Torati 7
1 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.
“When your God YHWH brings you into the land to where you are going in to possess it, and He has cast out many nations from your presence, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mighty than you,
2 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.
and your God YHWH has given them before you, then you have struck them—you utterly devote them—you do not make a covenant with them, nor do you favor them.
3 Wala hamtapanga ndoa zozote pamoja nao, hamtawatoa binti zenu kwa vijana wao, na hamtawachukua binti zao kwa vijana wenu.
And you do not join in marriage with them; you do not give your daughter to his son, and you do not take his daughter to your son,
4 Kwa kuwa watawabadilisha vijana wenu kutonifuata mimi, ili kwamba waweze kuabudu miungu yao. Kwa hiyo hasira ya Yahwe itawashwa dhidi yenu na atawaangamiza haraka.
for he turns aside your son from after Me, and they have served other gods; and the anger of YHWH has burned against you and has destroyed you quickly.
5 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.
But thus you do to them: you break down their altars, and you shatter their standing pillars, and you cut down their Asherim, and you burn their carved images with fire.
6 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.
For you [are] a holy people to your God YHWH; your God YHWH has fixed on you, to be to Him for a peculiar people, out of all the peoples who [are] on the face of the ground.
7 Yahwe hakuweka upendo wake juu yenu au kuwachagua kwa sababu mlikuwa zaidi katika idadi kuliko watu wowote, kwa kuwa mlikuwa wachache kuliko watu wote-
YHWH has delighted in you and fixes on you, not because of your being more numerous than any of the peoples, for you [are] the least of all the peoples,
8 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.
but because of YHWH’s loving you, and because of His keeping the oath which He has sworn to your fathers; YHWH has brought you out by a strong hand, and ransoms you from a house of servants, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 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,
And you have known that He, your God YHWH, [is] God, the faithful God keeping the covenant and the kindness with those loving Him and with those keeping His commands, for one thousand generations,
10 lakini huwalipa wale wanaomchukia kwa sura zao, kuwaangamiza, hatakuwa na huruma kwa yeyote anayemchukia; atamlipa kwa uso wake.
and repaying to those hating Him to their face, to destroy them; He does not delay to him who is hating Him, He repays [it] to him to his face.
11 Kwa hiyo utashika maagizo, amri, na sheria ninazokuamuru leo, ili kwamba uzifanye.
And you have kept the command, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I am commanding you today to do them.
12 Kama mtasikiliza maagizo haya, kuyashika na kuyafanya, itakuwa Yahwe Mungu wenu atawashika pamoja na agano na uaminifu ambao aliapa kwa baba zenu.
And it has been, because you hear these judgments, and have kept and done them, that your God YHWH has kept the covenant and the kindness with you which He has sworn to your fathers,
13 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.
and has loved you, and blessed you, and multiplied you, and has blessed the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your ground, your grain, and your new wine, and your oil, the increase of your oxen, and the wealth of your flock, on the ground which He has sworn to your fathers to give to you.
14 Mtabarikiwa zaidi kuliko watu wengine wote; hapatakuwa na mwanaume asiyekuwa na mtoto au mwanamke tasa miongoni mwenu au miongoni mwa mifugo.
Blessed are you above all the peoples; there is not a barren man or a barren woman in you—nor among your livestock;
15 Yahwe atawaondolea magonjwa yote; hakuna magonjwa mabaya ya Misri ambayo mnayajua yatawekwa juu yenu, Lakini atayaweka kwa wote wanaowachukia ninyi.
and YHWH has turned aside every sickness from you, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which you have known) does He put on you, and He has put them on all hating you.
16 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.
And you have consumed all the peoples whom your God YHWH is giving to you; your eye has no pity on them, and you do not serve their gods, for it [is] a snare to you.
17 Kama mtasema kwenye mioyo, Haya mataifa ni mengi zaidi kuliko mimi; nitawezaje kuwafukuza?
When you say in your heart, These nations [are] more numerous than I, how am I able to dispossess them?
18 Usiwaogope; utakumbuka akilini Yahwe nini Mungu wenu alifanya kwa Farao na Misri yote?
You are not afraid of them; you surely remember that which your God YHWH has done to Pharaoh and to all of Egypt,
19 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.
the great trials which your eyes have seen, and the signs, and the wonders, and the strong hand, and the outstretched arm, with which your God YHWH has brought you out; so does your God YHWH do to all the peoples of whose presence you are afraid.
20 Zaidi ya yote, Yahwe Mungu wenu atatuma nyigu miongoni mwao, mpaka wale waliobaki na wale wanaojificha wenyewe mbele yenu waangamizwa mbele ya uwepo wenu.
And your God YHWH also sends the locust among them, until the destruction of those who are left, even those who are hidden from your presence;
21 Hamtatishikeni nao, kwa kuwa Yahwe Mungu wenu yuko miongoni mwenu, Mungu mkuu na wa kuogofya.
you are not terrified by their presence, for your God YHWH [is] in your midst, a God great and fearful.
22 Yahwe Mungu wenu atayaondoa mataifa mbele zenu kidogo kidogo. Hamtayashinda yote kwa wakati mmoja, au wanyama wa mwitu watakuwa wengi karibu yenu.
And your God YHWH has cast out these nations from your presence little [by] little (you are not able to consume them quickly, lest the beast of the field multiplies against you),
23 Lakini Yahwe Mungu wenu atawapa ninyi ushindi dhidi yao wakati mkutanapo vitani; atawachanganya kwa kiasi kikubwa mpaka wameangamizwa.
and your God YHWH has given them before you, and confused them [with] a great destruction until their being destroyed;
24 Atawaweka wafalme wao chini ya utawala wenu, na mtafanya jina lao kuangamia toka chini ya mbingu. Hakuna atakayeweza kusimama mbele yenu, mpaka muwaangamize.
and He has given their kings into your hand, and you have destroyed their name from under the heavens; no man stations himself in your presence until you have destroyed them.
25 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.
You burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you do not desire the silver and gold on them, nor have you taken [it] for yourself, lest you are snared by it, for it [is] an abomination [to] your God YHWH;
26 Hamtaleta chukizo lolote ndani ya nyumba zenu na kuanza kuiabudu. Mtachukizwa kabisa na kuchukia kwa kuwa imetengwa kwa ajili ya uharibifu.
and you do not bring in an abomination to your house, or you have been devoted like it—you utterly detest it and you utterly abhor it; for it [is] devoted.”
