1 T hese are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

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

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

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

3 T he great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:

وَرَأتْ عُيُونُكُمُ الضِّيقاتِ وَالآياتِ وَتِلكَ الأُمُورَ المُدهِشَةَ.

4 Y et the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

لَكِنَّ اللهَ لَمْ يُعطِكُمْ حَتَّى يَومِنا هَذا عُقُولاً لِتَفْهَمُوا وَلا عُيوناً لِتُبْصِروا وَلا آذاناً لِتَسْمَعُوا.

5 A nd I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.

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

6 Y e have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the Lord your God.

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

7 A nd 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:

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

8 A nd we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.

وَأخَذْنا أرْضَهُما وَأعطَيناها لِقَبِيلَتَيْ رَأُوبَيْنَ وَجادَ وَنِصفِ قَبِيلَةِ مَنَسَّى.

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

فاحرِصُوا عَلَى إطاعَةِ كُلِّ كَلامِ العَهدِ لِتَنجَحُوا فِي كُلِّ ما تَعمَلُونَهُ.

10 Y e stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,

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

11 Y our little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

وَأولادُكُمْ وَنِساؤُكُمْ وَالأجانِبُ المُقِيمُونَ فِي وَسَطِكُمْ وَالحَطّابُونَ وَالسُّقاةُ،

12 T hat thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day:

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

13 T hat he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

لِيَجعَلَكُمْ شَعبَهُ، وَلِيَكُونَ هُوَ إلَهَكُمْ كَما وَعَدَكُمْ، وَكَما أقسَمَ لآبائِكُمْ إبراهِيمَ وَإسَحَاقَ وَيَعقُوبَ.

14 N either with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

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

15 B ut with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:

الواقِفِينَ هُنا اليَومَ فِي حَضْرَةِ إلَهِنا. بَلْ أيضاً مَعَ أولَئِكَ الَّذِينَ لَيسُوا مَعَنا هُنا اليَومَ.

16 ( For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

فَأنتُمْ تَذكُرُونَ كَيفَ عِشْنا فِي أرْضِ مِصْرَ، وَكَيفَ اجتَزْنا فِي وَسَطِ الأُمَمِ فِي طَريقِنا.

17 A nd ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

رَأيتُمْ تَماثِيلَهُمُ المَصْنُوعَةَ مِنْ خَشَبٍ وَحَجَرٍ وَفِضَّةٍ وَذَهَبٍ، وَكُلَّ الأشياءِ الكَرِيهَةِ الَّتِي لَدَيهِمْ.

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

«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.

19 A nd 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 imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

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

20 T he Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.

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

21 A nd the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:

وَسَيَعْزِلُهُ اللهُ عَنْ كُلِّ قَبائِلِ إسْرائِيلَ، لِمُعاقَبَتِهِ بِحَسَبِ لَعَناتِ العَهدِ المَكتُوبَةِ فِي كِتابِ الشَّرِيعَةِ.

22 S o that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it;

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

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

إذْ 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.

24 E ven all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

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

25 T hen men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:

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

26 F or they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:

فَذَهَبُوا وَعَبَدُوا وَخَدَمُوا آلِهَةً أُخْرَى لَمْ يَعرِفُوها وَلَمْ يَجْعَلْها اللهُ عَلَيْهِمْ.

27 A nd the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

فَغَضِبَ اللهُ جِدّاً عَلَى هَذِهِ الأرْضِ فَجَلَبَ عَلَيها كُلَّ لَعْنَةٍ مَكتُوبَةٍ فِي هَذا الكِتابِ.

28 A nd the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.

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

29 T he secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

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