Deuteronomy 4
1 Gbọ́ Israẹli, gbọ́ òfin àti ìlànà tí èmi yóò kọ́ ọ yín. Ẹ tẹ̀lé wọn kí ẹ ba à lè yè, kí ẹ ba à lè lọ láti gba ilẹ̀ tí Olúwa Ọlọ́run àwọn baba yín yóò fi fún un yín.
“And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and to the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that you live, and have gone in, and possessed the land which YHWH God of your fathers is giving to you.
2 Ẹ má ṣe fi kún àwọn ohun tí mo pàṣẹ fún un yín, ẹ kò sì gbọdọ̀ yọ kúrò nínú wọn, ṣùgbọ́n ẹ pa òfin Olúwa Ọlọ́run yín tí mo fún un yín mọ́.
You do not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor diminish from it, to keep the commands of your God YHWH which I am commanding you.
3 Ẹ ti fi ojú ara yín rí ohun tí Olúwa ṣe ní Baali-Peori. Olúwa Ọlọ́run yín run gbogbo àwọn tí ó tẹ̀lé òrìṣà Baali-Peori kúrò ní àárín yín.
Your eyes are seeing that which YHWH has done in Ba‘al-Peor, for every man who has gone after Ba‘al-Peor, your God YHWH has destroyed him from your midst;
4 Ṣùgbọ́n gbogbo ẹ̀yin tí ẹ gbẹ́kẹ̀lé Olúwa Ọlọ́run láìyẹsẹ̀ ni ẹ wà láààyè lónìí.
and you who are cleaving to your God YHWH [are] alive today—all of you.
5 Ẹ kíyèsi i, mo ti kọ́ ọ yín ní àwọn òfin àti àṣẹ bí Olúwa Ọlọ́run mi ti pàṣẹ fún mi, kí ẹ ba à le tẹ̀lé wọn ní ilẹ̀ náà tí ẹ ń lọ láti ní ní ìní.
See, I have taught you statutes and judgments, as my God YHWH has commanded me, to do so in the midst of the land to where you are going in to possess it;
6 Ẹ máa kíyèsi wọn dáradára. Èyí ni yóò fi ọgbọ́n àti òye yín han àwọn orílẹ̀-èdè. Àwọn tí wọn yóò gbọ́ nípa àwọn ìlànà wọ̀nyí, tí wọn yóò sì máa wí pé, “Dájúdájú, orílẹ̀-èdè ńlá yìí kún fún ọgbọ́n àti òye.”
and you have kept and done [them] (for it [is] your wisdom and your understanding) before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these statutes, and they have said, Surely a people wise and understanding [is] this great nation.
7 Orílẹ̀-èdè olókìkí wo ni ọlọ́run wọn tún súnmọ́ wọn, bí Olúwa Ọlọ́run wa ti súnmọ́ wa nígbàkígbà tí a bá ń ké pè é?
For which [is] the great nation that has God [so] near to it, as our God YHWH, in all we have called to Him?
8 Orílẹ̀-èdè wo ló tún le lókìkí láti ní àwọn ìlànà òdodo, àti òfin gẹ́gẹ́ bí àwọn òfin wọ̀nyí tí mo ń gbé kalẹ̀ fún un yín lónìí.
And which [is] the great nation which has righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you today?
9 Kìkì i kí ẹ kíyèsára, kí ẹ sì ṣọ́ra a yín gidigidi kí ẹ má ba à gbàgbé àwọn ohun tí ojú yín ti rí, kí wọn má sì ṣe sá kúrò lóókan àyà yín níwọ̀n ìgbà tí ẹ sì wà láààyè. Ẹ máa fi wọ́n kọ́ àwọn ọmọ yín àti àwọn ọmọ wọn tí ń bọ̀ lẹ́yìn wọn.
Only, take heed to yourself, and watch your soul exceedingly, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from your heart all [the] days of your life; and you have made them known to your sons and to your sons’ sons.
10 Ẹ rántí ọjọ́ tí ẹ dúró níwájú Olúwa Ọlọ́run yín ní Horebu, nígbà tí ó wí fún mi pé, “Kó àwọn ènìyàn wọ̀nyí jọ síwájú mi láti gbọ́ ọ̀rọ̀ mi, kí wọ́n lè kọ́ láti máa bu ọlá náà fún mi ní gbogbo ìgbà tí wọ́n bá gbé lórí ilẹ̀ náà, kí wọ́n sì le è fi wọ́n kọ́ àwọn ọmọ wọn.”
[Never forget] the day when you have stood before your God YHWH in Horeb, in YHWH’s saying to me, Assemble the people to Me, and I cause them to hear My words, so that they learn to fear Me all the days that they are alive on the ground, and they teach their sons;
11 Ẹ̀yin súnmọ́ tòsí, ẹ sì dúró ní ẹsẹ̀ òkè náà, òkè náà sì ń jóná dé agbede-méjì ọrun, pẹ̀lú òkùnkùn, àti àwọsánmọ̀, àti òkùnkùn biribiri.
and you draw near and stand under the mountain, and the mountain is burning with fire to the heart of the heavens, [with] darkness, cloud, and thick darkness,
12 Olúwa sì bá yín sọ̀rọ̀ láti àárín iná náà wá. Ẹ gbọ́ àwọn ìró ohùn, ṣùgbọ́n ẹ kò rí ẹnikẹ́ni, ohùn nìkan ni ẹ gbọ́.
and YHWH speaks to you out of the midst of the fire; you are hearing a voice of words, but you are seeing no likeness, only a voice;
13 Ó sọ àwọn májẹ̀mú rẹ̀ fún un yín àní àwọn òfin mẹ́wẹ̀ẹ̀wá tí ó pàṣẹ fún un yín láti máa tẹ̀lé, ó sì kọ wọ́n sórí wàláà òkúta méjì.
and He declares His covenant to you, which He has commanded you to do, the Ten Commandments, and He writes them on two tablets of stone.
14 Olúwa sì pàṣẹ fún mi nígbà náà láti kọ yín ní ìlànà àti ìdájọ, kí ẹ̀yin kí ó lè máa ṣe wọ́n ní ilẹ̀ náà, ní ibi tí ẹ̀yin ń lọ láti gbà á.
And YHWH has commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, for your doing them in the land to where you are passing over to possess it.
15 Ẹ kíyèsára gidigidi, torí pé, ẹ kò rí ìrísí ohunkóhun ní ọjọ́ tí Olúwa bá yín sọ̀rọ̀ ní Horebu láti àárín iná wá. Torí náà ẹ ṣọ́ra yín gidigidi,
And you have been very watchful of your souls, for you have not seen any likeness in the day of YHWH’s speaking to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,
16 kí ẹ ma ba à ba ara yín jẹ́ nípa ṣíṣe ère fún ara yín, àní ère lóríṣìíríṣìí yálà èyí tí ó ní ìrísí ọkùnrin tàbí tí obìnrin,
lest you do corruptly, and have made for yourselves a carved image, a likeness of any figure: a form of male or female,
17 tàbí ti ẹranko orí ilẹ̀, tàbí ti ẹyẹ tí ń fò ní òfúrufú,
a form of any beast which [is] in the earth, a form of any winged bird which flies in the heavens,
18 tàbí ti àwòrán onírúurú ẹ̀dá tí ń fà lórí ilẹ̀, tàbí ti ẹja nínú omi.
a form of any creeping thing on the ground, a form of any fish which [is] in the waters below the earth.
19 Bí ẹ bá wòkè tí ẹ rí oòrùn, òṣùpá àti àwọn ìràwọ̀: àwọn ohun tí a ṣe lọ́jọ̀ sójú ọ̀run, ẹ má ṣe jẹ́ kí wọ́n tàn yín jẹ dé bi pé ẹ̀yin yóò foríbalẹ̀ fún wọn, àti láti máa sin ohun tí Olúwa Ọlọ́run yín dá fún gbogbo orílẹ̀-èdè lábẹ́ ọ̀run.
And lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and have seen the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and have been drawn away, and have bowed yourself to them and served them, which your God YHWH has apportioned to all the peoples under all the heavens.
20 Olúwa Ọlọ́run yín sì ti mú ẹ̀yin jáde kúrò nínú iná ìléru ńlá, àní ní Ejibiti, láti lè jẹ́ ènìyàn ìní i rẹ̀, bí ẹ̀yin ti jẹ́ báyìí.
And YHWH has taken you, and He is bringing you out from the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be to Him for a people, an inheritance, as [at] this day.
21 Inú Olúwa ru sí mi nítorí yín, ó sì ti búra pé èmi kì yóò la Jordani kọjá, èmi kì yóò sì wọ ilẹ̀ rere tí Olúwa Ọlọ́run fi fún un yín, ní ìní yín.
And YHWH has showed Himself angry with me because of your words, and swears to my not passing over the Jordan, and to my not going into the good land which your God YHWH is giving to you [for] an inheritance;
22 Èmi yóò kú ní ilẹ̀ yìí, èmi kì yóò la Jordani kọjá, ṣùgbọ́n ẹ̀yin ti fẹ́ rékọjá sí òdìkejì odò láti gba ilẹ̀ rere náà.
for I am dying in this land; I am not passing over the Jordan, but you are passing over and have possessed this good land.
23 Ẹ ṣọ́ra, kí ẹ má ṣe gbàgbé májẹ̀mú Olúwa Ọlọ́run yín tí ó ti bá a yín dá. Ẹ má ṣe ṣe ère ní ìrísí ohunkóhun fún ara yín, èèwọ̀ ni Olúwa Ọlọ́run yín kà á sí.
Take heed to yourselves lest you forget the covenant of your God YHWH which He has made with you, and have made a carved image for yourselves, a likeness of anything [concerning] which your God YHWH has charged you;
24 Torí pé iná ajónirun ni Olúwa Ọlọ́run yín, Ọlọ́run owú ni.
for your God YHWH is a consuming fire—a zealous God.
25 Lẹ́yìn ìgbà tí ẹ ti ní àwọn ọmọ àti àwọn ọmọ ọmọ, tí ẹ sì ti gbé ní ilẹ̀ yìí pẹ́, bí ẹ bá wá ba ara yín jẹ́ nípa ṣíṣe irú ère yówù tó jẹ́, tí ẹ sì ṣe búburú lójú Olúwa Ọlọ́run yín, tí ẹ sì mú un bínú.
When you beget sons and sons’ sons, and you have become old in the land, and have done corruptly, and have made a carved image, a likeness of anything, and have done evil in the eyes of YHWH to provoke Him to anger,
26 Mo pe ọ̀run àti ayé láti jẹ́rìí takò yín lónìí, pé kíákíá ni ẹ ó parun ní ilẹ̀ náà tí ẹ ń la Jordani kọjá lọ láti gbà. Ẹ kò ní pẹ́ ní ilẹ̀ náà, ṣùgbọ́n ẹ̀yin yóò run pátápátá.
I have caused the heavens and the earth to testify against you this day, that you perish utterly quickly from off the land to where you are passing over the Jordan to possess it; you do not prolong days on it, but are utterly destroyed;
27 Olúwa yóò fọ́n yín ká sí àárín àwọn ènìyàn náà, àwọn díẹ̀ nínú yín ni yóò yè láàrín orílẹ̀-èdè tí Olúwa yóò fọ́n yín sí.
and YHWH has scattered you among the peoples, and you have been left few in number among the nations to where YHWH leads you,
28 Ẹ ó sì máa sin ọlọ́run tí á fi ọwọ́ ènìyàn ṣe: tí wọ́n fi igi àti òkúta ṣe, èyí tí kò le ríran, gbọ́rọ̀, jẹun tàbí gbọ́ òórùn.
and you have served gods there, work of man’s hands, wood and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29 Bí ẹ̀yin bá wá Olúwa Ọlọ́run yín láti bẹ̀ ẹ́, ẹ ó ri i, bí ẹ bá wá a, pẹ̀lú gbogbo ọkàn yín àti gbogbo àyà a yín.
And you have sought your God YHWH from there, and have found [Him] when you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30 Bí ẹ bá wà nínú wàhálà, bí gbogbo nǹkan wọ̀nyí bá ṣẹlẹ̀ sí yín, láìpẹ́ ẹ ó tún padà tọ Olúwa Ọlọ́run yín wá, ẹ ó sì gbọ́ tirẹ̀.
In the distress of yours, when all these things have found you in the latter end of the days, and you have turned back to your God YHWH and have listened to His voice—
31 Nítorí pé Olúwa Ọlọ́run yín aláàánú ni, kò ní gbàgbé tàbí pa yín rẹ́ tàbí kó gbàgbé májẹ̀mú pẹ̀lú àwọn baba ńlá yín, èyí tí ó fi ìdí rẹ̀ múlẹ̀ nípa ìbúra.
for your God YHWH [is] a merciful God—He does not fail you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He has sworn to them.
32 Ẹ béèrè báyìí nípa ti àwọn ọjọ́ ìgbàanì ṣáájú kí a tó bí i yín, láti ìgbà tí Ọlọ́run ti dá ènìyàn sórí ilẹ̀ ayé. Ẹ béèrè láti igun ọ̀run kan sí èkejì. Ǹjẹ́ irú nǹkan olókìkí báyìí: ti ṣẹlẹ̀ rí? Ǹjẹ́ a ti gbọ́ irú u rẹ̀ rí?
For ask now of the former days which have been before you, from the day that God created man on the earth, and from the [one] end of the heavens even to the [other] end of the heavens, whether there has been as this great thing, or [if anything] has been heard like it.
33 Ǹjẹ́ àwọn ènìyàn mìíràn tí ì gbọ́ ohùn Ọlọ́run rí, tí ó sọ̀rọ̀ jáde láti inú iná, gẹ́gẹ́ bí ẹ̀yin ti gbọ́ tí ẹ sì yè?
Has a people heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, you—and live?
34 Ǹjẹ́ Ọlọ́run kan ti gbìyànjú àti mú orílẹ̀-èdè kan jáde kúrò nínú òmíràn fúnra rẹ̀ rí, nípa ìdánwò, nípa iṣẹ́ àmì, àti iṣẹ́ ìyanu nípa ogun, tàbí nípa ọwọ́ agbára tàbí nína apá, àti nípa ẹ̀rù ńlá: gẹ́gẹ́ bí gbogbo èyí tí Olúwa Ọlọ́run yín ṣe fún un yín ní Ejibiti ní ojú ẹ̀yin tìkára yín?
Or has God tried to go in to take a nation for Himself from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that your God YHWH has done to you in Egypt before your eyes?
35 A fi gbogbo nǹkan wọ̀nyí hàn yín kí ẹ bá a lè gbà pé Olúwa ni Ọlọ́run. Kò sì sí ẹlòmíràn lẹ́yìn rẹ̀.
You—you have been shown [it], to know that He, YHWH, [is] God; there is none else besides Him.
36 Ó jẹ́ kí ẹ gbọ́ ohùn rẹ̀ láti ọ̀run wá, láti kọ́ ọ yín. Ní ayé, ó fi iná ńlá rẹ̀ hàn yín, ẹ sì gbọ́ ohùn rẹ̀ láti àárín iná wá,
He has caused you to hear His voice from the heavens, to instruct you; and on earth He has showed you His great fire, and you have heard His words out of the midst of the fire.
37 torí pé ó fẹ́ràn àwọn baba ńlá yín, ó sì yan àwọn ọmọ wọn ní ipò lẹ́yìn wọn. Nípa ìwà láààyè àti nípa agbára ńlá rẹ̀ ni ó fi mú un yín kúrò ní Ejibiti.
And because that He has loved your fathers, He also fixes on their seed after them, and brings you out in His presence, by His great power, from Egypt,
38 Láti lé àwọn orílẹ̀-èdè tí ó tóbi tí ó sì lágbára níwájú yín; láti le è mú un yín wá sí ilẹ̀ wọn kí ẹ lè jogún rẹ̀ bí ó ti rí lónìí.
to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you from your presence, to bring you in to give their land to you [for] an inheritance, as [at] this day.
