5 Mose 9

1 Israel, muntie: Morekotwa Yordan na moawura mu akogye aman a ɛsoso na wɔwɔ ahoɔden kyɛn mo na wɔwɔ nkuropɔn akɛse wɔ mu na wɔn afasu kɔka sorosoro no, agyapade.

Hear, O Israel: You are to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,

2 Nnipa no wɔ ahoɔden na wɔwoware; Anakfo! Moate wɔn nka na moate sɛ wɔka se, “Hena na obetumi ne Anakfo agyina?”

A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!

3 Nanso merehyɛ mo ase nnɛ sɛ, Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn, na ɔredi mo anim te sɛ ogyaframa a ɛresɛe ade. Ɔbɛsɛe wɔn. Ɔbɛbrɛ wɔn ase wɔ mo anim. Na moapam wɔn na moatɔre wɔn ase ntɛm pa ara sɛnea Awurade hyɛɛ mo bɔ no.

Understand therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he which goes over before you; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before your face: so shall you drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you.

4 Sɛ Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn, tu wɔn gu a, monnka wɔ mo koma mu se, “Esiane yɛn trenee nti na Awurade de saa asase yi ama yɛn.” Dabi, ɛyɛ aman no amumɔyɛsɛm nti na Awurade redi mo anim apam wɔn.

Speak not you in your heart, after that the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD does drive them out from before you.

5 Ɛnyɛ sɛ moyɛ atreneefo ne nokwafo nti na morekɔfa wɔn asase no; mmom, efi wɔn amumɔyɛ nti, Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn, bɛpam saa aman yi adi mo anim de ahyɛ ntam a wadi kan aka akyerɛ mo agyanom Abraham, Isak ne Yakob no ma.

Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

6 Monte ase sɛ, ɛnyɛ sɛ moyɛ atreneefo nti na Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn, de saa asase pa yi rema mo. Moyɛ ɔman a asoɔden ahyɛ mo ma.

Understand therefore, that the LORD your God gives you not this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff necked people.

7 Monkae eyi na mommma mo werɛ mmfi sɛnea mohyɛɛ Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn abufuw wɔ sare so hɔ no. Efi bere a mutu fii Misraim besi sɛ muduu ha yi, moakɔ so atew Awurade anim atua.

Remember, and forget not, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you did depart out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.

8 Mohyɛɛ Awurade abufuw wɔ Horeb a anka ɔpɛ sɛ ɔsɛe mo.

Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.

9 Mekɔɔ bepɔw no so sɛ merekogye abo kyerɛwpon a na wɔakyerɛw apam a na Awurade ne mo apam no agu so no, metenaa hɔ nnafua aduanan, mannidi na mannom.

When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:

10 Awurade de apam a ɛwɔ abo kyerɛwpon a Onyankopɔn ankasa akyerɛw nsɛm a ofi ogya a ɛwɔ bepɔw no so no mu ka kyerɛɛ mo no nyinaa maa me.

And the LORD delivered to me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spoke with you in the mount out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.

11 Na awia ne anadwo adaduanan no baa awiei no, Awurade de abo pon abien a wɔakyerɛw apam no wɔ so no maa me.

And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

12 Afei, Awurade ka kyerɛɛ me se, “Sian fi ha ntɛm kɔ, efisɛ nnipa a wudii wɔn anim fi Misraim no adan abɔnefo. Wɔaman afi ahyɛde a memaa wɔn no ho na wɔayɛ ohoni afa.”

And the LORD said to me, Arise, get you down quickly from hence; for your people which you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.

13 Na Awurade ka kyerɛɛ me se, “Mahwɛ saa nnipa yi ara ahu sɛ, wɔn aso yɛ den pa ara.

Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff necked people:

14 Ma me kwan na mensɛe na mempepa wɔn din mfi ɔsoro ase. Na menam so mayɛ wʼasefo ɔman kɛse; ɔman a ɛso na ɛwɔ ahoɔden sen sɛnea ɛte nnɛ yi.”

Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.

15 Enti misian fii ogya bepɔw no so a na mikura abo apon abien a apam no wɔ so no.

So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

16 Mehwɛe no, mihuu sɛ moayɛ bɔne atia Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn; Moagu nantwi ba sɛso honi ama mo ho. Moaman afi Awurade kwan a ɔkyerɛɛ mo sɛ momfa so no so ntɛm.

And I looked, and, behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.

17 Enti memaa ɔbo apon no so kɔɔ soro na metow hwee fam. Mibubuu no wɔ mo anim.

And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

18 Afei, medaa Awurade anim awia ne anadwo adaduanan a manni brodo, annom nsu. Meyɛɛ eyi, efisɛ sɛ moayɛ ade a Awurade kyi nti, moayɛ bɔne na ɛnam so ama ne bo afuw yiye.

And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which you sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

19 Misuroo Awurade abufuw ne so asotwe, efisɛ na ne bo afuw yiye a obetumi asɛe mo. Nanso, otiee me bio.

For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me at that time also.

20 Na Awurade bo fuw Aaron a na anka ɔpɛ sɛ ɔsɛe no. Nanso mebɔɔ mpae maa Aaron nso.

And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.

21 Mefaa mo bɔne, nantwi ba a moayɛ no, na menan no wɔ gya mu yam no muhumuhu. Metow ne mfutuma no guu asuwa bi a ɛsen fi bepɔw no mu no mu.

And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

22 Mohyɛɛ Awurade abufuw wɔ Tabera, Masa ne Kibrot-Hataawa nso.

And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, you provoked the LORD to wrath.

23 Kades-Barnea nso, Awurade somaa mo wɔ saa ɔhyɛ yi so se, “Monkɔ soro hɔ nkɔfa asase a mede ama mo no.” Nanso mubuu Awurade, mo Nyankopɔn no, ahyɛde so na moamfa mo ho anto no so antie nʼasɛm.

Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you believed him not, nor listened to his voice.

24 Efi bere a mihuu mo no, daa mosɔre tia Awurade.

You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.

25 Ɛno nti na bere a Awurade sii nʼadwene pi sɛ ɔbɛsɛe mo no, mekɔdaa nʼanim awia ne anadwo nnafua aduanan no.

Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

26 Mebɔɔ mpae srɛɛ Awurade se, “Otumfo Awurade, nsɛe wo man ne wʼagyapade a wode wo kɛseyɛ agye asi hɔ na wode wo nsa a ɛyɛ den ayi wɔn afi Misraim no.

I prayed therefore to the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not your people and your inheritance, which you have redeemed through your greatness, which you have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

27 Yi wʼani fi saa nnipa yi komapirim ne asoɔden ne wɔn bɔne so na kae wo nkoa Abraham, Isak ne Yakob.

Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:

28 Anyɛ saa a, Misraimfo no bɛka se, ‘Awurade sɛee wɔn, efisɛ wantumi amfa wɔn ankɔ asase a ɔkaa ntam sɛ ɔde bɛma wɔn no so. Anaasɛ nso, wɔbɛka se, ɔsɛee wɔn, efisɛ ɔtan wɔn; ɔde wɔn baa sare so sɛ ɔrekokunkum wɔn.’

Lest the land from where you brought us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

29 Nanso wɔyɛ wo nkurɔfo ne wʼagyapade a wonam tumi a ɛso ne wʼabasa a woatrɛw mu so yii wɔn.”

Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your mighty power and by your stretched out arm.