The Blessings of Obedience
(Leviticus 26.3-13Deuteronomy 7.12-24)1 “If you obey the Lord your God and faithfully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, he will make you greater than any other nation on earth. 2 Obey the Lord your God and all these blessings will be yours:
3 “The Lord will bless your towns and your fields.
4 “The Lord will bless you with many children, with abundant crops, and with many cattle and sheep.
5 “The Lord will bless your grain crops and the food you prepare from them.
6 “The Lord will bless everything you do.
7 “The Lord will defeat your enemies when they attack you. They will attack from one direction, but they will run from you in all directions.
8 “The Lord your God will bless your work and fill your barns with grain. He will bless you in the land that he is giving you.
9 “If you obey the Lord your God and do everything he commands, he will make you his own people, as he has promised. 10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that the Lord has chosen you to be his own people, and they will be afraid of you. 11 The Lord will give you many children, many cattle, and abundant crops in the land that he promised your ancestors to give you. 12 He will send rain in season from his rich storehouse in the sky and bless all your work, so that you will lend to many nations, but you will not have to borrow from any. 13 The Lord your God will make you the leader among the nations and not a follower; you will always prosper and never fail if you obey faithfully all his commands that I am giving you today. 14 But you must never disobey them in any way, or worship and serve other gods.
The Consequences of Disobedience
(Leviticus 26.14-46)15 “But if you disobey the Lord your God and do not faithfully keep all his commands and laws that I am giving you today, all these evil things will happen to you:
16 “The Lord will curse your towns and your fields.
17 “The Lord will curse your grain crops and the food you prepare from them.
18 “The Lord will curse you by giving you only a few children, poor crops, and few cattle and sheep.
19 “The Lord will curse everything you do.
20 “If you do evil and reject the Lord, he will bring on you disaster, confusion, and trouble in everything you do, until you are quickly and completely destroyed. 21 He will send disease after disease on you until there is not one of you left in the land that you are about to occupy. 22 The Lord will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever; he will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die. 23 No rain will fall, and your ground will become as hard as iron. 24 Instead of rain, the Lord will send down duststorms and sandstorms until you are destroyed.
25 “The Lord will give your enemies victory over you. You will attack them from one direction, but you will run from them in all directions, and all the people on earth will be terrified when they see what happens to you. 26 When you die, birds and wild animals will come and eat your bodies, and there will be no one to scare them off. 27 The Lord will send boils on you, as he did on the Egyptians. He will make your bodies break out with sores. You will be covered with scabs, and you will itch, but there will be no cure. 28 The Lord will make you lose your mind; he will strike you with blindness and confusion. 29 You will grope about in broad daylight like someone blind, and you will not be able to find your way. You will not prosper in anything you do. You will be constantly oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to help you.
30 “You will be engaged to a young woman—but someone else will marry her. You will build a house—but never live in it. You will plant a vineyard—but never eat its grapes. 31 Your cattle will be butchered before your very eyes, but you will not eat any of the meat. Your donkeys will be dragged away while you look on, and they will not be given back to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and there will be no one to help you. 32 Your sons and daughters will be given as slaves to foreigners while you look on. Every day you will strain your eyes, looking in vain for your children to return. 33 A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow, while you receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment. 34 Your sufferings will make you lose your mind. 35 The Lord will cover your legs with incurable, painful sores; boils will cover you from head to foot.
36 “The Lord will take you and your king away to a foreign land, where neither you nor your ancestors ever lived before; there you will serve gods made of wood and stone. 37 In the countries to which the Lord will scatter you, the people will be shocked at what has happened to you; they will make fun of you and ridicule you.
38 “You will plant plenty of seed, but reap only a small harvest, because the locusts will eat your crops. 39 You will plant vineyards and take care of them, but you will not gather their grapes or drink wine from them, because worms will eat the vines. 40 Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not have any olive oil, because the olives will drop off. 41 You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, because they will be taken away as prisoners of war. 42 All your trees and crops will be devoured by insects.
43 “Foreigners who live in your land will gain more and more power, while you gradually lose yours. 44 They will have money to lend you, but you will have none to lend them. In the end they will be your rulers.
