¹These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

¹Ndiwo mashoko akataurwa naMozisi kuvaIsiraeri vose mhiri kwaJoridhani murenje, muMupata wakatarisana neSufi, pakati peParani, neTofera, neRabhani, neHazeroti, neDhizahabhi.

²It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.

²Kubva paHorebhu, nenzira yokugomo reSeiri, kusvika paKadheshi-bharinea, munhu anofamba mazuva ane gumi nerimwe.

³It happened in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that Yahweh “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. had given him in commandment to them;

³Zvino pagore ramakumi mana, pamwedzi wegumi nomumwe, nezuva rokutanga romwedzi, Mozisi wakaudza vana vaIsiraeri zvose zvavakarairwa naJehovha naye;

⁴after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.

⁴wakati akunda Sihoni, mambo wavaAmori, wakange agere Heshibhoni, naOgi, mambo weBhashani, wakange agere Ashitaroti, paEdhirei,

⁵Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,

⁵Mozisi akatanga kududzira murayiro uyu vari mhiri kwaJoridhani, panyika yokwaMoabhu, akati,

⁶“Yahweh our God The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.” spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have lived long enough in this mountain:

⁶Jehovha Mwari wedu akataura nesu paHorebhu, akati, Makagara nguva yakaringana pagomo iri.

⁷turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all the places near there, in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the seashore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

⁷Dzokai, mufambe, muende kumakomo avaAmori nokunzvimbo dzakavakidzana navo, kuMupata, nokumakomo, nokumapani, nokurutivi rwezasi, nokumahombekombe egungwa, nokunyika yavaKanani, nokuRebhanoni, kusvikira kurwizi rukuru, rwizi Yufuratesi.

⁸Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.”

⁸Tarirai, ndakaisa nyika pamberi penyu; pindai, mutore nyika yakapikirwa madzibaba enyu naJehovha, kuna Abhurahamu, naIsaka, naJakove, kuti vachaipiwa ivo navana vavo vanovatevera.

⁹I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not able to bear you myself alone:

⁹Nguva iyo ndakataura nemi, ndikati, Handigoni kukutakurai ndiri ndoga;

¹⁰Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.

¹⁰Jehovha Mwari wenyu wakakuwanzai; tarirai, nhasi mava senyeredzi dzokudenga pakuwanda kwenyu.

¹¹Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!

¹¹Jehovha Mwari wamadzibaba enyu ngaakuwedzerei rune chiuru chamazana pamakasvika zvino, amuropafadze sezvaakakupikirai.

¹²How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

¹²Ini ndoga ndingatakura seiko kurema kwenyu, nomutoro wenyu, nokurwa kwenyu?

¹³Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”

¹³Muzvitsaurirei varume vakachenjera, vakangwara, vanozikamwa, kumarudzi enyu, ndivaite vakuru venyu.

¹⁴You answered me, and said, “The thing which you have spoken is good to do.”

¹⁴Mukandipindura, mukati, Chinhu icho chamataura chakanaka kuti tichiite.

¹⁵So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.

¹⁵Ipapo ndakatora vakuru vamarudzi enyu, varume vakanga vakachenjera, vakanga vakazikamwa, ndikavaita vakuru venyu, vave vakuru vezviuru, navakuru vamazana, navakuru vamakumi mashanu, navakuru vevane gumi, navatariri kumarudzi enyu.

¹⁶I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

¹⁶Nenguva iyo ndikaraira vatongi venyu, ndikati, teererai mhosva dziri pakati pehama dzenyu, mururamisire pakati pomunhu nehama yake, nomutorwa ugere naye.

¹⁷You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

¹⁷Musatsaura vanhu pakutonga kwenyu; munofanira kuteerera muduku nomukuru nomutowo mumwe; musatya munhu; nekuti kutonga ndokwa Mwari; asi kana kune mhaka yamusingagoni, muuye nayo kwandiri kuti ndiinzwe.

¹⁸I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.

¹⁸Nenguva iyo ndakakurairai zvose zvamunofanira kuita.

¹⁹We traveled from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

¹⁹Zvino takasimuka paHorebhu, tikafamba murenje iro rose guru rinotyisa, ramakaona panzira yokumakomo avaAmori, sezvatakarairwa naJehovha Mwari wedu; tikasvika paKadheshi-bharinea.

²⁰I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God gives to us.

²⁰Ndikati kwamuri, Masvika panyika yamakomo yavaAmori, yatinopiwa naJehovha Mwari wedu.

²¹Behold, Yahweh your God has set the land before you: go up, take possession, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you; don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed.”

²¹Tarirai, Jehovha, Mwari wenyu wakaisa nyika iyo pamberi penyu; kwirai, muitore, sezvamakaudzwa naJehovha Mwari wamadzibaba enyu; musatya kana kuvhunduka.

²²You came near to me everyone of you, and said, “Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.”

²²Ipapo imwi makaswedera mose kwandiri, mukati, Ngatitume varume vatitungamirire, vatishorere nyika, vagouya kuzotiudza nzira yatinofanira kukwira nayo, namaguta atichandosvika kwaari.

