1 « وَالآنَ، اسْتَمِعْ يا إسْرائِيلُ إلَى الفَرائِضِ وَالشَّرائِعِ الَّتِي أُعَلِّمُها لَكُمْ لِتَعمَلُوا بِها، فَتَحْيَوا وَتَدْخُلُوا الأرْضَ الَّتِي سَيُعطِيها لَكُمْ إلَهُ آبائِكُمْ وَتَمتَلِكُوها.

“Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I am teaching you to perform, so that you may live and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

2 ل ا تَزِيدُوا عَلَى ما آمُرُكُمْ بِهِ وَلا تُنقِصُوا مِنهُ شَيئاً، بَلِ احفَظُوا وَصايا إلَهِكُمْ الَّتِي أُوصِيكُمْ بِها.

You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

3 « قَدْ رَأيتُمْ ما عَمِلَهُ اللهُ فِي الإلَهِ المُزَيَّفِ بَعلِ فَغُورَ. وَكَيفَ أبادَ إلَهُكُمْ مِنْ بَينِكُمْ كُلَّ مَنْ تَبِعَ بَعلَ فَغُورَ.

Your eyes have seen what the Lord has done in the case of Baal-peor, for all the men who followed Baal-peor, the Lord your God has destroyed them from among you.

4 أ مّا أنتُمُ الَّذِينَ تَمَسَكتُمْ بإلَهِكُمْ فَما زِلْتُمْ أحياءَ.

But you who held fast to the Lord your God are alive today, every one of you.

5 « ها قَدْ عَلَّمتُكُمْ فَرائِضَ وَشَرائِعَ كَما أمَرَنِي إلَهِي ، لِتَعمَلُوا بِها فِي الأرْضِ الَّتِي سَتَدخُلُونَ لِتَمتَلِكُوها.

“See, I have taught you statutes and judgments just as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do thus in the land where you are entering to possess it.

6 ف احرِصُوا عَلَى إطاعَتِها. لِأنَّ هَذا سَيَكُونُ دَلِيلاً عَلَى حِكمَتِكُمْ وَفَهمِكُمْ أمامَ الشُّعُوبِ الَّتِي حِينَ تَسْمَعُ بِكُلِّ هَذِهِ الفَرائِضِ، سَتَقُولُ حَقّاً إنَّ هَذِهِ الأُمَّةَ عَظيمَةٌ، وَأهلَها حُكَماءٌ وَفُهَماءٌ.

So keep and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’

7 « فَهَلْ مِنْ أُمَّةٍ بِهَذِهِ العَظَمَةِ، لَها آلِهَةٌ قَرِيبَةٌ مِنها كَإلَهِنا حِينَ نَدْعُوهُ؟

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as is the Lord our God whenever we call on Him?

8 أ مْ هَلْ مِنْ أُمَّةٍ بِهَذِهِ العَظَمَةِ، لَها فَرائِضُ وَشَرائِعُ عادِلَةٌ كَالشَّرِيعَةِ الَّتِي أضَعُها أمامَكُمُ اليَومَ؟

Or what great nation is there that has statutes and judgments as righteous as this whole law which I am setting before you today?

9 ل َكِنِ احتَرِسُوا وَانتَبِهُوا لِئَلّا تَنسَوا الأُمُورَ الَّتِي رَأتْها أعيُنُكُمْ فَلا تَزُولَ مِنْ أذهانِكُمْ كُلَّ أيّامِ حَياتِكُمْ. وَعَلِّمُوها لِأولادِكُمْ وَلِأحفادِكُمْ.

“Only give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your sons and your grandsons.

