¹Zvino Mozisi akaenda kundotaura mashoko awa kuvaIsiraeri vose,

¹Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.

²akati kwavari, Ndava namakore ane zana namakumi maviri nhasi, handichagoni kubuda nokupinda; zvino Jehovha wakati kwandiri, Iwe haungayambuki Joridhani urwu.

²He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: and Yahweh has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’

³Jehovha Mwari wako ndiye uchakutungamirira pakuyambuka; iye uchaparadza ndudzi idzi dzose pamberi pako, dzichava dzako; Joshua ndiye uchakutungamirira pakuyambuka, sezvakataurwa naJehovha.

³Yahweh your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

⁴Jehovha uchavaitira ivo sezvaakaitira Sihoni naOgi, madzimambo avaAmori, nenyika yavo, vaakaparadza.

⁴Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.

⁵Jehovha uchavaisa mumaoko enyu, nemwi munofanira kuvaitira zvose sezvandakakurairai.

⁵Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.

⁶Simbai, mutsunge moyo, musatya kana kuvhunduswa navo; nekuti Jehovha Mwari wako ndiye unoenda newe, haangakuregi, haangakusii.

⁶Be strong and courageous, don’t be afraid, nor be scared of them: for Yahweh your God, he it is who does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you.”

⁷Zvino Mozisi akadana Joshua, akati kwaari pamberi pavaIsiraeri vose, simba, utsunge moyo, nekuti iwe uchaenda navanhu ava panyika yakapikirwa madzibaba avo naJehovha, kuti uchavapa iyo; iwe uchavagarisa nhaka iyo.

⁷Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous: for you shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.

⁸Jehovha ndiye unokutungamirira, iye uchava newe, haangakuregi, haangakusii; usatya kana kuvhunduswa.

⁸Yahweh, he it is who does go before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake you: don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed.”

⁹Zvino Mozisi akanyora murayiro uyu, akaupa vapristi navana vaRevhi, vaitakura areka yesungano yaJehovha, navakuru vose vaIsiraeri.

⁹Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel.

¹⁰Mozisi akavaraira, akati, Nguva dzose pakupera kwamakore manomwe, panguva yakatarwa pagore resununguro, pamutambo wemisasa,

¹⁰Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tents,

¹¹kana vaIsiraeri vose vauya kuzviratidza pamberi paJehovha Mwari wako panzvimbo ichatsaurwa naye, unofanira kurava murayiro uyu pamberi pavaIsiraeri vose, vaunzwe.

¹¹when all Israel has come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

¹²Unganidza vanhu, varume navakadzi, nepwere, navatorwa vako vari pakati pamasuwo ako, kuti vanzwe, vadzidze, vatye Jehovha Mwari wenyu, vachenjere kuita mashoko ose omurayiro uyu;

¹²Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your foreigner who is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;

¹³uye kuti vana vavo vakanga vasingazivi vanzwe, vadzidze kutya Jehovha Mwari wenyu, nguva yose yamuchazogara panyika yamunoyambuka Joridhani kwairi, kuti ive yenyu.

¹³and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

¹⁴Zvino Jehovha akati kuna Mozisi, Tarira, mazuva okufa kwako aswedera; dana Joshua mundomira mutende rokusangana, kuti ndimuraire iye. Mozisi naJoshua vakandomira mutende rokusangana.

¹⁴Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.

¹⁵Jehovha akazviratidza muTende mushongwe yegore, shongwe yegore ikamira pamusoro pomukova weTende.

¹⁵Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.

¹⁶Ipapo Jehovha akati kuna Mozisi, Tarira, iwe uchavata namadzibaba ako; zvino vanhu ava vachasimuka ndokupata vachitevera vamwari vavatorwa venyika, kwavanondogara pakati pavo; vachandisiya, nokuputsa sungano yandakaita navo.

¹⁶Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

¹⁷Zvino kutsamwa kwangu kuchavamukira nenguva iyo, ndichavasiya nokuvavanzira chiso changu, vachaparadzwa, nezvakaipa zvizhinji nenhamo zhinji zvichavawira; naizvozvo nenguva iyo vachati, Ko zvinhu zvakaipa izvi hazvina kutiwira nekuti Mwari wedu haazi pakati pedu here?

¹⁷Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

¹⁸Nenguva iyo ndichavanza chiso changu nokuda kwezvakaipa zvose zvavakaita pakutsaukira kwavo kuna vamwe vamwari.

¹⁸I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods.

¹⁹Naizvozvo zvino munofanira kuzvinyorera rwiyo urwu rundipupurire kuvana vaIsiraeri.

¹⁹“Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

²⁰nekuti kana ndavapinza panyika yandakapikira madzibaba avo, iyo inoyerera mukaka nouchi, ivo vakadya, vakaguta, vakakora, ipapo vachatsaukira kuna vamwe vamwari nokuvashumira, vakandizvidza ini, nokuputsa sungano yangu.

²⁰For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

²¹Zvino kana zvakaipa zvizhinji nenhamo zhinji zvikavawira, rwiyo urwu ruchava chapupu kupupura pamberi pavo; nekuti harungakanganikwi pamiromo yavana vavo, nekuti ndinoziva ndangariro dzavanoruka nhasi, ndichigere kuvapinza panyika yandakavapikira.

²¹It shall happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.”

²²Naizvozvo Mozisi wakanyora rwiyo urwu nomusi iwoyo, akarudzidzisa vana vaIsiraeri.

²²So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.

²³Akaraira Joshua, mwanakomana waNuni, akati, Simba, utsunge moyo, nekuti iwe uchapinza vana vaIsiraeri panyika yandakavapikira; neni ndichava newe.

²³He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with you.”

²⁴Zvino Mozisi wakati apedza kunyora mashoko omurayiro uyu mubhuku, kusvikira apera,

²⁴It happened, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,

²⁵Mozisi akaraira vaRevhi, vaitakura areka yesungano yaJehovha, akati,

²⁵that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying,

²⁶Torai bhuku iyi yomurayiro, muiise parutivi rweareka yesungano yaJehovha Mwari wenyu, kuti ikupupurirepo.

²⁶“Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.

²⁷nekuti ndinoziva kusanzwa nokusateerera kwenyu; tarirai, ini ndichiri mupenyu pakati penyu nhasi, makamukira Jehovha; hamuchanyanyisi here kana ndafa?

²⁷For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against Yahweh; and how much more after my death?

²⁸Unganidzai kwandiri vakuru vose vamarudzi enyu, navatariri venyu, kuti vanzwe ndichitaura mashoko awa nokudana denga napasi zvivapupurire.

²⁸Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

²⁹Nekuti ndinoziva kuti kana ndafa muchazvishatisa kwazvo, nokutsauka panzira yandakakurairai; zvakaipa zvichakuwirai pamazuva okupedzisira, nekuti makaita zvakaipa pamberi paJehovha, muchimutsamwisa namabasa amaoko enyu.

²⁹For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.”

³⁰Zvino Mozisi akataura mashoko orwiyo urwu, kusvikira apera, ungano yose ichizvinzwa.

³⁰Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.