Reward for Obedience
1“ ‘Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the Lord your God.
2“ ‘Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the Lord.
3“ ‘If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, 4I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit. 5Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land.
6“ ‘I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove wild beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country. 7You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. 8Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
9“ ‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you. 10You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new. 11I will put my dwelling place26:11 Or my tabernacle among you, and I will not abhor you. 12I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. 13I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.
Punishment for Disobedience
14“ ‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, 15and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, 16then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. 17I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.
18“ ‘If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over. 19I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. 20Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.
21“ ‘If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve. 22I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.
23“ ‘If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me, 24I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. 25And I will bring the sword on you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. 26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.
27“ ‘If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me, 28then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over. 29You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. 30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies26:30 Or your funeral offerings on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you. 31I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings. 32I myself will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled. 33I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins. 34Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. 35All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.
36“ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them. 37They will stumble over one another as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies. 38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you. 39Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors’ sins they will waste away.
40“ ‘But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, 41which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin, 42I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. 43For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my laws and abhorred my decrees. 44Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the Lord their God. 45But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’ ”
46These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the Lord established at Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.
Thawabu Ya Utii
(Kumbukumbu 7:12-24; 28:1-14)
126:1 Kut 20:4; 23:24; Za 97:2; Isa 48:5; Yer 44:9; Hab 2:18; Hes 33:52; Kum 4:16-19; Isa 44:9-20; Za 97:7“ ‘Msijitengenezee sanamu au kusimamisha kinyago cha kuchonga, au mnara, wala jiwe la kuabudia, na pia msijiwekee jiwe lililochongwa katika nchi yenu na kusujudu mbele yake. Mimi ndimi Bwana Mungu wenu.
226:2 Kut 20:8; Law 19:30“ ‘Zishikeni Sabato zangu na kuheshimu mahali patakatifu pangu. Mimi ndimi Bwana.
326:3 Mwa 26:5; Kut 24:8; Kum 6:17; 7:12; 11:13, 22; 28:1, 9“ ‘Ikiwa mtafuata amri zangu na kuwa waangalifu kutii maagizo yangu, 426:4 Kum 11:14; 28:12; Za 65:9; 67:6; 68:9; 104:13; 147:8; Yer 5:24; Hos 6:3; Yoe 2:23; Zek 10:1; Ay 5:10; 14:9; Kut 23:24; Law 25:19nitawanyeshea mvua katika majira yake, nayo ardhi itatoa mazao yake, na miti ya mashambani itazaa matunda yake. 526:5 Kum 6:11; 11:15; Eze 36:29-30; Yoe 2:19, 26; Law 25:18Kupura nafaka kwenu kutaendelea mpaka wakati wa kuvuna zabibu. Pia kuvuna zabibu kutaendelea mpaka wakati wa kupanda mbegu, nanyi mtakula na kushiba, na mtaishi salama katika nchi yenu.
626:6 Za 3:5; 4:8; 29:11; 37:11; 85:8; 147:14; Isa 17:2; 26:3; 54:13; 60:18; Hag 2:9; Mit 3:24; Ay 11:18-19; Yer 30:10; Mik 4:4; Sef 3:13; Mwa 37:20“ ‘Nitawapa amani katika nchi, mpate kulala pasipo kutiwa hofu na yeyote. Nitawaondoa wanyama wakali watoke kwenye nchi, nao upanga hautapita katika nchi yenu. 726:7 Za 18:37; 44:5Mtawafukuza adui zenu, nanyi mtawaua kwa upanga mbele yenu. 826:8 Isa 30:17; Kum 28:7; 32:30; Yos 23:10; Amu 15:15; 1Nya 12:14Watu wenu watano watafukuza adui mia, watu wenu mia watafukuza adui elfu kumi, nao adui zenu wataanguka kwa upanga mbele yenu.
