¹Usapupurira mumwe nhema; usabatsirana nowakaipa pakuita chapupu chisakarurama.

¹“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

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

²“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;

³usatsaura murombo uchimuitira tsitsi pamhaka yake.

³neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

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

⁴“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.

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

⁵If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him, you shall surely help him with it.

⁶Usatsautsa zvakarurama zvomurombo pamhaka yake.

⁶“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

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

⁷“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

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

⁸“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

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

⁹“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

¹⁰Dzvara munda wako makore matanhatu, uchikohwa zvibereko zvawo.

¹⁰“For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in 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.

¹¹but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

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

¹²“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.

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

¹³“Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of your mouth.

¹⁴Undiitire mutambo katatu pagore.

¹⁴“You shall observe a feast to me three times 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;

¹⁵You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out from Egypt), and no one shall appear before me 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 your labors, which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.

¹⁷Varume venyu vose ngavauye pamberi paShe Mwari katatu pagore.

¹⁷Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.

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

¹⁸“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.

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

¹⁹The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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

²⁰“Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

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

²¹Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.

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

²²But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.

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

²³For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.

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

²⁴You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

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

²⁵You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst.

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

²⁶No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

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

²⁷I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

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

²⁸I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.

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

²⁹I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.

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

³⁰Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.

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

³¹I will set your border from the Red Sea or, Sea of Reeds even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

³²Rega kuita sungano navo, kana navamwari vavo.

³²You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

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

³³They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”