Deuteronômio 31

1 Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. 2 He said to them, "I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. Yahweh has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’ 3 Yahweh your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken. 4 Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them. 5 Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you. 6 Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them, for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you."

7 Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it. 8 Yahweh himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged."

9 Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and to all the elders of Israel. 10 Moses commanded them, saying, "At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of booths, 11 when all Israel has come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and the foreigners who are within your gates, that they may hear, learn, fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law, 13 and that their children, who have not known, may hear and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it."

14 Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him."

Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.

15 Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood over the Tent’s door. 16 Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them. 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’ 18 I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods.

19 "Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. 20 For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant. 21 It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I promised them."

22 So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel.

23 He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, "Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them. I will be with you."

24 When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 25 Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, saying, 26 "Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, that it may be there for a witness against you. 27 For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death? 28 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them. 29 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn away from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days, because you will do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands."

30 Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.

Ka Whiriwhiria a Hohua hei Whakakapi i a Mohi

1 Ā, i haere a Mohi, i kōrero i ēnei kupu ki a Īharaira katoa. 2 I mea ia ki a rātou: "Ko tōku kaumātua i tēnei rā ka kotahi rau e rua tekau ngā tau; e kore ahau e āhei anō te kōpiko atu, te kōpiko mai. Kua mea mai hoki a Ihowā ki ahau, ‘E kore koe e whiti i tēnei Horano.’ 3 Ko Ihowā, ko tōu Atua, ko ia e whakawhiti ki mua i a koe; māna e whakangaro atu ēnei iwi i mua i a koe, ā, ka riro rātou i a koe. Ā, ko Hohua, ko ia e whiti atu i mua i a koe, ka rite ki tā Ihowā i kōrero ai. 4 Ā, ka rite tā Ihowā e mea ai ki a rātou ki tāna i mea ai ki a Hihona rāua ko Oka, ki ngā kīngi o ngā Amori, ki tō rātou whenua hoki; i hunā nei e ia. 5 Ā, ka hōmai rātou e Ihowā ki tō koutou aroaro, ā, ka rite tā koutou e mea ai ki a rātou ki ngā whakahau katoa i whakahau ai ahau ki a koutou. 6 Kia māia, kia toa, kaua e wehi, kaua e pāwera i a rātou: nō te mea ko Ihowā, ko tōu Atua, ko ia te haere tahi ana i a koe; e kore ia e whakarere i a koe, e kore hoki e mawehe atu i a koe."

7 Nā, ka karanga a Mohi ki a Hohua, ā, ka mea ki a ia i te tirohanga a Īharaira katoa, "Kia māia, kia toa; ko koe hoki e haere tahi me tēnei iwi ki te whenua i oati ai a Ihowā ki ō rātou mātua kia hōmai ki a rātou; māu anō rātou e whakawhiwhi ki taua wāhi. 8 Ko Ihowā anō, ko ia te haere ana i tōu aroaro, hei tōu taha ia, e kore ia e whakarere i a koe, e kore hoki e mawehe atu i a koe; kaua e wehi, kaua hoki e pāwera."

Kia Pānui te Ture i ia Tau Tuawhitu

9 Ā, tuhituhia iho e Mohi tēnei ture, hoatu ana ki ngā tohunga, ki ngā tama a Rīwai, ko rātou nei ngā kaiamo i te āka o te kawenata a Ihowā, ki ngā kaumātua katoa anō hoki o Īharaira. 10 I ako anō a Mohi ki a rātou, i mea: "Hei te mutunga o ngā tau e whitu, hei te wā anō e rite ai i te tau tuku noa, i te Hākari o Ngā Whare Wharau, 11 i te wā e tae ai a Īharaira katoa ki te whakakite i a rātou ki te aroaro o Ihowā, o tōu Atua, ki te wāhi e whiriwhiri ai ia, ka kōrero ai koe i tēnei ture ki te aroaro o Īharaira katoa, kia rongo ai rātou. 12 Whakaminea te iwi – ngā tāne, ngā wāhine, ngā tamariki, me tōu tangata iwi kē i roto i ōu kūwaha – kia rongo ai rātou, kia whakaakona ai, kia wehi ai i a Ihowā, i tō koutou Atua, kia mau ai ki te mahi i ngā kupu katoa o tēnei ture. 13 Kia rongo ai hoki ā rātou tamariki, kīhai nei i mōhio, kia whakaakona ai kia wehi i a Ihowā, i tō koutou Atua, i ngā rā katoa e ora ai koutou ki te whenua e whiti atu nei koutou i Horano ki reira ki te tango."

Ngā Whakaako Mutunga a Ihowā ki a Mohi

14 Nā, ka mea a Ihowā ki a Mohi, "Nanā, ka tata ōu rā e mate ai koe; karangatia atu a Hohua, e tū hoki kōrua ki roto ki te tapenākara o te whakaminenga, ā, māku e ako ki a ia." Nā, ka haere a Mohi rāua ko Hohua, ā, tū ana rāua i roto i te tapenākara o te whakaminenga. 15 Nā, ka puta mai a Ihowā ki te tapenākara i roto anō i te pou kapua; ā, tū ana te pou kapua i runga i te kūwaha o te tapenākara.

16 Kātahi ka mea a Ihowā ki a Mohi, "Nanā, ka takoto koe ki ōu mātua; ā, ka whakatika te iwi nei, ka whai atu, ka pūremu ki ngā atua kē o te whenua, e haere nā rātou ki reira noho ai ki waenganui i a rātou; ka whakarere i ahau, ka whakataka hoki i tāku kawenata i whakaritea atu e ahau ki a rātou. 17 Ā, ka mura tōku riri ki a rātou i taua rā, ā, ka whakarere ahau i a rātou, ka huna hoki i tōku kanohi i a rātou, ā, ka pau rātou, ka pā anō hoki ngā kino maha me ngā matenga ki a rātou. Ā, ka mea rātou i taua rā, ‘Kāhore ianei ēnei kino i pā mai ki a tātou, nō te mea kāhore tō tātou Atua i roto i a tātou?’ 18 Ko ahau ia, ka huna rawa ahau i tōku kanohi i taua rā, mō ngā kino katoa i meatia e rātou, mō rātou i tahuri ki ngā atua kē.

19 "Nā, tuhituhia tēnei hei waiata mā kōrua, ka whakaako hoki ki ngā tama a Īharaira; hoatu hoki ki roto ki ō rātou waha, kia ai tēnei waiata hei kaiwhakaatu mōku ki ngā tama a Īharaira. 20 Nō te mea ka oti rātou te kawe e ahau ki te whenua i oati ai ahau ki ō rātou mātua, e rerengia nei e te waiū, e te honi; ā, ka kai rātou, ka mākona, ka mōmona hoki; ko reira rātou tahuri ai ki ngā atua kē, mahi ai ki a rātou, ā, ka whakahāwea rātou ki ahau, ka whakataka hoki i tāku kawenata. 21 Ā tēnei ake, hei te pānga o ngā kino maha, o ngā mate maha ki a rātou, nā, mā tēnei waiata e whakaatu ki tō rātou aroaro; nō te mea e kore e mahue i ngā waha o ō rātou uri. E mōhio ana hoki ahau ki ō rātou whakaaro e tito nei rātou ināianei nei anō, i te mea kīanō ahau i kawe noa i a rātou ki te whenua i oati ai ahau."

22 Nā, tuhituhia ana e Mohi tēnei waiata i taua rangi anō, ā, whakaakona ana ki ngā tama a Īharaira.

23 Ā, i whakahau anō ia i a Hohua, i te tama a Nunu, i mea, "Kia māia, kia toa; māu hoki e kawe ngā tama a Īharaira ki te whenua i oati ai ahau ki a rātou; ā, hei a koe ahau."

24 Ā, ka oti i a Mohi te tuhi ngā kupu o tēnei ture ki tētahi pukapuka, ā poto noa, 25 nā, ka whakahau a Mohi i ngā Rīwaiti, i ngā kaiamo i te āka o te kawenata a Ihowā, ka mea, 26 "Tangohia tēnei Pukapuka o te Ture, hoatu ki te taha o te āka o te kawenata a Ihowā, a tō koutou Atua, ā, hei reira takoto ai, hei whakaatu ki a koe. 27 Nō te mea e mōhio ana ahau ki tōu tutū, ki tōu kakī mārō; nanā, i ahau e ora nei anō i a koutou i tēnei rā, e tutū ana anō koutou ki a Ihowā; ā, ka mate ahau, tērā noa ake! 28 Huihuia mai ki ahau ngā kaumātua katoa o ō koutou iwi, me ō koutou rangatira, ā, ka kōrero ahau i ēnei kupu ki ō rātou taringa, ka waiho hoki i te rangi, i te whenua hei kaititiro mō rātou. 29 Nō te mea e mōhio ana ahau, ko muri i tōku matenga taka rawa ai koutou, peka kē ai i te huarahi i kīia atu e ahau ki a koutou; ā, ka pono mai te kino ki a koutou i ngā rā whakamutunga; mō koutou ka mahi i te kino i te tirohanga a Ihowā, hei whakapātaritari i a ia ki te mahi a ō koutou ringa."

Te Waiata a Mohi

30 Ā, kōrerotia ana e Mohi ngā kupu o tēnei waiata ki ngā taringa o te huihuinga katoa o Īharaira ā poto noa: