Torati 11
1 Mpende Bwana Mungu wako na kushika masharti yake, amri zake, sheria zake na maagizo yake siku zote.
Therefore you shall 'ahav ·affectionately love· Adonai your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his judgments, and his mitzvot ·instructions·, always.
2 Kumbuka hivi leo kwamba sio watoto wako walioona na kujua adhabu ya Bwana Mungu wako: utukufu wake, mkono wake wenye nguvu, mkono wake ulionyooshwa;
Know this day: for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Adonai your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm,
3 ishara alizozifanya na mambo aliyoyafanya katikati ya Misri, kwa Farao mfalme wa Misri na kwa nchi yake yote;
his signs, and his works, which he did in the middle of Egypt [Abode of slavery] to Pharaoh the king of Egypt [Abode of slavery], and to all his land;
4 lile alilolifanyia jeshi la Wamisri, farasi na magari yake, jinsi alivyowafurikisha na maji ya Bahari ya Shamu walipokuwa wakiwafuatilia ninyi, na jinsi Bwana alivyowaletea angamizo la kudumu juu yao.
and what he did to the army of Egypt [Abode of slavery], to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Sea of Suf [Reed Sea] to overflow them as they pursued you, and how Adonai has destroyed them to this day;
5 Sio watoto wenu walioyaona yale Mungu aliyowafanyia huko jangwani mpaka mkafika mahali hapa,
and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place;
6 wala lile Mungu alilowafanyia Dathani na Abiramu, wana wa Eliabu wa kabila la Reubeni, wakati ardhi ilipofungua kinywa chake katikati ya Israeli yote, ikawameza pamoja na walio nyumbani mwao, hema zao na kila kitu kilichokuwa hai ambacho kilikuwa mali yao.
and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben [See, a son!]; 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 middle of all Israel [God prevails];
7 Bali ilikuwa ni macho yenu wenyewe ambayo yaliyaona mambo haya yote makuu Bwana aliyoyatenda.
but your eyes have seen all of Adonai’s great work which he did.
8 Kwa hiyo fuateni maagizo yote ninayowapa leo, ili mpate kuwa na nguvu za kuingia na kuiteka nchi ile ambayo mnavuka Yordani kuimiliki,
Therefore you shall keep every mitzvah ·instruction· which I enjoin you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it;
9 ili mpate kuishi siku nyingi katika nchi ile ambayo Bwana aliapa kuwapa baba zenu na wazao wao, nchi itiririkayo maziwa na asali.
and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Adonai swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10 Nchi mnayoiingia kuimiliki haifanani na nchi ya Misri mlikotoka ambako mlipanda mbegu yenu na kuinywesha, kama bustani ya mboga.
For the land, where you go in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery], that you came out of, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
11 Lakini nchi mnayovuka Yordani kuimiliki ni nchi ya milima na mabonde inywayo mvua kutoka mbinguni.
but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water from the rain of the sky,
12 Ni nchi ambayo Bwana Mungu wenu anaitunza; macho ya Bwana Mungu wenu yanaitazama daima kutoka mwanzo wa mwaka hadi mwisho wa mwaka.
a land which Adonai your God cares for. Adonai your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
13 Hivyo kama mkiyatii maagizo yangu ninayowapa leo kwa uaminifu, yaani kwa kumpenda Bwana Mungu wenu, na kumtumikia kwa moyo wako wote na kwa roho yenu yote,
It shall happen, if you shall sh'ma ·hear obey· diligently to my mitzvot ·instructions· which I enjoin you today, to 'ahav ·affectionately love· Adonai your God, and to abad ·serve· him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14 ndipo atawanyweshea mvua katika nchi yenu kwa majira yake, mvua ya masika na ya vuli, ili mpate kuvuna nafaka zenu, divai mpya na mafuta.
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, your new wine, and your oil.
15 Nitawapa majani kwa ajili ya ngʼombe wenu, nanyi mtakula na kushiba.
I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.