10 « لا تَنسَوْا الأُمُورَ الَّتِي رَأيتُمُوها يَومَ وَقَفتُمْ أمامَ إلَهِكُمْ فِي جَبَلِ حُورِيبَ، حِينَ قالَ لِي اللهُ: ‹اجْمَعِ الشَّعبَ إلَيَّ لِأُسمِعَهُمْ كَلامِي، فَيَتَعَلَّمُوا أنْ يَهابُونِي كُلَّ أيّامِ حَياتِهِمْ عَلَى الأرْضِ، وَيُعَلِّمُوا أولادَهُمْ أيضاً.›

Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me, that I may let them hear My words so they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’

11 ف َقَدِ اقتَرَبْتُمْ وَوَقَفتُمْ أسفَلَ الجَبَلِ، وَكانَ الجَبَلُ مُشتَعِلاً بِنارٍ إلَى السَّماءِ! وَكانَ هُناكَ ظَلامٌ وَغُيُومٌ كَثِيفَةٌ.

You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the very heart of the heavens: darkness, cloud and thick gloom.

12 و َتَكَلَّمَ اللهُ إلَيكُمْ مِنْ وَسَطِ النّارِ، وَقَدْ سَمِعْتُمْ صَوتَ كَلامِهِ، لَكِنَّكُمْ لَمْ تَرَوا لَهُ هَيئَةً، بَلْ كُنتُمْ تَسمَعُونَ صَوتاً فَقَطْ.

Then the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but you saw no form—only a voice.

13 و َقَدْ أعلَنَ لَكُمْ عَهْدَهَ، وَأمَرَكُمْ بِأنْ تَحفَظُوا الوَصايا العَشَرَ الَّتِي نَحَتَها عَلَى لَوحَينِ مِنْ حِجارَةٍ.

So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.

14 ف ِي ذَلِكَ اليَومِ، أمَرَنِي اللهُ بِأنْ أُعَلِّمَكُمُ الشَّرائِعَ وَالفَرائِضَ لِتَحفَظُوها وَتُطَبِّقُوها فِي الأرْضِ الَّتِي سَتَعبُرُونَ لامتلاكها.

The Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might perform them in the land where you are going over to possess it.

15 « انتَبِهُوا جَيِّداً! أنتُمْ لَمْ تَرَوا أيَّ شَكلٍ يَومَ كَلَّمَكُمْ اللهُ فِي جَبَلِ حُورِيبَ مَنْ وَسَطِ النّارِ.

“So watch yourselves carefully, since you did not see any form on the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire,

16 ل ِكَي لا تُهلِكُوا أنفُسَكُمْ بَصُنعِ تِمثالٍ بِأيِّ شَكلٍ ذَكَراً كانَ أمْ أُنثَى،

so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

17 أ وْ عَلَى شَكلِ حَيوانٍ يَمشِي عَلَى الأرْضِ، أوْ شَكلِ طَيرٍ يَطيرُ بِجَناحَيهِ فِي السَّماءِ،

the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,

18 أ وْ شَكلِ زاحِفٍ عَلَى الأرْضِ، أوْ شَكلِ سَمَكَةٍ فِي الماءِ تَحتَ الأرْضِ.

the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth.

19 ف َإنْ نَظَرْتُمْ إلَى السَّماءِ وَرأيْتُمُ الشَّمْسَ وَالقَمَرَ وَالنُّجُومَ وَكُلِّ الأجرامِ السَّماوِيَّةِ، فَلا تُخْدَعُوا بِها وَتَسجُدُوا لَها وَتَعبُدُوها، فَإنَّ إلَهَكَمْ أعطاها لِكُلِّ الأُمَمِ الَّتِي تَحتَ السَّماءِ.

And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

20 و َأمّا أنتُمْ فَقَدِ اختارَكُمُ اللهُ وَأخرَجَكُمْ مِنْ فُرْنِ الحَدِيدِ فِي مِصْرَ، لِتَكُونُوا شَعبَهُ كَما هُوَ حالُكُمُ اليَومَ.

But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be a people for His own possession, as today.

