تَثنِيَة 8

١ 1 فَاحْفَظُوا جَمِيعَ الْوَصَايَا الَّتِي أُوصِيكُمْ بِها الْيَوْمَ لِتُمَارِسُوهَا، فَتَحْيَوْا وَتَتَكَاثَرُوا وَتَدْخُلُوا لامْتِلاكِ الأَرْضِ الَّتِي أَقْسَمَ الرَّبُّ عَلَيْهَا لِآبَائِكُمْ.

You must take care to follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and have many descendants, and go in and take over the country the Lord promised to give to your fore fathers.

٢ 2 وَتَذَكَّرُوا كَيْفَ قَادَكُمُ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكُمْ فِي كُلِّ طَرِيقِ الصَّحْرَاءِ هَذِهِ الأَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً لِيُذِلَّكُمْ وَيَمْتَحِنَكُمْ، فَيَعْرِفَ مَا فِي قُلُوبِكُمْ: إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَحْفَظُونَ أَوَامِرَهُ أَمْ تَعْصَوْنَهُ.

Remember how for these forty years the Lord your God has led you all the way through the desert, humbling you and testing you in order to find out what you were really thinking, and whether or not you would keep his commandments.

٣ 3 فَأَذَلَّكُمْ ثُمَّ أَجَاعَكُمْ وَأَطْعَمَكُمُ الْمَنَّ الَّذِي لَمْ تَكُونُوا تَعْرِفُونَهُ، لَا أَنْتُمْ وَلا آبَاؤُكُمْ لِيُعَلِّمَكُمْ أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ بِالْخُبْزِ وَحْدَهُ يَحْيَا الإِنْسَانُ، بَلْ بِكُلِّ كَلِمَةٍ يَنْطِقُ بِها فَمُ الرَّبِّ.

He humbled you, and when you were hungry he gave you manna to eat, which nobody, including you and your forefathers, had ever had before This was in order to make it clear to you that human beings do not live by only eating bread, but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

٤ 4 وَفِي غُضُونِ الأَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً لَمْ تَبْلَ ثِيَابُكُمْ عَلَيْكُمْ، وَلَمْ تَتَوَرَّمْ أَقْدَامُكُمْ.

During these forty years your clothing didn't wear out and your feet didn't swell up.

٥ 5 فَاعْلَمُوا إِذاً فِي قُلُوبِكُمْ أَنَّ الرَّبَّ إِلَهَكُمْ قَدْ أَدَّبَكُمْ كَمَا يُؤَدِّبُ الْمَرْءُ ابْنَهُ.

So you should realize that just as a parent disciplines their child, so the Lord your God disciplines you.

٦ 6 فَأَطِيعُوا وَصَايَا الرَّبِّ إِلَهِكُمْ لِتَسْلُكُوا فِي سُبُلِهِ وَاتَّقُوهُ.

That's why you have to keep the commandments of the Lord your God, following his ways and respecting him.

٧ 7 لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ إِلَهَكُمْ آتٍ بِكُمْ إِلَى أَرْضٍ خَصِيبَةٍ، تَكْثُرُ فِيهَا الأَنْهَارُ وَالآبَارُ، وَعُيُونُ مَاءٍ تَتَدَفَّقُ فِي الْوِدْيَانِ وَالْجِبَالِ.

For the Lord your God is taking you to a good country. It's a land of streams and pools and springs that flow through the valleys and down the hills;

٨ 8 إِلَى أَرْضِ قَمْحٍ وَشَعِيرٍ وَكُرُومٍ وَتِينٍ وَرُمَّانٍ وَزَيْتُونٍ وَعَسَلٍ.

It's a land that produces wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey.

٩ 9 إِلَى أَرْضٍ لَا تَأْكُلُونَ بِالذُّلِّ خُبْزَكُمْ وَلا يُعْوِزُكُمْ فِيهَا شَيْءٌ. هِيَ أَرْضٌ يَتَوَافَرُ فِي حِجَارَتِهَا الْحَدِيدُ، وَمِنْ جِبَالِهَا تَسْتَخْرِجُونَ النُّحَاسَ.

It's a land where you won't run out of food, where you will have everything you need; a land whose rocks contain iron ore and whose hills can be mined for copper.

١٠ 10 فَمَتَى أَكَلْتُمْ وَشَبِعْتُمْ بَارِكُوا الرَّبَّ إِلَهَكُمُ الَّذِي وَهَبَكُمْ هَذِهِ الأَرْضَ الْخَصِيبَةَ.

