Deuteronomy 1
1 These [are] the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side Jordan in the desert towards the west near the Red Sea, between Pharan Tophol, and Lobon, and Aulon, and the gold works.
Eyi ne nsɛm a Mose ka kyerɛɛ Israelfo nyinaa wɔ sare no so wɔ Yordan apuei. Wɔbɔɔ atenae wɔ Yordan bon a ɛbɛn Suf, wɔ Paran, Tofel, Laban, Haserot ne Di-Sahab ntam no.
2 [It is] a journey of eleven days from Choreb to mount Seir as far as Cades Barne.
Efi Horeb de kɔ Kades-Barnea no, ɔkwan a ɛfa bepɔw Seir no, yɛ nnafua dubaako kwan.
3 And it came to pass in the forties year, in the eleventh month, on the first [day] of the month, Moses spoke to all the children of Israel, according to all things which the Lord commanded him for them:
Israelfo fii Bepɔw Sinai no, afe a ɛto so aduanan no ɔsram dubaako no da a edi kan no, Mose kaa nsɛm a Awurade hyɛɛ no sɛ ɔnka nkyerɛ Israelfo no pɛpɛɛpɛ kyerɛɛ wɔn.
4 after he had struck Seon king of the Amorites who lived in Esebon, and Og the king of Basan who lived in Astaroth and in Edrain;
Ɔkaa saa asɛm yi wɔ bere a na wɔadi Amorifo hene Sihon a na odi ade wɔ Hesbon ne Basanhene Og a na odi ade wɔ Astarot ne Edrei so nkonim.
5 beyond Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,
Yordan apuei fam a ɛwɔ Moab asase so na Mose fii ase kyerɛkyerɛɛ mmara no mu se:
6 The Lord your God spoke to us in Choreb, saying, Let it suffice you to have lived [so long] in this mountain.
Awurade ka kyerɛɛ yɛn wɔ Horeb se: “Moatena saa bepɔw yi so akyɛ dodo.
7 Turn you and depart and enter into the mountain of the Amorites, and [go] to all that dwell near about Araba, to the mountain and the plain and to the south, and the land of the Chananites near the sea, and Antilibanus, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
Muntutu nkɔtena Amorifo nkoko no so; monkɔtena nnipa a wɔbemmɛn Araba mmepɔw no mu ne atɔe mmepɔw ayaase hɔ nyinaa mu; monkɔ Negeb na momfa mpoano nkosi Kanaanfo asase so ne Lebanon nkodu Asubɔnten Eufrate ho.
8 Behold, [God] has delivered the land before you; go in and inherit the land, which I sware to your fathers, Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob, to give it to them and to their seed after them.
Muntie! Mede saa asase yi ama mo. Monkɔ na monkɔfa asase a Awurade hyɛɛ bɔ sɛ ɔde bɛma mo agyanom Abraham, Isak ne Yakob ne wɔn asefo no.”
9 And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I shall not be able by myself to bear you.
Saa bere no, meka kyerɛɛ mo se, “Me nko ara merentumi nyɛ mo ho adwuma.
10 The Lord your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are today as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn, ama mo ase adɔ enti nnɛ yi, mo ase afɛe te sɛ ɔsoro nsoromma.
11 The Lord God of your fathers add to you a thousand-fold more than you are, and bless you as he has spoken to you.
Awurade mo agyanom Nyankopɔn mma mo nnɔ mmɔho mpempem na onhyira mo sɛnea wahyɛ mo bɔ no!
12 How shall I alone be able to bear your labour, and your burden, and your gainsayings?
Na ɛbɛyɛ dɛn na me nko metumi asoa mo haw ne mo nnesoa ne mo ntawntaw?
13 Take to yourselves wise and understanding and prudent men for your tribes, and I will set your leaders over you.
Mompaw mmarima bi a wɔwɔ nyansa, ntease na wɔwɔ din pa mfi abusuakuw biara mu na memfa wɔn ntuatua mo ano.”
14 And you answered me and said, The thing which you have told us [is] good to do.
Mubuaa me se, “Dwuma a woasusuw sɛ wubedi no ye.”
15 So I took of you wise and understanding and prudent men, and I set them to rule over you as rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, and officers to your judges.
Enti mede mo mmusuakuw mu mmarima atitiriw, anyansafo a wɔn anim wɔ nyam no tuatuaa mo ano apem apem, ɔha ɔha, aduonum aduonum ne du du so mpanyin ne mo mmusuakuw so sɛ ahwɛfo.
16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [causes] between your brethren, and judge rightly between a man and [his] brother, and the stranger that is with him.
