5 Mose 14

1 Moyɛ Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn no, mma. Ɛno nti monnsesa mo ho anaa monntworɔtworɔw mo moma so mma awufo,

You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;

2 efisɛ, moyɛ nnipa kronkron ma Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn no. Nnipa a wɔwɔ asase so nyinaa, mo na Awurade ayi mo sɛ nʼagyapade a ɛsom bo.

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

3 Munnni akyiwade biara.

No disgusting thing may be your food.

4 Eyinom ne mmoa a ɛsɛ sɛ mowe: nantwi, oguan, abirekyi

These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;

5 ɔforote, adowa, ɔwansan, ewi, ɔtwe, ne ɛko.

The hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat and the pygarg and the antelope and the mountain sheep.

6 Na munni tɔteboa biara a ne tɔte mu apae abien na opuw wosaw.

Any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again, may be used for food.

7 Nanso ntɔteboa a wopuw wosaw anaa wɔn tɔte mu apae abien no mu no, monnwe yoma, adanko ne atwaboa, efisɛ, wopuw wosaw de, nanso wɔn tɔte mu mpae; wɔn ho ntew mma mo.

But even among these, there are some which may not be used for food: such as the camel, the hare, and the coney, which are unclean to you, because, though their food comes back, the horn of their feet is not parted in two.

8 Prako nso ho ntew. Ɛwɔ mu sɛ ne tɔte mu apae de, nanso ompuw nwosaw. Ɛnsɛ sɛ mowe ne nam anaa mode mo nsa so ne funu mu koraa.

And the pig is unclean to you, because though it has a division in the horn of its foot, its food does not come back; their flesh may not be used for food or their dead bodies touched by you.

9 Nsumnam a wɔwɔ ntɛtɛ ne abon nyinaa mutumi we.

And of the things living in the waters, you may take all those who have wings for swimming with and skins formed of thin plates.

10 Nanso nsumnam a wonni ntɛtɛ ne abon de, monnwe. Wɔn ho ntew mma mo.

But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you.

11 Anomaa biara a ne ho tew no, monwe.

All clean birds may be used for food.

12 Nnomaa a ɛnsɛ sɛ mowe ni: ɔkɔre, opete, asu so kɔre,

But these birds you may not take: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;

13 ɔkompete, nkorɔma ahorow nyinaa

The falcon and the kite, and birds of that sort;

14 kwaakwaadabi ahorow nyinaa,

Every raven, and all birds of that sort;

15 sohori, anadwo akoroma, ɛpo so asomfena ne akoroma ahorow nyinaa,

And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk and birds of that sort;

16 patu, ɔpatukɛse, bakanoma

The little owl and the great owl and the water-hen;

17 nantwinoma, opete ne ɛpo so kwaakwaadabi,

And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;

18 ne asukɔnkɔn ahorow nyinaa, asuɔkwaa ne ampan.

The stork and the heron and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.

19 Ntummoa a wɔwea nyinaa ho ntew mma mo; monnwe.

Every winged thing which goes flat on the earth is unclean to you and may not be used as food.

20 Nanso aboa a ɔwɔ ntaban a ne ho tew biara no motumi we.

But all clean birds you may take.

21 Monnwe aboa biara a mubehu sɛ wawu. Momfa mma ɔhɔho a ɔne mo te, anaasɛ montɔn ma ɔnanani. Na mo ankasa de, monnwe, efisɛ wɔayi mo asi nkyɛn sɛ ɔman kronkron ama Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn no. Monnnoa abirekyi ba wɔ ne na nufusu mu.

You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

22 Afe biara monhwɛ na munyi mo mfuw mu nnɔbae nkyɛmu du mu baako.

Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.

23 Munni mo atoko, nsa, ne ngo, ne mo anantwi ne nguan abakan wɔ Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn no, anim wɔ faako a ɔbɛpaw sɛ ɛyɛ atenae wɔ ne din mu na ama moasua sɛnea wosi di Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn no ni daa.

And make a feast before the Lord your God, in the place which is to be marked out, where his name will be for ever, of the tenth part of your grain and your wine and your oil, and the first births of your herds and your flocks; so that you may have the fear of the Lord your God in your hearts at all times.

24 Sɛ beae a Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn no, bɛkyerɛ mo sɛ monkamfo ne din no ne nea mote no ntam kwan ware a,

And if the way is so long that you are not able to take these things to the place marked out by the Lord your God for his name, when he has given you his blessing, because it is far away from you;

25 ɛno de, momfa mo ntotoso du du no nsesa dwetɛ na momfa dwetɛ no nkɔ beae a Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn no, bɛpaw no.

Then let these things be exchanged for money, and, taking the money in your hand, go to the place marked out by the Lord your God for himself;

26 Sɛ mudu hɔ a, momfa sika no ntɔ biribiara a mo kɔn dɔ, sɛ ebia, nantwi, oguan, bobesa, anaa nsa biara a ɛyɛ den ne ade biara a mo kra pɛ na mo ne mo fifo nni wɔ Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn no, anim na mo ani nnye.

And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;

27 Na mummu mo ani ngu Lewifo a wɔfra mo mu no so, efisɛ wonni wɔn ankasa wɔn agyapade biara.

And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.

28 Mfe abiɛsa biara awiei no, momfa mo nnɔbae so ntotoso du du no mmra mmɛkora wɔ mo nkurow mu,

At the end of every three years take a tenth part of all your increase for that year, and put it in store inside your walls:

29 sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a Lewifo a wonni agyapade mu kyɛfa wɔ mo mu no ne ananafo a wɔwɔ mo nkurow so ne nyisaa ne akunafo a wɔwɔ mo nkurow so no betumi adidi amee; na ama Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn no, ahyira mo nsa ano nnwuma nyinaa so.

And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.