926:9 Mwa 1:22; 17:6, 7; Neh 9:23; Kut 2:25; 2Fal 13:23“ ‘Nitawaangalia kwa upendeleo na kuwafanya mzae na kuzidisha idadi yenu, nami nitalishika Agano langu na ninyi. 1026:10 Law 25:22Wakati wa kuvuna mtakuwa bado mnakula mavuno ya mwaka uliopita, na itawalazimu kuyaondoa ghalani ili mpate nafasi ya mavuno mapya. 1126:11 Kut 25:8; Za 74:7; 76:2; Eze 37:27; Kum 31:6; 1Sam 12:22; 1Fal 6:13; 2Fal 17:15Nitafanya makao yangu miongoni mwenu, nami sitawachukia. 1226:12 Mwa 3:8; 17:7; Kut 6:7; Yer 7:23; 11:4; 24:7; 30:22; 31:1; Zek 13:9; 2Kor 6:16; Efe 2:21; Ebr 3:6; Eze 11:20Nitatembea katikati yenu niwe Mungu wenu, nanyi mtakuwa watu wangu. 1326:13 Law 11:44; Kut 6:6; 13:3; Isa 10:27; Yer 2:20; 27:2; 28:10; 30:8; Eze 30:18; 34:27; Hos 11:4Mimi ndimi Bwana Mungu wenu, niliyewatoa katika nchi ya Misri ili msiendelee kuwa watumwa wa Wamisri, nikavunja kongwa lenu, na kuwawezesha kutembea mkiwa mmeinua vichwa vyenu juu.
Adhabu Ya Kutokutii
(Kumbukumbu 28:15-68)
1426:14 Kum 28:15-68; Mal 2:2“ ‘Lakini kama hamtanisikiliza na kutimiza maagizo haya yote, 1526:15 Mwa 17:7; 2Fal 17:15nanyi kama mtazikataa amri zangu na kuzichukia sheria zangu, tena mkishindwa kutimiza amri zangu na hivyo mkavunja agano langu, 1626:16 Kum 28:22, 35; Za 78:33; 107:17; 1Sam 2:33; Eze 4:17; 24:23; 33:10; Amu 6:3-6; Ay 31:8ndipo nitakapowafanyia hili: Nitawaletea juu yenu hofu ya ghafula, magonjwa ya kufisha, na homa itakayopofusha macho yenu na kuwaondolea uhai wenu. Mtapanda mbegu bila mafanikio, kwa sababu adui zenu wataila. 1726:17 Law 17:10; Eze 15:7; Kum 28:7, 25, 48; Yos 7:4, 12; Amu 2:15; 1Fal 8:33; 2Nya 6:24; Yer 9:17; 21:7; Za 106:41; 53:5; Mit 28:1; Isa 30:17Nitauelekeza uso wangu dhidi yenu ili mshindwe na adui zenu; wale wanaowachukia watawatawala, nanyi mtakimbia ingawa hakuna mtu anayewafukuza.
1826:18 Za 99:8; Yer 21:14; Amo 3:14“ ‘Kama baada ya haya yote hamtanisikiliza, nitawaadhibu mara saba zaidi kwa ajili ya dhambi zenu. 1926:19 Za 10:4; 73:6; Isa 16:6; 25:11; 28:1-3; Yer 13:9; 48:29; Eze 24:21; Amo 6:8; Sef 3:11; Kum 28:23; Ay 28:28Nitakivunja kiburi chenu cha ukaidi na kuifanya anga iliyo juu yenu iwe kama chuma, na ardhi yenu kama shaba. 2026:20 Kum 11:17; 28:24, 38; Za 127:1; Isa 17:11; 49:4; Yer 12:13; Mik 6:15; Hag 1:6Nguvu zenu zitatumika bila ya mafanikio, kwa sababu ardhi yenu haitawazalia mazao yake, wala miti ya nchi yenu haitazaa matunda yake.
2126:21 Mwa 4:15“ ‘Kama mtaendelea kuwa na uadui nami, na kukataa kunisikiliza, nitawazidishia mateso yenu mara saba zaidi, kama dhambi zenu zinavyostahili. 2226:22 Mwa 37:20; Kum 28:62; Yer 42:2; 5:6; 14:16; 15:3; 16:4; Eze 14:15Nitawatuma wanyama mwitu dhidi yenu, nao watawaibieni watoto wenu, watawaangamiza ngʼombe wenu, na kuifanya idadi yenu kuwa ndogo, hivi kwamba barabara zenu zitakuwa hazina watu.
