Deuteronomy 29

1 These are the words of the covenant that Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he made with them in Horeb.

Yei ne nhyehyɛeɛ a ɛwɔ apam a Awurade hyɛɛ Mose sɛ ɔne Israelfoɔ no nyɛ wɔ Moab nka apam a ɔne wɔn yɛɛ no wɔ Horeb no.

2 And Moses called to all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his bondmen, and to all his land:

Mose frɛɛ Israelfoɔ no nyinaa ka kyerɛɛ wɔn sɛ: Mo ahunu deɛ Awurade yɛɛ Farao ne ne mpanimfoɔ ne ne ɔman nyinaa wɔ Misraim no.

3 the great trials that thine eyes have seen, those great signs and wonders.

Mo ankasa mohunuu sɔhwɛ akɛseɛ, nsɛnkyerɛnneɛ a ɛyɛ hu ne anwanwadeɛ akɛseɛ no.

4 But Jehovah hath not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

Nanso, ɛbɛsi ɛnnɛ yi, Awurade mmaa mo adwene a ɛte asɛm ase anaa ani a ɛhunu adeɛ anaa aso a ɛte asɛm.

5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes are not grown old upon you, and thy sandal is not grown old upon thy foot;

Mfeɛ aduanan mu a medii mo anim faa ɛserɛ so no, mo ntoma antete; saa ara na mo mpaboa a ɛhyɛ mo nan nso anhi.

6 ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink, that ye might know that I am Jehovah your God.

Moanni aduane, annom nsã anaa nsã a ano yɛ den. Meyɛɛ saa sɛdeɛ mobɛhunu sɛ mene Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, no.

7 And ye came to this place; and Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us for battle, and we smote them.

Yɛduruu ha no, Hesbonhene Sihon ne Basanhene Og ba bɛko tiaa yɛn, nanso, yɛdii wɔn so.

8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of the Manassites.

Yɛfaa wɔn asase de maa Ruben ne Gad mmusuakuo ne Manase abusuakuo fa no sɛ wɔn agyapadeɛ.

9 Ye shall keep then the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

Ɛno enti, monni saa apam yi so sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a, biribiara a mobɛyɛ no bɛyɛ yie.

10 Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God: your chiefs [of] your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,

Mo nyinaa—mo mmusuakuo mpanimfoɔ, mo atemmufoɔ, mo ahwɛfoɔ ne Israel mmarima nyinaa, ɛnnɛ mogyina Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, anim,

11 your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, as well the hewer of thy wood as the drawer of thy water;

mo ne mo mma ne mo yerenom ne ahɔhoɔ a wɔte mo mu a wɔbu mo nnua, soa mo nsuo.

12 that thou mayest enter into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah thy God maketh with thee this day;

Mogyina ha sɛ mo ne Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, rebɛyɛ apam, apam a Awurade ne mo reyɛ ɛnnɛ. Ɔde ntam bɛsɔ ano,

13 that he may establish thee this day for a people unto himself, and [that] he may be to thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

na wasi so gyinaeɛ sɛ ɛnnɛ, moyɛ ne nkurɔfoɔ na ɔno nso bɛyɛ mo Onyankopɔn sɛdeɛ ɔhyɛɛ mo bɔ no na ɔkaa ntam kyerɛɛ mo agyanom Abraham, Isak ne Yakob no.

14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,

Mereyɛ saa apam yi a ne ntam bata ho. Apam yi, ɛnyɛ mo a

15 but with him that standeth here with us this day before Jehovah our God, and with him that is not here with us this day

mo ne yɛn gyina ha ɛnnɛ wɔ Awurade mo Onyankopɔn anim no nko dea. Na mmom ɛwɔ hɔ ma wɔn a wɔnni ha nso.

16 (for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the nations which ye passed;

Mo ankasa monim sɛdeɛ yɛtenaa Misraim ne sɛdeɛ yɛreba ha no yɛfaa aman so bɛsii ha.

17 and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

Mohunuu akyiwadeɛ ahoni a wɔde nnua ne aboɔ ne dwetɛ ne sikakɔkɔɔ ayɛ wɔ wɔn nkyɛn.

