Deuteronômio 9

1 Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky, 2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, "Who can stand before the sons of Anak?" 3 Know therefore today that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.

4 Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, "For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;" because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations. 5 Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 6 Know therefore that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people. 7 Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. 8 Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you. 9 When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. 10 Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.

11 It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights that Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant. 12 Yahweh said to me, "Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned away from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!"

13 Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, "I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people. 14 Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they."

15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which Yahweh had commanded you. 17 I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. 18 I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger. 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also. 20 Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. 21 I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain. 22 At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath. 23 When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, "Go up and possess the land which I have given you," you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn’t believe him or listen to his voice. 24 You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you. 25 So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you. 26 I prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin, 28 lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’ 29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm."

Ka Āwhina a Ihowā i a Īharaira

1 Whakarongo, e Īharaira! Ko ā tēnei rā koe whiti ai i Horano, ā, ka tae, ka riro i a koe ngā iwi nunui ake, kaha ake i a koe, ngā pā nunui hoki, he mea taiepa ā tutuki noa ki te rangi, 2 he iwi nunui, he iwi roroa, ko ngā tama a te Anakimi, e mōhio nā koe. Kua rongo nā koe i te pepeha mō rātou, "Ko wai e tū ki te aroaro o ngā tama a Anaka?" 3 Nā, kia mōhio koe i tēnei rā, ko Ihowā, ko tōu Atua, ko ia kei tōu aroaro e haere ana ānō he ahi e kai ana; māna rātou e huna, māna hoki e whakamate tō rātou tara ki tōu aroaro; ā, ka peia rātou e koe, ka meinga kia hohoro tō rātou ngaro, ka rite ki tā Ihowā i kōrero ai ki a koe.

4 Kei kōrero koe i roto i tōu ngākau, ua pei a Ihowā, tōu Atua, i a rātou i tōu aroaro, kei mea, "He tika nōku i kawe mai ai a Ihowā i ahau ki te tango i tēnei whenua." Kāhore, nō te kino o ēnei iwi i pei ai a Ihowā i a rātou i tōu aroaro. 5 Ehara, i te tika nōu, i te tapatahi rānei o tōu ngākau, i haere ai koe ki te tango i tō rātou whenua; engari he kino nō ēnei iwi i pei ai a Ihowā, tōu Atua, i a rātou i tōu aroaro, he mea hoki kia mana ai te kupu i oati ai a Ihowā ki ōu mātua, ki a Āperahama, ki a Īhaka, ki a Hākopa. 6 Inā, kia mōhio koe, ehara i te tika nōu e hoatu nei e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, tēnei whenua pai ki a koe, kia tangohia e koe; nō te mea he iwi kakī mārō koe.

I Hangā e ngā Īharaira he Kūao Kau Kōura

7 Kia mahara, kei wareware ki āu whakataritari ki a Ihowā, ki tōu Atua, i te koraha. Nō te rā iho anō i haere mai ai koe i te whenua o Īhipa, ā tae noa mai koutou ki tēnei wāhi, e tutū ana koutou ki a Ihowā. 8 I Horepa anō hoki, i whakapātaritari koutou ki a Ihowā kia riri, ā, riri ana a Ihowā ki a koutou, mea ana kia hunā koutou. 9 I tōku pikinga ki te maunga, ki te tiki i ngā papa kōhatu, i ngā papa o te kawenata i whakaritea e Ihowā ki a koutou, nā, ka noho ahau i te maunga, e whā tekau ngā rā, e whā tekau ngā pō; kāhore ahau i kai taro, kāhore i inu wai. 10 Ā, hōmai ana e Ihowā ki ahau ngā papa kōhatu e rua, he mea tuhituhi nā te ringa o te Atua; ā, i reira e mau ana, he mea tuhituhi, ngā kupu katoa i kōrero ai a Ihowā ki a koutou i te maunga, i waenganui o te ahi, i te rā o te huihuinga.

11 Nāwai ā, ka taka ngā rā e whā tekau me ngā pō e whā tekau, nā, ka hōmai e Ihowā ki ahau ngā papa kōhatu e rua, arā ngā papa o te kawenata. 12 Ā, ka mea a Ihowā ki ahau, "Whakatika, hohoro te heke atu i konei; ko tōu iwi hoki i kawea mai nei e koe i Īhipa kua taka ki te hē; kua hohoro rātou te peka kē i te huarahi i kīia ai e ahau ki a rātou; kua hangā e rātou he whakapakoko, he mea whakarewa mō rātou."

