Torati 29
1 Haya ni maneno ambayo Yahwe alimuamuru Musa kuwaambia watu wa Israeli katika nchi ya Moabu, maneno ambayo yaliongezwa katika agano alilolifanya pamoja nao kule Horebu.
These are the words of the covenant which the LORD 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.
2 Musa aliwaita Waisraeli wote na kuwaambia, “Mmeona kila kitu ambacho Yahwe alifanya mbele ya macho yenu katika nchi ya Misri kwa Farao, kwa watumishi wake wote, na kwa nchi yake yote –
Moses called to all Israel, and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the LORD did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
3 mateso makubwa ambayo macho yenu yaliona, ishara, pamoja na ile miujiza mikubwa.
the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.
4 Lakini mpaka leo Yahwe hajawapatia moyo wa kufahamu, macho ya kuona, au masikio ya kusikia.
But the LORD has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
5 Nimewaongoza kwa miaka arobaini jangwani; mavazi yenu hayakuchakaa juu yenu, na ndala zenu hazikuchakaa miguuni mwenu.
I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet.
6 Hamkula mkate wowote, na wala hamkunywa divai yoyote au kinywaji chochote chenye ulevi, ili kwamba muweze kujua kuwa mimi ni Yahwe Mungu wenu.
You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.
7 Mlipokuja mahali hapa, Sihoni, mfalme wa Heshboni, na Ogu, mfalme wa Bashani, walikuja dhidi yetu kutupiga, na tukawapiga.
When 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.
8 Tulichukua ardhi yao na kuwapa kama urithi Wareubeni, kwa Wagadi, na kwa nusu ya kabila ya Manase.
We took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
9 Kwa hiyo shikilia maneno ya agano hili na kuyatenda, ili ufanikiwe katika kila kitu ufanyacho.
Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
10 Nyie wote, mnasimama leo, mbele ya Yahwe Mungu wenu; machifu wenu, makabila yenu, wazee wenu, na maafisa wenu – wanaume wote wa Israeli,
All of you stand today in the presence of the LORD your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
11 watoto wenu, wake zenu, na wageni ambao wamo miongoni wa kambi yenu, kutoka kwa yule anayekata mbao zenu mpaka kwa yule atekaye maji.
your 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,
12 Mpo hapa ili kwamba muingie katika agano la Yahwe Mungu wenu na katika kiapo ambacho Yahwe Mungu wako anafanya na wewe leo,
that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you today,
13 ili kwamba awafanye leo kuwa watu wake, na kwamba aweze kuwa Mungu kwa ajili yako, kama alivyonena kwako, na kama alivyoapa kwa mababu zako, kwa Abrahamu, kwa Isaka na kwa Yakobo.
that 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.
14 Kwa maana ninafanya agano hili na kiapo hiki sio na wewe tu –
Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,
15 pamoja kila mtu aliyesimama hapa pamoja nasi leo mbele ya Yahwe Mungu wetu – bali na wale ambao hawapo pamoja nasi leo pia.
but with those who stand here with us today before the LORD our God, and also with those who are not here with us today
16 Unajua jinsi tulivyoishi katika nchi ya Misri, na jinsi tulivyopenya miongoni mwa mataifa ambao uliwapita.
(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;
17 Mmeona sanamu zao zinazokera zilizotengenezwa kwa mbao na mawe, fedha na dhahabu, ambazo zilikuwa miongoni mwenu.
and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were amongst them);
18 Hakikisha hakuna kati yenu mwanamume, mwanamke, ukoo, au kabila ambaye moyo wake unamuacha Yahwe Mungu wetu leo, ili kwenda na kuabudu miungu ya mataifa hayo. Hakikisha hakuna kati yenu mzizi utakaozaa nyongo na pakanga.
lest there should be amongst you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be amongst you a root that produces bitter poison;
19 Wakati mtu huyo anaposikia maneno ya laana hii, atajifariji moyoni mwake na kusema, “Nitakuwa na amani, ingawa natembea katika ukaidi wa moyo wangu”. Hii itaangamiza ubichi pamoja na ukavu.
and 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.
20 Yahwe hatamsamehe, lakini badala yake, hasira ya Yahwe na wivu wake utambanika mtu huyo, na laana zote zilizoandikwa katika kitabu hiki vitakuwa juu yake, na Yahwe ataliondoa jina lake kutoka mbinguni.
The LORD will not pardon him, but then the LORD’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 the LORD will blot out his name from under the sky.
21 Yahwe atamuweka kando kwa ajili ya maafa kutoka katika makabila yote ya Israeli, kwa kuzingatia laana zote za agano ambazo zimeandikwa katika kitabu hiki cha sheria.
The LORD will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.
22 Kizazi kifuatacho, watoto wako watakaoinuka baada yako, na mgeni atakayekuja kutoka nchi ya mbali, watazungumza watakapoona mapigo juu ya nchi hii na magonjwa ambayo Yahwe ameyafanya yawe –
The 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 the LORD has made it sick,
23 na watakapoona kuwa nchi yote imekuwa salfa na chumvi ichomayo, ambapo hakuna kitu kipandwacho au kuzaa matunda, ambapo hapaoti mmea wowote, kama anguko la Sodoma na Gomora, Adma na Seboimu, ambayo Yahwe aliangamiza katika ghadhabu na hasira yake –
that all of its land is sulphur, 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 the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.
24 watasema kwa pamoja na mataifa mengine, “Kwa nini Yahwe amefanya hili katika nchi hii? Joto ya hasira hii kali inamaanisha nini?”
Even all the nations will say, “Why has the LORD done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”
25 Kisha watu watasema, “Ni kwa sababu walitelekeza agano la Yahwe, Mungu wa mababu zao, alilofanya nao alipowatoa kutoka Misri,
Then men will say, “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,
26 na kwa sababu waliondoka na kutumikia miungu mingine na kuzisujudu, miungu ambayo hawakujiua na ambayo hakuwapatia.
and went and served other gods and worshipped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them.
27 Kwa hiyo hasira ya Yahwe imewaka dhidi ya nchi hii, ili kuleta juu yake laana zote zilizoandikwa katika kitabu hiki.
Therefore the LORD’s anger burnt against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book.
28 Yahwe amewang’oa kutoka nchini kwao kwa hasira, kwa ghadhanu, na kwa ghadhabu kali, na kuwatupa katika nchi nyingine, leo.
The LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”
29 Mambo ya siri ni ya Yahwe Mungu wetu pekee; lakini mambo yaliyofichuliwa ni ya kwetu milele pamoja na wazawa wetu, ili tufanye maneno yote ya sheria hii.
The secret things belong to the LORD 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.
