Deuteronomy 9
1 Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,
| اسْتَمِعُوا يَا بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ: أَنْتُمْ عَلَى وَشْكِ عُبُورِ نَهْرِ الأُرْدُنِّ لِتَدْخُلُوا لِطَرْدِ شُعُوبٍ أَكْبَرَ وَأَعْظَمَ مِنْكُمْ، وَلِلاسْتِيلاءِ عَلَى مُدُنٍ عَظِيمَةٍ مُحَصَّنَةٍ بِأَسْوَارٍ تَبْلُغُ عَنَانَ السَّمَاءِ، | ١ |
2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, “Who can stand before the sons of Anak?”
| يُقِيمُ فِيهَا الْعَنَاقِيُّونَ الْجَبَابِرَةُ الْعَمَالِقَةُ الَّذِينَ عَرَفْتُمْ عَنْهُمْ وَسَمِعْتُمْ مَنْ يَقُولُ: مَنْ يَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ يَتَحَدَّى الْعَنَاقِيِّينَ؟ | ٢ |
3 Know therefore today that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.
| فَاعْلَمُوا الْيَوْمَ أَنَّ الرَّبَّ إِلَهَكُمْ يَتَقَدَّمُكُمْ كَنَارٍ آكِلَةٍ، وَهُوَ الَّذِي يَسْتَأْصِلُهُمْ وَيُذِلُّهُمْ أَمَامَكُمْ، فَتَطْرُدُونَهُمْ وَتُبِيدُونَهُمْ سَرِيعاً كَمَا كَلَّمَكُمُ الرَّبُّ. | ٣ |
4 Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;” because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.
| لَا تَقُولُوا لأَنْفُسِكُمْ بَعْدَ أَنْ يَنْفِيَهُمُ الرَّبُّ مِنْ أَمَامِكُمْ: لَقَدْ أَدْخَلَنَا الرَّبُّ لاِمْتِلاكِ هَذِهِ الأَرْضِ بِفَضْلِ صَلاحِنَا. إِنَّمَا مِنْ أَجْلِ كَثْرَةِ إِثْمِهِمْ يَطْرُدُهُمُ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكُمْ مِنْ أَمَامِكُمْ. | ٤ |
5 Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
| إِذْ لَيْسَ بِفَضْلِ صَلاحِكُمْ وَاسْتِقَامَتِكُمْ تَدْخُلُونَ لامْتِلاكِ أَرْضِهِمْ، إِنَّمَا مِنْ أَجْلِ إِثْمِهِمْ يَطْرُدُهُمُ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكُمْ مِنْ أَمَامِكُمْ وَفَاءً بِوَعْدِهِ الَّذِي أَقْسَمَ عَلَيْهِ لِآبَائِكُمْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَإِسْحَاقَ وَيَعْقُوبَ. | ٥ |
6 Know therefore that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.
| فَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ بِفَضْلِ صَلاحِكُمْ يَهَبُكُمُ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكُمْ هَذِهِ الأَرْضَ الْخَصِيبَةَ لامْتِلاكِهَا، لأَنَّكُمْ شَعْبٌ عَنِيدٌ. | ٦ |
7 Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.
| اُذْكُرُوا وَلا تَنْسَوْا كَيْفَ أَسْخَطْتُمُ الرَّبَّ إِلَهَكُمْ عَلَيْكُمْ فِي الصَّحْرَاءِ، فَمُنْذُ أَنْ غَادَرْتُمْ دِيَارَ مِصْرَ حَتَّى بَلَغْتُمْ هَذَا الْمَكَانَ وَأَنْتُمْ تُقَاوِمُونَ الرَّبَّ. | ٧ |
8 Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.
| فَفِي جَبَلِ حُورِيبَ أَثَرْتُمْ غَيْظَ الرَّبِّ، فَاحْتَدَمَ غَضَبُهُ عَلَيْكُمْ حَتَّى أَوْشَكَ أَنْ يُفْنِيَكُمْ. | ٨ |
9 When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
| فَحِينَ صَعِدْتُ إِلَى الْجَبَلِ لأَتَسَلَّمَ لَوْحَيْ حَجَرِ الْعَهْدِ الَّذِي قَطَعَهُ الرَّبُّ مَعَكُمْ، وَأَقَمْتُ فِيهِ أَرْبَعِينَ نَهَاراً وَأَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً لَا آكُلُ فِيهَا خُبْزاً أَوْ أَشْرَبُ مَاءً، | ٩ |
10 Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.