16 Jihadharini, la sivyo mtashawishika kugeuka na kuabudu miungu mingine na kuisujudia.
Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and abad ·serve· other deities, and hawa ·bow low, prostrate· to worship them;
17 Ndipo hasira ya Bwana itawaka dhidi yenu, naye atafunga mbingu ili mvua isinyeshe nayo ardhi haitatoa mazao, nanyi mtaangamia mara katika nchi nzuri ambayo Bwana anawapa.
and Adonai’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there is no rain, and the land does not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Adonai gives you.
18 Yawekeni haya maneno yangu katika mioyo yenu na akili zenu, yafungeni kama alama juu ya mikono yenu na kwenye paji za nyuso zenu.
Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
19 Wafundisheni watoto wenu, yazungumzeni wakati mketipo nyumbani na wakati mtembeapo njiani, wakati mlalapo na wakati mwamkapo.
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.
20 Yaandikeni juu ya miimo ya nyumba zenu na juu ya malango yenu,
You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates;
21 ili kwamba siku zenu na siku za watoto wenu zipate kuwa nyingi katika nchi ile Bwana aliyoapa kuwapa baba zenu, kama zilivyo nyingi siku za mbingu juu ya nchi.
that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Adonai swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
22 Kama mkishika kwa makini maagizo haya yote ninayowapa kuyafuata, ya kumpenda Bwana Mungu wenu, kuenenda katika njia zake zote na kushikamana naye kwa uthabiti,
For if you shall diligently keep all these mitzvot ·instructions· which I enjoin you, to do them, to 'ahav ·affectionately love· Adonai your God, to walk in all his ways, and to dabak ·cling to, worship· to him;
23 ndipo Bwana atawafukuza mataifa haya yote mbele yako, nawe utawafukuza mataifa yaliyo makubwa na yenye nguvu kukuliko wewe.
then will Adonai drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
24 Kila mahali mtakapoweka mguu wenu patakuwa penu: Nchi yenu itaenea kutoka jangwa la Lebanoni, na kutoka mto wa Frati hadi bahari ya magharibi
Every place whereon the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates [Fruitful], even to the western sea shall be your border.
25 Hapatakuwa na mtu atakayeweza kusimama dhidi yenu. Bwana Mungu wenu, kama alivyoahidi, ataweka juu ya nchi yote utisho na hofu kwa ajili yenu popote mwendako.
No man will be able to stand before you. Adonai your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on, as he has spoken to you.
26 Tazama, leo ninaweka mbele yenu baraka na laana:
Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:
27 baraka kama mtatii maagizo ya Bwana Mungu wenu, ambayo ninawapa leo;
the blessing, if you sh'ma ·hear obey· the mitzvot ·instructions· of Adonai your God, which I enjoin you today;
28 laana kama hamtatii maagizo ya Bwana Mungu wenu na kuacha njia ambayo ninawaamuru leo kwa kufuata miungu mingine, ambayo hamkuijua.
and the curse, if you do not sh'ma ·hear obey· the mitzvot ·instructions· of Adonai your God, but turn aside out of the way which I enjoin you today, to go after other deities, which you have not known.
29 Wakati Bwana Mungu wenu atakapokuwa amewaleta katika nchi mnayoiingia kuimiliki, mtatangaza baraka kutoka Mlima Gerizimu, na kutangaza laana kutoka Mlima Ebali.
It shall happen, when Adonai your God brings 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.
30 Kama mnavyofahamu, milima hii ipo ngʼambo ya Yordani, magharibi ya barabara, kuelekea machweo ya jua, karibu na miti mikubwa ya More, katika nchi ya wale Wakanaani wanaoishi Araba, jirani na Gilgali.
Are not they beyond the Jordan [Descender], behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites [Descendants of Humbled] who dwell in the Arabah, near Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
31 Karibu mvuke ngʼambo ya Yordani kuingia na kuimiliki nchi ambayo Bwana Mungu wenu anawapa. Wakati mtakapokuwa mmeichukua na mnaishi humo,
For you are to pass over the Jordan [Descender] to go in to possess the land which Adonai your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein.
32 hakikisheni kwamba mnatii amri na sheria zote ninazoziweka mbele yenu leo.
You shall observe to do all the statutes and the judgments which I set before you today.
