Deuteronomy 7

1 And when the Lord your God shall bring you into the land, into which you go to possess it, and shall remove great nations from before you, the Chettite, and Gergesite, and Amorite, and Chananite, and Pherezite, and Evite, and Jebusite, seven nations [more] numerous and stronger than you,

Sɛ Awurade mo Onyankopɔn de mo ba asase a morebɛkɔ akɔtena so no so a, ɔbɛpam amanaman pii a wɔwɔ mo anim no a wɔyɛ Hetifoɔ, Girgasifoɔ, Amorifoɔ, Kanaanfoɔ, Perisifoɔ, Hewifoɔ ne Yebusifoɔ. Yeinom yɛ aman nson a wɔsoso na wɔyɛ den sen mo.

2 and the Lord your God shall deliver them into your hands, then you shall strike them: you shall utterly destroy them: you shall not make a covenant with them, neither shall you pity them:

Sɛ Awurade mo Onyankopɔn de saa aman yi hyɛ mo nsa na modi wɔn so a, monsɛe wɔn pasapasa. Mo ne wɔn nnhyehyɛ apam biara na monnhunu wɔn mmɔbɔ.

3 neither shall you contract marriages with them: you shall not give your daughter to his son, and you shall not take his daughter to your son.

Mo ne wɔn nni awadeɛ na mommma mo mmammaa ne mo mmammarima nnware wɔn mmammarima ne wɔn mmammaa.

4 For he will draw away your son from me, and he will serve other gods; and the Lord will be very angry with you, and will soon utterly destroy you.

Ɛfiri sɛ, wɔakɔsom wɔn anyame foforɔ. Na Awurade abufuo bɛhuru atia mo na wasɛe mo.

5 But thus shall you do to them; you shall destroy their altars, and shall break down their pillars, and shall cut down their groves, and shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods.

Deɛ ɛsɛ sɛ moyɛ wɔn ne sɛ, mommubu wɔn afɔrebukyia na monnwiri wɔn abosom adum no ngu. Montwitwa wɔn abosompɔ ngu na monhye wɔn ahoni.

6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; and the Lord your God chose you to be to him a peculiar people beyond all nations that [are] upon the face of the earth.

Na moyɛ nnipa kronkron a moyɛ Awurade mo Onyankopɔn dea. Nnipa a wɔwɔ asase so nyinaa, mo na Awurade mo Onyankopɔn ayi mo sɛ nʼagyapadeɛ sononko.

7 It was not because you are more numerous than all [other] nations that the Lord preferred you, and the Lord made choice of you: for you are fewer in number than all [other] nations.

Ɛnyɛ sɛ modɔɔso sene nnipa a aka no enti na Awurade anya mo ho dɔ no, na mo na mosua koraa wɔ nnipa no nyinaa mu.

8 But because the Lord loved you, and as keeping the oath which he sware to your fathers, the Lord brought you out with a strong hand, and the Lord redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao king of Egypt.

Na mmom, ɛyɛ Awurade dɔ a ɔdɔ mo, ne ne ntam a ɔdii so no: ntam a ɔka kyerɛɛ mo agyanom sɛ ɔde ne nsa a tumi wɔ mu no bɛyi mo afiri nkoasom asase so ne Misraimhene Farao tumi ase no.

9 You shall know therefore, that the Lord your God, he [is] God, a faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy for them that love him, and for those that keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

Monhunu sɛ Awurade mo Onyankopɔn yɛ Onyankopɔn; ɔyɛ nokorɛ Onyankopɔn a ɔdi ne dɔ apam so kɔsi awoɔ ntoatoasoɔ apem a wɔdɔ no na wɔdi nʼahyɛdeɛ so.

10 and who recompenses them that hate him to their face, to destroy them utterly; and will not be slack with them that hate him: he will recompense them to their face.

Nanso, ɔntwentwɛn na ɔsɛe. Ɔtwe wɔn a wɔmpɛ nʼasɛm aso, sɛe wɔn.

11 You shall keep therefore the commands, and the ordinances, and these judgments, which I command you this day to do.

Ɛno enti, monni ahyɛdeɛ ne mmara a mede rema mo ɛnnɛ yi nyinaa so.

12 And it shall come to pass when you shall have heard these ordinances, and shall have kept and done them, that the Lord your God shall keep for you the covenant and the mercy, which he sware to your fathers.

Sɛ motie mmara yi na modi ne nyinaa so nokorɛm a, Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, nso bɛdi nʼapam a ɔfiri ne nokorɛ dɔ mu ne mo agyanom pameeɛ no so.

13 And he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; and he will bless the off-spring of your body, and the fruit of your land, your corn, and your wine, and your oil, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, on the land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to you.

Ɔbɛdɔ mo na wahyira mo na wayɛ mo ɔman kɛseɛ. Ɔbɛma mo awo mma bebree na wama mo asase adɔre na mo nyɛmmoa ase ayɛ bebree. Sɛ moduru asase a ɔhyɛɛ ho bɔ sɛ ɔde bɛma mo agyanom no so a, mobɛnya aburoo, nsã, ngo, anantwie, nnwan ne mpɔnkye bebree.