| وَسَلَّمَنِي الرَّبُّ لَوْحَيِ الْحَجَرِ الْمَكْتُوبَيْنِ بِأَصْبَعِ اللهِ، حَيْثُ خَطَّ عَلَيْهِمَا جَمِيعَ الْوَصَايَا الَّتِي كَلَّمَكُمْ بِها الرَّبُّ فِي الْجَبَلِ مِنْ وَسَطِ النَّارِ فِي يَوْمِ الاجْتِمَاعِ. | ١٠ |
11 It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights that Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant.
| وَحِينَ أَعْطَانِي الرَّبُّ لَوْحَيْ حَجَرِ الْعَهْدِ فِي نِهَايَةِ الأَرْبَعِينَ نَهَاراً وَالأَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً، | ١١ |
12 Yahweh said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned away from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!”
| قَالَ لِي الرَّبُّ: قُمْ وَأَسْرِعْ بِالنُّزُولِ مِنْ هُنَا، لأَنَّ شَعْبَكَ الَّذِي أَخْرَجْتَهُ مِنْ مِصْرَ قَدْ ضَلَّ. زَاغُوا سَرِيعاً عَنِ السَّبِيلِ الَّذِي أَوْصَيْتُهُمْ بِهِ، إِذْ صَاغُوا لأَنْفُسِهِمْ تِمْثَالاً مَسْبُوكاً. | ١٢ |
13 Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
| ثُمَّ قَالَ لِي: قَدْ تَأَمَّلْتُ هَذَا الشَّعْبَ وَإِذْ بِهِ شَعْبٌ مُتَصَلِّبُ الْقَلْبِ. | ١٣ |
14 Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”
| دَعْنِي أَسْتَأْصِلُهُمْ وَأَمْحُو اسْمَهُمْ مِنْ تَحْتِ السَّمَاءِ، وَأُقِيمُ مِنْكَ شَعْباً أَعْظَمَ وَأَكْثَرَ مِنْهُمْ. | ١٤ |
15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
| فَانْصَرَفْتُ، وَانْحَدَرْتُ مِنَ الْجَبَلِ وَهُوَ مَا بَرِحَ يَشْتَعِلُ بِالنَّارِ، وَلَوْحَا الْعَهْدِ فِي يَدَيَّ. | ١٥ |
16 I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which Yahweh had commanded you.
| وَتَطَلَّعْتُ وَإذَا بِكُمْ قَدْ أَخْطَأْتُمْ إِلَى الرَّبِّ، وَصُغْتُمْ لأَنْفُسِكُمْ عِجْلاً مَسْبُوكاً، وَضَلَلْتُمْ سَرِيعاً عَنِ السَّبِيلِ الَّذِي أَوْصَاكُمْ بِهِ الرَّبُّ. | ١٦ |
17 I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
| فَأَخَذْتُ اللَّوْحَيْنِ وَأَلْقَيْتُهُمَا مِنْ يَدَيَّ وَحَطَّمْتُهُمَا أَمَامَ أَعْيُنِكُمْ. | ١٧ |
18 I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
| ثُمَّ انْطَرَحْتُ بِذُلٍّ أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ أَرْبَعِينَ نَهَاراً وَأَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً، كَمَا فِي السَّابِقِ، لَا آكُلُ خُبْزاً وَلا أَشْرَبُ مَاءً، مِنْ جَرَّاءِ كُلِّ خَطَايَاكُمُ الَّتِي ارْتَكَبْتُمُوهَا فِي عَيْنَيِ الرَّبِّ لِتُغِيظُوهُ، | ١٨ |
19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.
