5 Mose 4

1 Afei, Israel montie mmara ne nhyehyɛeɛ a merebɛkyerɛkyerɛ mo yi yie. Monni so na moanya nkwa, na moatumi akɔ asase a Awurade mo agyanom Onyankopɔn de rema mo no so na moatena hɔ.

Now, therefore, O Israel, hearken thou unto the statutes, and unto the regulations, which, I, am teaching you, to do [them], —to the end ye may live and enter and possess the land, which, Yahweh, the God of your fathers, is giving unto you.

2 Mommfa bi nka ho, na monnyi biribiara nso mfiri mmara a Awurade mo Onyankopɔn de ama me sɛ memfa mma mo no mu, na mmom monni so.

Ye shall not add unto the word which, I, am commanding you, neither shall ye take away therefrom, —that ye may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, which, I, am commanding you.

3 Mode mo ani hunuu deɛ Awurade yɛɛ mo wɔ Baal-peor no. Ɔsɛee nnipa pii a na wɔsom abosom no.

Yours are the eyes, that have seen what Yahweh did in Baal-peor, for every man who went after Baal-peor, did Yahweh thy God destroy out of thy midst;

4 Nanso, wɔn a na wɔdi Awurade mo Onyankopɔn nokorɛ nyinaa da so te ase bɛsi ɛnnɛ.

but, ye who kept on cleaving unto Yahweh your God, alive, are ye all to-day.

5 Sɛ moduru asase a mobɛtena so no so a, yeinom ne mmara a ɛsɛ sɛ modi so. Ɛfiri Awurade, yɛn Onyankopɔn, nkyɛn. Ɔde ama me sɛ memfa mma mo.

See! I have taught you statutes, and regulations, as Yahweh my God commanded me, —that ye should do so, in the midst of the land whereinto ye are entering to possess it.

6 Sɛ modi so a, ɛbɛma mo agye nim wɔ adwene ne nyansa mu. Na sɛ aman a wɔatwa mo ho ahyia no te saa mmara yi a, wɔbɛteam sɛ, “Ɔman bɛn na wɔwɔ nyansa ne adwene sɛ Israel!”

Therefore shall ye observe, and do [them], for that, will be your wisdom, and discernment, in the eyes of the peoples, —who will hear all these statutes, and will say—Nevertheless, a people wise and discerning, is this great nation.

7 Ɔman kɛseɛ bɛn na ɛwɔ onyame a ɔbɛn wɔn pɛɛ te sɛ Awurade, yɛn Onyankopɔn, a yɛfrɛ no a ɔgye yɛn so yi?

For what great nation is there which hath gods nigh unto it, —like Yahweh our God, whensoever we have cried out unto him.

8 Na ɔman bɛn na ɛwɔ edin sei a ɛwɔ mmara pa te sɛ saa mmara yi a mede rema mo ɛnnɛ yi?

Or what great nation which hath righteous statutes and regulations, like all this law, which, I, am setting before you to-day?

9 Monhwɛ yie! Monhwɛ yie pa ara na mo werɛ amfiri deɛ moahunu sɛ Awurade yɛ ma mo. Sɛ mote ase yi, mommma saa nsɛm yi mfiri mo adwene mu da! Na monhwɛ nso sɛ mo mma ne mo nananom nso bɛte.

Only take thou heed to thyself and keep thy soul diligently, so that thou forget not the things which thine own eyes have seen, and so that they go not out of thy heart, all the days of thy life, —but thou shalt make them known unto thy sons and unto thy sons’ sons: —

10 Ka kyerɛ wɔn, ne titire no, ɛda a mokɔgyinaa Awurade mo Onyankopɔn anim wɔ bepɔ Horeb a ɔka kyerɛɛ me sɛ, “Frɛ ɔmanfoɔ no wɔ mʼanim na mɛkyerɛ wɔn deɛ wɔnyɛ no. Sɛ ɛba saa a, wɔbɛsua sɛdeɛ wɔbɛdi me ni berɛ dodoɔ a wɔte ase no, na ɛnam so ma wɔatumi akyerɛ wɔn mma mmara no.”

What day thou didst stand before Yahweh thy God, in Horeb, when Yahweh said unto me, Gather unto me the people, that I may let them hear my words, —which they must learn that they may revere me all the days which they are living upon the soil, their children also, must they teach.

11 Mobɛgyina bɛnee bepɔ no ayaase ɛberɛ a na bepɔ no rehye no. Egyaframa no tu kɔɔ soro a omununkum ne esum kabii aduru no.

