¹Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

¹Zatorej ljubi GOSPODA, svojega Boga, in vse dni pazi na njegovo službo, na postave, sodbe in zapovedi njegove.

²Know this day: for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm,

²In spoznajte danes (zakaj ne govorim z vašimi otroki, ki niso spoznali in ki niso videli) strahovanje GOSPODA, svojega Boga, njegovo velikost, mogočno roko in iztegnjeno ramo njegovo,

³and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;

³znamenja in dela njegova, ki jih je storil sredi Egipta Faraonu, egiptovskemu kralju, in vsej njegovi deželi;

⁴and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea or, Sea of Reeds to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;

⁴in kaj je storil vojski Egipčanov, njih konjem in njih vozovom: kako je privedel vode Rdečega morja nadnje, ko so se gnali za vami, in jih je GOSPOD pogubil do današnjega dne;

⁵and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place;

⁵in koliko je za vas storil v puščavi, dokler niste prišli v ta kraj;

⁶and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel:

⁶in kaj je storil Datanu in Abiramu, sinoma Eliaba, Rubenovega sinu: kako je odprla zemlja žrelo in ju požrla ž njih družinami in šatori in s slehernim živim bitjem, ki je šlo za njima, sredi vsega Izraela.

⁷but your eyes have seen all the great work of Yahweh which he did.

⁷Zakaj vaše oči so videle vsa velika dela GOSPODOVA, ki jih je storil.

⁸Therefore you shall keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it;

⁸Zato držite vso zapoved, ki vam jo danes zapovedujem, da bodete močni ter obvladate deželo, ko pridete vanjo, v katero greste, da jo posedete;

⁹and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.

⁹in da podaljšate dni svoje v deželi, za katero je prisegel GOSPOD vašim očetom, da jim jo da in njih zarodu, deželo, kjer teče mleko in med.

¹⁰For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn’t as the land of Egypt, that you came out from, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;

¹⁰Dežela namreč, ki jo greste posedat, ni kakor Egiptovska dežela, iz katere ste odšli, kjer si sejal seme in moral napeljevati vodo nanje s svojo nogo kakor na zelenjadni vrt.

¹¹but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water of the rain of the sky,

¹¹Ampak dežela, kamor potujete, da se je polastite, je dežela hribov in dolin in pije vodo od dežja z neba;

¹²a land which Yahweh your God cares for: the eyes of Yahweh your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.

¹²dežela je, za katero skrbi GOSPOD, tvoj Bog: vedno so oči GOSPODA, tvojega Boga, obrnjene nanjo, od začetka do konca leta.

¹³It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

¹³Ako boste torej marljivo poslušali moje zapovedi, ki vam jih danes zapovedujem, da boste ljubili GOSPODA, svojega Boga, in mu služili iz vsega srca svojega in iz vse duše svoje,

¹⁴that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.

¹⁴bo dajal dežja vaši deželi ob pravem času, zgodnjega in poznega dežja, da spraviš žito, vino in olje svoje;

¹⁵I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

¹⁵tudi za živino tvojo ti dam trave na polju, in jedel boš in se nasitil.

¹⁶Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

¹⁶Varujte se, da se ne da premotiti vaše srce, da bi odstopili s pota in služili tujim bogovom ter jih molili;

¹⁷and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.

¹⁷in GOSPODOVA jeza bi se razvnela proti vam, in zaprl bi nebo, da ne bo dežja in da zemlja ne obrodi sadu svojega, in poginili bi hitro iz predobre dežele, ki vam jo da GOSPOD.

¹⁸Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.

¹⁸Zato si vtisnite te besede moje v srce in v dušo svojo in privežite si jih za znamenje na roko in naj bodo kot čelno vezilo med vašimi očmi.

¹⁹You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

¹⁹In učite jih svoje otroke, govoreč o njih, ko sediš v hiši svoji, ko hodiš po poti, ko greš spat in ko vstajaš.

²⁰You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates;

²⁰In napiši jih na podboje svoje hiše in na vrata svoja,

²¹that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

²¹da se pomnože vaši in vaših otrok dnevi, kakor se množe dnevi neba nad zemljo, v deželi, ki jo je s prisego obljubil GOSPOD očetom vašim, da jim jo da.

²²For if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him;

²²Kaj ti če boste zvesto hranili vso to zapoved, ki vam jo zapovedujem, izpolnjujoč jo s tem, da ljubite GOSPODA, svojega Boga, hodite po vseh potih njegovih in se ga oklepate,

²³then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

²³tedaj prežene GOSPOD vse te narode pred vami in posedete last narodov, ki so večji in močnejši od vas.

²⁴Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your border.

²⁴Vsak kraj, na katerega stopi vaša noga, bode vaš: od puščave in Libanona, od velereke Evfrata tja do Zahodnega morja bodo vaše meje.

²⁵No man shall be able to stand before you: Yahweh your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has spoken to you.

²⁵Nihče ne bo mogel obstati pred vami; strah in grozo pred vami pošlje GOSPOD, vaš Bog, nad vso tisto deželo, po kateri boste hodili, kakor vam je obljubil.

²⁶Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:

²⁶Poglejte, danes stavim pred vas blagoslov in prokletstvo:

²⁷the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day;

²⁷blagoslov, ako poslušate zapovedi GOSPODA, svojega Boga, ki vam jih danes zapovedujem;

²⁸and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.

²⁸prokletstvo pa, ako ne poslušate zapovedi GOSPODA, svojega Boga, temuč krenete s poti, ki vam jo danes zapovedujem, da bi šli za tujimi bogovi, ki jih niste poznali.

²⁹It shall happen, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.

²⁹In zgodi se naj, ko te pripelje GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, v deželo, kamor jo greš posest, da deneš blagoslov na goro Garizim, prokletstvo pa na goro Ebal,

³⁰Aren’t they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?

³⁰ki sta onostran Jordana, v smeri proti solnčnemu zahodu, v deželi Kanaancev, ki prebivajo v nižini, nasproti Gilgalu, pri hrastih Morejevih.

³¹For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein.

³¹Kajti skoraj pojdete čez Jordan, da se polastite dežele, ki vam jo daje GOSPOD, Bog vaš, in dobite jo v last in boste prebivali v njej.A pazite, da izpolnjujete vse postave in sodbe, ki vam jih predlagam danes.

³²You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.

³²A pazite, da izpolnjujete vse postave in sodbe, ki vam jih predlagam danes.