Torati 14
1 Ninyi ni watu wa Yahwe Mungu wenu. Msijikate wenyewe, wala kunyoa sehemu za nyuso zenu kwa ajili ya wafu.
You are the people of Yahweh your God. Do not cut yourselves, nor shave any part of your face for the dead.
2 Kwa kuwa mu taifa lilowekwa wakfu kwa Yahwe Mungu wenu, na Yahwe amewachagua kuwa watu kwa ajili ya urithi wake, zaidi kuliko watu wote walio juu ya uso wa dunia.
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 Hampaswi kula kitu chochote kilicho chukizo.
You must not eat any abominable thing.
4 Hawa ni wanyama ambao mnaweza kula: ng'ombe, kondoo, mbuzi,
These are the animals that you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
5 kulungu, paa, kulungu wa kiume, mbuzi wa mwituni, paa mweupe na pofu na kondoo wa mlimani
the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, and ibex, and the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
6 Mnaweza kula wanyama wowote ambao wamegawanyika kwato, ambaye ana kwato zilizogawanyika mara mbili, na utafuna macheuo.
You may eat any animals that parts the hoof, that is, that has the hoof divided in two, and that chews the cud.
7 Hata hivyo, hampaswi kula baadhi ya wanyama ambao utafuna macheuo au ambao wana kwato zilizogawanyika mara mbili: ngamia, sungura, pomono, kwa sababu watafuna macheuo lakini hawajagawanyika kwato, ni najisi kwenu.
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 Nguruwe ni najisi kwenu pia kwa sababu amegawanyika kwato lakini hatafuni macheuo; ni najisi kwenu. Msile nyama ya nguruwe, na msiguse mizoga yao.
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 Haya yaliyo ndani ya maji mnaweza kula: chochote kilicho na mapesi na magamba;
Of these things that are in water you may eat: whatever has fins and scales;
10 lakini chochote kisichokuwa na mapesi na magamba msile; ni najisi kwenu.
but whatever has no fins and scales you must not eat; they are unclean to you.
11 Ndege wote safi mnaweza kula.
All clean birds you may eat.
12 Lakini hawa ni ndege ambao hampaswi kula: tai, tumbusi, kipungu,
But these are the birds that you must not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
13 mwewe mwekundu na mweusi, aina yoyote ya kipanga.
the red kite and black kite, any kind of falcon.
14 Hampaswi kula aina yoyote ya kunguru,
You must not eat any kind of raven,
15 na mbuzi na mwewe wa usiku, Lanes ndege wa baharini, aina yoyote ya mwewe,
and the ostrich, and the night hawk, the sea gull, any kind of hawk,
16 bundi mdogo, bundi mkubwa, na bundi mweupe,
the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,
17 Mwari, nyamafu ya tai, mnandio.
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant.
18 Hampaswi kula korongo, aina yoyote ya kongoti, hudihudi, na popo.
You must not eat the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
19 Wote wenye mabawa; vitu vya utando ni najisi kwenu; havipaswi kuliwa.
All winged, swarming things are unclean to you; they must not be eaten.
20 Mnaweza kula vitu vyote virukavyo.
You may eat all clean flying things.
21 Hampaswi kula chochote kinachokufa chenyewe; mnaweza kumpa mgeni ambaye yuko katika mji wenu, kwamba anaweza kula au mnaweza kuuza kwa mgeni. Kwa kuwa mu taifa lilolowekwa wakfu kwa ajili ya Yahwe Mungu wenu. Hampaswi kumchemusha mbuzi kijana katika maziwa ya mama yake.
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 Hakika mnapaswa kutoa fungu la kumi la mavuno ya mbegu zenu zote, ambazo huja kutoka kwenye shamba kila mwaka.
You must surely tithe all the yield of your seed, that which comes out from the field year after year.
23 Mnapaswa kula mbele ya Yahwe Mungu wenu, katika eneo ambalo atachagua kama patakatifu pake, fungu la kumi la nafaka zenu, za mvinyo mpya, na mafuta yenu, na mzaliwa wa kwanza wa wanyama na mifugo, kwamba mnaweza kujifunza daima kumheshimu Yahwe Mungu wenu.
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 Kama safari ni ndefu kwenu na kwamba hamwezi kuibeba, kwa sababu eneo ambalo Yahwe Mungu wenu atachagua kama patakatifu pake ni mbali kwenu, basi, wakati Yahwe Mngu anawabariki,
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 mtabadilisha sadaka katika pesa. Fungeni pesa kwenye mkono, na nendeni kwenye eneo ambalo Yahwe Mungu wenu atachagua.
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 Huko mtatumia pesa kwa chochote mnatamani kwa ng'ombe au kondoo, au kwa mvinyo, au kwa kinywaji imara, au kwa chochote mnatamani; mtakula hapo mbele ya Yahwe Mungu wenu, na mtafurahi, nyie na nyumba zenu.
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 Mlawi ambaye yuko malangoni mwenu- msimsahau, kwa kuwa hana sehemu wala urithi pamoja nanyi.
The Levite who is within your gates—do not forsake him, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
28 Mwisho mwa kila miaka mitatu mtawasilisha mafungu yote ya kumi ya mazao kwa mwaka huo huo, na mtatunza katika malango yenu;
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 na Mlawi, kwa sababu hana sehemu wala urithi pamoja nanyi, na mgeni, na yatima, na wajane walio ndani ya malango yenu, watakuja na kula na kurithika. Fanya hivyo kwa Yahwe Mungu wenu aweze kuwabariki katika kazi zote za mikono yenuo mnazofanya.
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.
