5 Mose 4

1 Afei, Israel montie mmara ne nhyehyɛeɛ a merebɛkyerɛkyerɛ mo yi yie. Monni so na moanya nkwa, na moatumi akɔ asase a Awurade mo agyanom Onyankopɔn de rema mo no so na moatena hɔ.

And now O Israel listen to the statutes and to the judgments which I [am] about to teach you to observe so that you may live and you will go and you will take possession of the land which Yahweh [the] God of ancestors your [is] about to give to you.

2 Mommfa bi nka ho, na monnyi biribiara nso mfiri mmara a Awurade mo Onyankopɔn de ama me sɛ memfa mma mo no mu, na mmom monni so.

Not you must add to the word which I [am] about to command you and not you must diminish from it to keep [the] commandments of Yahweh God your which I [am] about to command you.

3 Mode mo ani hunuu deɛ Awurade yɛɛ mo wɔ Baal-peor no. Ɔsɛee nnipa pii a na wɔsom abosom no.

Own eyes your [are] the [ones which] saw [that] which he did Yahweh at Baal Peor for every person who he walked after Baal Peor he destroyed him Yahweh God your from midst your.

4 Nanso, wɔn a na wɔdi Awurade mo Onyankopɔn nokorɛ nyinaa da so te ase bɛsi ɛnnɛ.

And you who were clinging on Yahweh God your [are] alive all of you this day.

5 Sɛ moduru asase a mobɛtena so no so a, yeinom ne mmara a ɛsɛ sɛ modi so. Ɛfiri Awurade, yɛn Onyankopɔn, nkyɛn. Ɔde ama me sɛ memfa mma mo.

See - I have taught you statutes and judgments just as he commanded me Yahweh God my to do thus in [the] midst of the land where you [are] about to go there towards to take possession of it.

6 Sɛ modi so a, ɛbɛma mo agye nim wɔ adwene ne nyansa mu. Na sɛ aman a wɔatwa mo ho ahyia no te saa mmara yi a, wɔbɛteam sɛ, “Ɔman bɛn na wɔwɔ nyansa ne adwene sɛ Israel!”

And you will take care and you will observe [them] for that [will be] wisdom your and understanding your to [the] eyes of the peoples which they will hear! all the statutes these and they will say certainly [is] a people wise and understanding the nation great this.

7 Ɔman kɛseɛ bɛn na ɛwɔ onyame a ɔbɛn wɔn pɛɛ te sɛ Awurade, yɛn Onyankopɔn, a yɛfrɛ no a ɔgye yɛn so yi?

For who? [is] a nation great which [belongs] to it a god near to it like Yahweh God our in all calling we to him.

8 Na ɔman bɛn na ɛwɔ edin sei a ɛwɔ mmara pa te sɛ saa mmara yi a mede rema mo ɛnnɛ yi?

And who? [is] a nation great which [belongs] to it statutes and judgments righteous like all the law this which I [am] setting before you this day.

9 Monhwɛ yie! Monhwɛ yie pa ara na mo werɛ amfiri deɛ moahunu sɛ Awurade yɛ ma mo. Sɛ mote ase yi, mommma saa nsɛm yi mfiri mo adwene mu da! Na monhwɛ nso sɛ mo mma ne mo nananom nso bɛte.

Only take heed to yourself and guard self your exceedingly lest you should forget the things which they have seen eyes your and lest they should depart from heart your all [the] days of life your and you will make known them to children your and to [the] children of children your.

10 Ka kyerɛ wɔn, ne titire no, ɛda a mokɔgyinaa Awurade mo Onyankopɔn anim wɔ bepɔ Horeb a ɔka kyerɛɛ me sɛ, “Frɛ ɔmanfoɔ no wɔ mʼanim na mɛkyerɛ wɔn deɛ wɔnyɛ no. Sɛ ɛba saa a, wɔbɛsua sɛdeɛ wɔbɛdi me ni berɛ dodoɔ a wɔte ase no, na ɛnam so ma wɔatumi akyerɛ wɔn mma mmara no.”

[the] day When you stood before Yahweh God your at Horeb when said Yahweh to me assemble to me the people so I may make hear them words my that they will learn! to fear me all the days which they [will be] alive on the land and children their they will teach!

11 Mobɛgyina bɛnee bepɔ no ayaase ɛberɛ a na bepɔ no rehye no. Egyaframa no tu kɔɔ soro a omununkum ne esum kabii aduru no.

