¹Naizvozvo unofanira kuda Jehovha Mwari wako, nokuchengeta nguva dzose murayiro wake, nezvaakatema, nezvaakatonga, nezvaakaraira.

¹`And thou hast loved Jehovah thy God, and kept His charge, and His statutes, and His judgments, and His commands, all the days;

²Zivai nhasi nekuti handitauri navana venyu vasina kuziva, vasina kuona kuranga kwaJehovha Mwari wenyu ukuru hwake, neruoko rwake rune simba, noruoko rwake rwakatambanudzwa,

²and ye have known to-day — for it is not your sons who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Jehovah your God, His greatness, His strong hand, and His stretched-out arm,

³nezviratidzo zvake, namabasa ake, aakaitira Farao, mambo pakati peEgipita nenyika yake yose;

³and His signs, and His doings, which He hath done in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land;

⁴nezvaakaitira hondo yeEgipita, namabhiza avo, nengoro dzavo; kuti wakavafukidza nemvura yeGungwa Dzvuku, nguva yavakakutevererai, Jehovha akavaparadza kusvikira nhasi;

⁴and that which He hath done to the force of Egypt, to its horses, and to its chariot, when He hath caused the waters of the Red Sea to flow against their faces in their pursuing after them, and Jehovah destroyeth them, unto this day;

⁵nezvaakakuitirai murenje, kudzimana makasvika panzvimbo ino;

⁵and that which He hath done to you in the wilderness, till your coming in unto this place;

⁶nezvaakaitira Dhatani naAbhiramu, vanakomana vaEriabhu, mwanakomana waRubheni; namashamisire akaita nyika muromo wayo, ikavamedza, ivo navedzimba dzavo, namatende avo, nezvipenyu zvavo zvose zvakanga zvichivatevera, pakati pavalsiraeri vose.

⁶and that which He hath done to Dathan, and to Abiram, sons of Eliab, sons of Reuben, when the earth hath opened her mouth and swalloweth them, and their houses, and their tents, and all that liveth, which is at their feet, in the midst of all Israel:

⁷Asi meso enyu akaona mabasa ose makuru aJehovha aakaita.

⁷`— But [it is] your eyes which are seeing all the great work of Jehovah, which He hath done;

⁸Naizvozvo munofanira kuchengeta murayiro wose wandinokuraira nhasi, kuti musimbe, mupinde, mutore nyika iyo kwamunoyambuka kundoiita yenyu;

⁸and ye have kept all the command which I am commanding thee to-day, so that ye are strong, and have gone in, and possessed the land whither ye are passing over to possess it,

⁹kuti mazuva enyu awedzerwe panyika, yakapikirwa madzibaba enyu naJehovha, kuti uchaipa ivo navana vavo, nyika inoyerera mukaka nouchi.

⁹and so that ye prolong days on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers to give to them and to their seed — a land flowing with milk and honey.

¹⁰Nekuti nyika kwaunoenda kundoiita yako, haina kufanana nenyika yeEgipita, kwamakabuda, kwawaidzvara mbeu dzako, uchidzidiridza namakumbo ako, somunda wemiriwo,

¹⁰`For the land whither thou art going in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt whence ye have come out, where thou sowest thy seed, and hast watered with thy foot, as a garden of the green herb;

¹¹asi nyika kwamunoyambuka, kundoiita yenyu, inyika yamakomo nemipata, inomwa mvura yokudenga;

¹¹but the land whither ye are passing over to possess it, [is] a land of hills and valleys; of the rain of the heavens it drinketh water;

¹²inyika inochengetwa naJehovha Mwari wako; meso aJehovha Mwari wako anoramba achiitarira, kubva pakutanga kwegore kusvikira pakupedzisira kwegore.

¹²a land which Jehovah thy God is searching; continually [are] the eyes of Jehovah thy God upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the latter end of the year.

¹³Zvino kana mukateerera zvakanaka mirairo yangu, yandinokurairai nhasi, mukada Jehovha Mwari wenyu nokumushumira nomoyo wenyu wose uye nomweya wenyu wose,

¹³`And it hath been — if thou hearken diligently unto My commands which I am commanding you to-day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve Him with all your heart, and with all your soul —

¹⁴ndichapa nyika yenyu mvura panguva yayo, mvura yokutanga nemvura yokuteverera, kuti ugone kukohwa zviyo zvako, newaini yako, namafuta ako.

¹⁴that I have given the rain of your land in its season — sprinkling and gathered — and thou hast gathered thy corn, and thy new wine, and thine oil,

¹⁵Ndichameresa uswa bwemombe dzako pamafuro ako, udye, ugute.

¹⁵and I have given herbs in thy field for thy cattle, and thou hast eaten, and been satisfied.

