Deuteronomy 9

1 Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.

Ao Israel, montie! Morekɔtwa Yordan na moawura mu akɔgye aman a ɛsoso na wɔwɔ ahoɔden kyɛn mo na wɔwɔ nkuropɔn akɛseɛ na wɔn afasuo kɔka sorosoro no agyapadeɛ.

2 The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”

Nnipa no wɔ ahoɔden na wɔwoware—Anakfoɔ. Moate wɔn nka na moate sɛ wɔka sɛ, “Hwan na ɔbɛtumi ne Anakfoɔ agyina?”

3 But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised you.

Nanso, merehyɛ mo ase ɛnnɛ sɛ, Awurade mo Onyankopɔn na ɔredi mo anim te sɛ ogya dɛreɛ a ɛresɛe adeɛ. Ɔbɛsɛe wɔn. Ɔbɛbrɛ wɔn ase wɔ mo anim. Na moapam wɔn na moatɔre wɔn ase ntɛm pa ara sɛdeɛ Awurade hyɛɛ mo bɔ no.

4 When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.

Sɛ Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, tu wɔn gu a, monnka no wɔ mo akoma mu sɛ, “Esiane yɛn tenenee enti na Awurade de saa asase yi ama yɛn.” Dabi. Esiane sɛ aman no yɛ amumuyɛfoɔ no enti na Awurade reyɛ saa.

5 It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Ɛnyɛ sɛ moyɛ ateneneefoɔ ne nokwafoɔ no enti na morekɔfa wɔn asase no. Esiane wɔn amumuyɛ enti, Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, bɛpamo saa aman yi adi mo anim de akyerɛ sɛ, wadi ntam a ɔka kyerɛɛ mo agyanom Abraham, Isak ne Yakob no so.

6 Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.

Meka bio sɛ, ɛnyɛ sɛ moyɛ teneneefoɔ enti na Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, de saa asase pa yi rema mo. Ɛnte saa. Moyɛ ɔman a asoɔden ahyɛ mo ma.

7 Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.

Monkae yei na mommma mo werɛ mfiri sɛdeɛ mohyɛɛ Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn Abufuo wɔ ɛserɛ so hɔ no. Ɛfiri ɛberɛ a motu firii Misraim bɛsi sɛ moduruu ha yi, moate Awurade anim atua.

8 At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.

Mohyɛɛ Awurade abufuo wɔ Horeb a anka ɔpɛ sɛ ɔsɛe mo.

9 When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

Mekɔɔ bepɔ no so sɛ merekɔgye aboɔ twerɛpono a na wɔatwerɛ apam a na Awurade ne mo apam no agu so no, metenaa hɔ nnafua aduanan. Mannidi na mannom.

10 Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.

Awurade de apam a ɛwɔ aboɔ twerɛpono so a Onyankopɔn ankasa atwerɛ so nsɛm maa me. Ɔfiri ogya a ɛwɔ bepɔ no so no mu na ɔde maa me.

11 And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

Na adaduanan awia ne anadwo no baa awieeɛ no, Awurade de aboɔ ɛpono mmienu a wɔatwerɛ apam no wɔ so no maa me.

12 And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”

Afei, Awurade ka kyerɛɛ me sɛ, “Siane firi ha ntɛm kɔ, ɛfiri sɛ, nnipa a wodii wɔn anim firi Misraim no adane abɔnefoɔ. Wɔamane afiri ɛkwan a mehyɛɛ wɔn sɛ wɔntena ase no so dada, na wɔde sikakɔkɔɔ ayɛ ohoni afa.”

13 The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

Na Awurade ka kyerɛɛ me sɛ, “Mahwɛ saa nnipa yi ara ahunu sɛ, wɔn aso yɛ den pa ara.

14 Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”

Ma me ɛkwan na mensɛe na mempepa wɔn din mfiri ɔsoro ase. Na menam so mayɛ wʼasefoɔ ɔman kɛseɛ; ɔman a ɛso na ɛwɔ ahoɔden sene sɛdeɛ ɛte ɛnnɛ yi.”

15 So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.

Enti, mesiane firii ogya bepɔ no so a aboɔ apono mmienu a apam no wɔ so no kura me.

16 And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.

Mʼase hɔ no, mehunuu sikakɔkɔɔ nantwie ba a mofiri mo bɔne kɛseɛ mu ayɛ atia Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn. Ankyɛre koraa na modane firii Awurade ɛkwan a ɔkyerɛɛ mo sɛ momfa so no so.

17 So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes.

Enti, mepagyaa boɔ apono no kɔɔ soro ɛnna meto hwee fam. Mebubuu no wɔ mo anim.

18 Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.

Afei, medaa Awurade anim awia ne anadwo adaduanan a manni burodo. Mannom nsuo. Meyɛɛ yei, ɛfiri sɛ moyɛɛ adeɛ a Awurade kyi, na ɛnam so maa ne bo fuu yie.

19 For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.

Mesuro maa mo, ɛfiri sɛ, na Awurade ayɛ nʼadwene sɛ ɔbɛsɛe mo. Nanso, ɔtiee me bio.

20 The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.

Awurade bo fuu Aaron ara kɔsii sɛ anka ɔpɛ sɛ ɔsɛe no. Nanso, mebɔɔ mpaeɛ maa Aaron nso.

21 And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

Mefaa mo bɔne no, nantwie ba a moayɛ no, na menanee no wɔ ogya mu yamoo no muhumuhu. Metoo ne mfuturo no guu asuwa a ɛtene firi bepɔ no so no mu.

22 You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.

Mohyɛɛ Awurade abufuo wɔ Tabera, Masa ne Kibrot-Hataawa nso.

23 And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.

Kades-Barnea nso, Awurade somaa mo wɔ saa ɔhyɛ yi so sɛ, “Monkɔ soro hɔ nkɔfa asase a mede ama mo no”. Nanso, motiaa Awurade mo Onyankopɔn ahyɛdeɛ no na moamfa mo ho anto no so antie nʼasɛm.

24 You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.

Aane, ɛfiri sɛ mehunuu mo no, daa mosɔre tia Awurade.

25 So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

Ɛno enti na ɛberɛ a Awurade sii nʼadwene pi sɛ ɔpɛ sɛ ɔsɛe mo no, mekɔdaa nʼanim awia ne anadwo nnafua aduanan no.

26 And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Mebɔɔ mpaeɛ kyerɛɛ Awurade sɛ, “Otumfoɔ Awurade, nsɛe wo ɔman ne wʼagyapadeɛ a wode wo kɛseyɛ agye asi hɔ na wode wo nsa a ɛyɛ den ayi wɔn afiri Misraim no.

27 Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.

Yi wʼani firi saa nnipa asoɔdenfoɔ yi so na kae wʼasomfoɔ Abraham, Isak ne Yakob.

28 Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’

Sɛ wosɛe saa nnipa yi a, Misraimfoɔ bɛka sɛ, ‘Awurade sɛee wɔn, ɛfiri sɛ, wantumi amfa wɔn ankɔ asase a ɔkaa ntam sɛ ɔde bɛma wɔn no so. Anaasɛ nso, wɔbɛka sɛ, ɔsɛee wɔn, ɛfiri sɛ, ɔtan wɔn; ɔde wɔn baa ɛserɛ so sɛ ɔrekɔkunkum wɔn.’

29 But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched arm.”

Nanso, wɔyɛ wo nkurɔfoɔ ne wʼagyapadeɛ a wonam tumi a ɛso ne wʼabasa a wama soɔ so yii wɔn.”