinyoni ezihlambulukileyo lingazidla.
You may eat all clean flying things.
21 Lingabokudla langcuba; ungayinika owemzini ophakathi kwamasango akho ukuthi ayidle, loba uyithengise kowezizwe; ngoba uyisizwe esingcwele eNkosini uNkulunkulu wakho. Ungapheki izinyane lembuzi ngochago lukanina.
You must not eat of anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the foreigner who is within your towns, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a nation that is set apart to Yahweh your God. You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
22 Uzanikela ngoqotho okwetshumi kwesithelo sonke senhlanyelo yakho, insimu ekuthelayo iminyaka ngeminyaka.
You must surely tithe all the yield of your seed, that which comes out from the field year after year.
23 Njalo uzakudla phambi kweNkosi uNkulunkulu wakho, endaweni ezayikhetha ukuthi ibeke ibizo layo khona, okwetshumi kwamabele akho, okwewayini lakho elitsha, lokwamafutha akho, lamazibulo enkomo zakho lawezimvu zakho, ukuze ufunde ukuyesaba iNkosi uNkulunkulu wakho insuku zonke.
You must eat before Yahweh your God, in the place that he will choose as his sanctuary, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock; that you may learn to always honor Yahweh your God.
24 Uba-ke indlela inde kakhulu kuwe, uze wehluleke ukukuthwala, ngoba ikhatshana kakhulu lawe indawo iNkosi uNkulunkulu wakho ezayikhetha ukuthi ibeke ibizo layo khona, lapho iNkosi uNkulunkulu wakho ikubusisile,
If the journey is too long for you so that you are not able to carry it, because the place that Yahweh your God will choose as his sanctuary is too far from you, then, when Yahweh God blesses you,
25 uzakuguqula-ke kube yimali, ubophele imali esandleni sakho, uye endaweni iNkosi uNkulunkulu wakho ezayikhetha,
you will convert the offering into money, tie up the money in your hand, and go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose.
26 uthenge ngaleyomali loba kuyini umphefumulo wakho okufisayo, izinkabi loba izimvu loba iwayini loba okunathwayo okulamandla, loba kuyini umphefumulo wakho okufisayo; udle khona phambi kweNkosi uNkulunkulu wakho, uthabe wena lendlu yakho.
There you will spend the money for whatever you desire: for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever you desire; you will eat there before Yahweh your God, and you will rejoice, you and your household.
27 LomLevi ophakathi kwamasango akho, ungamdeli, ngoba kalasabelo lelifa kanye lawe.
The Levite who is within your gates—do not forsake him, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
28 Ekupheleni kweminyaka emithathu uzakhupha konke okwetshumi kwezithelo zakho ngalowomnyaka, ukugcine phakathi kwamasango akho.
At the end of every three years you will present all the tithe of your produce in the same year, and you will store it up within your gates;
29 LomLevi, lokhu engelasabelo lelifa kanye lawe, lowemzini, lentandane, lomfelokazi, abaphakathi kwamasango akho, bazakuza, badle, basuthe, ukuze iNkosi uNkulunkulu wakho ikubusise emsebenzini wonke wesandla sakho owenzayo.
and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates, will come and eat and be satisfied. Do this so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand that you do.
