اَلتَّثْنِيَة 29

١ 1 هَذِهِ هِيَ كَلِمَاتُ ٱلْعَهْدِ ٱلَّذِي أَمَرَ ٱلرَّبُّ مُوسَى أَنْ يَقْطَعَهُ مَعَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ فِي أَرْضِ مُوآبَ، فَضْلًا عَنِ ٱلْعَهْدِ ٱلَّذِي قَطَعَهُ مَعَهُمْ فِي حُورِيبَ.

These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.

٢ 2 وَدَعَا مُوسَى جَمِيعَ إِسْرَائِيلَ وَقَالَ لَهُمْ: «أَنْتُمْ شَاهَدْتُمْ مَا فَعَلَ ٱلرَّبُّ أَمَامَ أَعْيُنِكُمْ فِي أَرْضِ مِصْرَ بِفِرْعَوْنَ وَبِجَمِيعِ عَبِيدِهِ وَبِكُلِّ أَرْضِهِ،

Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.

٣ 3 ٱلتَّجَارِبُ ٱلْعَظِيمَةُ ٱلَّتِي أَبْصَرَتْهَا عَيْنَاكَ، وَتِلْكَ ٱلْآيَاتِ وَٱلْعَجَائِبَ ٱلْعَظِيمَةُ.

You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.

٤ 4 وَلَكِنْ لَمْ يُعْطِكُمُ ٱلرَّبُّ قَلْبًا لِتَفْهَمُوا، وَأَعْيُنًا لِتُبْصِرُوا، وَآذَانًا لِتَسْمَعُوا إِلَى هَذَا ٱلْيَوْمِ.

Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

٥ 5 فَقَدْ سِرْتُ بِكُمْ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ، لَمْ تَبْلَ ثِيَابُكُمْ عَلَيْكُمْ، وَنَعْلُكَ لَمْ تَبْلَ عَلَى رِجْلِكَ.

For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

٦ 6 لَمْ تَأْكُلُوا خُبْزًا وَلَمْ تَشْرَبُوا خَمْرًا وَلَا مُسْكِرًا لِكَيْ تَعْلَمُوا أَنِّي أَنَا ٱلرَّبُّ إِلَهُكُمْ.

You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

٧ 7 وَلَمَّا جِئْتُمْ إِلَى هَذَا ٱلْمَكَانِ خَرَجَ سِيحُونُ مَلِكُ حَشْبُونَ وَعُوجُ مَلِكُ بَاشَانَ لِلِقَائِنَا لِلْحَرْبِ فَكَسَّرْنَاهُمَا،

When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.

٨ 8 وَأَخَذْنَا أَرْضَهُمَا وَأَعْطَيْنَاهَا نَصِيبًا لِرَأُوبَيْنَ وَجَادَ وَنِصْفِ سِبْطِ مَنَسَّى.

We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

٩ 9 فَٱحْفَظُوا كَلِمَاتِ هَذَا ٱلْعَهْدِ وَٱعْمَلُوا بِهَا لِكَيْ تَفْلَحُوا فِي كُلِّ مَا تَفْعَلُونَ.

So keep and follow the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do.

١٠ 10 «أَنْتُمْ وَاقِفُونَ ٱلْيَوْمَ جَمِيعُكُمْ أَمَامَ ٱلرَّبِّ إِلَهِكُمْ: رُؤَسَاؤُكُمْ، أَسْبَاطُكُمْ، شُيُوخُكُمْ وَعُرَفَاؤُكُمْ وَكُلُّ رِجَالِ إِسْرَائِيلَ،

All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel,

١١ 11 وَأَطْفَالُكُمْ وَنِسَاؤُكُمْ، وَغَرِيبُكُمُ ٱلَّذِي فِي وَسَطِ مَحَلَّتِكُمْ مِمَّنْ يَحْتَطِبُ حَطَبَكُمْ إِلَى مَنْ يَسْتَقِي مَاءَكُمْ،

your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—

١٢ 12 لِكَيْ تَدْخُلَ فِي عَهْدِ ٱلرَّبِّ إِلَهِكَ وَقَسَمِهِ ٱلَّذِي يَقْطَعُهُ ٱلرَّبُّ إِلَهُكَ مَعَكَ ٱلْيَوْمَ،

so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,

١٣ 13 لِكَيْ يُقِيمَكَ ٱلْيَوْمَ لِنَفْسِهِ شَعْبًا، وَهُوَ يَكُونُ لَكَ إِلَهًا كَمَا قَالَ لَكَ، وَكَمَا حَلَفَ لِآبَائِكَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَإِسْحَاقَ وَيَعْقُوبَ.

and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

١٤ 14 وَلَيْسَ مَعَكُمْ وَحْدَكُمْ أَقْطَعُ أَنَا هَذَا ٱلْعَهْدَ وَهَذَا ٱلْقَسَمَ،

I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,

١٥ 15 بَلْ مَعَ ٱلَّذِي هُوَ هُنَا مَعَنَا وَاقِفًا ٱلْيَوْمَ أَمَامَ ٱلرَّبِّ إِلَهِنَا، وَمَعَ ٱلَّذِي لَيْسَ هُنَا مَعَنَا ٱلْيَوْمَ.

but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, as well as with those who are not here today.

١٦ 16 لِأَنَّكُمْ قَدْ عَرَفْتُمْ كَيْفَ أَقَمْنَا فِي أَرْضِ مِصْرَ، وَكَيْفَ ٱجْتَزْنَا فِي وَسَطِ ٱلْأُمَمِ ٱلَّذِينَ مَرَرْتُمْ بِهِمْ،

For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.