2326:23 Yer 2:30; 5:3; 7:28; 17:23; 32:33; Sef 3:2“ ‘Ikiwa pamoja na mambo haya hamtakubali maonyo yangu lakini mkaendelea kuweka uadui nami, 2426:24 2Sam 22:27mimi mwenyewe nitaweka uadui nanyi, na kuwatesa kwa ajili ya dhambi zenu mara saba zaidi. 2526:25 Yer 5:17; 15:3; 47:6; 50:28; 51:6, 11; Eze 11:8; 14:17; 21:4; 33:2; Kut 5:3; 9:3; Hes 16:46; 1Fal 8:37; Hab 3:5Nitawaletea upanga juu yenu ili kuwapatiliza kwa kuvunja Agano langu. Mtakapokimbilia mijini mwenu, nitatuma tauni katikati yenu, nanyi mtatiwa mikononi mwa adui zenu. 2626:26 1Fal 8:37; 18:2; 2Fal 4:38; 6:25; 25:3; Za 105:16; Isa 3:1; 9:20; Yer 37:21; 52:6; Eze 4:16-17; 5:16; 14:13; Hos 4:10; Mik 6:14Nitakapowaondolea upatikanaji wa mkate wenu, wanawake kumi wataoka mkate wenu katika tanuru moja, nao wataugawa mkate kidogo kwa kupima. Mtakula, lakini hamtashiba.
27“ ‘Kama hata baada ya haya bado hamtanisikiliza lakini mkaendelea kuweka uadui nami, 2826:28 Kum 32:19; Amu 2:14; Za 78:59; 106:40; Kum 7:10; Ay 34:11; Isa 59:18; 65:5-7; 66:6; Yer 17:10; 25:29; Yoe 3:4ndipo katika hasira yangu nitaweka uadui nanyi, nami mwenyewe nitawaadhibu mara saba kwa ajili ya dhambi zenu. 2926:29 2Fal 6:29; Yer 19:6; Mao 4:10; Eze 5:10; Kum 28:53Mtakula nyama ya wana wenu na nyama ya binti zenu. 3026:30 Kum 12:2; 1Sam 9:12; 10:5; 1Fal 3:2, 4; 12:31; 13:2, 32; 2Fal 17:29; 23:20; 2Nya 34:3, 4; Za 78:58; 106:40; Eze 6:3, 6, 13; 16:16; Amo 6:8; 7:9; Isa 17:8; 27:9; 21:9; Yer 50:2Nitapaharibu mahali penu pa juu pa kuabudia miungu, nibomoe madhabahu zenu za kufukizia uvumba, na kuzilundika maiti zenu juu ya sanamu zenu zisizo na uhai, nami nitawachukia ninyi sana. 3126:31 Neh 1:3; Isa 1:7; 3:8, 26; 6:11; 24:12; 61:4; 63:18; 64:11; Yer 4:7; 9:11; 25:11; 34:22; 44:2-6, 22; Eze 36:33; 24:21; Mik 2:4; 3:12; Sef 2:5; 3:6; 2Fal 22:19; Za 74:3-7; Mao 2:7; Amo 7:9; 5:21; 8:10Nitaifanya miji yenu kuwa magofu, na kuharibu mahali patakatifu penu pa kuabudia, nami sitapendezwa na harufu nzuri ya sadaka zenu. 3226:32 Isa 5:6; 52:14; Yer 9:11; 12:11; 25:11; 26:9; 33:10; 34:22; 44:22; 18:16; 19:8; 48:39; 1Fal 9:8; 2Nya 29:8; Eze 5:14; 26:16; 27:35; 28:19Nitaiharibu nchi, ili adui zenu watakaokuja kuishi humo washangae. 3326:33 Yer 4:11; 7:34; 9:16; 13:24; 31:10; 40:3, 15; 50:17; 42:16; Eze 5:10; 12:15; 17:21; 20:23; 22:15; 34:6; Yoe 3:2; Kum 4:27; 28:64; Neh 1:8; Za 44:11; 106:27; Zek 7:14; Amo 9:4; Isa 49:19; 1Sam 15:22; Ay 36:11Nitawatawanya ninyi miongoni mwa mataifa, na kuufuta upanga wangu na kuwafuatia. Nchi yenu itaharibiwa, nayo miji yenu itakuwa magofu. 3426:34 Isa 1:7; Yer 7:34; 25:11; 44:6; Eze 33:29; 2Nya 36:21Ndipo nchi itafurahia Sabato zake muda wote ule itakapokuwa ukiwa, nanyi mkiwa katika nchi ya adui zenu. Ndipo nchi itapumzika na kufurahia Sabato zake. 3526:35 Law 25:4Wakati wote nchi itakapobaki ukiwa, itapumzika na kufurahia Sabato zake ambazo haikuzipata mlipokuwa mnaishi humo.