So ye drew near and stood, under the mountain. Now, the mountain, was burning with fire, up to the midst of the heavens, —darkness, cloud, and thick gloom.

12 Na Awurade kasa faa ogya no mu kyerɛɛ mo. Motee nsɛm no, nanso moanhunu no. Ɛnne kɛkɛ na ɛbaeɛ.

Then spake Yahweh unto you out of the midst of the fire, —a voice of words, ye were hearing, no form, were ye seeing, there was only a voice.

13 Ɔdaa nʼapam a ɔkyerɛɛ mo sɛ monni so no adi; mmaransɛm edu a ɔtwerɛɛ guu aboɔ ɛpono mmienu so no.

Then declared he unto you his covenant which he commanded you to do, the ten words, —and wrote them upon two tables of stone.

14 Saa ɛberɛ no na Awurade hyɛɛ me sɛ memfa mmara a ɛsɛ sɛ modi so wɔ asase a morebɛhyɛne so akɔtena so no mma mo.

And unto me, gave Yahweh command, at that time, to teach you statutes and regulations, —that ye should do them, in the land whereinto ye are passing over to possess it.

15 Monhwɛ yie! Ɛberɛ a Awurade kasa faa ogya mu kyerɛɛ mo firi bepɔ Horeb so no, moanhunu no.

Ye must take diligent heed, therefore unto your own souls, for ye saw no manner of form, on the day Yahweh spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire;

16 Ɛno enti, Monnnaadaa mo ho nyɛ mfoni hunu bi wɔ mo tirim sɛ ɔyɛ ɔbaa anaa ɔbarima,

lest ye should break faith, and make you an image, a form of any likeness, —a model of male or female;

17 aboa anaa anomaa,

a model of any beast that is in the earth, —a model of any winged bird, that flieth in the heavens;

18 aboa a ɔwea fam anaa nsuomnam.

a model of any thing that creepeth on the ground, —a model of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth;

19 Na sɛ mohwɛ ewiem na mohunu owia, ɔsrane ne nsoromma a, mma wɔnntwetwe mo nkɔsom wɔn. Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, yɛɛ saa ewiem abɔdeɛ yi maa nnipa a wɔwɔ asase so nyinaa.

or lest thou shouldest lift up thine eyes towards the heavens and see the sun and the moon, and the stars—all the host of the heavens, and shouldest be seduced, and shouldest bow thyself down to them and he led to serve them, —the which Yahweh thy God hath assigned unto all the peoples under all the heavens;

20 Na mo deɛ, Awurade yii mo firii dadeɛ fononoo mu wɔ Misraim sɛ mommɛyɛ nʼadedifoɔ sɛdeɛ mote ɛnnɛ yi.

whereas you, hath Yahweh taken, and brought you forth out of a smelting-pot of iron, out of Egypt, —that ye might become his own inherited people as at this day.

21 Mo enti, Awurade bo fuu me yie. Ɔkaa ntam sɛ, merentwa Asubɔnten Yordan nkɔ asase pa a Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, de rema mo sɛ mo agyapadeɛ sononko no so da.

But, Yahweh shewed himself angry with me, for your sakes, —and sware that I should not pass over the Jordan, and that I should not enter into the good land, which, Yahweh thy God, is giving unto thee as an inheritance;

22 Ɛwom sɛ mobɛtwa Yordan akɔtena hɔ asase no so, na me deɛ, mɛwu wɔ asuo no fa ha.

for, I, am about to die in this land, I am not to pass over the Jordan, —but, ye, are to pass over, and possess this good land.

23 Enti, monhwɛ yie na moammu apam a Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, ne mo ayɛ no so. Sɛ moyɛ abosom sɛso biara a mo Awurade mo Onyankopɔn abra mo no a, na ɛkyerɛ sɛ, moabu apam no so.

Take heed to yourselves lest ye forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he hath solemnised with you, —and so make for yourselves an image, the form of anything, the which Yahweh thy God hath forbidden thee;

24 Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, yɛ Onyame ninkunfoɔ ne ogya a ɔhye adeɛ Onyankopɔn.

seeing that as for Yahweh thy God, a consuming fire, he is, —a jealous GOD.

