Clean and Unclean Food
1You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, 2for you are a people holy to the Lord your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the Lord has chosen you to be his treasured possession.
3Do not eat any detestable thing. 4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.14:5 The precise identification of some of the birds and animals in this chapter is uncertain. 6You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud. 7However, of those that chew the cud or that have a divided hoof you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the hyrax. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you. 8The pig is also unclean; although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.
9Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales. 10But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.
11You may eat any clean bird. 12But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, 13the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon, 14any kind of raven, 15the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, 16the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, 17the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant, 18the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.
19All flying insects are unclean to you; do not eat them. 20But any winged creature that is clean you may eat.
21Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the Lord your God.
Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Tithes
22Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year. 23Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always. 24But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the Lord your God and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where the Lord will choose to put his Name is so far away), 25then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the Lord your God will choose. 26Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice. 27And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own.
28At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year’s produce and store it in your towns, 29so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Vyakula Vilivyo Najisi Na Vilivyo Safi
(Walawi 11:1-47)
114:1 Yn 1:12; Rum 8:14; 9:8; Yer 16:6; Mwa 6:2-4; Kut 4:22-23; Gal 3:26; 1The 4:13Ninyi ni watoto wa Bwana Mungu wenu. Msijichanje ama kujinyoa upara kwenye paji la uso kwa ajili ya aliyekufa, 214:2 Mwa 28:14; Kut 8:22; 22:31; Isa 6:13; Mt 2:15; Law 20:26; Rum 12:1; Kum 7:6; 26:18-1914:2 Kut 19:5; 2Sam 7:23, 24kwa maana ninyi ni taifa takatifu kwa Bwana Mungu wenu. Bwana amewachagua ninyi kuwa taifa la kipekee kutoka mataifa yote juu ya uso wa dunia, mwe tunu yake.
314:3 Eze 4:14; Isa 65:4; Mdo 10:13; Rum 14:14Msile kitu chochote ambacho ni machukizo. 414:4 Mdo 10:14; Law 7:23; 11:2-45Hawa ndio wanyama mtakaokula: ngʼombe, kondoo, mbuzi, 514:5 Kum 12:15; Ay 39:1; Za 104:18kulungu, paa, kongoni, paa mweupe, mbuzi-mwitu, pofu na kondoo wa mlimani. 6Mnaweza kumla mnyama yeyote mwenye kwato zilizogawanyika mara mbili, pia yule anayecheua. 7Hata hivyo, miongoni mwa wale wanaocheua au wale walio na kwato zilizogawanyika kamwe msile ngamia, sungura na pelele. Iwapo wanacheua, lakini hawana kwato zilizogawanyika; ni najisi kwenu kwa taratibu za kiibada. 814:8 Law 5:12; 11:26-27Nguruwe pia ni najisi; ingawa ana kwato zilizogawanyika, hacheui. Msile nyama yake wala kugusa mzoga wake.
9Katika viumbe hai vyote viishivyo kwenye maji, mnaweza kula yeyote aliye na mapezi na magamba. 10Lakini chochote kisicho na mapezi na magamba msile; kwenu ni najisi.
11Mnaweza kula ndege yeyote aliye safi. 1214:12 Law 11:13Lakini wafuatao msiwale: tai, furukombe, kipungu, 1314:13 Mwa 2:11; Isa 34:15kengewa mwekundu, kengewa mweusi, mwewe wa aina yoyote, 1414:14 Mwa 8:17kunguru wa aina yoyote, 15mbuni, kiruka-njia, dudumizi, kipanga wa aina yoyote, 16bundi, mumbi, bundi mkubwa, 1714:17 Za 102:6; Isa 13:21; 14:23; 34:11; Sef 2:14mwari, nderi, mnandi, 18korongo, koikoi wa aina yoyote, hudihudi na popo.
19Wadudu wote warukao kwa makundi ni najisi kwenu, msiwale. 2014:20 Law 20:25Lakini viumbe vyote vyenye mabawa vilivyo safi mwaweza kula.
2114:21 Law 11:39; 14:2; 17:15; Kut 23:19; 22:31; Law 22:8; Eze 44:31Msile kitu chochote mtakachokuta kimekufa. Mnaweza kumpa mgeni yeyote anayeishi katika mojawapo ya miji yenu, naye anaweza kula au mnaweza kumuuzia mtu wa nchi nyingine. Lakini ninyi ni watu watakatifu kwa Bwana Mungu wenu.
Msitokose mwana-mbuzi katika maziwa ya mama yake.
Zaka
2214:22 Mwa 14:20; Law 27:30; Hes 18:21; Neh 10:37; Kum 12:6, 17Hakikisheni mmetenga sehemu ya kumi ya mazao yote ya mashamba yenu kila mwaka. 2314:23 Kum 12:5, 17, 18; Za 4:7; 1Fal 3:2; Kum 4:10; Za 22:23; 33:8; Mal 2:5; Mit 3:13; Isa 8:13; Yer 32:38-41; Ebr 12:28Mtakula zaka za nafaka yenu, divai mpya, mafuta na wazaliwa wa kwanza wa makundi yenu ya ngʼombe na ya kondoo na mbuzi mbele za Bwana Mungu wenu pale mahali atakapopachagua kama maskani kwa ajili ya Jina lake, ili kwamba mpate kujifunza kumheshimu Bwana Mungu wenu daima. 2414:24 Kum 12:21Lakini ikiwa mahali pale ni mbali sana nanyi mmebarikiwa na Bwana Mungu wenu na hamwezi kubeba zaka yenu (kwa sababu mahali pale Bwana atakapopachagua kuliweka Jina lake ni mbali sana), 2514:25 Mt 21:12; Yn 2:14basi badilisheni zaka yenu kuwa fedha, mkaichukue hiyo fedha mwende nayo mahali Bwana Mungu wenu atakapopachagua. 2614:26 Law 10:9; 23:40; Mhu 10:16-17; Kum 12:7-8Tumieni hiyo fedha kununua chochote ukitakacho: ngʼombe, kondoo, divai au kinywaji chochote chenye chachu au chochote mnachotaka. Kisha ninyi na wa nyumbani mwenu mtaila mbele za Bwana Mungu wenu na kufurahi. 2714:27 Kum 12:19; Hes 18:20; 26:62; Kum 18:1-2; Rum 13:4; 15:27; 1Kor 9:1-14Msiache kuwajali Walawi waishio katika miji yenu, kwa kuwa hao hawana shamba wala urithi wao wenyewe.
2814:28 Law 27:30; Kum 26:12Mwishoni mwa kila mwaka wa tatu, leteni zaka zote za mazao ya miaka ile na uyahifadhi kwenye miji yenu, 2914:29 Mwa 47:22; Hes 26:62; Kum 16:11; 24:19-21; Za 94:6; Isa 1:17; 58:6; Kum 6:11; 15:10; Za 41:1; Mit 22:9; Mt 3:10; Kum 10:18; Eze 22:7, 29; Lk 14:12; Ebr 13:2; Mal 3:10; Lk 11:41; 2Kor 9:6-11ili Walawi (ambao hawana mashamba wala urithi wao wenyewe) na wageni, yatima na wajane wanaoishi kwenye miji yenu wapate kuja kula na kushiba, ili Bwana Mungu wenu apate kuwabariki ninyi katika kazi zote za mikono yenu.
