¹You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish, or anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

¹Usabayira Jehovha Mwari wako mombe kana gwai rakaremara, kana rine chakaipa chipi nechipi; nekuti izvo zvinonyangadza Jehovha Mwari wako.

²If there is found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant,

²Kana pakati pako mukati merimwe ramasuwo ako, aunopiwa naJehovha Mwari wako, murume kana mukadzi akawanikwa, unoita zvakaipa pamberi paJehovha Mwari wako, achidarika sungano yake,

³and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the sky, which I have not commanded;

³akandoshumira vamwe vamwari, akanamata kwavari, kana kuzuva kana kumwedzi, kana kune chimwe chehondo dzokudenga, chandisina kukuraira;

⁴and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently; and behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,

⁴iwe ukaudzwa izvozvo, ukazvinzwa, ipapo unofanira kubvunzisisa kwazvo; zvino kana ukaona kuti ndizvo, ndezvamazvokwadi, kuti chinhu chinonyangadza chakadai chaitwa pakati paIsiraeri;

⁵then you shall bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.

⁵ipapo unofanira kubudisa murume nomukadzi, ugovataka namabwe, vafe.

⁶At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

⁶Nokupupura kwezvapupu zviviri kana zvitatu iye unofanira kufa, ngaaurawe; nokupupura kwechapupu chimwe ngaarege kuurawa.

⁷The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

⁷Maoko ezvapupu ndiwo anofanira kutanga kumuuraya; pashure maoko avanhu vose. Saizvozvo unofanira kubvisa zvakaipa pakati pako.

⁸If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;

⁸Kana mhaka ikamuka yamusingagoni kutonga, kana yokuurayana, kana yokukwirirana, kana yokukuvadzana, dziri mhaka dzenharo pakati pamasuwo ako; ipapo unofanira kusimuka nokukwira kunzvimbo ichatsaurwa naJehovha Mwari wako;

⁹and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.

⁹uende kuvapristi vaRevhi, nokumutongi uchavapo pamazuva iwayo, ubvunze; ivo vachakuzivisa kutonga kwakafanira.

¹⁰You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:

¹⁰Zvino unofanira kuita sezvavanokutongera panzvimbo ichatsaurwa naJehovha; uchenjere kuti uite sezvavanokudzidzisa;

¹¹according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.

¹¹unofanira kuita nomurayiro wavanokuraira, uye nokutonga kwavanokuudza; haufaniri kutsauka kana kurudyi kana kuruboshwe, pakutonga kwavachakuratidza.

¹²The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Israel.

¹²Munhu unoita nokuzvikudza, asingadi kuteerera mupristi unomirapo pakushumira Jehovha Mwari wako, kana mutongi, munhu uyo anofanira kufa; iwe unofanira kubvisa zvakaipa pakati paIsiraeri.

¹³All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

¹³Vanhu vose vachazvinzwa, vachatya, vakasazoita nokuzvikudza.

¹⁴When you have come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me”;

¹⁴Zvino kana ukasvika panyika yaunopiwa naJehovha Mwari wako, ikava yako, ukagaramo, ukati, Ndichazvigadzira mambo, sezvinoita ndudzi dzose, dzinondipoteredza;

¹⁵you shall surely set him king over yourselves, whom Yahweh your God shall choose: one from among your brothers you shall set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

¹⁵zvirokwazvo unofanira kuzvigadzira hako mambo uchatsaurwa naJehovha Mwari wako; unofanira kugadza mumwe kuhama dzako, kuti ave mambo wako; haufaniri kugadza mutorwa, isati iri hama yako.

¹⁶Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”

¹⁶Asi ngaarege kuzviwanzira mabhiza, kana kudzosera vanhu Egipita, kuti azviwanzire mabhiza; nekuti Jehovha wakati kwauri, Usadzokazve kubva zvino nenzira iyo.

¹⁷Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

¹⁷Uye ngaarege kuzviwanzira vakadzi, kuti moyo wake urege kutsauka; uye ngaarege kuzviwanzira zvikuru sirivha nendarama.

¹⁸It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites:

¹⁸Zvino kana iye ogara pachigaro chake choushe, anofanira kunyora murayiro uyu mubhuku yake, achitora mashoko ari kuvapristi vaRevhi;

¹⁹and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

¹⁹inofanira kugara naye, kuti aravemo mazuva ose oupenyu hwake; kuti adzidze kutya Jehovha Mwari wake, nokuchengeta mashoko ose omurayiro uyu nezvakatemwa izvi, kuti azviite;

²⁰that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.

²⁰kuti moyo wake urege kuzvikudza pamusoro pehama dzake, arege kutsauka pamurayiro, uyu, kana kurudyi, kana kuruboshwe; kuti awedzere mazuva ake paushe hwake, iye, navana vake, pakati paIsiraeri.