And you drew near! and you stood! under the mountain and the mountain [was] burning with fire to [the] heart of the heavens darkness cloud and thick darkness.

12 Na Awurade kasa faa ogya no mu kyerɛɛ mo. Motee nsɛm no, nanso moanhunu no. Ɛnne kɛkɛ na ɛbaeɛ.

And he spoke Yahweh to you from [the] middle of the fire a sound of words you [were] hearing and a form not you [were] seeing except a voice.

13 Ɔdaa nʼapam a ɔkyerɛɛ mo sɛ monni so no adi; mmaransɛm edu a ɔtwerɛɛ guu aboɔ ɛpono mmienu so no.

And he declared to you covenant his which he commanded you to observe [the] ten the words and he inscribed them on two tablets of stone.

14 Saa ɛberɛ no na Awurade hyɛɛ me sɛ memfa mmara a ɛsɛ sɛ modi so wɔ asase a morebɛhyɛne so akɔtena so no mma mo.

And me he commanded Yahweh at the time that to teach you statutes and judgments to observe you them in the land where you [are] about to pass over there towards to take possession of it.

15 Monhwɛ yie! Ɛberɛ a Awurade kasa faa ogya mu kyerɛɛ mo firi bepɔ Horeb so no, moanhunu no.

And you will take heed exceedingly to selves your for not you saw any form on [the] day [when] he spoke Yahweh to you at Horeb from [the] middle of the fire.

16 Ɛno enti, Monnnaadaa mo ho nyɛ mfoni hunu bi wɔ mo tirim sɛ ɔyɛ ɔbaa anaa ɔbarima,

Lest you should act corruptly! and you will make for yourselves an image of a form of any figure a likeness of a male or a female.

17 aboa anaa anomaa,

A likeness of any animal which [is] on the earth a likeness of any bird of wing which it flies in the heavens.

18 aboa a ɔwea fam anaa nsuomnam.

A likeness of any creeping [thing] on the ground a likeness of any fish which [is] in the waters from under to the earth.

19 Na sɛ mohwɛ ewiem na mohunu owia, ɔsrane ne nsoromma a, mma wɔnntwetwe mo nkɔsom wɔn. Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, yɛɛ saa ewiem abɔdeɛ yi maa nnipa a wɔwɔ asase so nyinaa.

And lest you should lift up eyes your the heavens towards and you will see the sun and the moon and the stars all [the] host of the heavens and you will be drawn aside and you will bow down to them and you will serve them which he has assigned Yahweh God your them to all the peoples under all the heavens.

20 Na mo deɛ, Awurade yii mo firii dadeɛ fononoo mu wɔ Misraim sɛ mommɛyɛ nʼadedifoɔ sɛdeɛ mote ɛnnɛ yi.

And you he took Yahweh and he brought out you from [the] furnace of iron from Egypt to become for him a people of inheritance as the day this.

21 Mo enti, Awurade bo fuu me yie. Ɔkaa ntam sɛ, merentwa Asubɔnten Yordan nkɔ asase pa a Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, de rema mo sɛ mo agyapadeɛ sononko no so da.

And Yahweh he was angry with me on words your and he swore to not to pass over I the Jordan and to not to go into the land good which Yahweh God your [is] about to give to you an inheritance.

22 Ɛwom sɛ mobɛtwa Yordan akɔtena hɔ asase no so, na me deɛ, mɛwu wɔ asuo no fa ha.

For I [am] about to die in the land this not I [am] about to pass over the Jordan and you [are] about to pass over and you will take possession of the land good this.

23 Enti, monhwɛ yie na moammu apam a Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, ne mo ayɛ no so. Sɛ moyɛ abosom sɛso biara a mo Awurade mo Onyankopɔn abra mo no a, na ɛkyerɛ sɛ, moabu apam no so.

Take heed to yourselves lest you should forget [the] covenant of Yahweh God your which he has made with you and you will make for yourselves an image a form of anything which he commanded you Yahweh God your.

24 Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, yɛ Onyame ninkunfoɔ ne ogya a ɔhye adeɛ Onyankopɔn.

For Yahweh God your [is] a fire consuming he a God jealous.

25 Moawowo mma ne mmanana akyi, na moatena asase no so akyɛre no, sɛ bɔne fa mo na moyɛ ohoni bi nam so yɛ bɔne wɔ Awurade mo Onyankopɔn ani so nam so hyɛ no Abufuo a,

For you will father children and children of children and you will grow old in the land and you will act corruptly and you will make an image of a form of anything and you will do the evil in [the] eyes of Yahweh God your to provoke to anger him.

