Deuteronomy 15

1 At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.

Kila mwisho wa kila miaka saba, mnapaswa kufuta madeni.

2 This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother, because the LORD’s release has been proclaimed.

Hii ni tabia ya ukombozi. Kila mkopeshaji atafuta kile alichompa jirani yake, hata dai kutoka kwa jirani yake au ndugu yake kwa sababu ufutaji wa madeni wa Yahwe umetangazwa.

3 Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release.

Kutoka kwa mgeni mnaweza kudai; lakini kwa chochote chenu kilicho na ndugu yenu mnapaswa mkitoe.

4 However there will be no poor with you (for the LORD will surely bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess)

Hata hivyo, pasiwepo maskini miongoni mwenu (kwa kuwa Yahwe kwa hakika atawabariki kwenye nchi ambayo anawapa kama urithi kumiliki)

5 if only you diligently listen to the LORD your God’s voice, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you today.

kama peke yenu mnasikiliza kwa bidii sauti ya Yahwe Mungu wenu, kuzishika amri zote ambazo anawaamuru leo.

6 For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

Kwa kuwa Yahwe Mungu wenu atawabariki, kama alivyowaahidia; mtakopesha mataifa mengi, lakini hamtaazima; mtaongoza juu ya mataifa mengi, lakini hayatawaongoza ninyi.

7 If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

Kama kuna mtu maskini miongoni mwenu, moja wa ndugu zenu, ndani ya malango yenu yoyote kwenye nchi yenu ambayo Yahwe Mungu wenu anawapa, msifanye migumu mioyo yenu wala kufunga mkono wenu toka kwa ndugu yenu,

8 but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.

Lakini mnapaswa hakika kufungua mkono wenu kwake na hakika mkopeshe yeye vya kutosha hitaji lake.

9 Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to the LORD against you, and it be sin to you.

Muwe makini kutokuwa na wazo ovu au potovu katika moyo wenu, kusema, “Mwaka wa saba, mwaka wa ukombozi u karibu; ili kwamba msiwe wachoyo kuhusiana na ndugu zenu maskini na haumpi chochote; anaweza kumlilia Yahwe kuhusu nyie, na itakuwa dhambi yenu.

10 You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.

Mnapaswa kwa hakika mmpe, na moyo wenu hampaswi kuhuzunika wakati mnampa, kwa sababu kurudishiwa kwa Yahwe huyu Mungu wenu atawabariki katika kazi zenu zote na katika chochote mnaweka mkono wenu.

11 For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

Kwa kuwa maskini kamwe hatakoma kuishi katika nchi, kwa hiyo nakuamuru wewe na kusema, “Unapaswa kwa hakika ufungue mkono wako kwa ndugu yako, kwa mhitaji wako, na kwa maskini wako katika nchi yako.

12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

Kama ndugu yako, ni mwebrania wa kiume au mwebrania wa kike, ameuzwa kwako na anakutumikia kwa miaka saba, basi katika mwaka wa saba unapaswa umwache aende zake huru.

13 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty.

Unapomwacha aende zake huru, usimwache aende mkono mtupu.

14 You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

Unapaswa kwa ukarimu hutoe kwake kutoka mifugo yako, kutoka pura iliyo chini, na kinu chako cha mvinyo. Kama Yahwe Mungu wako alivyokubariki, unapaswa umpe yeye.

15 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.

Unapaswa kukumbuka kwamba ulikuwa mtumwa kwenye nchi ya Misri, na kwamba Yahwe Mungu wako alikukomboa; kwa hiyo ninakuamuru leo kufanya hivi.

16 It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you,” because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you,

Itakuwa kwamba kama atasema kwako, “Sitaenda mbali yako; kwa sababu anakupenda na nyumba yako, na kwa sababu ni mzuri kwako,

17 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.

basi unapaswa kuchukua uma na msukumo kupitia sikio lake kwenye mlango, na atakuwa mtumwa wako milele. Na pia kwa mtumwa wako wa kike utafanya vilevile.

18 It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for he has been double the value of a hired hand as he served you six years. The LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.

Isionekane kuwa vigumu kwako kumwachia aende zake huru, kwa sababu amekutumikia kwa miaka sita na amekupa mara mbili udhamani wa mtu aliyeajiriwa. Yahwe Mungu wako atakubariki katika yote unayofanya.

19 You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock to the LORD your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.

Wazao wote wa kwanza wa kiume katika wanyama na mifugo wako unapaswa uwatenge kwa Yahwe Mungu wako. Hautafanya kazi na mzao wa kwanza wa wanyama wako wala kumnyoa mzao wa kwanza wa mfugo wako.

20 You shall eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, you and your household.

Unapaswa umle mzaliwa wa kwanza mbele ya Yahwe Mungu wako kila mwaka katika eneo ambalo Yahwe atachagua, wewe na nyumba yako.

21 If it has any defect—is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

Kama ina kasoro yoyote- kwa mfano, kama ni kilema au kipofu, au ana kasoro yoyote- haupaswi kumtoa dhabihu kwa Yahwe Mungu wako.

22 You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer.

Utamla ndani ya malango yako; mtu asiye najisi na aliye najisi ni sawa unapaswa kula, kama ungekula paa au kulungu.

23 Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water.

Pekee haupaswi kunywa damu yake; unapaswa kuimwanga damu yake juu ya ardhi kama maji.