Deuteronomy 29

1 These [are] the words of the covenant which YHWH has commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, apart from the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.

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

2 And Moses calls to all Israel and says to them, “You have seen all that which YHWH has done before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land—

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

3 the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders.

٣ بِأَعْيُنِكُمْ أَبْصَرْتُمْ تِلْكَ التَّجَارِبَ الْهَائِلَةَ وَالآيَاتِ وَالْعَجَائِبَ الْعَظِيمَةَ.

4 And YHWH has not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.

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

5 And I cause you to go in a wilderness [for] forty years; your garments have not been consumed from off you, and your shoe has not worn away from off your foot;

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

6 you have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine and strong drink, so that you know that I [am] your God YHWH.

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

7 And you come to this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon—also Og king of Bashan—comes out to meet us to battle, and we strike them,

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

8 and take their land, and give it for an inheritance to the Reubenite, and to the Gadite, and to the half of the tribe of the Manassite;

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

9 and you have kept the words of this covenant and done them, so that you cause all that you do to prosper.

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

10 You are standing today, all of you, before your God YHWH: your heads, your tribes, your elderly, and your authorities, every man of Israel,

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

11 your infants, your wives, and your sojourner who [is] in the midst of your camps, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water,

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

12 for your passing over into the covenant of your God YHWH, and into His oath which your God YHWH is making with you today,

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

13 in order to establish you to Himself for a people today, and He Himself is your God, as He has spoken to you, and as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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

14 And I am not making this covenant and this oath with you alone,

١٤ وَلَسْتٌ أَقْطَعُ هَذَا الْعَهْدَ وَهَذَا الْقَسَمَ مَعَكُمْ وَحْدَكُمْ،

15 but with him who is here with us, standing before our God YHWH today, and with him who is not here with us today,

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

16 for you have known how you dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we passed by through the midst of the nations which you have passed by;

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

17 and you see their abominations, and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, which [are] with them,

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

18 lest there be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart is turning from our God YHWH today, to go to serve the gods of those nations, lest there be in you a root bearing the fruit of gall and wormwood;

١٨ 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.

19 and it has been, in his hearing the words of this oath, that he has blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though I go on in the stubbornness of my heart—in order to sweep away the watered with the thirsty.

١٩ 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.

20 YHWH is not willing to be propitious to him, for then the anger of YHWH smokes, also His zeal, against that man, and all the oath which is written in this scroll has lain down on him, and YHWH has blotted out his name from under the heavens,

٢٠ 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.

21 and YHWH has separated him for calamity out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the oaths of the covenant which is written in this Scroll of the Law.

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

22 And the latter generation of your sons who rise after you, and the stranger who comes in from a far-off land, have said, when they have seen the strokes of that land and its sicknesses which YHWH has sent into it:

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

23 The whole land is burned [with] brimstone and salt, it is not sown, nor does it shoot up, nor does any herb go up on it there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which YHWH overturned in His anger and in His fury.

٢٣ 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.

24 Indeed, all the nations have said, Why has YHWH done thus to this land? Why the heat of this great anger?

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

25 And they have said, Because that they have forsaken the covenant of YHWH, God of their fathers, which He made with them in His bringing them out of the land of Egypt,

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

26 and they go and serve other gods, and bow themselves to them—gods which they have not known, and which He has not apportioned to them;

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

27 and the anger of YHWH burns against that land, to bring in on it all the reviling that is written in this scroll,

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

28 and YHWH plucks them from off their ground in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath, and casts them into another land, as [at] this day.

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

29 The things hidden [belong] to our God YHWH, and the things revealed [belong] to us and to our sons for all time, to do all the words of this law.”

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