1 ه َذِهِ هِيَ كَلِمَاتُ العَهدِ الَّذِي أَمَرَ اللهُ مُوسَى بِأَنْ يَقْطَعَهُ مَعَ بَنِي إسْرَائِيلَ فِي أَرضِ مُوآبَ، بِالإضَافَةِ إلَى العَهدِ الَّذِي قَطَعَهُ فِي جَبَلِ حُورِيبَ.

These are the words of the covenant which Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

2 و َاستَدْعَى مُوسَى كُلَّ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ وَقالَ لَهُمْ: «قَدْ رَأيتُمْ كُلَّ الأشياءِ الَّتِي عَمِلَها اللهُ فِي أرْضِ مِصْرَ لِفِرعَوْنَ وَكُلِّ قادَتِهِ وَكُلِّ بَلَدِهِ.

And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

3 و َرَأتْ عُيُونُكُمُ الضِّيقاتِ وَالآياتِ وَتِلكَ الأُمُورَ المُدهِشَةَ.

the great trials which thine eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders:

4 ل َكِنَّ اللهَ لَمْ يُعطِكُمْ حَتَّى يَومِنا هَذا عُقُولاً لِتَفْهَمُوا وَلا عُيوناً لِتُبْصِروا وَلا آذاناً لِتَسْمَعُوا.

but Jehovah hath not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

5 ق ادَكُمْ فِي الصَّحراءِ لِأربَعِينَ سَنَةً. لَمْ تَتَهَرَّأْ ثِيابُكُمْ الَّتِي تَلبِسُونها، وَلَمْ تَتلَفْ أحذِيَتُكُمْ مِنْ أقدامِكُمْ.

And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxed old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxed old upon thy foot.

6 ل َمْ تَأكُلُوا خُبزاً، وَلَمْ تَشرَبُوا نَبيذاً أوْ خَمراً. لَكِنَّهُ اعتَنَى بِكُمْ لِتَعرِفُوا أنَّهُ هُوَ إلَهُكُمْ.

Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God.

7 « وَعِندَما أتَيتُمْ إلَى هَذا المَكانِ، خَرَجَ سِيحُونُ مَلِكُ حَشْبُونَ وَعُوجُ مَلِكُ باشانَ عَلَيكُمْ لِيُحارِباكُما، فَهَزَمناهُما.

And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:

8 و َأخَذْنا أرْضَهُما وَأعطَيناها لِقَبِيلَتَيْ رَأُوبَيْنَ وَجادَ وَنِصفِ قَبِيلَةِ مَنَسَّى.

and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.

9 ف احرِصُوا عَلَى إطاعَةِ كُلِّ كَلامِ العَهدِ لِتَنجَحُوا فِي كُلِّ ما تَعمَلُونَهُ.

Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

10 « أنتُمْ تَقِفُونَ اليَومَ جَمِيعُكُمْ فِي حَضْرَةِ إلَهِكُمْ: رُؤَساءُ قَبائِلِكُمْ وَشُيُوخُكُمْ وَقادَتُكُمْ وَكُلُّ رِجالِ إسْرائِيلَ،

Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

11 و َأولادُكُمْ وَنِساؤُكُمْ وَالأجانِبُ المُقِيمُونَ فِي وَسَطِكُمْ وَالحَطّابُونَ وَالسُّقاةُ،

your little ones, your wives, and thy sojourner that is in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water;

12 ل ِتَدْخُلُوا فِي عَهدِ إلَهِكُمْ ، وَتَقبَلُوا لَعْناتِهِ عَلَى الَّذِينَ يَنقُضُونَ العَهْدَ. وَهُوَ العُهدُ الَّذِي يَعمَلُهُ إلَهُكُمْ مَعَكُمُ اليَومَ،

that thou mayest enter into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah thy God maketh with thee this day;

13 ل ِيَجعَلَكُمْ شَعبَهُ، وَلِيَكُونَ هُوَ إلَهَكُمْ كَما وَعَدَكُمْ، وَكَما أقسَمَ لآبائِكُمْ إبراهِيمَ وَإسَحَاقَ وَيَعقُوبَ.

that he may establish thee this day unto himself for a people, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he spake unto thee, and as he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

14 « وَأنا لَسْتُ أقطَعُ هَذا العَهْدَ، وَأُقسِمُ هَذا القَسَمَ مَعَكُمْ أنْتُمْ فَقَطُ

Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,

15 ا لواقِفِينَ هُنا اليَومَ فِي حَضْرَةِ إلَهِنا. بَلْ أيضاً مَعَ أولَئِكَ الَّذِينَ لَيسُوا مَعَنا هُنا اليَومَ.

but with him that standeth here with us this day before Jehovah our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day;

16 ف َأنتُمْ تَذكُرُونَ كَيفَ عِشْنا فِي أرْضِ مِصْرَ، وَكَيفَ اجتَزْنا فِي وَسَطِ الأُمَمِ فِي طَريقِنا.

