Deuteronomy 4
1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, in order to do them, that all of you may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers gives you.
Sik’oyo Isalaele, yoka malamu mitindo mpe mibeko oyo nalingi koteya yo. Salela yango mpo ete ozala na bomoi mpe okamata mokili oyo Yawe, Nzambe ya bakoko na yo, apesi yo.
2 All of you shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall all of you diminish ought from it, that all of you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
Kobakisa eloko moko te na oyo natindi yo mpe kolongola eloko moko te kati na yango, kasi tosa mitindo oyo Yawe, Nzambe na yo, apesi yo.
3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD your God has destroyed them from among you.
Bomonaki bino moko makambo oyo Yawe, Nzambe na bino, asalaki na Bala ya Peori: abomaki kati na bino bato nyonso oyo bamipesaki na kosalela Bala ya Peori.
4 But all of you that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.
Kasi bino oyo bokangamaki na Yawe, Nzambe na bino, bino nyonso bozali na bomoi na mokolo ya lelo.
5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that all of you should do so in the land where all of you go to possess it.
Tala, nateyaki bino mitindo mpe mibeko ndenge Yawe, Nzambe na ngai, atindaki ngai, mpo ete bokoka kotosa yango na mokili oyo bokokota mpo na kozwa yango.
6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Botosa yango mpe bosalela yango na bokebi; yango nde ekokomisa bino bato ya bwanya mpe ya mayele na miso ya bikolo oyo bakoyoka sango ya mitindo mpe mibeko yango; mpe bakoganga: « Solo, libota monene oyo ezali na bato ya bwanya mpe na bato ya mayele. »
7 For what nation is there so great, who has God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
Pamba te ekolo nini lisusu ya monene, oyo banzambe na yango ezali pembeni na yango ndenge Yawe, Nzambe na biso, azalaka pembeni na biso tango nyonso oyo tobelelaka Ye?
8 And what nation is there so great, that has statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Mpe ekolo nini mosusu ya monene, oyo ekoki kozala na mitindo mpe mibeko ya sembo lokola Mobeko oyo natie lelo liboso na bino?
9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life: but teach them your sons, and your sons' sons;
Nzokande, sala keba mpe omisenzela mpo ete obosana te makambo oyo miso na yo emonaki to kotika te makambo yango elongwa na motema na yo na mikolo nyonso ya bomoi na yo. Teya yango na bana na yo mpe na bana na bango oyo bakobotama na sima na bango.
10 Specially the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
Kanisa mokolo oyo otelemaki liboso ya Yawe, Nzambe na yo, na Orebi tango Yawe alobaki na ngai: « Sangisa bato oyo liboso na Ngai mpo na koyoka maloba na Ngai, mpo ete bakoka koyeba kopesa Ngai lokumu tango nyonso bakozala na mokili oyo mpe bakoka koteya yango na bana na bango. »
11 And all of you came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
Yango wana, bino bopusanaki mpe botelemaki na ebandeli ya ngomba tango ezalaki kopela moto oyo ekomaki kino na likolo elongo na mapata ya mwindo mpe molili makasi.
12 And the LORD spoke unto you out of the midst of the fire: all of you heard the voice of the words, but saw no embodiment; only all of you heard a voice.
Yawe alobelaki bino wuta na moto; boyokaki lokito ya maloba na ye kasi bomonaki ata nzoto te; mongongo kaka nde ezalaki koyokana.
13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
Atalisaki bino boyokani na Ye, mibeko zomi oyo bosengeli kosalela, mpe akomaki yango na bitando mibale ya mabanga.
14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that all of you might do them in the land where all of you go over to possess it.
Na tango wana kaka, Yawe atindaki ngai koteya bino bikateli mpe mibeko oyo bosengeli kosalela na mokili oyo bokokende mpo na kozwa yango.
15 Take all of you therefore good heed unto yourselves; for all of you saw no manner of embodiment on the day that the LORD spoke unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
Bongo, bomisenzela malamu, pamba te bomonaki nzoto te na mokolo oyo Yawe alobelaki bino na ngomba Orebi wuta na moto.