21 « وَلَكِنَّ اللهَ غَضِبَ عَلَيَّ بِسَبَبِكُمْ، وَأقسَمَ أنْ لا أعبُرَ نَهرَ الأُردُنِّ، وَبِأنِّي لَنْ أدخُلَ الأرْضَ الصّالِحَةَ الَّتِي سَيُعطِيها إلَهُكُمْ مُلكاً لَكُمْ.

“ Now the Lord was angry with me on your account, and swore that I would not cross the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

22 أ نا سَأمُوتُ فِي هَذِهِ الأرْضِ مِنْ غَيرِ أنْ أعبُرَ نَهرَ الأُردُنِّ. وَأمّا أنتُمْ فَسَتَعبُرُونَ وَتَمتَلِكُونَ الأرْضَ الطَّيِّبَةَ.

For I will die in this land, I shall not cross the Jordan, but you shall cross and take possession of this good land.

23 « احذَرُوا أنْ تَنسَوا العَهْدَ الَّذِي قَطَعَهُ إلَهُكُمْ مَعكُمْ وَتَنحَتوا لَكُمْ تِمثالاً بِأيِّ شَكلٍ مِنَ الأشكالِ الَّتي نَهاكُمْ إلَهُكُمْ عَنها.

So watch yourselves, that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a graven image in the form of anything against which the Lord your God has commanded you.

24 ل ِأنَّ إلَهَكُمْ نارٌ آكِلَةٌ، إلَهٌ يَغارُ عَلَى مَجدِهِ.

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

25 « فَحِينَ يُصبِحُ لَدَيكُمْ أولادٌ وَأحفادٌ، وَتَكُونُونَ قَدْ سَكَنْتُمْ مُدَّةً طَوِيلَةً فِي هَذِهِ الأرْضِ، ثُمَّ فَسَدتُمْ بِصُنعِ تِمثالٍ مَنحُوتٍ بِأيِّ شَكلٍ، وَفَعَلْتُمُ الشَّرَّ أمامَ إلَهِكُمْ فَأغضَبتُمُوهُ،

“When you become the father of children and children’s children and have remained long in the land, and act corruptly, and make an idol in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord your God so as to provoke Him to anger,

26 ف َإنِّي أُشْهِدُ عَلَيكُمُ اليَومَ السَّماءَ وَالأرْضَ أنَّكُمْ سَتَهلِكُونَ هَلاكاً مِنَ الأرْضِ الَّتِي سَتَعبُرُونَ نَهرَ الأُردُنِّ لِتَمتَلِكُوها. وَلَنْ تَعِيشُوا طَوِيلاً فِي تِلكَ الأرْضِ، بَلْ سَتُبادُونَ تَماماً.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will surely perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed.

27 س َيُشَتِّتُكُمُ اللهُ بَينَ الأُمَمِ. قَليلُونَ مِنْكُمْ سَيَبْقَوْنَ وَسَطَ الأُمَمِ الّتِي سَيُرْسِلُكُمُ اللهُ إلَيها.

The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord drives you.

28 و َسَتَعبُدُونَ هُناكَ آلِهَةً مَصنُوعَةً بِأيدِي البَشَرِ مِنْ خَشَبٍ وَحِجارَةٍ، لا تَرَى وَلا تَسمَعُ وَلا تَأكُلُ وَلا تَشُمُّ.

There you will serve gods, the work of man’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

29 و َسَتَطلُبُونَ إلَهَكُمْ هُناكَ، فَتَجِدُونَهُ إنْ طَلَبتُمُوهُ بِكُلِّ قُلُوبِكُمْ.

But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.

30 ف َعِندَما تَكُونُونَ فِي ضِيقٍ، وَتَحدُثُ لَكُمْ كَلُّ هَذِهِ الأُمُورِ فِي المُستَقبَلِ، حِينَئِذٍ، سَتَعُودُونَ إلَى إلَهِكُمْ وَتُطِيعُونَهُ.

When you are in distress and all these things have come upon you, in the latter days you will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice.

