¹Zvino mutumwa waJehovha wakabva Girigari, akaenda Bhokimi, akati, Ndakakubudisa muEgipita, ndikakusvitsai panyika yandakapikira madzibaba enyu, ndikati, Handingatongoputsi sungano yangu nemwi nokusingaperi;

¹The angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you:

²nemwi hamufaniri kuita sungano navanhu vagere panyika ino; munofanira kuputsa atari dzavo. Asi hamuna kuteerera inzwi rangu; makaitireiko izvozvo?

²and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice: why have you done this?

³Saka ini ndakatiwo, Handingavadzingi pamberi penyu; asi vachava semhinzwa kunhivi dzenyu, navamwari vavo vachava zvisungo kwamuri.

³Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”

⁴Zvino mutumwa waJehovha wakati ataura namashoko iwayo kuvana vaIsiraeri vose, vanhu vose vakachema kwazvo.

⁴It happened, when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

⁵Ipapo vakatumidza nzvimbo iyo zita rinonzi Bhokimi, vakabayirapo Jehovha.

⁵They called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there to Yahweh.

⁶Zvino Joshua wakati aendisa vanhu, vana vaIsiraeri vakaenda mumwe nomumwe kunhaka yake, kuti vagare panyika yavo.

⁶Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.

⁷Vanhu vakashumira Jehovha mazuva ose aJoshua, namazuva ose avakuru vakanga vachiri vapenyu Joshua atofa, ivo vakanga vaona mabasa makuru akanga aitirwa vaIsiraeri naJehovha.

⁷The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.

⁸Zvino Joshua mwanakomana waNuni, muranda waJehovha akafa, ava namakore ane zana negumi.

⁸Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.

⁹Vakamuviga panyika yenhaka yake paTiminati-heresi, panyika yamakomo yaEfuremu, nechokumusoro kwegomo reGaashi.

⁹They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.

¹⁰Zvino vorudzi urwo rwose vakasanganiswa namadzibaba avo, rumwe rudzi rukamuka shure kwavo rwakanga rusingazivi Jehovha, kana basa raakaitira vaIsiraeri.

¹⁰Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who didn’t know Yahweh, nor yet the work which he had worked for Israel.

¹¹Vana vaIsiraeri vakaita zvakaipa pamberi paJehovha, vakashumira Bhaari;

¹¹The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals;

¹²vakarasha Jehovha Mwari wamadzibaba avo, wakange avabudisa munyika vakatevera vamwe vamwari vavanhu vakanga vakavapoteredza, vakavapfugamira, vakatsamwisa Jehovha.

¹²and they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger.

¹³Vakarasha Jehovha, vakashumira Bhaari neAshitaroti.

¹³They forsook Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

¹⁴Kutsamwa kwaJehovha kukamukira vaIsiraeri, akavaisa mumaoko avaparadzi vakavaparadza, akavatengesa mumaoko avavengi vavo vakanga vakavapoteredza; naizvozvo vakanga vasingagoni kumira pamberi pavavengi vavo.

¹⁴The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers who despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

¹⁵Pose-pose pavaienda, ruoko rwaJehovha rwairwa navo nokuvaitira zvakaipa, sezvakanga zvataurwa naJehovha, uye sezvavakanga vapikirwa naJehovha; vakatambudzika kwazvo.

¹⁵Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them: and they were very distressed.

¹⁶Zvino Jehovha akamutsa vatongi, vaivarwira mumaoko avaivaparadza.

¹⁶Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who despoiled them.

¹⁷Kunyange zvakadaro havana kuteerera vatongi vavo, nekuti vakapata vachitevera vamwe vamwari, vakavapfugamira; vakakurumidza kutsauka panzira yaifamba madzibaba avo, vaiteerera mirairo yaJehovha; asi ivo havana kuita saizvozvo.

¹⁷Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Yahweh. They didn’t do so.

¹⁸Zvino Jehovha waiti kana achinge achivamutsira mutongi, Jehovha waiva nomutongi uyo, ndokuvarwira pamaoko avavengi vavo mazuva ose omutongi uyo; nekuti Jehovha wakazvidemba pamusoro pokugomba kwavo nokuda kwavaivamanikidza nokuvanetsa.

¹⁸When Yahweh raised them up judges, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.

¹⁹Asi kana mutongi afa, vakadzokazve, vakaita zvakaipa kupfuura madzibaba avo, pakutevera vamwe vamwari, nokuvashumira, nokuvapfugamira; havana kurega mabasa avo kana mufambiro wemoyo yavo mikukutu.

¹⁹But it happened, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they didn’t cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.

²⁰Ipapo kutsamwa kwaJehovha kwakamukira vaIsiraeri, akati, Rudzi urwu zvarwakadarika sungano yangu, yandakaita namadzibaba avo, vakasateerera inzwi rangu,

²⁰The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel; and he said, “Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice;

²¹neniwo handichazodzingi pamberi pavo rudzi rumwe rwendudzi dzakasiiwa naJoshua pakufa kwake;

²¹I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;

²²kuti ndiidze vaIsiraeri nadzo, kana vachida kuchengeta nzira yaJehovha, kana vachida kufambamo, sezvayaichengetwa namadzibaba avo, kana vasingadi.

²²that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of Yahweh to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”

²³Naizvozvo Jehovha akasiya ndudzi idzo, akasakurumidza kudzidzinga; uye haana kudziisa muruoko rwaJoshua.

²³So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.