تَثنِيَة 29

١ 1 وَهَذِهِ هِيَ نُصُوصُ الْعَهْدِ الَّذِي أَمَرَ الرَّبُّ مُوسَى بِأَنْ يُبْرِمَهُ مَعَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ فِي سُهُولِ مُوآبَ، فَضْلاً عَنِ الْعَهْدِ الَّذِي قَطَعَهُ مَعَهُمْ فِي حُورِيبَ.

These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

٢ 2 اسْتَدْعَى مُوسَى جَمِيعَ الإِسْرَائِيلِيِّينَ وَقَالَ لَهُمْ: لَقَدْ شَاهَدْتُمْ بِأَعْيُنِكُمْ مَا أَجْرَاهُ الرَّبُّ فِي دِيَارِ مِصْرَ بِفِرْعَوْنَ وَسَائِرِ عَبِيدِهِ وَبِكُلِّ أَرْضِهِ.

Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;

٣ 3 بِأَعْيُنِكُمْ أَبْصَرْتُمْ تِلْكَ التَّجَارِبَ الْهَائِلَةَ وَالآيَاتِ وَالْعَجَائِبَ الْعَظِيمَةَ.

the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders:

٤ 4 وَلَكِنَّ الرَّبَّ لَمْ يُعْطِكُمْ حَتَّى الآنَ قُلُوباً لِتَعُوا وَعُيُوناً لِتُبْصِرُوا وَآذَاناً لِتَسْمَعُوا.

but the LORD has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

٥ 5 لَقَدْ قُدْتُكُمْ فِي الْبَرِّيَّةِ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً، لَمْ تَبْلَ فِيهَا ثِيَابُكُمْ عَلَيْكُمْ، وَلَمْ تَهْتَرِئْ نِعَالُكُمْ عَلَى أَرْجُلِكُمْ.

I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your shoes have not worn out on your feet.

٦ 6 لَمْ تَأْكُلُوا فِي خِلالِهَا خُبْزاً وَلَمْ تَشْرَبُوا خَمْراً أَوْ مُسْكِراً لَكِنِّي أَشْبَعْتُكُمْ بِمَا وَفَّرْتُهُ لَكُمْ مِنْ طَعَامٍ وَمَاءٍ، لِكَيْ تَعْلَمُوا أَنِّي أَنَا الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكُمْ.

You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am the LORD your God.

٧ 7 وَعِنْدَمَا بَلَغْتُمْ هَذَا الْمَوْضِعَ تَأَهَّبَ سِيحُونُ مَلِكُ حَشْبُونَ وَعُوجُ مَلِكُ بَاشَانَ لِحَرْبِنَا، فَدَحَرْنَاهُمَا

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:

٨ 8 وَاسْتَوْلَيْنَا عَلَى أَرْضِهِمَا، وَقَسَمْنَاهَا عَلَى سِبْطَيْ رَأُوبَيْنَ وَجَادٍ وَنِصْفِ سِبْطِ مَنَسَّى.

and 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.

٩ 9 فَأَطِيعُوا نُصُوصَ هَذَا الْعَهْدِ وَاعْمَلُوا بِها، لِتُفْلِحُوا فِي كُلِّ مَا تَصْنَعُونَهُ.

Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

١٠ 10 أَنْتُمْ مَاثِلُونَ الْيَوْمَ جَمِيعُكُمْ فِي حَضْرَةِ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِكُمْ: رُؤَسَاؤُكُمْ وَقَادَةُ أَسْبَاطِكُمْ وَعُرَفَاؤُكُمْ وَسَائِرُ رِجَالِ إِسْرَائِيلَ،

You stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

١١ 11 وَأَطْفَالُكُمْ وَنِسَاؤُكُمْ، وَالْغُرَبَاءُ الْمُقِيمُونَ فِى وَسَطِكُمْ، مِمَّنْ يَحْتَطِبُ لَكُمْ وَيَسْتَقِي لَكُمْ مَاءَكُمْ،

your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;

١٢ 12 لِتَدْخُلُوا فِي عَهْدِ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِكُمْ وَقَسَمِهِ الَّذِي يُبْرِمُهُ الرَّبُّ مَعَكُمُ الْيَوْمَ،

that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you this day,

١٣ 13 وَلِيُثَبِّتَكُمُ الْيَوْمَ لِنَفْسِهِ شَعْباً، فَيَكُونُ لَكُمْ إِلَهاً كَمَا وَعَدَكُمْ وَكَمَا حَلَفَ لِآبَائِكُمْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَإِسْحَاقَ وَيَعْقُوبَ.

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

١٤ 14 وَلَسْتٌ أَقْطَعُ هَذَا الْعَهْدَ وَهَذَا الْقَسَمَ مَعَكُمْ وَحْدَكُمْ،

Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,

١٥ 15 بَلْ فَضْلاً عَنْكُمْ أَنْتُمُ الْمَاثِلِينَ الْيَوْمَ أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِنَا، فَإِنَّنِي أُبْرِمُهُ أَيْضاً مَعَ الأَجْيَالِ الْقَادِمَةِ.

but with him who stands here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day

١٦ 16 لأَنَّكُمْ قَدْ عَرَفْتُمْ كَيْفَ أَقَمْنَا فِي دِيَارِ مِصْرَ، وَكَيْفَ جُزْنَا فِيمَا بَيْنَ الأُمَمِ الَّذِينَ عَبَرْتُمْ بِهِمْ،

