1 T hese are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to 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 M oses called to all Israel, and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to 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 trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.

وَرَأتْ عُيُونُكُمُ الضِّيقاتِ وَالآياتِ وَتِلكَ الأُمُورَ المُدهِشَةَ.

4 B ut Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

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

5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.

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

6 Y ou have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.

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

7 W hen you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them.

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

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

وَأخَذْنا أرْضَهُما وَأعطَيناها لِقَبِيلَتَيْ رَأُوبَيْنَ وَجادَ وَنِصفِ قَبِيلَةِ مَنَسَّى.

9 T herefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

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

10 A ll of you stand today in the presence of Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even 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 the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;

وَأولادُكُمْ وَنِساؤُكُمْ وَالأجانِبُ المُقِيمُونَ فِي وَسَطِكُمْ وَالحَطّابُونَ وَالسُّقاةُ،

12 t hat you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today;

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

13 t hat he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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

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

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

15 b ut with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not here with us today

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

16 ( for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the middle of the nations through which you passed;

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

17 a nd you 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, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

«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 happen, when he hears 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.”

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

20 Y ahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.

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 Y ahweh will set him apart for 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.

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

22 T he generation to come, your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land, will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick;

«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 all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh 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 the nations will say, “Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”

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

25 T hen men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them 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 a nd went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know, and that he had not given to them.

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

27 T herefore Yahweh’s anger burned against this land, to bring on 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 Y ahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”

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

29 T he secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

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