3 Mose 20
1 Awurade ka kyerɛɛ Mose sɛ ɔnka nkyerɛ Israelfoɔ no sɛ,
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 “Obiara a ɔfiri mo mu a ɔde ne ba bɛbɔ ɔhyeɛ afɔdeɛ ama Molek no, sɛ ɔyɛ Israelni anaa ɔhɔhoɔ no, wɔbɛsi no aboɔ.
Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: If any man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers, that dwell in Israel, give of his seed to the idol Moloch, dying let him die: the people of the land shall stone him.
3 Na mʼankasa mɛtia saa onipa no na matwa no asuo afiri ne nkurɔfoɔ mu, ɛfiri sɛ, ɔde ne ba ama Molek ama mʼAhyiaeɛ Ntomadan adane baabi a metena a ɛnyɛ yie, na wagu me din kronkron no nso ho fi.
And I will set my face against him: and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, because he hath given of his seed to Moloch, and hath defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my holy name.
4 Na sɛ nnipa a wɔte mpɔtam hɔ no nso boapa yɛ wɔn ho sɛ wɔnnim sɛ ɔbarima no de ne ba abɔ afɔdeɛ ama Molek na wɔankum no a, mʼankasa mɛtia
And if the people of the land neglecting, and as it were little regarding my commandment, let alone the man that hath given of his seed to Moloch, and will not kill him:
5 ɔbarima no ne ne fiefoɔ na matwa ɔno ne nnipa a wɔde wɔn ho to anyame foforɔ so no nyinaa asuo.
I will set my face against that man, and his kindred, and will cut off both him and all that consented with him, to commit fornication with Moloch, out of the midst of their people.
6 “‘Mɛtia obiara a ɔkɔ adebisafoɔ ne abayifoɔ hɔ abisa na ɔkɔdi wɔn akyi adwaman kwan so, na matwa saa onipa no asuo afiri ne nkurɔfoɔ mu.
The soul that shall go aside after magicians, and soothsayers, and shall commit fornication with them, I will set my face against that soul, and destroy it out of the midst of its people.
7 “‘Enti monte mo ho na monyɛ kronkron na mene Awurade mo Onyankopɔn.
Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy because I am the Lord your God.
8 Ɛsɛ sɛ modi me mmara nyinaa so, ɛfiri sɛ, mene Awurade a meyɛ mo kronkron no.
Keep my precepts, and do them. I am the Lord that sanctify you.
9 “‘Obiara a ɔbɛdome nʼagya anaa ne maame no, ɛkwan biara so wɔbɛkum no, ɛfiri sɛ, wadome nʼankasa ne honam ne ne mogya.
He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die: he hath cursed his father, and mother, let his blood be upon him.
10 “‘Sɛ ɔbarima bi kɔfa obi yere a, ɛsɛ sɛ wɔkum ɔbarima no ne ɔbaa no nyinaa.
If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour’s wife, let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.
11 “‘Sɛ ɔbarima bi ne nʼagya yere da a, ɛsɛ sɛ wɔkum ɔbarima no ne ɔbaa no, ɛfiri sɛ, wɔn nyinaa ayɛ bɔne kɛseɛ.
If a man lie with his stepmother, and discover the nakedness of his father, let them both be put to death: their blood be upon them.
12 “‘Na sɛ ɔbarima bi kɔfa nʼase a ɔyɛ ne babarima yere a, ɛsɛ sɛ wɔkum wɔn baanu no nyinaa; wɔn ankasa na wɔagu wɔn ho wɔn ho fi.
If any man lie with his daughter in law, let both die, because they have done a heinous crime: their blood be upon them.
13 “‘Sɛ ɔbarima bi fa ne yɔnko barima a, wɔnkum wɔn baanu no nyinaa. Wɔn ara na wɔpɛ wɔn wuo.
If any one lie with a man as with a woman, both have committed an abomination, let them be put to death: their blood be upon them.
14 “‘Sɛ ɔbarima bi fa ɔbaa bi na ɔsane kɔfa ɔbaa no maame ka ho a, ɛyɛ bɔne kɛseɛ. Wɔbɛhye saa nnipa baasa yi nyinaa anikann de apepa amumuyɛsɛm afiri mo mu.
If any man after marrying the daughter, marry her mother, he hath done a heinous crime: he shall be burnt alive with them: neither shall so great an abomination remain in the midst of you.
15 “‘Sɛ ɔbarima bi fa aboa a, wɔbɛkum ɔbarima no na wɔakum aboa no nso.
He that shall copulate with any beast or cattle, dying let him die, the beast also ye shall kill.
16 “‘Sɛ ɔbaa nso ma aboa fa no a, monkum ɔbaa no ne aboa no nyinaa, ɛfiri sɛ, saa asotwe no fata wɔn.
