Deotoronomia 4
1 Ary ankehitriny, ry Isiraely, mihainoa ny didy sy ny fitsipika izay ampianariko anareo harahinareo, mba ho velona ianareo ka hiditra sy handova ny tany izay omen’ i Jehovah, Andriamanitry ny razanareo, anareo.
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 the LORD, the God of your fathers, gives you.
2 Aza ampianareo ny teny izay andidiako anareo, ary aza anesoranareo, fa tandremo ny didin’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrareo izay andidiako anareo.
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 the LORD your God which I command you.
3 Ny masonareo efa nahita izay nataon’ i Jehovah noho ny tamin’ i Bala-peora; fa ny olona rehetra izay nanaraka an’ i Bala-peora dia naringan’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao tsy ho eo aminao.
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal Peor; for the LORD your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from among you.
4 Fa ianareo izay nifikitra tamin’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrareo kosa dia samy velona avokoa izao anio izao.
But you who were faithful to the LORD your God are all alive today.
5 Indro, efa nampianariko didy sy fitsipika ianareo, araka izay nandidian’ i Jehovah Andriamanitro ahy, mba harahinareo any amin’ ny tany izay efa hidiranareo holovana.
Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.
6 Koa tandremo ary ataovy izany, fa izany no ho fahendrenareo sy ho fanananareo saina eny imason’ ny firenen-tsamy hafa; fa handre izany lalàna rehetra izany izy ka hanao hoe: Olona hendry sy manan-tsaina tokoa io firenena io
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 Fa iza no firenena, na dia lehibe aza, no mba manana andriamanitra akaiky azy tahaka an’ i Jehovah Andriamanitra amin’ izay rehetra iantsoantsika Azy?
For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as the LORD our God is whenever we call on him?
8 Ary iza no firenena, na dia lehibe aza, no mba manana didy sy fitsipika marina tahaka izao lalàna rehetra izao, izay ataoko eo anatrehanareo anio?
What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?
9 Kanefa kosa mitandrema ianao, ka tandremo tsara ny fanahinao, fandrao hadinoinao ny zavatra izay efa hitan’ ny masonao, ary andrao miala amin’ ny fonao izany, amin’ ny andro rehetra hiainanao, fa ampahafantaro ny zanakao sy ny zafinao izany,
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 dia izay hitanao tamin’ ny andro izay nitsangananao teo anatrehan’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao tany Horeba, fony Jehovah nilaza tamiko hoe: Angony etỳ amiko ny olona, dia hampandrenesiko azy ny teniko, izay hianarany mba hatahotra Ahy amin’ ny andro rehetra hiainany ambonin’ ny tany sady hampianariny ny zanany koa.
the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD 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 Dia nanakaiky ianareo ka nitsangana teo am-bodin’ ny tendrombohitra; ary ny tendrombohitra nirehitra afo manakatra ny lanitra, sady nisy aizina sy rahona ary aizim-pito.
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 Dia niteny taminareo teo amin’ ny afo Jehovah; ny teny ihany no renareo, fa tsy nahita endrika akory ianareo.
The LORD 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 Dia nambarany taminareo ny fanekeny, izay nandidiany anareo harahina, dia ny Didy Folo ary nosoratany teo amin’ ny vato fisaka roa ireo.
He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.
14 Ary izaho nodidian’ i Jehovah tamin’ izany andro izany hampianatra anareo didy sy fitsipika, mba harahinareo any amin’ ny tany izay efa hidiranareo holovana.