31 و َلأنَّ إلَهَكُمْ إلَهٌ رَحِيمٌ، فَإنَّهُ لَنْ يَترُكَكُمْ وَلَنْ يُهلِكَكُمْ، وَلَنْ يَنسَى العَهدَ الَّذِي أقسَمَ لآبائِكُمْ عَلَيهِ. تَأمّلُوا فِي الماضِي

For the Lord your God is a compassionate God; He will not fail you nor destroy you nor forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them.

32 « فاسألُوا عَنِ الأزمِنَةِ السّابِقَةِ الَّتِي كانَتْ قَبلَكُمْ بِزَمانٍ طَوِيلٍ. مُنذُ أنْ خَلَقَ اللهُ النّاسَ عَلَى الأرْضِ، فَمَلأُوا الأرْضَ كلَّها. هَلْ حَدَثَ مِثلُ هَذا الأمرِ العَظِيمِ قَطُّ؟ أمْ هَلْ سَمِعَ أحَدٌ بِمِثلِهِ؟

“Indeed, ask now concerning the former days which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and inquire from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it?

33 ه َلْ سَمِعَتْ أُمَّةٌ صَوتَ اللهِ يَتَكَلَّمُ مِنْ وَسَطِ النّارِ كَما سَمِعْتُمْ أنتُمْ، وَبَقِيَتْ حَيَّةً؟

Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived?

34 أ مْ هَلْ حاوَلَ إلَهٌ آخَرٌ أنْ يَذهَبَ لِيَأْخُذَ أُمَّةً مِنْ وَسَطِ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرَى بِتَحَدِّياتٍ وَآياتٍ وَعَجائِبَ وَحَربٍ، بِيَدٍ جَبَّارَةٍ وَذِراعٍ مَمْدُودَةٍ، كَما عَمِلَ إلَهُكُمْ فِي مِصْرَ لِأجلِكُمْ وَأمامَ عُيُونَكُمْ؟

Or has a god tried to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation by trials, by signs and wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm and by great terrors, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

35 « قَدْ أُظْهِرَتْ لَكُمْ هَذِهِ الأُمُورُ لِتَعرِفُوا أنَّ يهوه هُوَ اللهُ الحَقِيقِيُّ، وَلا أحَدَ سِواهُ.

To you it was shown that you might know that the Lord, He is God; there is no other besides Him.

36 و َقَدْ أسمَعَكُمْ صَوتَهُ مِنَ السَّماءِ لِيُعَلِّمَكُمْ، وَأراكُمْ نارَهُ العَظِيمَةَ عَلَى الأرْضِ، وَسَمِعْتُمْ كَلامَهُ مِنْ وَسْطِ النّارِ.

Out of the heavens He let you hear His voice to discipline you; and on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire.

37 و َلِأنَّهُ قَدْ أحَبَّ آباءَكُمْ، وَاختارَ نَسلَهُمْ مِنْ بَعدِهِمْ، أخرَجَكُمْ مِنْ مِصْرَ بِنَفسِهِ وَبِقُوَّتِهِ العَظِيمَةِ،

Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them. And He personally brought you from Egypt by His great power,

38 ل ِيَطْرُدَ مِنْ أمامِكُمْ أُمَماً أعظَمَ مِنكُمْ وَأقوَى، وَيُعطِيكُمْ أرْضَهُمْ مِيراثاً لَكُمْ، كَما حَدَثَ فِي هَذا اليَومِ.

driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.

39 « فاعلَمُوا وَتَذَكَّرُوا أنَّ يهوه هُوَ اللهُ الحَقِيقِيُّ فِي السَّماءِ مِنْ فَوقُ، وَعَلَى الأرْضِ مَنْ تَحتُ، وَلَيسَتْ هُناكَ آلِهَةٌ سِواهُ.

Know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that the Lord, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.

