تَثنِيَة 9

١ 1 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،

Hear, Israel; you are about to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, and cities that are great and fortified up to heaven,

٢ 2 يُقِيمُ فِيهَا الْعَنَاقِيُّونَ الْجَبَابِرَةُ الْعَمَالِقَةُ الَّذِينَ عَرَفْتُمْ عَنْهُمْ وَسَمِعْتُمْ مَنْ يَقُولُ: مَنْ يَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ يَتَحَدَّى الْعَنَاقِيِّينَ؟

a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard people say, 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?'

٣ 3 فَاعْلَمُوا الْيَوْمَ أَنَّ الرَّبَّ إِلَهَكُمْ يَتَقَدَّمُكُمْ كَنَارٍ آكِلَةٍ، وَهُوَ الَّذِي يَسْتَأْصِلُهُمْ وَيُذِلُّهُمْ أَمَامَكُمْ، فَتَطْرُدُونَهُمْ وَتُبِيدُونَهُمْ سَرِيعاً كَمَا كَلَّمَكُمُ الرَّبُّ.

Know therefore today that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you like a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will subdue them before you; so will you drive them out and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has said to you.

٤ 4 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.

Do not say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, 'It was because of my righteousness that Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land,' for it was because of the wickedness of these nations that Yahweh is driving them out from before you.

٥ 5 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.

It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that your God is driving them out from before you, and so that he may make come true the word that he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

٦ 6 فَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ بِفَضْلِ صَلاحِكُمْ يَهَبُكُمُ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكُمْ هَذِهِ الأَرْضَ الْخَصِيبَةَ لامْتِلاكِهَا، لأَنَّكُمْ شَعْبٌ عَنِيدٌ.

Know therefore, that Yahweh your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.

٧ 7 اُذْكُرُوا وَلا تَنْسَوْا كَيْفَ أَسْخَطْتُمُ الرَّبَّ إِلَهَكُمْ عَلَيْكُمْ فِي الصَّحْرَاءِ، فَمُنْذُ أَنْ غَادَرْتُمْ دِيَارَ مِصْرَ حَتَّى بَلَغْتُمْ هَذَا الْمَكَانَ وَأَنْتُمْ تُقَاوِمُونَ الرَّبَّ.

Remember and do not forget how you provoked Yahweh your God to anger 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.

٨ 8 فَفِي جَبَلِ حُورِيبَ أَثَرْتُمْ غَيْظَ الرَّبِّ، فَاحْتَدَمَ غَضَبُهُ عَلَيْكُمْ حَتَّى أَوْشَكَ أَنْ يُفْنِيَكُمْ.

Also at Horeb you provoked Yahweh to anger, and Yahweh was angry enough with you to destroy you.

٩ 9 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،

When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that Yahweh made with you, I stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.

١٠ 10 وَسَلَّمَنِي الرَّبُّ لَوْحَيِ الْحَجَرِ الْمَكْتُوبَيْنِ بِأَصْبَعِ اللهِ، حَيْثُ خَطَّ عَلَيْهِمَا جَمِيعَ الْوَصَايَا الَّتِي كَلَّمَكُمْ بِها الرَّبُّ فِي الْجَبَلِ مِنْ وَسَطِ النَّارِ فِي يَوْمِ الاجْتِمَاعِ.

Yahweh gave to me the two tablets of stone written with his finger; on them was written everything just like all the words that Yahweh announced to you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire on the day of the assembly.

١١ 11 وَحِينَ أَعْطَانِي الرَّبُّ لَوْحَيْ حَجَرِ الْعَهْدِ فِي نِهَايَةِ الأَرْبَعِينَ نَهَاراً وَالأَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً،

It happened at the end of those forty days and forty nights that Yahweh gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

١٢ 12 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.

Yahweh said to me, 'Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside out of the path that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a cast figure.'

١٣ 13 ثُمَّ قَالَ لِي: قَدْ تَأَمَّلْتُ هَذَا الشَّعْبَ وَإِذْ بِهِ شَعْبٌ مُتَصَلِّبُ الْقَلْبِ.

Furthermore, Yahweh spoke to me and said, 'I have seen this people; they are a stubborn people.

١٤ 14 دَعْنِي أَسْتَأْصِلُهُمْ وَأَمْحُو اسْمَهُمْ مِنْ تَحْتِ السَّمَاءِ، وَأُقِيمُ مِنْكَ شَعْباً أَعْظَمَ وَأَكْثَرَ مِنْهُمْ.

Let me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven, and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'

١٥ 15 فَانْصَرَفْتُ، وَانْحَدَرْتُ مِنَ الْجَبَلِ وَهُوَ مَا بَرِحَ يَشْتَعِلُ بِالنَّارِ، وَلَوْحَا الْعَهْدِ فِي يَدَيَّ.

