1. Ngawo la ke amazwi, awawathethayo uMoses kumaSirayeli onke phesheya kweYordan entlango, eArabha, malungana noLwandle oluBomvu,* phakathi kweParan, neTofele, neLabhan, neHatseroti, neDizahabhi.
2. Ziintsuku ezilishumi elinalunye ukusuka eHorebhe ngendlela yentaba yakwaSehire, ukuya eKadeshe-bharneha.
3. Ngomnyaka wamashumi omané, ngenyanga yeshumi elinanye, ngolokuqala enyangeni leyo, wathetha uMoses koonyana bakaSirayeli ngako konke uYehova abemwisele umthetho ngako kubo.
4. Emveni kokumbulala kwakhe uSihon ukumkani wama-Amori, obemi eHeshbhon, no-Ogi ukumkani waseBhashan, obemi eAshtaroti nase-Edreyi,
5. phesheya kweYordan ezweni lakwaMowabhi, waqala uMoses ukubaqononondisa lo myalelo, esithi:
6. UYehova uThixo wethu wathetha kuthi eHorebhe, wathi, Kukade nihleli kule ntaba.
7. Jikani ninduluke, niye entabeni yama-Amori, nakubo bonke abamelene nayo, eArabha, ezintabeni, nasesihlanjeni, nakwelasezantsi, nangaselwandle, ezweni lamaKanan, naseLebhanon, nide nise kuwo umlambo omkhulu, umlambo ongumEfrati.
8. Khangelani, ndinisikele ilizwe. Ngenani, nakhe kwelo zwe wafungáyo uYehova kooyihlo, ooAbraham noIsake noYakobi, ukuba wolinika bona, nembewu yabo emva kwabo.
9. Ndathi kuni ngelo xesha, Andinakunithwala ndedwa.
10. UYehova uThixo wenu unandisile; nanku namhla ningangeenkwenkwezi zezulu ukuba baninzi kwenu.
11. UYehova uThixo wooyihlo makalongeze inani lenu kaliwaka kunoko lingako, anisikelele njengoko wathethayo kuni.
12. Ndingáthini na ukubuthwala ndedwa ubunzima benu, nomthwalo wenu, nembambano yenu?
13. Zikhangeleleni amadoda alumkileyo, aziingqondi, aziwayo, ngokwezizwe zakomawenu, ndiwamise abe ziintloko zenu.
14. Nandiphendula nathi, Ilizwi olithethileyo lilungile ukuba silenze.