40 ف احفَظُوا شَرائِعَهُ وَوَصاياهُ الَّتِي أُوصِيكُمْ بِها اليَومَ لِتَنجَحُوا أنتُمْ وَنَسلُكُمْ مِنْ بَعدِكُمْ، وَتَسكُنُوا مُدَّةً طَوِيلَةً عَلَى الأرْضِ الَّتِي سَيُعطِيها إلَهَكُمْ لَكُمْ إلَى الأبَدِ.» مُدُنُ اللُّجُوء

So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am giving you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may live long on the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

41 و َاختارَ مُوسَى ثَلاثَ مُدُنٍ فِي الجِهَةِ الشَّرقِيَّةِ مِنْ نَهرِ الأُردُنِّ،

Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east,

42 ل ِيَهرُبَ إلَيها مَنْ يَقتُلُ بِغَيرِ قَصْدٍ، وَدُونَ أنْ تَكُونَ بَينَهُما عَداوَةٌ سابِقِةٌ. فَيُمكِنُ لِهَذا الشَّخصِ أنْ يَهرُبَ إلَى إحدَى تِلكَ المُدُنِ وَيَبقَى حَيّاً.

that a manslayer might flee there, who unintentionally slew his neighbor without having enmity toward him in time past; and by fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

43 ف اختارَ مُوسَى مَدينَةَ باصَرَ فِي السُّهُولِ المُرتَفِعَةِ الَّتِي لِلرَأُوبَيْنِيِّينَ، وَرامُوثَ فِي جِلعادَ فِي مِنْطَقَةِ الجادِيِّينَ، وَجُولانَ فِي باشانَ فِي مِنْطَقَةِ المَنَسِّيِّينَ. مُقَدِّمَةٌ إلَى شَرِيعَةِ مُوسَى

Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau for the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

44 ه َذِهِ هِيَ الشَّرِيعَةُ الَّتِي أعطاها مُوسَى لِبَنِي إسْرائِيلَ.

Now this is the law which Moses set before the sons of Israel;

45 و َهَذِهِ هِيَ الأحكامُ وَالشَّرائِعُ وَالفَرائِضُ الَّتِي كَلَّمَ مُوسَى بِها بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ حِينَ خَرَجُوا مِنْ مِصْرَ،

these are the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, when they came out from Egypt,

46 و َهُمْ فِي الجِهَةِ الشَّرقِيَّةِ مِنْ نَهرِ الأردُنِ، فِي الوادِي القَرِيبِ مِنْ بَيتِ فَغُورَ، فِي أرْضِ سِيحُونَ مَلِكِ الأمُورِيِّينَ الَّذِي كانَ يَحكُمُ مَدينَةَ حَشبُونَ. وَقَدْ هَزَمَهُ مُوسَى وَبَنُو إسْرائِيلَ حِينَ خَرَجُوا مِنْ مِصْرَ.

across the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel defeated when they came out from Egypt.

47 و َأخَذَ بَنُو إسْرائِيلَ أرْضَهُ وَأرْضَ عُوجَ مَلِكِ باشانَ، مَلِكَيِّ الأمُورِيِّينَ اللذَينِ كانا مُقِيمَينِ فِي الجِهَةِ الشَّرقِيَّةِ مِنْ نَهرِ الأردُنِّ.

They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were across the Jordan to the east,

48 و َكانَتْ هَذِهِ الأرْضُ تَمتَدُّ مِنْ عَرُوعِيرَ عَلَى حافَّةِ وادِي أرنُونَ إلَى جَبَلِ سِيئونَ – أيْ جَبَلِ حَرمُونَ –

from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, even as far as Mount Sion (that is, Hermon),

49 م َعَ كُلِّ وادِي الأُردُنِّ شَرقِيِّ النَّهرِ وَحَتَّى بَحْرِ عَرَبَةَ جَنُوباً عِندَ سُفُوحِ جَبَلِ الفِسجَةِ.

with all the Arabah across the Jordan to the east, even as far as the sea of the Arabah, at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah.