¹Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.

¹Sedaj pa poslušaj, o Izrael, postave in sodbe, katere vas učim izpolnjevati, da živite in pridete v deželo ter jo posedete, ki vam jo daje GOSPOD, očetov vaših Bog.

²You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.

²Ne pristavite ničesar besedi, ki vam jo zapovedujem, tudi ne vzemite ničesar od nje, da ohranite Boga svojega zapovedi, ki vam jih zapovedujem.

³Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from the midst of you.

³Oči vaše so videle, kar je storil GOSPOD zaradi Baal-peorja; kajti vse, ki so šli za Baal-peorjem, je potrebil GOSPOD, Bog tvoj, izmed tebe.

⁴But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive this day.

⁴Vi pa, ki ste se držali GOSPODA, Boga svojega, ste vsi živi današnji dan.

⁵Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it.

⁵Glejte, učim vas postave in sodbe, kakor mi je zapovedal GOSPOD, Bog moj, da tako ravnate v deželi, ki greste vanjo, da jo posedete.

⁶Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

⁶Hranite jih torej in izpolnjujte; kajti to bode vaša modrost in razumnost vpričo ljudstev, ki bodo slišala vse te postave, tako da poreko: Res, modro in razumno ljudstvo je ta veliki narod!

⁷For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

⁷Zakaj kje je velik narod, ki bi mu bili bogovi tako blizu, kakor nam je GOSPOD, Bog naš, kadarkoli ga kličemo?

⁸What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

⁸In kje je velik narod, ki ima postave in sodbe tako pravične, kakor je ves ta zakon, ki vam ga danes stavim pred oči?

⁹Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;

⁹Varuj se samo in pazi skrbno na dušo svojo, da ne zabiš reči, ki so jih videle tvoje oči, ter da ti ne izginejo iz srca, dokler koli živiš; ampak oznanjaj jih svojim otrokom in otrok svojih otrokom –

¹⁰the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”

¹⁰da ne zabiš dneva, ko si stal pred GOSPODOM, Bogom svojim, na Horebu, ko mi je rekel GOSPOD: Zberi mi ljudstvo, da slišijo moje besede, da bi se učili bati se mene vse svoje žive dni na zemlji in to učili tudi otroke svoje.

¹¹You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.

¹¹Tedaj ste pristopili in stali pod goro; gora pa je gorela s plamenom do sredi neba, in bila je tema, oblak in mrakota.

¹²Yahweh spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.

¹²In GOSPOD vam je govoril iz sredi ognja: glas besed ste slišali, a podobe niste videli nobene, čujoč samo glas.

¹³He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.

¹³In oznanil vam je svojo zavezo, ki vam jo je ukazal izpolnjevati, tistih deset besed, in napisal jih je na dve kameneni plošči.

¹⁴Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.

¹⁴Meni pa je zapovedal GOSPOD tisti čas, da naj vas učim postave in sodbe, da bi jih izpolnjevali v deželi, ki greste vanjo, da jo posedete.

¹⁵Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.

¹⁵Varujte torej skrbno svoje duše; zakaj nikakršne podobe niste videli v dan, ko vam je GOSPOD govoril na Horebu iz sredi ognja,

¹⁶Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

¹⁶da se ne skazite in si ne naredite rezane podobe, obraza kakršnekoli podobe, slike moškega ali ženskega bitja,

¹⁷the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,

¹⁷slike katerebodi živine na zemlji ali katerega okriljenca, ki leta pod nebom,

¹⁸the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;

¹⁸slike katerebodi laznine na zemlji ali katere ribe v vodah pod zemljo;

¹⁹and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

¹⁹ter da ne povzdigneš oči proti nebu, in ko ogleduješ solnce, mesec in zvezde, vso vojsko nebeško, da se ne daš premotiti, da bi jih molil in jim služil, ki jih je GOSPOD, Bog tvoj, razdelil vsem na rodom pod vsem nebom.

²⁰But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.

²⁰Vas pa je GOSPOD vzel in peljal iz železne peči, iz Egipta, da bodite ljudstvo njegove dediščine, kakor se vidi danes.

²¹Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance:

²¹In GOSPOD se je razsrdil nad mano zaradi vas, tako da je prisegel, da ne smem iti čez Jordan ter priti v tisto dobro deželo, ki ti jo daje v dediščino GOSPOD, Bog tvoj;

²²but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over, and possess that good land.

²²ampak umreti moram v tej deželi, ne smem iti čez Jordan, vi pa pojdete čezenj in dobite v last ono dobro deželo.

²³Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.

²³Varujte se torej, da ne pozabite zaveze GOSPODA, Boga svojega, ki jo je sklenil z vami, in si ne delate rezane podobe v kakršnikoli obliki, kar ti je prepovedal GOSPOD, Bog tvoj.

²⁴For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

²⁴Zakaj GOSPOD, Bog tvoj, je ogenj, ki uničuje, je Bog mogočni, goreči.

