5 Mose 29

1 Yei ne nhyehyɛeɛ a ɛwɔ apam a Awurade hyɛɛ Mose sɛ ɔne Israelfoɔ no nyɛ wɔ Moab nka apam a ɔne wɔn yɛɛ no wɔ Horeb no.

These are the words of the covenant ·binding contract between two or more parties· which Adonai enjoined Moses [Drawn out] to make with the children of Israel [God prevails] in the land of Moab [From father], in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb [Desert].

2 Mose frɛɛ Israelfoɔ no nyinaa ka kyerɛɛ wɔn sɛ: Mo ahunu deɛ Awurade yɛɛ Farao ne ne mpanimfoɔ ne ne ɔman nyinaa wɔ Misraim no.

Moses [Drawn out] called to all Israel [God prevails], and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that Adonai did in the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery] to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;

3 Mo ankasa mohunuu sɔhwɛ akɛseɛ, nsɛnkyerɛnneɛ a ɛyɛ hu ne anwanwadeɛ akɛseɛ no.

the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.

4 Nanso, ɛbɛsi ɛnnɛ yi, Awurade mmaa mo adwene a ɛte asɛm ase anaa ani a ɛhunu adeɛ anaa aso a ɛte asɛm.

But Adonai has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to sh'ma ·hear obey·, to this day.

5 Mfeɛ aduanan mu a medii mo anim faa ɛserɛ so no, mo ntoma antete; saa ara na mo mpaboa a ɛhyɛ mo nan nso anhi.

I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.

6 Moanni aduane, annom nsã anaa nsã a ano yɛ den. Meyɛɛ saa sɛdeɛ mobɛhunu sɛ mene Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, no.

You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am Adonai your God.

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

When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them.

8 Yɛfaa wɔn asase de maa Ruben ne Gad mmusuakuo ne Manase abusuakuo fa no sɛ wɔn agyapadeɛ.

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

9 Ɛno enti, monni saa apam yi so sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a, biribiara a mobɛyɛ no bɛyɛ yie.

Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

10 Mo nyinaa—mo mmusuakuo mpanimfoɔ, mo atemmufoɔ, mo ahwɛfoɔ ne Israel mmarima nyinaa, ɛnnɛ mogyina Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, anim,

All of you stand today in the presence of Adonai your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel [God prevails],

11 mo ne mo mma ne mo yerenom ne ahɔhoɔ a wɔte mo mu a wɔbu mo nnua, soa mo nsuo.

your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;

12 Mogyina ha sɛ mo ne Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, rebɛyɛ apam, apam a Awurade ne mo reyɛ ɛnnɛ. Ɔde ntam bɛsɔ ano,

that you may enter into the covenant of Adonai your God, and into his oath, which Adonai your God makes with you today;

13 na wasi so gyinaeɛ sɛ ɛnnɛ, moyɛ ne nkurɔfoɔ na ɔno nso bɛyɛ mo Onyankopɔn sɛdeɛ ɔhyɛɛ mo bɔ no na ɔkaa ntam kyerɛɛ mo agyanom Abraham, Isak ne Yakob no.

that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham [Father of a multitude], to Isaac [Laughter], and to Jacob [Supplanter].

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

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

15 mo ne yɛn gyina ha ɛnnɛ wɔ Awurade mo Onyankopɔn anim no nko dea. Na mmom ɛwɔ hɔ ma wɔn a wɔnni ha nso.

but with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh Eloheikhem [Yahweh our God], and also with those who are not here with us today

16 Mo ankasa monim sɛdeɛ yɛtenaa Misraim ne sɛdeɛ yɛreba ha no yɛfaa aman so bɛsii ha.

(for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery], and how we came through the middle of the nations through which you passed;

17 Mohunuu akyiwadeɛ ahoni a wɔde nnua ne aboɔ ne dwetɛ ne sikakɔkɔɔ ayɛ wɔ wɔn nkyɛn.

and you have seen their detestable things and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

18 Monhwɛ yie sɛ ɔbarima anaa ɔbaa anaa abusua biara a wɔwɔ mo mu ɛnnɛ no mu biara akoma rennane mfiri Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, ho nkɔsom saa aman yi anyame; monhunu sɛ, duhini biara nni mo mu a ɛpu bɔnwoma a ɛyɛ nwono saa.

lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh Eloheikhem [Yahweh our God], to go to abad ·serve· the deities of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

19 Ɛnsɛ sɛ obiara a ɔte nnome ho kɔkɔbɔ nsɛm yi susu sɛ ɔno deɛ hwee renka no. Mma no nka wɔ ne tirim sɛ, “Me ho sɔnn, ɛmfa ho sɛ menam asoɔden kwan so.” Yei de ɔsɛeɛ a ɛso bɛba.

and it happen, when he sh'ma ·hears obeys· 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, to destroy the moist with the dry.”

20 Awurade remfa nkyɛ saa nnipa no. Nʼabufuo ne ne ninkunu bɛhye atia wɔn. Nnome a wɔatwerɛ no saa nwoma yi mu nyinaa bɛba wɔn so na Awurade bɛpepa wɔn din afiri ɔsoro ase.

Adonai will not pardon him, but then Adonai’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Adonai will blot out his name from under the sky.

21 Awurade bɛtwe wɔn afiri Israel mmusuakuo nyinaa mu na wahwie apam no mu nnome nyinaa a wɔatwerɛ wɔ saa mmara nwoma no mu agu wɔn so.

Adonai will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel [God prevails], according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the Torah ·Teaching·.

22 Afei, nkyirimma a wɔbɛba, wɔn a wɔfiri mo ase ne wɔn a wɔfiri ahɔhoɔ ase a wɔfiri akyirikyiri asase so bɛhunu asase no sɛeɛ ne nyarewa a Awurade de bɛbrɛ asase no.

The generation to come, your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land, will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Adonai has made it sick;

23 Wɔbɛhunu sɛ, wɔn asase no dɔteɛ adane sɔfe ne nkyene a wɔdua so biribiara a ɛnyɛ yie, na hwee nso nnyini wɔ so—mpo, ɛserɛ ahahan. Ɛbɛyɛ te sɛ Sodom ne Gomora, Adma ne Seboim a Awurade sɛee no nʼabufuo mu no.

and that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, does not produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom [Burning], Gomorrah [Rebellious people, Tyrants], Admah, and Zeboiim, which Adonai overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath;

24 Aman a atwa ahyia no bɛbisa sɛ, “Adɛn enti na Awurade ayɛ saa asase yi saa? Adɛn enti na ne bo fu denden saa?”

even all the nations will say, “Why has Adonai done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”

25 Na wɔbɛka akyerɛ wɔn sɛ, “Saa asɛm yi siiɛ, ɛfiri sɛ, nnipa a wɔwɔ asase no so buu apam a wɔne Awurade, wɔn agyanom Onyankopɔn yɛeɛ ɛberɛ a ɔyii wɔn firii Misraim asase so.

Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of Adonai, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery],

26 Wɔdane kɔsom anyame foforɔ a wɔyɛ ahɔhoɔ ma wɔn, anyame a Awurade nkyerɛɛ wɔn sɛ wɔnsom.

and went and abad ·served· other deities, and hawa ·bowed low, prostrated· in worship them, deities that they didn’t know, and that he had not given to them.

27 Ɛno enti na Awurade abufuo dɛre tiaa saa asase yi, nam so de nnome a wɔatwerɛ wɔ saa nwoma yi mu no baa wɔn so no.

Therefore Adonai’s anger burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book.

28 Abufuhyeɛ mu, Awurade tutuu ne nkurɔfoɔ ase firii wɔn asase so twaa wɔn asuo de wɔn kɔguu asase foforɔ a wɔte so seesei no.”

Adonai rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”

29 Ahintasɛm nyinaa firi Awurade mo Onyankopɔn hɔ, na nneɛma a wada no adi akyerɛ yɛn ne yɛn asefoɔ no, ɛsɛ sɛ yɛhyɛ no nso, sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a, yɛbɛdi ne mmaransɛm yi so.

The secret things belong to Yahweh Eloheikhem [Yahweh our God]; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this Torah ·Teaching·.