Na atemmufo a wɔwɔ hɔ saa bere no nso, mehyɛɛ wɔn sɛ, “Sɛ akasakasa ba anuanom ntam, sɛ asɛm no yɛ Israelni ne ne nua bi anaa Israelni ne ɔhɔho bi a, monhwɛ na mummu atɛntrenee.
17 You shall not have respect to persons in judgement, you shall judge small and great equally; you shall not shrink from before the person of a man, for the judgement is God's; and whatever matter shall be too hard for you, you shall bring it to me, and I will hear it.
Mo atemmu mu, mummmu ntɛnkyew. Muntie ɔketewa ne ɔkɛse pɛ. Munnsuro onipa biara, efisɛ Onyankopɔn na obu atɛn. Asɛm a ɛyɛ den ma mo no, momfa mmrɛ me na minni.”
18 And I charged upon you at that time all the commands which you shall perform.
Na saa bere no, mekaa biribiara a ɛsɛ sɛ moyɛ kyerɛɛ mo.
19 And we departed from Choreb, and went through all that great wilderness and terrible, which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite, as the Lord our God charged us, and we came as far as Cades Barne.
Na sɛnea Awurade hyɛɛ yɛn no, yefii Horeb de yɛn ani kyerɛɛ Amorifo bepɔw a yɛnam sare pradada a moahu no so koduu Kades-Barnea.
20 And I said to you, You have come as far as the mountain of the Amorite, which the Lord our God gives to you:
Afei, meka kyerɛɛ mo se, “Moadu Amorifo bepɔw man a Awurade de rema yɛn no so.
21 behold, the Lord your God has delivered to us the land before you: go up and inherit it as the Lord God of your fathers said to you; fear not, neither be afraid.
Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn, de asase no ama mo. Momforo nkɔfa, sɛnea Awurade, mo agyanom Nyankopɔn, ka kyerɛɛ mo no. Munnsuro: mommma obi mmu mo aba mu.”
22 And you all came to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and let them go up to the land for us; and let them bring back to us a report of the way by which we shall go up, and of the cities into which we shall enter.
Na mo nyinaa baa me nkyɛn bɛkae se, “Momma yɛnsoma mmarima nni yɛn anim na wɔnkɔsra asase no so mma yɛn na wɔmmɛka nea wobehu nkyerɛ yɛn na ɛno na ɛbɛkyerɛ yɛn kwan ne nkurow ko a yɛbɛfa so.”
23 And the saying pleased me: and I took of you twelve men, one man of a tribe.
Na saa nsusuwii yi ye ma me nti mepaw akwansrafo dumien a mo mmusuakuw dumien no mu nnipa biara wɔ mu.
24 And they turned and went up to the mountain, and they came as far as the valley of the cluster, and surveyed it.
Wɔforoo bepɔw no na wokoduu Eskol subon mu sraa hɔ.
25 And they took in their hands of the fruit of the land, and brought it to you, and said, The land is good which the Lord our God gives us.
Na wɔfaa asase no so aba bi de brɛɛ yɛn. Na wɔkae se, asase a Awurade yɛn Nyankopɔn de ama yɛn no yɛ asase pa.
26 Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the words of the Lord our God.
Nanso na mompɛ sɛ moforo kɔ soro. Motew Awurade asɛm so atua.
27 And you murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Munwiinwii wɔ mo ntamadan mu kae se, “Awurade tan yɛn nti na ɔde yɛn fi Misraim de yɛn abɛhyɛ Amorifo nsam sɛ wonkunkum yɛn no.
28 Whither do we go up? and your brethren drew away your heart, saying, [It is a] great nation and populous, and mightier than we; and [there are] cities great and walled up to heaven: moreover we saw there the sons of the giants.
Yɛrekɔ he? Yɛn akwansrafo no amanneɛbɔ no abu yɛn aba mu. ‘Wɔka se nnipa yɛ atenten ahoɔdenfo sen yɛn. Wɔn nkurow yɛ akɛse a afasu a wɔatoto afa ho no kɔ sorosoro. Na mpo, yehuu Anakfo wɔ hɔ!’”
29 And I said to you, Fear not, neither be you afraid of them;
Na meka kyerɛɛ mo se, “Mommɔ hu, munnsuro wɔn.
30 the Lord your God who goes before your face, he shall fight against them together with you effectually, according to all that he wrought for you in the land of Egypt;
Awurade di mo anim. Ɔbɛko ama mo sɛnea muhuu no sɛ ɔyɛɛ wɔ Misraim no.