| لأَنَّنِي جَزِعْتُ مِنْ غَضَبِ الرَّبِّ وَاحْتِدَامِ سَخَطِهِ عَلَيْكُمْ، حَتَّى أَوْشَكَ أَنْ يُبِيدَكُمْ. فَاسْتَجَابَ لِيَ الرَّبُّ أَيْضاً فِي تِلْكَ الْمَرَّةِ. | ١٩ |
20 Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
| كَمَا غَضِبَ الرَّبُّ عَلَى هرُونَ أَيْضاً حَتَّى كَادَ أَنْ يُهْلِكَهُ، فَصَلَّيْتُ مِنْ أَجْلِهِ حِينَئِذٍ، فَقَبِلَ الرَّبُّ تَضَرُّعِي. | ٢٠ |
21 I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
| أَمَّا خَطِيئَتُكُمْ، الْعِجْلُ الَّذِي سَبَكْتُمُوهُ، فَقَدْ أَخَذْتُهُ وَأَحْرَقْتُهُ وَدَقَقْتُهُ وَطَحَنْتُهُ جَيِّداً، حَتَّى اسْتَحَالَ إِلَى تُرَابٍ، ثُمَّ طَرَحْتُ غُبَارَهُ فِي النَّهْرِ الْمُنْحَدِرِ مِنَ الْجَبَلِ. | ٢١ |
22 At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
| وَمَا لَبِثْتُمْ أَنْ أَسْخَطْتُمُ الرَّبَّ فِي تَبْعِيرَةَ وَمَسَّةَ وَقَبْرُوتَ هَتَّأَوَةَ. | ٢٢ |
23 When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn’t believe him or listen to his voice.
| وَحِينَ أَرْسَلَكُمُ الرَّبُّ مِنْ قَادَشَ بَرْنِيعَ وَأَمَرَ: اصْعَدُوا لامْتِلاكِ الأَرْضِ الَّتِي وَهَبْتُهَا لَكُمْ، عَصَيْتُمْ أَمْرَ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِكُمْ وَلَمْ تُصَدِّقُوهُ، وَلَمْ تَأْتَمِرُوا بِقَوْلِهِ، | ٢٣ |
24 You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.
| فَأَنْتُمْ حَقّاً مُتَمَرِّدُونَ عَلَى الرَّبِّ مُنْذُ أَنْ عَرَفْتُكُمْ. | ٢٤ |
25 So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
| فَسَقَطْتُ أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ أَرْبَعِينَ نَهَاراً وَأَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً، لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ أَعْلَنَ أَنَّهُ عَازِمٌ أَنْ يَقْضِيَ عَلَيْكُمْ. | ٢٥ |
26 I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
| وَابْتَهَلْتُ إِلَى الرَّبِّ قَائِلاً: يَا سَيِّدُ الرَّبُّ، لَا تُهْلِكْ شَعْبَكَ وَمِيرَاثَكَ الَّذِي افْتَدَيْتَهُ بِقُوَّتِكَ الْعَظِيمَةِ، وَأَخْرَجْتَهُ مِنْ مِصْرَ بِقُدْرَةٍ فَائِقَةٍ. | ٢٦ |
27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,
| اُذْكُرْ عَبِيدَكَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَإِسْحَاقَ وَيَعْقُوبَ، وَتَغَاضَ عَنْ عِنَادِ هَذَا الشَّعْبِ وَإِثْمِهِ وَخَطِيئَتِهِ، | ٢٧ |
28 lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
| لِئَلّا يَقُولَ أَهْلُ مِصْرَ الَّذِينَ أَخْرَجْتَنَا مِنْ بَيْنِهِمْ: لَقَدْ أَخْرَجَهُمُ الرَّبُّ لِيُهْلِكَهُمْ فِي الْبَرِّيَّةِ، لأَنَّهُ عَجَزَ عَنْ إِدْخَالِهِمْ إِلَى الأَرْضِ الَّتِي وَعَدَهُمْ بِها، وَلأَنَّهُ مَقَتَهُمْ. | ٢٨ |
29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”
| إِنَّهُمْ شَعْبُكَ وَمِيرَاثُكَ الَّذِي أَخْرَجْتَهُ بِقُوَّتِكَ الْعَظِيمَةِ وَقُدْرَتِكَ الْفَائِقَةِ. | ٢٩ |
