Deuteronomy 25

1 If there shall be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

Iwapo kutakuwa na malumbano kati ya wanaume na wakaenda mahakamani, na waamuzi wakawahukumu, basi watamwachilia mtakatifu na kumhukumu muovu.

2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

Iwapo mwanamume mwenye hatia anastahili kupigwa, basi muamuzi atamfanya alale chini na kupigwa mbele zake kwa idadi iliyoamriwa kulingana na kosa lake.

3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile to thee.

Muamuzi anaweza kumpatia mapigo arobaini, lakini hapaswi kuvuka idadi hiyo; kwa maana akivuka idadi hiyo na kumpiga kwa mapigo mengi zaidi, basi Muisraeli mwenzako atakuwa kaaibishwa mbele ya macho yenu.

4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the grain.

Haupaswi kumfunga punda wako pua na mdomo anapokuwa akilima shamba lako.

5 If brethren shall dwell together, and one of them shall die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside the family to a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her to him for a wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother to her.

Iwapo kaka wanaishi pamoja na mmoja wao akafariki bila kuwa na mwana, basi mke wa marehemu hatakiwi kuolewa na mtu nje ya familia. Badala yake, kaka yake mumewe anapaswa kulala naye na kumchukua kuwa mke wake na kutekeleza wajibu wa kaka wa mume kwake.

6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name may not be blotted out from Israel.

Hii ni kwamba mtoto wa kwanza atakayezaliwa arithi chini ya jina la kaka yake mwanamume aliyefariki, ili jina lake lisiangamie ndani ya Israeli.

7 And if the man shall not desire to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuseth to raise up to his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.

Lakini kama mwanamume hataki kumchukua mke wa kaka yake awe wake, basi mke wa kaka yake anapaswa kwenda malangoni mpaka kwa wazee na kusema, “Kaka wa mume wangu amekataa kuwajibika kwa niaba ya jina la kaka yake humu Israeli; hataki kufanya wajibu wa kaka wa mume kwangu”.

8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he shall stand to it, and say, I desire not to take her;

Kisha wazee wa mji wake wanapaswa kumuita na kuzungumza naye. Lakini tuseme atasisitiza na kusema, “Sitaki kumchukua”.

9 Then shall his brother’s wife come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done to that man that will not build up his brother’s house.

Basi mke wa kaka yake anatakiwa kuja kwake mbele ya wazee, kumvua ndara zake miguuni mwake, na kumtemea usoni. Anapaswa kumjibu na kusema, “Hivi ndivyo kinachofanyika kwa mwanamume asiyetaka kujenga nyumba ya kaka yake”.

10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

Jina lake Israeli litaitwa, “Nyumba ya mtu aliyevuliwa ndara zake”.

11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband from the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:

Iwapo wanamume wamepigana wao kwa wao, na mke wa mmoja wao kaja kumkomboa mumewe dhidi ya yule aliyempiga, naye akanyosha mkono wake na kumshika sehemu za siri,

12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thy eye shall not pity her.

basi unapaswa kuukata mkono yake; jicho lako halipaswi kuwa na huruma.

13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag differing weights, a great and a small.

Haupaswi kuwa na mizani ya uzito tofauti katika mfuko wako, mkubwa na mdogo.

14 Thou shalt not have in thy house differing measures, a great and a small.

Hautakiwi kuwa na vipimo tofauti ndani ya nyumba yako, vikubwa na vidogo.

15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Unatakiwa kuwa na uzito kamili na wa haki; unatakiwa kuwa na vipimo kamili na vya haki, ili siku zako ziwe ndefu katika nchi ambayo Yahwe Mungu wako anakupatia.

16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD thy God.

Kwa maana wote wanaofanya vitu hivi, wote wanaovunja haki, ni chukizo kwa Yahwe Mungu wako.

17 Remember what Amalek did to thee by the way, when ye had come forth from Egypt;

Kumbuka ni jambo gani Amaleki alichofanya kwako barabarani ulipokuwa ukitoka Misri,

18 How he met thee by the way, and smote those behind thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

jinsi alivyokutana na wewe barabarani na kuwashambulia kati yenu kwa nyuma, wale waliokuwa wamelegea nyuma, mlipokuwa dhaifu na kuchoka, hakumheshimu Mungu.

19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thy enemies on all sides, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.

Kwa hiyo, Yahwe Mungu wako atakapowapa pumziko kutoka kwa maadui zako kila sehemu, katika nchi ambayo Yahwe Mungu wako anawapatia kumiliki kama urithi, hautakiwi kusahau kuwa unapaswa kufuta kumbukumbu ya Waamaleki chini ya mbingu.