Deuteronomy 14

1 You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

“Lingabantwana bakaThixo uNkulunkulu wenu. Lingabozisika loba liphuce amakhanda enu lizilela abafileyo,

2 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

ngoba lingabantu abangcwele kuThixo uNkulunkulu wenu. Ebantwini bonke abasemhlabeni, uThixo ulikhethile lina ukuthi libe ngabantu bakhe abaligugu.

3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

Lingadli loba kuyini okunengisayo.

4 These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

Nanzi izinyamazana elingazidla: inkomo, imvu, imbuzi,

5 the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois.

umziki, impala, umziki obomvu, imbuzi yeganga, imbuzi mawa, umtshwayeli lemvu yentaba.

6 Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.

Lingadla zonke izinyamazana ezilenklagu ezivulekileyo lezentshisayo.

7 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.

Kodwa-ke kulezo ezilenklagu ezivulekileyo loba lezo ezentshisayo zilani lingadli ikamela, umvundla loba imbila. Zingcolile kini ngokomkhuba.

8 The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses.

Ingulube layo ayihlanzekanga; lanxa ilenklagu ezivulekileyo kayentshisi. Lingabokudla inyama yazo, lingathinti lezidumbu zazo.

9 These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat whatever has fins and scales.

Kuzozonke izidalwa ezihlala emanzini, lingadla zonke lezo ezilempiko lamaxolo.

10 You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.

Kodwa konke lokho okungelampiko lamaxolo akumelanga likudle; kungcolile kini.

11 Of all clean birds you may eat.

Lingadla loba yiphi inyoni ehlanzekileyo.

12 But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,

Kodwa lezi lingazidli: ukhozi, ilinqe elimnyama,

13 the red kite, the falcon, the kite of any kind,

uhelwane olubomvu, uhelwane olumnyama, loba yiwuphi umhlobo womzwazwa

14 every raven of any kind,

loba yiphi imihlobo yamawabayi,

15 the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk of any kind,

isikhova esilesicholo, ingabuzane, idada lolwandle, loba wuphi umhlobo wokhozi,

16 the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl,

umandukulo, isikhova esikhulu, isikhova esimhlophe,

17 the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant,

isikhova senkangala, ukhozi lwenhlanzi, itshayamanzi,

18 the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.

ingabuzane, lawuphi umhlobo welanda, imvenduna lomalulwane.

19 All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.

Zonke izibungu eziphaphayo zingcolile kini; lingabozidla.

20 Of all clean birds you may eat.

Kodwa konke okulempiko okuhlanzekileyo kudleni.

21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Lingabokudla ingcuba. Lingakunika loba ngubani owezizweni ohlezi loba kukuliphi phakathi kwamadolobho enu, yena angakudla, ulakho njalo ukuthi angathengisela omunye laye owezizweni. Kodwa lina lingabantu abangcwele kuThixo uNkulunkulu wenu. Lingapheki izinyane lembuzi ngochago lukanina.”

22 You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year.

“Wobani leqiniso ukuthi libeka eceleni lokhu okuyingxenye eyodwa yetshumi yesivuno somnyaka.

23 You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he chooses to cause his name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always.

Dlanini okwetshumi kwamabele enu, iwayini elitsha lamafutha, kanye lamazibulo emihlambi yenkomo zenu lawezimvu emehlweni kaThixo uNkulunkulu wenu endaweni azalikhethela yona ukuba ibe leBizo lakhe, ukuze lifunde ukumphakamisa uThixo uNkulunkulu wenu ngezikhathi zonke.

24 If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you, when Yahweh your God blesses you,

Kodwa nxa leyondawo ikhatshana kakhulu lina libusisiwe nguThixo uNkulunkulu wenu njalo lingenelisi ukuthwala okwetshumi kwenu (ngenxa yokuthi lapho uThixo akhethe ukubeka khona iBizo lakhe kukhatshana kakhulu),

25 then you shall turn it into money, bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose.

thengisani okwetshumi kwenu ngesiliva, libe selithatha lihambe lesiliva liye endaweni leyo ezabe ikhethwe nguThixo uNkulunkulu wenu.

26 You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

Sebenzisani isiliva lithenge ngaso loba yini elifuna ukuyithenga: inkomo, izimvu, iwayini loba kuyini elikufunayo. Ngakho lina kanye labendlu yenu lizakudla khonapho phambi kukaThixo uNkulunkulu wenu njalo libe lokujabula.

27 You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

Njalo lingakhohlwa abaLevi abahlala emadolobheni enu, ngoba abalaso isabelo esingesabo njalo abaphiwanga ilifa.

28 At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates.

Ekupheleni kweminyaka emithathu, lethani okwetshumi kwesivuno salowomnyaka likugcine emadolobheni enu,

29 The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

yikho kuzakuthi abaLevi (bona abangelasabelo loba ilifa elingelabo) kanye labezizweni, izintandane ezingelaboyise labafelokazi abahlala emadolobheni enu beze labo bazokudla basuthe, njalo kuze kuthi uThixo uNkulunkulu wenu alibusise kuyo yonke imisebenzi yezandla zenu.”