ULevi 18
1 INkosi yasikhuluma kuMozisi isithi:
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2 Tshono ebantwaneni bakoIsrayeli uthi kubo: NgiyiNkosi uNkulunkulu wenu.
“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'I am Yahweh your God.
3 Lingenzi njengokwemisebenzi yelizwe leGibhithe lapho elalihlala khona, lingenzi futhi njengokwemisebenzi yelizwe leKhanani engililetha kulo. Lingahambi ngemithetho yabo.
You must not do the things that the people do in Egypt, where you lived previously. You must not do the things that the people do in Canaan, the land to which I am taking you. Do not follow their customs.
4 Lizakwenza izahlulelo zami ligcine izimiso zami, ukuhamba kuzo. NgiyiNkosi uNkulunkulu wenu.
My laws are what you must do, and my commandments are what you must keep, so that you walk in them, because I am Yahweh your God.
5 Ngakho lizagcina izimiso zami lezahlulelo zami; okuthi uba umuntu ezenza uzaphila ngazo. NgiyiNkosi.
Therefore you must keep my decrees and my laws. If a person obeys them, he will live because of them. I am Yahweh.
6 Kakungasondeli lamuntu lakusiphi isihlobo senyama yakhe ukwembula ubunqunu baso. NgiyiNkosi.
No one must sleep with any close relative to uncover his nakedness. I am Yahweh.
7 Ungembuli ubunqunu bukayihlo lobunqunu bukanyoko; ungunyoko, ungembuli ubunqunu bakhe.
Do not dishonor your father by sleeping with your mother. She is your mother! You must not dishonor her.
8 Ungembuli ubunqunu bomkayihlo, buyibunqunu bukayihlo.
Do not sleep with any of your father's wives; you must not dishonor your father like that.
9 Ubunqunu bukadadewenu, indodakazi kayihlo loba indodakazi kanyoko, ezelwe ekhaya loba ezelwe ngaphandle, ungembuli ubunqunu babo.
Do not sleep with any sister of yours, whether she is the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether she was raised at your home or distant from you. You must not sleep with your sisters.
10 Ungembuli ubunqunu bendodakazi yendodana yakho, loba bendodakazi yendodakazi yakho, ngoba bayibunqunu bakho.
Do not sleep with your son's daughter or with your daughter's daughter. That would be your own shame.
11 Ubunqunu bendodakazi yomkayihlo ezelwe nguyihlo, ingudadewenu, ungembuli ubunqunu bayo.
Do not sleep with your father's wife's daughter, who was born of your father. She is your sister, and you must not sleep with her.
12 Ungembuli ubunqunu bukadadewabo kayihlo, ngoba eyisihlobo sikayihlo.
Do not sleep with your father's sister. She is a close relative to your father.
13 Ungembuli ubunqunu bukadadewabo kanyoko, ngoba eyisihlobo sikanyoko.
Do not sleep with your mother's sister. She is a close relative to your mother.
14 Ungembuli ubunqunu bomfowabo kayihlo; ungasondeli kumkakhe, ngoba enguyihlokazi.
Do not dishonor the brother of your father by sleeping with his wife. Do not go near her for that purpose; she is your aunt.
15 Ungembuli ubunqunu bukamalokozana; ungumkandodana yakho, ungembuli ubunqunu bakhe.
Do not sleep with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; do not sleep with her.
16 Ungembuli ubunqunu bomkamfowenu, buyibunqunu bomfowenu.
Do not sleep with your brother's wife; do not dishonor him in this way.
17 Ungembuli ubunqunu bowesifazana lobendodakazi yakhe; ungathathi indodakazi yendodana yakhe loba indodakazi yendodakazi yakhe, ukwembula ubunqunu bayo; bayizihlobo; kuyinkohlakalo.
Do not sleep with a woman and her daughter, or with her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter. They are close relatives to her, and sleeping with them would be wicked.
18 Ungathathi owesifazana kanye lodadewabo ukumhlupha, ukwembula ubunqunu bakhe kanye laye empilweni yakhe.
You must not marry your wife's sister as a second wife and sleep with her while your first wife is alive.
19 Ungasondeli kowesifazana ekwehlukanisweni kokungcola kwakhe ukwembula ubunqunu bakhe.
Do not sleep with a woman during her menstruation. She is unclean during that time.
20 Ungalali lomkamakhelwane wakho ukungcola ngaye.
Do not sleep with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her in this way.
21 Unganiki okwenzalo yakho ukuthi ukudabulisele kuMoleki; ungangcolisi ibizo likaNkulunkulu wakho. NgiyiNkosi.
You must not give any of your children to put them into the fire, so that you sacrifice them to Molech, because you must not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
22 Ungalali lowesilisa njengokulala lowesifazana; kuyisinengiso.
Do not sleep with other men as with a woman. This would be wicked.
23 Ungalali laloba yiyiphi inyamazana ukungcola ngayo; futhi owesifazana angemi phambi kwenyamazana ukulala layo; kuyingxube elihlazo.
Do not sleep with any animal and defile yourself with it. No woman must consider sleeping with any animal. This would be perversion.
24 Lingazingcolisi langenye yalezizinto, ngoba ngazo zonke lezizinto izizwe ziyangcoliswa engizixotsha phambi kwenu.
Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in all these ways the nations are defiled, the nations that I will drive out from before you.
25 Ngalokho ilizwe lingcolile; ngakho ngiphindisela ububi balo phezu kwalo, lelizwe liyabahlanza abahlali balo.
The land became defiled, so I punished their sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
26 Ngakho lina lizagcina izimiso zami lezahlulelo zami, lingenzi okwazo zonke lezizinengiso; owokuzalwa elizweni loba owemzini ohlala njengowezizwe phakathi kwenu.
You, therefore, must keep my commandments and decrees, and you must not do any of these detestable things, neither the native-born Israelite nor the foreigner who lives among you.
27 Ngoba zonke lezizinengiso bazenza abantu balelolizwe ababekhona ngaphambi kwenu, ngakho ilizwe langcola.
For this is the wickedness that the people in the land have committed, those who lived here before you, and now the land is defiled.
28 Ukuze ilizwe lingalihlanzi lapho lilingcolisa, njengalokhu lahlanza isizwe esasikhona ngaphambi kwenu.
Therefore be careful so that the land does not vomit you up also after you have defiled it, as it vomited out the people who were before you.
29 Ngoba wonke owenza okwalezizinengiso, imiphefumulo ekwenzayo izaqunywa isuke ebantwini bayo.
Whoever does any of these detestable things, the persons who do such things will be cut off from among their people.
30 Ngakho lizagcina umlayo wami, ukuze lingenzi okwalezozimiso eziyisinengiso ezenziwa ngaphambi kwenu, ukuthi lingazingcolisi ngazo. NgiyiNkosi uNkulunkulu wenu.
Therefore you must keep my command not to practice any of these detestable customs which were practiced here before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am Yahweh your God.'”
