¹Ndiwo mashoko akataurwa naMozisi kuvaIsiraeri vose mhiri kwaJoridhani murenje, muMupata wakatarisana neSufi, pakati peParani, neTofera, neRabhani, neHazeroti, neDhizahabhi.

¹These are the words which Moses spake unto all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-zahab.

²Kubva paHorebhu, nenzira yokugomo reSeiri, kusvika paKadheshi-bharinea, munhu anofamba mazuva ane gumi nerimwe.

²It is eleven days' [journey] from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.

³Zvino pagore ramakumi mana, pamwedzi wegumi nomumwe, nezuva rokutanga romwedzi, Mozisi wakaudza vana vaIsiraeri zvose zvavakarairwa naJehovha naye;

³And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that Jehovah had given him in commandment unto them;

⁴wakati akunda Sihoni, mambo wavaAmori, wakange agere Heshibhoni, naOgi, mambo weBhashani, wakange agere Ashitaroti, paEdhirei,

⁴after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.

⁵Mozisi akatanga kududzira murayiro uyu vari mhiri kwaJoridhani, panyika yokwaMoabhu, akati,

⁵Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,

⁶Jehovha Mwari wedu akataura nesu paHorebhu, akati, Makagara nguva yakaringana pagomo iri.

⁶Jehovah our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain:

⁷Dzokai, mufambe, muende kumakomo avaAmori nokunzvimbo dzakavakidzana navo, kuMupata, nokumakomo, nokumapani, nokurutivi rwezasi, nokumahombekombe egungwa, nokunyika yavaKanani, nokuRebhanoni, kusvikira kurwizi rukuru, rwizi Yufuratesi.

⁷turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and unto all [the places] nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

⁸Tarirai, ndakaisa nyika pamberi penyu; pindai, mutore nyika yakapikirwa madzibaba enyu naJehovha, kuna Abhurahamu, naIsaka, naJakove, kuti vachaipiwa ivo navana vavo vanovatevera.

⁸Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.

⁹Nguva iyo ndakataura nemi, ndikati, Handigoni kukutakurai ndiri ndoga;

⁹And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:

¹⁰Jehovha Mwari wenyu wakakuwanzai; tarirai, nhasi mava senyeredzi dzokudenga pakuwanda kwenyu.

¹⁰Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

¹¹Jehovha Mwari wamadzibaba enyu ngaakuwedzerei rune chiuru chamazana pamakasvika zvino, amuropafadze sezvaakakupikirai.

¹¹Jehovah, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!

¹²Ini ndoga ndingatakura seiko kurema kwenyu, nomutoro wenyu, nokurwa kwenyu?

¹²How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

¹³Muzvitsaurirei varume vakachenjera, vakangwara, vanozikamwa, kumarudzi enyu, ndivaite vakuru venyu.

¹³Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.

¹⁴Mukandipindura, mukati, Chinhu icho chamataura chakanaka kuti tichiite.

¹⁴And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good [for us] to do.

¹⁵Ipapo ndakatora vakuru vamarudzi enyu, varume vakanga vakachenjera, vakanga vakazikamwa, ndikavaita vakuru venyu, vave vakuru vezviuru, navakuru vamazana, navakuru vamakumi mashanu, navakuru vevane gumi, navatariri kumarudzi enyu.

¹⁵So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.

¹⁶Nenguva iyo ndikaraira vatongi venyu, ndikati, teererai mhosva dziri pakati pehama dzenyu, mururamisire pakati pomunhu nehama yake, nomutorwa ugere naye.

¹⁶And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the sojourner that is with him.

¹⁷Musatsaura vanhu pakutonga kwenyu; munofanira kuteerera muduku nomukuru nomutowo mumwe; musatya munhu; nekuti kutonga ndokwa Mwari; asi kana kune mhaka yamusingagoni, muuye nayo kwandiri kuti ndiinzwe.

¹⁷Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; ye shall hear the small and the great alike; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you ye shall bring unto me, and I will hear it.

¹⁸Nenguva iyo ndakakurairai zvose zvamunofanira kuita.

¹⁸And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.

¹⁹Zvino takasimuka paHorebhu, tikafamba murenje iro rose guru rinotyisa, ramakaona panzira yokumakomo avaAmori, sezvatakarairwa naJehovha Mwari wedu; tikasvika paKadheshi-bharinea.

¹⁹And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

²⁰Ndikati kwamuri, Masvika panyika yamakomo yavaAmori, yatinopiwa naJehovha Mwari wedu.

²⁰And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the hill-country of the Amorites, which Jehovah our God giveth unto us.

²¹Tarirai, Jehovha, Mwari wenyu wakaisa nyika iyo pamberi penyu; kwirai, muitore, sezvamakaudzwa naJehovha Mwari wamadzibaba enyu; musatya kana kuvhunduka.

²¹Behold, Jehovah thy God hath set the land before thee: go up, take possession, as Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath spoken unto thee; fear not, neither be dismayed.

²²Ipapo imwi makaswedera mose kwandiri, mukati, Ngatitume varume vatitungamirire, vatishorere nyika, vagouya kuzotiudza nzira yatinofanira kukwira nayo, namaguta atichandosvika kwaari.

²²And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities unto which we shall come.

