Liber Deuteronomii, 11

1. Ama itaque Dominum Deum tuum et custodi obser vationem eius et praecepta, iudicia atque mandata omni tempore.

1. "You shall therefore love the LORD your God, and keep his charge, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments always.

2. Cognoscite hodie, quae ignorant filii vestri, qui non viderunt disciplinam Domini Dei vestri, magnalia eius et robustam manum extentumque brachium,

2. And consider this day (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm,

3. signa et opera, quae fecit in medio Aegypti pharaoni regi et universae terrae eius

3. his signs and his deeds which he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land;

4. omnique exercitui Aegyptiorum et equis ac curribus; quomodo operuerint eos aquae maris Rubri, cum vos persequerentur, et deleverit eos Dominus usque in praesentem diem;

4. and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day;

5. vobisque, quae fecerit in solitudine, donec veniretis ad hunc locum;

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

6. et Dathan atque Abiram filiis Eliab, qui fuit filius Ruben, quos aperto ore suo terra absorbuit cum domibus et tabernaculis et universa substantia eorum, quam habebant in medio Israel.

6. and what he did to Dathan and Abi'ram the sons of Eli'ab, son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel;

7. Oculi vestri viderunt omnia opera Domini magna, quae fecit,

7. for your eyes have seen all the great work of the LORD which he did.

8. ut custodiatis universa mandata, quae ego hodie praecipio vobis, ut roboremini et possitis introire et possidere terram, ad quam ingredimini,

8. "You shall therefore keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land which you are going over to possess,

9. multoque in ea vivatis tempore, quam sub iuramento pollicitus est Dominus patribus vestris et semini eorum, lacte et melle manantem.

9. and that you may live long in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

10. Terra enim, ad quam ingredieris possidendam, non est sicut terra Aegypti, de qua existis, ubi, iacto semine, in hortorum morem aquae pede ducuntur irriguae;

10. For the land which you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your feet, like a garden of vegetables;

11. sed montuosa est et campestris, de caelo exspectans pluvias,

11. but the land which you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven,

12. quam Dominus Deus tuus semper invisit, et oculi illius in ea sunt a principio anni usque ad finem eius.

12. a land which the LORD your God cares for; the eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

13. Si ergo oboedieritis mandatis meis, quae hodie praecipio vobis, ut diligatis Dominum Deum vestrum et serviatis ei in toto corde vestro et in tota anima vestra,

13. "And if you will obey my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

14. dabo pluviam terrae vestrae temporaneam et serotinam in tempore suo, ut colligas frumentum et vinum et oleum,

14. he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.

15. et dabit fenum ex agris ad pascenda iumenta, et ut ipse comedas ac satureris.

15. And he will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and you shall eat and be full.

16. Cavete, ne decipiatur cor vestrum, et recedatis a Domino serviatisque diis alienis et adoretis eos,

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

17. iratusque Dominus contra vos claudat caelum, et pluviae non descendant, nec terra det fructum suum, pereatisque velociter de terra optima, quam Dominus daturus est vobis.

17. and the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there be no rain, and the land yield no fruit, and you perish quickly off the good land which the LORD gives you.

18. Ponite haec verba mea in cordibus et in animis vestris et ligate ea pro signo in manibus et inter oculos vestros collocate quasi appensum quid.

18. "You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

19. Docete ea filios vestros, de illis loquendo, quando sederis in domo tua et ambulaveris in via et accubueris atque surrexeris.

19. And you shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

20. Scribes ea super postes domus tuae et portas tuas,

20. And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and upon your gates,

21. ut multiplicentur dies tui et filiorum tuorum in terra, quam iuravit Dominus patribus tuis, ut daret eis, quamdiu caelum imminet terrae.

21. that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.

22. Si enim custodieritis omnia mandata haec, quae ego praecipio vobis, et feceritis ea, ut diligatis Dominum Deum vestrum et ambuletis in omnibus viis eius adhaerentes ei,

22. For if you will be careful to do all this commandment which I command you to do, loving the LORD your God, walking in all his ways, and cleaving to him,

23. disperdet Dominus omnes gentes istas ante faciem vestram, et possidebitis eas, quae maiores et fortiores vobis sunt;

23. then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

24. omnis locus, quem calcaverit pes vester, vester erit. A deserto et a Libano, a flumine magno Euphrate usque ad mare occidentale erunt termini vestri.

24. Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours; your territory shall be from the wilderness and Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphra'tes, to the western sea.

25. Nullus stabit contra vos; terrorem vestrum et formidinem dabit Dominus Deus vester super omnem terram, quam calcaturi estis, sicut locutus est vobis.

25. No man shall be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that you shall tread, as he promised you.

26. En propono in conspectu vestro hodie benedictionem et maledictionem:

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

27. benedictionem, si oboedieritis mandatis Domini Dei vestri, quae ego hodie praecipio vobis;

27. the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day,

28. maledictionem, si non oboedieritis mandatis Domini Dei vestri, sed recesseritis de via, quam ego nunc ostendo vobis, et ambulaveritis post deos alienos, quos ignoratis.

28. and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods which you have not known.

29. Cum introduxerit te Dominus Deus tuus in terram, ad quam pergis habitandam, pones benedictionem super montem Garizim, maledictionem super montem Hebal,

29. And when the LORD your God brings you into the land which you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Ger'izim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

30. qui sunt trans Iordanem, post viam quae vergit ad solis occubitum in terra Chananaei, qui habitat in Araba contra Galgalam, quae est iuxta Quercus Moreh.

30. Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oak of Moreh?

31. Vos enim transibitis Iordanem, ut possideatis terram, quam Dominus Deus vester daturus est vobis, et habitetis in illa.

31. For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land which the LORD your God gives you; and when you possess it and live in it,

32. Videte ergo ut impleatis omnia praecepta atque iudicia, quae ego hodie ponam in conspectu vestro.

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