١٧ 17 وَرَأَيْتُمْ أَرْجَاسَهُمْ وَأَصْنَامَهُمُ ٱلَّتِي عِنْدَهُمْ مِنْ خَشَبٍ وَحَجَرٍ وَفِضَّةٍ وَذَهَبٍ،

You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

١٨ 18 لِئَلَّا يَكُونَ فِيكُمْ رَجُلٌ أَوِ ٱمْرَأَةٌ أَوْ عَشِيرَةٌ أَوْ سِبْطٌ قَلْبُهُ ٱلْيَوْمَ مُنْصَرِفٌ عَنِ ٱلرَّبِّ إِلَهِنَا لِكَيْ يَذْهَبَ لِيَعْبُدَ آلِهَةَ تِلْكَ ٱلْأُمَمِ. لِئَلَّا يَكُونَ فِيكُمْ أَصْلٌ يُثْمِرُ عَلْقَمًا وَأَفْسَنْتِينًا.

Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,

١٩ 19 فَيَكُونُ مَتَى سَمِعَ كَلَامَ هَذِهِ ٱللَّعْنَةِ، يَتَبَرَّكُ فِي قَلْبِهِ قَائِلًا: يَكُونُ لِي سَلَامٌ، إِنِّي بِإِصْرَارِ قَلْبِي أَسْلُكُ لِإِفْنَاءِ ٱلرَّيَّانِ مَعَ ٱلْعَطْشَانِ.

because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

٢٠ 20 لَا يَشَاءُ ٱلرَّبُّ أَنْ يَرْفُقَ بِهِ، بَلْ يُدَخِّنُ حِينَئِذٍ غَضَبُ ٱلرَّبِّ وَغَيْرَتُهُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ ٱلرَّجُلِ، فَتَحِلُّ عَلَيْهِ كُلُّ ٱللَّعَنَاتِ ٱلْمَكْتُوبَةِ فِي هَذَا ٱلْكِتَابِ، وَيَمْحُو ٱلرَّبُّ ٱسْمَهُ مِنْ تَحْتِ ٱلسَمَاءِ.

The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven

٢١ 21 وَيُفْرِزُهُ ٱلرَّبُّ لِلشَّرِّ مِنْ جَمِيعِ أَسْبَاطِ إِسْرَائِيلَ حَسَبَ جَمِيعِ لَعَنَاتِ ٱلْعَهْدِ ٱلْمَكْتُوبَةِ فِي كِتَابِ ٱلشَّرِيعَةِ هَذَا.

and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

٢٢ 22 فَيَقُولُ ٱلْجِيلُ ٱلْأَخِيرُ، بَنُوكُمُ ٱلَّذِينَ يَقُومُونَ بَعْدَكُمْ، وَٱلْأَجْنَبِيُّ ٱلَّذِي يَأْتِي مِنْ أَرْضٍ بَعِيدَةٍ، حِينَ يَرَوْنَ ضَرَبَاتِ تِلْكَ ٱلْأَرْضِ وَأَمْرَاضَهَا ٱلَّتِي يُمْرِضُهَا بِهَا ٱلرَّبُّ.

Then the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.

٢٣ 23 كِبْرِيتٌ وَمِلْحٌ، كُلُّ أَرْضِهَا حَرِيقٌ، لَا تُزْرَعُ وَلَا تُنْبِتُ وَلَا يَطْلُعُ فِيهَا عُشْبٌ مَّا، كَٱنْقِلَابِ سَدُومَ وَعَمُورَةَ وَأَدْمَةَ وَصَبُويِيمَ، ٱلَّتِي قَلَبَهَا ٱلرَّبُّ بِغَضَبِهِ وَسَخَطِهِ.

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

٢٤ 24 وَيَقُولُ جَمِيعُ ٱلْأُمَمِ: لِمَاذَا فَعَلَ ٱلرَّبُّ هَكَذَا بِهَذِهِ ٱلْأَرْضِ؟ لِمَاذَا حُمُوُّ هَذَا ٱلْغَضَبِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ؟

So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

٢٥ 25 فَيَقُولُونَ: لِأَنَّهُمْ تَرَكُوا عَهْدَ ٱلرَّبِّ إِلَهِ آبَائِهِمِ ٱلَّذِي قَطَعَهُ مَعَهُمْ حِينَ أَخْرَجَهُمْ مِنْ أَرْضِ مِصْرَ،

And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

٢٦ 26 وَذَهَبُوا وَعَبَدُوا آلِهَةً أُخْرَى وَسَجَدُوا لَهَا. آلِهَةً لَمْ يَعْرِفُوهَا وَلَا قُسِمَتْ لَهُمْ.

They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.

٢٧ 27 فَٱشْتَعَلَ غَضَبُ ٱلرَّبِّ عَلَى تِلْكَ ٱلْأَرْضِ حَتَّى جَلَبَ عَلَيْهَا كُلَّ ٱللَّعَنَاتِ ٱلْمَكْتُوبَةِ فِي هَذَا ٱلسِّفْرِ.

Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book.

٢٨ 28 وَٱسْتَأْصَلَهُمُ ٱلرَّبُّ مِنْ أَرْضِهِمْ بِغَضَبٍ وَسَخَطٍ وَغَيْظٍ عَظِيمٍ، وَأَلْقَاهُمْ إِلَى أَرْضٍ أُخْرَى كَمَا فِي هَذَا ٱلْيَوْمِ.

The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’

٢٩ 29 ٱلسَّرَائِرُ لِلرَّبِّ إِلَهِنَا، وَٱلْمُعْلَنَاتُ لَنَا وَلِبَنِينَا إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ، لِنَعْمَلَ بِجَمِيعِ كَلِمَاتِ هَذِهِ ٱلشَّرِيعَةِ.

The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.