The woman that shall lie under any beast, shall be killed together with the same: their blood be upon them.
17 “‘Sɛ ɔbarima ne ne nuabaa da a, sɛ ɛyɛ nʼagya babaa o, sɛ nso ɛyɛ ne maame babaa o, ɛyɛ animguasesɛm, enti wɔbɛgyina badwa mu atwa wɔn asuo afiri Israelfoɔ mu. Ɔbarima no ara bɛsoa nʼafɔdie.
If any man take his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, and see her nakedness, and she behold her brother’s shame: they have committed a crime: they shall be slain, in the sight of their people, because they have discovered one another’s nakedness, and they shall bear their iniquity.
18 “‘Sɛ ɔbarima bi kɔfa ɔbaa a wabu ne nsa a, wɔbɛtwa wɔn baanu no nyinaa asuo, ɛfiri sɛ, ɔbarima no ada ɔbaa no ho a ɛnte no adi.
If any man lie with a woman in her flowers, and uncover her nakedness, and she open the fountain of her blood, both shall be destroyed out of the midst of their people.
19 “‘Sɛ obi ne nʼagya nuabaa da a, ɛyɛ akyiwadeɛ. Saa ara nso na ɔne ne maame nuabaa da a, ɛyɛ akyiwadeɛ ara ne no, ɛfiri sɛ, wɔn nyinaa yɛ mogya baako. Ɛsɛ sɛ wɔtwe wɔn aso.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy aunt by thy mother, and of thy aunt by thy father: he that doth this, hath uncovered the shame of his own flesh, both shall bear their iniquity.
20 “‘Sɛ ɔbarima bi fa nʼagya nuabarima yere a, wafa adeɛ a ɛyɛ nʼagya nuabarima no dea; wɔn asotweɛ ne sɛ, wɔbɛsoa wɔn bɔne awu a wɔnwo ba.
If any mall lie with the wife of his uncle by the father, or of his uncle by the mother, and uncover the shame of his near akin, both shall bear their sin: they shall die without children.
21 “‘Sɛ ɔbarima bi ware ne nua yere a, ɛyɛ afideɛ, ɛfiri sɛ, wafa ne nua adeɛ na wɔn nyinaa renwo ba.
He that marrieth his brother’s wife, doth an unlawful thing, he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness: they shall be without children.
22 “‘Ɛsɛ sɛ modi me mmara nyinaa so na mampam mo amfiri mo asase foforɔ yi so.
Keep my laws and my judgments, and do them: lest the land into which you are to enter to dwell therein, vomit you also out.
23 Monnni ɔman no amanneɛ a maka no wɔ mo anim sɛ ɛnyɛ no akyi, ɛfiri sɛ, nneɛma a wɔyɛ a ɛnyɛ no nyinaa, mabɔ mo ho kɔkɔ dada. Ɛno enti na mekyiri saa aman no.
Walk not after the laws of the nations, which I will cast out before you. For they have done all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
24 Mahyɛ mo wɔn asase no ho bɔ sɛ mede bɛma mo. Ɛyɛ asase a nufosuo ne ɛwoɔ sen wɔ so. Mene Awurade mo Onyankopɔn a mama mo ada nso wɔ aman a aka no nyinaa mu.
But to you I say: Possess their land which I will give you for an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from other people.
25 “‘Ɛsɛ sɛ mo nso mohunu nnomaa ne mmoa a mama mo ho ɛkwan sɛ monwe wɔn nam ne wɔn a ɛnsɛ sɛ mowe wɔn nam no ntam nsonsonoeɛ. Ɛwom sɛ mmoa ne nnomaa a mabra sɛ monnnwe no, wɔabu so wɔ asase no so deɛ, nanso monnnwe mfa ngu mo ho fi nhyɛ me abufuo.
Therefore do you also separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the clean fowl from the unclean: defile not your souls with beasts, or birds, or any things that move on the earth, and which I have shewn you to be unclean.
26 Mobɛyɛ kronkron ama me ɛfiri sɛ, me Awurade, meyɛ kronkron na mayi mo afiri nnipa nyinaa mu asi nkyɛn sɛ moyɛ me dea.
You shall be holy unto me, because I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.
27 “‘Ɔbarima anaa ɔbaa a ɔyɛ samanfrɛfoɔ anaasɛ ɔsumanni wɔ mo mu no, ɛsɛ sɛ mokum wɔn. Ɛsɛ sɛ mosi wɔn aboɔ. Ɛyɛ bɔne kɛseɛ.’”
A man, or woman, in whom there is a pythonical or divining spirit, dying let them die: they shall stone them: their blood be upon them.