14 You shall be blessed beyond all nations; there shall not be among you an impotent or barren one, or among your cattle.

Wɔbɛhyira mo aboro aman a wɔwɔ asase so nyinaa so. Mo mmarima renyɛ saadwe, na mo mmaa nso renyɛ abonini, na mo nyɛmmoa nso bɛwowo.

15 And the Lord your God shall remove from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you have seen, and all that you have known, will he lay upon you; but he will lay them upon all that hate you.

Na Awurade bɛbɔ mo ho ban afiri yadeɛ nyinaa ho. Ɔremma owuyadeɛ a ebi bɔɔ mo wɔ Misraim no bi mmɔ mo, na ɔde saa yadeɛ no nyinaa bɛma mo atamfoɔ.

16 And you shall eat all the spoils of the nations which the Lord your God gives you; your eye shall not spare them, and you shall not serve their gods; for this is an offense to you.

Monsɛe aman a Awurade mo Onyankopɔn de bɛhyɛ mo nsa no nyinaa. Monnhunu wɔn mmɔbɔ na monnsom wɔn anyame. Sɛ moyɛ saa a, ɛbɛsum mo afidie.

17 But if you should say in your heart, This nation [is] greater than I, how shall I be able to destroy them utterly?

Mobɛbisa mo ho sɛ, “Na sɛ saa aman yi yɛ den kyɛn yɛn a, ɛbɛyɛ dɛn na yɛatumi apamo wɔn?”

18 you shall not fear them; you shall surely remember all that the Lord your God did to Pharao and to all the Egyptians:

Nanso, monnsuro wɔn. Monkae adeɛ a Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, de yɛɛ Farao ne ne manfoɔ nyinaa wɔ Misraim.

19 the great temptations which your eyes have seen, those signs and great wonders, the strong hand, and the high arm; how the Lord your God brought you forth: so the Lord your God will do to all the nations, whom you fear in their presence.

Mode mo ankasa mo ani hunuu amanehunu, nsɛnkyerɛnneɛ a ɛyɛ hu ne anwanwasɛm a ɛbaa wɔn so. Mohunuu tumi nsa ne abasa a wɔatrɛ mu a Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, nam so yii mo firii hɔ no. Nnipa a mosuro wɔn seesei no, Awurade Onyankopɔn de wɔn bɛfa saa ɛkwan korɔ no ara so.

20 And the Lord your God shall send against them the hornets, until they that are left and they that are hidden from you be utterly destroyed.

Ɛno akyi, Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, bɛma mmɔborɔ abɛpam kakra a aka no afiri wɔn atɛeɛ mu kɔsi sɛ wɔn ase bɛhye.

21 You shall not be wounded before them, because the Lord your God in the midst of you [is] a great and powerful God.

Monnsuro saa aman no, ɛfiri sɛ, Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, a ɔso na ne ho yɛ nwanwa no wɔ mo afa.

22 And the Lord your God shall consume these nations before you by little and little: you shall not be able to consume them speedily, lest the land become desert, and the wild beasts of the field be multiplied against you.

Nkakrankakra, Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, bɛpamo saa aman no adi mo anim ɛkan. Ɔrenyi wɔn nyinaa mfiri hɔ prɛko pɛ; anyɛ saa a, nkekaboa no ase bɛdɔre ntɛm na wɔaba mo so.

23 And the Lord your God shall deliver them into your hands, and you shall destroy them with a great destruction, until you shall have utterly destroyed them.

Nanso, Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn de wɔn bɛhyɛ mo nsa, na ɔbɛma wɔn adwene ayɛ basabasa kɔsi sɛ ɔbɛsɛe wɔn.

24 And he shall deliver their kings into your hands, and you shall destroy their name from that place; none shall stand up in opposition before you, until you shall have utterly destroyed them.

Ɔde wɔn ahemfo bɛhyɛ mo nsa na mobɛpepa wɔn din afiri ɔsoro ase. Obiara rentumi nsɔre ntia mo; mobɛsɛe wɔn.

25 You shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods: you shall not covet [their] silver, neither shall you take to yourself gold from them, lest you should offend thereby, because it is an abomination to the Lord your God.

Wɔn anyame ahoni no, momfa ogya nhye wɔn. Mommma mo ani mmere ɛso dwetɛ anaa sikakɔkɔɔ no, na mommfa nto mo ho na anyɛ afidie anyi mo, ɛfiri sɛ, ɛyɛ Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, akyiwadeɛ.

26 And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, so should you be an accursed thing like it; you shall utterly hate it, and altogether abominate it, because it is an accursed thing.

Mommfa akyiwadeɛ biara mma mo fie, na moankɔyɛ nnome sɛ saa nneɛma no, na amma wɔansɛe mo. Ɛsɛ sɛ mokyi saa nneɛma no korakora, ɛfiri sɛ, ɛyɛ abusudeɛ.