The LORD 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 Dia tandremo tsara ny fanahinareo; fa tsy nahita endrika akory ianareo tamin’ ny andro izay nitenenan’ i Jehovah taminareo tao amin’ ny afo tany Horeba;
Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,
16 fandrao manao ratsy ianareo ka manao sarin-javatra voasokitra ho anareo, araka izay endri-javatra na inona na inona, dia sarin-dehilahy, na sarim-behivavy,
lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 na sarim-biby izay etỳ ambonin’ ny tany, na sarim-borona manana elatra izay manidina eny amin’ ny habakabaka,
the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
18 na sarim-biby mandady na mikisaka amin’ ny tany, na sarin-kazandrano izay ao amin’ ny rano ambanin’ ny tany.
the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
19 Ary andrao raha miandrandra ny lanitra ianao ka mahita ny masoandro sy ny volana ary ny kintana, dia izay rehetra eny amin’ ny lanitra, dia ho voataona ianao hiankokoha eo anatrehany sy hanompo azy, izay nataon’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao ho anjaran’ ny firenena rehetra ambanin’ ny lanitra.
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 the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
20 Fa ianareo no nalain’ i Jehovah ka nentiny nivoaka avy tao amin’ ny memy fandrendreham-by (dia avy tany Egypta) mba ho firenena ho Azy tahaka ny amin’ izao anio izao.
But the LORD 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 Ary Jehovah dia tezitra tamiko noho ny aminareo ka nianiana fa tsy hita an’ i Jordana aho, na hiditra any amin’ ny tany soa izay omen’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao ho lovanao.
Furthermore the LORD 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 the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance;
22 Fa izaho ho faty amin’ ity tany ity, fa tsy hita an’ i Jordana; fa ianareo kosa no hita ka handova izany tany soa izany.
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 Mitandrema ianareo, fandrao manadino ny faneken’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrareo izay nataony taminareo ka manao sarin-javatra voasokitra ho anareo, araka ny endriky ny zavatra izay efa nandraran’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao anao.
Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you.
24 Fa Jehovah Andriamanitrao dia afo mandevona; eny, Andriamanitra saro-piaro Izy.
For the LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
25 Raha miteraka sy ho loa-jafy koa ianao, ka efa nitoetra ela teo amin’ ny tany ianareo ary manao ratsy ka manao sarin-javatra voasokitra, araka izay endriky ny zavatra na inona na inona, sy manao ratsy eo imason’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao ary mampahatezitra Azy,
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 the LORD your God’s sight to provoke him to anger,
26 dia miantso ny lanitra sy ny tany ho vavolombelona aho anio fa vetivety foana dia ho fongotra tokoa ianareo tsy ho eo amin’ ny tany izay alehanareo hita an’ i Jordana holovana; tsy ho maro andro eo ianareo, fa haringana tokoa.
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 Ary Jehovah hampiely anareo any amin’ ny firenen-tsamy hafa; ary ho tonga olom-bitsy izay sisa aminareo any amin’ ny firenen-tsamy hafa izay hitondran’ i Jehovah anareo.
The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will lead you away.
28 Ary any no hanompoanareo andriamanitra asan’ ny tànan’ olona, dia vato aman-kazo, izay tsy mahita, na mandre, na mihinana, na manimbolo.
There you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29 Kanefa any ianao no hitady an’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao ka hahita Azy, raha mitady Azy amin’ ny fonao rehetra sy ny fanahinao rehetra.
But from there you shall seek the LORD your God, and you will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30 Raha azom-pahoriana ianao, fa manjo anao ireo zavatra rehetra ireo, dia hiverina amin’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao ianao any am-parany ka hihaino ny feony;
When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to the LORD your God and listen to his voice.
31 fa Andriamanitra mamindra fo Jehovah Andriamanitrao ka tsy hahafoy anao, na handringana anao, na hanadino ny fanekena tamin’ ny razanao, izay efa nianianany taminy.
For the LORD 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 Fa anontanio ange ny andro lasa, izay teo alohanao hatramin’ ny andro izay namoronan’ Andriamanitra olombelona tetỳ ambonin’ ny tany ary hatramin’ ny faravodilanitra manodidina, raha mba nisy zavatra lehibe tahaka izany, na mba efa nisy re tahaka izany.