(for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which ye passed;

17 ر َأيتُمْ تَماثِيلَهُمُ المَصْنُوعَةَ مِنْ خَشَبٍ وَحَجَرٍ وَفِضَّةٍ وَذَهَبٍ، وَكُلَّ الأشياءِ الكَرِيهَةِ الَّتِي لَدَيهِمْ.

and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

18 « فَاحذَرُوا أنْ يَكُونَ بَينَكُمْ رَجُلٌ أوِ امْرأةٌ أوْ عائِلَةٌ أوْ عَشِيرَةٌ ابْتَعَدَ قَلبُهُ عَنِ إلَهِنا ، فَذَهَبَ لِيَعْبُدَ آلِهَةَ تِلكَ الأُمَمِ. وَاحْذَرُوا أنْ يَكُونَ بَينَكُمْ مَنْ يُشبِهُ جُذُوراً تُنبِتُ نَبتَةً مُرَّةً وَسامَّةً.

lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

19 ف َحِينَ يَسمَعُ كَلِماتِ هَذِهِ الَّلَعْنَةِ، وَيَظُنُّ أنَّهُ مُبارَكٌ، يَقُولُ لَنَفسِهِ: ‹سَأكُونُ بِخَيرٍ وَأمانٍ، مَعَ أنَّنِي أعِيشُ بِحَسَبِ عِنادِي،› فَتَكُونُ النَّتِيجَةُ كارِثَةً كَبِيرَةً.

and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.

20 س َيَرفُضُ اللهُ أنْ يَغفِرَ لَهُ، بَلْ سَيَشتَعِلُ غَضَبُهُ وَغَيْرَتُهُ ضِدَّهُ. سَتَحِلُّ عَلَيهِ جَميعُ اللّعَناتِ المَذكُورَةِ فِي هَذا الكِتابِ، وَسَيَمحُو اللهُ كُلَّ ذِكرٍ لَهُ مِنَ الأرْضِ.

Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.

21 و َسَيَعْزِلُهُ اللهُ عَنْ كُلِّ قَبائِلِ إسْرائِيلَ، لِمُعاقَبَتِهِ بِحَسَبِ لَعَناتِ العَهدِ المَكتُوبَةِ فِي كِتابِ الشَّرِيعَةِ.

And Jehovah will set him apart unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.

22 « سَيَرَى الجِيلُ التّالِي مِنْ أولادِكُمُ الَّذِينَ سَيَأتُونَ بَعدَكُمْ، وَالغُرَباءِ الآتينَ مِنْ بَعِيدٍ، الأمراضَ الَّتِي أتَتْ عَلَى هَذِهِ الأرْضِ وَالضَّرَباتِ الَّتِي جَلَبَها اللهُ إلَى هُنا.

And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath made it sick;

23 إ ذْ تُصبِحُ كُلُّ الأرْضِ مَحرُوقَةً بِالكِبرِيتِ وَالمِلحِ. وَلَنْ يُزْرَعَ، وَلَنْ يَنمُوَ، وَلَنْ يَنبُتَ فِيها شَيءٌ أخْضَرُ. سَتُدَمَّرُ كَتَدمِيرِ سَدُومَ وَعَمُورَةَ وَأدَمَةَ وَصَبُويِيمَ، المُدُنِ الَّتِي دَمَّرَها اللهُ حِينَ غَضِبَ عَلَيها.

and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

24 « حِينَئِذٍ سَتَقُولُ كُلُّ الأُمَمِ: ‹لِماذا عَمِلَ اللهُ هَذا بِهَذِهِ الأرْضِ؟ وَلِماذا هَذا الغَضَبُ الشَّدِيدُ المُشتِعَلُ؟›

even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

25 ف َيَكُونُ الجَوابُ: ‹لأنَّ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ تَرَكُوا عَهدَ اللهِ ، إلَهِ آبائِهِمِ الَّذِي قَطَعَهُ مَعَهُمْ حِينَ أخرَجَهُمْ مِنْ أرْضِ مِصْرَ.

Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,

26 ف َذَهَبُوا وَعَبَدُوا وَخَدَمُوا آلِهَةً أُخْرَى لَمْ يَعرِفُوها وَلَمْ يَجْعَلْها اللهُ عَلَيْهِمْ.

and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given unto them:

27 ف َغَضِبَ اللهُ جِدّاً عَلَى هَذِهِ الأرْضِ فَجَلَبَ عَلَيها كُلَّ لَعْنَةٍ مَكتُوبَةٍ فِي هَذا الكِتابِ.

therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;

28 و َخَلَعَهُمْ اللهُ مِنْ أرْضِهِمْ فِي غَضَبِهِ الشَّديدِ وَسَخَطَهِ العَظيمِ. وَرَماهُمْ فِي أرْضٍ أُخْرَى حَيثُ هُمُ اليَومَ.›

and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.

29 « الأسْرارُ لإلَهِنا. أمّا ما يُعلِنُهُ فَهُوَ لَنا وَلأولادِنا، لِكَي نُطِيعَ جَمِيعَ كَلامِ هَذِهِ الشَّرِيعَةِ.

The secret things belong unto Jehovah our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.