< 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, Israel, hearken unto the statutes, and unto the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that ye live, and have gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah 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.
Ye do not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor diminish from it, to keep the commands of Jehovah your God 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 Jehovah hath done in Baal-Peor, for every man who hath gone after Baal-Peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed him from thy midst;
4 Ṣùgbọ́n gbogbo ẹ̀yin tí ẹ gbẹ́kẹ̀lé Olúwa Ọlọ́run láìyẹsẹ̀ ni ẹ wà láààyè lónìí.
and ye who are cleaving to Jehovah your God, [are] alive, all of you, to-day.
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 Jehovah my God hath commanded me — to do so, in the midst of the land whither ye 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 ye 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, Only, 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 hath God near unto it, as Jehovah our God, in all we have called unto 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 hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you to-day?
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 thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from thy heart, all days of thy life; and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy 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.”
'The day when thou hast stood before Jehovah thy God in Horeb — in Jehovah's saying unto me, Assemble to Me the people, 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 their sons they teach; —
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 ye draw near and stand under the mountain, and the mountain is burning with fire unto the heart of the heavens — darkness, cloud, yea, 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 Jehovah speaketh unto you out of the midst of the fire; a voice of words ye are hearing and a similitude ye are not seeing, 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 declareth to you His covenant, which He hath commanded you to do, the Ten Matters, and He writeth them upon two tables 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 me hath Jehovah commanded at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, for your doing them in the land whither ye 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 ye have been very watchful of your souls, for ye have not seen any similitude in the day of Jehovah's speaking unto 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 ye do corruptly, and have made to you a graven image, a similitude 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 flieth 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 under 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 thou lift up thine eyes towards the heavens, and hast seen the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and thou hast been forced, and hast bowed thyself to them, and served them, which Jehovah thy God hath apportioned to all the peoples under the whole 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 you hath Jehovah taken, 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 Jehovah hath shewed himself wroth with me because of your words, and sweareth to my not passing over the Jordan, and to my not going in unto the good land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee — 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, and ye 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 ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which He hath made with you, and have made to yourselves a graven image, a similitude of anything [concerning] which Jehovah thy God hath charged thee:
24 Torí pé iná ajónirun ni Olúwa Ọlọ́run yín, Ọlọ́run owú ni.
for Jehovah thy God is a fire consuming — 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 thou begettest sons and sons' sons, and ye have become old in the land, and have done corruptly, and have made a graven image, a similitude of anything, and have done the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, 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 to testify against you this day the heavens and the earth, that ye do perish utterly hastily from off the land whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it; ye do not prolong days upon 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 Jehovah hath scattered you among the peoples, and ye have been left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah leadeth 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 ye have served there gods, work of man's hands, wood and stone, which see not, 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 — ye have sought from thence Jehovah thy God, and hast found, when thou seekest Him with all thy heart, and with all thy 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 distress [being] to thee, and all these things have found thee, in the latter end of the days, and thou hast turned back unto Jehovah thy God, and hast hearkened 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 a merciful God [is] Jehovah thy God; He doth not fail thee, nor destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers, which He hath 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, I pray thee, at the former days which have been before thee, from the day that God prepared man on the earth, and from the [one] end of the heavens even unto the [other] end of the heavens, whether there hath been as this great thing — or hath 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?
Hath a people heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, thou — and doth 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 hath God tried to go in to take to Himself, a nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors — according to all that Jehovah your God hath 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.
Thou, thou hast been shewn [it], to know that Jehovah He [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,
'From the heavens He hath caused thee to hear His voice, to instruct thee, and on earth He hath shewed thee His great fire, and His words thou hast heard 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 hath loved thy fathers, He doth also fix on their seed after them, and doth bring thee 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 thou, from thy presence, to bring thee in to give to thee their land — 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 thou hast known to-day, and hast turned [it] back unto thy heart, that Jehovah He [is] God, in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath — 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 thou hast kept His statutes and His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, so that it is well to thee, and to thy sons after thee, and so that thou prolongest days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee — all the days.'
41 Mose sì ya àwọn ìlú mẹ́ta kan sọ́tọ̀ ní apá ìwọ̀-oòrùn Jordani.
Then Moses separateth three cities beyond the Jordan, towards 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 thither of the man-slayer, who slayeth his neighbour unknowingly, and he is not hating him heretofore, and he hath fled unto one of these cities, and he hath 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, of the Reubenite; and Ramoth, in Gilead, of the Gadite; and Golan, in Bashan, of the Manassahite.
44 Èyí ni òfin tí Mose gbé kalẹ̀ fún àwọn ará Israẹli.
And this [is] the law which Moses hath 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 hath spoken unto 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 over-against Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorite, who is dwelling in Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel have smitten, 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, [towards] 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 Arnon, even unto mount Sion, 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 unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

< Deuteronomy 4 >