Deuteronômio 30

1 It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations where Yahweh your God has driven you, 2 and return to Yahweh your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3 that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you. 4 If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there Yahweh your God will gather you, and from there he will bring you back. 5 Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you will possess it. He will do you good, and increase your numbers more than your fathers. 6 Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. 7 Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. 8 You shall return and obey Yahweh’s voice, and do all his commandments which I command you today. 9 Yahweh your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers, 10 if you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

11 For this commandment which I command you today is not too hard for you or too distant. 12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, "Who will go up for us to heaven, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?" 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, "Who will go over the sea for us, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?" 14 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. 15 Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil. 16 For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it. 17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them, 18 I declare to you today that you will surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants, 20 to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Te Pono Tūturu o te Atua

1 Ā tēnei ake, ā te wā e tae mai ai ēnei mea katoa ki a koe, te manaaki me te kanga, i hoatu nei e ahau ki tōu aroaro, ā, ka mahara tōu hinengaro ki aua mea i roto i ngā iwi katoa e peia ai koe e Ihowā, e tōu Atua ki reira, 2 ā, ka tahuri koe ki a Ihowā, ki tōu Atua, ka whakarongo ki tōna reo, ki ngā mea katoa e whakahau nei ahau i tēnei rā ki a koe, koutou ko āu tamariki, i tōu ngākau katoa, i tōu wairua katoa, 3 kātahi a Ihowā, tōu Atua, ka whakaputa kē i tōu pārautanga, ka aroha anō ki a koe, ka tahuri hoki, ka kohikohi i a koe i roto i ngā iwi katoa i whakamararatia atu ai koe e Ihowā, e tōu Atua ki reira. 4 Mehemea tērā ētahi o koutou i peia kei ngā tōpito rā anō o te rangi, ka kohikohia mai anō koe e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, i reira, ka tīkina anō koe e ia i reira. 5 Ā, ka kawea mai koe e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, ki te whenua i nohoia e ōu mātua, ka nohoia hoki a reira e koe; ā, ka mahi ia i te pai ki a koe, ka mea hoki i a koe kia maha atu i ōu mātua. 6 Ā, ka kokoti a Ihowā, tōu Atua, i tōu ngākau, i te ngākau anō hoki o ōu uri, e aroha ai koe ki a Ihowā, ki tōu Atua, i tōu ngākau katoa, i tōu wairua katoa, kia ora ai koe. 7 Ā, ka tukua iho e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, ēnei kanga katoa ki ōu hoariri, ki te hunga hoki e kino ana ki a koe, i whakatupu kino nei i a koe. 8 Ko koe ia ka tahuri, ka whakarongo ki te reo o Ihowā, ka mahi i āna whakahau katoa, e whakahau nei ahau ki a koe i tēnei rā. 9 Ā, ka mea a Ihowā, tōu Atua, kia nui ngā mea māu i te mahi katoa a tōu ringa, i te hua o tōu kōpū, i te hua hoki o āu kararehe, i te hua hoki o tōu oneone, mō te pai: nō te mea ka tahuri mai anō a Ihowā, ka hari ki a koe mō te pai, ka pērā me ia i hari ki ōu mātua. 10 Ki te whakarongo koe ki te reo o Ihowā, o tōu Atua, ki te pupuri i āna whakahau, i āna tikanga, ka tuhituhia nei ki tēnei Pukapuka o te Ture; ki te tahuri koe ki a Ihowā, ki tōu Atua, i tōu ngākau katoa, i tōu wairua katoa.

Manakohia te Ora

11 Ko tēnei ture hoki, e whakahau nei ahau i tēnei rā ki a koe, ehara i te mea pakeke rawa ki a koe, i te mea tawhiti rānei. 12 Kāhore i te rangi, e mea ai koe, "Ko wai o tātou hei piki ki te rangi ki te tiki atu i tēnā mea mā tātou, hei mea kia rongo atu tātou, kia mahi ai tātou?" 13 Kāhore i tāwāhi o te moana, hei meatanga māu, "Ko wai o tātou hei whakawhiti ki tāwāhi o te moana, ki te tiki i tēnā mea ki a tātou, hei mea kia rongo atu tātou, kia mahi ai tātou?" 14 Kei te tata tonu rā te kupu ki a koe, kei roto i tōu waha, kei roto hoki i tōu ngākau, mō tāu mahi atu.

15 Titiro, kua hoatu e ahau ki tōu aroaro i tēnei rā te ora me te pai, te mate me te kino; 16 i ahau e whakahau nei i a koe i tēnei rā kia aroha ki a Ihowā, ki tōu Atua, kia haere i āna huarahi, kia pupuri i āna whakahau, i āna tikanga, i āna whakaritenga, kia ora ai koe, kia nui ai hoki, kia manaaki ai a Ihowā, tōu Atua, i a koe ki te whenua e haere nei koe ki reira ki te tango.

17 Otiia, ki te tahuri kē tōu ngākau, ki te kore koe e rongo, ā, ka tākina atu koe ki te koropiko ki ngā atua kē, kia mahi hoki ki a rātou; 18 māku e whakaatu ki a koutou i tēnei rā, ka ngaro rawa atu koutou; e kore e roa ō koutou rā ki te whenua e whiti atu nei koe i Horano, e haere atu nei koe ki reira ki te tango.

19 Ka waiho e ahau i tēnei rā te rangi me te whenua hei kaititiro i a koutou, kua hoatu e ahau ki tōu aroaro te ora me te mate, te manaaki me te kanga; nā reira manakohia te ora, kia ora ai koutou ko ōu uri; 20 aroha ki a Ihowā, ki tōu Atua, whakarongo ki tōna reo, piri atu hoki ki a ia. Ko ia hoki tōu ora, te whakaroanga atu mō ōu rā; kia noho ai koe ki te whenua i oati ai a Ihowā ki ōu mātua kia hoatu ki a rātou, ki a Āperahama, ki a Īhaka, ki a Hākopa.