1 « استَمِعُوا يا بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ، سَتَعبُرُونَ اليَومَ نَهرَ الأُردُنِّ لِتَدخُلُوا وَتَطرُدُوا أُمَماً أعظَمَ وَأقوَى مِنكُمْ، لَها مُدُنٌ ذاتُ أسوارٍ مُرتَفِعَةٍ تَصِلُ السَّماءَ،

“Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

2 ي َسكُنُها شَعبٌ عَظِيمٌ وَطَوِيلُ القامَةِ، وَهُمُ العَناقِيُّونَ، الَّذِينَ عَرَفْتُمْ عَنهُمْ وَسَمِعتُمُ الآخَرِينَ يَقُولُونَ: ‹مَنْ يَستَطِيعُ أنْ يُقاوِمَ العَناقِيِّينَ؟›

a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’

3 ف اعلَمُوا اليَومَ أنَّ إلَهَكُمْ هُوَ مَنْ سَيَعبُرُ نَهرَ الأُردُنِّ أمامَكُمْ كَنارٍ مُلتَهِمَةٍ. وَسَيُهلِكُهُمْ وَيَهزِمُهُمْ بَينَما أنتُمْ تَتَقَدَّمُونَ، فَتَطرُدُونَهُمْ وَتُفنُونَهُمْ سَرِيعاً كَما وَعَدَكُمْ اللهُ تَماماً.

Therefore understand today that the Lord your God is He who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has said to you.

4 « وَحِينَ يَطْرُدُهُمْ إلَهُكُمْ مِنْ أمامِكُمْ، لا تَقُولُوا فِي نُفُوسِكُمْ: ‹لِأنَّنا صالِحُون، أدخَلَنا اللهُ لِنَمتَلِكَ هَذِهِ الأرْضَ.› بَلْ سَيَطْرُدُ اللهُ تِلكَ الأُمَمَ مِنْ أمامِكُمْ لِأنَّهُمْ أشرارٌ.

“Do not think in your heart, after the Lord your God has cast them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land’; but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out from before you.

5 و َسَتَدخُلُونَ لامتِلاكِ أرْضِهِمْ، وَلَكِنْ لَيسَ بِفَضلِ بِرِّكُمْ وَاسْتِقامَةِ قُلُوبِكُمْ، إنَّما سَيَطرُدُهُمْ إلهُكُمْ مِنْ أمامِكُمْ بِسَبَبِ شَرِّهِمْ، حِفاظاً عَلَى الوَعدِ الَّذِي أقسَمَ اللهُ بِهِ لآبائِكُمْ إبراهِيمَ وَإسْحاقَ وَيَعقُوبَ.

It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

6 ف اعلَمُوا أنَّ إلهَكُمْ لَنْ يُعْطِيَكُمُ الأرْضَ لِتَمتَلِكُوها بِفَضلِ بِرِّكُمْ، فَأنْتُمْ شَعبٌ عَنِيدٌ وَمُتَمَرِّدٌ. تَذكيرٌ بغَضَبِ الله

Therefore understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.

7 « اذكُرُوا وَلا تَنسَوا أنَّكُمْ أغضَبتُمْ إلهِكُمْ فِي الصَّحْراءِ، فَقَد رَفَضتُمْ أنْ تُطِيعُوهُ وَتَمَرَّدْتُمْ عَلَى اللهِ مِنْ يَومِ مُغادَرَتِكُمْ لِأرضِ مِصْرَ إلَى أنْ أتَيتُمْ لِهَذا المَكانِ.

“Remember! Do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.

8 أ ثَرْتُمْ غَضَبَ اللهِ فِي جَبَلِ حُورِيبَ. حَتَّى أوْشَكَ اللهُ فِيْ غَضَبِهِ الشَّدِيدِ أنْ يُفنِيَكُمْ.

Also in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry enough with you to have destroyed you.

