¹Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,

¹Inzwa, iwe Isiraeri, nhasi unofanira kuyambuka Joridhani, kuti upinde nyika kundopiwa ndudzi dzinokupfuura paukuru nesimba, dzive dzako, namaguta makuru ana masvingo anosvika kudenga,

²a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, “Who can stand before the sons of Anak?”

²navanhu vakuru varefu, vana vaAnaki, vaunoziva, vawakanzwa zvichinzi, Ndianiko ungamira pamberi pavana vaAnaki?

³Know therefore this day, that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so you shall drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.

³Naizvozvo uzive nhasi kuti Jehovha Mwari wako ndiye unokutungamirira somoto unoparadza; iye uchavaparadza, iye uchavakunda pamberi pako; naizvozvo iwe uchavadzinga, nokuvaparadza nokukurumidza, sezvawakaudzwa naJehovha.

⁴Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land”; because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.

⁴Zvino kana Jehovha Mwari wako avadzinga pamberi pako, usataura mumoyo mako, uchiti, Jehovha wakandipinza munyika ino ive yangu, nokuda kokururama kwangu; nekuti Jehovha unodzinga ndudzi idzi nokuda kokuipa kwavo.

⁵Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

⁵Haupindi munyika yavo, ive yako, nokuda kokururama kwako, kana nokuda kokururama komoyo wako; asi Jehovha Mwari wako unodzinga ndudzi idzi pamberi pako nokuda kokuipa kwavo, uye kuti asimbise shoko rakapikirwa madzibaba ako naJehovha, kuna Abhurahamu, nokuna Isaka, nokuna Jakove.

⁶Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.

⁶Naizvozvo uzive kuti Jehovha Mwari wako haakupi nyika iyi yakanaka ive yako, nokuda kokururama kwako; nekuti uri rudzi rune mitsipa mikukutu.

⁷Remember, don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.

⁷Rangarira, usakangamwa, kuti wakatsamwisa Jehovha Mwari wako sei murenje; kubva pazuva rawakabuda naro panyika yeEgipita kudzimana masvika kunzvimbo iyi, makaramba muchimukira Jehovha.

⁸Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.

⁸NapaHorebhu makatsamwisa Jehovha, Jehovha akakutsamwirai, akada kukuparadzai.

⁹When I was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.

⁹Nguva yandakakwira pagomo kundogamuchira mabwendefa amabwe, iwo mabwendefa esungano, yaakaita iye Jehovha nemi, ndakagara mugomo mazuva ana makumi mana nousiku huna makumi mana; ndakanga ndisingadyi zvokudya, kana kumwa mvura.

¹⁰Yahweh delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

¹⁰Zvino Jehovha akandipa mabwendefa maviri amabwe, akanga akanyorwa nomumwe waMwari; pamusoro pawo pakanga pakanyorwa mashoko ose akanga ataurwa kwamuri naJehovha pagomo, ari mukati momoto nomusi weungano.

¹¹It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Yahweh gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

¹¹Zvino mazuva ana makumi mana nousiku huna makumi mana zvakati zvapera, Jehovha akandipa mabwendefa maviri amabwe, iwo mabwendefa esungano.

¹²Yahweh said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.”

¹²Zvino Jehovha akati kwandiri, Simuka, kurumidza kuburuka pano, nekuti vanhu vako vawakabudisa paEgipita, vazvitadzira; vakurumidza kutsauka panzira yandakavaraira; vazviitira mufananidzo wakaumbwa.

¹³Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people:

¹³Uye Jehovha akataura neni, akati, Ndaona rudzi urwu, tarira, rudzi rune mitsipa mikukutu;

¹⁴let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”

¹⁴ndirege, ndivaparadze, ndidzime zita ravo pasi pedenga, ndikuite iwe rudzi runovapfuura nesimba noukuru.

¹⁵So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

¹⁵Naizvozvo ndakadzoka, ndikaburuka mugomo, gomo rikapfuta nomoto; zvino mabwendefa maviri esungano akanga ari mumaoko angu maviri.

¹⁶I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God; you had made yourselves a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you.

¹⁶Ndikatarira, ndikaona kuti makanga matadzira Jehovha Mwari wenyu; makanga mazviitira mhuru yakaumbwa; makanga makurumidza kutsauka panzira yamakanga marairwa naJehovha.

¹⁷I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

¹⁷Ndikabata mabwendefa maviri, ndikaarashira pasi muchizviona.

¹⁸I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

¹⁸Ndikawira pasi pamberi paJehovha, sapakutanga, mazuva ana makumi mana nousiku huna makumi mana; ndakanga ndisingadyi zvokudya, kana kumwa mvura, nokuda kwezvivi zvenyu zvose zvamakanga matadza, muchiita zvakaipa pamberi paJehovha, muchimutsamwisa.

¹⁹For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.

¹⁹Nekuti ndakatya hasha nekutsamwa kukuru, kwamakatsamwirwa nako naJehovha, nekuti wakange achida kukuparadzai. Asi Jehovha wakandinzwawo nenguva iyo.

²⁰Yahweh was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

²⁰Jehovha wakange ane shunguvo kwazvo naAroni, akada kumuparadza, ndikanyengeterera Aroniwo nenguva iyo.

²¹I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.

²¹Ndikatora zvivi zvenyu, iyo mhuru iya yamakanga maumba, ndikaipisa nomoto, ndikaipwanya, nokuikuya kwazvo, kusvikira yatsetseka seguruva; ndikakandira guruva rayo murukova rwakanga ruchibva mugomo.

²²At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

²²NapaTabherawo, napaMasa, napaKibhiroti-hatava makatsamwisa Jehovha.

²³When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you”; then you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn’t believe him, nor listen to his voice.

²³Nenguva yamakatumwa naJehovha kuti mubve paKadheshi-bharinea, achiti, Kwirai, mutore nyika, yandakakupai, ive yenyu, makamukira murayiro waJehovha Mwari wenyu, mukasamutenda, nokusateerera inzwi rake.

²⁴You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.

²⁴Makaramba muchimukira Jehovha kubva pazuva randakatanga kukuzivai.

²⁵So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.

²⁵Zvino ndikawira pasi pamberi paJehovha mazuva ana makumi mana nousiku huna makumi mana, ndiyo nguva yandakawira pasi; nekuti Jehovha wakati, Ndichakuparadzai.

²⁶I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

²⁶Zvino ndikanyengetera kuna Jehovha, ndikati, Haiwa, Jehovha Mwari, musaparadza henyu vanhu venyu nenhaka yenyu, vamakadzikunura noukuru bwenyu, vamakabudisa paEgipita neruoko rune simba.

²⁷Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; don’t look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,

²⁷Rangarirai varanda venyu, Abhurahamu, naIsaka, naJakove; musatarira kusindimara kwavanhu ava, kana kuipa kwavo, kana zvivi zvavo;

²⁸lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’

²⁸kuti nyika kwamakatibudisa, irege kuzoti, Jehovha wakavabudisa akavaurayira murenje, nekuti wakange asingagoni kuvapinza munyika yaakanga avapikira, uye nekuti wakange achivavenga.

²⁹Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”

²⁹Kunyange zvakadaro rudzi rwenyu nenhaka yenyu, rwamakabudisa nesimba renyu guru, noruoko rwenyu rwakatambanudzwa.