18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood,

Monhwɛ yie sɛ ɔbarima anaa ɔbaa anaa abusua biara a wɔwɔ mo mu ɛnnɛ no mu biara akoma rennane mfiri Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, ho nkɔsom saa aman yi anyame; monhunu sɛ, duhini biara nni mo mu a ɛpu bɔnwoma a ɛyɛ nwono saa.

19 and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to sweep away the drunken with the thirsty.

Ɛnsɛ sɛ obiara a ɔte nnome ho kɔkɔbɔ nsɛm yi susu sɛ ɔno deɛ hwee renka no. Mma no nka wɔ ne tirim sɛ, “Me ho sɔnn, ɛmfa ho sɛ menam asoɔden kwan so.” Yei de ɔsɛeɛ a ɛso bɛba.

20 Jehovah will not pardon him, but the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will then smoke against that man, and all the curse shall be upon him that is written in this book; and Jehovah will blot out his name from under the heavens;

Awurade remfa nkyɛ saa nnipa no. Nʼabufuo ne ne ninkunu bɛhye atia wɔn. Nnome a wɔatwerɛ no saa nwoma yi mu nyinaa bɛba wɔn so na Awurade bɛpepa wɔn din afiri ɔsoro ase.

21 and Jehovah will separate him for mischief out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.

Awurade bɛtwe wɔn afiri Israel mmusuakuo nyinaa mu na wahwie apam no mu nnome nyinaa a wɔatwerɛ wɔ saa mmara nwoma no mu agu wɔn so.

22 And the generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and its sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath visited it,

Afei, nkyirimma a wɔbɛba, wɔn a wɔfiri mo ase ne wɔn a wɔfiri ahɔhoɔ ase a wɔfiri akyirikyiri asase so bɛhunu asase no sɛeɛ ne nyarewa a Awurade de bɛbrɛ asase no.

23 [that] the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, [and] burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury:

Wɔbɛhunu sɛ, wɔn asase no dɔteɛ adane sɔfe ne nkyene a wɔdua so biribiara a ɛnyɛ yie, na hwee nso nnyini wɔ so—mpo, ɛserɛ ahahan. Ɛbɛyɛ te sɛ Sodom ne Gomora, Adma ne Seboim a Awurade sɛee no nʼabufuo mu no.

24 even all nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? whence the heat of this great anger?

Aman a atwa ahyia no bɛbisa sɛ, “Adɛn enti na Awurade ayɛ saa asase yi saa? Adɛn enti na ne bo fu denden saa?”

25 And men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah the God of their fathers, which he had made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt;

Na wɔbɛka akyerɛ wɔn sɛ, “Saa asɛm yi siiɛ, ɛfiri sɛ, nnipa a wɔwɔ asase no so buu apam a wɔne Awurade, wɔn agyanom Onyankopɔn yɛeɛ ɛberɛ a ɔyii wɔn firii Misraim asase so.

26 and they went and served other gods, and bowed down to them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not assigned to them.

Wɔdane kɔsom anyame foforɔ a wɔyɛ ahɔhoɔ ma wɔn, anyame a Awurade nkyerɛɛ wɔn sɛ wɔnsom.

27 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;

Ɛno enti na Awurade abufuo dɛre tiaa saa asase yi, nam so de nnome a wɔatwerɛ wɔ saa nwoma yi mu no baa wɔn so no.

28 and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in fury, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as [it appears] this day.

Abufuhyeɛ mu, Awurade tutuu ne nkurɔfoɔ ase firii wɔn asase so twaa wɔn asuo de wɔn kɔguu asase foforɔ a wɔte so seesei no.”

29 The hidden things belong to Jehovah our God; but the revealed ones are ours and our children's for ever, to do all the words of this law.

Ahintasɛm nyinaa firi Awurade mo Onyankopɔn hɔ, na nneɛma a wada no adi akyerɛ yɛn ne yɛn asefoɔ no, ɛsɛ sɛ yɛhyɛ no nso, sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a, yɛbɛdi ne mmaransɛm yi so.