5 Mose 29

1 Eyinom ne nhyehyɛe a ɛwɔ apam a Awurade hyɛɛ Mose sɛ ɔne Israelfo no nyɛ wɔ Moab nka apam a ɔne wɔn yɛɛ no wɔ Horeb no mu no ho.

These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.

2 Mose frɛɛ Israelfo no nyinaa ka kyerɛɛ wɔn se: Moahu nea Awurade yɛɛ Farao ne ne mpanyimfo ne ne man nyinaa wɔ Misraim no.

And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them: Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

3 Mo ankasa muhuu sɔhwɛ akɛse, nsɛnkyerɛnne a ɛyɛ hu ne anwonwade akɛse no.

the great trials which thine eyes saw, the signs and those great wonders;

4 Nanso de besi nnɛ yi, Awurade mmaa mo adwene a ɛte asɛm ase anaa ani a ehu ade anaa aso a ɛte asɛm.

but the LORD hath not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

5 Nanso Awurade se, mfe aduanan a midii mo anim faa sare so no mu no, mo ntama antetew, na mo mpaboa a ɛhyehyɛ mo anan nso anhwere.

And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.

6 Moanni brodo, annom nsa anaa nsa a ano yɛ den. Meyɛɛ saa sɛnea mubehu sɛ mene Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn no.

Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.

7 Yeduu ha no, Hesbonhene Sihon ne Basanhene Og ba bɛko tiaa yɛn, nanso yedii wɔn so.

And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them.

8 Yɛfaa wɔn asase de maa Ruben ne Gad mmusuakuw ne Manase abusuakuw no fa sɛ wɔn agyapade.

And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.

9 Ɛno nti, munni saa apam yi so sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a biribiara a mobɛyɛ no bɛyɛ yiye.

Observe therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may make all that ye do to prosper.

10 Mo nyinaa—mo mmusuakuw mpanyimfo, mo atemmufo, mo ahwɛfo ne Israel mmarima nyinaa, nnɛ mugyina Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn no, anim;

Ye are standing this day all of you before the LORD your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

11 mo ne mo mma ne mo yerenom ne ahɔho a wɔte mo mu a wobu mo nnua, soa mo nsu.

your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in the midst of thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water;

12 Mugyina ha sɛ mo ne Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn no, rebɛyɛ apam; apam a Awurade ne mo reyɛ nnɛ na ɔde ntam resɔw ano

that thou shouldest enter into the covenant of the LORD thy God — and into His oath — which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day;

13 na wasi so gyinae sɛ nnɛ, moyɛ ne nkurɔfo na ɔno nso bɛyɛ mo Nyankopɔn, sɛnea ɔhyɛɛ mo bɔ no na ɔkaa ntam kyerɛɛ mo agyanom Abraham, Isak ne Yakob no.

that He may establish thee this day unto Himself for a people, and that He may be unto thee a God, as He spoke unto thee, and as He swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

14 Mereyɛ saa apam yi a ne ntam bata ho a, ɛnyɛ mo nko a,

Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

15 mo ne yɛn gyina ha nnɛ wɔ Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn no, anim na mmom, wɔn a wonni ha nnɛ nso ka ho bi.

but with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day —

16 Mo ankasa munim sɛnea yɛtenaa Misraim ne sɛnea yɛreba ha no yɛfaa aman so besii ha.

for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the midst of the nations through which ye passed;

17 Muhuu akyiwade ahoni a wɔde nnua ne abo ne dwetɛ ne sikakɔkɔɔ ayɛ wɔ wɔn nkyɛn.

and ye have seen their detestable things, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were with them —

18 Monhwɛ yiye sɛ ɔbarima anaa ɔbea anaa abusua biara a ɛwɔ mo mu nnɛ no mu biara koma rennan mfi Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn no, ho nkɔsom saa aman yi anyame; monhwɛ sɛ ntin biara nni mo mu a epuw bɔre a ɛyɛ nwen saa.

lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

19 Sɛ saa onipa no te ntam yi mu nsɛm na ohyira ne ho, na ɔka wɔ ne tirim se, “Me ho sɔnn, ɛmfa ho sɛ menam asoɔden kwan so.” Eyi de atoyerɛnkyɛm bɛba asase a so afɔw ne nea so awo no nyinaa so.

and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying: 'I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart — that the watered be swept away with the dry';

20 Awurade remfa nkyɛ saa onipa no. Nʼabufuw ne ne ninkunu bɛdɛw atia no. Nnome a wɔakyerɛw no saa nhoma yi mu no nyinaa bɛba ne so na Awurade bɛpepa ne din afi ɔsoro ase.

the LORD will not be willing to pardon him, but then the anger of the LORD and His jealousy shall be kindled against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven;

21 Awurade bɛtwe no afi Israel mmusuakuw nyinaa mu na wahwie apam no mu nnome nyinaa a wɔakyerɛw wɔ saa mmara nhoma no mu no agu ne so.

and the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.

22 Mo mma a wɔbɛba wɔ daakye awo ntoatoaso mu no ne wɔn a wofi ahɔho ase a wofi akyirikyiri asase so behu asase no sɛe ne nyarewa a Awurade de bɛbrɛ asase no.

And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses wherewith the LORD hath made it sick;

23 Wobehu sɛ, wɔn asase no nyinaa adan sufre ne nkyene a wonnua so hwee, na hwee mfifi wɔ so na ahabammono biara nnyina so, a ɛnyɛ yiye na hwee nso nnyin wɔ so; sare ahaban mpo. Ɛbɛyɛ sɛ Sodom ne Gomora, Adma ne Seboim a Awurade sɛee no nʼabufuwhyew mu no.

and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger, and in His wrath;

24 Aman a atwa ahyia no bebisa se, “Adɛn nti na Awurade ayɛ saa asase yi saa? Adɛn nti na ne bo fu dennen saa?”

even all the nations shall say 'Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?'

25 Na wɔbɛka akyerɛ wɔn se, “Saa asɛm yi sii, efisɛ nnipa a wɔwɔ asase no so buu apam a wɔne Awurade, wɔn agyanom Nyankopɔn no, yɛe bere a oyii wɔn fii Misraim asase so no.

then men shall say: 'Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them forth out of the land of Egypt;

26 Wɔdan kɔsom anyame afoforo wɔkotow wɔn, anyame a wonnim wɔn, anyame a Awurade nkyerɛɛ wɔn sɛ wɔnsom.

and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that He had not allotted unto them;

27 Ɛno nti Awurade abufuw dɛw tiaa saa asase yi, nam so de nnome a wɔakyerɛw wɔ saa nhoma yi mu no nyinaa baa wɔn so no.

therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;

28 Abufuwhyew mu, Awurade tutuu ne nkurɔfo ase fii wɔn asase so twaa wɔn asu de wɔn koguu asase foforo so, sɛnea ɛte mprempren yi.”

and the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day'. —

29 Kokoamsɛm yɛ Awurade, yɛn Nyankopɔn no, dea, nanso nneɛma a wɔda no adi no yɛ yɛn ne yɛn asefo dea daa, sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a yebedi saa mmara yi mu nsɛm so.

The secret things belong unto the LORD our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.