1 « أنتُمْ أولادٌ لإلَهِكُمْ ، فَلا تُجَرِّحُوا أنفُسَكُمْ، وَلا تَحلِقُوا الشَّعرَ الَّذِي فَوقَ جِباهِكُمْ حُزناً عَلَى المَوتَى،

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

2 ل أنَّكُمْ شَعبٌ مُقَدَّسٌ وَخاصٌّ بِإلَهِكُمْ ، وَقَدِ اختارَكُمْ اللهُ مِنْ بَينِ جَميعِ شُعُوبِ الأرْضِ لِتَكُونُوا شَعبَهُ الخاصَّ. الحَيواناتُ الطّاهِرَةُ وَالنَّجِسَة

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

3 « لا تَأكُلُوا شَيئاً مَكرُوهاً.

You shall not eat any abominable thing.

4 و َهَذِهِ هِيَ الحَيواناتُ الَّتِي يُمكِنُكُمْ أنْ تَأكُلُوها: البَقَرَ وَالغَنَمَ وَالماعِزَ

These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

5 و َالغَزالَ وَالإيَّلَ وَالغَزالَ الأبْيَضَ وَالماعِزَ البَرِّيَّ وَالوَعلَ وَالبَقَرَ الوَحشِيَّ وَماعِزَ الجِبالِ.

the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois.

6 ي ُمكِنُكُمْ أنْ تَأكُلُوا أيَّ حَيوانٍ يَجْتَرُّ وَحافِرُهُ مَشقُوقٌ إلَى قِسْمَينِ.

Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.

7 ل َكِنْ مِنَ الحَيواناتِ الَّتِي تَجتَرُّ أوْ لَها حافِرٌ مَشقُوقٌ، لا تَأكُلُوا الجَمَلَ وَالأرنَبَ وَالوَبارَ، لأنَّها تَجتَرُّ وَلَكِنَّ حافِرَها غَيرَ مَشقُوقٍ فَهِيَ نَجِسَةٌ لَكُمْ.

Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.

8 ل ا تَأكُلُوا لَحمَ الخِنزِيرِ. فَحافِرُهُ مَشقُوقٌ، لَكِنَّهُ لا يَجتَرُّ. لا تَأكُلُوا مِنْ لَحمِهِ وَلا تَلمَسُوا جُثَّتَهُ المَيِّتَةَ لأنَّها نَجِسَةٌ لَكُمْ.

The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses.

9 « أمّا مِنْ كُلِّ الكائِناتِ الَّتِي فِي الماءِ، فَيُمكِنُكُمْ أنْ تَأكُلُوا كُلَّ ما لَهُ زَعانِفَ وَحَراشِفَ.

These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat.

10 و َلَكِنْ كُلُّ ما لَيسَ لَهُ زَعانِفٌ أوْ حَراشِفٌ فَلا يَجُوزُ لَكُمْ أنْ تَأكُلُوهُ، فَهُوَ نَجِسٌ لَكُمْ.

You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.

11 « يُمكِنُكُمْ أكلُ أيِّ طائِرٍ طاهِرٍ.

Of all clean birds you may eat.

12 أ مّا الطُّيُورُ الَّتِي لا يَنْبَغِي أنْ تَأكُلُوها فَهِيَ النَّسرُ وَالأنُوقُ وَالعُقابُ،

But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,

13 و َالحِدَأةُ وَالشّاهِينُ وَكُلُّ أنواعِ الصُّقُورِ،

the red kite, the falcon, the kite after its kind,

14 و َكُلُّ أنواعِ الغِربانِ،

every raven after its kind,

15 و َالنَّعامُ وَالخُطّافُ وَالنَّورَسُ وَكُلُّ أنواعِ البازِ،

the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk after its kind,

16 و َالبُومُ وَالكُرْكِيُّ وَالبَجَعُ،

the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl,

17 و َالقُوقُ وَالرَّخَمُ وَالغَوّاصُ،

the pelican, the vulture, the cormorant,

18 و َالَّلَقلَقُ وَمالِكُ الحَزِينُ بِأنْواعِهِ وَالهُدهُدُ وَالخُفّاشُ.

