5 Mose 25

1 Sɛ akasakasa si mmarima baanu ntam a, wɔmfa asɛm no nkɔ asɛnniiɛ na ɔtemmufoɔ no nni asɛm no. Ɔbɛgyaa deɛ ɔdi bem no na wɔatwe deɛ ɔdi fɔ no aso.

If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and they judge them, then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the iniquitous.

2 Sɛ ɔbarima a ɔdi fɔ no fata sɛ wɔtwa no mmaa a, ɔtemmufoɔ no bɛma no ada hɔ na watwa no mmaa dodoɔ a ɛfata ne bɔne no wɔ nʼanim.

And it shall be, if the iniquitous man is deserving to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his iniquity, by number.

3 Nanso, ɛnsɛ sɛ wɔtwa no mmaa boro aduanan. Sɛ wɔtwa no boro saa a, na wɔagu wo nua anim ase wɔ wʼanim.

He may give him forty stripes. He shall not exceed, lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem debased to thee.

4 Nkyekyere nantwie a ɔreporo atokoɔ ano.

Thou shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

5 Sɛ nuammarima baanu te fie na wɔn mu baako wu a wanwo ɔba a, ɛnsɛ sɛ okunafoɔ no kɔware ɔhɔhoɔ. Mmom, ne kunu a wawuo no nuabarima na ɛsɛ sɛ ɔware okunafoɔ no, na wayɛ okunu nua asɛdeɛ ama okunafoɔ no.

If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

6 Abakan a wɔbɛwo no no, wɔde no bɛto nʼagya a wawuo no sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a, owufoɔ no din rempepa mfiri Israel.

And it shall be, that the firstborn who she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name be not blotted out of Israel.

7 Na sɛ ɛba sɛ owufoɔ no nuabarima mpɛ sɛ ɔware ne nua no yere no a, ɔbaa no bɛkɔ kuro no mpanimfoɔ nkyɛn wɔ kuro no ɛpono ano akɔka akyerɛ wɔn sɛ, “Me kunu nua no mpɛ sɛ ne nua no din bɛka Israel. Ɔrentumi nyɛ okunu nua asɛdeɛ mma me.”

And if the man does not want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.

8 Afei, ɔbarima no kurom mpanimfoɔ bɛfrɛ no akasa akyerɛ no. Sɛ ɔse pene ara na ɔrempene no so a, ɔbɛka sɛ, “Mempɛ sɛ meware no” a,

Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. And if he stands, and says, I do not want to take her,

9 okunafoɔ no bɛkɔ ɔbarima no anim a mpanimfoɔ no nso wɔ hɔ bi. Ɔbɛworɔ ɔbarima no mpaboa baako, ate ntasuo agu nʼanim na waka sɛ, “Sei na ɛsɛ sɛ wɔyɛ ɔbarima a ɔmpɛ sɛ ɔtoa ne nua abusua so.”

then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.

10 Wɔbɛfrɛ saa onipa no asefoɔ wɔ Israel sɛ abusua a wɔaworɔ wɔn mpaboa.

And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe loosed.

11 Sɛ Israelfoɔ mmarima baanu reko na wɔn mu baako yere pɛ sɛ ɔboa ne kunu enti, ɔsɔ ɔbarima baako no barima mu a,

When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who smites him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the privates,

12 ɛsɛ sɛ wɔtwa ɔbaa no nsa no a ahummɔborɔ biara nni mu.

then thou shall cut off her hand. Thine eye shall have no pity.

13 Momfa nsania papa nkari adwadeɛ

Thou shall not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small.

14 na monsusu adwadeɛ no pɛpɛɛpɛ.

Thou shall not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small.

15 Aane, momfa nsania pa na monsusu adwadeɛ nso pɛpɛɛpɛ na moanya nkwa nna tenten wɔ asase a Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, de rema mo no so.

A perfect and just weight thou shall have, a perfect and just measure thou shall have, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God gives thee.

16 Wɔn a wɔfa nsania bɔne ne nkontompo so kari adwadeɛ no yɛ Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, akyiwadeɛ.

For all who do such things, even all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

17 Mommma mo werɛ mfiri deɛ Amalekfoɔ yɛɛ mo ɛberɛ a mofiri Misraim reba no ɛda biara da.

Remember what Amalek did to thee by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt,

18 Wɔto hyɛɛ mo so ɛberɛ a moabrɛbrɛ na moatotɔ baha no, na wɔn a wɔaka akyi no nso, wɔbobɔɔ wɔn hwehwee fam. Na wɔnsuro Onyankopɔn.

how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all who were feeble behind thee, when thou were faint and weary, and he feared not God.

19 Ɛno enti, sɛ Awurade mo Onyankopɔn ma mo ahomegyeɛ firi mo atamfoɔ nyinaa nsam wɔ asase a ɔde rema mo sɛ agyapadeɛ sononko no so a, ɛsɛ sɛ mosɛe Amalekfoɔ, na yɛankae wɔn bio wɔ asase yi so. Mommma mo werɛ mfiri yei da!

Therefore it shall be, when Jehovah thy God has given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which Jehovah thy God gives thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. Thou shall not forget.