45 “All these disasters will come on you, and they will be with you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and keep all the laws that he gave you. 46 They will be the evidence of God's judgment on you and your descendants forever. 47 The Lord blessed you in every way, but you would not serve him with glad and joyful hearts. 48 So then, you will serve the enemies that the Lord is going to send against you. You will be hungry, thirsty, and naked—in need of everything. The Lord will oppress you harshly until you are destroyed. 49 The Lord will bring against you a nation from the ends of the earth, a nation whose language you do not know. They will swoop down on you like an eagle. 50 They will be ruthless and show no mercy to anyone, young or old. 51 They will eat your livestock and your crops, and you will starve to death. They will not leave you any grain, wine, olive oil, cattle, or sheep; and you will die. 52 They will attack every town in the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and the high, fortified walls in which you trust will fall.
53 “When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the Lord your God has given you. 54-55 Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left. 56-57 Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.
58 “If you do not obey faithfully all of God's teachings that are written in this book and if you do not honor the wonderful and awesome name of the Lord your God, 59 he will send on you and on your descendants incurable diseases and horrible epidemics that can never be stopped. 60 He will bring on you once again all the dreadful diseases you experienced in Egypt, and you will never recover. 61 He will also send all kinds of diseases and epidemics that are not mentioned in this book of God's laws and teachings, and you will be destroyed. 62 Although you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, only a few of you will survive, because you did not obey the Lord your God. 63 Just as the Lord took delight in making you prosper and in making you increase in number, so he will take delight in destroying you and in bringing ruin on you. You will be uprooted from the land that you are about to occupy.
64 “The Lord will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve gods made of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have ever worshiped before. 65 You will find no peace anywhere, no place to call your own; the Lord will overwhelm you with anxiety, hopelessness, and despair. 66 Your life will always be in danger. Day and night you will be filled with terror, and you will live in constant fear of death. 67 Your hearts will pound with fear at everything you see. Every morning you will wish for evening; every evening you will wish for morning. 68 The Lord will send you back to Egypt in ships, even though he said that you would never have to go there again. There you will try to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves, but no one will want to buy you.”
Ka soŋ Yaawe ma mu neemoo le ti
(3 Musa 26:1-135 Musa 7:12-24)1 Musa ko Banisirayilankoolu ye ko:
A fele m be Yaawe* ali la Alla la luwaalu dii kaŋ ali la bii luŋo la. Niŋ ali ye ì bee muta, ali baarata ì la, a be ali semboo warandi la duniyaa banku moolu bee le ti. 2 A be ñiŋ neemoo bee dii la ali la le, niŋ ali sonta a la kumakaŋolu ma.
3 A si neema ali ma ali la saatewolu kono, a ye neema ali ma ali la kunkoolu kono.
4 A si neema ali ma diŋ jamaa la, ali la fiifeŋolu si baraka, ali la ninsoolu, saajiyolu niŋ baalu ye yiriwaa kendeke.
5 Neema si ke ali la siimaŋ kese keraŋolu ma, aniŋ ali la keraŋolu, ali ka fariñoo nooni mennu kono.
6 Neema si ke ali la taa niŋ naa ma.
7 Niŋ ali jawoolu wulita ali kamma, Yaawe be a ke la le ali ye ì noo. Ì be naa la ali kaŋ sila kiliŋ ne la, bari ì boritoo, ì be janjaŋ na le.
8 Yaawe ali la Alla si neema ali la buntuŋolu ma, aniŋ ali la kata kuwolu bee. A be neema la ali ma bankoo kaŋ ne, a be daameŋ dii la ali la.
9 Niŋ ali ye Yaawe la yaamaroolu bee muta, ali ye taama a la siloo la, a be ali ke la a la moo senuŋolu le ti, ko a kalita ali ye ñaameŋ. 10 Duniyaa moolu bee si a je ko Yaawe ye ali tomboŋ ne ka ali ke a fansuŋ moolu ti, aduŋ ì be sila la ali la le. 11 Yaawe si ali fankandi diŋ jamaa la, beeyaŋ jamaa aniŋ siimaŋ jamaa la bankoo kaŋ, a kalita ali mumuñolu ye ka daameŋ dii ali la. 12 Yaawe be saŋo palanteeroolu yele la ali ye le ka sanjiyo jindi ali la bankoo kaŋ a waatoo la. A be neema la ali ma ali la kata kuwolu bee le to. Banku koteŋo moolu le be juloo taa la alitolu bulu, bari alitolu nene te julu taa la moo bulu. 13 Yaawe be ali ke la kuŋo le ti, ali te ke la feñoo ti, ali la kuwo be sele la santo le, ali te jii la duuma muk, niŋ ali ye Yaawe ali la Alla la yaamaroolu muta kendeke, m be mennu dii kaŋ ali la bii. 14 Ali kana ali koo dii kumakaŋolu la, m be ali yaamari kaŋ mennu la bii, ka taa bula alla koteŋolu nooma ka ì batu.