When you eat and are full, make sure you thank the Lord your God for the good land that he's given you.

١١ 11 إِيَّاكُمْ نِسْيَانَ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِكُمْ وَإِهْمَالَ وَصَايَاهُ وَأَحْكَامِهِ وَفَرَائِضِهِ الَّتِي أُوصِيكُمُ الْيَوْمَ بِها،

Make sure you don't forget the Lord your God by disobeying his commandments and rules and regulations that I'm giving you today.

١٢ 12 لِئَلّا إِذَا أَكَلْتُمْ وَشَبِعْتُمْ وَبَنَيْتُمْ بُيُوتاً جَمِيلَةً سَكَنْتُمُوهَا،

For when you eat and are full, when you build beautiful houses to live in,

١٣ 13 وَتَكَاثَرَتْ أَبْقَارُكُمْ وَغَنَمُكُمْ وَذَهَبُكُمْ وَجَمِيعُ مَا لَكُمْ.

and when your herds and flocks grow larger, and your silver and gold accumulates, and all your possessions increase,

١٤ 14 تَتَكَبَّرُ قُلُوبُكُمْ وَتَنْسَوْنَ الرَّبَّ إِلَهَكُمُ الَّذِي أَطْلَقَكُمْ مِنْ نِيرِ عُبُودِيَّةِ دِيَارِ مِصْرَ،

then you will become proud, and you will forget the Lord your God who led you out of Egypt, out of the prison-house of slavery.

١٥ 15 وَقَادَكُمْ فِي الصَّحْرَاءِ الشَّاسِعَةِ الْمَهُولَةِ، حَيْثُ تَكْمُنُ أَفَاعٍ سَامَّةٌ وَعَقَارِبُ وَعَطَشٌ لِخُلُوِّهَا مِنَ الْمَاءِ، فَفَجَّرَ لَكُمْ مَاءً مِنْ صَخْرَةِ الصَّوَّانِ.

He guided you through the immense and terrifying desert with its poisonous snakes and scorpions—a dried up, waterless land. He brought water for you out of a flint rock.

١٦ 16 الَّذِي أَطْعَمَكُمْ فِي الصَّحْرَاءِ الْمَنَّ الَّذِي لَمْ يَعْرِفْهُ آبَاؤُكُمْ لِيُذِلَّكُمْ وَيَمْتَحِنَكُمْ، فَيُحْسِنَ إِلَيْكُمْ فِي آخِرَتِكُمْ،

He fed you in the desert with manna that your forefathers had never known, humbling you and testing you, so that eventually you would do well in the future.

١٧ 17 خَوْفاً مِنْ أَنْ تَقُولُوا فِي قُلُوبِكُمْ: لَقَدْ أَحْرَزْنَا هَذَا الثَّرَاءَ بِفَضْلِ قُوَّتِنَا وَقُدْرَةِ أَيْدِينَا.

You might think to yourselves, “I became rich through all my hard work.”

١٨ 18 وَلَكِنِ اذْكُرُوا أَنَّ الرَّبَّ إِلَهَكُمْ هُوَ الَّذِي يَمْنَحُكُمُ الْقُوَّةَ لإِحْرَازِ الثَّرْوَةِ، وَفَاءً بِوَعْدِهِ الَّذِي أَقْسَمَ عَلَيْهِ لِآبَائِكُمْ كَمَا فِي هَذَا الْيَوْمِ.

But remember it's the Lord your God who gives you the ability to become rich, in order to fulfill his agreement he promised to your forefathers that still exists today.

١٩ 19 أَمَّا إِنْ نَسِيتُمُ الرَّبَّ إِلَهَكُمْ، وَغَوَيْتُمْ وَرَاءَ آلِهَةٍ أُخْرَى وَعَبَدْتُمُوهَا وَسَجَدْتُمْ لَهَا، فَإِنَّنِي أُشْهِدُ عَلَيْكُمْ أَنَّكُمْ لَا مَحَالَةَ هَالِكُونَ.

If you ever forget the Lord your God, and run after other gods, worshiping and bowing down to them, I assure you right now that you will definitely die!

٢٠ 20 كَالأُمَمِ الَّتِي يُبِيدُهَا الرَّبُّ مِنْ أَمَامِكُمْ هَكَذَا أَنْتُمْ أَيْضاً تَبِيدُونَ، لأَنَّكُمْ لَمْ تُطِيعُوا أَمْرَ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِكُمْ.

In the same way the Lord destroyed the nations as you advanced, you will also die if you don't obey the Lord your God.