26 mefrɛ ɔsoro ne fam sɛ mʼadansefoɔ de tia mo saa ɛda yi sɛ, ntɛm so, mobɛhye afiri asase a moretwam wɔ so akɔ Yordan akɔfa no so. Morentena hɔ nkyɛ na wɔasɛe mo pasapasa.

I call as witnesses against you this day the heavens and the earth that certainly you will perish! quickly from on the land where you [are] about to pass over the Jordan there towards to take possession of it not you will prolong! days on it for utterly you will be destroyed!

27 Na Awurade bɛbɔ mo apansam aman mu a mo mu kakra bi na wɔbɛtena ase.

And he will scatter Yahweh you among the peoples and you will be left men of number among the nations where he will drive away Yahweh you there towards.

28 Ɛhɔ a ɛyɛ ahɔhosase no so na mobɛsom ahoni a wɔde nnua ne aboɔ na ayɛ, anyame a wɔnhunu adeɛ na wɔnte asɛm na wɔnnidi nte hwa no.

And you will serve there gods [the] work of [the] hands of a human wood and stone which not they see! and not they hear! and not they eat! and not they smell!

29 Ɛhɔ na mobɛpere bio ahwehwɛ Awurade mo Onyankopɔn. Na sɛ mode mo akoma ne mo kra nyinaa hwehwɛ no a, mobɛhunu no.

And you will seek from there Yahweh God your and you will find [him] for you will seek him with all heart your and with all being your.

30 Sɛ ɔhaw bi to mo na yeinom nyinaa ba mo so a, akyire no, mobɛsane akɔ Awurade mo Onyankopɔn nkyɛn na moayɛ ɔsetie ama no.

When it is distress to you and they will come upon you all the things these at [the] end of the days and you will return to Yahweh God your and you will listen to voice his.

31 Ɛfiri sɛ, mo Awurade mo Onyankopɔn no yɛ mmɔborɔhunu Onyankopɔn. Ɔrennya mo na ɔrensɛe mo anaa ne werɛ remfiri apam a ɔne mo agyanom pameeɛ a ɔkaa ntam sii so no.

For [is] a God compassionate Yahweh God your not he will abandon you and not he will destroy you and not he will forget [the] covenant of ancestors your which he swore to them.

32 Hwehwɛ abakɔsɛm mu firi ɛberɛ a Onyankopɔn bɔɔ nnipa wɔ asase so bɛsi ɛnnɛ yi. Afei, hwehwɛ firi ɔsoro ano kɔsi ɔsoro ano. Hwɛ sɛ biribi kɛseɛ a ɛte sɛ yei asi pɛn anaasɛ woate biribi saa pɛn?

That ask please to days former which they were before you from the day when he created God - humankind on the earth and to from [the] end of the heavens and to [the] end of the heavens ¿ has it happened like the thing great this or ¿ has it been heard like it.

33 Ɔman bi ate Onyankopɔn nne sɛ ɔrekasa afiri ogya mu sɛdeɛ moteeɛ na wɔda so te ase yi anaa?

¿ Has it heard a people [the] voice of a god speaking from [the] middle of the fire just as you have heard you and has it lived?

34 Onyame foforɔ bi nam ɔgye a ɔnam amanehunu, nsɛnkyerɛnneɛ a ɛyɛ nwanwa, ɔko, tumidie ne ahodwiredeɛ so agye ɔman bi afiri ɔman foforɔ bi nsam afa sɛ ne dea anaa? Nanso, saa na Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, yɛ maa mo wɔ Misraim a mo ani hunuiɛ.

Or - ¿ has it attempted a god to come to take for itself a nation from [the] midst of a nation by trials by signs and by wonders and by battle and by a hand strong and by an arm outstretched and by terrors great like all that he did for you Yahweh God your in Egypt to eyes your.

35 Ɔdaa yeinom nyinaa adi kyerɛɛ mo sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a mobɛhunu sɛ Awurade yɛ Onyankopɔn a nʼakyi obi nni hɔ.

You you were shown to know that Yahweh he [is] God there not [is] still more from to alone him.

36 Ɔmaa motee ne nne firi soro nam so tenetenee mo so. Ɔmaa mohunuu ne ogya fadum wɔ asase so, ɛnna motee ne nne firii ogya no mfimfini.

From the heavens he caused to hear you voice his to discipline you and on the earth he showed you fire his great and words his you heard from [the] middle of the fire.

