5 Mose 7

1 Sɛ Awurade mo Onyankopɔn de mo ba asase a morebɛkɔ akɔtena so no so a, ɔbɛpam amanaman pii a wɔwɔ mo anim no a wɔyɛ Hetifoɔ, Girgasifoɔ, Amorifoɔ, Kanaanfoɔ, Perisifoɔ, Hewifoɔ ne Yebusifoɔ. Yeinom yɛ aman nson a wɔsoso na wɔyɛ den sen mo.

When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—seven nations greater and mightier than you;

2 Sɛ Awurade mo Onyankopɔn de saa aman yi hyɛ mo nsa na modi wɔn so a, monsɛe wɔn pasapasa. Mo ne wɔn nnhyehyɛ apam biara na monnhunu wɔn mmɔbɔ.

and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.

3 Mo ne wɔn nni awadeɛ na mommma mo mmammaa ne mo mmammarima nnware wɔn mmammarima ne wɔn mmammaa.

You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

4 Ɛfiri sɛ, wɔakɔsom wɔn anyame foforɔ. Na Awurade abufuo bɛhuru atia mo na wasɛe mo.

For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

5 Deɛ ɛsɛ sɛ moyɛ wɔn ne sɛ, mommubu wɔn afɔrebukyia na monnwiri wɔn abosom adum no ngu. Montwitwa wɔn abosompɔ ngu na monhye wɔn ahoni.

But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire.

6 Na moyɛ nnipa kronkron a moyɛ Awurade mo Onyankopɔn dea. Nnipa a wɔwɔ asase so nyinaa, mo na Awurade mo Onyankopɔn ayi mo sɛ nʼagyapadeɛ sononko.

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

7 Ɛnyɛ sɛ modɔɔso sene nnipa a aka no enti na Awurade anya mo ho dɔ no, na mo na mosua koraa wɔ nnipa no nyinaa mu.

Yahweh didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples;

8 Na mmom, ɛyɛ Awurade dɔ a ɔdɔ mo, ne ne ntam a ɔdii so no: ntam a ɔka kyerɛɛ mo agyanom sɛ ɔde ne nsa a tumi wɔ mu no bɛyi mo afiri nkoasom asase so ne Misraimhene Farao tumi ase no.

but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

9 Monhunu sɛ Awurade mo Onyankopɔn yɛ Onyankopɔn; ɔyɛ nokorɛ Onyankopɔn a ɔdi ne dɔ apam so kɔsi awoɔ ntoatoasoɔ apem a wɔdɔ no na wɔdi nʼahyɛdeɛ so.

Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness to a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commandments,

10 Nanso, ɔntwentwɛn na ɔsɛe. Ɔtwe wɔn a wɔmpɛ nʼasɛm aso, sɛe wɔn.

and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face.

11 Ɛno enti, monni ahyɛdeɛ ne mmara a mede rema mo ɛnnɛ yi nyinaa so.

You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which I command you today, to do them.

12 Sɛ motie mmara yi na modi ne nyinaa so nokorɛm a, Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, nso bɛdi nʼapam a ɔfiri ne nokorɛ dɔ mu ne mo agyanom pameeɛ no so.

It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.

13 Ɔbɛdɔ mo na wahyira mo na wayɛ mo ɔman kɛseɛ. Ɔbɛma mo awo mma bebree na wama mo asase adɔre na mo nyɛmmoa ase ayɛ bebree. Sɛ moduru asase a ɔhyɛɛ ho bɔ sɛ ɔde bɛma mo agyanom no so a, mobɛnya aburoo, nsã, ngo, anantwie, nnwan ne mpɔnkye bebree.

He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

14 Wɔbɛhyira mo aboro aman a wɔwɔ asase so nyinaa so. Mo mmarima renyɛ saadwe, na mo mmaa nso renyɛ abonini, na mo nyɛmmoa nso bɛwowo.

You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

15 Na Awurade bɛbɔ mo ho ban afiri yadeɛ nyinaa ho. Ɔremma owuyadeɛ a ebi bɔɔ mo wɔ Misraim no bi mmɔ mo, na ɔde saa yadeɛ no nyinaa bɛma mo atamfoɔ.

Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.

16 Monsɛe aman a Awurade mo Onyankopɔn de bɛhyɛ mo nsa no nyinaa. Monnhunu wɔn mmɔbɔ na monnsom wɔn anyame. Sɛ moyɛ saa a, ɛbɛsum mo afidie.

You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall not serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you.

17 Mobɛbisa mo ho sɛ, “Na sɛ saa aman yi yɛ den kyɛn yɛn a, ɛbɛyɛ dɛn na yɛatumi apamo wɔn?”

If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”

18 Nanso, monnsuro wɔn. Monkae adeɛ a Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, de yɛɛ Farao ne ne manfoɔ nyinaa wɔ Misraim.

you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:

19 Mode mo ankasa mo ani hunuu amanehunu, nsɛnkyerɛnneɛ a ɛyɛ hu ne anwanwasɛm a ɛbaa wɔn so. Mohunuu tumi nsa ne abasa a wɔatrɛ mu a Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, nam so yii mo firii hɔ no. Nnipa a mosuro wɔn seesei no, Awurade Onyankopɔn de wɔn bɛfa saa ɛkwan korɔ no ara so.

the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

20 Ɛno akyi, Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, bɛma mmɔborɔ abɛpam kakra a aka no afiri wɔn atɛeɛ mu kɔsi sɛ wɔn ase bɛhye.

Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.

21 Monnsuro saa aman no, ɛfiri sɛ, Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, a ɔso na ne ho yɛ nwanwa no wɔ mo afa.

You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is among you, a great and awesome God.

22 Nkakrankakra, Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, bɛpamo saa aman no adi mo anim ɛkan. Ɔrenyi wɔn nyinaa mfiri hɔ prɛko pɛ; anyɛ saa a, nkekaboa no ase bɛdɔre ntɛm na wɔaba mo so.

Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.

23 Nanso, Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn de wɔn bɛhyɛ mo nsa, na ɔbɛma wɔn adwene ayɛ basabasa kɔsi sɛ ɔbɛsɛe wɔn.

But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed.

24 Ɔde wɔn ahemfo bɛhyɛ mo nsa na mobɛpepa wɔn din afiri ɔsoro ase. Obiara rentumi nsɔre ntia mo; mobɛsɛe wɔn.

He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.

25 Wɔn anyame ahoni no, momfa ogya nhye wɔn. Mommma mo ani mmere ɛso dwetɛ anaa sikakɔkɔɔ no, na mommfa nto mo ho na anyɛ afidie anyi mo, ɛfiri sɛ, ɛyɛ Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, akyiwadeɛ.

You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

26 Mommfa akyiwadeɛ biara mma mo fie, na moankɔyɛ nnome sɛ saa nneɛma no, na amma wɔansɛe mo. Ɛsɛ sɛ mokyi saa nneɛma no korakora, ɛfiri sɛ, ɛyɛ abusudeɛ.

You shall not bring an abomination into your house and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it. You shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.