¹Zvino mazuva mazhinji akati apfuura, Jehovha azorodza vaIsiraeri pavavengi vavo vose vakanga vakavapoteredza, naJoshua akwegura, ava namakore mazhinji,

¹It happened after many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,

²Joshua akadana vaIsiraeri vose, vakuru vavo navatungamiriri vavo, navatongi vavo, navatariri vavo, akati kwavari, Ndakwegura, ndava namakore mazhinji.

²that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, “I am old and well advanced in years.

³lmi makaona zvose zvakaitirwa ndudzi idzi dzose naJehovha Mwari wenyu nokuda kwenyu; nekuti Jehovha Mwari wenyu ndiye wakakurwirai.

³You have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is Yahweh your God who has fought for you.

⁴Tarirai, ndakakupai ndudzi idzi dzasara, ive nhaka yamarudzi enyu, kubva paJoridhani, pamwechete nendudzi dzose dzandakaparadza, kusvikira kugungwa guru kumavirazuva.

⁴Behold, I have allotted to you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea toward the going down of the sun.

⁵Jehovha Mwari wenyu amene uchadzibudisa pamberi penyu, nokudzidzinga murege kudziona, kuti mupiwe nyika yadzo, sezvamakaudzwa naJehovha Mwari wenyu.

⁵Yahweh your God will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight. You shall possess their land, as Yahweh your God spoke to you.

⁶Naizvozvo simbai kwazvo kuti muchengete nokuita zvose zvakanyorwa mubhuku yomurayiro waMozisi, murege kutsauka kwazviri kana kurudyi kana kuruboshwe;

⁶“Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left;

⁷kuti murege kuvhengana nendudzi idzo dzakasara pakati penyu, kana kureva mazita avamwari vavo, kana kupikisa navo, kana kuvashumira, kana kuvapfugamira;

⁷that you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;

⁸asi namatirai Jehovha Mwari wenyu, sezvamakaita kusvikira nhasi.

⁸but hold fast to Yahweh your God, as you have done to this day.

⁹Nekuti Jehovha wakadzinga pamberi penyu ndudzi huru dzaiva nesimba; asi kana murimwi, hakuna munhu wakamira pamberi penyu kusvikira nhasi.

⁹“For Yahweh has driven great and strong nations out from before you. But as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.

¹⁰Munhu mumwe kwamuri uchadzinga vanhu vane chiuru chezana, nekuti Jehovha Mwari wenyu ndiye unokurwirai, sezvaakakuudzai.

¹⁰One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.

¹¹Naizvozvo chenjerai kuti mude Jehovha Mwari wenyu.

¹¹Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.

¹²Nekuti kana mukatongodzokera, mukanamatira vakasara vendudzi idzi, idzo dzakasara pakati penyu, mukawanana navo, mukapinda kwavari, naivo vakapinda kwamuri;

¹²“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;

¹³muzive zvirokwazvo, kuti Jehovha Mwari wenyu haangadzingi ndudzi idzi pamberi penyu; asi vachava musungo neriva kwamuri, netyava kunhivi dzenyu, nemhinzwa pameso enyu, kusvikira mapera panyika iyo yakanaka yamakapiwa naJehovha Mwari wenyu.

¹³know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.

¹⁴Tarirai, nhasi ini ndoenda nenzira yenyika yose; zvino imwi munoziva mumoyo yenyu yose nomumweya yenyu yose, kuti hapana chinhu chimwe pazvose zvakanaka zvakataurwa pamusoro penyu naJehovha Mwari wenyu, chakakona.

¹⁴“Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.

¹⁵Zvino sezvamakaitirwa izvo zvinhu zvose zvakanaka, zvakataurwa pamusoro penyu naJehovha Mwari wenyu, saizvozvo Jehovha uchakuitirai zvose zvakaipa, kusvikira akuparadzai panyika yakanaka, yamakapiwa naJehovha Mwari wenyu.

¹⁵It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you,

¹⁶Kana mukadarika sungano yaJehovha Mwari wenyu, yaakakurairai, mukandoshumira vamwe vamwari, mukapfugama pamberi pavo, ipapo kutsamwa kwaJehovha kuchakumukirai, mukakurumidza kupera, nokubviswa panyika iyo yakanaka, yamakapiwa naye.

¹⁶when you disobey the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. Then the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you.”