Ka balaŋ Yaawe ma mu dankoo le ti
(3 Musa 26:14-46)15 Bari niŋ ali maŋ Yaawe ali la Alla la yaamaroolu niŋ luwaalu bee muta kendeke, m be mennu dii kaŋ ali la bii, wo to ñiŋ dankoolu bee le be ali nooma la.
16 Dankoo si tara ali ye ali la saatewolu kono, dankoo ye tara ali ye ali la kunkoolu to.
17 Dankoo si tara ali la siimaŋ kese keraŋolu ye, aniŋ ali la keraŋolu, ali ka fariñoo nooni mennu kono.
18 Dankoo si tara ali diŋolu ye, ali la fiifeŋolu, ali la ninsoolu, ali la saajiyolu aniŋ ali la baalu, ì te yiriwaa la.
19 Dankoo si tara ali ye ali la taa niŋ naa to.
20 Niŋ ali baarata kuu jawoo la, ali ye ali koo dii Yaawe la, a be dankoo, jaakaloo aniŋ jikilateyoo le bula la naŋ ali kaŋ ali la kata kuwolu bee to, fo ali ye kasaara, ali ye buruka waati kiliŋ. 21 Yaawe be a ke la le ali niŋ jankaroo ye tu fo a ye ali bee kasaara bankoo kaŋ, ali be taa kaŋ daameŋ ka ke ali taa ti. 22 Yaawe be ali mantoora la labara kuuraŋo le la, kajewo, aniŋ maadiŋo. Finjali kandoo niŋ jaa be ke la, kuuraŋo ye boyi fiifeŋolu kaŋ fo ì ye toli. Ñiŋ bee be ali nooma la le, fo ali bee ye kasaara. 23 Saŋo palanteeroo si soroŋ ali kunto, bankoo ye jaa ko newo. 24 Yaawe be samaajiyo yelemandi la ali ye bankumunkoo le ti aniŋ kankaŋo. A si jurumi naŋ ali kaŋ fo ali bee ye kasaara.
25 Yaawe be a ke la le ali jawoolu ye ali noo. Ali be naa la ì kaŋ sila kiliŋ ne la, bari ali boritoo be janjaŋ na le. Ali la kuwo si ke duniyaa mansamarali bankoolu bee ye masilaŋo ti. 26 Kunoolu niŋ wulakono daafeŋolu le be ali furewolu domo la, moo te soto la ka ì bayi. 27 Yaawe be ali mantoora la maadiŋolu le la, a ye meŋ ñoŋo laa nuŋ Misirankoolu kaŋ. Yitoolu si ke ali bala, katoo aniŋ bala ŋañaa kuuraŋ koteŋolu, mennu te jaara noo la. 28 A si sondome kuuraŋo laa ali kaŋ, a ye ali finkindi, a ye ali hakiloolu caawundi. 29 Tilikuntee baa la, ali si tara moomooroo ke la ko finkintewo. Ali ye kuu-wo-kuu ke, baraka te tara la a to. Moolu si tu ali tilimbaliyaa la, aniŋ ka ali la feŋolu suuñaa, aduŋ moo te soto la meŋ be ali maakoyi la.
30 Ali si sunkutoolu futuusiti, kee doo ye ì londi kewo la. Ali si buŋolu loo, bari ali te sabati la ì kono. Ali si wayini* yiroolu tutu kankaŋolu kono, bari ali te i tinee la ì diŋolu la. 31 Ì si ali la ninsoolu kanateyi ali ñaa la, bari ali te ì suboo domo la. Ì si ali la faloolu foriseetoo taa ali bulu, aduŋ ì te ì murundi la ali kaŋ. Ì si ali la saajiyolu dii ali jawoolu la, aduŋ moo te soto la meŋ be ali maakoyi la. 32 Ali dinkewolu niŋ ali dimmusoolu si duŋ joŋyaa kono banku doo kaŋ ali faŋo ñaa koto. Ì la kuwo si kali ali meeyaa, bari ali te sembe soto la jee. 33 Ali la senefeŋolu aniŋ ali la dookuu koteŋo tinewo, banku koteŋo moolu le be ì domo la, ali maŋ mennu loŋ. Aduŋ niitooroo niŋ tilimbaliyaa le be tara la ali kaŋ, daŋ te ke la meŋ na. 34 Ali ñaa be niikuyaa meŋ je la, si ke ali ye ñaamaa ti. 35 Yaawe be maadiŋ jawoolu le ke la ali siŋolu bala meŋ te jaara noo la, ka bo ali kuŋolu to ka jii naŋ fo ali sinteetewo to.
