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Tus uas Mloog Lus Tau Koob Hmoov

(Levis Kevcai 26.3-13; 2 Kevcai 7.12-24)

¹“Yog nej mloog tus TSWV uas yog nej tus Vajtswv lus thiab ua raws li nws tej kevcai uas hnub no kuv qhia rau nej, tus TSWV yuav tsa nej ua haivneeg uas muaj hwjchim loj dua lwm haivneeg hauv ntiajteb no. ²Yog nej mloog tus TSWV uas yog nej tus Vajtswv lus, nej yuav tau tej koob hmoov no:
³“Tus TSWV yuav foom koob hmoov rau nej tej nroog thiab tej liaj tej teb.
⁴“Tus TSWV yuav foom koob hmoov kom nej muaj tubki, muaj nyuj muaj yaj coob, thiab muaj qoobloo ntau.
⁵“Tus TSWV yuav foom koob hmoov rau nej tej qoobloo thiab tej zaub mov uas nej khwv tau los.
⁶“Tus TSWV yuav foom koob hmoov rau txhua yam uas nej ua.
⁷“Tus TSWV yuav ua rau nej cov yeebncuab swb thaum lawv tuaj tua nej. Lawv ua ke tuaj tua nej, tiamsis lawv yuav tawg ua sab ua sua rov qab.
⁸“Tus TSWV uas yog nej tus Vajtswv yuav foom koob hmoov rau tej uas nej ua thiab pub kom nej tau nplej ntau puv txhab. Nws yuav foom koob hmoov rau lub tebchaws uas nws muab rau nej lawm.
⁹“Yog nej mloog tus TSWV uas yog nej tus Vajtswv lus thiab ua raws li nws tej kevcai, tus TSWV yuav cia nej ua nws haivneeg raws li nws tau coglus tseg lawm. ¹⁰Txhua haivneeg uas nyob thoob ntiajteb yuav pom hais tias, tus TSWV twb xaiv nej los ua nws haivneeg lawm, lawv sawvdaws yuav ntshai nej. ¹¹Tus TSWV yuav pub kom nej muaj tubki, muaj nyuj thiab muaj qoobloo ntau nyob hauv lub tebchaws uas tus TSWV tau coglus rau nej cov yawgkoob hais tias, nws yuav muab rau nej. ¹²Tus TSWV yuav qhib rooj ntug tso nag los raws caij raws nyoog thiab foom koob hmoov rau tej uas nej ua, nej yuav muaj qiv rau ntau lub tebchaws, tiamsis nej yuav tsis tau mus txais luag. ¹³Yog nej ua raws li tus TSWV uas yog nej tus Vajtswv tej kevcai txhua nqe uas kuv qhia rau nej, tus TSWV yuav tsa nej ua ntau haivneeg tus thawj, tsis yog ua tus uas raws luag qab; yog nej ua raws li tus TSWV tej lus uas hnub no kuv qhia rau nej, tej uas nej ua yuav vammeej. ¹⁴Tiamsis nej tsis txhob tso tej uas hnub no kuv qhia rau nej tseg, lossis tsis mus pe lwm tus vajtswv.