¹⁶Chenjerai kuti moyo yenyu irege kunyengerwa, murege kutsauka, mukashumira vamwe vamwari, nokunamata kwavari;

¹⁶`Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be enticed, and ye have turned aside, and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them,

¹⁷kuti Jehovha arege kukutsamwirai, akapfiga kudenga, kuti mvura irege kunaya nenyika irege kubereka zvibereko zvayo; imwi mukakurumidza kuparadzwa panyika yakanaka yamunopiwa naJehovha.

¹⁷and the anger of Jehovah hath burned against you, and He hath restrained the heavens, and there is no rain, and the ground doth not give her increase, and ye have perished hastily from off the good land which Jehovah is giving to you.

¹⁸Naizvozvo munofanira kuchengeta mashoko angu awa mumoyo yenyu nomumweya yenyu; munofanira kuasungira pamaoko enyu, chive chiratidzo, uye anofanira kuva rundanyara pakati pameso enyu.

¹⁸`And ye have placed these my words on your heart, and on your soul, and have bound them for a sign on your hand, and they have been for frontlets between your eyes;

¹⁹Uye munofanira kuadzidzisa vana venyu, muchitaurirana pamusoro pawo, kana iwe ugere paimba yako, kana uchifamba panzira, kana uchivata pasi, uye kana uchimuka;

¹⁹and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

²⁰unofanira kuanyora pamagwatidziro emikova yeimba yako, napamasuwo ako;

²⁰and hast written them on the side-posts of thy house, and on thy gates,

²¹kuti mazuva enyu awedzerwe, namazuva avana venyu, panyika yakapikirwa madzibaba enyu naJehovha kuti uchavapa iyo, aite samazuva okudenga pamusoro penyika.

²¹so that your days are multiplied, and the days of your sons, on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers to give to them, as the days of the heavens on the earth.

²²Nekuti kana mukachengeta zvakanaka murayiro uyu wose wandinokurairai, kuti muuite; mukada Jehovha Mwari wenyu, nokufamba nenzira dzake dzose, nokumunamatira;

²²`For, if ye diligently keep all this command which I am commanding you — to do it, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave to Him,

²³Jehovha uchadzinga ndudzi idzi dzose pamberi penyu, imwi muchabata ndudzi dzinokupfuurai noukuru nesimba, dzive dzenyu.

²³then hath Jehovah dispossessed all these nations from before you, and ye have possessed nations, greater and mightier than you;

²⁴Nzvimbo ipi neipi inotsikwa netsoka dzenyu ichava yenyu, nenyika yenyu ichabva parenje, neRebhanoni, kubva parwizi, rwizi Yufuratesi, kusvikira kugungwa rokumavirazuva.

²⁴every place on which the sole of your foot treadeth is yours; from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Phrat, even unto the farther sea is your border;

²⁵Hakuna munhu ungagona kumira pamberi penyu; Jehovha Mwari wenyu uchatyisa nokuvhundusa nyika yose pamusoro penyu, nyika iyo yamuchazotsika pamusoro payo, sezvaakataura kwamuri.

²⁵no man doth station himself in your presence; your dread and your fear doth Jehovah your God put on the face of all the land on which ye tread, as He hath spoken to you.

²⁶Tarirai, nhasi ndinoisa pamberi penyu kuropafadzwa nokutukwa;

²⁶`See, I am setting before you to-day a blessing and a reviling:

²⁷kuropafadzwa, kana mukateerera mirairo yaJehovha Mwari wenyu, yandinokurairai nhasi;

²⁷the blessing, when ye hearken unto the commands of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you to-day;

²⁸nokutukwa, kana musingateereri mirairo yaJehovha Mwari wenyu, asi muchitsauka panzira yandinokuraira nhasi, mukatevera vamwe vamwari vamusina kuziva.

²⁸and the reviling, if ye do not hearken unto the commands of Jehovah your God, and have turned aside out of the way which I am commanding you to-day, to go after other gods which ye have not known.

²⁹Zvino kana Jehovha Mwari wako akupinza panyika, kwamunoenda, kundoiita yako, unofanira kuisa kuropafadzwa pagomo reGerizimi, nokutukwa pagomo reEbhari.

²⁹`And it hath been, when Jehovah thy God doth bring thee in unto the land whither thou art going in to possess it, that thou hast given the blessing on mount Gerizim, and the reviling on mount Ebal;

³⁰Ko makomo awo haazi mhiri kwaJoridhani, mberi kwenzira yokumavirira ezuva, munyika yavaKanani, vagere paMupata, pakatarisana neGirigari, pamiouki yeMore here?

³⁰are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going in of the sun, in the land of the Canaanite, who is dwelling in the plain over-against Gilgal, near the oaks of Moreh?

³¹Nekuti munofanira kuyambuka Joridhani, mupinde kundotora nyika yamunopiwa naJehovha Mwari wenyu; ichava yenyu, mugaremo.

³¹for ye are passing over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you; and ye have possessed it, and dwelt in it,

³²Chenjerai kuti muite zvakatemwa nezvakatongwa zvose, zvandinoisa pamberi penyu nhasi.

³²and observed to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you to day.