So I turned around and came down the mountain, and the mountain was burning. The two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

١٦ 16 وَتَطَلَّعْتُ وَإذَا بِكُمْ قَدْ أَخْطَأْتُمْ إِلَى الرَّبِّ، وَصُغْتُمْ لأَنْفُسِكُمْ عِجْلاً مَسْبُوكاً، وَضَلَلْتُمْ سَرِيعاً عَنِ السَّبِيلِ الَّذِي أَوْصَاكُمْ بِهِ الرَّبُّ.

I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had molded for yourselves a calf. You had quickly turned aside out of the path that Yahweh had commanded you.

١٧ 17 فَأَخَذْتُ اللَّوْحَيْنِ وَأَلْقَيْتُهُمَا مِنْ يَدَيَّ وَحَطَّمْتُهُمَا أَمَامَ أَعْيُنِكُمْ.

I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands. I broke them before your eyes.

١٨ 18 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،

Again I lay facedown before Yahweh for forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin that you had committed, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, so as to provoke him to anger.

١٩ 19 لأَنَّنِي جَزِعْتُ مِنْ غَضَبِ الرَّبِّ وَاحْتِدَامِ سَخَطِهِ عَلَيْكُمْ، حَتَّى أَوْشَكَ أَنْ يُبِيدَكُمْ. فَاسْتَجَابَ لِيَ الرَّبُّ أَيْضاً فِي تِلْكَ الْمَرَّةِ.

For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which Yahweh was angry enough against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.

٢٠ 20 كَمَا غَضِبَ الرَّبُّ عَلَى هرُونَ أَيْضاً حَتَّى كَادَ أَنْ يُهْلِكَهُ، فَصَلَّيْتُ مِنْ أَجْلِهِ حِينَئِذٍ، فَقَبِلَ الرَّبُّ تَضَرُّعِي.

Yahweh was very angry with Aaron so as to destroy him; I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

٢١ 21 أَمَّا خَطِيئَتُكُمْ، الْعِجْلُ الَّذِي سَبَكْتُمُوهُ، فَقَدْ أَخَذْتُهُ وَأَحْرَقْتُهُ وَدَقَقْتُهُ وَطَحَنْتُهُ جَيِّداً، حَتَّى اسْتَحَالَ إِلَى تُرَابٍ، ثُمَّ طَرَحْتُ غُبَارَهُ فِي النَّهْرِ الْمُنْحَدِرِ مِنَ الْجَبَلِ.

I took your sin, the calf that you had made, and burned it, beat it, and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.

٢٢ 22 وَمَا لَبِثْتُمْ أَنْ أَسْخَطْتُمُ الرَّبَّ فِي تَبْعِيرَةَ وَمَسَّةَ وَقَبْرُوتَ هَتَّأَوَةَ.

At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

٢٣ 23 وَحِينَ أَرْسَلَكُمُ الرَّبُّ مِنْ قَادَشَ بَرْنِيعَ وَأَمَرَ: اصْعَدُوا لامْتِلاكِ الأَرْضِ الَّتِي وَهَبْتُهَا لَكُمْ، عَصَيْتُمْ أَمْرَ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِكُمْ وَلَمْ تُصَدِّقُوهُ، وَلَمْ تَأْتَمِرُوا بِقَوْلِهِ،

When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea and said, 'Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,' then you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you did not believe or listen to his voice.

٢٤ 24 فَأَنْتُمْ حَقّاً مُتَمَرِّدُونَ عَلَى الرَّبِّ مُنْذُ أَنْ عَرَفْتُكُمْ.

You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.

٢٥ 25 فَسَقَطْتُ أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ أَرْبَعِينَ نَهَاراً وَأَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً، لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ أَعْلَنَ أَنَّهُ عَازِمٌ أَنْ يَقْضِيَ عَلَيْكُمْ.

So I lay facedown before Yahweh those forty days and forty nights, because he had said that he would destroy you.

٢٦ 26 وَابْتَهَلْتُ إِلَى الرَّبِّ قَائِلاً: يَا سَيِّدُ الرَّبُّ، لَا تُهْلِكْ شَعْبَكَ وَمِيرَاثَكَ الَّذِي افْتَدَيْتَهُ بِقُوَّتِكَ الْعَظِيمَةِ، وَأَخْرَجْتَهُ مِنْ مِصْرَ بِقُدْرَةٍ فَائِقَةٍ.

I prayed to Yahweh and said, 'O Lord Yahweh, do not destroy your people or your inheritance whom you have redeemed through your greatness, which you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

٢٧ 27 اُذْكُرْ عَبِيدَكَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَإِسْحَاقَ وَيَعْقُوبَ، وَتَغَاضَ عَنْ عِنَادِ هَذَا الشَّعْبِ وَإِثْمِهِ وَخَطِيئَتِهِ،

Call to mind your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,

٢٨ 28 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.

so that the land from where you brought us should say, “Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land that he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.”

٢٩ 29 إِنَّهُمْ شَعْبُكَ وَمِيرَاثُكَ الَّذِي أَخْرَجْتَهُ بِقُوَّتِكَ الْعَظِيمَةِ وَقُدْرَتِكَ الْفَائِقَةِ.

Yet they are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out by your great strength and by the display of your power.'