¹Usapupurira mumwe nhema; usabatsirana nowakaipa pakuita chapupu chisakarurama.

¹`Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

²Usatevera vazhinji pakuita zvakaipa; usapupura pamhosva pamwechete navazhinji kuti irege kururamiswa;

²`Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause [others] to turn aside;

³usatsaura murombo uchimuitira tsitsi pamhaka yake.

³and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife.

⁴Kana ukasangana nenzombe kana dhongi rakarasika remuvengi wako, zvirokwazvo unofanira kuidzosera kwaari.

⁴`When thou meetest thine enemy`s ox or his ass going astray, thou dost certainly turn it back to him;

⁵Kana ukaona dhongi remuvengi wako rawira pasi nemutoro waro, usaramba kumubatsira, zvirokwazvo umubatsire kuisunungura.

⁵when thou seest the ass of him who is hating thee crouching under its burden, then thou hast ceased from leaving [it] to it — thou dost certainly leave [it] with him.

⁶Usatsautsa zvakarurama zvomurombo pamhaka yake.

⁶`Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;

⁷Unzvenge shoko renhema; usauraya munhu asina mhosva uye akarurama, nekuti handingaruramisiri akaipa.

⁷from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man.

⁸Usagamuchira fufuro, nekuti fufuro inopofumadza vanoona, nokukanganisa mashoko avakarurama.

⁸`And a bribe thou dost not take; for the bribe bindeth the open-[eyed], and perverteth the words of the righteous.

⁹Usatambudza mutorwa, nekuti munoziva moyo womutorwa, zvamakanga muri vatorwa munyika yeEgipita.

⁹`And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, and ye — ye have known the soul of the sojourner, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.

¹⁰Dzvara munda wako makore matanhatu, uchikohwa zvibereko zvawo.

¹⁰`And six years thou dost sow thy land, and hast gathered its increase;

¹¹Asi negore rechinomwe unofanira kuuzorodza nokurega kuurima, kuti varombo vavanhu vako vadye, nemhuka dzesango dzidye zvavasiya. Saizvozvo uitewo nomunda wako wemizambiringa nomunda wako wemiorivhi.

¹¹and the seventh thou dost release it, and hast left it, and the needy of thy people have eaten, and their leaving doth the beast of the field eat; so dost thou to thy vineyard — to thine olive-yard.

¹²Ubate mabasa ako namazuva matanhatu, ugozorora nezuva rechinomwe; kuti nzombe yako nedhongi raako zvizorore, nomwanakomana womurandakadzi wako nomutorwa vambofema havo.

¹²`Six days thou dost do thy work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest, so that thine ox and thine ass doth rest, and the son of thine handmaid and the sojourner is refreshed;

¹³Zvinhu zvose zvandakakuudzai muzviteerere; musareva zita ravamwe vamwari, ngarirege kunzwika pamiromo yenyu.

¹³and in all that which I have said unto you ye do take heed; and the name of other gods ye do not mention; it is not heard on thy mouth.

¹⁴Undiitire mutambo katatu pagore.

¹⁴`Three times thou dost keep a feast to Me in a year;

¹⁵Uite mutambo wezvingwa zvisina kuviriswa; udye zvingwa zvisina kuviriswa mazuva manomwe, sezvandakakuraira, panguva yakatarwa pamwedzi weAbhibhi (nokuti wakabuda nawo Egipita); kurege kuva nomunhu anouya pamberi pangu asina chinhu;

¹⁵the Feast of Unleavened things thou dost keep; seven days thou dost eat unleavened things, as I have commanded thee, at the time appointed [in] the month of Abib; for in it thou hast come forth out of Egypt, and ye do not appear [in] My presence empty;

¹⁶uye mutambo wokukohwa, wezvitsva zvamabasa ako, zvawakadzvara mumunda mako; uye mutambo wokuunganidza pakupera kwegore, kana wounganidza zvamabasa ako pamunda.

¹⁶and the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of thy works which thou sowest in the field; and the Feast of the In-Gathering, in the outgoing of the year, in thy gathering thy works out of the field.

¹⁷Varume venyu vose ngavauye pamberi paShe Mwari katatu pagore.

¹⁷`Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the face of the Lord Jehovah.

¹⁸Usandivigira ropa rechibayiro changu pamwechete nechingwa chakaviriswa; namafuta omutambo wangu arege kuvata usiku hwose kusvikira mangwana.

