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Haya ndiyo maneno ya agano Bwana alilomwamuru Musa alifanye na wana wa Israeli katika nchi ya Moabu, pamoja na agano alilofanya nao Horebu.
These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.
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Musa akawaita Israeli wote akawaambia, Mmeyaona yote Bwana aliyomfanya Farao katika nchi ya Misri mbele ya macho yenu, yeye na watumwa wake wote, na nchi yake yote;
Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.
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yale majaribu makuu yaliyoyaona macho yako; hizo ishara, na ile miujiza mikuu;
You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.
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lakini Bwana hakuwapa moyo wa kujua, wala macho ya kuona, wala masikio ya kusikia, hata leo hivi.
Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
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Nami miaka arobaini nimewaongoza jangwani; nguo zenu hazikuchakaa juu yenu, wala kiatu chako hakikuchakaa katika mguu wako.
For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.
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Hamkula mkate, wala hamkunywa divai, wala kileo; ili mpate kujua kwamba Mimi ndimi Bwana, Mungu wenu.
You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
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Nanyi mlipokuja mahali hapa, walitutokea kupigana juu yetu Sihoni mfalme wa Heshboni, na Ogu mfalme wa Bashani, tukawapiga;
When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.
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tukaitwaa nchi yao, nayo tukawapa Wareubeni, na Wagadi, na nusu ya kabila ya Manase, iwe urithi.
We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
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Shikeni basi maneno ya agano hili myafanye, ili mfanikiwe katika yote mfanyayo.
So keep and follow the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do.
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Leo mmesimama nyote mbele za Bwana, Mungu wenu; wakuu wenu, na kabila zenu, na wazee wenu, na maakida wenu, waume wote wa Israeli,
All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel,
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vijana vyenu, na wake wenu, na mgeni wako aliye kati ya kituo chako, tokea mchanjaji wa kuni zako hata mtekaji wa maji yako;
your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—
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ili uingie katika agano la Bwana, Mungu wako, na kiapo chake, afanyacho nawe Bwana, Mungu wako, hivi leo;
so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,
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apate kukuweka leo uwe taifa kwake naye apate kuwa Mungu kwako, kama alivyokuambia, na kama alivyowaapia baba zako, Ibrahimu, na Isaka, na Yakobo.
and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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Wala sifanyi na ninyi peke yenu agano hili na kiapo hiki;
I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,
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ila na yeye aliyesimama hapa nasi hivi leo mbele ya Bwana, Mungu wetu, na yeye naye asiyekuwapo pamoja nasi leo;
but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, as well as with those who are not here today.
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(kwani mwajua mlivyoketi nchi ya Misri, na tulivyo kuja katikati ya mataifa hayo mliyopita katikati yao;
For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.
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nanyi mliona machukizo yao, na sanamu zao, miti na mawe, fedha na dhahabu, zilizokuwako kwao;)
You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.
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asiwe mtu katikati yenu, mume wala mke, wala jamaa, wala kabila, ageukaye moyo wake leo amwache Bwana, Mungu wetu, kwenda kuitumikia miungu ya mataifa hayo; lisiwe katikati yenu shina lizaalo uchungu na pakanga;
Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
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ikawa asikiapo maneno ya laana hii, ajibarikie mtu huyo moyoni mwake, na kusema, Nitakuwa katika amani, nijapotembea katika upotoe wa moyo wangu kwa kuangamiza mbichi na kavu;
because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
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Bwana hatamsamehe mtu huyo, lakini wakati huo hasira ya Bwana na wivu wake vitafuka moshi juu ya mtu yule, na laana yote iliyoandikwa katika kitabu hiki itamkalia juu yake, na Bwana atalifuta jina lake chini ya mbingu.
The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
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Bwana atamtenga kwa uovu, kutoka kabila zote za Israeli, kwa laana zote za agano lililoandikwa katika chuo hiki cha torati.
and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.
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Na kizazi cha baadaye, wanenu watakaoinuka baada yenu, na mgeni atakayekuja kutoka nchi ya mbali, watasema, watakapoyaona mapigo ya nchi ile, na magonjwa aliyoitia Bwana;
Then the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.
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ya kuwa nchi yake nzima ni kibiriti, na chumvi, na kuteketea, haipandwi, wala haizai, wala nyasi hazimei humo, kama mapinduko ya Sodoma na Gomora, Adma na Seboimu, aliyoipindua Bwana kwa ghadhabu yake na hasira zake;
All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
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mataifa yote watasema, Mbona Bwana ameifanyia hivi nchi hii? Ni nini maana yake hari ya hasira hizi kubwa?
So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
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Ndipo watakaposema watu, Ni kwa kuwa waliacha agano la Bwana, Mungu wa baba zao, alilofanya nao hapo alipowatoa katika nchi ya Misri;
And the people will answer, ‘It is 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.
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wakaenda wakatumikia miungu mingine, wakaiabudu miungu wasiyoijua, asiyowapa yeye;
They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.
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ndipo ikawashwa hasira ya Bwana juu ya nchi hii, kwa kuleta juu yake laana yote iliyoandikwa katika kitabu hiki;
Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book.
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Bwana akawang'oa katika nchi yao kwa hasira, na ghadhabu, na makamio makuu, akawatupa waende nchi nyingine, kama hivi leo.
The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’
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Mambo ya siri ni ya Bwana, Mungu wetu; lakini mambo yaliyofunuliwa ni yetu sisi na watoto wetu milele, ili tuyafanye maneno yote ya sheria hii.
The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.