¹Haufaniri kuona nzombe yehama yako, kana gwai rake, zvichirashika, ukazvinyenyeredza; zvirokwazvo unofanira kuzvidzosera kuhama yako.

¹You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your brother.

²Kana hama yako iri kure newe, zvimwe usingachizivi, unofanira kuenda nacho kumusha kwako, chigare kwauri kusvikira hama yako ichichitsvaka, ugochidzosera kwaari.

²If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.

³Unofanira kuita saizvozvowo nembongoro yake; unofanira kuita saizvozvowo nenguvo yake; unofanira kuita saizvozvowo nezvinhu zvose zvehama yako zvakarashika, chaakanga arashikirwa nacho, chikawanikwa newe; haufaniri kuzvinyenyeredza.

³So you shall do with his donkey; and so you shall do with his garment; and so you shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself.

⁴Haufaniri kuona mbongoro, kana nzombe, zvehama yako zvawira pasi panzira, ukazvinyenyeredza; unofanira kumubatsira zvirokwazvo kuzvimutsa.

⁴You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.

⁵Mukadzi haafaniri kufuka nguvo dzomurume, nomurume haafaniri kufuka nguvo dzomukadzi; nekuti ani naani unoita izvozvo unonyangadza Jehovha Mwari wako.

⁵A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

⁶Kana ukawana dendere reshiri panzira, pamuti upi noupi, kana pasi, rina vana kana mazai, mai ichivhuvatira vana kana mazai, haufaniri kutora mai navana;

⁶If a bird’s nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young:

⁷unofanira kurega mai, asi vana ungatora hako; kuti zvive zvakanaka newe, uwedzerwe mazuva ako.

⁷you shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.

⁸Kana ukavaka imba itsva, unofanira kuisa rumhanda padenga rako, kuti urege kuuyisa mhosva yeropa pamusoro peimba yako, kana mumwe munhu akawapo.

⁸When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don’t bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.

⁹Haufaniri kudzvara mbeu dzamarudzi maviri pamunda wako wemizambiringa, kuti zvibereko zvose zvirege kutsaurirwa nzvimbo tsvene, idzo mbeu dzawadzvara, nezvibereko zvomunda wemizambiringa.

⁹You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.

¹⁰Usarima nenzombe nembongoro zvakasungwa pamwechete.

¹⁰You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

¹¹Usafuka nguvo dzakarukwa nezvinhu zvakavhenganiswa, mvere pamwechete nomucheka.

¹¹You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together.

¹²Unofanira kuzviitira masa pamiromo mina yenguvo yako yaunozvifukidza nayo.

¹²You shall make yourselves fringes or, tassles on the four borders of your cloak, with which you cover yourself.

¹³Kana munhu akawana mukadzi, akapinda kwaari, akazomuvenga,

¹³If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her,

¹⁴akamupomera zvinonyadza, nokutaura zvakaipa pamusoro pake, achiti, Ndakawana mukadzi uyu, asi ndakati ndichiswedera kwaari, handina kuwana zviratidzo zvoumhandara hwake kwaari;

¹⁴and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity”;

¹⁵zvino baba vomusikana namai vake vanofanira kuenda nezviratidzo zvoumhandara hwake kuvakuru veguta pasuwo;

¹⁵then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;

¹⁶zvino baba vomusikana vanofanira kuti kuvakuru, Ndakapa murume uyu mwanasikana wangu, kuti ave mukadzi wake, asi zvino womuvenga;

¹⁶and the young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her;

¹⁷tarirai, wamupomera zvinhu zvinonyadza, achiti, Handina kuwana zviratidzo zvoumhandara kumwanasikana wako; asi hezvi zviratidzo zvoumhandara hwomwanasikana wangu. Zvino vanofanira kuwarira nguvo pamberi pavakuru veguta.

¹⁷and behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.” They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

¹⁸Ipapo vakuru veguta iro vanofanira kubata murume uyo, vamurove;

¹⁸The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;

¹⁹nokumuripisa mashekeri esirivha ane zana, vagoapa baba vomusikana, nekuti wakataura zvakaipa pamusoro pomusikana waIsiraeri; zvino iye anofanira kuva mukadzi wake, haangamurashi mazuva ake ose.

¹⁹and they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

²⁰Asi kana riri shoko rechokwadi, kuti zviratidzo zvoumhandara zvakashaikwa kumusikana,

²⁰But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;

²¹vanofanira kubudisira musikana kumukova weimba yababa vake, varume veguta rake vagomutaka namabwe, afe; nekuti wakaita sebenzi pakati paIsiraeri, pakupata kwake paimba yababa vake; saizvozvo anofanira kubvisa zvakaipa pakati pako.

²¹then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

²²Kana murume akawanikwa achivata nomukadzi wakawanikwa nomurume wake, ivavo vose vanofanira kuurawa, murume wakavata nomukadzi naiye mukadziwo; saizvozvo iwe unofanira kubvisa zvakaipa pakati paIsiraeri.

²²If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so you shall put away the evil from Israel.

²³Kana kuno musikana, achiri mhandara, wakanyengwa nomurume, mumwe murume akamuwana muguta, akavata naye;

²³If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

²⁴ipapo munofanira kuvabudisa vose vari vaviri pasuwo reguta, mugovataka namabwe, vafe, musikana nekuti haana kuridza mhere, ari muguta hake, uye murume, nekuti wanyadzisa mukadzi wowokwake; saizvozvo iwe unofanira kubvisa zvakaipa pakati pako.

²⁴then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

²⁵Asi kana murume akawana musikana uyo wakanyengwa ari kusango, murume akaita simba naye, akavata naye, iye murume wakavata naye anofanira kufa, iye oga;

²⁵But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die:

²⁶asi musikana haufaniri kumuita chinhu; musikana haana kuita chivi chinofanirwa norufu; nekuti shoko iri rakafanana neromurume wakamukira wokwake akamuuraya;

²⁶but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter;

²⁷nekuti wakamuwana kusango, musikana wakanyengwa akaridza mhere, asi kwakanga kusinomunhu kumurwira.

²⁷for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to save her.

²⁸Kana murume akawana musikana, uchiri mhandara, ugere kunyengwa, akaita simba naye, akavata naye, vakaonekwa,

²⁸If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

²⁹ipapo murume wakavata naye anofanira kupa baba vake mashekeri ana makumi mashanu esirivha, zvino iye unofanira kuva mukadzi wake, nekuti wamunyadzisa; haafaniri kuzomurasha paupenyu hwake hwose.

²⁹then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.

³⁰Murume haafaniri kutora mukadzi wababa vake, haafaniri kufukura nhere yababa vake.

³⁰A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.