¹imwi muri vana vaJehovha Mwari wenyu; musazvitema,kana kuzviveura pakati pameso pamusoro pavakafa.

¹Ye are sons of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for a dead person.

²nekuti uri rudzi rutsvene kuna Jehovha Mwari wako; Jehovha wakakutsaura pakati pendudzi dzose dzavanhu vari panyika, kuti uve rudzi rwake chairwo.

²For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, and thee hath Jehovah chosen for a people of possession unto himself, out of all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

³Usadya chinhu chipi nechipi chinonyangadza.

³Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

⁴Mhuka dzamungadya ndidzo: Mombe, negwai, nembudzi;

⁴These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;

⁵nenondo, nemhara, nemhembwe, netsoma, nemharapara, nenyati, nengururu.

⁵the hart, and the gazelle, and the stag, and the wild goat, and the dishon and the oryx, and the wild sheep.

⁶Mhuka ipi neipi ina mahwanda akaparadzana, ine tsoka dzakaparadzana, inodzeya, ndidzo dzamungadya henyu.

⁶And every beast that hath cloven hoofs, and the feet quite split open into double hoofs, [and] which cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

⁷Asi idzi dzinodzeya, kana dzina mahwanda akaparadzana, regai kudzidya: Kamera, netsuro, nembira; nekuti dzinodzeya, asi hadzina mahwanda akaparadzana, hadzina kunaka kwamuri;

⁷Only these ye shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those with hoofs cloven and split open: the camel, and the hare, and the rock-badger; for they chew the cud, but have not cloven hoofs -- they shall be unclean unto you;

⁸nenguruve; nekuti ina mahwanda akaparadzana, asi haidzeyi; haina kunaka kwamuri; musadya nyama yadzo, uye musabata zvitunha zvadzo.

⁸and the swine, for it hath cloven hoofs, yet cheweth not the cud -- it shall be unclean unto you. Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch.

⁹Ndizvo zvamungadya kune zvose zviri mumvura: Zvose zvine zvimbi namakwande mungazvidya;

⁹These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales shall ye eat;

¹⁰asi zvose zvisina zvimbi namakwande, musazvidya izvo, hazvina kunaka kwamuri.

¹⁰but whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat: it shall be unclean unto you.

¹¹Mungadya shiri dzose dzakanaka.

¹¹All clean birds shall ye eat.

¹²Asi dzamusingafaniri kudya ndidzo: Gora guru, negondo guru, nenyamudzura;

¹²But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle,

¹³norukodzi, nenjerere, noruvangu namarudzi arwo;

¹³and the falcon, and the kite, and the black kite after its kind;

¹⁴namarudzi ose amakunguvo;

¹⁴and every raven after its kind;

¹⁵nemhou, nezizi, neshiri yegungwa, namarudzi ose oruvangu;

¹⁵and the female ostrich, and the male ostrich, and the sea-gull, and the hawk after its kind;

¹⁶nezizi duku, nezizi guru, nejichidza,

¹⁶the owl, and the ibis and the swan,

¹⁷nehukurwizi, negora, nekanyurura-hove;

¹⁷and the pelican, and the carrion vulture, and the gannet,

¹⁸nezimudo, nekondo, namarudzi ayo, nemhupupu, nechiremwaremwa.

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

¹⁹Zvose zvina mapapiro zvinokambaira zvinofanira kuva zvisina kunaka kwamuri; hazvifaniri kudyiwa.

¹⁹And every winged crawling thing shall be unclean unto you; they shall not be eaten.

²⁰Asi shiri dzose dzakanaka mungadzidya henyu.

²⁰All clean fowls shall ye eat.

²¹Musadya chinhu chakanora choga; ungachipa mweni uri mukati mamasuwo ako, iye achidye, kana ungachitengesa kumutorwa; nekuti iwe uri rudzi rutsvene kuna Jehovha Mwari wako. Usabika mbudzana mumukaka wamai vayo.

²¹Ye shall eat of no carcase; thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it, or sell it unto a foreigner; for thou art a holy people to Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

²²Utsaure zvakanaka zvegumi zvezvibereko zvose zvembeu dzako, dzinobva mumunda mako gore rimwe nerimwe.

²²Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, the produce of the field, year by year.

²³Unofanira kudya pamberi paJehovha Mwari wako, panzvimbo yaachatsaura kugarisa zita rakepo, zvegumi zvezviyo zvako, nezvewaini yako, nezvamafuta ako, nezvavana vemhongora dzemombe dzako nedzamakwai ako, kuti udzidze kutya Jehovha Mwari wako nguva dzose.

²³And thou shalt eat before Jehovah thy God, in the place which he will choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear Jehovah thy God continually.

²⁴Kana nzira iri kuresa, ukasagona kuzvisvitsako, nekuti nzvimbo iyo yawakatsaurirwa naJehovha Mwari wako, kuti aise zita rakepo, iri kure newe, kana Jehovha Mwari wako akakuropafadza,

²⁴And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which Jehovah thy God will choose to set his name there, when Jehovah thy God blesseth thee;

²⁵unofanira kuzvitengesa nemari, ndokubata mari mumaoko ako, ugoenda kunzvimbo ichatsaurwa naJehovha Mwari wako,

²⁵then shalt thou give it for money, and bind the money together in thy hand, and go to the place which Jehovah thy God will choose,

²⁶ndokutenga nemari iyo zvose zvinodikamwa nomoyo wako, kana mombe, kana makwai, kana waini, kana zvinobata, kana zvose zvinoreva moyo wako kwauri, udyirepo pamberi paJehovha Mwari wako, ufare, iwe nemhuri yako.

²⁶and thou shalt give the money for whatever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt eat there before Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thy house.

²⁷Uye muRevhi uri mukati mamasuwo ako, usamukangamwa, nekuti haana mugove kana nhaka newe.

²⁷And thou shalt not forsake the Levite that is within thy gates; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee.

²⁸Nguva dzose kana makore matatu apera, unofanira kuuya nezvegumi zvose zvezvibereko zvako zvegore iro, ugozvichengeta mukati mamasuwo ako.

²⁸At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates;

²⁹Zvino muRevhi, zvaasina mugove kana nhaka newe, nomweni, nenherera, nechirikadzi, vari mumasuwo ako, vanofanira kuuya kuzodya, vagute; kuti Jehovha Mwari wako akuropafadze pamabasa ose aunoita namaoko ako.

²⁹and the Levite -- for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee -- and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest.