Exodus 8
1 Then the Lord told Moses, “Go and see Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so that they can worship me.
Na Awurade ka kyerɛɛ Mose se, “Kɔ Farao hɔ bio na kɔka kyerɛ no se, ‘Awurade se, Ma me nkurɔfo no kwan na wɔnkɔsom me.
2 If you refuse to let them leave, I will send a plague of frogs all over your country.
Sɛ woampene so amma wɔankɔ a, mɛma mpɔtorɔ abɛhyɛ asase no so ma.
3 They will swarm out of the Nile, and they will enter your palace and get into your bedroom and jump onto your bed. They will get into the houses of your officials and jump around your people—even into your ovens and breadmaking bowls.
Mpɔtorɔ bɛhyɛ Asubɔnten Nil ma. Wɔbɛba wʼahemfi, na wɔakɔ mo mpia mu, na afoforo akɔ mo mpa so, mo nkurɔfo ne mpanyimfo afi mu, ne mo fononoo ne nea mode fɔtɔw asikresiam nyinaa amaama.
4 Frogs will jump all over you, your people, and all your officials.’”
Mpɔtorɔ no bɛba mo nkurɔfo ne mpanyimfo nyinaa so.’”
5 The Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Hold out your walking stick in your hand over the rivers and canals and ponds, and make frogs spread over Egypt.’”
Awurade ka kyerɛɛ Mose se, “Ka kyerɛ Aaron na ɔmfa pema no nkyerɛ nsubɔnten, nsuwa ne atare a ɛwɔ Misraim nyinaa so sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a, mpɔtorɔ bebu so wɔ ɔman no afanan nyinaa.”
6 So Aaron held out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and frogs came up and covered the land.
Aaron teɛɛ ne nsa wɔ Misraim nsu so maa mpɔtorɔ bɛhyɛɛ ɔman no mu nyinaa ma tɔ.
7 But the Egyptian magicians did the same thing using their magic arts. They brought up frogs in Egypt.
Nanso nkonyaayifo no nso yɛɛ saa ara maa mpɔtorɔ baa asase no so.
8 Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and pleaded with them, “Pray to the Lord, and ask him to take away the frogs from me and my people. Then I will let your people go so they can offer sacrifices to the Lord.”
Afei, Farao frɛɛ Mose ne Aaron ka kyerɛɛ wɔn se, “Monkɔsrɛ Awurade na onyi mpɔtorɔ no mfi asase yi so, na mɛma mo nkurɔfo no kwan na wɔakɔbɔ no afɔre.”
9 “You may have the honor of deciding when I'll pray for you, your officials, and your people that the frogs will be removed from you and your houses. They will remain only in the Nile.”
Mose nso ka kyerɛɛ no se, “Kyerɛ me bere ko a wopɛ sɛ wɔkɔ. Me nso mɛbɔ ho mpae ama mpɔtorɔ no nyinaa awuwu wɔ baabiara wɔ bere a wobɛhyɛ me no mu, na aka asubɔnten no mu mpɔtorɔ no nko ara.”
10 “Do it tomorrow,” Pharaoh replied. Moses said, “It will happen as you have requested so you will know that there is no one like the Lord our God.
Farao kae se, “Monyɛ no ɔkyena nko ara.” Mose buae se, “Mate, ɛbɛba mu sɛnea woaka no na ama woahu sɛ obiara nni hɔ sɛ Awurade, yɛn Nyankopɔn, no nko ara.
11 The frogs will leave you and your houses, your officials and your people, and they will remain only in the Nile.”
Mpɔtorɔ no nyinaa bewuwu ama aka wɔn a wɔwɔ asubɔnten no mu no.”
12 Moses and Aaron left Pharaoh, and Moses pleaded with the Lord about the frogs he had sent against Pharaoh.
Mose ne Aaron fii Farao anim kɔe. Mose kɔsrɛɛ Awurade sɛ onyi mpɔtorɔ a ɔde wɔn abegu Farao so no.
13 The Lord did as Moses asked. The frogs in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields died.
Awurade tiee Mose nkotosrɛ no. Mpɔtorɔ wuwu hyɛɛ ɔman no mu ne afi mu ma tɔ.
14 The people collected them in pile upon pile, and the whole country smelled terrible.
Wɔboaboaa mpɔtorɔ a wɔawuwu no ano akuw akɛseakɛse maa ɔman no mu bɔn yiye.
15 But when Pharaoh realized the plague had passed he chose to become hard and stubborn again, wouldn't listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had predicted.
Nanso Farao huu sɛ mpɔtorɔ no kɔ no, ɔsan pirim ne koma bio enti wamma nnipa no ankɔ sɛnea Awurade aka ato hɔ no.
16 The Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Pick up your walking stick and hit the dust of the ground. The dust will become gnats swarming all over Egypt.’”
Na Awurade ka kyerɛɛ Mose se, “Ka kyerɛ Aaron se, ‘Teɛ wo pema no bɔ fam mfutuma na ɛbɛdan ntontom ahyɛ Misraim asase no so ma tɔ.’”
17 They did what the Lord said. When Aaron lifted up his walking stick and hit the dust of the earth, gnats swarmed over both people and animals. The dust in the whole of Egypt turned into gnats.