²³Shoko iro rakandifadza; ndikatsaura varume vane gumi navaviri pakati penyu, murume mumwe kurudzi rumwe norumwe.

²³And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:

²⁴Ivo vakaenda vakakwira mugomo, vakasvika mumupata weEshikori, vakaishora,

²⁴and they turned and went up into the hill-country, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.

²⁵Vakatora mimwe michero yenyika mumaoko avo, vakaburukira kwatiri nayo, vakadzoka neshoko kwatiri, vakati, Inyika yakanaka, yatinopiwa naJehovha Mwari wedu.

²⁵And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which Jehovah our God giveth unto us.

²⁶Asi makaramba kukwira, mukamukira kuraira kwaJehovha Mwari wenyu;

²⁶Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God:

²⁷mukanyunyuta mumatende enyu, mukati, Jehovha wakativenga, saka wakatibudisa munyika yeEgipita, kuti atiise mumaoko avaAmori, kuti atiparadze.

²⁷and ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

²⁸Zvino tichaendepiko? Hama dzedu dzanyawusa moyo yedu, dzichiti, Vanhu avo vanotikunda nokukura nokureba; maguta makuru, akakombwa namasvingo anosvika kudenga; uye, takaonako vana vaEnaki.

²⁸Whither are we going up? our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

²⁹Ipapo ini ndakati kwamuri, Musavhunduka henyu, kana kuvatya.

²⁹Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.

³⁰Jehovha Mwari wenyu unokutungamirirai, iye uchakurwirai, sezvaakakuitirai zvose paEgipita pamberi penyu,

³⁰Jehovah your God who goeth before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

³¹nomurenje pamakaona muberekero wamakaberekwa nawo naJehovha Mwari wenyu, somunhu unobereka mwana wake; panzira dzenyu dzose dzamakafamba nadzo, kudzimara muchisvika panzvimbo iyi.

³¹and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that Jehovah thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came unto this place.

³²Asi pachinhu ichi hamuna kutenda Jehovha Mwari wenyu;

³²Yet in this thing ye did not believe Jehovah your God,

³³iye wakakutungamirirai panzira, kuti akutsvakirei pamungadzika matende enyu, nomoto usiku, kuti akuratidzei nzira yamunofanira kufamba nayo, uye negore masikati.

³³who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.

³⁴Zvino Jehovha akanzwa inzwi ramashoko enyu, akatsamwa, akapika, achiti,

³⁴And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

³⁵Zvirokwazvo, hakungavi nomumwe wavanhu ava, vorudzi urwu rwakaipa, uchaona nyika yakanaka, yandakapika ndichiti ndichaipa madzibaba enyu,

³⁵Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,

³⁶asi Karebhu, mwanakomana waJefune, ndiye uchaiona; ndichamupa iye navana vake nyika yaakatsika, nekuti iye wakatevera Jehovha nomoyo wose.

³⁶save Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed Jehovah.

³⁷Jehovha akanditsamwira neniwo nokuda kwenyu, akati, Newewo haungapindi ikoko;

³⁷Also Jehovah was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither:

³⁸Joshua mwanakomana waNuni, umire pamberi pako, ndiye uchapinda ikoko; umusimbise, nekuti ndiye uchagarisa vaIsiraeri nhaka yavo.

³⁸Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage thou him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

³⁹Vana venyu vaduku, vamakati vachatapwa, navana venyu vasingazivi nhasi zvakanaka nezvakaipa, ndivo vachapinda ikoko; ndichavapa iyo, ive yavo.

³⁹Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

⁴⁰Asi kana murimwi, dzokai mufambe murenje nenzira yokuGungwa dzvuku

⁴⁰But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.

⁴¹Zvino imwi mukapindura, mukati kwandiri, Takatadzira Jehovha, tichakwira hedu tindorwa, zvose sezvatakarairwa naJehovha Mwari wedu. Mukashonga mumwe nomumwe nhumbi dzake dzokurwa nadzo, mukada kukwira mugomo.

⁴¹Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against Jehovah, we will go up and fight, according to all that Jehovah our God commanded us. And ye girded on every man his weapons of war, and were forward to go up into the hill-country.

⁴²Zvino Jehovha akati kwandiri, Uti kwavari: Musakwira kana kurwa, nekuti ini handizi pakati penyu; kuti murege kukundwa pamberi pavavengi venyu.

⁴²And Jehovah said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.

⁴³Naizvozvo ndakataura nemi, asi makaramba kunditeerera; asi makamukira murayiro waJehovha, mukaita manyawi, mukakwira mugomo.

⁴³So I spake unto you, and ye hearkened not; but ye rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country.

⁴⁴Zvino vaAmori vakanga vagere mugomo iro, vakabuda kuzorwa nemi, vakakudzingai, sezvinoita nyuchi, vakakuparadzai kusvikira paHoma.

⁴⁴And the Amorites, that dwelt in that hill-country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even unto Hormah.

⁴⁵Ipapo makadzoka, mukachema pamberi paJehovha, asi Jehovha haana kuteerera inzwi renyu, kana kurerekera nzeve dzake.

⁴⁵And ye returned and wept before Jehovah; but Jehovah hearkened not to your voice, nor gave ear unto you.

⁴⁶Naizvozvo makagara paKadheshi mazuva mazhinji, nguva yamakagarapo.

⁴⁶So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode [there].