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

¹Naizvozvo unofanira kuda Jehovha Mwari wako, nokuchengeta nguva dzose murayiro wake, nezvaakatema, nezvaakatonga, nezvaakaraira.

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,

²Zivai nhasi nekuti handitauri navana venyu vasina kuziva, vasina kuona kuranga kwaJehovha Mwari wenyu ukuru hwake, neruoko rwake rune simba, noruoko rwake rwakatambanudzwa,

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;

³nezviratidzo zvake, namabasa ake, aakaitira Farao, mambo pakati peEgipita nenyika yake yose;

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;

⁴nezvaakaitira hondo yeEgipita, namabhiza avo, nengoro dzavo; kuti wakavafukidza nemvura yeGungwa Dzvuku, nguva yavakakutevererai, Jehovha akavaparadza kusvikira nhasi;

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

⁵nezvaakakuitirai murenje, kudzimana makasvika panzvimbo ino;

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:

⁶nezvaakaitira Dhatani naAbhiramu, vanakomana vaEriabhu, mwanakomana waRubheni; namashamisire akaita nyika muromo wayo, ikavamedza, ivo navedzimba dzavo, namatende avo, nezvipenyu zvavo zvose zvakanga zvichivatevera, pakati pavalsiraeri vose.

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

⁷Asi meso enyu akaona mabasa ose makuru aJehovha aakaita.

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;

⁸Naizvozvo munofanira kuchengeta murayiro wose wandinokuraira nhasi, kuti musimbe, mupinde, mutore nyika iyo kwamunoyambuka kundoiita yenyu;

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.

⁹kuti mazuva enyu awedzerwe panyika, yakapikirwa madzibaba enyu naJehovha, kuti uchaipa ivo navana vavo, nyika inoyerera mukaka nouchi.

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;

¹⁰Nekuti nyika kwaunoenda kundoiita yako, haina kufanana nenyika yeEgipita, kwamakabuda, kwawaidzvara mbeu dzako, uchidzidiridza namakumbo ako, somunda wemiriwo,

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,

¹¹asi nyika kwamunoyambuka, kundoiita yenyu, inyika yamakomo nemipata, inomwa mvura yokudenga;

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.

¹²inyika inochengetwa naJehovha Mwari wako; meso aJehovha Mwari wako anoramba achiitarira, kubva pakutanga kwegore kusvikira pakupedzisira kwegore.

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,

¹³Zvino kana mukateerera zvakanaka mirairo yangu, yandinokurairai nhasi, mukada Jehovha Mwari wenyu nokumushumira nomoyo wenyu wose uye nomweya wenyu wose,

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.

¹⁴ndichapa nyika yenyu mvura panguva yayo, mvura yokutanga nemvura yokuteverera, kuti ugone kukohwa zviyo zvako, newaini yako, namafuta ako.

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

¹⁵Ndichameresa uswa bwemombe dzako pamafuro ako, udye, ugute.

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

¹⁶Chenjerai kuti moyo yenyu irege kunyengerwa, murege kutsauka, mukashumira vamwe vamwari, nokunamata kwavari;

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.

¹⁷kuti Jehovha arege kukutsamwirai, akapfiga kudenga, kuti mvura irege kunaya nenyika irege kubereka zvibereko zvayo; imwi mukakurumidza kuparadzwa panyika yakanaka yamunopiwa naJehovha.

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.

¹⁸Naizvozvo munofanira kuchengeta mashoko angu awa mumoyo yenyu nomumweya yenyu; munofanira kuasungira pamaoko enyu, chive chiratidzo, uye anofanira kuva rundanyara pakati pameso enyu.

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.

¹⁹Uye munofanira kuadzidzisa vana venyu, muchitaurirana pamusoro pawo, kana iwe ugere paimba yako, kana uchifamba panzira, kana uchivata pasi, uye kana uchimuka;

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

²⁰unofanira kuanyora pamagwatidziro emikova yeimba yako, napamasuwo ako;

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.

²¹kuti mazuva enyu awedzerwe, namazuva avana venyu, panyika yakapikirwa madzibaba enyu naJehovha kuti uchavapa iyo, aite samazuva okudenga pamusoro penyika.

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;

²²Nekuti kana mukachengeta zvakanaka murayiro uyu wose wandinokurairai, kuti muuite; mukada Jehovha Mwari wenyu, nokufamba nenzira dzake dzose, nokumunamatira;

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

²³Jehovha uchadzinga ndudzi idzi dzose pamberi penyu, imwi muchabata ndudzi dzinokupfuurai noukuru nesimba, dzive dzenyu.

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.

²⁴Nzvimbo ipi neipi inotsikwa netsoka dzenyu ichava yenyu, nenyika yenyu ichabva parenje, neRebhanoni, kubva parwizi, rwizi Yufuratesi, kusvikira kugungwa rokumavirazuva.

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.

²⁵Hakuna munhu ungagona kumira pamberi penyu; Jehovha Mwari wenyu uchatyisa nokuvhundusa nyika yose pamusoro penyu, nyika iyo yamuchazotsika pamusoro payo, sezvaakataura kwamuri.

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

²⁶Tarirai, nhasi ndinoisa pamberi penyu kuropafadzwa nokutukwa;

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

²⁷kuropafadzwa, kana mukateerera mirairo yaJehovha Mwari wenyu, yandinokurairai nhasi;

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.

²⁸nokutukwa, kana musingateereri mirairo yaJehovha Mwari wenyu, asi muchitsauka panzira yandinokuraira nhasi, mukatevera vamwe vamwari vamusina kuziva.

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.

²⁹Zvino kana Jehovha Mwari wako akupinza panyika, kwamunoenda, kundoiita yako, unofanira kuisa kuropafadzwa pagomo reGerizimi, nokutukwa pagomo reEbhari.

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?

³⁰Ko makomo awo haazi mhiri kwaJoridhani, mberi kwenzira yokumavirira ezuva, munyika yavaKanani, vagere paMupata, pakatarisana neGirigari, pamiouki yeMore here?

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.

³¹Nekuti munofanira kuyambuka Joridhani, mupinde kundotora nyika yamunopiwa naJehovha Mwari wenyu; ichava yenyu, mugaremo.

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

³²Chenjerai kuti muite zvakatemwa nezvakatongwa zvose, zvandinoisa pamberi penyu nhasi.