Deuteronomii 4
1 Et nunc Israel audi praecepta et iudicia, quae ego doceo te: ut faciens ea, vivas, et ingrediens possideas Terram, quam Dominus Deus patrum vestrorum daturus est vobis.
Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them, that you may live and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
2 Non addetis ad verbum, quod vobis loquor, nec auferetis ex eo: custodite mandata Domini Dei vestri quae ego praecipio vobis.
You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.
3 Oculi vestri viderunt omnia quae fecit Dominus contra Beelphegor, quomodo contriverit omnes cultores eius de medio vestri.
Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for Yahweh your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from among you.
4 Vos autem qui adhaeretis Domino Deo vestro, vivitis universi usque in praesentem diem.
But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive today.
5 Scitis quod docuerim vos praecepta atque iustitias, sicut mandavit mihi Dominus Deus meus: sic facietis ea in Terra, quam possessuri estis:
Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.
6 et observabitis et implebitis opere. Haec est enim vestra sapientia, et intellectus coram populis, ut audientes universi praecepta haec, 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 peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
7 Nec est alia natio tam grandis, quae habeat deos appropinquantes sibi, sicut Deus noster adest cunctis obsecrationibus nostris.
For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
8 Quae est enim alia gens sic inclyta ut habeat ceremonias, iustaque iudicia, et universam legem, quam ego proponam hodie ante oculos vestros?
What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?
9 Custodi igitur temetipsum, et animam tuam solicite. Ne obliviscaris verborum, quae viderunt oculi tui, et ne excidant de corde tuo cunctis diebus vitae tuae. Docebis ea filios ac nepotes tuos,
Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—
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.
the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”
11 Et accessistis ad radices montis, qui ardebat usque ad caelum: erantque in eo tenebrae, et nubes, et caligo.
You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
12 Locutusque est Dominus ad vos de medio ignis. Vocem verborum eius audistis, et formam penitus non vidistis.
Yahweh spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.
13 Et ostendit vobis pactum suum, quod praecepit ut faceretis, et decem verba, quae scripsit in duabus tabulis lapideis.
He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.
14 Mihique mandavit in illo tempore ut docerem vos ceremonias et iudicia, quae facere deberetis in Terra, quam possessuri estis.
Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you 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:
Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,
16 ne forte decepti faciatis vobis sculptam similitudinem, aut imaginem masculi vel feminae,
lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 similitudinem omnium iumentorum, quae sunt super terram, vel avium sub caelo volantium,
the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
18 atque reptilium, quae moventur in terra, sive piscium qui sub terra morantur in aquis:
the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
19 ne forte elevatis oculis ad caelum, videas Solem et Lunam, et omnia astra caeli, et errore deceptus adores ea et colas quae creavit Dominus Deus tuus in ministerium cunctis gentibus, quae sub caelo sunt.
and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
20 Vos autem tulit Dominus, et eduxit de fornace ferrea Aegypti, ut haberet populum hereditarium, sicut est in praesenti die.
But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.
21 Iratusque est Dominus contra me propter sermones vestros, et iuravit ut non transirem Iordanem, nec ingrederer Terram optimam, quam daturus est vobis.
Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance;
22 Ecce moriar in hac humo, non transibo Iordanem: vos transibitis, et possidebitis terram egregiam.
but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you 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, quae fieri Dominus prohibuit:
Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
24 quia Dominus Deus tuus ignis consumens est, Deus aemulator.
For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, 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 you father children and children’s children, and you have been long in the land, and then corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight to provoke him to anger,
26 testes invoco hodie caelum 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 today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.
27 atque disperget in omnes gentes, et remanebitis pauci in nationibus, ad quas vos ducturus est Dominus.
Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where Yahweh will lead you away.
28 ibique servietis diis, qui hominum manu fabricati sunt, ligno et lapidi qui non vident, nec audiunt, nec comedunt, nec odorant.
There you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29 Cumque quaesieris ibi Dominum Deum tuum, invenies eum: si tamen toto corde quaesieris, et tota tribulatione animae tuae.
But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30 Postquam te invenerint omnia quae praedicta sunt, novissimo autem tempore reverteris ad Dominum Deum tuum, et audies vocem eius.
When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen 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 Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your 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 caelo 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 you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as great as this thing is, or has been heard like it?
33 ut audiret populus vocem Dei loquentis de medio ignis, sicut tu audisti, et vidisti:
Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have 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, quae fecit pro vobis Dominus Deus vester in Aegypto, videntibus oculis tuis:
Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35 ut scires quoniam Dominus ipse est Deus, et non est alius praeter eum.
It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.
36 De caelo 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 you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.
37 quia dilexit patres tuos, et elegit semen eorum post eos. Eduxitque te praecedens in virtute sua magna ex Aegypto,
Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
38 ut deleret nationes maximas et fortiores te in introitu tuo: et introduceret te, daretque tibi terram earum in possessionem, sicut cernis in praesenti die.
to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.
39 Scito ergo hodie, et cogitato in corde tuo quod Dominus ipse est Deus in caelo sursum, et in terra deorsum, et non sit alius.
Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.
40 Custodi praecepta eius atque mandata, quae ego praecipio tibi: ut bene sit tibi, et filiis tuis post te, et permaneas multo tempore super Terram, quam Dominus Deus tuus daturus est tibi.
You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.
41 Tunc separavit Moyses tres civitates trans Iordanem ad Orientalem plagam,
Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise,
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 man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
43 Bosor in solitudine, quae sita est in terra campestri de tribu Ruben: et Ramoth in Galaad, quae est in tribu Gad: et Golan in Basan, quae est in tribu Manasse.
Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
44 Ista est lex, quam proposuit Moyses coram filiis Israel,
This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
45 et haec testimonia et ceremoniae atque iudicia, quae locutus est ad filios Israel, quando egressi sunt de Aegypto,
These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
46 trans Iordanem in valle contra fanum Phogor in terra Sehon regis Amorrhaei, qui habitavit in Hesebon, quem percussit Moyses. Filii quoque Israel egressi ex Aegypto
beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck when they came out of Egypt.
47 possederunt terram eius, et terram Og regis Basan, duorum regum Amorrhaeorum, qui erant trans Iordanem ad solis ortum:
They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;
48 Ab Aroer, quae sita est super ripam torrentis Arnon, usque ad montem Sion, qui est et Hermon,
from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Zion (also called Hermon),
49 omnem planitiem trans Iordanem ad Orientalem plagam, usque ad mare solitudinis, et usque ad radices montis Phasga.
and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
