Deuteronomy 7
1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—seven nations greater and mightier than you;
Wakati Yahwe Mungu wenu atuleta katika nchi ambayo mnaenda kuimiliki na kuwaondoa mataifa mengi mbele zenu- Mhiti, Mgirgashi na Mwamori, na Mkanaani, na Mperizi, Mhivi, Myebusi- mataifa saba makubwa na yenye nguvu kuliko wewe.
2 and when the LORD your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.
Na wakati Yahwe Mungu wenu awapa ninyi ushindi juu yao pindi mnakutana nao katika vita, mtawashambulia, basi mnapaswa kuwateketeza kabisa. Hamtafanya agano nao, wala kuonesha huruma kwao.
3 You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.
Wala hamtapanga ndoa zozote pamoja nao, hamtawatoa binti zenu kwa vijana wao, na hamtawachukua binti zao kwa vijana wenu.
4 For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So the LORD’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
Kwa kuwa watawabadilisha vijana wenu kutonifuata mimi, ili kwamba waweze kuabudu miungu yao. Kwa hiyo hasira ya Yahwe itawashwa dhidi yenu na atawaangamiza haraka.
5 But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire.
Hivi ndivyo mtakavyo washughulikia nao; mtavunja madhabahu zao, vunja nguzo zao za mawe katika vipande, kata chini ncha za Asherahi, na kuzichoma sanamu za kutupwa.
6 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Kwa kuwa wewe ni taifa uliyetengwa kwa Yahwe Mungu wako. Amekuchagua wewe kuwa watu kwa ajili yake kumiliki, zaidi ya watu wengine wote ambao wako katika uso wa dunia.
7 The LORD didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples;
Yahwe hakuweka upendo wake juu yenu au kuwachagua kwa sababu mlikuwa zaidi katika idadi kuliko watu wowote, kwa kuwa mlikuwa wachache kuliko watu wote-
8 but because the LORD loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Lakini kwa sababu anawapenda ninyi, anataka kushika kiapo alichoapa kwa baba zenu. Huyu ni Yahwe aliyewatoa kwa mkono wa uweza na kuwakomboa kutoka nyumba ya utumwa, kutoka mkono wa Farao, mfalme wa Misri.
9 Know therefore that the LORD your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness to a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commandments,
Kwa hiyo tambua ya kuwa Yahwe Mungu wako-ni Mungu, Mungu mwaminifu, anayetunza maagano na uaminifu kwa vizazi elfu kwa wale wanaompenda na kuyashika maagizo yake,
10 and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
lakini huwalipa wale wanaomchukia kwa sura zao, kuwaangamiza, hatakuwa na huruma kwa yeyote anayemchukia; atamlipa kwa uso wake.
11 You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which I command you today, to do them.
Kwa hiyo utashika maagizo, amri, na sheria ninazokuamuru leo, ili kwamba uzifanye.
12 It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.
Kama mtasikiliza maagizo haya, kuyashika na kuyafanya, itakuwa Yahwe Mungu wenu atawashika pamoja na agano na uaminifu ambao aliapa kwa baba zenu.
13 He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
Atawapenda, atawabariki, na kuwazidisha, pia atabariki tunda la miili yenu na tunda la ardhi yenu, nafaka zenu, divai mpya, mafuta yenu, atazidisha mifugo na kundi lako la mifugo michanga, katika nchi ambayo aliapa kwa baba zenu kuwapa.
14 You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren amongst you, or amongst your livestock.
Mtabarikiwa zaidi kuliko watu wengine wote; hapatakuwa na mwanaume asiyekuwa na mtoto au mwanamke tasa miongoni mwenu au miongoni mwa mifugo.
15 The LORD will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
Yahwe atawaondolea magonjwa yote; hakuna magonjwa mabaya ya Misri ambayo mnayajua yatawekwa juu yenu, Lakini atayaweka kwa wote wanaowachukia ninyi.
16 You shall consume all the peoples whom the LORD your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall not serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you.
Mtayaondoa makundi ya watu wote ambayo Yahwe Mungu wenu awapa ushindi, na jicho lenu halitawaonea huruma. Na hamtaabudu miungu yao, kwa kuwa huo utakuwa mtego kwenu.
17 If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”
Kama mtasema kwenye mioyo, Haya mataifa ni mengi zaidi kuliko mimi; nitawezaje kuwafukuza?
18 you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:
Usiwaogope; utakumbuka akilini Yahwe nini Mungu wenu alifanya kwa Farao na Misri yote?
19 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. So shall the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
Mateso makuu ambayo macho yenu yaliona, ishara, maajabu, mkono wa uweza, mkono ulionyoshwa ambao Yahwe Mungu wenu alivyowatoa. Yahwe Mungu wenu atafanya kile kile kwa watu wote ambao mnawaogopa.
20 Moreover the LORD your God will send the hornet amongst them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
Zaidi ya yote, Yahwe Mungu wenu atatuma nyigu miongoni mwao, mpaka wale waliobaki na wale wanaojificha wenyewe mbele yenu waangamizwa mbele ya uwepo wenu.
21 You shall not be scared of them; for the LORD your God is amongst you, a great and awesome God.
Hamtatishikeni nao, kwa kuwa Yahwe Mungu wenu yuko miongoni mwenu, Mungu mkuu na wa kuogofya.
22 The LORD your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
Yahwe Mungu wenu atayaondoa mataifa mbele zenu kidogo kidogo. Hamtayashinda yote kwa wakati mmoja, au wanyama wa mwitu watakuwa wengi karibu yenu.
23 But the LORD your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed.
Lakini Yahwe Mungu wenu atawapa ninyi ushindi dhidi yao wakati mkutanapo vitani; atawachanganya kwa kiasi kikubwa mpaka wameangamizwa.
24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.
Atawaweka wafalme wao chini ya utawala wenu, na mtafanya jina lao kuangamia toka chini ya mbingu. Hakuna atakayeweza kusimama mbele yenu, mpaka muwaangamize.
25 You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.
Utazichoma sanamu za kuchonga za miungu yao- usitamani madini ya fedha au dhahabu yanayofunika na kuichukua kwa ajili yenu, kwa sababu mkifanya, mtanaswa nayo-kwa kuwa ni chukizo kwa Yahwe Mungu wenu.
26 You shall not bring an abomination into your house and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it. You shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
Hamtaleta chukizo lolote ndani ya nyumba zenu na kuanza kuiabudu. Mtachukizwa kabisa na kuchukia kwa kuwa imetengwa kwa ajili ya uharibifu.
