Baʼuu 23
1 “Oduu sobaa hin odeessin; dhuga baʼuu jalʼaa kennuudhaan nama balleessaa hojjete hin gargaarin.
Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.
2 “Waan hamaa hojjechuuf jettee nama baayʼee faana hin buʼin. Fuula seeraa duratti yommuu dhugaa baatu, gara nama baayʼee gortee murtii hin jalʼisin;
Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:
3 murtii irratti hiyyeessaaf hin loogin.
But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause.
4 “Yoo sangaa yookaan harree diina keetii kan baduutti jiru argite deebisii geessiif.
If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back to him.
5 Yoo harree nama si jibbu tokkoo utuu isheen baʼaa baattee kuftee jirtuu argite achitti hin dhiisin; isa gargaarii ol kaasi.
If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your desire.
6 “Murtii irratti hiyyeessa saba keetii jalaa murtii hin dabsin.
Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.
7 Himata sobaa keessatti hin hirmaatin; waan ani nama balleessaa hojjete hin qulqulleessineef nama yakka hin qabne yookaan nama qajeelaa hin ajjeesin.
Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.
8 “Ati mattaʼaa hin fudhatin; mattaʼaan ogeeyyii ni jaamsaatii; dubbii qajeeltotaas jalʼisa.
Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.
9 “Alagaa hin cunqursin; isin waan biyya Gibxiitti alagaa turtaniif alagaa taʼuun maal akka taʼe isin mataan keessan ni beektuutii.
Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land.
10 “Waggaa jaʼa lafa qotiisaa kee facaafadhu; midhaanis galfadhu;
For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase;
11 waggaa torbaffaatti garuu lafa sana boqochiisi malee hin qotin. Akkasiin hiyyeeyyiin saba keetii laficha irraa nyaata argatu; waan isaan irraa hafe immoo bineensi haa nyaatu. Muka wayinii keetiitii fi muka ejersa keetiis akkasuma godhi.
But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees.
12 “Guyyaa jaʼa hojii kee hojjetadhu; akka sangaan keetii fi harreen kee boqotaniif, akka garbichi mana keetti dhalatee fi alagaan aara galfataniif guyyaa torbafaatti hin hojjetin.
For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.
13 “Waan ani isinitti hime hunda eegaa; maqaa waaqota biraa hin waammatinaa; afaan keessanii iyyuu hin baʼin.
Take note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of other gods come into your minds or from your lips.
14 “Ati waggaatti yeroo sadii ayyaana naa ayyaaneffadhu.
Three times in the year you are to keep a feast to me.
15 “Ayyaana Maxinoo Ayyaaneffadhu; akkuma ani si ajaje sana bultii torba Maxinoo nyaadhu. Waan kanas jiʼa Abiibii keessa yeroo murtaaʼetti godhi; ati jiʼa sana keessa Gibxii baateetii. “Namni tokko iyyuu harka duwwaa fuula koo duratti hin dhiʼaatin.
You are to keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your bread be without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt); and let no one come before me without an offering:
16 “Mataa midhaan keetii kan lafa qotiisaa keetti facaafatteen Ayyaana Galchaa Midhaanii ayyaaneffadhu. “Dhuma waggaatti yeroo midhaan kee lafa qotiisaa irraa walitti qabattutti Ayyaana Galchaa Midhaanii ayyaaneffadhu.
And the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits of your planted fields: and the feast at the start of the year, when you have got in all the fruit from your fields.
17 “Dhiirri hundi waggaatti yeroo sadii fuula Waaqayyoo Gooftaa duratti haa dhiʼaatu.
Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord God.
18 “Dhiiga aarsaa waan raacitii qabu wajjin naa hin dhiʼeessin. “Coomni aarsaa ayyaana koos hamma bariitti hin turin.
Do not give the blood of my offering with leavened bread; and do not let the fat of my feast be kept all night till the morning.
19 “Mataa midhaan lafa keetii keessaa filatamaa isaa gara mana Waaqayyo Waaqa keetii fidi. “Ilmoo reʼee aannan haadha isheetiin hin affeelin.
The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.
20 “Akka inni karaa irratti si eegee iddoo ani qopheessetti si galchuuf kunoo ani fuula kee dura ergamaa koo tokko nan erga.
See, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on your way and to be your guide into the place which I have made ready for you.
21 Xiyyeeffadhuutii waan inni jedhu dhaggeeffadhu. Isatti hin fincilin; inni waan Maqaa koo of irraa qabuuf fincila kee siif hin dhiisuutii.
Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him.
22 Yoo ati waan inni jedhu akka gaarii dhaggeeffatee waan ani dubbadhu hunda goote, ani diinota keetti diina nan taʼa; warra siin mormaniinis nan morma.
But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I say, then I will be against those who are against you, fighting those who are fighting you.
23 Ergamaan koos fuula kee dura deemee biyya Amoorotaatti, Heetotaatti, Feerzotaatti, Kanaʼaanotaatti, Hiiwotaattii fi Yebuusotaatti si galcha; anis jara nan balleessa.
And my angel will go before you, guiding you into the land of the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, and they will be cut off by my hand.
24 Waaqota isaaniitiif hin sagadin; hin waaqeffatinis; hojii isaanii faanas hin buʼin. Ati isaan balleessitee soodduu waaqeffannaa isaanii illee caccabsuu qabda.
Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.
25 Waaqayyo Waaqa kee waaqeffadhu; innis midhaan keetii fi bishaan kee ni eebbisa. Dhukkubas isin gidduudhaa nan balleessa;
And give worship to the Lord your God, who will send his blessing on your bread and on your water; and I will take all disease away from among you.
26 biyya kee keessatti dubartiin ulfi irraa baʼu yookaan dhabduun tokko iyyuu hin argamtu. Jireenya guutuus siif nan kenna.
All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life.
27 “Ani sodaachisuu koo si dura ergee saba ati itti dhuftu hunda nan burjaajessa. Akka diinonni kee hundinuu dugda sitti galanii baqatanis nan godha.
I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the people to whom you come; all those who are against you will go in flight, turning their backs before you.
28 Akka inni Hiiwota, Kanaʼaanotaa fi Heetota karaa kee irraa ariʼuuf ani si duraan sonsa nan erga.
I will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite and the Canaanite and the Hittite before your face.
29 Akka lafti onee bineensi wal horee sitti hin baayʼanneef ani waggaa tokko keessatti saba kana si duraa ariʼee hin baasu.
I will not send them all out in one year, for fear that their land may become waste, and the beasts of the field be increased overmuch against you.
30 Hamma ati baayʼattee biyyattii dhaaltutti ani xinnoo xinnoon fuula kee duraa isaan nan baasa.
Little by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased and you take up your heritage in the land.
31 “Anis daarii kee Galaana Diimaadhaa jalqabee hamma Galaana Filisxeemiitti, lafa alootii jalqabee hamma Laga Efraaxiisiitti siifin dhaaba. Namoota biyya sana jiraatanis dabarsee harka keetti nan kenna; ati immoo of duraa ariitee isaan baafta.
I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you.
32 Ati isaan wajjin yookaan waaqota isaanii wajjin kakuu tokko illee hin galin.
Make no agreement with them or with their gods.
33 Akka isaan biyya kee keessa jiraatan hin eeyyamaniif; yoo akkas taʼe isaan akka ati cubbuu natti hojjettu si godhu; ati waaqota isaanii waaqeffannaan kun dhugumaan kiyyoo sitti taʼaatii.”
Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.
