القراءة بلغتين

ودَعا موسى إِسْرائيلَ كُلَّه وقالَ لَه: «قد رأَيتُم كُلَّ ما صَنَعَ الرَّبُّ أَمامَ عُيونِكم في أَرضِ مِصرَ بِفِرعَونَ وبرِجالِه كُلِّهم وأَرضِه كُلِّها

تِلكَ التَّجارِبَ العَظيمَةَ الَّتي رأَتْها عَيناكَ وتِلكَ الآياتِ والخَوارِقَ العَظيمة

ولم يُعطِكمُ الرَّبُّ إِلى هٰذا اليَومِ قُلوبًا لِتَعرِفوا وعُيونًا لِتُبصِروا وآذانًا لِتَسمعوا

وقد سَيَّرتُكم في البَرِّيَّةِ أَربَعينَ سَنةً لم تَبْلَ ثِيابُكم علَيكم ولا بَلِيَت نَعلُكَ في رِجلِكَ

وخُبزًا لم تأكُلوا، وخَمرًا ومُسكِرًا لم تَشرَبوا، لِكَي تَعلَموا أَنِّي أَنا الرَّبُّ إِلٰهُكم

ثُمَّ وَصَلْتُم إِلى هٰذا المكان، فخَرَجَ سيحون، مَلِكُ حَشْبون، وعوج، مَلِكُ باشان، لِلِقائِنا لِلقِتال فضَرَبْناهما

وأَخَذْنا أَرضَهما وأَعطَيناها ميراثًا لِلرَّأُوبِينِيِّينَ والجادِيِّينَ ولِنِصفِ سِبْطِ المَنَسِّيِّين

فٱحفَظوا كَلِماتِ هٰذا العَهدِ وٱعمَلوا بِها لِكَي تَنجَحوا في كُلِّ ما تَصنَعون

أَنتُم واقِفونَ اليَومَ جَميعًا أَمامَ الرَّبِّ إِلٰهِكم: رُؤساؤُكم وزُعَماؤُكم وشُيوخُكم وكَتَبَتُكم وكُلُّ رَجُلٍ في إِسْرائيل

وأَطْفالُكم ونِساؤُكم (ونَزيلُكَ الَّذي في وَسَطِ مُخَيَّماتِكم، مِن مُحتَطِبِ الحَطَبِ إِلى مُسْتَقي الماء)

لِكَي تَدخُلَ في عَهْدِ الرَّبِّ إِلٰهِكَ وفي ما يُرافِقُه من يَمينِ لَعنَة، يَقطَعُ الرَّبُّ إِلٰهُكَ العَهدَ معَكَ اليَوم

لِكَي يُقيمَكَ اليَومَ لَه شَعبًا ويَكونَ لَكَ إِلٰهًا، كما قالَ لك، وكَما أَقسَمَ لِآبائِكَ إِبْراهيمَ وإِسحٰقَ ويَعْقوب

ولَيسَ مَعَكم وَحدَكم أَنا قاطِعٌ هٰذا العَهدَ ومُقسِمٌ يَمينَ اللَّعنَةِ هٰذه

بل مع مَن هو واقِفٌ معَنا اليَومَ أَمامَ الرَّبِّ إِلٰهِنا ومَعَ مَن لَيسَ هٰهُنا اليَومَ معنا

فإِنَّكم تَعلَمونَ كَيفَ أَقَمْنا في أَرضِ مِصرَ وكَيفَ عَبَرْنا في وَسْطِ الأُمَمِ الَّتي مَرَرْتُم بِها

وقد رأَيتُم أَرْجاسَها وأَصْنامَها القَذِرَةَ مِن خَشَبٍ وحِجارةٍ ومِن فِضَّةٍ وذَهَبٍ مِمَّا هو عِندَها

كَيلا يَكونَ فيكم رَجُلٌ أَوِ ٱمرَأَةٌ أَو عَشيرةٌ أَو سِبْطٌ قَلبُه مُنصَرِفٌ اليَومَ عنِ الرَّبِّ إِلٰهِنا إِلى عِبادةِ آلِهَةِ تِلكَ الأُمَم، فيَكونَ فيكم جَذْرٌ مُنتِجٌ سُمًّا ومَرارة

