Deuteronômio 4

1 Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them, that you may live and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you. 2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you. 3 Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for Yahweh your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from among you. 4 But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive today. 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it. 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people." 7 For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him? 8 What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?

9 Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children— 10 the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, "Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children." 11 You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. 12 Yahweh spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice. 13 He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets. 14 Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it. 15 Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire, 16 lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; 19 and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky. 20 But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today. 21 Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance; 22 but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you shall go over and possess that good land. 23 Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you. 24 For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God. 25 When you father children and children’s children, and you have been long in the land, and then corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight to provoke him to anger, 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed. 27 Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where Yahweh will lead you away. 28 There you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. 29 But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice. 31 For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them. 32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as great as this thing is, or has been heard like it? 33 Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live? 34 Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35 It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him. 36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire. 37 Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt; 38 to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today. 39 Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else. 40 You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.

41 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, 42 that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live: 43 Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

44 This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel. 45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt, 46 beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck when they came out of Egypt. 47 They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise; 48 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Siyon (also called Hermon), 49 and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

Ka Whakahaua e Mohi te Whakarongo

1 Nā, whakarongo mai rā ināianei, e Īharaira, ki ngā tikanga, ki ngā whakaritenga e whakaako atu nei ahau ki a koutou kia mahia; kia ora ai koutou, kia tae atu ai, kia noho ai hoki ki te whenua e hōmai nei e Ihowā, e te Atua o ō koutou mātua, ki a koutou. 2 Ko te kupu, e whakahaua atu nei e ahau ki a koutou, kaua e tāpiritia ki ētahi atu, kaua anō e kinitia atu tētahi wāhi ōna; kia rite ai i a koutou ngā whakahau a Ihowā, a tō koutou Atua, e whakahaua nei e ahau ki a koutou.

3 Kua kite ō koutou kanohi i tā Ihowā i mea ai mō Paara-Peoro. Ko ngā tāngata katoa hoki i whai i a Paara-Peoro whakamatea rawatia iho rātou e Ihowā, e tō koutou Atua, i roto i a koutou. 4 Ko koutou ia, i awhi rā ki a Ihowā, ki tō koutou Atua, e ora katoa ana i tēnei rā.

5 Titiro, kua whakaako ahau i a koutou ki ngā tikanga, ki ngā whakaritenga, ki a Ihowā, ki a tōku Atua i ako ai ki ahau, hei mahi mā koutou i waenganui o te whenua e haere atu nei koutou ki reira ki te tango. 6 Nā, puritia, mahia; ko tō koutou whakaaro nui hoki ia, me tō koutou mōhio ki te titiro mai a ngā tauiwi, a ngā mea e rongo ana ki ēnei tikanga katoa, ā, ka mea rātou, "Koia hoki, he hunga mōhio, he hunga tūpato tēnei iwi nui." 7 Ko wai hoki te iwi nui, e whiwhi ana ki te atua pēnei te tata ki a rātou me Ihowā, me tō tātou Atua, e tata mai nei i ā tātou kārangaranga katoa ki a ia? 8 Ko wai hoki te iwi nui, i a ia nei ngā tikanga me ngā whakaritenga tika, pēnei me tēnei ture katoa e hoatu nei e ahau ki tō koutou aroaro i tēnei rā?

