5 Mose 6
1 Yeinom ne ahyɛdeɛ, mmara ne nhyehyɛeɛ a Awurade mo Onyankopɔn ka kyerɛɛ me sɛ menkyerɛ mo na monni so wɔ asase a moretwa Yordan akɔtena so no,
These are the commandments and rules and regulations that the Lord your God has ordered me to teach you to follow in the country that you're going to enter and occupy.
2 sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a mo, mo mma ne wɔn mma bɛsuro Awurade mo Onyankopɔn mmerɛ dodoɔ a mote ase. Sɛ modi ne mmara ne nʼahyɛdeɛ nyinaa so a, mo nkwa nna bɛware.
This is so you and your children and grandchildren will show respect to the Lord your God throughout your lives by keeping all his rules and regulations that I give you, and so that you may have a long life.
3 Montie, Ao Israel, na monhwɛ yie nni so sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a, ɛbɛsi mo yie na mo ase atrɛ yie wɔ asase a nufosuo ne ɛwoɔ resene wɔ so sɛdeɛ Awurade, mo agyanom Onyankopɔn, hyɛɛ mo ho bɔ no.
Listen, people of Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may do well and have many descendants in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your forefathers, promised you.
4 Tie, Ao Israel, Awurade yɛn Onyankopɔn yɛ Awurade koro.
Listen, people of Israel, The Lord our God, the Lord is the only one.
5 Dɔ Awurade wo Onyankopɔn firi wʼakoma mu nyinaa ne wo kra nyinaa mu ne wʼahoɔden nyinaa mu.
You shall love the Lord your God with all your mind and with all your being and with all your strength.
6 Momma saa mmaransɛm a mede rema wo ɛnnɛ yi ntena mo akoma mu.
The commands I'm giving you today must stay in your minds.
7 Momfa nhyɛ mo mma mu. Sɛ mowɔ fie anaa monam ɛkwan so, sɛ moda hɔ anaa mosɔre anɔpa a, monkyerɛkyerɛ wɔn.
You are to explain them carefully to your children and talk about them when you're at home and when you're traveling, when you lie down and when you get up.
8 Monkyekyere no sɛ agyinahyɛdeɛ mmɔ mo nsa na momfa bi mmɔ abotire.
Tie them on your hands as reminders and put them on your foreheads as well.
9 Montwerɛ ngu mo fie aponnwa ne mo aboboanopono ho.
Write them on the doorposts of your homes and on your gates.
10 Ɛrenkyɛre biara, Awurade mo Onyankopɔn de mo bɛba asase a ɔkaa ntam sɛ ɔde bɛma mo agyanom Abraham, Isak ne Yakob no. Ɛyɛ asase a animuonyam nkuropɔn a ɛnyɛ mo na mokyekyereeɛ ahyɛ so ma.
The Lord your God is going to take you into the country he promised to give you and your forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It's a country with large, prosperous towns that you didn't build,
11 Wɔde nneɛma pa a ɛnyɛ mo na moyɛeɛ bɛhyɛ no ma. Mobɛto nsuo afiri abura a ɛnyɛ mo na motuiɛ mu, na mobɛdidi afiri turo a ɛnyɛ mo na moyɛeɛ mu ne ngo nnua a ɛnyɛ mo na moduaeɛ. Sɛ modidi mee wɔ saa asase yi so wie a,
with houses full of plenty of good things that you didn't provide, that have wells you didn't dig, and vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant. When you eat and are full
12 monhwɛ yie na mo werɛ amfiri Awurade a ɔgyee mo firii nkoasom mu Misraim asase so no.
make sure you don't forget the Lord who led you out of Egypt, out of the prison-house of slavery.
13 Ɛsɛ sɛ mosuro Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, na mosom ɔno nko ara. Ne din nko ara na momfa nka ntam.
Respect the Lord your God only worship him, and only make promises in his name.
14 Monnni anyame foforɔ akyi—anyame a wɔyɛ nnipa a wɔatwa mo ho ahyia no dea;
Don't worship any other gods, the gods of the peoples around you,
15 na Awurade mo Onyankopɔn a ɔwɔ mo ntam no yɛ Onyankopɔn ninkunfoɔ a nʼabufuhyeɛ no bɛhye mo na ɔbɛsɛe mo afiri asase so.
because the Lord your God, who lives among you, is an exclusive God, and Lord your God will become angry with you, and he will wipe you out.
16 Monnsɔ Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, nhwɛ sɛdeɛ moyɛeɛ ɛberɛ a na mowɔ Masa no.
Don't test the Lord your God like you did at Massah.
17 Ɛsɛ sɛ modi Awurade mo Onyankopɔn ahyɛdeɛ so pɛpɛɛpɛ—monni mmara no mu nsɛm nyinaa so sɛdeɛ ɔde ama mo no.
You must be careful to keep the commandments of the Lord your God and the laws and rules he's given you.
18 Monyɛ deɛ ɛtene na ɛyɛ wɔ Awurade ani so na biribiara awie mo yie. Na moakɔ akɔtena asase pa a Awurade hyɛɛ ho bɔ kyerɛɛ mo agyanom no.
Do what's good and right in the Lord's sight so that it will go well for you and that you may enter and take over the good land that the Lord your God promised to give your forefathers,
19 Mobɛpam atamfoɔ a wɔte mo asase no so nyinaa sɛdeɛ Awurade ka kyerɛɛ mo sɛ ɔbɛyɛ no.
He will drive out all your enemies ahead of you, just as he said.
20 Daakye bi, mo mma bɛbisa mo sɛ, “Saa mmara ne nʼahyɛdeɛ a Awurade, yɛn Onyankopɔn de ama yɛn yi aseɛ ne sɛn?”
In the future, when your children come and ask you, “What's the point of decrees and rules and regulations that the Lord our God ordered you to follow?”
21 Monka nkyerɛ wɔn sɛ “Na yɛyɛ Farao nkoa wɔ Misraim, nanso Awurade nam anwanwatumi so yii yɛn firii Misraim.
then you are to tell them, “Once we were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord by his power led us out of Egypt.
22 Yɛhunuu Awurade nsɛnkyerɛnneɛ nnwuma a ɔyɛ tiaa Misraim, Farao ne ne nkurɔfoɔ nyinaa.
Before our very eyes the Lord brought down incredible and terrifying signs and miracles on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his people.
23 Ɔyii yɛn firii Misraim sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a, ɔbɛtumi de asase a wahyɛ yɛn agyanom ho bɔ no ama yɛn.
But he led us out of there to take us here, giving us this country that he had promised to our forefathers.
24 Na Awurade yɛn Onyankopɔn hyɛɛ yɛn sɛ yɛnni mmara no nyinaa so na yɛmfa obuo ne anidie mma no sɛdeɛ ɛbɛma daakye asi yɛn yie sɛdeɛ ɛte ɛnnɛ yi.
The Lord ordered us to keep all these laws and to respect the Lord our God, so that we would always be safe and well, as we are today
25 Ɛfiri sɛ, sɛ yɛdi mmara no nyinaa a Awurade, yɛn Onyankopɔn, de ama yɛn no so a, ɛbɛma yɛayɛ ateneneefoɔ.”
And if we carefully observe each of these commandments as we live in the presence of the Lord, as he instructed us, then we will be right with him.”
