Deuteronomy 11
1 Therefore you shall love YHWH your God, and keep his instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
Kwa hiyo mtampenda Yahwe Mungu wenu na daima mtashika maelekezo yake, maagizo yake, sheria zake, na amri zake.
2 Know this day: for I do not speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of YHWH your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm,
Kumbuka kwamba siongei kwa watoto wako, ambao hawajajua wala kuona hukumu ya Yahwe Mungu wako, ukuu wake, mkono wake wa uweza, mkono wake ulionyoshwa,
3 and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;
Ishara na matendo ambayo alifanya katikati ya Misri kwa Farao, mfalme Misri, na nchi yake yote.
4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how YHWH has destroyed them to this day;
Wala hawakuona kile alichofanya kwa jeshi la Misri, kwa farasi wao, au magari yao; namna alivyoyafanya maji ya bahari ya Reeds kuwaelemea kwa sababu ya kuwafuatilia, na namna Yahwe alivyowaangamiza mpaka leo,
5 and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place;
au nini alifanya kwenu kwenye jangwa mpaka mlikuja eneo hili.
6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel:
Hawajaona nini Yahwe alichofanya kwa Dathani na Abiramu, wana wa Eliabu mwana wa Reubeni; namna dunia ilifungua kinywa chake na kuwameza, nyumba zao, mahema yao, na kila kitu hai kilichowafuata, katikati mwa Israeli yote.
7 but your eyes have seen all the great work of YHWH which he did.
Lakini macho yenu yameona kazi yote kuu ya Yahwe aliyoifanya.
8 Therefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and multiply, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it;
Kwa hiyo shikeni amri zote ambazo ninawaamuru leo, kwamba mweze kuwa imara, na kuingia na kuimiliki nchi, ambayo unaenda zaidi kuimiliki;
9 and that you may prolong your days in the land, which YHWH swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
na kwamba uweze kuongeza siku zako katika nchi ambayo Yahwe aliapa kwa baba zako kuwapa na uzao wao, nchi itiririkayo maziwa na asali.
10 For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, that you came out from, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your feet, as a garden of herbs;
Kwa kuwa nchi, ambayo unaingia kumiliki, siyo kama nchi ya Misri, ambako mlitoka, ambako mlipanda mbegu na kumwagilizia kwa miguu yenu, kama bustani ya mitishamba;
11 but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water of the rain of the sky,
Lakini nchi, ambayo unaenda kuimiliki, ni nchi ya milima na mabonde, na kunywa maji ya mvua mbinguni,
12 a land which YHWH your God cares for: the eyes of YHWH your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
nchi ambayo Yahwe Mungu wenu awajali; macho ya Yahwe Mungu wenu daima yako juu yake, kuanzia mwanzo wa mwaka mpaka mwisho wa mwaka.
13 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love YHWH your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Itatokea, kama mtazisikiliza kwa bidii amri zangu ambazo ninawaamuru leo kumpenda Yahwe Mungu wenu, na kumtumikia kwa moyo wenu wote na roho zenu zote,
14 that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.
kwamba nitawapa mvua nchi yenu kwa majira yake, mvua za awali na mvua za badaye, ili kwamba mweze kukusanya nafaka zenu, mvinyo wenu mpya, na mafuta yenu.
15 I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.
Nitawapa nyasi kwenye mashamba yenu kwa ajili ya mifugo yenu, na mtakula na kushiba.
16 Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
Uwe makini mwenyewe, ili kwamba moyo wako usidanganyike, na kugeuka na kuabudu miungu mingine, na kuisujudia;
17 and the anger of YHWH be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which YHWH gives you.
ili kwamba hasira ya Yahwe isiwashiwe dhidi yenu, na ili kwamba asifunge mbingu, kwamba pasiwe na mvua, na nchi haitavuna matunda, na ili kwamba mpotee kwa haraka kutoka nchi nzuri ambayo Yahwe anawapa.
18 Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.
Kwa hiyo yaweke haya maneno ndani ya moyo wako na roho; yafunge kama ishara kwenye mkono wako, na yawe utepe katikati ya macho yako.
19 You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Utayafundisha kwa watoto na kuongea juu yake wakati uketipo ndani ya nyumba yako, wakati utembeapo barabarani, wakati ulalapo, na wakati uinukapo.
20 You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates;
Utayaandika kwenye miimo ya milango ya nyumba zenu na kwenye malango yenu,
21 that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which YHWH swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
kwamba siku zenu na siku za watoto wenu ziweze kuongezeka katika nchi ambayo Yahwe aliapa kwa mababu zenu kuwapa, maadamu mbingu ziko juu ya ardhi.
22 For if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you to do, to love YHWH your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him;
Kama mtayashika kwa bidii maagizo haya yote ambayo ninawaamuru nyinyi, ili kwamba myafanye, mpende Yahwe Mungu wenu, tembea katika njia zake zote, na kushikamana naye,
23 then will YHWH drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
basi Yahwe atawaondosha mataifa haya yote kutoka mbele yenu, na mtayafukuza mataifa makubwa na yenye nguvu kuliko nyie.
24 Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Perath, even to the western sea shall be your border.
Kila eneo ambalo unyao wa miguu utatembea litakuwa lenu; kutoka jangwani hadi Lebanoni, toka mto wa Euphratesi, hadi magharibi mwa bahari itakuwa mpaka wenu.
25 No man shall be able to stand before you: YHWH your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has spoken to you.
Hakuna mtu ataweza kusimama mbele yenu; Yahwe Mungu wenu ataweka hofu yenu na ugaidi wenu juu ya nchi yote mnayotembea juu yake kama alivyosema na ninyi.
26 Look, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:
Tazama, naweka mbele yenu baraka na laana;
27 the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of YHWH your God, which I command you this day;
baraka, kama mtasikiliza amri za Yahwe ambazo ninakuamuru leo,
28 and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of YHWH your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.
na laana, kama hamtasikiliza amri za Yahwe Mungu wenu, lakini mkaicha njia ninayokuamuru leo, kuendea miungu mingine ambayo hamjaijua.
29 It shall happen, when YHWH your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.
Itakuwa wakati Yahwe Mungu wenu anawaleta ninyi katika nchi ambayo mnaenda kumiliki, kwamba mtaweka baraka juu ya mlima Gerizimu na laana juu ya mlima Ebali.
30 Aren't they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
Hawako ng'ambo ya pili zaidi ya Yordani, magharibi mwa barabara la magharibi, katika nchi ya Wakanani wanaoishi Arabah, juu dhidi ya Gilgali, kando ya mialo ya Moreh?
31 For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which YHWH your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell in it.
Kwa maana mtavuka ng'ambo ya pili ya Yordani kuingia kumiliki nchi ambayo Yahwe Mungu wenu anawapa, na mtamiliki na kuishi ndani yake.
32 You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.
Mtashika sheria zote na amri ninazoweka mbele yenu leo.