13 I kōrero mai anō a Ihowā ki ahau, i mea, "Kua kite ahau i tēnei iwi, nanā, he iwi kakī mārō rātou; 14 tukua ahau ki te huna i a rātou, ki te horoi atu hoki i tō rātou ingoa i raro i te rangi. Ā, māku koe e mea hei iwi kaha ake, hei iwi nui ake i a rātou."

15 Heoi, tahuri ana ahau, heke iho ana i te maunga, ko te maunga hoki kā tonu i te ahi; ā, ko ngā papa e rua o te kawenata i ōku ringa e rua. 16 Nā, ko tāku tirohanga atu, nā, kua hara koutou ki a Ihowā, ki tō koutou Atua; kua hanga koutou i te kūao kau mā koutou, he mea whakarewa: kua hohoro koutou te peka kē i te huarahi i kīia e Ihowā ki a koutou. 17 Nā, ka mau ahau ki ngā papa e rua, pangā atu ana e ahau i roto i ōku ringa e rua, ā, wāhia iho aua mea e ahau ki tō koutou aroaro.

18 Nā, takoto ana ahau ki te aroaro o Ihowā, pērā anō me te tīmatanga, e whā tekau ngā rā, e whā tekau ngā pō; kīhai ahau i kai taro, kīhai i inu wai; mō ō koutou hara katoa hoki i hara ai koutou, i mahi ai i te kino ki te aroaro o Ihowā, hei whakapātaritari i a ia. 19 I pāwera hoki ahau i te riri, i te āritarita, i a Ihowā rā i whakatakariri ai ki a koutou, e mea ana, kia hunā koutou. Otiia whakarongo mai ana anō a Ihowā ki ahau i taua wā hoki. 20 Ā, tino kaha te riri o Ihowā ki a Ārona, i mea kia whakamatea ia; nā, ka īnoi anō hoki ahau mō Ārona i taua wā. 21 Nā, ka tango ahau i tō koutou hara, i te kūao kau i hangā e koutou, ā, tahuna ana e ahau ki te ahi, patōkia iho, whakangakungakutia ana kia ririki, ngotangota noa ānō he puehu. Nā, pangā atu ana e ahau ōna ngota ki te awa e rere iho ana i te maunga.

22 Ā, i Tapera, i Maha hoki, i Kipiroto Hataawa i whakapātaritari anō koutou ki a Ihowā.

23 Nā, i te tononga a Ihowā i a koutou i Karehepārenea, i tāna meatanga mai, "Haere ki runga, tangohia te whenua i hoatu e ahau ki a koutou," nā, ka tutū koutou ki te kupu a Ihowā, a tō koutou Atua, kīhai anō i whakapono ki a ia, kīhai i whakarongo ki tōna reo. 24 He tutū tonu tā koutou ki a Ihowā mai o te rā i mōhio ai ahau ki a koutou.

25 Nā, takoto ana ahau i te aroaro o Ihowā i ngā rā e whā tekau, i ngā pō e whā tekau, i takoto ai ahau; mō te meatanga mai a Ihowā kia whakangaromia koutou. 26 Ā, ka īnoi ahau ki a Ihowā, ka mea, "E Ihowā, e te Atua, kaua e whakangaromia tāu iwi, tāu taonga tupu, i hokona nei e koe i runga i tōu nui, i whakaputaina mai nei e koe i Īhipa ki te ringa kaha. 27 Kia mahara ki āu pononga, ki a Āperahama, ki a Īhaka, ki a Hākopa; kaua e titiro mai ki te pakeke o tēnei iwi, ki tō rātou kino, ki tō rātou hara. 28 Kei mea te whenua i whakaputaina mai nei mātou e koe i reira, ‘He kore kīhai a Ihowā i kaha ki te kawe i a rātou ki te whenua i kōrero ai ia ki a rātou, he kino hoki nōna ki a rātou, i kawea ai rātou e ia kia whakamatea ki te koraha.’ 29 Otirā, ko tāu iwi anō rātou, ko tāu taonga tupu hoki, i whakaputaina mai nei e koe i runga i tōu kaha nui, i tōu tākakau mārō hoki."