Mose ne Aaron yɛɛ nea Awurade hyɛɛ wɔn no maa ntontom bɛhyɛɛ ɔman mu no ne mu nnipa ne wɔn nyɛmmoa so ma tɔ. Misraim mfutuma nyinaa dan ntontom.
18 The magicians also tried to make gnats using their magic arts, but they couldn't. The gnats stayed on both people and animals.
Nkonyaayifo no pɛɛ sɛ wɔn nso de wɔn anyankamade yɛ saa ara, nanso wɔantumi.
19 “This is an act of God,” the magicians told Pharaoh. But Pharaoh chose to be stubbornly hard-hearted, and he wouldn't listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had predicted.
Nkonyaayifo no kyerɛɛ Farao se, “Eyi de Onyankopɔn nsa wɔ mu.” Nanso Farao pirim ne koma enti wantie wɔn sɛnea Awurade aka ato hɔ no.
20 The Lord told Moses, “Tomorrow morning get up early and block Pharaoh's way as he walks down to the river. Tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so that they can worship me.
Na Awurade ka kyerɛɛ Mose se, “Sɔre anɔpatutuutu kohyia Farao bere a ɔrekɔ asubɔnten no mu no na, ka akyerɛ no se, ‘Awurade se: Ma me nkurɔfo nkɔ na wɔnkɔsom me.
21 If you don't let my people leave, I will send swarms of flies on you and your officials, and on your people and your houses. Every Egyptian house and even the ground on which they stand will be filled with swarms of flies.
Na sɛ woamma me nkurɔfo ankɔ a, mɛma nwansena agye Misraim afa. Mo afi mu ne asase no nyinaa bɛyɛ nwansena manyamanya.
22 However, on this occasion I will treat the land of Goshen differently—that's where my people live—there won't be any swarms of flies there. This is how you will know that I, the Lord, am here in your country.
“‘Na nsonoe kɛse bɛda ɛha ne Gosen asase a Israelfo no te so no ntam, efisɛ nwansena biara renkɔ hɔ. Na ɛbɛma woahu sɛ, me Awurade mewɔ asase yi so.
23 I will distinguish my people from your people. You will see this sign that confirms it tomorrow.”
Na mɛma wo nkurɔfo ho ada nsow afi me nkurɔfo ho. Saa nsɛnkyerɛnne yi besi ɔkyena.’”
24 The Lord did what he had said. Huge swarms of flies swept into Pharaoh's palace and into the houses of his officials. The whole of Egypt was devastated because of these swarms of flies.
Awurade yɛɛ nea ɔkae no, enti nwansena bebu faa ɔman no so maa bi kɔhyɛɛ Farao ahemfi ne Misraim afi nyinaa mu amaama.
25 Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and told them, “Go and offer sacrifices to your God here in this country.”
Na Farao frɛɛ Mose ne Aaron ka kyerɛɛ wɔn se, “Monkɔbɔ afɔre mma mo Nyankopɔn wɔ ɔman yi ara mu.”
26 “No, that wouldn't be the right thing to do,” Moses replied. “The sacrifices we offer to the Lord our God would be offensive to Egyptians. If we went ahead and offered sacrifices offensive to Egyptians, they'd stone us!
Nanso Mose kae se, “Saa de, ɛrenyɛ ye. Yɛn afɔre a yɛbɔ ma Onyankopɔn no yɛ Misraimfo no ani so akyiwade, so wɔrensiw yɛn abo ana?
27 We must make a three-day journey into the wilderness and offer sacrifices there to the Lord our God as he has told us.”
Ɛsɛ sɛ yetu nnansa kwan kɔ sare so, na yɛkɔbɔ afɔre ma Awurade, yɛn Nyankopɔn, sɛnea ɔhyɛ yɛn no.”
28 “I'll let you go and offer sacrifices to the Lord your God in the desert, but don't go very far,” Pharaoh answered. “Now pray for me that this plague ends.”
Farao kae se, “Mɛma mo kwan akɔ sare so akɔbɔ afɔre, na mmom, monnkɔ akyiri. Afei, mommɔ mpae mma me.”
29 “As soon as I leave you, I will pray to the Lord,” Moses replied, “and tomorrow the flies will leave Pharaoh and his officials and his people. But Pharaoh should be sure not to be deceitful again and refuse to let the people go and offer sacrifices to the Lord.”
Mose buae se, “Sɛ mifi ha pɛ a, mɛbɔ Awurade mpae na ɔkyena nwansena bebrebe no ase bɛtɔre afi wo, wo mpanyimfo ne wo nkurɔfo so. Nanso Farao nhwɛ yiye sɛ ɔrennaadaa bio a ɔremma nnipa no nkɔ nkɔbɔ afɔre mma Awurade.”
30 Moses left Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord,
Enti Mose fii Farao nkyɛn kɔbɔɔ Awurade mpae,
31 and the Lord did as Moses asked, and removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh and his officials and his people. Not a single fly remained.
na Awurade yɛɛ Mose abisade no. Nwansena no nyinaa ase tɔre fii Farao ne ne mpanyimfo so; anka ɔbaako mpo.
32 But once again Pharaoh chose to be stubbornly hard-hearted and would not let the people leave.
Nanso Farao san pirim ne koma a wamma nnipa no ankɔ.
