5 Mose 5

1 Mose frɛɛ Israelfoɔ nyinaa ka kyerɛɛ wɔn sɛ: Montie mmara ne ahyɛdeɛ a mede rema mo ɛnnɛ no yie. Monsua na monni so.

And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, Hear, Israel, the ordinances and judgements, all that I speak in your ears this day, and you shall learn them, and observe to do them.

2 Ɛberɛ a yɛwɔ Horeb no, Awurade yɛn Onyankopɔn ne yɛn yɛɛ apam bi.

The Lord your God made a covenant with you in Choreb.

3 Ɛnyɛ yɛn agyanom na Awurade ne wɔn yɛɛ apam tete no, na mmom, ɔne yɛn a yɛte ase ɛnnɛ yi na ɛyɛeɛ.

The Lord did not make this covenant with your fathers, but with you: you are all here alive this day.

4 Awurade ne mo kasaa animuanimu firi ogyaframa no mu.

The Lord spoke to you face to face in the mountain out of the midst of the fire.

5 Megyinaa mo ne Awurade ntam, ɛfiri sɛ, na mosuro ogya no enti, moamforo bepɔ no. Ɔkasa kyerɛɛ me na me nso mekaa nsɛm a ɔkaeɛ no kyerɛɛ mo. Nsɛm a ɔkaeɛ no nie:

And I stood between the Lord and you at that time to report to you the words of the Lord, (because you were afraid before the fire, and you went not up to the mountain) saying,

6 “Mene Awurade mo Onyankopɔn a meyii mo firii nkoasom wɔ Misraim no.

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

7 “Monnsom onyame foforɔ biara nka me ho.

You shall have no other gods before my face.

8 Monnyɛ ohoni anaa biribiara a ɛsɛ adeɛ a ɛwɔ ewiem, anaa deɛ ɛwɔ asase so, anaa deɛ ɛwɔ nsuo mu, anaa deɛ ɛwɔ asase ase.

You shall not make to yourself an image, nor likeness of any thing, whatever things [are] in the heaven above, and whatever [are] in the earth beneath, and whatever [are] in the waters under the earth.

9 Monnkoto ohoni biara nsom no ɛkwan biara so, na me, Awurade mo Onyankopɔn, meyɛ ninkunfoɔ. Na me ne onyame foforɔ bi nkyɛ mo dɔ a modɔ me no. Na sɛ nnipa bi bɔne a wayɛ enti metwe wɔn aso a, metwe wɔn aso kɔsi wɔn awontoatoasoɔ a wɔtan me no nyinaa so.

You shall not bow down to them, nor shall you serve them; for I am the Lord your God, a jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation to them that hate me,

10 Na medɔ awoɔ ntoatoasoɔ mpem a wɔdɔ me na wɔdi mʼahyɛdeɛ so.

and doing mercifully to thousands of them that love me, and that keep my commandments.

11 Mommmɔ Awurade Onyankopɔn din basabasa. Sɛ moyɛ saa a, ɔbɛbu mo fɔ.

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord your God will certainly not acquit him that takes his name in vain.

12 Monkae homeda na monni no sɛ ɛda kronkron, sɛdeɛ Awurade ahyɛ no.

Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord your God commanded you.

13 Nnansia na momfa nyɛ mo nnwuma nyinaa,

Six days you shall work, and you shall do all your works;

14 na ɛda a ɛtɔ so nson no yɛ homeda ma Awurade Onyankopɔn. Saa ɛda no, ɛnsɛ sɛ moyɛ adwuma biara; ɛnsɛ sɛ mo mmammarima, mo mmabaa anaa mo asomfoɔ anaa mo anantwie ne mo afunumu anaa mo ahɔhoɔ yɛ adwuma biara.

but on the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the Lord your God: you shall do in it no work, you, and your son, and your daughter, your man-servant, and your maidservant, your ox, and your ass, and all your cattle, and the stranger that sojourns in the midst of you; that your man-servant may rest, and your maid, and your ox, as well as you.

15 Monkae sɛ berɛ bi a atwam no na moyɛ nkoa wɔ Misraim, na Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, nam anwanwa tumi ne tumi nnwuma so na ɔyii mo firii hɔ. Ɛno enti na Awurade mo Onyankopɔn hyɛ mo sɛ monni homeda no.

And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out thence with a mighty hand, and a high arm: therefore the Lord appointed you to keep the sabbath day and to sanctify it.

16 Di wʼagya ne wo maame ni sɛdeɛ Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, hyɛ mo no. Na ɛbɛma wo nkwa nna aware wɔ asase a Awurade wo Onyankopɔn de bɛma wo no so.

Honour your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you; that it may be well with you, and that you may live long upon the land, which the Lord your God gives you.

17 Nni awu.

You shall not commit murder.

18 Nsɛe awadeɛ.

You shall not commit adultery.

19 Mmɔ korɔno

You shall not steal.

20 Nni wo yɔnko ho adansekurumu

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.

21 Mma wʼani mmere wo yɔnko yere. Mma wʼani mmere wo yɔnko fie anaa nʼasase anaa nʼakoa anaa nʼafenawa, ne nʼanantwie, nʼafunumu anaa biribiara a ɛyɛ wo yɔnko dea.”

You shall not covet your neighbour's wife; you shall not covet your neighbour's house, nor his field, nor his man-servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any beast of his, nor any thing that is your neighbour's.

22 Awurade de nne kɛseɛ a ɛfiri ogyaframa no mu ka kyerɛɛ mo firii omununkum a esum kabii atwa ho ahyia mu. Nsɛm a ɔkaeɛ ara ni na ɔtwerɛɛ ne nsɛm no guu aboɔ ɛpono mmienu so na ɔde maa me.

These words the Lord spoke to all the assembly of you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire—[there was] darkness, blackness, storm, a loud voice—and he added no more, and he wrote them on two tables of stone, and he gave them to me.

23 Motee nne no firii esum mu ɛberɛ a bepɔ no ogya redɛre framfram no, mmusuakuo mu ntuanofoɔ no nyinaa baa me nkyɛn.

And it came to pass when you heard the voice out of the midst of the fire, for the mountain burnt with fire, that you came to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders:

24 Wɔkaa sɛ, “Awurade yɛn Onyankopɔn, akyerɛ yɛn nʼanimuonyam ne ne tumi na yɛate ne nne afiri ogya mu. Ɛnnɛ, yɛahunu sɛ, sɛ Onyankopɔn ne onipa kasa koraa a, onipa tumi tena ase.

and you said, Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: this day we have seen that God shall speak to man, and he shall live.

25 Na afei, adɛn enti na ɛsɛ sɛ yɛwuwu? Sɛ Awurade, yɛn Onyankopɔn, kasa kyerɛ yɛn bio a, akyinnyeɛ biara nni ho sɛ yɛbɛwuwu na ogya no ahye yɛn pasaa.

And now let us not die, for this great fire will consume us, if we shall hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, and we shall die.

26 Enti, ɔkra teasefoɔ bɛtumi ate Onyankopɔn teasefoɔ no nne afiri ogyaframa no mu na watena ase anaa?

For what flesh [is there] which has heard the voice of the living God, speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we [have heard], and shall live?

27 Wo, kɔ na kɔtie deɛ Awurade yɛn Onyankopɔn no ka. Na afei, bra na bɛka biribiara a ɔka kyerɛɛ wo no kyerɛ yɛn, na yɛbɛtie na yɛadi so.”

Do you draw near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say, and you shall speak to us all things whatever the Lord our God shall speak to you, and we will hear, and do.

28 Awurade tee mo nne ɛberɛ a mokasa kyerɛɛ me no, Awurade ka kyerɛɛ me sɛ, “Mate nsɛm a nnipa ka kyerɛɛ wo no. Nsɛm a wɔkaaeɛ no nyinaa yɛ.

And the Lord heard the voice of your words as you spoke to me; and the Lord said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, even all things that they have said to you. [They have] well [said] all that they have spoken.

29 Ao, sɛ daa wɔbɛnya akoma sɛdeɛ ɛbɛma wɔasuro me na wɔadi mʼahyɛdeɛ nyinaa so a, anka ɛbɛyɛ ama wɔn ne wɔn asefoɔ nyinaa afebɔɔ.

O that there were such a heart in them, that they should fear me and keep my commands always, that it might be well with them and with their sons for ever.

30 “Kɔ na kɔka kyerɛ wɔn sɛ, wɔnsane mmra wɔn ntomadan mu.

Go, say to them, Return you to your houses;

31 Nanso, wo deɛ, wo ne me ntena ha sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a mɛtumi de me nhyɛ ne me mmara ama wo. Wobɛkyerɛkyerɛ nnipa no sɛdeɛ wɔbɛtie wɔ asase a mede rema wɔn no so sɛ wɔn agyapadeɛ.”

but stand you here with me, and I will tell you all the commands, and the ordinances, and the judgements, which you shall teach them, and let them do so in the land which I give them for an inheritance.

32 Enti, Mose ka kyerɛɛ nnipa no sɛ, “Monyɛ ɔsetie mma Awurade mo Onyankopɔn ahyɛdeɛ nyinaa, na monni ne nkyerɛkyerɛ so pɛpɛɛpɛ.

And you shall take heed to do as the Lord your God commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left,

33 Akwan a Awurade mo Onyankopɔn ahyɛ mo sɛ monnante so no so, monnante so. Na moatena ase nna tenten na asi mo yie wɔ asase a morebɛkɔ akɔtena so no so.”

according to all the way which the Lord your God commanded you to walk in it, that he may give you rest; and that it may be well with you, and you may prolong your days on the land which you shall inherit.