¹These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

¹To so besede zaveze, ki jo je GOSPOD zapovedal Mojzesu skleniti s sinovi Izraelovimi v deželi Moabski, razen zaveze, ki jo je sklenil ž njimi na Horebu.

²Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;

²In Mojzes je klical vsemu Izraelu in jim je govoril: Sami ste videli vse, kar je GOSPOD storil vam pred očmi v Egiptovski deželi Faraonu in vsem njegovim služabnikom in vsej deželi njegovi:

³the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders:

³velike izkušnje, ki so jih videle vaše oči, tista znamenja in velike čudeže.

⁴but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

⁴Toda GOSPOD vam ni dal srca, da bi umeli, in oči, da bi videli, in ušes, da bi slišali, do tega dne.

⁵I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.

⁵In vodil sem vas štirideset let po puščavi; oblačilo se ni prestaralo na vas in obuvalo ne raztrgalo na nogah vaših.

⁶You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.

⁶Kruha niste jedli, tudi vina in močne pijače niste pili, da bi spoznali, da jaz sem GOSPOD, Bog vaš.

⁷When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them:

⁷In ko ste prišli v ta kraj, Sihon, kralj v Hesbonu, in Og, kralj v Basanu, sta prišla nam nasproti se vojskovat, in smo ju porazili

⁸and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.

⁸in zavzeli smo njiju deželo in jo dali v dediščino Rubenskim in Gadskim in polovici Manasejevega rodu.

⁹Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

⁹Hranite torej besede te postave in jih izpolnjujte, da boste imeli srečo v vsem, kar počenjate.

¹⁰You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

¹⁰Danes stojite vsi pred GOSPODOM, Bogom svojim, vaši poglavarji, vaši rodovi, vaši starejšine in oblastniki, vsi Izraelovi možje,

¹¹your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;

¹¹vaši otročiči, vaše žene, tudi tujci vaši, ki bivajo v vašem taboru, od tistega, ki seka drva, do njega, ki nosi vodo:

¹²that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day;

¹²da vstopite v zavezo GOSPODA, svojega Boga, in v njegovo prisego, ki jo GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, sklepa danes s teboj;

¹³that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

¹³da te danes potrdi sebi za ljudstvo ter da ti bode za Boga, kakor ti je govoril in kakor je prisegel očetom tvojim, Abrahamu, Izaku in Jakobu.

¹⁴Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,

¹⁴A ne sklepam te zaveze in te prisege z vami samimi,

¹⁵but with him who stands here with us this day before Yahweh our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day

¹⁵marveč enako ž njim, ki tu danes stoji z nami pred GOSPODOM, našim Bogom, kakor ž njim, ki ga danes ni tukaj z nami.

¹⁶(for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;

¹⁶Kajti veste, kako smo prebivali v deželi Egiptovski in kako smo prešli skozi narode, mimo katerih smo šli,

¹⁷and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

¹⁷in videli ste njih ostude in njih malike, les in kamen, srebro in zlato, ki so bili med njimi.

¹⁸lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;

¹⁸Pazite, da ne bo med vami moža ali žene, družine ali rodú, čigar srce se odvrača danes od GOSPODA, našega Boga, da bi šel služit bogovom onih narodov; da ne bo med vami korenine, ki rodi strup in pelin;

¹⁹and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.”

¹⁹in čeprav sliši besede te kletve, vendar se blagoslavlja v svojem srcu in govori: Mir mi bode, čeprav živim po zakrknjenosti svojega srca; da naj pogine pijani z žejnim vred.

²⁰Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.

²⁰Ne bo mu hotel GOSPOD odpustiti, temuč takrat vzkipi GOSPODOVA jeza in njegova gorečnost proti tistemu možu, in ležala bo na njem vsa kletev, ki je pisana v tej knjigi, in GOSPOD izbriše njegovo ime izpod neba.

²¹Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.

²¹In GOSPOD ga odmeni v nesrečo izmed vseh Izraelovih rodov, soglasno z vsemi kletvami zaveze, zapisane v tej knjigi postave.

²²The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick;

²²In poreče prihodnji rod, otroci vaši, ki nastopijo za vami, in inostranec, ki pride iz daljne dežele, ko bodo videli nadloge te dežele in bolezni, s katerimi jo je bolno storil GOSPOD,

²³and that the whole land of it is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

²³ter da je vsa zemlja le žveplo in sol, pogorišče, ki se ne obseva in ki ne rodi, ki na njej ne raste bilje kakor v kraju razdejane Sodome in Gomore, Adame in Seboima, ki jih je GOSPOD pokončal v jezi in togoti svoji –

²⁴even all the nations shall say, “Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”

²⁴da, vsi narodi poreko: Zakaj je GOSPOD tako storil tej deželi? kaj pomeni žar te jeze velike?

²⁵Then men shall say, “Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,

²⁵Tedaj jim odgovore: Zato, ker so zapustili zavezo GOSPODA, Boga svojih očetov, ki jo je sklenil ž njimi, ko jih je vodil iz dežele Egiptovske,

²⁶and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know, and that he had not given to them:

²⁶in so šli in služili drugim bogovom ter se jim poklanjali, bogovom, katerih niso poznali in katerih jim on ni bil pridelil.

²⁷therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book;

²⁷Zato se je razvnela GOSPODOVA jeza proti tej deželi, da je pripravil nadnjo vse prokletstvo, ki je pisano v tej knjigi;

²⁸and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.”

²⁸in GOSPOD jih je izruval iz njih dežele v jezi in v srdu in v veliki togoti in jih pahnil v drugo deželo, kakor je danes.Skrivne reči so GOSPODA, našega Boga, a kar je razodetega, naše je in naših otrok vekomaj, da bi izpolnjevali vse besede tega zakona.

²⁹The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

²⁹Skrivne reči so GOSPODA, našega Boga, a kar je razodetega, naše je in naših otrok vekomaj, da bi izpolnjevali vse besede tega zakona.