Tej uas Tus Tsis Mloog Lus Yuav Tau Txais

¹⁵“Yog nej tsis mloog tus TSWV uas yog nej tus Vajtswv lus, tsis muab siab npuab nws, thiab tsis ua raws li nws tej kevcai uas hnub no kuv qhia rau nej, ces nej yuav raug tej kev phem no:
¹⁶“Tus TSWV yuav foom tsis zoo rau nej tej nroog thiab tej liaj tej teb.
¹⁷“Tus TSWV yuav foom tsis zoo rau nej tej nplej thiab tej zaub mov uas nej khwv tau los.
¹⁸“Tus TSWV yuav foom kom nej tsis muaj tubki coob, tej qoobloo tsis zoo, thiab tej nyuj tej yaj tsis huamvam.
¹⁹“Tus TSWV yuav foom tsis zoo rau txhua yam uas nej ua.
²⁰“Yog nej ua kev phem kev qias thiab tso tus TSWV tseg, nws yuav tso kev puastsuaj, kev covnyom thiab kev ntxhov siab los rau txhua yam uas nej ua mus txog hnub uas nej raug puastsuaj tas. ²¹Nws yuav tso kab mob ib yam tas ib yam tuaj rau nej, mus txog hnub uas nej puastsuaj tas rau hauv lub tebchaws uas nej yuav mus nyob ntawd. ²²Tus TSWV yuav tso mob phem, mob rwj, thiab mob npaws los rau nej; nws yuav ua kom muaj ntuj qhua teb nkig thiab tso cua nplawm nej tej qoobloo kom qhuav tas. Tej siv tej npog no yuav los raug nej mus txog hnub uas nej tuag tas. ²³Yuav tsis muaj nag los rau nej lub tebchaws, nej lub tebchaws yuav qhuav thiab tawv cuag hlau. ²⁴Tus TSWV yuav tsis tso nag los, tiamsis nws yuav tso hmoov av thiab suabzeb saum ntuj los rau nej, mus txog thaum nej tuag tas.
²⁵“Tus TSWV yuav cia nej cov yeebncuab tuaj tua yeej nej. Nej yuav ua ib pab mus tua cov yeebncuab, tiamsis nej yuav swb thiab khiav ua sab ua sua, thaum txhua haivneeg thoob ntiajteb pom nej raug tej xwm no lawv yuav ntshai tshee hnyo. ²⁶Thaum nej tuag, tej noog thiab tej tsiaj nruab nrag yuav noj nej lub cev, thiab yuav tsis muaj leejtwg lawv tej tsiaj ntawd kom khiav. ²⁷Tus TSWV yuav ua rau nej mob rwj, ib yam li nws ua rau cov Iziv lawm. Nws yuav ua kom nej lub cev tawg pleb, mob txhab qawj ua paug viag, thiab khaus thoob ibce kho tsis zoo li. ²⁸Tus TSWV yuav ua kom nej lub tswvyim ploj xav tsis tawm dabtsi li; nws yuav ua kom nej qhovmuag fam thiab tsis pom qab ua dabtsi. ²⁹Txawm yog nruab hnub nrig los nej yuav mus kev ib yam li tej neeg digmuag, nej yuav nrhiav tsis tau txoj haukev mus. Tej uas nej ua yuav tsis vammeej. Luag yuav huab nej tej khoom, thiab tsimtxom nej tas mus li, yuav tsis muaj leejtwg tuaj pab nej.
³⁰“Nej qhaib tau luag ib tug ntxhais los lwm tus yuav tuaj txeeb yuav. Nej ua tau tsev los nej yuav tsis tau nyob. Nej cog tau txiv hmab los nej yuav tsis tau noj. ³¹Luag yuav muab nej tej nyuj tua tabmeeg nej los nej yuav tsis tau noj. Luag yuav tuaj cab nej tus neesluav tabmeeg nej, thiab tsis xa rov qab rau nej. Luag yuav tuaj muab nej tej yaj tej tshis coj mus pub nej cov yeebncuab, yuav tsis muaj leejtwg tuaj pab nej. ³²Luag yuav tabmeeg coj nej tej tub tej ntxhais mus ua cov neeg txawv tebchaws qhev. Nej yuav niaj hnub tos ntsia kev ntsoov, tiamsis tsis pom luag xa nej tej menyuam rov los li. ³³Lwm haivneeg yuav tuaj txeeb nej tej qoobloo uas nej ua khwv khwv, kom nej tsis tau noj, nej tseem yuav raug luag tsimtxom thiab quab yuam tas mus li. ³⁴Nej raug luag tsimtxom li ntawd, yuav ua rau nej siab ntsws puas tas. ³⁵Tus TSWV yuav ua kom nej mob rwj ntawm hauvcaug, ntawm txhais ceg, thiab thoob plaws saum taubhau ti hauv kotaw ua paug viag kho tsis zoo li.
³⁶“Tus TSWV yuav coj nej thiab nej tus vajntxwv mus nyob lwm lub tebchaws uas nej thiab nej cov yawgkoob tsis tau mus nyob dua li; nyob hauv lub tebchaws ntawd, nej yuav pe luag tej vajtswv uas muab ntoo thiab pobzeb ua. ³⁷Cov neeg uas nyob hauv tej tebchaws uas tus TSWV uas yog nej tus Vajtswv muab nej ntiab mus nyob, yuav xav tsis thoob tej uas tus TSWV ua rau nej; lawv yuav luag nej plig thiab txob thuam nej.
³⁸“Nej cog qoobloo ntau, tiamsis sau tau tsawg, rau qhov yuav muaj kooj txomfav noj nej tej qoob. ³⁹Nej cog txiv hmab thiab tu zoo heev, tiamsis nej yuav tsis tau de tej txiv thiab tsis tau haus tej cawv txiv hmab, rau qhov kab muab tej hmab noj tas lawm. ⁴⁰Nej cog txiv ntoo roj thoob nej lub tebchaws, tiamsis nej tsis tau roj, rau qhov tej txiv zeeg tas lawm. ⁴¹Nej muaj tub muaj ntxhais, tiamsis lawv yuav tsis nrog nej nyob, rau qhov luag yuav ntes lawv mus. ⁴²Kab yuav noj nej tej ntoo thiab nej tej qoobloo uas nyob hauv nej lub tebchaws tas.