²⁵When you shall father children, and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke him to anger;

²⁵Ko boš rodil otroke in otrok otroke in boste že dalje časa domovali v deželi, pa se izpridite in si naredite rezano podobo. ali kakršnokoli podobo in boste počenjali, kar je hudo v očeh GOSPODA, vašega Boga, da ga dražite v jezo:

²⁶I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

²⁶kličem danes nebo in zemljo za priči proti vam, da hitro in docela poginete s površja zemlje, v katero ste namenjeni iti čez Jordan, da jo posedete; ne ostanete dolgo v njej, temuč boste docela iztrebljeni.

²⁷Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh shall lead you away.

²⁷In GOSPOD vas razkropi med ljudstva in malo vas ostane po številu med narodi, h katerim vas odpelje GOSPOD.

²⁸There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

²⁸In ondi boste služili bogovom, rok človeških tvorini, lesu in kamenu, ki ne vidijo in ne slišijo, ne jedo in ne duhajo.

²⁹But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

²⁹Ali odondod boste iskali GOSPODA, Boga svojega, in ga našli, ko boste vpraševali po njem iz vsega srca in z vso dušo svojo.

³⁰When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice:

³⁰V stiski, kadar te zadenejo vse te bridkosti, se v poslednjih dneh izpreobrneš h GOSPODU, Bogu svojemu, in poslušal boš njegov glas.

³¹for Yahweh your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

³¹Zakaj GOSPOD, Bog tvoj, je Bog mogočni, poln usmiljenja: ne odtegne se ti in te ne pokonča, tudi ne pozabi tvojih očetov zaveze, za katero jim je prisegel.

³²For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?

³²Vprašaj vendar po starih časih, ki so bili pred teboj, od dne, ko je Bog ustvaril človeka na zemlji, in od enega konca neba do drugega, se li je kdaj zgodila taka velika reč ali se je slišalo kaj enakega!

³³Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

³³Je li katero ljudstvo slišalo glas Boga, govorečega iz sredi ognja, kakor si ti slišal, in je ostalo živo?

³⁴Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

³⁴Je li poskusil kateri bog priti, da si vzame narod izmed naroda z izkušnjami, z znamenji, s čudeži in z bojem, z mogočno roko in z iztegnjeno ramo ter z velikimi in groznimi deli, kakor je storil GOSPOD, Bog vaš, vse to za vas v Egiptu vam pred očmi?

³⁵It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.

³⁵Tebi je bilo to pokazano, da bi spoznal, da GOSPOD je Bog in da razen njega ni drugega nobenega.

³⁶Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and on earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.

³⁶Iz nebes ti je dal slišati glas svoj, da te pouči, in na zemlji ti je dal videti veliki ogenj svoj, in slišal si njegove besede iz ognja.

³⁷Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

³⁷In ker je ljubil tvoje očete in si je izvolil njih zarod za njimi, te je peljal s svojim obličjem, z veliko močjo svojo iz Egipta,

³⁸to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day.

³⁸da prežene narode pred teboj, ki so večji in močnejši od tebe, da te privede v njih deželo in ti jo da v dediščino, kakor danes vidiš.

³⁹Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that Yahweh he is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is none else.

³⁹Spoznaj torej danes in v srce si vtisni, da GOSPOD sam je Bog v nebesih zgoraj in na zemlji zdolaj, ni ga drugega.

⁴⁰You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.

⁴⁰In hrani njegove postave in zapovedi, ki ti jih danes zapovedujem, da se bo dobro godilo tebi in tvojim otrokom za teboj ter da se ti podaljšajo dnevi v deželi, ki ti jo za vse čase da GOSPOD, Bog tvoj.

⁴¹Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;

⁴¹Tedaj je oddelil Mojzes tri mesta onostran Jordana, proti solnčnemu vzhodu,

⁴²that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn’t hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

⁴²da bi zbežal vanje ubijalec, ki nehotoma ubije svojega bližnjega in ga ni v prejšnjem času sovražil; ta naj zbeži v eno teh mest in ostani živ:

⁴³Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

⁴³Bezer v puščavi, na ravnini, med Rubenskimi, Ramot v Gileadu med Gadskimi in Golan v Basanu med Manasejci.

⁴⁴This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:

⁴⁴In ta je zakon, ki ga je Mojzes predložil Izraelovim sinovom.

⁴⁵these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt,

⁴⁵To so pričevanja, postave in sodbe, ki jih je Mojzes govoril sinom Izraelovim, ko so bili odšli iz Egipta,

⁴⁶beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck, when they came forth out of Egypt.

⁴⁶za Jordanom, v dolini nasproti Bet-peorju, v deželi Sihona, kralja Amorejcev, ki je prebival v Hesbonu, ki so ga porazili Mojzes in Izraelovi sinovi, ko so bili odšli iz Egipta –

⁴⁷They took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;

⁴⁷in prilastili so si deželo njegovo in deželo Oga, kralja basanskega, obeh kraljev Amorejcev, ki sta bivala na oni strani Jordana, proti solnčnemu vzhodu,

⁴⁸from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (the same is Hermon),

⁴⁸od Aroerja, ki je ob bregu potoka Arnona, do gore Siona (ki je Hermon),in vso nižavo ob Jordanu, proti solnčnemu vzhodu, tja do Morja v nižini pod strmino gore Pizge.

⁴⁹and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

⁴⁹in vso nižavo ob Jordanu, proti solnčnemu vzhodu, tja do Morja v nižini pod strmino gore Pizge.