37 Esiane sɛ na ɔpɛ mo agyanom asɛm, na ɔpɛɛ sɛ ɔhyira wɔn asefoɔ enti na ɔno ara nam ne tumi kɛseɛ so yii mo firii Misraim no.

And because that he loved ancestors your and he chose offspring his after him and he brought out you by own presence his by power his great from Egypt.

38 Ɔpamoo saa aman yi a na wɔn ho yɛ den sene mo wɔ mo anim sɛdeɛ mobɛba wɔn asase so abɛdi so sɛdeɛ ɛte ɛnnɛ yi.

To dispossess nations great and mighty more than you from before you to bring in you to give to you land their an inheritance as the day this.

39 Enti, monkae na momma no ntim mo akoma mu: Awurade yɛ Onyankopɔn wɔ ɔsoro ne asase so, na onyame bi nka ne ho bio!

And you will know this day and you will bring back to heart your that Yahweh he [is] God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath there not [is] still more.

40 Sɛ moyɛ ɔsetie ma mmara no ne ahyɛdeɛ no a mede bɛma mo ɛnnɛ no a, ɛbɛsi mo ne mo mma yie. Mobɛnyini akyɛre wɔ asase a Awurade mo Onyankopɔn de rema mo afebɔɔ no so.

And you will keep statutes his and commandments his which I [am] commanding you this day that it will go well for you and for children your after you and so that you may prolong days on (the land *L(abh)*) which Yahweh God your [is] about to give to you all the days.

41 Afei, Mose yii nkuropɔn mmiɛnsa bi wɔ Yordan apueeɛ fam

Then he set apart Moses three cities on [the] other side of the Jordan [the] rising of towards [the] sun.

42 a, sɛ ɛba sɛ obi akum obi a wanhyɛ da na ɔnni onipa ko no ho menasepɔ bi a, ɔtumi dwane kɔ hɔ kɔbɔ ne ho adwaa.

To flee there towards a killer who he will kill neighbor his with no knowledge and he not [was] hating him from yesterday [the] third day and he will flee to one of the cities these and he will live.

43 Ɔyii Beser a ɛda ɛserɛ ne asase tata so no maa Rubenfoɔ. Ɔde Ramot a ɛwɔ Gilead no maa Gadfoɔ ɛnna ɔde Golan a ɛwɔ Basan no nso maa Manase abusuakuo.

Bezer in the wilderness in [the] land of the plain for the Reubenite[s] and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadite[s] and Golan in Bashan for the Manassite[s].

44 Yeinom ne mmara a Mose de maa Israelfoɔ no.

And this [is] the law which he set Moses before [the] people of Israel.

45 Israelfoɔ no firii Misraim no, yeinom ne akwankyerɛ, mmara ne ahyɛdeɛ a Mose de maa wɔn

These [are] the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments which he spoke Moses to [the] people of Israel when came out they from Egypt.

46 ɛberɛ a wɔduruu bɔnhwa a ɛbɛn Bet-Peor a ɛda Asubɔnten Yordan apueeɛ fam. Kane no, na Amorifoɔ na wɔte asase yi so ɛberɛ a wɔn ɔhene Sihon a ɔfiri Hesbon di adeɛ. Mose ne Israelfoɔ firi Misraim ɛreba no, wɔsɛe ɔhene yi ne nkurɔfoɔ.

On [the] other side of the Jordan in the valley opposite to Beth Peor in [the] land of Sihon [the] king of the Amorite[s] who [was] dwelling in Heshbon whom he struck down Moses and [the] people of Israel when came out they from Egypt.

47 Wɔfaa nʼasase no sane faa Basanhene Og asase nso kaa ho. Saa ahemfo baanu yi na wɔyɛ Amorifoɔ ahemfo a wɔte Yordan apueeɛ.

And they took possession of land his and [the] land of - Og [the] king of Bashan [the] two [the] kings of the Amorite[s] who [was] on [the] other side of the Jordan [the] rising of [the] sun.

48 Saa asase yi na ɛfiri Aroer a ɛda Arnon subɔnhwa ano kɔsi Sion bepɔ, a wɔfrɛ no Hermon no ho.

From Aroer which [is] on [the] edge of [the] wadi of Arnon and to [the] mountain of Siyon that [is] Hermon.

49 Israelfoɔ no sane faa nsaase a ɛfiri Araba ɛpo no ano kɔsi bepɔ Pisga ase.

And all the Arabah [the] other side of the Jordan east-wards and to [the] sea of the Arabah under [the] slopes of Pisgah.