فإِذا سَمِعَ أَحَدُهم كَلِمَاتِ يَمينِ اللَّعنَةِ هٰذه، وبارَكَ نَفسَه في قَلبِه قائلًا: يَكونُ لي سَلام، حتَّى ولَو سِرتُ بِتَصَلُّبِ قَلْبي، بِحَيثُ يُفْني الرَّيَّانُ العَطْشانَ

لا يَرْضى الرَّبُّ أَن يَغفِرَ لَه، بل يَشتَعِلُ غَضَبُ الرَّبِّ وغَيرَتُه على ذٰلك الرَّجُل، فتَسقُطُ علَيه اللَّعنَةُ المَكْتوبةُ كُلُّها في هٰذا السِّفْر، ويَمحو الرَّبُّ ٱسمَه مِن تَحتِ السَّماء

ويُفرِدُه الرَّبُّ لِلشَّرِّ مِن أَسْباطِ إِسْرائيلَ كُلِّهم على حَسَبِ جَميعِ لَعَناتِ العَهْدِ المَكْتوبةِ في سِفْرِ هٰذه الشَّريعة

فيَقولُ الجيلُ الآتي، أَي بَنوكمُ الَّذينَ يَقومونَ مِن بَعدِكم والغَريبُ الَّذي يأتي مِن أَرضٍ بَعيدة، حينَ يَرونَ ضَرَباتِ تِلكَ الأَرضِ وأَمْراضَها الَّتي ٱبتَلاها بِها الرَّبّ

الكِبْريتَ والمِلْحَ ولَفْحَ الأَرض، حتَّى لا تُزرَعُ ولا تُنبِتُ ولا يَرتَفِعُ بِها شَيءٌ مِنَ العُشْبِ، مِثلَ ٱنقِلابِ سَدومَ وعَمورةَ وأَدمَةَ وصَبوئيمَ الَّتي قَلَبَها الرَّبُّ بِغَضَبِه وغَيظِه

فتَقولُ الأُمَمُ كُلُّها: لِماذا صَنَعَ الرَّبُّ كذا بِهٰذِه الأَرض وما شِدَّةُ هٰذا الغَضَبِ العَظيم؟

فيُقال: لِأَنَّهم تَرَكوا عَهدَ الرَّبِّ، إِلٰهِ آبائِهِم، الَّذي قَطَعَه معَهم، حينَ أَخرَجَهم مِن أَرضِ مِصر

فَمَضوا وعَبَدوا آلِهَةً أُخْرى وسَجدوا لَها، آلِهَةً لم يَعرِفوها ولم يَجعَلْها لَهم نَصيبًا

فغَضِبَ الرَّبُّ على تِلكَ الأَرضِ فأَحَلَّ بِها اللَّعنَةَ المَكْتوبةَ كُلَّها في هٰذا السِّفْر

وٱستَأصَلَهمُ الرَّبُّ مِن أَرضِهم بِغَضَبٍ وغَيظٍ وسُخطٍ عَظيم، وطَرَحَهم في أَرضٍ أُخْرى، كما هُم في هٰذا اليَوم

الخَفايا لِلرَّبِّ إِلٰهِنا، والمُعلَناتُ لَنا ولِبَنينا لِلأَبَد، لِكَي نَعمَلَ بِجَميعِ كَلِماتِ هٰذه الشَّريعة

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

Moses called to all Israel, and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the LORD did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;

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

But the LORD has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet.

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

When 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.

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.

Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

All of you stand today in the presence of the LORD your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,

that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you today,

that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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

but with those who stand here with us today before the LORD our God, and also with those who are not here with us today

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

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

lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

and 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.

The LORD will not pardon him, but then the LORD’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under the sky.

The LORD will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.

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

that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.

Even all the nations will say, “Why has the LORD done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”

Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,

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

Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book.

The LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”

The secret things belong to the LORD 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.