3626:36 Ay 13:25; 2Fal 25:5; Za 58:7; Mao 1:3-6; 4:19; Eze 21:7“ ‘Kwa habari ya wenzenu wale watakaobaki, nitaifanya mioyo yao kuwa na hofu kuu katika nchi za adui zao, kiasi kwamba sauti ya jani linalopeperushwa na upepo itawafanya wakimbie. Watakimbia kana kwamba wanakimbia upanga, nao wataanguka, ingawa hakuna anayewafukuza. 3726:37 Yer 6:21; 13:16; 46:16; Eze 3:20; Nah 3:3; Yos 7:12Watajikwaa mmoja juu ya mwingine kama wakimbiao upanga, hata ingawa hakuna anayewafuatia. Hivyo hamtaweza kusimama mbele ya adui zenu. 3826:38 Ay 4:9; 36:12; Isa 1:28; Yer 16:4; 44:27; Kum 4:26Mtaangamia katikati ya mataifa; nchi ya adui zenu itawala. 3926:39 Kut 20:5; Isa 14:21; 24:16; Eze 4:17Wale wenu watakaobaki wataangamia katika nchi za adui zao kwa sababu ya dhambi zao; pia kwa sababu ya dhambi za baba zao wataangamia.
4026:40 Law 5:5; Za 32:5; 38:18; 106:6; Neh 9:2; Yer 3:12-15; 14:20; Hos 5:15; Lk 15:18; 1Yn 1:9“ ‘Lakini kama watatubu dhambi zao na dhambi za baba zao, udanganyifu wao dhidi yangu na uadui wao kwangu, 4126:41 Kum 10:16; 4:31; 30:6; Yer 4:4; 9:25-26; 4:27; 5:10; 30:11; 31:37; 33:26; 51:5; Eze 20:43; 44:7-9; Mdo 7:51; 2Nya 7:14; 12:6; Isa 6:7; 33:24; 40:2; 53:6-11; Amu 2:1ambao ulinifanya niwe na uadui nao hata nikawapeleka katika nchi ya adui zao, wakati mioyo yao isiyotahiriwa itanyenyekea na kutubu dhambi yao, 4226:42 Za 69:25; 106:24; Isa 6:11; 32:14; 62:4; Yer 2:15; 44:2; Eze 20:13; 36:4; Hes 11:20; 14:31; 1Sam 8:7nami nitakumbuka agano langu na Yakobo, na agano langu na Isaki, na agano langu na Abrahamu, nami nitaikumbuka nchi. 43Kwa kuwa wataiacha nchi ukiwa, nayo itafurahia Sabato zake wakati itakuwa ukiwa bila wao. Wataadhibiwa kwa ajili ya dhambi zao, kwa sababu walizikataa sheria zangu na kuzichukia amri zangu. 4426:44 2Fal 17:20; 25:11; 2Nya 6:36; 36:20; Rum 11:2; Kut 6:8; Law 25:38Lakini pamoja na hili, wakati watakuwa katika nchi ya adui zao, sitawakataa wala kuwachukia kiasi cha kuwaharibu kabisa na kuvunja agano langu nao. Mimi ndimi Bwana Mungu wao. 4526:45 Kum 4:31Lakini kwa ajili yao nitalikumbuka agano langu na baba zao, ambao niliwatoa Misri mbele ya mataifa ili niwe Mungu wao. Mimi ndimi Bwana.’ ”
4626:46 Kut 19:11; Law 7:38; 27:34Hizi ndizo amri, sheria na pia masharti ambazo Bwana alifanya kati yake mwenyewe na Waisraeli katika Mlima Sinai kupitia kwa Mose.
