And they have no Law in judgment, but they walk in violence, and oppression, and lewdness, and uncleanness, while marrying the wife of their father and the sister of their mother; and they commit every evil, and marry their sisters and their relatives; and they have no Law.
2 Meqabyan (also known as 2 Ethiopian Maccabees and 2 Ethiopic Maccabees) is canonical scripture for the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. While «Meqabyan» is the Ge’ez equivalent of «Maccabees,» the content is completely different from 2 Maccabees. The only complete copies of 2 Meqabyan are available in Ge’ez (Classical Ethiopic), here used with permission by the Bible Society of Ethiopia.
The translation into English was provided by Haileyesus Woldemariam (UBS).
The Greek, Hebrew, and Ge’ez that is translated in English as «Law» or «law» is translated in Mairasi as oro nasinggiei or «prohibited things» (source: Enggavoter 2004), in Noongar with a capitalized form of the term for «words» (Warrinya) (source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang), in Yucateco as «ordered-word» (for «commandment,» it is «spoken-word») (source: Nida 1947, p. 198), and in Central Tarahumara it is «writing-command» (source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
McKnight’s English translation (publ. 2023) has it as Covenant Code. He explains (p. 301): «The law of Moses was a covenantal arrangement by God with the people of Israel. This code of conduct expected of them was not the same as law in the Roman world or what law means to us today. It is a revelation of God’s will for God’s covenant people but requires ongoing interpretation and adjustments.»
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