1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
Yoshua akawakusanya kabila zote za Israeli huko Shekemu, akawaita wazee wa Israeli, na wakuu wao, na waamuzi wao, na maakida wao nao wakahudhuria mbele za Mungu.
2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
Yoshua akawaambia watu wote, Bwana, Mungu wa Israeli, asema hivi, Baba zenu hapo zamani walikaa ng'ambo ya Mto, maana Tera, baba yake Ibrahimu, naye ni baba yake Nahori; wakaitumikia miungu mingine.
3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
Nami nikamtwaa Ibrahimu baba yenu toka ng'ambo ya Mto, nikamwongoza katika nchi yote ya Kanaani; nikaongeza uzao wake, nikampa Isaka.
4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
Kisha nikampa huyo Isaka, Yakobo na Esau; nami nikampa Esau mlima Seiri aumiliki; Yakobo na watoto wake wakashuka Misri.
5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
Kisha nikawatuma Musa na Haruni nikaipiga nchi ya Misri, kwa hayo yote niliyoyatenda kati yake; hatimaye nikawatoa ninyi.
6 And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.
Nikawatoa baba zenu watoke Misri; nanyi mkaifikilia bahari; Wamisri wakawafuatia baba zenu kwa magari na wapanda farasi mpaka bahari ya Shamu.
7 And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
Nao walipomlilia Bwana, akaweka giza kati ya ninyi na Wamisri, akaileta bahari juu yao, akawafunikiza; nayo macho yenu yaliyaona mambo niliyoyatenda huko Misri; kisha mkakaa jangwani siku nyingi.
8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
Kisha nikawaleta na kuwaingiza katika nchi ya Waamori waliokaa ng'ambo ya pili ya Yordani; nao wakapigana nanyi; nikawatia mikononi mwenu, mkaimiliki nchi yao; nami nikawaangamiza mbele yenu.
9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
Ndipo Balaki, mwana wa Sipori, mfalme wa Moabu, akainuka, akapigana na Israeli; tena akatuma watu akamwita Balaamu, mwana wa Beori, aje awalaani;
10 but I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
lakini sikukubali kumsikiliza Balaamu; kwa hiyo akafuliza kuwabarikia ninyi; basi nikawatoa katika mkono wake.
11 And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
Nanyi mliuvuka Yordani, mkafika Yeriko; nao watu wa Yeriko wakapigana nanyi, Mwamori, na Mperizi, na Mkanaani, na Mhiti, na Mgirgashi, na Mhivi, na Myebusi; nami nikawatia mikononi mwenu.
12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
Nikatuma mavu mbele yenu, waliowafukuza mbele yenu hao wafalme wawili wa Waamori, si kwa upanga wako, wala kwa upinde wako.
13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
Nami nimewapa ninyi nchi msiyoitendea kazi, na miji msiyoijenga, nanyi mmekaa humo; mnakula matunda ya mashamba ya mizabibu na mizeituni msiyoipanda.
14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
Basi sasa mcheni Bwana, mkamtumikie kwa unyofu wa moyo na kwa kweli; na kuiweka mbali miungu ambayo baba zenu waliitumikia ng'ambo ya Mto, na huko Misri; mkamtumikie yeye Bwana.
15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Nanyi kama mkiona ni vibaya kumtumikia Bwana, chagueni hivi leo mtakayemtumikia; kwamba ni miungu ile ambayo baba zenu waliitumikia ng'ambo ya Mto, au kwamba ni miungu ya wale Waamori ambao mnakaa katika nchi yao; lakini mimi na nyumba yangu tutamtumikia Bwana.
16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
Hao watu wakajibu wakasema, Hasha! Tusimwache Bwana, ili kuitumikia miungu mingine;
17 for the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
kwa maana Bwana, Mungu wetu, yeye ndiye aliyetupandisha sisi na baba zetu kutoka nchi ya Misri; kutoka nyumba ya utumwa; naye ndiye aliyezifanya ishara zile kubwa mbele ya macho yetu, na kutulinda katika njia ile yote tuliyoiendea, na kati ya watu wa mataifa yote tuliopita katikati yao.
18 and the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.
Bwana ndiye aliyewafukuza watu wa mataifa yote watoke mbele yetu, naam, Waamori waliokaa katika nchi hii; basi, kwa sababu hiyo sisi nasi tutamtumikia Bwana, maana yeye ndiye Mungu wetu.
19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
Yoshua akawaambia watu, Hamwezi kumtumikia Bwana; kwa kuwa yeye ni Mungu mtakatifu; yeye ni Mungu mwenye wivu; hatawasamehe makosa yenu, wala dhambi zenu.
20 If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
Kama mkimwacha Bwana na kuitumikia miungu migeni, ndipo atageuka na kuwatenda mabaya na kuwaangamiza, baada ya kuwatendea mema.
21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.
Lakini hao watu wakamwambia Yoshua, La! Lakini tutamtumikia Bwana.
22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
Yoshua akawaambia watu, Ninyi mmekuwa mashahidi juu ya nafsi zenu, ya kuwa mmemchagua Bwana, ili kumtumikia yeye. Wakasema, Sisi tu mashahidi.
23 Now therefore put away, said he , the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.
Akasema, Basi sasa, iondoeni miungu migeni iliyo kati yenu, mkaielekeze mioyo yenu kwa Bwana, Mungu wa Israeli.
24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
Ndipo hao watu wakamwambia Yoshua, Bwana, Mungu wetu, ndiye tutakayemtumikia; na sauti yake ndiyo tutakayoitii.
25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
Basi Yoshua akafanya agano na wale watu siku ile, akawapa amri na agizo huko Shekemu.
26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
Yoshua akayaandika maneno haya katika kitabu cha torati ya Mungu; kisha akatwaa jiwe kubwa, akalisimamisha huko, chini ya ule mwaloni uliokuwa karibu na patakatifu pa Bwana.
27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
Yoshua akawaambia watu wote, Tazama, jiwe hili litakuwa shahidi juu yetu; kwa maana limesikia maneno yote ya Bwana aliyotuambia, basi litakuwa shahidi juu yenu, msije mkamkana Mungu wenu.
28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
Basi Yoshua akawaruhusu watu, wakaenda zao, kila mtu kwenye urithi wake.
29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
Ikawa, baada ya hayo, Yoshua, mwana wa Nuni, mtumishi wa Bwana, akafa, mwenye umri wa miaka mia na kumi.
30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
Wakamzika katika mpaka wa urithi wake, huko Timnath-sera; ulio katika nchi ya vilima ya Efraimu, upande wa kaskazini wa mlima wa Gaashi.
31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
Nao Israeli wakamtumikia Bwana siku zote za Yoshua, na siku zote za hao wazee walioishi baada ya kufa kwake Yoshua, hao walioijua kazi yote ya Bwana, aliyowatendea Israeli.
32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
Na hiyo mifupa ya Yusufu, ambayo wana wa Israeli walikuwa wameileta kutoka Misri, wakaizika huko Shekemu katika ile sehemu ya nchi, Yakobo aliyoinunua kwa wana wa Hamori, babaye Shekemu, kwa vipande mia vya fedha; nayo ikawa ni urithi wa wana wa Yusufu.
33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.
Huyo Eleazari mwana wa Haruni naye akafa; wakamzika katika kilima cha Finehasi mwanawe, ambacho alipewa yeye katika nchi ya vilima ya Efraimu.