¹⁸`Thou dost not sacrifice on a fermented thing the blood of My sacrifice, and the fat of My festival doth not remain till morning;

¹⁹Zvokutanga zvezvitsva zvomunda wako unofanira kuuya nazvo kumba kwaJehovha Mwari wako. Usabika mbudzana mumukaka wamai vayo.

¹⁹the beginning of the first-fruits of thy ground thou dost bring into the house of Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother`s milk.

²⁰Tarira, ndinotuma mutumwa pamberi pako, akuchengete panzira, akuise panzvimbo yandakakugadzirira.

²⁰`Lo, I am sending a messenger before thee to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee in unto the place which I have prepared;

²¹Munzwei, muteerere inzwi rake, musamutsamwisa, nekuti haangakukangamwiriyi kudarika kwenyu, nekuti zita rangu riri maari.

²¹be watchful because of his presence, and hearken to his voice, rebel not against him, for he beareth not with your transgression, for My name [is] in his heart;

²²Asi kana ukateerera inzwi rake nomoyo wako wose, ukaita izvozvo zvose zvandinotaura, ndichava muvengi wavavengi vako, nomudzivisi wavadzivisi vako.

²²for, if thou diligently hearken to his voice, and hast done all that which I speak, then I have been at enmity with thine enemies, and have distressed those distressing thee.

²³Nekuti mutumwa wangu achakutungamirira, akusvitse kuvaAmori, navaHeti, navaPerezi, navaKanani, navaHivhi, navaJebhusi; ini ndichavaparadza.

²³`For My messenger goeth before thee, and hath brought thee in unto the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, and I have cut them off.

²⁴Usapfugamira vamwari vavo, kana kuvashumira, kana kutevera mabasa avo; asi unofanira kuvaparadza chose, nokuputsanya shongwe dzavo.

²⁴`Thou dost not bow thyself to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their doings, but dost utterly devote them, and thoroughly break their standing pillars.

²⁵Shumira Jehovha Mwari wako, kuti aropafadze chingwa chako nemvura yako; neni ndichabvisa urwere pakati penyu.

²⁵`And ye have served Jehovah your God, and He hath blessed thy bread and thy water, and I have turned aside sickness from thine heart;

²⁶Hakungavi nechinhu chinosvodza, kana chisingabereki panyika yako; ndichazadzisa mazuva ako.

²⁶there is not a miscarrying and barren one in thy land; the number of thy days I fulfil:

²⁷Ndichatuma chityiso changu pamberi pako, nokukanganisa ndudzi dzose dzauchasvika kwadziri, ndichafuratidza vavengi vako vose.

²⁷My terror I send before thee, and I have put to death all the people among whom thou comest, and I have given the neck of all thine enemies unto thee.

²⁸Ndichatuma mago pamberi pako, adzinge vaHivhi, navaKanani, navaHeti pamberi pako.

²⁸`And I have sent the hornet before thee, and it hath cast out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee;

²⁹Handingavadzingi pamberi pako negore rimwe, kuti nyika irege kuita renje, zvikara zvesango zvirege kukuwandira.

²⁹I cast them not out from before thee in one year, lest the land be a desolation, and the beast of the field hath multiplied against thee;

³⁰Ndichanyatsovadzinga pamberi pako, kusvikira mava vazhinji, upiwe nyika ive nhaka yako.

³⁰little [by] little I cast them out from before thee, till thou art fruitful, and hast inherited the land.

³¹Ndichaisa miganhu yako kubva paGungwa Dzvuku kusvikira kuGungwa ravaFirisitia, nokubva kurenje kusvikira kuRwizi, nekuti ndichapa vagere munyika mumaoko enyu, uvadzinge pamberi pako.

³¹`And I have set thy border from the Red Sea, even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I give into your hand the inhabitants of the land, and thou hast cast them out from before thee;

³²Rega kuita sungano navo, kana navamwari vavo.

³²thou dost not make a covenant with them, and with their gods;

³³Havafaniri kugara munyika yako, kuti varege kukutadzisa pamberi pangu, nekuti kana ukashumira vamwari vavo, zvirokwazvo izvo zvichava musungo kwauri.

³³they do not dwell in thy land, lest they cause thee to sin against Me when thou servest their gods, when it becometh a snare to thee.`