¹Kana vanhu vakaita nharo, vakauya kutongerwa, vatongi vakavatongera, vanofanira kururamisira wakarurama, nokupa mhosva munhu wakatadza.

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

²Zvino kana wakatadza achifanirwa nokurohwa, mutongi anofanira kumutsivamisa pasi, agorohwa pamberi pake zvakaenzana nokutadza kwake.

²And 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.

³Anofanira kumurova kana makumi mana, haafaniri kupfuudza; kuti, kana akapfuudza, akamurova kupfuura ipapo kazhinji, hama yako irege kuzvidzwa pamberi pako.

³Forty 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 unto thee.

⁴Usasunga muromo wenzombe inopura zviyo.

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

⁵Kana vana vomunhu mumwe vagere pamwechete, mumwe wavo akafa asina mwanakomana, mukadzi wowakafa haafaniri kuwanikwa nomutorwa kunze kwehama; munin'ina womurume wake anofanira kupinda kwaari, ave mukadzi wake, amuitire sezvinofanira kuita munin'ina womurume.

⁵If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

⁶Zvino mwana wedangwe waachabereka, ndiye anofanira kupinda panzvimbo yomukoma wake wakafa, kuti zita rake rirege kudzima pakati paIsiraeri.

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

⁷Kana munhu asingadi kuwana mukadzi womukoma wake, mukadzi womukoma wake anofanira kukwira kusuwo ravakuru, agoti, Munin'ina womurume wangu unoramba kumutsira mukoma wake zita muna Isiraeri, haadi kundiitira sezvinofanira kuita munin'ina womurume.

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

⁸Zvino vakuru veguta rake vanofanira kumudana, vataure naye; kana akaramba, achiti, Handidi hangu kumuwana;

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

⁹mukadzi womukoma wake anofanira kuuya kwaari pamberi pavakuru, ndokubvisa shangu yake parutsoka rwake, ndokumupfira mate pameso, agopindura achiti, Ndizvo zvinofanira kuitirwa munhu usingavaki imba yomukoma wake.

⁹Then shall his brother's wife come unto 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 unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.

¹⁰Zita rake muna Isiraeri rinofanira kunzi, Imba yomunhu wakabviswa shangu yake.

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

¹¹Kana varume vakarwa, mukadzi womumwe akaswedera kurwira murume wake paruoko rwaiye anomurova, akatambanudza ruoko rwake, akamubata pa mberi,

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

¹²iwe unofanira kugura ruoko rwake, haufaniri kumunzwira tsitsi.

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

¹³Haufaniri kuva nezviyereso zvisina kuenzana muhombodo yako, chikuru nechiduku.

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

¹⁴Haufaniri kuva nezviyero zvisina kuenzana mumba mako, chikuru nechiduku.

¹⁴Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.

¹⁵Unofanira kuva nechiyereso chakakwana, chakarurama; kuti mazuva ako ave mazhinji panyika yaunopiwa naJehovha Mwari wako.

¹⁵But 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.

¹⁶nekuti vose vanoita zvinhu zvakadai, ivo vose vanoita zvisina kururama, vanonyangadza Jehovha Mwari wako.

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

¹⁷Rangarira zvawakaitirwa naAmareki panzira, pakubuda kwenyu Egipita;

¹⁷Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;

¹⁸kuti wakakuwira panzira, akaparadza vanhu vako vakanga vari shure, vose vakanga vasine simba, panguva yamakanga maziya nokuneta; iye wakange asingatyi Mwari.

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

¹⁹Zvino kana Jehovha Mwari wako akupa zororo pavavengi vako vose, vanokupoteredza panyika yaunopiwa naJehovha Mwari wako, ive nhaka yako, unofanira kubvisa pasi pokudenga zvose zvinorangaridza Amareki; usakakangamwa.

¹⁹Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, 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.