Deuteronomy 9

1 Listen, people of Israel! Shortly you're going to cross the Jordan to enter and take over the country from nations that are larger and stronger than you, that have large towns with walls that reach up into the sky.

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; they are the descendants of the Anakim. You all know about them and you have heard the saying, “Who could ever defeat 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 you should realize that today the Lord your God is going across ahead of you. He is like a consuming fire; he will destroy them and defeat them ahead of you. You will drive them out and quickly wipe them out, just as the Lord 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 ahead of you, don't think to yourselves, “It's because I'm such a good person that the Lord has brought me here to take over this land.” No, the Lord is driving out these nations ahead of you because of they're so wicked.

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's not because you're so good or moral that you are going to take over their land. No, it's because of their wickedness that the Lord your God is driving out these nations ahead of you, to keep the promise he made to your fathers—m 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 You'd better believe that it's not because you're such good people that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to own, because you are stubborn, hard-hearted 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 how you provoked the Lord your God in the desert! Don't ever forget it! From the time you left the land of Egypt until you arrived here, you've been constantly 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, making him so angry he was about to destroy you.

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

9 This was when I climbed up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets that recorded agreement the Lord made with you. I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, and I didn't eat or drink anything.

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 The Lord gave me the two stone tablets on which he'd written with his finger everything he'd told you when he spoke from the fire on the mountain when we were all assembled there.

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 After forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the agreement.

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

12 The Lord told me, “Hurry! Go down immediately, because your people that you led out of Egypt, are committing a terrible sin. They have disobeyed what I told them so quickly! They have made themselves an idol using molten metal.”

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 told me, “I have been watching these people, and they really are a stubborn and hard-hearted.

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

14 Leave me, so that I can destroy them and wipe out their name completely. Then I will turn you into a nation even more powerful and more important than them.”

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 I went back down the mountain while it was still on fire, carrying the two tablets of the agreement.

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

16 Then I saw how much you had sinned against the Lord your God by making for yourselves a molten calf. You had disobeyed what the Lord had told you so quickly.

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 I threw the two tablets down, smashing them to pieces as you watched.

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

18 Then I lay down on the ground before the Lord for forty days and forty nights, just as I had before. I didn't eat or drink anything because of all the sins you had committed by doing what was evil in the Lord's sight, making him angry.

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 I was terrified at how angry and furious the Lord was with you. He was ready to destroy you. But once again the Lord listened to me.

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

20 The Lord was so angry with Aaron he was ready to destroy him, but right then I prayed for Aaron too.

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

21 I took that abominable thing, the calf you'd made, and burned it. Then I crushed it up and ground it into dust, and I threw it into the stream that descended 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 But you went on provoking the Lord at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.

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

23 When the Lord had you leave Kadesh-barnea, he told you, “Go and take over the country that I've given you.” But you defied the command of the Lord your God. You didn't believe him and you didn't obey 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 from the day I first knew you.

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

25 So I lay down on the ground before the Lord for forty days and forty nights, because the Lord had threatened to 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 I prayed to the Lord, saying, “Please Lord, God, don't destroy your people that belong to you, the ones whom you rescued by your great ability and led out of Egypt by your power.

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 Please remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Please disregard the stubbornness of this people and their wicked sin.

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

28 If you don't, those people back in Egypt will say, ‘The Lord brought them out to kill them in the desert because he couldn't take them to the land he'd promised them, and because he hated them.’

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, Lord! They belong to you! You led them out of Egypt by your amazing power and might!”

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