25 Moawowo mma ne mmanana akyi, na moatena asase no so akyɛre no, sɛ bɔne fa mo na moyɛ ohoni bi nam so yɛ bɔne wɔ Awurade mo Onyankopɔn ani so nam so hyɛ no Abufuo a,

When thou shalt beget sons, and sons’ sons, and become careless in the land and break faith and make an image the form of any thing, and shalt do the thing that is wicked in the eyes of Yahweh thy God provoking him to anger,

26 mefrɛ ɔsoro ne fam sɛ mʼadansefoɔ de tia mo saa ɛda yi sɛ, ntɛm so, mobɛhye afiri asase a moretwam wɔ so akɔ Yordan akɔfa no so. Morentena hɔ nkyɛ na wɔasɛe mo pasapasa.

I take both the heavens and the earth to witness against you to-day, that ye shall, perish, speedily, from off the land which ye are passing over the Jordan to possess, —ye shall not prolong your days thereupon; for, ye shall surely be laid waste;

27 Na Awurade bɛbɔ mo apansam aman mu a mo mu kakra bi na wɔbɛtena ase.

and Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, —and ye shall have left remaining of you men easily counted, among the nations whither Yahweh will drive you;

28 Ɛhɔ a ɛyɛ ahɔhosase no so na mobɛsom ahoni a wɔde nnua ne aboɔ na ayɛ, anyame a wɔnhunu adeɛ na wɔnte asɛm na wɔnnidi nte hwa no.

and ye will serve there gods made by the hands of man, —wood or stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

29 Ɛhɔ na mobɛpere bio ahwehwɛ Awurade mo Onyankopɔn. Na sɛ mode mo akoma ne mo kra nyinaa hwehwɛ no a, mobɛhunu no.

If thou shalt seek from thence, Yahweh thy God, then shalt thou find him, —when thou shalt search after him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

30 Sɛ ɔhaw bi to mo na yeinom nyinaa ba mo so a, akyire no, mobɛsane akɔ Awurade mo Onyankopɔn nkyɛn na moayɛ ɔsetie ama no.

In thy distress, when all these things have found thee out—in the afterpart of the days, thou wilt return unto Yahweh thy God, and wilt hearken to his voice.

31 Ɛfiri sɛ, mo Awurade mo Onyankopɔn no yɛ mmɔborɔhunu Onyankopɔn. Ɔrennya mo na ɔrensɛe mo anaa ne werɛ remfiri apam a ɔne mo agyanom pameeɛ a ɔkaa ntam sii so no.

For, a GOD of compassion, is Yahweh thy God, he will not forsake thee neither will he destroy thee, —nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.

32 Hwehwɛ abakɔsɛm mu firi ɛberɛ a Onyankopɔn bɔɔ nnipa wɔ asase so bɛsi ɛnnɛ yi. Afei, hwehwɛ firi ɔsoro ano kɔsi ɔsoro ano. Hwɛ sɛ biribi kɛseɛ a ɛte sɛ yei asi pɛn anaasɛ woate biribi saa pɛn?

For ask, I pray you, of the former days which were before thee, even from the day when God created man upon the earth, yea from one end of the heavens even to the other end of the heavens, —whether aught was ever brought to pass, like this great thing, or was ever heard of like it:

33 Ɔman bi ate Onyankopɔn nne sɛ ɔrekasa afiri ogya mu sɛdeɛ moteeɛ na wɔda so te ase yi anaa?

Did a people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of fire, as, thou, didst hear, and yet live?

34 Onyame foforɔ bi nam ɔgye a ɔnam amanehunu, nsɛnkyerɛnneɛ a ɛyɛ nwanwa, ɔko, tumidie ne ahodwiredeɛ so agye ɔman bi afiri ɔman foforɔ bi nsam afa sɛ ne dea anaa? Nanso, saa na Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, yɛ maa mo wɔ Misraim a mo ani hunuiɛ.

Or did a god ever make trial of entering in to take unto him a nation out of the midst of a nation, by provings, by signs and by wonders and by fighting, and by a firm hand and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors, —according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?

35 Ɔdaa yeinom nyinaa adi kyerɛɛ mo sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a mobɛhunu sɛ Awurade yɛ Onyankopɔn a nʼakyi obi nni hɔ.

Thou, wast allowed to see that thou mightest know, that Yahweh, he is God, there is none other than he alone.

36 Ɔmaa motee ne nne firi soro nam so tenetenee mo so. Ɔmaa mohunuu ne ogya fadum wɔ asase so, ɛnna motee ne nne firii ogya no mfimfini.