9 ف َحِينَ صَعِدتُ إلَى الجَبَلِ لِأخذِ لَوحَي حَجَرِ العَهدِ الَّذِي قَطَعَهُ اللهُ مَعكُمْ، بَقِيتُ عَلَى الجَبَلِ مُدَّةَ أربَعِينَ يَوماً وَأربَعِينَ لَيلَةً، لَمْ آكُلْ فِيها خُبزاً وَلَمْ أشرَبْ ماءً.

When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

10 و َأعطانِي اللهُ الَّلوحَينِ الحَجَرِيَّينِ اللّذَينِ نُقِشا بَإصبَعِ اللهِ ، وَعَلَيهِما جَمِيعُ الكَلِماتِ الَّتِي تكَلَّمَ بِها اللهُ لَكُمْ مِنْ وَسَطِ النّارِ، يَومَ اجتَمَعتُمْ هُناكَ.

Then the Lord delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

11 « وَفِي نِهايَةِ الأربَعِينَ يَوماً وَالأربَعِينَ لَيلَةً، أعطانِي اللهُ لَوحَي حَجَرِ العَهدِ،

And it came to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

12 ث ُمَّ قالَ لِي اللهُ: ‹قُمْ وَانْزِلْ مِنْ هُنا بِسُرعَةٍ لِأنَّ شَعبَكَ الَّذِي أخرَجتُهُ مِنْ مِصْرَ قَدْ أفسَدُوا أنفُسَهُمْ، فَقَدِ ابْتَعَدُوا سَرِيعاً عَنْ وَصايايَ، فَصَنَعُوا لِأنفُسِهِمْ صَنَماً.›

“Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molded image.’

13 ث ُمَّ قالَ اللهُ لِي: ‹قَدْ راقَبتُ هَذا الشَّعبَ، فَوَجَدتُ أنَّهُ شَعبٌ عَنِيدٌ.

“Furthermore the Lord spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed they are a stiff-necked people.

14 د َعْني الآنَ فَأقْضيَ عَلَيهِمْ، فَلا يَعُودُ أحَدٌ يَتَذَكَّرُهُمْ. وَأجعَلُكَ أُمَّةً أقوَى وَأكثَرَ عَدَداً مِنهُمْ.›» العِجلُ الذَّهَبِيّ

Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’

15 « حِينَئِذٍ، نَزَلتُ مِنَ الجَبَلِ، وَقَدْ كانَ مُشتَعِلاً بِالنّارِ، وَكانَ لَوحا العَهدِ فِي يَدَيَّ.

“So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire; and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

16 و َنَظَرتُ وَإذا بِكُمْ قَدْ أخطَأْتُمْ إلَى إلَهِكُمْ ، وَسَبَكْتُمْ لِأنفُسِكُمْ صَنَماً عَلَى شَكلِ عِجلٍ، وَابتَعَدتُمْ سَرِيعاً عَمّا أوصاكُمْ بِهِ اللهُ.

And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God—had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you.

17 ف َأمسَكْتُ بِاللَّوحَينِ وَرَمَيتُهُما مِنْ يَدَيَّ، وَحَطَّمتُهُما أمامَ أعيُنِكُمْ.

Then I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes.

18 ث ُمَّ عُدُّتُ وَانْبَطَحْتُ ثانِيَةً وَوَجهِي إلَى الأرْضِ فِي حَضرَةِ اللهِ لِأربَعِينَ يَوماً وَأربَعِينَ لَيلَةً، لَمْ آكُلْ فِيها خُبزاً وَلَمْ أشرَبْ ماءً، بِسَبَبِ الخَطِيَّةِ الَّتِي ارتَكَبتُمُوها بِعِبادَةِ آلِهَةٍ أُخْرَى أمامَ عَينَي اللهِ ، فَأغضَبتُمُوهُ.

And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.