36 Yaawe si naa ali niŋ ali la mansa taa, ali faŋo ye meŋ tomboŋ ka ali mara, a ye ali niŋ a samba mutoo kono wandi bankoo kaŋ, ali niŋ ali mumuñolu nene maŋ daameŋ loŋ. Ali si alla koteŋolu batu jee, ì ye mennu dadaa yiroo niŋ beroo la. 37 A be ke la jee moolu ye masilaŋ kuwo le ti, niŋ ì ye a je meŋ be laariŋ ali kaŋ. Ali si naa ke ì ye jelefeŋo niŋ jutunna moolu ti bankoolu kaŋ, Yaawe be ali bayi la daamennu to.
38 Ali si siimaŋ kese jamaa fii, bari ali be meŋ soto la jee, a daŋo si dooyaa, kaatu kuntiŋolu le be a domo la. 39 Ali si wayini yiroolu tutu kankaŋolu kono, ali ye ì topatoo a ñaama, bari ali te ì yiridiŋolu kati la sako ali si ì jiyo miŋ, kaatu tumboolu le be ì bee tiñaa la. 40 Olifu* yiroolu si tara ali la bankoo karoo bee la, bari ali te olifu tulu soto la, ali be i muu la meŋ na, kaatu janniŋ ì diŋolu ka moo, ì be joloŋ na le. 41 Ali be dinkewolu niŋ dimmusoolu wuluu la le, bari ali be foo la ì la le, kaatu ali jawoolu be ì samba la mutoo kono le. 42 Ali la yiroolu niŋ ali la fiifeŋolu bee be ke la kuntiŋolu le taa ti.
43 Tumarankewolu mennu be sabatiriŋ ali fee, wolu le be ñaatotaa soto la ali ti. Ì la kuwo be sele-sele laalaa la le, alitolu taa ye jii-jii laalaa. 44 Alitolu le be dontoroo ke la ì bulu, bari itolu nene te feŋ donto la ali bulu. Itolu le be ke la kuŋo ti, alitolu ye ke feñoo ti.
45 Ñiŋ dankoolu bee be boyi la ali kaŋ ne, ì ye ali nooma fo ali ye kasaara, kaatu ali maŋ soŋ Yaawe ali la Alla ma. Ali maŋ a la luwaalu niŋ yaamaroolu muta, ko a ye a fo ali ye ñaameŋ. 46 Ñiŋ kuwolu be ke la ali niŋ ali koomalankoolu kunto taamanseeroo niŋ dandalaaroo le ti fo fawu. 47 Yaawe ali la Alla ye fankoo meŋ dii ali la, niŋ ali maŋ a batu seewoo niŋ kontaanoo kono, 48 wo to ali be ali jawoolu batu la le, Yaawe be mennu kii la ali kamma. Ali si konko, ali ye mindoo, ali ye feetoo, feŋo bee ye ali dasa. Yaawe si bataa yookumaa* laa ali kaŋ, fo ali bee ye kasaara. 49 Yaawe be banku koteŋo moolu le wulindi la ali kamma ka bo naŋ dulaa jaŋ, ali nene maŋ mennu la kaŋo moyi sako ka a fahaamu. Wolu si naa boyi ali kaŋ, ì ye ali cansu ko seeliŋo. 50 Ì ñaalu be tara la wuleeriŋ ne ko dimbaa, aduŋ ì te keebaalu horoma la waraŋ ka balafaa dindiŋolu ye. 51 Ì be ali la beeyaŋolu niŋ ali la siimaŋolu bee le domo la, ì te feŋ tu la ali ye, biriŋ siimaŋ kesoo to, wayini kutoo, olifu tuloo, ali la ninsoolu, saajiyolu niŋ baalu, ì be ì bee le taa la ali bulu, ali ye labaŋ kasaara la. 52 Ì be ali la saatewolu bee le suki la. Aduŋ ali la tata sansaŋ jaŋolu, ali be jikiriŋ mennu la, ì be ì bee le boyi la ali la bankoo bee kaŋ. Ì be ali la saatewolu bee le suki la bankoo kaŋ, Yaawe ali la Alla be daameŋ dii la ali la.
