Revhitiko 18
1 Jehovha akati kuna Mozisi,
Then the LORD said to Moses,
2 “Taura kuvaIsraeri uti kwavari, ‘Ndini Jehovha Mwari wenyu.
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am the LORD your God.
3 Hamufaniri kuita sezvavanoita kuIjipiti, kwamaigara uye hamufaniri kuita sezvavanoita kuKenani, kwandiri kukuendesai. Musatevera zviito zvavo.
You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.
4 Munofanira kutevera mitemo yangu uye mugochenjerera kuti mutevere mirayiro yangu. Ndini Jehovha Mwari wenyu.
You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.
5 Chengetai mirayiro nemitemo yangu nokuti munhu anoiteerera achararama nayo. Ndini Jehovha.
Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
6 “‘Hapana anofanira kuswedera kuhama yepedyo kuti avate naye. Ndini Jehovha.
None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.
7 “‘Usazvidza baba vako nokusangana namai vako. Ndimai vako usasangana navo.
You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.
8 “‘Usasangana nomukadzi wababa vako, izvi zvingazvidza baba vako.
You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.
9 “‘Usasangana nehanzvadzi yako kana mwanasikana wababa vako kana mwanasikana wamai vako, zvisinei kuti akaberekwa mumba mumwe chete kana kumwewo.
You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.
10 “‘Usasangana nomwanasikana womwanakomana wako kana mwanasikana womwanasikana wako; izvi zvingauyisa kuzvidzwa kwauri.
You must not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would shame your family.
11 “‘Usasangana nomwanasikana womukadzi wababa vako akaberekwa nababa vako, ihanzvadzi yako.
You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.
12 “‘Usasangana nehanzvadzi yababa vako, ihama yababa vako yepedyo.
You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.
13 “‘Usasangana nomukoma kana mununʼuna wamai vako nokuti ihama yamai vako yepedyo.
You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.
14 “‘Usazvidza mununʼuna kana mukoma wababa vako nokuswedera kumukadzi wavo kuti uvate naye; nokuti ndimaiguru kana mainini.
You must not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations with her; she is your aunt.
15 “‘Usasangana nomuroora wako, mukadzi womwanakomana wako; usasangana naye.
You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her.
16 “‘Usasangana nomukadzi womukoma kana mununʼuna wako; izvi zvingauyisa kuzvidzwa kwomukoma kana mununʼuna wako.
You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.
17 “‘Usasangana nomukadzi pamwe chete nomwanasikana wake. Usasangana nomwanasikana womwanakomana wake kana mwanasikana womwanasikana wake; ihama dzake dzepedyo. Zvakaipa izvozvo.
You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.
18 “‘Usatora mununʼuna womukadzi wako kuti ave mukadzinyina, varwisane, ugosangana naye mukadzi wako achiri mupenyu.
You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.
19 “‘Usaswedera kumukadzi kuti usangane naye panguva yokusachena kwokuenda kumwedzi kwake.
You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.
20 “‘Usasangana nomukadzi womuvakidzani wako ugozvisvibisa naye.
You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.
21 “‘Usapa ani zvake pakati pavana vako kuti vabayirwe kuna Moreki nokuti haufaniri kumhura zita raJehovha. Ndini Jehovha.
You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
22 “‘Usavata nomurume somurume anovata nomukadzi; zvinonyangadza.
You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.
23 “‘Usasangana nemhuka uye ugozvisvibisa nayo. Mukadzi haafaniri kuzvipa kumhuka kuti asangane nayo; uku kunyangadza kukuru.
You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.
24 “‘Musazvisvibisa neimwe yenzira idzi nokuti ndudzi dzandichadzinga pamberi penyu dzakazvisvibisa naizvozvo.
Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.
25 Kunyange nyika yakasvibiswa; naizvozvo ndakairanga nokuda kwezvakaipa zvayo uye nyika yakarutsa vagari vayo.
Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
26 Asi imi munofanira kuchengeta mirayiro yangu nemitemo yangu. Zvizvarwa zvenyu navatorwa vagere pakati penyu havafaniri kuita kana chimwe chezvinhu zvinonyangadza izvi,
But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.
27 nokuti zvinhu zvose izvi zvakaitwa navanhu vaigara munyika iyoyo musati mavamo, uye nyika ikasvibiswa.
For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.
28 Uye kana mukasvibisa nyika, ichakurutsirai kunze sokurutsa kwayakaita ndudzi dzaigaramo imi musati mavamo.
So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.
29 “‘Ani naani anoita zvinonyangadza izvi, vanhu vakadaro vanofanira kubviswa kubva pavanhu vokwavo.
Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.
30 Chengetai zvandakakurayirai uye musatevedzera kana imwe yetsika dzinonyangadza dzaiitwa musati mauya, uye musazvisvibisa nadzo. Ndini Jehovha Mwari wenyu.’”
You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”
