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.

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

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.

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.

3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

Munnni akyiwade biara.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Nsumnam a wɔwɔ ntɛtɛ ne abon nyinaa mutumi we.

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

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

11 Of all clean birds you may eat.

Anomaa biara a ne ho tew no, monwe.

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

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

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

ɔkompete, nkorɔma ahorow nyinaa

14 every raven of any kind,

kwaakwaadabi ahorow nyinaa,

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

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

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

patu, ɔpatukɛse, bakanoma

17 the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant,

nantwinoma, opete ne ɛpo so kwaakwaadabi,

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

ne asukɔnkɔn ahorow nyinaa, asuɔkwaa ne ampan.

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

Ntummoa a wɔwea nyinaa ho ntew mma mo; monnwe.

20 Of all clean birds you may eat.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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,

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.