⁴³“Lwm haivneeg uas nrog nej nyob hauv nej lub tebchaws yuav muaj hwjchim loj zuj zus, tiamsis nej yuav poob hwjchim zuj zus. ⁴⁴Lawv yuav muaj nyiaj qiv rau nej, tiamsis nej yuav tsis muaj nyiaj qiv rau lawv. Thaum kawg lawv yuav tswjhwm nej.
⁴⁵“Tej kev siv kev npog no yuav los raug nej, mus txog thaum nej puastsuaj tas, rau qhov nej tsis mloog tus TSWV uas yog nej tus Vajtswv lus, thiab tsis ua raws li tej kevcai uas tus TSWV qhia rau nej. ⁴⁶Tej xwmtxheej no yog lub cim uas qhia txog Vajtswv txojkev txiav txim rau nej thiab nej tej xeebntxwv mus tas ibtxhis li. ⁴⁷Tus TSWV twb foom koob hmoov rau tej uas nej ua lawm, tiamsis nej tsis muab siab npuab thiab nej tsis muaj lub siab dawb paug pehawm nws. ⁴⁸Tus TSWV yuav tso nej cov yeebncuab tuaj yuam nej ua lawv qhev. Nej yuav tshaib plab, nqhis dej, liabqab thiab nej yuav ntshaw ib puas tsav yam. Tus TSWV yuav muab tus quab hlau uas hnyav heev los khuam rau nej cajdab, mus txog thaum nws ua rau nej puastsuaj tas. ⁴⁹Tus TSWV yuav cia lwm haivneeg uas nyob tim qabntuj kawg tuaj tawmtsam nej, yog haivneeg uas nej tsis paub lawv tej lus. Lawv yuav ya ib yam li dav tuaj tawmtsam nej. ⁵⁰Haivneeg ntawd yuav tsis hlub thiab tsis txuag leejtwg, tsis hais tus laus lossis tus hluas li. ⁵¹Lawv yuav noj nej tej tsiaj txhu thiab nej tej qoob tas; nej yuav tuag tshaib. Lawv yuav tsis tseg nej tej nplej, cawv txiv hmab, roj txiv ntoo, nyuj lossis yaj rau nej li, ces nej yuav tuag tas. ⁵²Lawv yuav tuaj tua txhua lub nroog hauv lub tebchaws uas tus TSWV uas yog nej tus Vajtswv muab rau nej, tej chaw tsomfaj uas siab, thiab tej ntsa yeej uas nej tso siab rau los yuav pob puas tas.
⁵³“Thaum nej cov yeebncuab tuaj vij nej tej nroog, nej yuav tshaib plab heev, nej yuav noj nej tej menyuam uas tus TSWV uas yog nej tus Vajtswv muab rau nej. ^54-55Txawm yog tus txivneej uas muaj siab dawb siab zoo los thaum cov yeebncuab tuaj vij ntawd, nws yuav tsis hlub thiab tshua leejtwg li, nws yuav noj nws cov menyuam ib tug, nws yuav tsis faib rau nws tej kwvtij, lossis nws tus pojniam uas nws hlub, lossis nws lwm tus menyuam noj li, rau qhov nws tsis muaj zaub mov noj lawm. ^56-57Txawm yog tus pojniam uas muaj lub siab dawb siab zoo, thiab muaj txiag npluanuj tsis tau taug kev mus kotaw li los nws yuav ua ib yam li ntawd. Thaum yeebncuab tuaj vij nws lub nroog, nws yuav tshaib plab heev vim tsis muaj zaub mov noj li; nws yuav muab nws tus menyuam mos noj ntsiag to. Nws yuav tsis faib rau nws tus txiv uas nws hlub lossis nws lwm tus menyuam noj li.
⁵⁸“Yog nej tsis mloog thiab tsis ua raws li Vajtswv tej lus qhia uas sau rau hauv phau ntawv no, thiab yog nej tsis hwm tus TSWV uas yog nej tus Vajtswv lub npe uas dawbhuv, ⁵⁹ces nws yuav tso tej kab mob uas kho tsis zoo thiab tej sub tawg sub ntsha los rau nej thiab nej tej tubki. ⁶⁰Nws yuav tso tej kab mob phem kawg nkaus uas nej pom thaum nej nyob nram tebchaws Iziv los raug nej; nej yuav kho tsis zoo li. ⁶¹Tus TSWV tseem yuav tso ntau yam kab mob thiab sub tawg sub ntsha uas tsis tau teev tseg rau hauv phau ntawv uas sau Vajtswv tej kevcai no los raug nej kom nej puastsuaj tas. ⁶²Txawm yog nej yuav huamvam coob li cov hnubqub saum nruab ntug los tsuav qee leej seem xwb, rau qhov nej tsis mloog tus TSWV uas yog nej tus Vajtswv lus. ⁶³Tus TSWV txaus siab pub rau nej vammeej thiab huamvam coob li cas, nws pom zoo yuav rhuav kom nej puastsuaj li ntawd. Nws yuav ntiab nej tawm hauv lub tebchaws uas nws muab rau nej.
⁶⁴“Tus TSWV yuav ntiab nej mus nyob ua sab ua sua rau ntau lub tebchaws thoob qabntuj, nej yuav mus pe luag tej vajtswv uas muab ntoo thiab pobzeb ua uas nej thiab nej cov yawgkoob tsis tau pe dua li. ⁶⁵Hauv tej tebchaws uas nej mus nyob ntawd, nej yuav tsis muaj kev kaj siab, thiab tsis muaj av ua nej tug li; tus TSWV yuav ua rau nej ntshai tshee hnyo, qaug zog thiab tas kev cia siab. ⁶⁶Nej lub neej yuav niaj hnub muaj kev ntxhov siab. Nruab hnub hmo ntuj los nej ntshai, thiab tsis paub xyov nej lub neej yuav xaus thaum twg. ⁶⁷Tej uas nej pom yuav ua rau nej lub siab ntshai tshee hnyo. Thaum sawv ntxov nej xav kom yog tsaus ntuj; thaum tsaus ntuj los nej xav kom yog kaj ntug. ⁶⁸Txawm yog tus TSWV hais tias nej yuav tsis rov mus nram tebchaws Iziv ntxiv lawm los tus TSWV yuav muab nkoj xa nej mus. Thaum nej mus nyob nrad, nej yuav muab nej muag rau nej cov yeebncuab ua lawv qhev los tsis muaj leejtwg yuav nej li.”

