Deuteronomii 4

1 Et nunc Israel audi præcepta et iudicia, quæ ego doceo te: ut faciens ea, vivas, et ingrediens possideas Terram, quam Dominus Deus patrum vestrorum daturus est vobis.

Now therefore hearken, O Israel, to the statutes and to the judgments, which I teach you, to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.

2 Non addetis ad verbum, quod vobis loquor, nec auferetis ex eo: custodite mandata Domini Dei vestri quæ ego præcipio vobis.

Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish any thing from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

3 Oculi vestri viderunt omnia quæ fecit Dominus contra Beelphegor, quomodo contriverit omnes cultores eius de medio vestri.

Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.

4 Vos autem qui adhæretis Domino Deo vestro, vivitis universi usque in præsentem diem.

But ye who held fast to the LORD your God are alive each one of you this day.

5 Scitis quod docuerim vos præcepta atque iustitias, sicut mandavit mihi Dominus Deus meus: sic facietis ea in Terra, quam possessuri estis:

Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land where ye go to possess it.

6 et observabitis et implebitis opere. Hæc est enim vestra sapientia, et intellectus coram populis, ut audientes universa præcepta hæc, dicant: En populus sapiens et intelligens, gens magna.

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.

7 Nec est alia natio tam grandis, quæ habeat deos appropinquantes sibi, sicut Deus noster adest cunctis obsecrationibus nostris.

For what nation is there so great, which hath God so near to them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?

8 Quæ est enim alia gens sic inclyta ut habeat ceremonias, iustaque iudicia, et universam legem, quam ego proponam hodie ante oculos vestros?

And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

9 Custodi igitur temetipsum, et animam tuam solicite. Ne obliviscaris verborum, quæ viderunt oculi tui, et ne excidant de corde tuo cunctis diebus vitæ tuæ. Docebis ea filios ac nepotes tuos,

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou shouldest forget the things which thy eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them to thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;

10 a die in quo stetisti coram Domino Deo tuo in Horeb, quando Dominus locutus est mihi dicens: Congrega ad me populum, ut audiant sermones meos, et discant timere me omni tempore quo vivunt in terra, doceantque filios suos.

Especially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, Gather the people to me, 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.

11 Et accessistis ad radices montis, qui ardebat usque ad cælum: erantque in eo tenebræ, et nubes, et caligo.

And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

12 Locutusque est Dominus ad vos de medio ignis. Vocem verborum eius audistis, et formam penitus non vidistis.

And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.

13 Et ostendit vobis pactum suum, quod præcepit ut faceretis, et decem verba, quæ scripsit in duabus tabulis lapideis.

And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

14 Mihique mandavit in illo tempore ut docerem vos ceremonias et iudicia, quæ facere deberetis in Terra, quam possessuri estis.

And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land where ye go over to possess it.

15 Custodite igitur solicite animas vestras. Non vidistis aliquam similitudinem in die, qua locutus est vobis Dominus in Horeb de medio ignis:

Take ye therefore good heed to yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:

16 ne forte decepti faciatis vobis sculptam similitudinem, aut imaginem masculi vel feminæ,

Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make to you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

17 similitudinem omnium iumentorum, quæ sunt super terram, vel avium sub cælo volantium,

The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

18 atque reptilium, quæ moventur in terra, sive piscium qui sub terra morantur in aquis:

The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

19 ne forte elevatis oculis ad cælum, videas Solem et Lunam, et omnia astra cæli, et errore deceptus adores ea et colas quæ creavit Dominus Deus tuus in ministerium cunctis gentibus, quæ sub cælo sunt.

And lest thou shouldest lift up thy eyes to heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided to all nations under the whole heaven.

20 Vos autem tulit Dominus, et eduxit de fornace ferrea Ægypti, ut haberet populum hereditarium, sicut est in præsenti die.

But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, even from Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.

21 Iratusque est Dominus contra me propter sermones vestros, et iuravit ut non transirem Iordanem, nec ingrederer Terram optimam, quam daturus est vobis.

Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not enter that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:

22 Ecce morior in hac humo, non transibo Iordanem: vos transibitis, et possidebitis terram egregiam.

But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.

23 Cave ne quando obliviscaris pacti Domini Dei tui, quod pepigit tecum: et facias tibi sculptam similitudinem eorum, quæ fieri Dominus prohibuit:

Take heed to yourselves, lest ye 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 thy God hath forbidden thee.

24 quia Dominus Deus tuus ignis consumens est, Deus æmulator.

For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

25 Si genueritis filios ac nepotes, et morati fueritis in Terra, deceptique feceritis vobis aliquam similitudinem, patrantes malum coram Domino Deo vestro, ut eum ad iracundiam provocetis:

When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye 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 thy God, to provoke him to anger:

26 testes invoco hodie cælum et terram, cito perituros vos esse de Terra, quam transito Iordane possessuri estis. Non habitabitis in ea longo tempore, sed delebit vos Dominus,

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from the land where ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly destroyed.