19 ك ُنتُ خائِفاً مِنْ غَضَبِ اللهِ وَسَخَطِهِ، إذْ كانَ غاضِباً جِدّاً عَلَيكُمْ حَتَّى أوشَكَ أنْ يُهلِكَكُمْ، لَكِنَّ اللهَ أصغَى إلَيَّ فِي تِلكَ المَرَّةِ أيضاً.

For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was angry with you, to destroy you. But the Lord listened to me at that time also.

20 ك َما غَضِبَ اللهُ عَلَى هَرُونَ بِما يَكفِي لِيُهلِكَهُ، فَصَلَّيتُ مِنْ أجلِهِ فِي ذَلِكَ اليَومِ.

And the Lord was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

21 « ثُمَّ أخَذْتُ العِجلَ النَّجِسَ الَّذِي صَنَعتُمُوهُ، وَأحرَقْتُهُ بِالنّارِ، وَحَطَّمتُهُ وَطَحَنتُهُ حَتَّى صارَ ناعِماً كَالغُبارِ، ثُمَّ ألقَيتُ بِغُبارِهِ فِي الجَدوَلِ المُنحَدِرِ مِنَ الجَبَلِ.

Then I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.

22 و َأيضاً فِي تَبعِيرَةَ وَمَسَّةَ وَقَبْرُوتَ هَتَّأوَةَ أغضَبتُمُ اللهَ.

“Also at Taberah and Massah and Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath.

23 و َعِندَما أرسَلَكُمْ اللهُ مِنْ قادَشَ بَرْنِيعَ وَقالَ لَكُمْ: ‹اذْهَبُوا وَامتَلِكُوا الأرْضَ الَّتِي أعطَيتُها لَكُمْ.› عَصَيتُمْ أمرَ إلَهِكُمْ ، وَلَمْ تَثِقُوا بِهِ وَلَمْ تُطِيعُوهُ.

Likewise, when the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and you did not believe Him nor obey His voice.

24 ف َأنتُمْ تَرفُضُونَ إطاعَةَ اللهِ وَتَتَمَرَّدُونَ عَلَيْهِ مُنذُ عَرَفْتُكُمْ.

You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.

25 « فَانْبَطَحْتُ وَوَجهِي إلَى الأرْضِ فِي حَضرَةِ اللهِ أربَعِينَ يَوماً وَأربَعِينَ لَيلَةً، لِأنَّ اللهَ أعلَنَ أنَّهُ سَيُهلِكُكُمْ.

“Thus I prostrated myself before the Lord; forty days and forty nights I kept prostrating myself, because the Lord had said He would destroy you.

26 و َصَلَّيتُ إلَى اللهِ وَقُلْتُ: يا اللهُ ، لا تُهلِكْ شَعبَكَ الَّذِي هُوَ لَكَ، وَقَدْ فَدَيتَهُ بِقُوَّتِكَ العَظِيمَةِ، وَأخرَجتَهُ مِنْ مِصْرَ بِيَدِكَ الجَبَّارَةِ.

Therefore I prayed to the Lord, and said: ‘O Lord God, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

27 ا ذكُرْ خُدّامَكَ إبراهِيمَ وَإسْحاقَ وَيَعقُوبَ. وَتَغاضَ عَنْ عِنادِ الشَّعبِ وَشَرِّهِ وَخَطِيَّتِهِ،

Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin,

28 ل ِكَيْ لا يَقُولَ المِصْرِيُّونَ: ‹لِأنَّ يهوه لَمْ يَستَطِعْ إحضارَهُمْ إلَى الأرْضِ الَّتِي وَعَدَهُمْ بِها، وَلأنَّهُ يَكْرَهُهُمْ، أخرَجَهُمْ لِيَقتُلَهُمْ فِي الصَّحراءِ.›

lest the land from which You brought us should say, “Because the Lord was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.”

29 إ نَّهُمْ شَعبُكَ وَمُلكُكَ الَّذِي أخرَجْتَهُ بِقُوَّتِكَ وَقُدرَتِكَ العَظِيمَتَينِ.»

Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.’