53 Ali si konko fo ali ka ali faŋolu wuluudiŋolu suboo domo. Ali dinkewolu niŋ ali dimmusoolu, Yaawe ali la Alla ye mennu dii ali la, ali si ì suboolu domo wo sukoo kono konkoo niŋ niikuyaa kamma la, ali jawoolu be meŋ laa la ali kaŋ. 54 Kewo meŋ faŋo hadamayaata ali bee kono, aduŋ a mooyaata, niŋ a be a diŋo suboo domo kaŋ, a si a kotookewo waraŋ a dookewo faŋo bali a la, hani a kanumusoo faŋo aniŋ a diŋ toomaalu mennu be a ye baluwo to. 55 A te ì so la feŋ na ñiŋ suboo to, kaatu domotaa koteŋ maŋ tu a bulu ñiŋ sukoo niŋ niitooroo kono, ali jawoolu be meŋ laa la ali kaŋ ali la saatewolu bee to. 56 Musoo meŋ hadamayaata, a mooyaata ali kono, a la baluwo be sooneeyaariŋ fo a siŋ kenseŋo faŋo nene maŋ loo bankoo to, a si a la deenaani kutoo niŋ a naañoo domo. Niŋ a be a domo kaŋ, a si a kee faŋo bali, hani a dinkewolu niŋ a dimmusoolu faŋo. 57 A si a keemaa niŋ a diŋ toomaalu bali, kaatu a be ñiŋ deenaanoo niŋ a naañoo domo la kulloo le kono, kaatu domotaa koteŋ maŋ tu a bulu ñiŋ sukoo niŋ niitooroo kono, ali jawoolu be meŋ laa la ali kaŋ ali la saatewolu to.
58 Ali si ali hakiloo tu ka ñiŋ luwaa kumakaŋolu bee muta, mennu be safeeriŋ ñiŋ kitaaboo kono, fo ali si Yaawe ali la Alla too senuŋo horoma, meŋ kallankeeyaata*. 59 Niŋ ali maŋ wo ke, Yaawe be kuuraŋ jaarabaloolu le laa la ali niŋ ali koomalankoolu kaŋ, mennu be jawuyaa la. A si alibalaa laa ali kaŋ, meŋ juloo te kuntu la. 60 Aduŋ a ye kuuraŋolu mennu laa nuŋ Misirankoolu kaŋ, mennu ye ali masilaŋ, a be ì bee le murundi la naŋ, ì ye napu ali bala. 61 Yaawe be kuuraŋ koteŋolu niŋ mantooroolu mennu maŋ safee ñiŋ Luwaa Kitaaboo* kono, fanaa laa la ali kaŋ ne fo ali ye kasaara. 62 Hani ali yaatewo si siyaa ko looloolu, ali dantaŋ doroŋ ne be tu la, kaatu ali ye Yaawe la kumakaŋo soosoo le. 63 Aduŋ ko a keta Yaawe ye seewoo ti ñaameŋ ka ali so firiŋo la aniŋ ka ali yaatewo siyandi, wo ñaa kiliŋo la, a be ke la a ye seewoo le ti ka mantooroo jurumi ali kaŋ ka ali kasaara. A si naa ali wutundi ka ali bondi bankoo kaŋ, ali be naa duŋ na daameŋ ka ke ali taa ti.
64 Bituŋ a si naa ali janjandi bankoolu bee kaŋ taariŋ, biriŋ duniyaa tonkoŋ fo tonkoŋ, aduŋ ali si alla koteŋolu batu jee, ì ye mennu dadaa yiroo niŋ beroo la, ali niŋ ali mumuñolu nene maŋ alloolu mennu loŋ nuŋ. 65 Ali te kayira soto la wo bankoolu kaŋ, aduŋ ali te dahaa dulaa soto la. Yaawe be kijafaroo niŋ jikilateyoo le dundi la ali sondomoo kono aniŋ niitoora jawoo. 66 Ali la baluwo kono, ali be tara la dewundiŋ ne. Ali kijoo be ali fara la suuto tili, aduŋ jiki te tara la ali ye baluwo to. 67 Ali ñaa loota feŋ-wo-feŋ kaŋ, a si ke ali ye kijafaroo ti. Ali si hame soomandaa ye ke ali ye wulaaroo ti, wulaaroo ye ke ali ye soomandaa ti dewuŋo kamma la. 68 Yaawe si a ke, ali ye baa teyi kuluŋolu la ka muru Misira bankoo kaŋ, a ye ali laahidi nuŋ ko a te soŋ na ali ye muru daameŋ to kotenke. Aduŋ ali si a kata ka ali faŋ waafi ali jawoolu ma jee joŋolu ti, bari hani moo kiliŋ te ali saŋ na.