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Blessings for Obedience

¹If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. ²All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God:
³You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.
⁴The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
⁵Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.
⁶You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
⁷The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.
⁸The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.
⁹The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the Lord your God and walk in obedience to him. ¹⁰Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will fear you. ¹¹The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.
¹²The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. ¹³The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. ¹⁴Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.

Curses for Disobedience

¹⁵However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:
¹⁶You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
¹⁷Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
¹⁸The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
¹⁹You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
²⁰The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.⚓ ²¹The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. ²²The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish. ²³The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron. ²⁴The Lord will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.
²⁵The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth. ²⁶Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away. ²⁷The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. ²⁸The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. ²⁹At midday you will grope about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.
³⁰You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit. ³¹Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. ³²Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. ³³A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days. ³⁴The sights you see will drive you mad. ³⁵The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
³⁶The Lord will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone. ³⁷You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.
³⁸You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it. ³⁹You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. ⁴⁰You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off. ⁴¹You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity. ⁴²Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.
⁴³The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. ⁴⁴They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.
⁴⁵All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. ⁴⁶They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever. ⁴⁷Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, ⁴⁸therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
⁴⁹The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, ⁵⁰a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. ⁵¹They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined. ⁵²They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.
⁵³Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you. ⁵⁴Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, ⁵⁵and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities. ⁵⁶The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter ⁵⁷the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.
⁵⁸If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the Lord your God— ⁵⁹the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses. ⁶⁰He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you. ⁶¹The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed. ⁶²You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God. ⁶³Just as it pleased the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
⁶⁴Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known. ⁶⁵Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart. ⁶⁶You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. ⁶⁷In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”—because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see. ⁶⁸The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.