39 Ẹ gbà kí ẹ sì fi sọ́kàn lónìí pé Olúwa ni Ọlọ́run lókè ọ̀run lọ́hùn ún àti ní ilẹ̀ ní ìsàlẹ̀ níhìn-ín. Kò sí òmíràn mọ́.
And you have known today, and have turned [it] back to your heart, that He, YHWH, [is] God in the heavens above and on the earth below—there is none else;
40 Ẹ pa àwọn ìlànà àti àṣẹ rẹ̀ mọ́ tí mo ń fún un yín lónìí; kí ó ba à le è yẹ yín, kí ẹ̀yin sì le è pẹ́ ní ilẹ̀ tí Olúwa Ọlọ́run yín fún un yín ní gbogbo ìgbà.
and you have kept His statutes and His commands which I am commanding you today, so that it is well for you, and for your sons after you, and so that you prolong days on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you—all the days.”
41 Mose sì ya àwọn ìlú mẹ́ta kan sọ́tọ̀ ní apá ìwọ̀-oòrùn Jordani.
Then Moses separates three cities beyond the Jordan, toward the sun-rising,
42 Kí apànìyàn kí ó lè máa sá síbẹ̀, tí ó bá ṣi ẹnìkejì rẹ̀ pa, tí kò sì kórìíra rẹ̀ tẹ́lẹ̀ rí, àti pé bí ó bá sá sí ọ̀kan nínú ìlú wọ̀nyí kí ó lè là.
for the fleeing there of the manslayer who slays his neighbor unknowingly, and he is not hating him before, and he has fled to one of these cities and he has lived:
43 Àwọn ìlú mẹ́tẹ̀ẹ̀ta náà nìwọ̀nyí: Beseri ní ijù, ní ilẹ̀ pẹ̀tẹ́lẹ̀, tí àwọn ọmọ Reubeni; Ramoti ní Gileadi, ti àwọn ọmọ Gadi àti Golani ní Baṣani, ti àwọn ará Manase.
Bezer in the wilderness, in the land of the plain, for the Reubenite; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadite; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassite.
44 Èyí ni òfin tí Mose gbé kalẹ̀ fún àwọn ará Israẹli.
And this [is] the law which Moses has set before the sons of Israel;
45 Wọ̀nyí ni àwọn ẹ̀rí, àti ìlànà àti ìdájọ́ tí Mose fi lélẹ̀ fún ún àwọn ọmọ Israẹli, lẹ́yìn tí wọ́n ti jáde kúrò ní Ejibiti.
these [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses has spoken to the sons of Israel in their coming out of Egypt,
46 Tí wọ́n sì wà ní ẹ̀bá àfonífojì Beti-Peori ní ìlà-oòrùn Jordani; ní ilẹ̀ Sihoni, ọba àwọn Amori tí ó jẹ ọba Heṣboni tí Mose àti àwọn ọmọ Israẹli ṣẹ́gun, bí wọ́n ṣe ń ti Ejibiti bọ̀.
beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorite, who is dwelling in Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel have struck in their coming out of Egypt;
47 Wọ́n gba ilẹ̀ rẹ̀, àti ilẹ̀ Ogu ọba Baṣani àwọn ọba Amori méjèèjì tí ń bẹ ní ìlà-oòrùn Jordani.
and they possess his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorite who [are] beyond the Jordan, [toward] the sun-rising,
48 Ilẹ̀ wọ̀nyí bẹ̀rẹ̀ láti Aroeri ní etí odò Arnoni dé orí òkè Sirioni (èyí ni Hermoni).
from Aroer, which [is] by the edge of the Brook of Arnon, even to Mount Zion, which [is] Hermon—
49 Àti gbogbo aginjù ní ìlà-oòrùn Jordani títí dé Òkun Iyọ̀ ní ìsàlẹ̀ gẹ̀rẹ́gẹ̀rẹ́ Pisga.
and all the plain beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the Sea of the Plain, below the Springs of Pisgah.
