1 N ow, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.

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

2 Y ou shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.

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

3 Y our eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from among you.

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

4 B ut you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive today.

أمّا أنتُمُ الَّذِينَ تَمَسَكتُمْ بإلَهِكُمْ فَما زِلْتُمْ أحياءَ.

5 B ehold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.

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

6 K eep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

فاحرِصُوا 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.

7 F or what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

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

8 W hat great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you today?

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

9 O nly be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;

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

10 t he day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”

«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.›

11 Y ou came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.

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

12 Y ahweh spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.

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

13 H e declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.

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

14 Y ahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.

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

15 B e very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,

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

16 l est you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

لِكَي لا تُهلِكُوا أنفُسَكُمْ بَصُنعِ تِمثالٍ بِأيِّ شَكلٍ ذَكَراً كانَ أمْ أُنثَى،

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

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

18 t he likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;

أوْ شَكلِ زاحِفٍ عَلَى الأرْضِ، أوْ شَكلِ سَمَكَةٍ فِي الماءِ تَحتَ الأرْضِ.

19 a nd lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

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

20 B ut Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.

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

21 F urthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance;

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

22 b ut I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over, and possess that good land.

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

23 B e careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.

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

24 F or Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

لِأنَّ إلَهَكُمْ نارٌ آكِلَةٌ، إلَهٌ يَغارُ عَلَى مَجدِهِ.

25 W hen you shall father children, and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight, to provoke him to anger;

«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،

26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.

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

27 Y ahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh will lead you away.

سَيُشَتِّتُكُمُ اللهُ بَينَ الأُمَمِ. قَليلُونَ مِنْكُمْ سَيَبْقَوْنَ وَسَطَ الأُمَمِ الّتِي سَيُرْسِلُكُمُ اللهُ إلَيها.

28 T here you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

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

29 B ut from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

وَسَتَطلُبُونَ إلَهَكُمْ هُناكَ، فَتَجِدُونَهُ إنْ طَلَبتُمُوهُ بِكُلِّ قُلُوبِكُمْ.

30 W hen you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice.

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

31 F or Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

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

32 F or ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?

«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؟

33 D id a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

هَلْ سَمِعَتْ أُمَّةٌ صَوتَ اللهِ يَتَكَلَّمُ مِنْ وَسَطِ النّارِ كَما سَمِعْتُمْ أنتُمْ، وَبَقِيَتْ حَيَّةً؟

34 O r has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

أمْ 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؟

35 I t was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.

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

36 O ut of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.

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

37 B ecause he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

وَلِأنَّهُ قَدْ أحَبَّ آباءَكُمْ، وَاختارَ نَسلَهُمْ مِنْ بَعدِهِمْ، أخرَجَكُمْ مِنْ مِصْرَ بِنَفسِهِ وَبِقُوَّتِهِ العَظِيمَةِ،

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

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

39 K now therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.

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

40 Y ou shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.

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

41 T hen Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;

وَاختارَ مُوسَى ثَلاثَ مُدُنٍ فِي الجِهَةِ الشَّرقِيَّةِ مِنْ نَهرِ الأُردُنِّ،

42 t hat the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn’t hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

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

43 B ezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

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

44 T his is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.

هَذِهِ هِيَ الشَّرِيعَةُ الَّتِي أعطاها مُوسَى لِبَنِي إسْرائِيلَ.

45 T hese are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt,

وَهَذِهِ هِيَ الأحكامُ وَالشَّرائِعُ وَالفَرائِضُ الَّتِي كَلَّمَ مُوسَى بِها بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ حِينَ خَرَجُوا مِنْ مِصْرَ،

46 b eyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck, when they came out of Egypt.

وَهُمْ 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.

47 T hey took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;

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

48 f rom Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (also called Hermon),

وَكانَتْ هَذِهِ الأرْضُ تَمتَدُّ مِنْ عَرُوعِيرَ عَلَى حافَّةِ وادِي أرنُونَ إلَى جَبَلِ سِيئونَ – أيْ جَبَلِ حَرمُونَ –

49 a nd all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

مَعَ كُلِّ وادِي الأُردُنِّ شَرقِيِّ النَّهرِ وَحَتَّى بَحْرِ عَرَبَةَ جَنُوباً عِندَ سُفُوحِ جَبَلِ الفِسجَةِ.