1Zvino kana Jehovha Mwari akupinza munyika maunoenda, kuiita yako, akadzinga ndudzi zhinji pamberi pako, dzinoti: vaHeti, navaGirigashi, navaAmori, navaKanani, navaPerezi, navaHivhi, navaJebhusi, ndudzi nomwe dzinokukunda noukuru nesimba;
1When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you;
2kana Jehovha Mwari wako akavaisa mumaoko ako, ukavakunda, iwe unofanira kuvaparadza chose; haufaniri kuita sungano navo, kana kuvanzwira nyasha;
2and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;
3usawanana navo, usapa mwanakomana wake mwanasikana wako, kana kutorera mwanakomana wako mwanasikana wake.
3neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.
4nekuti uchatsausa mwanakomana wako arege kunditevera, kuti ashumire vamwe vamwari; naizvozvo Jehovha achakutsamwirai kwazvo, akakurumidza kukuparadza.
4For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of Yahweh would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
5Asi ndizvo zvamunofanira kuvaitira: Munofanira kuputsa atari dzavo, nokuputsanya shongwe dzavo, nokutema matanda avo avanonamata nawo, nokupisa mifananidzo yavo yakavezwa.
5But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.
6nekuti uri rudzi rutsvene kuna Jehovha Mwari wako; Jehovha Mwari wako wakakutsaura kuti uve rudzi rwake chairwo pakati pendudzi dzose dziri panyika dzose.
6For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
7Jehovha haana kukudai, kana kukutsaurai, nekuti makanga makapfuura dzimwe ndudzi nokuwanda; nekuti imwi makanga muri vashoma kundudzi dzose.
7Yahweh didn’t set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
8Asi nekuti Jehovha unokudai, uye nekuti wakange achida kusimbisa kupika kwaakapikira madzibaba enyu, nokuda kwaizvozvo Jehovha wakakubudisai neruoko rune simba, akakudzikunurai paimba youranda paruoko rwaFarao, mambo weEgipita.
8but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9Naizvozvo uzive kuti Jehovha Mwari wako, ndiye Mwari, Mwari wakatendeka, anosimbisa sungano yake nenyasha dzake kuna vanomuda, vanochengeta mirairo yake kusvikira kumarudzi ane chiuru chamazana;
9Know therefore that Yahweh your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
10anotsiva vanomuvenga mumwe nomumwe, kuti avaparadze; haanganonokeri munhu anomuvenga, asi achamutsiva iye amene.
10and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his face.
11Naizvozvo unofanira kuchengeta murayiro, nezvaakatema, nezvaakatonga, zvandinokuraira nhasi, kuti uzviite.
11You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.
12Zvino kana muchiteerera izvi zvakatongwa, mukazvichengeta nokuzviita, Jehovha Mwari wako achakusimbisira sungano yake nenyasha dzake sezvaakapikira madzibaba ako;
12It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers:
13iye achakuda, nokukuropafadza, nokukuwanza; acharopafadzawo zvibereko zvomuviri wako, nezvibereko zvevhu rako, zviyo zvako, newaini yako, namafuta ako, nezvakaberekwa nemombe dzako, namakwayana amakwai ako, panyika yaakapikira madzibaba ako, kuti achakupa iyo.
13and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
14Ucharopafadzwa iwe kupfuura dzimwe ndudzi dzose; hapangavi pakati penyu murume kana mukadzi asingabereki, kana pakati pezvipfuwo zvenyu.
14You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.
15Jehovha uchabvisa kwamuri hosha dzose; haangatumiri kwamuri matenda akaipa eIj ipiti aunoziva, asi uchaatuma kuvanhu vose vanokuvenga.
15Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, he will put on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
16Iwe uchaparadza ndudzi dzose dzichaiswa mumaoko ako naJehovha Mwari wako; usadzinzwira nyasha; usashumira vamwari vavo, nekuti vachava musungo kwauri.
16You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.
17Zvino kana ukati mumoyo mako, Ndudzi idzi dzinotipfuura nokuwanda, ndingadzitorera seiko nyika yadzo?
17If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”
18Haufaniri kuvatya; unofanira kurangarira zvakanaka zvakaitirwa Farao navaEgipita vose naJehovha Mwari wako;
18you shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;
19nemiidzo mikuru yamakaona nameso enyu, nezviratidzo, nezvinoshamisa, neruoko rune simba, noruoko rwakatambanudzwa, zvawakabudiswa nazvo naJehovha Mwari wako; ndizvo zvichaitira Jehovha Mwari wako vanhu vose vaunotya.
19the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out: so shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
20Uye Jehovha Mwari wako uchatuma mago pakati pavo, kusvikira avo vakanga vasara, vakavanda, vaparadzwa pamberi pako.
20Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
21Usavatya, nekuti Jehovha Mwari wako ari pakati pako, Mwari mukuru unotyisa.
21You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is in the midst of you, a great and awesome God.
22Jehovha Mwari wako uchadzinga ndudzi idzo pamberi pako, rumwe-rumwe; haufaniri kuvaparadza vose kamwe, kuti zvikara zvesango zvirege kukuwandira.
22Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
23Asi Jehovha Mwari wako uchavaisa mumaoko ako, nokuvanyonganisa, nokunyonganisa kukuru, kusvikira vaparadzwa chose.
23But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed.
24Uchaisawo madzimambo avo mumaoko ako, kuti urozve mazita avo pasi pedenga; hapano munhu ungagona kumira pamberi pako, kusvikira wavaparadza.
24He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under the sky: no man shall be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.
25Munofanira kupisa mifananidzo yavo yakavezwa yavamwari vavo; haufaniri kuchochora sirivha kana ndarama iri pavari, kana kuitora, kuti urege kuteyiwa nazvo; nekuti zvinonyangadza pamberi paJehovha Mwari wako;
25You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
26usapinza chinonyangadza mumba mako, kuti iwe urege kuva chinhu chakayeriswa saicho; unofanira kuchisema chose, nokuchivenga chose, nekuti chinhu chakayeriswa.
26You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.