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

19 و َكُلُّ الحَشَراتِ ذَواتِ الأجنِحَةِ نَجِسَةٌ فَلا تَأكُلُوها.

All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.

20 و َأمّا كُلُّ طائِرٍ طاهِرٍ فَيُمكِنُكُمْ أكلُهُ.

Of all clean birds you may eat.

21 « لا تَأكُلُوا أيَّ حَيَوانٍ ماتَ مِيتَةً طَبِيعِيَّةً، بَلْ أعطُوها لَلغَرِيبِ السّاكِنِ فِي مُدُنِكُمْ فَيَأكُلَهُ. أوْ بيعُوهُ لأيِّ غَرِيبٍ يَزُورُ أرْضَكُمْ، لأنَّكُمْ شَعبٌ مُقَدَّسٌ وَخاصٌّ لإلَهِكُمْ. وَلا تَطبُخُوا جِدياً بِحَليبِ أُمِّهِ. العُشُور

You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

22 « ضَعُوا جانِباً عُشْرَ كُلِّ مَحاصِيلِكُمُ الَّتِي تَنبُتُ فِي الأرْضِ كُلَّ سَنَةٍ.

You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year.

23 و َكُلُوا عُشْرَ قَمْحِكُمْ وَنَبِيذِكُمُ وَزَيتِكُمْ، وَأبْكارِ بَقَرِكُمْ وَغَنَمِكُمْ فِي حَضْرَةِ إلَهِكُمْ ، وَفِي المَكانِ الَّذِي يَختارُهُ لِيُسكِنَ اسْمَهُ فِيهِ، لِتَتَعَلَّمُوا أنْ تَهابُوا إلَهَكُمْ دائِماً.

You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he chooses, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always.

24 « وَلَكِنْ إذا كانَتِ المَسافَةُ طَوِيلَةً، وَلَمْ تَتَمَكَّنُوا مِنْ حَملِ العُشُورِ، لِأنَّ المَكانَ الَّذِي اخْتارَ إلَهُكُمْ أنْ يَضَعَ اسْمَهُ فِيهِ بَعِيدٌ عَنكُمْ حِينَ يُبارِكُكُمْ،

If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Yahweh your God shall choose, to set his name there, when Yahweh your God shall bless you;

25 ع َوِّضُوا عَنْ عُشرِ الطَّعامِ بِمالٍ. وَخُذُوا المالَ مَعَكُمْ إلَى المَكانِ الَّذِي سَيَختارُهُ إلَهُكُمْ.

then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose.

26 و َهُناكَ، اشْتَرُوا ما تَحْتاجُونَ إلَيهِ مِنْ بَقَرٍ أوْ غَنَمٍ أوْ نَبيذٍ أوْ شَرابٍ أوْ أيِّ شَيءٍ تُرِيدُونَهُ. فَكُلُوا أنتُمْ وَعائِلاتُكُمْ فِي حَضْرَةِ إلَهِكُمْ وَابتَهِجُوا مَعاً.

You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

27 و َلا تُهمِلُوا الَّلاوِيِّينَ الَّذِينَ فِي مُدُنِكُمْ، إذْ لَيسَ لَهُمْ حِصَّةٌ مِنَ الأرْضِ مَعكُمْ.

You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

28 « وَفِي نِهايَةِ كُلِّ ثَلاثِ سَنَواتٍ، أحضِرُوا عُشرَ كُلِّ مَحاصِيلِ حُقُولِكُمْ فِي تِلكَ السَّنَةِ، وَضَعُوها فِي مُدُنِكُمْ،

At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates.

29 ف َيَأتِي الَّلاوِيُّونَ، لأنَّهُمْ لا يَملِكُونَ أرْضاً، كَما يَأتِي اليَتامَى وَالأرامِلُ وَالغُرَباءُ المُقِيمُونَ فِي مُدُنِكُمْ، وَيَأكُلُونَ وَيَشبَعُونَ. فَيُبارِكُكُمُ إلَهُكُمْ فِي كُلِّ شَيءٍ تَعمَلُونَهُ.

The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.