16 Lest all of you corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the embodiment of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Bomibebisa te na kosala ekeko, elilingi ya mwasi to ya mobali,
17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flies in the air,
ya nyama nyonso ya mokili to ya ndeke nyonso oyo epumbwaka na likolo,
18 The likeness of any thing that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
ya ekelamu nyonso oyo etambolaka na libumu to ya mbisi nyonso oyo etiolaka na se ya mayi.
19 And lest you lift up your eyes unto heaven, and when you see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, should be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Mpe tango botalaka na mapata mpe bomonaka moyi, sanza, minzoto mpe biloko mosusu oyo ezali na likolo, bokosama te mpo na kofukamela mpe kogumbamela biloko oyo Yawe, Nzambe na bino, apesa na bikolo nyonso oyo ezali na mokili.
20 But the LORD has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as all of you are this day.
Kasi mpo na bino, Yawe azwaki bino mpe abimisaki bino na fulu ya moto ya bibende, oyo ezalaki Ejipito, mpo ete bozala bato ya libula na Ye ndenge bozali sik’oyo.
21 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance:
Yawe asilikelaki ngai likolo na bino mpe alapaki ndayi na makasi nyonso ete nakoki te kokatisa Yordani mpe kokota na mokili kitoko oyo Yawe, Nzambe na bino, akopesa bino lokola libula.
22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but all of you shall go over, and possess that good land.
Nakokufa na mokili oyo mpe nakokatisa Yordani te; kasi bino, etikali moke bokatisa mpe bokamata mokili oyo ya kitoko.
23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest all of you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD your God has forbidden you.
Bozala na bokebi mpe bobosana te boyokani oyo Yawe, Nzambe na bino, asalaki elongo na bino. Mpe bomisalela ekeko te na lolenge nyonso oyo Yawe, Nzambe na bino, apekisaki.
24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
Pamba te Yawe, Nzambe na bino, azali moto oyo ezikisaka, azali Nzambe na zuwa.
25 When you shall brought forth children, and children's children, and all of you shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger:
Tango bokozala na bana mpe bakoko, mpe bokowumela tango molayi na mokili, soki bokosami mpe bosali ekeko ya lolenge nyonso, soki bosali mabe na miso ya Yawe, Nzambe na bino, soki botumboli kanda na Ye,
26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that all of you shall soon utterly perish from off the land unto which all of you go over Jordan to possess it; all of you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
soki bosali makambo wana, likolo mpe se ekozala motatoli kati na ngai mpe bino: bokolimwa noki na mokili oyo bokokende kozwa sima na bino kokatisa Yordani. Bokowumela kuna tango molayi te, kasi bokobebisama solo;
27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and all of you shall be left few in number among the heathen, where the LORD shall lead you.
Yawe akopanza bino kati na bato. Kasi ndambo kaka ya bato kati na bino nde bakowumela kati na bikolo epai wapi Yawe akomema bino.
28 And there all of you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Kuna, bokogumbamela banzambe oyo esalemi na maboko ya bato, banzambe ya banzete to ya mabanga, oyo ekoki komona te, koyoka te, kolia te mpe koyoka solo te.
29 But if from thence you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Kasi soki, wuta na mokili wana, boluki Yawe, Nzambe na bino, bokomona Ye soki boluki Ye na motema na bino mobimba mpe na molimo na bino mobimba.
30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things are come upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your God, and shall be obedient unto his voice;
Tango bokozala na mawa mpe pasi nyonso oyo ekokomela bino, sima na mikolo, bokozonga epai na Yawe, Nzambe na bino, mpe bokotosa Ye.
31 (For the LORD your God is a merciful God; ) he will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore unto them.
Pamba te Yawe, Nzambe na bino, azali Nzambe ya mawa, akosundola bino te, akobebisa bino te mpe akobosana te boyokani oyo asala na bakoko na bino tango alapaki ndayi.