9 Māu ia koe e tiaki, me tiaki mārie anō tōu wairua, kei wareware ki ngā mea i kite ai ōu kanohi, kei riro atu hoki i roto i tōu ngākau, i ngā rā katoa e ora ai koe; engari me whakaako āu tama, me ngā tama hoki a āu tama ki ēnā mea – 10 ki te rā anō hoki i tū ai koe i te aroaro o Ihowā, o tōu Atua, i Horepa, i a Ihowā meatanga mai ki ahau, "Huihuia mai te iwi ki ahau, ā, māku e mea kia rongo rātou i āku kōrero, kia whakaakona ai kia wehi i ahau i ngā rā katoa e ora ai rātou i runga i te whenua, hei whakaako atu mā rātou ki ā rātou tama." 11 Nā, ka whakatata koutou, ka tū hoki i raro iho o te maunga; ko te maunga hoki kā tonu i te ahi, ā, kakati noa ki waenganui o te rangi, te pōuri! Te kapua! Nā, pōuri kerekere. 12 Nā, ka kōrero mai a Ihowā ki a koutou i waenganui o te ahi. Ko te puakanga mai o ngā kupu tā koutou i rongo ai, tēnā ko tētahi āhua kīhai i kitea; heoi anō ko te reo kau. 13 Nā, ka kauwhautia e ia ki a koutou tāna kawenata, i whakahaua e ia ki a koutou kia whakaritea, arā ngā ture kotahi tekau, ā, tuhituhia iho e ia ki ngā papa kōhatu e rua. 14 I whakahau anō a Ihowā i ahau i taua wā, kia whakaakona koutou ki ngā tikanga, ki ngā whakaritenga, hei mahi mā koutou ki te whenua e haere atu nei koutou ki reira ki te tango.

Whakatūpato ki ngā Whakapakoko

15 Tiakina mārietia rā ō koutou wairua; kīhai hoki koutou i kite i tētahi āhua, me he aha, me he aha, i te rā i kōrero ai a Ihowā ki a koutou i Horepa, i waenganui o te ahi; 16 kei hē koutou, kei hangā i te whakapakoko mā koutou, i te ritenga o tētahi tauira – i te āhua o te tāne, o te wahine rānei; 17 i te āhua o tētahi kararehe o te whenua, i te āhua o tētahi manu whai parirau e rererere ana i te rangi, 18 i te āhua o tētahi mea e ngōkingōki ana i te whenua, i te āhua o tētahi ika i roto i te wai i raro iho o te whenua. 19 Kei anga ake rānei ōu kanohi ki te rangi, ka kite i te rā, i te marama rānei, i ngā whetū, i te ope katoa o te rangi, nā, ka tākina atu koe ki te koropiko atu ki ēnā mea, ki te mahi atu hoki ki ēnā mea, i tuwhaina mai nei e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, mō ngā iwi katoa i raro o te rangi, puta noa, puta noa. 20 Nā Ihowā ia koutou i tango, nāna hoki koutou i whakaputa mai i roto i te oumu rino, i Īhipa, kia waiho ai hei iwi tupu māna, me koutou ināianei.

21 I riri mai anō a Ihowā ki ahau mō tā koutou hoki, ā, oati mai ana e kore ahau e whiti i Horano, e kore anō e tae ki te whenua pai, ka hōmai nei e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, ki a koe hei kāinga tupu. 22 Engari ka mate ahau ki tēnei whenua, e kore ahau nei e whiti i Horano; ko koutou ia ka whiti, ka tango hoki i taua whenua pai. 23 Kia tūpato, kei wareware ki te kawenata a Ihowā, a tō koutou Atua, i whakaritea e ia ki a koutou, kei hanga hoki he whakapakoko mā koutou ki te ritenga o tētahi mea i rīria mai nei koe e Ihowā, e tōu Atua. 24 Ko Ihowā hoki, ko tōu Atua, he ahi e kai ana, he Atua hae ia.