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

١٧ 17 وَشَهِدْتُمْ أَرجَاسَهُمْ وَمَا لَدَيْهِمْ مِنْ أَصْنَامٍ مَصْنُوعَةٍ مِنْ خَشَبٍ وَحَجَرٍ وَفِضَّةٍ وَذَهَبٍ،

and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

١٨ 18 لِئَلّا يَكُونَ بَيْنَكُمْ رَجُلٌ أَوِ امْرَأَةٌ أَوْ عَشِيرَةٌ أَوْ سِبْطٌ مَالَ قَلْبُهُ عَنِ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِنَا، فَغَوَى لِيَعْبُدَ آلِهَةَ تِلْكَ الأَمَمِ. فَاحْرِصُوا أَلّا يَكُونَ بَيْنَكُمْ مَنْ تَأَصَّلَ فِيهِ الشَّرُّ، فَيَحْمِلَ ثَمَراً عَلْقَماً سَامّاً.

lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;

١٩ 19 فَإِنْ سَمِعَ كَلامَ هَذَا الْقَسَمِ يَسْتَمْطِرُ بَرَكَةً عَلَى نَفْسِهِ قَائِلاً: «سَأَكُونُ آمِناً حَتَّى وَلَوْ أَصْرَرْتُ عَلَى الاسْتِمْرَارِ فِى سُلُوكِ طَرِيقِي». إِنَّ هَذَا يُفْضِي إِلَى فَنَاءِ الأَخْضَرِ وَاليَابِسِ عَلَى حَدٍّ سَوَاءٍ.

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."

٢٠ 20 إِنَّ الرَّبَّ لَا يَشَاءُ الرِّفْقَ بِمِثْلِ هَذَا الإِنْسَانِ، بَلْ يَحْتَدِمُ غَضَبُهُ وَغَيْرَتُهُ عَلَيْهِ، فَتَنْزِلُ بِهِ كُلُّ اللَّعْنَاتِ الْمُدَوَّنَةِ فِي هَذَا الْكِتَابِ، وَيَمْحُو اسْمَهُ مِنْ تَحْتِ السَّمَاءِ.

God will not be willing to forgive him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book shall rest on him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.

٢١ 21 وَيُفْرِزُهُ الرَّبُّ مِنْ بَيْنِ أَسْبَاطِ إِسْرَائِيلَ لِيُهْلِكَهُ بِمُقْتَضَى جَمِيعِ لَعْنَاتِ الْعَهْدِ الْمُدَوَّنَةِ فِي كِتَابِ الشَّرِيعَةِ هَذَا.

The LORD will set him apart to 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.

٢٢ 22 فَيُشَاهِدُ أَبْنَاؤُكُمْ مِنَ الأَجْيَالِ الْقَادِمَةِ، وَالْغُرَبَاءُ الْوَافِدُونَ مِنْ أَرْضٍ بَعِيدَةٍ بَلايَا تِلْكَ الأَرْضِ وَمَا يُصِيبُهَا الرَّبُّ بِهِ مِنْ أَمْرَاضٍ،

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

٢٣ 23 إِذْ تُصْبِحُ جَمِيعُ الأَرْضِ كِبْرِيتاً، مُحْتَرِقَةً لَا زَرْعَ فِيهَا وَلا نَبَاتَ وَلا عُشْبَ، وَكَأَنَّهَا انْقَلَبَتْ كَمَا جَرَى لِسَدُومَ وَعَمُورَةَ وَأَدْمَةَ وَصَبُوِييمَ، الَّتِي قَلَبَهَا الرَّبُّ مِنْ جَرَّاءِ غَضَبِهِ وَسَخَطِهِ.

and that the whole land of it is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

٢٤ 24 فَتَقُولُ جَمِيعُ الأَمَمِ: لِمَاذَا فَعَلَ الرَّبُّ هَذَا كُلَّهُ بِهَذِهِ الأَرْضِ؟ وَلِمَاذَا احْتِدَامُ هَذَا الْغَضَبِ الْعَظِيمِ؟

even all the nations shall say, "Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?"

٢٥ 25 فَيَكُونُ الْجَوَابُ: لأَنَّ هَذَا الشَّعْبَ نَقَضَ عَهْدَ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِ آبَائِهِمِ الَّذِي قَطَعَهُ مَعَهُمْ حِينَ أَخْرَجَهُمْ مِنْ دِيَارِ مِصْرَ،

Then men shall say, "Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,

٢٦ 26 وَغَوَوْا وَعَبَدُوا آلِهَةً أُخْرَى وَسَجَدُوا لَهَا، آلِهَةً غَرِيبَةً لَمْ يَعْرِفُوهَا وَلَمْ يُعْطِهَا الرَّبُّ لَهُمْ،

and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they did not know, and that he had not given to them:

٢٧ 27 فَالْتَهَبَ غَضَبُ الرَّبِّ عَلَى تِلْكَ الأَرْضِ، فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهَا كُلَّ اللَّعْنَاتِ الْمُدَوَّنَةِ فِى هَذَا الْكِتَابِ

therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book;

٢٨ 28 وَاجْتَثَّهُمْ مِنْ أَرْضِهِمْ بِغَضَبٍ وَسَخَطٍ وَغَيْظٍ عَظِيمٍ، وَطَوَّحَ بِهِمْ إِلَى أَرْضٍ أُخْرَى كَمَا هُوَ حَادِثٌ الْيَوْمَ.

and the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day."

٢٩ 29 إِنَّ السَّرَائِرَ لِلرَّبِّ إِلَهِنَا، أَمَّا الْوَصَايَا الْمُعْلَنَةُ فَهِيَ لَنَا ولأَبْنَائِنَا إِلَى الأَبَدِ، لِنَعْمَلَ بِجَمِيعِ كَلِمَاتِ هَذِهِ الشَّرِيعَةِ.

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.