32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
Luka koyeba makambo oyo esalema na mikolo ya liboso, liboso ete yo obotama, wuta mokolo oyo Nzambe asala moto na mokili; luka oyeba makambo oyo esalema kati na mokili banda na suka moko kino na suka mosusu, soki likambo ya monene boye esila kosalema, soki likambo ya boye esila koyokana.
33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
Boni, ezali na bato bayoka mongongo ya Nzambe kolobela bango kati na moto ndenge bino boyokaki mpe botikali na bomoi?
34 Or has God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Boni, ezali na nzambe oyo ameka kobimisa mpo na ye ekolo moko wuta na ekolo mosusu na nzela ya komekama, ya bilembo, ya bikamwa, ya bitumba, ya maboko na ye ya nguya, mpe na kosembola loboko to na nzela ya misala minene ya somo lokola makambo nyonso oyo Yawe, Nzambe na bino, asala mpo na bino kati na Ejipito na miso na bino?
35 Unto you it was showed, that you might know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
Omonaki makambo nyonso wana mpo oyeba ete Yawe kaka nde azali Nzambe, mosusu azali te.
36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and upon earth he showed you his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
Wuta na likolo, ayebisaki yo na mongongo na Ye mpo na koteya yo; na se, Yawe alakisaki yo moto na ye ya monene mpe oyokaki mongongo na Ye kobima kati na moto.
37 And because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
Lokola alingaki bakoko na yo mpe aponaki bakitani na bango, abimisaki yo na Ejipito na nguya na Ye mpe na makasi na Ye ya monene
38 To drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you are, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
mpo na kobengana liboso na yo bikolo minene mpe ya makasi koleka yo mpe kokotisa yo na bamboka na bango mpo na kopesa yo yango lokola libula ndenge yango ezali na mokolo ya lelo.
39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in your heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
Yeba yango lelo mpe tia yango na motema na yo ete Yawe kaka nde azali Nzambe na likolo mpe na se, mosusu azali te.
40 You shall keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days upon the earth, which the LORD your God gives you, for ever.
Batela bikateli mpe mitindo na Ye, oyo nazali kopesa yo lelo mpo ete ozala moto ya esengo, yo mpe bana na yo sima na yo, mpe mpo ete owumela tango molayi na mokili oyo Yawe, Nzambe, na yo apesi yo mpo na libela.
41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
Moyize aponaki bingumba misato na ngambo ya este ya Yordani,
42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unexpectedly, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
mpo ete moto nyonso oyo akoboma moninga na ye na nko te, na kozanga koyina ye liboso, akoka kokimela na moko kati na bingumba yango mpe akoka kobikisa bomoi na ye.
43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.
Tala bingumba yango: Mpo na libota ya Ribeni, engumba Betseri kati na etando ya esobe; mpo na libota ya Gadi, engumba Ramoti ya Galadi, mpe mpo na libota ya Manase, engumba Golani kati na Bashani.
44 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
Tala Mobeko oyo Moyize atiaki liboso ya bana ya Isalaele:
45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt.
Tala malako, bikateli mpe mibeko oyo Moyize apesaki na bana ya Isalaele tango babimaki na Ejipito;
46 On this side Jordan, in the valley opposite to Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel stroke, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
mpe tango bazalaki na lubwaku etalana na Beti-Peori, na ngambo ya este ya Yordani, kati na mokili ya Sikoni, mokonzi ya bato ya Amori, oyo azalaki kovanda na Eshiboni oyo Moyize mpe bana ya Isalaele balongaki tango babimaki na Ejipito.
47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
Bazwaki mokili na ye mpe mokili ya Ogi, mokonzi ya Bashani. Bakonzi nyonso mibale bazalaki bato ya Amori mpe bakonzaki na ngambo ya este ya Yordani.
48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,
Bana ya Isalaele bavandaki na etando oyo ebandaki na Aroeri, na ngomba Arinoni kino na ngomba Sirioni oyo babengi Erimoni;
49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
bakisa Araba nyonso na este ya Yordani kino na ebale monene ya Araba, na ebandeli ya ngomba Pisiga.