²³The thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:

²³Shoko iro rakandifadza; ndikatsaura varume vane gumi navaviri pakati penyu, murume mumwe kurudzi rumwe norumwe.

²⁴and they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.

²⁴Ivo vakaenda vakakwira mugomo, vakasvika mumupata weEshikori, vakaishora,

²⁵They took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us.”

²⁵Vakatora mimwe michero yenyika mumaoko avo, vakaburukira kwatiri nayo, vakadzoka neshoko kwatiri, vakati, Inyika yakanaka, yatinopiwa naJehovha Mwari wedu.

²⁶Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God:

²⁶Asi makaramba kukwira, mukamukira kuraira kwaJehovha Mwari wenyu;

²⁷and you murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

²⁷mukanyunyuta mumatende enyu, mukati, Jehovha wakativenga, saka wakatibudisa munyika yeEgipita, kuti atiise mumaoko avaAmori, kuti atiparadze.

²⁸Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.’”

²⁸Zvino tichaendepiko? Hama dzedu dzanyawusa moyo yedu, dzichiti, Vanhu avo vanotikunda nokukura nokureba; maguta makuru, akakombwa namasvingo anosvika kudenga; uye, takaonako vana vaEnaki.

²⁹Then I said to you, “Don’t dread, neither be afraid of them.

²⁹Ipapo ini ndakati kwamuri, Musavhunduka henyu, kana kuvatya.

³⁰Yahweh your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

³⁰Jehovha Mwari wenyu unokutungamirirai, iye uchakurwirai, sezvaakakuitirai zvose paEgipita pamberi penyu,

³¹and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahweh your God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”

³¹nomurenje pamakaona muberekero wamakaberekwa nawo naJehovha Mwari wenyu, somunhu unobereka mwana wake; panzira dzenyu dzose dzamakafamba nadzo, kudzimara muchisvika panzvimbo iyi.

³²Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God,

³²Asi pachinhu ichi hamuna kutenda Jehovha Mwari wenyu;

³³who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.

³³iye wakakutungamirirai panzira, kuti akutsvakirei pamungadzika matende enyu, nomoto usiku, kuti akuratidzei nzira yamunofanira kufamba nayo, uye negore masikati.

³⁴Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,

³⁴Zvino Jehovha akanzwa inzwi ramashoko enyu, akatsamwa, akapika, achiti,

³⁵“Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land, which I swore to give to your fathers,

³⁵Zvirokwazvo, hakungavi nomumwe wavanhu ava, vorudzi urwu rwakaipa, uchaona nyika yakanaka, yandakapika ndichiti ndichaipa madzibaba enyu,

³⁶except Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he has trodden on, and to his children, because he has wholly followed Yahweh.”

³⁶asi Karebhu, mwanakomana waJefune, ndiye uchaiona; ndichamupa iye navana vake nyika yaakatsika, nekuti iye wakatevera Jehovha nomoyo wose.

³⁷Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in there:

³⁷Jehovha akanditsamwira neniwo nokuda kwenyu, akati, Newewo haungapindi ikoko;

³⁸Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there: encourage you him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

³⁸Joshua mwanakomana waNuni, umire pamberi pako, ndiye uchapinda ikoko; umusimbise, nekuti ndiye uchagarisa vaIsiraeri nhaka yavo.

³⁹Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

³⁹Vana venyu vaduku, vamakati vachatapwa, navana venyu vasingazivi nhasi zvakanaka nezvakaipa, ndivo vachapinda ikoko; ndichavapa iyo, ive yavo.

⁴⁰But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea or, Sea of Reeds .”

⁴⁰Asi kana murimwi, dzokai mufambe murenje nenzira yokuGungwa dzvuku

⁴¹Then you answered and said to me, “We have sinned against Yahweh, we will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us.” Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country.

⁴¹Zvino imwi mukapindura, mukati kwandiri, Takatadzira Jehovha, tichakwira hedu tindorwa, zvose sezvatakarairwa naJehovha Mwari wedu. Mukashonga mumwe nomumwe nhumbi dzake dzokurwa nadzo, mukada kukwira mugomo.

⁴²Yahweh said to me, “Tell them, ‘Don’t go up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be struck before your enemies.’”

⁴²Zvino Jehovha akati kwandiri, Uti kwavari: Musakwira kana kurwa, nekuti ini handizi pakati penyu; kuti murege kukundwa pamberi pavavengi venyu.

⁴³So I spoke to you, and you didn’t listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country.

⁴³Naizvozvo ndakataura nemi, asi makaramba kunditeerera; asi makamukira murayiro waJehovha, mukaita manyawi, mukakwira mugomo.

⁴⁴The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.

⁴⁴Zvino vaAmori vakanga vagere mugomo iro, vakabuda kuzorwa nemi, vakakudzingai, sezvinoita nyuchi, vakakuparadzai kusvikira paHoma.

⁴⁵You returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh didn’t listen to your voice, nor gave ear to you.

⁴⁵Ipapo makadzoka, mukachema pamberi paJehovha, asi Jehovha haana kuteerera inzwi renyu, kana kurerekera nzeve dzake.

⁴⁶So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you remained.

⁴⁶Naizvozvo makagara paKadheshi mazuva mazhinji, nguva yamakagarapo.