Out of the heavens, he let thee hear his voice to instruct thee, —and, upon the earth, he let thee see his great fire, and his own words, thou didst hear out of the midst of the fire.

37 Esiane sɛ na ɔpɛ mo agyanom asɛm, na ɔpɛɛ sɛ ɔhyira wɔn asefoɔ enti na ɔno ara nam ne tumi kɛseɛ so yii mo firii Misraim no.

And because that he loved thy fathers, therefore chose he his seed after him, —and brought thee forth with his presence with his great might, out of Egypt;

38 Ɔpamoo saa aman yi a na wɔn ho yɛ den sene mo wɔ mo anim sɛdeɛ mobɛba wɔn asase so abɛdi so sɛdeɛ ɛte ɛnnɛ yi.

to dispossess nations, greater and stronger than thou from before thee, —to bring thee in. to give unto thee their land for an inheritance: As at this day.

39 Enti, monkae na momma no ntim mo akoma mu: Awurade yɛ Onyankopɔn wɔ ɔsoro ne asase so, na onyame bi nka ne ho bio!

So then thou must consider to-day, and bring it back to thy heart, that, Yahweh, he is God in the heavens above and upon the earth beneath, —there is none other.

40 Sɛ moyɛ ɔsetie ma mmara no ne ahyɛdeɛ no a mede bɛma mo ɛnnɛ no a, ɛbɛsi mo ne mo mma yie. Mobɛnyini akyɛre wɔ asase a Awurade mo Onyankopɔn de rema mo afebɔɔ no so.

So shalt thou keep his statutes and his commandments which, I, am commanding thee to-day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy sons after thee, —and to the end thou mayest prolong thy days upon the soil, which Yahweh thy God, is giving thee, all the days.

41 Afei, Mose yii nkuropɔn mmiɛnsa bi wɔ Yordan apueeɛ fam

Then, did Moses set apart three cities, over the Jordan, —towards the rising of the sun:

42 a, sɛ ɛba sɛ obi akum obi a wanhyɛ da na ɔnni onipa ko no ho menasepɔ bi a, ɔtumi dwane kɔ hɔ kɔbɔ ne ho adwaa.

that the manslayer might flee thither who should slay his neighbour unawares, he, not having hated him, aforetime, —and might flee unto one of these cities, and live:

43 Ɔyii Beser a ɛda ɛserɛ ne asase tata so no maa Rubenfoɔ. Ɔde Ramot a ɛwɔ Gilead no maa Gadfoɔ ɛnna ɔde Golan a ɛwɔ Basan no nso maa Manase abusuakuo.

namely Bezer, in the desert of the table-land, for the Reubenites, —and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

44 Yeinom ne mmara a Mose de maa Israelfoɔ no.

This, then is the law which Moses set before the sons of Israel:

45 Israelfoɔ no firii Misraim no, yeinom ne akwankyerɛ, mmara ne ahyɛdeɛ a Mose de maa wɔn

These, are the testimonies, and the statutes and the regulations, —which Moses spake unto the sons of Israel when they came forth out of Egypt:

46 ɛberɛ a wɔduruu bɔnhwa a ɛbɛn Bet-Peor a ɛda Asubɔnten Yordan apueeɛ fam. Kane no, na Amorifoɔ na wɔte asase yi so ɛberɛ a wɔn ɔhene Sihon a ɔfiri Hesbon di adeɛ. Mose ne Israelfoɔ firi Misraim ɛreba no, wɔsɛe ɔhene yi ne nkurɔfoɔ.

over the Jordan in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, —whom Moses and the sons of Israel smote, when they came forth out of Egypt:

47 Wɔfaa nʼasase no sane faa Basanhene Og asase nso kaa ho. Saa ahemfo baanu yi na wɔyɛ Amorifoɔ ahemfo a wɔte Yordan apueeɛ.

so they took possession of his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan the two kings of the Amorites, who were over the Jordan, —towards the rising of the sun;

48 Saa asase yi na ɛfiri Aroer a ɛda Arnon subɔnhwa ano kɔsi Sion bepɔ, a wɔfrɛ no Hermon no ho.

from Aroer which is on the edge of the ravine of Arnon, even unto Mount Sion, the same, is Hermon;

49 Israelfoɔ no sane faa nsaase a ɛfiri Araba ɛpo no ano kɔsi bepɔ Pisga ase.

and all the waste plain over the Jordan, towards sunrise, even unto the sea of the waste plain, —under the slopes of the Pisgah.