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 Moa efa nisy firenena nandre ny feon’ Andriamanitra niteny tao amin’ ny afo, tahaka ny efa renao, ka velona ihany?
Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
34 Moa efa nanandrana handeha haka firenena ho Azy avy amin’ ny firenena hafa va Andriamanitra amin’ ny fizahan-toetra sy ny famantarana sy ny fahagagana sy ny ady sy ny tanana mahery sy ny sandry nahinjitra ary ny fampahatahorana lehibe, araka izay rehetra nataon’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrareo ho anareo tany Egypta teo imasonao?
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 the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35 Hianao no nampahitainy izany, mba hahafantaranao fa Jehovah no Andriamanitra, fa tsy misy afa-tsy Izy.
It was shown to you so that you might know that the LORD is God. There is no one else besides him.
36 Avy tany an-danitra no nampandrenesany anao ny feony hananarany anao; ary teo ambonin’ ny tany no nanehoany anao ny afony lehibe; ary ny teniny efa renao avy tao afovoan’ ny afo.
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 Ary satria tia ny razanao Izy ka nifidy ny zanany mandimby azy, dia Izy no nitondra anao nivoaka avy tany Egypta tamin’ ny heriny lehibe,
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 handroahany eo anoloanao firenena maro izay lehibe sy mahery noho ianao, mba hampidirany anao sy hanomezany anao ny taniny ho lova, tahaka ny amin’ izao anio izao.
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 Koa aoka ho fantatrao anio, ka tsarovy ao am-ponao, fa Jehovah no Andriamanitra any amin’ ny lanitra ambony sy etỳ amin’ ny tany ambany, ka tsy misy afa-tsy Izy.
Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that the LORD himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.
40 Dia tandremo ny lalàny sy ny didiny izay andidiako anao anio, mba hahita soa ianao sy ny taranakao mandimby anao, ary mba ho maro andro ianao any amin’ ny tany, izay omen’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao ho anao mandrakizay.
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 the LORD your God gives you for all time.
41 Ary tamin’ izay Mosesy dia nanokana tanàna telo any an-dafy atsinanan’ i Jordana,
Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise,
42 mba handosiran’ izay nahafaty ny namany tsy nahy ka tsy nankahala azy teo aloha, dia ho velona izy raha mandositra ao amin’ ny anankiray amin’ ireo tanàna ireo:
that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and did not hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
43 dia Bazera any an-efitra, amin’ ny tany lemaka, an’ ny Robenita; ary Ramota-gileada an’ ny Gadita; ary Golana any Basana an’ ny Manasita.
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 Ary izao no lalàna izay nalahatr’ i Mosesy teo anatrehan’ ny Zanak’ Isiraely.
This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
45 Izao no teni-vavolombelona sy didy ary fitsipika, izay nambaran’ i Mosesy tamin’ ny Zanak’ Isiraely, rehefa nivoaka avy tany Egypta izy,
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 tany an-dafin’ i Jordana, tao an-dohasaha tandrifin’ i Beti-peora, tao amin’ ny tanin’ i Sihona, ilay mpanjakan’ ny Amorita nonina tao Hesbona, dia ilay noresen’ i Mosesy sy ny Zanak’ Isiraely, rehefa nivoaka avy tany Egypta izy,
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 ka dia azony ny tanin’ i Sihona sy ny tanin’ i Oga, mpanjakan’ i Basana, dia ny mpanjaka roa tamin’ ny Amorita, izay tany an-dafy atsinanan’ i Jordana,
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 hatrany Aroera, izay ao amoron’ ny lohasahan-driaka Arnona, ka hatramin’ ny tendrombohitra Siona (Hermona izany),
from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Zion (also called Hermon),
49 dia ny tani-hay rehetra any an-dafy atsinanan’ i Jordana ka hatramin’ ny ranomasina amin’ ny tani-hay eo am-bodin’ i Pisga.
and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