31 and in this wilderness which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite; how the Lord your God will bear you as a nursling, as if any man should nurse his child, through all the way which you have gone until you came to this place.
Na muhuu nso sɛnea Awurade kɔɔ so hwɛɛ mo ntoatoaso wɔ sare so ha sɛnea agya hwɛ ne ba no. Moatwa kwan no nyinaa de abedu beae ha.”
32 And in this matter you believed not the Lord our God,
Nanso eyi nyinaa akyi no, moannya Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn no, mu awerehyɛmu.
33 who goes before you in the way to choose you a place, guiding you in fire by night, showing you the way by which you go, and a cloud by day.
Ɔno na odii mo akwantu no anim, pɛɛ beae pa maa mo tenae, de ogya dum kyerɛɛ mo kwan anadwo de omununkum dum kyerɛɛ mo kwan awia.
34 And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and being greatly provoked he sware, saying,
Awurade tee sɛ morenwiinwii no, ne bo fuw yiye na ɔkaa ntam se,
35 Not one of these men shall see this good land, which I sware to their fathers,
“Saa awo ntoatoaso bɔne yi mu onipa baako koraa nni hɔ a obehu asase pa a, maka ho ntam sɛ mede bɛma mo agyanom no,
36 except Chaleb the son of Jephonne, he shall see it; and to him I will give the land on which he went up, and to his sons, because he attended to the things of the Lord.
gye Yefune babarima Kaleb. Ɔno na obehu saa asase yi. Mede asase a ne nan sii so no bɛma ɔne nʼasefo, efisɛ ɔde ne koma nyinaa dii Awurade akyi.”
37 And the Lord was angry with me for your sake, saying, Neither shall you by any means enter therein.
Me nso, esiane mo nti, Awurade bo fuw me. Ɔka kyerɛɛ me se, “Wo nan rensi Bɔhyɛ Asase no so da.
38 Joshua the son of Naue, who stands by you, he shall enter in there; do you strengthen him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
Na mmom, wo boafo Nun babarima Yosua na obedi ɔmanfo no anim akɔ asase no so. Hyɛ no nkuran, efisɛ obedi Israelfo no anim akɔfa asase no.
39 And every young child who this day knows not good or evil, —they shall enter therein, and to them I will give it, and they shall inherit it.
Mede asase no bɛma wo mma a wonnim biribiara. Wo mma a wonnim papa nnim bɔne no a na wusuro sɛ wɔbɛkyere wɔn nnommum no na mede asase no bɛma wɔn. Wɔn na wɔbɛtena asase no so.
40 And you turned and marched into the wilderness, in the way by the Red Sea.
Na wo de, dan wʼani kɔ sare so a ɛkeka kɔ Po Kɔkɔɔ no so hɔ.”
41 And you answered and said, We have sinned before the Lord our God; we will go up and fight according to all that the Lord our God has commanded us: and having taken every one his weapons of war, and being gathered together, you went up to the mountain.
Ɛno na mugye too mu se “Yɛayɛ bɔne atia Awurade. Yɛbɛkɔ asase no so akɔko sɛnea Awurade aka akyerɛ yɛn no.” Enti mo mu biara faa nʼakode hyehyɛe. Na mususuwii sɛ ɔman a ɛda bepɔw so no sokɔ yɛ mmerɛw.
42 And the Lord said to me, Tell them, You shall not go up, neither shall you fight, for I am not with you; thus shall you not be destroyed before your enemies.
Nanso Awurade ka kyerɛɛ me se, “Ka kyerɛ wɔn se, ‘Monnkɔ hɔ nkɔko, efisɛ merenka mo ho nkɔ. Mo atamfo no bedi mo so.’”
43 And I spoke to you, and you did not listen to me; and you transgressed the commandment of the Lord; and you forced your way and went up into the mountain.
Meka kyerɛɛ mo, nanso moantie. Mosɔre tiaa Awurade ahyɛde no na monam ahomaso so foro kɔɔ asase no so kɔkoe.
44 And the Amorite who lived in that mountain came out to meet you, and pursued you as bees do, and wounded you from Seir to Herma.
Amorifo a wɔte bepɔw no so nso sɔre baa mo so; wɔtaa mo sɛ nnowa, boroo mo fi Seir koduu Horma.
45 And you sat down and wept before the Lord our God, and the Lord listened not to your voice, neither did he take heed to you.
Afei, mosan ba besuu wɔ Awurade anim, nanso osiw nʼaso a wantie mo su no.
46 And you lived in Cades many days, as many days as you lived [there].
Ɛno nti, motenaa Kades nna bebree.
