Deuteronomii 4

1 Et nunc Israel audi praecepta et iudicia, quae ego doceo te: ut faciens ea, vivas, et ingrediens possideas Terram, quam Dominus Deus patrum vestrorum daturus est vobis.

And now, Israel, hear the ordinances and judgments, all that I teach you this day to do: that you may live, and be multiplied, and that you may go in and inherit the land, which the Lord God of your fathers gives you.

2 Non addetis ad verbum, quod vobis loquor, nec auferetis ex eo: custodite mandata Domini Dei vestri quae ego praecipio vobis.

You shall not add to the word which I command you, and you shall not take from it: keep the commandments of the Lord our God, all that I command you this day.

3 Oculi vestri viderunt omnia quae fecit Dominus contra Beelphegor, quomodo contriverit omnes cultores eius de medio vestri.

Your eyes have seen all that the Lord our God did in [the case of] Beel-phegor; for every man that went after Beel-phegor, the Lord your God has utterly destroyed him from among you.

4 Vos autem qui adhaeretis Domino Deo vestro, vivitis universi usque in praesentem diem.

But you that kept close to the Lord your God are all alive today.

5 Scitis quod docuerim vos praecepta atque iustitias, sicut mandavit mihi Dominus Deus meus: sic facietis ea in Terra, quam possessuri estis:

Behold, I have shown you ordinances and judgments as the Lord commanded me, that you should do so in the land into which you go to inherit it.

6 et observabitis et implebitis opere. Haec est enim vestra sapientia, et intellectus coram populis, ut audientes universi praecepta haec, dicant: En populus sapiens et intelligens, gens magna.

And you shall keep and do them: for this is your wisdom and understanding before all nations, as many as shall hear all these ordinances; and they shall say, Behold, this great nation [is] a wise and understanding people.

7 Nec est alia natio tam grandis, quae habeat deos appropinquantes sibi, sicut Deus noster adest cunctis obsecrationibus nostris.

For what manner of nation [is so] great, which has God so near to them as the Lord our God [is] in all things in whatever we may call upon him?

8 Quae est enim alia gens sic inclyta ut habeat ceremonias, iustaque iudicia, et universam legem, quam ego proponam hodie ante oculos vestros?

And what manner of nation [is so] great, which has righteous ordinances and judgments according to all this law, which I set before you this day?

9 Custodi igitur temetipsum, et animam tuam solicite. Ne obliviscaris verborum, quae viderunt oculi tui, et ne excidant de corde tuo cunctis diebus vitae tuae. Docebis ea filios ac nepotes tuos,

Take heed to yourself, and keep your heart diligently: forget not any of the things, which your eyes have seen, and let them not depart from your heart all the days of your life; and you shall teach your sons and your sons' sons,

10 a die in quo stetisti coram Domino Deo tuo in Horeb, quando Dominus locutus est mihi dicens: Congrega ad me populum, ut audiant sermones meos, et discant timere me omni tempore quo vivunt in terra, doceantque filios suos.

[even the things that happened in] the day in which you stood before the Lord our God in Choreb in the day of the assembly; for the Lord said to me, Gather the people to me, and let them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days which they live upon the earth, and they shall teach their sons.

11 Et accessistis ad radices montis, qui ardebat usque ad caelum: erantque in eo tenebrae, et nubes, et caligo.

And you drew near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire up to heaven: [there was] darkness, blackness, [and] tempest.

12 Locutusque est Dominus ad vos de medio ignis. Vocem verborum eius audistis, et formam penitus non vidistis.

And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire a voice of words, which you heard: and you saw no likeness, only [you heard] a voice.

13 Et ostendit vobis pactum suum, quod praecepit ut faceretis, et decem verba, quae scripsit in duabus tabulis lapideis.

And he announced to you his covenant, which he commanded you to keep, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.

14 Mihique mandavit in illo tempore ut docerem vos ceremonias et iudicia, quae facere deberetis in Terra, quam possessuri estis.

And the Lord commanded me at that time, to teach you ordinances and judgments, that you should do them on the land, into which you go to inherit it.