25 E whānau āu tamariki me ngā tamariki a āu tamariki, ā, ka roa tō koutou noho ki te whenua, ā, ka taka koutou, ka hanga hoki i te whakapakoko ki te āhua o tētahi mea, ā, ka mahi i te mea e kino ana ki te titiro a Ihowā, a tōu Atua, hei whakapātaritari i a ia. 26 Ka waiho e ahau i tēnei rā te rangi me te whenua hei kaititiro mō koutou, mō te matenga hoki e hohoro ai koutou te mate atu i te whenua e whiti atu nei koutou i Horano ki reira, ki te tango; e kore e roa ō koutou rā ki reira, engari ka tino ngaro rawa koutou. 27 Ā, ka whakamarara a Ihowā i a koutou ki ngā tauiwi, ā, he hunga torutoru o koutou e toe i roto i ngā tauiwi, e kawea atu ai koutou e Ihowā ki reira. 28 Ā, ka mahi koutou i reira ki ngā atua i hangā e ngā ringa tangata, ki te rākau, ki te kōhatu, e kore nei e kite, e kore e rongo, e kore e kai, e kore anō e hongi. 29 Otiia ki te rapu koe i reira i a Ihowā, i tōu Atua, nā, ka kitea e koe, ki te whakapaua katoatia tōu ngākau me tōu wairua ki te rapu i a ia. 30 Ki te mate koe, ā, ka pono ki a koe ēnei mea katoa i ngā rā ā muri ake nei, ka hoki koe ki a Ihowā, ki tōu Atua, ka whakarongo anō hoki ki tōna reo. 31 He Atua tohu hoki a Ihowā, tōu Atua; e kore ia e whakarere i a koe, e kore anō hoki e whakangaro i a koe, e kore hoki e wareware ki te kawenata ki ōu mātua, i oati ai ia ki a rātou.

32 Ui atu hoki ki ngā rangi onamata, ō mua i a koe, o te rā i hangā ai e te Atua te tangata ki runga ki te whenua, i tētahi pito o te rangi pakū noa ki tētahi pito o te rangi, i puta mai rānei tētahi mea hei rite mō tēnei mea te nui, i rangona rānei he rite ki tēnei? 33 I rongo rānei tētahi iwi i te reo o te Atua e kōrero mai ana i waenganui o te ahi, me tāu i rongo ai, ā, ora ake? 34 I whakamātau rānei te Atua te haere iho, te tango i tētahi iwi māna waenganui i tētahi iwi kē, i runga i ngā whakamātau, i ngā tohu, i ngā merekara, i te whawhai, i te ringaringa kaha, i te ringaringa mārō, i ngā whakawehi nui, i ngā mea katoa i mea ai a Ihowā, tō koutou Atua ki a koutou, ki tō koutou aroaro i Īhipa?

35 I whakakitea mai ai ēnā mea ki a koe kia mōhio ai koe ki a Ihowā, ko ia te Atua; kāhore kē atu i a ia. 36 I meatia koe e ia kia rongo ki tōna reo i te rangi, hei whakaako i a koe; ā, i te whenua i whakakitea e ia tāna ahi nui ki a koe; ko āna kupu hoki i rangona e koe i waenganui i te ahi. 37 Ā, nō te mea i aroha ia ki ōu mātua, koia i whiriwhiria ai e ia ō rātou uri i muri i a rātou, i whakaputaina mai ai hoki koe i Īhipa, me tāna titiro tonu iho, i runga anō i tōna kaha nui; 38 i mea ai ki te pei i ngā iwi he nui, he kaha i a koe i tōu aroaro, ki te kawe i a koe, ki te hoatu i tō rātou oneone ki a koe hei kāinga pūmau; koia tēnei ināianei.

39 Nā, kia mōhio koe i tēnei rā, kia whakaaro hoki i roto i tōu ngākau, ko Ihowā, ko ia te Atua i te rangi i runga, i te whenua hoki i raro; kāhore kē atu. 40 Nā, kia mau ki āna tikanga, ki āna whakahau, e whakahaua nei e ahau i tēnei rā ki a koe, hei pai hoki mōu, mō āu tama i muri i a koe, kia roa ai ōu rā ki te whenua ka hoatu nei e Ihowā, e tōu Atua ki a koe ā ake tonu atu.

Ngā Pā Whakaora i te Rāwhiti o Horano

41 Kātahi a Mohi ka motuhake i ngā pā e toru i tēnei taha o Horano, whaka te rāwhiti; 42 hei rerenga atu mō te tangata whakamate, i whakamate i tōna hoa, otiia, ehara i te mea āta whakaaro, ehara hoki i te hoariri nōna i mua. Nā, ka rere ia ki tētahi o aua pā, ā, ka ora: 43 arā, i Pehere i te koraha, i te whenua mānia, mō ngā Reupeni; i Rāmoto i Kireara, mō ngā Kari; i Korana i Pahana, mō ngā Mānahi.