27 atque disperget in omnes gentes, et remanebitis pauci in nationibus, ad quas vos ducturus est Dominus.

And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, where the LORD shall lead you.

28 Ibique servietis diis, qui hominum manu fabricati sunt, ligno et lapidi qui non vident, nec audiunt, nec comedunt, nec odorantur.

And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

29 Cumque quæsieris ibi Dominum Deum tuum, invenies eum: si tamen toto corde quæsieris, et tota tribulatione animæ tuæ.

But if from there thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou shalt seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

30 Postquam te invenerint omnia quæ prædicta sunt, novissimo tempore reverteris ad Dominum Deum tuum, et audies vocem eius.

When thou art in tribulation, and all these things have come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou shalt turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient to his voice;

31 Quia Deus misericors Dominus Deus tuus est: non dimittet te, nec omnino delebit, neque obliviscetur pacti, in quo iuravit patribus tuis.

(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God; ) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he swore to them.

32 Interroga de diebus antiquis, qui fuerunt ante te ex die quo creavit Deus hominem super terram, a summo cælo usque ad summum eius, si facta est aliquando huiuscemodi res, aut umquam cognitum est,

For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven to the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?

33 ut audiret populus vocem Dei loquentis de medio ignis, sicut tu audisti, et vixisti:

Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

34 si fecit Deus ut ingrederetur, et tolleret sibi gentem de medio nationum, per tentationes, signa, atque portenta, per pugnam, et robustam manum, extentumque brachium, et horribiles visiones iuxta omnia, quæ fecit pro vobis Dominus Deus vester in Ægypto, videntibus oculis tuis:

Or hath God ever tried to go and take for himself 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 an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

35 ut scires quoniam Dominus ipse est Deus, et non est alius præter eum.

To thee it was shown, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none besides him.

36 De cælo te fecit audire vocem suam, ut doceret te, et in terra ostendit tibi ignem suum maximum, et audisti verba illius de medio ignis,

Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he showed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words from the midst of the fire.

37 quia dilexit patres tuos, et elegit semen eorum post eos. Eduxitque te præcedens in virtute sua magna ex Ægypto,

And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out of Egypt; in his sight with his mighty power;

38 ut deleret nationes maximas et fortiores te in introitu tuo: et introduceret te, daretque tibi terram earum in possessionem, sicut cernis in præsenti die.

To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.

39 Scito ergo hodie, et cogitato in corde tuo quod Dominus ipse sit Deus in cælo sursum, et in terra deorsum, et non sit alius.

Know therefore this day, and consider it in thy heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

40 Custodi præcepta eius atque mandata, quæ ego præcipio tibi: ut bene sit tibi, et filiis tuis post te, et permaneas multo tempore super Terram, quam Dominus Deus tuus daturus est tibi.

Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.

41 Tunc separavit Moyses tres civitates trans Iordanem ad Orientalem plagam,

Then Moses set apart three cities on the side of Jordan toward the sunrising;

42 ut confugiat ad eas qui occiderit nolens proximum suum, nec sibi fuerit inimicus ante unum et alterum diem, et ad harum aliquam urbium possit evadere:

That the slayer might flee there, who should kill his neighbour unintentionally, and when he had not hated him in times past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

43 Bosor in solitudine, quæ sita est in terra campestri de tribu Ruben: et Ramoth in Galaad, quæ est in tribu Gad: et Golan in Basan, quæ est in tribu Manasse.

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.

44 Ista est lex, quam proposuit Moyses coram filiis Israel,

And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:

45 et hæc testimonia et ceremoniæ atque iudicia, quæ locutus est ad filios Israel, quando egressi sunt de Ægypto,

These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, after they came forth from Egypt,

46 trans Iordanem in valle contra fanum Phogor in terra Sehon regis Amorrhæi, qui habitavit in Hesebon, quem percussit Moyses. Filii quoque Israel egressi ex Ægypto

On the east side of Jordan, in the valley opposite Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they had come forth from Egypt:

47 possederunt terram eius, et terram Og regis Basan, duorum regum Amorrhæorum, qui erant trans Iordanem ad solis ortum:

And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who were on the side of Jordan toward the sunrising;

48 Ab Aroer, quæ sita est super ripam torrentis Arnon, usque ad montem Sion, qui est et Hermon,

From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even to mount Sion, which is Hermon,

49 omnem planitiem trans Iordanem ad Orientalem plagam, usque ad mare solitudinis, et usque ad radices montis Phasga.

And all the plain on the side of Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.