15 Custodite igitur solicite animas vestras. Non vidistis aliquam similitudinem in die, qua locutus est vobis Dominus in Horeb de medio ignis:

And take good heed to your hearts, for you saw no similitude in the day in which the Lord spoke to you in Choreb in the mountain out of the midst of the fire:

16 ne forte decepti faciatis vobis sculptam similitudinem, aut imaginem masculi vel feminae,

lest you transgress, and make to yourselves a carved image, any kind of figure, the likeness of male or female,

17 similitudinem omnium iumentorum, quae sunt super terram, vel avium sub caelo volantium,

the likeness of any beast of those that are on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird which flies under heaven,

18 atque reptilium, quae moventur in terra, sive piscium qui sub terra morantur in aquis:

the likeness of any reptile which creeps on the earth, the likeness of any fish of those which are in the waters under the earth;

19 ne forte elevatis oculis ad caelum, videas Solem et Lunam, et omnia astra caeli, et errore deceptus adores ea et colas quae creavit Dominus Deus tuus in ministerium cunctis gentibus, quae sub caelo sunt.

and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the heavenly bodies, you should go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord your God has distributed to all the nations under heaven.

20 Vos autem tulit Dominus, et eduxit de fornace ferrea Aegypti, ut haberet populum hereditarium, sicut est in praesenti die.

But God took you, and led you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.

21 Iratusque est Dominus contra me propter sermones vestros, et iuravit ut non transirem Iordanem, nec ingrederer Terram optimam, quam daturus est vobis.

And the Lord God was angry with me for the things said by you, and sware that I should not go over this Jordan, and that I should not enter into the land, which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.

22 Ecce moriar in hac humo, non transibo Iordanem: vos transibitis, et possidebitis terram egregiam.

For I am to die in this land, and shall not pass over this Jordan; but you are to pass over, and shall inherit this good land.

23 Cave ne quando obliviscaris pacti Domini Dei tui, quod pepigit tecum: et facias tibi sculptam similitudinem eorum, quae fieri Dominus prohibuit:

Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord our God, which he made with you, and you transgress, and make to yourselves a graven image of any of the things concerning which the Lord your God commanded you.

24 quia Dominus Deus tuus ignis consumens est, Deus aemulator.

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

25 Si genueritis filios ac nepotes, et morati fueritis in Terra, deceptique feceritis vobis aliquam similitudinem, patrantes malum coram Domino Deo vestro, ut eum ad iracundiam provocetis:

And when you shall have begotten sons, and shall have sons' sons, and you shall have lived a long time on the land, and shall have transgressed, and made a graven image of any thing, and shall have done wickedly before the Lord your God to provoke him;

26 testes invoco hodie caelum et terram, cito perituros vos esse de Terra, quam transito Iordane possessuri estis. non habitabitis in ea longo tempore, sed delebit vos Dominus,

I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that you shall surely perish from off the land, into which you go across Jordan to inherit it there; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly cut off.

27 atque disperget in omnes gentes, et remanebitis pauci in nationibus, ad quas vos ducturus est Dominus.

And the Lord shall scatter you among all nations, and you shall be left few in number among all the nations, among which the Lord shall bring you.

28 ibique servietis diis, qui hominum manu fabricati sunt, ligno et lapidi qui non vident, nec audiunt, nec comedunt, nec odorant.

And you shall there serve other gods, the works of the hands of men, wood and stones, which can’t see, nor can they hear, nor eat, nor smell.

29 Cumque quaesieris ibi Dominum Deum tuum, invenies eum: si tamen toto corde quaesieris, et tota tribulatione animae tuae.

And there you shall seek the Lord your God, and you shall find him whenever you shall seek him with all your heart, and with all your soul in your affliction.

30 Postquam te invenerint omnia quae praedicta sunt, novissimo autem tempore reverteris ad Dominum Deum tuum, et audies vocem eius.

And all these things shall come upon you in the last days, and you shall turn to the Lord your God, and shall listen to his voice.

31 Quia Deus misericors Dominus Deus tuus est: non dimittet te, nec omnino delebit, neque obliviscetur pacti, in quo iuravit patribus tuis.

Because the Lord your God [is] a God of pity: he will not forsake you, nor destroy you; he will not forget the covenant of your fathers, which the Lord sware to them.

32 Interroga de diebus antiquis, qui fuerunt ante te ex die quo creavit Deus hominem super terram, a summo caelo usque ad summum eius, si facta est aliquando huiuscemodi res, aut umquam cognitum est,

Ask of the former days which were before you, from the day when God created man upon the earth, and [beginning] at the [one] end of heaven to the other end of heaven, if there has happened any thing like to this great event, if such a thing has been heard:

33 ut audiret populus vocem Dei loquentis de medio ignis, sicut tu audisti, et vidisti:

if a nation have heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard and have lived;

34 si fecit Deus ut ingrederetur, et tolleret sibi Gentem de medio nationum, per tentationes, signa, atque portenta, per pugnam, et robustam manum, extentumque brachium, et horribiles visiones iuxta omnia, quae fecit pro vobis Dominus Deus vester in Aegypto, videntibus oculis tuis:

if God has assayed to go and take to himself a nation out of the midst of [another] nation with trial, and with signs, and with wonders, and with war, and with a mighty hand, and with a high arm, and with great sights, according to all the things which the Lord our God did in Egypt in your sight.

35 ut scires quoniam Dominus ipse est Deus, et non est alius praeter eum.

So that you should know that the Lord your God he is God, and there is none beside him.

36 De caelo te fecit audire vocem suam, ut doceret te, et in terra ostendit tibi ignem suum maximum, et audisti verba illius de medio ignis,

His voice was made audible from heaven to instruct you, and he showed you upon the earth his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.

37 quia dilexit patres tuos, et elegit semen eorum post eos. Eduxitque te praecedens in virtute sua magna ex Aegypto,

Because he loved your fathers, he also chose you their seed after them, and he brought you himself with his great strength out of Egypt,

38 ut deleret nationes maximas et fortiores te in introitu tuo: et introduceret te, daretque tibi terram earum in possessionem, sicut cernis in praesenti die.

to destroy nations great and stronger than you before your face, to bring you in, to give you their land to inherit, as you have it this day.

39 Scito ergo hodie, et cogitato in corde tuo quod Dominus ipse est Deus in caelo sursum, et in terra deorsum, et non sit alius.

An you shall know this day, and shall consider in your heart, that the Lord your God he [is] God in heaven above, and on the earth beneath, and there is none else but he.

40 Custodi praecepta eius atque mandata, quae ego praecipio tibi: ut bene sit tibi, et filiis tuis post te, et permaneas multo tempore super Terram, quam Dominus Deus tuus daturus est tibi.

And keep you his commandments, and his ordinances, all that I command you this day; that it may be well with you, and with your sons after you, that you may be long-lived upon the earth, which the Lord your God gives you for ever.

41 Tunc separavit Moyses tres civitates trans Iordanem ad Orientalem plagam,

Then Moses separated three cities beyond Jordan on the east,

42 ut confugiat ad eas qui occiderit nolens proximum suum, nec sibi fuerit inimicus ante unum et alterum diem, et ad harum aliquam urbium possit evadere:

that the slayer might flee there, who should have slain his neighbor unintentionally, and should not have hated him in times past, and he shall flee to one of these cities and live:

43 Bosor in solitudine, quae sita est in terra campestri de tribu Ruben: et Ramoth in Galaad, quae est in tribu Gad: et Golan in Basan, quae est in tribu Manasse.

Bosor in the wilderness, in the plain country of Ruben, and Ramoth in Galaad [belonging to] Gad, and Gaulon in Basan [belonging to] Manasse.

44 Ista est lex, quam proposuit Moyses coram filiis Israel,

This [is] the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.

45 et haec testimonia et ceremoniae atque iudicia, quae locutus est ad filios Israel, quando egressi sunt de Aegypto,

These [are] the testimonies, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt:

46 trans Iordanem in valle contra fanum Phogor in terra Sehon regis Amorrhaei, qui habitavit in Hesebon, quem percussit Moyses. Filii quoque Israel egressi ex Aegypto

on the other side of Jordan, in the valley near the house of Phogor, in the land of Seon king of the Amorites, who lived in Esebon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel struck when they came out of the land of Egypt.

47 possederunt terram eius, et terram Og regis Basan, duorum regum Amorrhaeorum, qui erant trans Iordanem ad solis ortum:

And they inherited his land, and the land of Og king of Basan, two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan eastward.

48 Ab Aroer, quae sita est super ripam torrentis Arnon, usque ad montem Sion, qui est et Hermon,

From Aroer, which is on the border of the brook Arnon, even to the mount of Seon, which is Aermon.

49 omnem planitiem trans Iordanem ad Orientalem plagam, usque ad mare solitudinis, et usque ad radices montis Phasga.

All Araba beyond Jordan eastward under Asedoth hewn in the rock.