eng: Forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

aka: Wɔaman afi ɔkwan tee no so enti wɔayera. Wɔafa ɔkwan a Beor ba Bileam a ɔde ne sika a onya no yɛ bɔne no kɔfaa so no so.


eng: but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A speechless donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.

aka: Eyi ma wɔkaa nʼanim wɔ ne bɔne no ho. Nʼafurum de onipa nne kasa de siw odiyifo no adammɔsɛm no ho kwan.


eng: I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,

aka: Onua Filemon, bere biara a mebɔ mpae no mebɔ bi ma wo na meda me Nyankopɔn nso ase.


eng: hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints,

aka: Mete ɔdɔ a wodɔ Onyankopɔn nkurɔfo ne gyidi a wowɔ wɔ Awurade Yesu mu no.


eng: for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

aka: Dema dɔɔ nnɛ wiase yi ma ɔyɛɛ saa guan gyaa me hɔ kɔɔ Tesalonika. Kreske kɔɔ Galatia, Tito nso kɔɔ Dalmatia.


eng: Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.

aka: Luka nko ara na ɔne me wɔ ha. Fa Marko ka wo ho na wo ne no mmra, efisɛ obetumi aboa me adwuma no yɛ.


eng: But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.

aka: Mesomaa Tihiko kɔɔ Efeso.


eng: Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

aka: Anuanom, asɛm a etwa to ne sɛ musuaa ɔkwan pa a ɛsɛ sɛ mofa so tena ase a ɛbɛsɔ Onyankopɔn ani. Na saa pɛpɛɛpɛ na morebɔ mo bra. Enti yɛde yɛn Awurade Yesu din srɛ, hyɛ mo sɛ monyɛ mma ɛmmoro nea moreyɛ mprempren no so.


eng: For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

aka: Munim nkyerɛkyerɛ a esiane Awurade Yesu tumi nti, yetumi kyerɛkyerɛɛ mo.


eng: But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

aka: Enti nea ɛporɔw de nea ɛmporɔw kata ne ho na nea ebewu de nea ɛrenwu kata ne ho a, Kyerɛwsɛm no bɛba mu se, “Wɔasɛe owu; nkonim aba!”


eng: “Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”

aka: “Owu, wo nkonim wɔ he? Owu, wo nwowɔe wɔ he?”


eng: The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

aka: Owu nya ne tumi fi bɔne mu na bɔne nso nya ne tumi fi mmara no mu.


eng: For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

aka: Migye di ampa sɛ owu anaa nkwa anaa abɔfo anaa atumfo anaa nneɛma a ɛwɔ hɔ anaa nneɛma a ɛrebɛba anaa tumi


eng: nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

aka: anaa ɔsoro anaa fam anaa abɔde foforo biara rentumi ntetew yɛn ne Onyankopɔn dɔ a ɛwɔ Kristo Yesu, yɛn Awurade, mu no mu da.


eng: Then they sought for Jesus and spoke with one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?”

aka: Na wɔrehwehwɛ Yesu ahu no. Ɛno nti woduu asɔredan mu hɔ no, wobisabisaa wɔn ho wɔn ho se, “Mugye di sɛ Yesu bɛba afahyɛ yi bi ana?” Ebinom kae se, “Yennye nni.”


eng: Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.

aka: Saa bere yi na asɔfo mpanyin ne Farisifo no ahyɛ sɛ, sɛ obi nim faako a Yesu wɔ a, ɔnkyerɛ na wɔnkɔkyere no.


eng: If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me.

aka: Sɛ menyɛ nnwuma a mʼAgya pɛ sɛ meyɛ no de a ɛno de, munnnye me nni.


eng: But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”

aka: Nanso sɛ meyɛ mʼAgya no nnwuma na sɛ munnnye me nni mpo a munnye nnwuma no nni sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a mubegye adi sɛ Agya no wɔ me mu na me nso mewɔ ne mu.”


eng: When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

aka: Bere duu sɛ Yosef ne Maria kodwira wɔn ho sɛnea Mose mmara kyerɛ no, wɔde abofra no kɔɔ Yerusalem sɛ wɔde no rekɔhyɛ Onyankopɔn nsa.


eng: (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”),

aka: Sɛnea Mose mmara no kyerɛ no, “Sɛ ɔbea wo nʼabakan na ɔyɛ ɔbarima a wɔde no ma Awurade.”


eng: and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”

aka: Wɔkɔɔ asɔredan no mu hɔ nso kɔbɔɔ afɔre, sɛnea mmara no kyerɛ no wɔde nturukuku abien anaa mmorɔnoma mma abien na ɛbɔ afɔre no.


eng: He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,

aka: Waboa nʼakoa Israel na ne werɛ amfi ne mmɔborɔhunu ne ne bɔ


eng: as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his offspring forever.”

aka: a ɔhyɛɛ yɛn agya Abraham ne nʼasefo no da.”


eng: The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry.

aka: Ade kyee anɔpa a wɔrefi Betania hɔ no, ɔkɔm dee no.


eng: Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

aka: Wɔkɔɔ kakra no, ohuu sɛ borɔdɔma dua bi si hɔ a ayɛ kusuu. Ɔkɔɔ hɔ kɔhwɛɛ sɛ aduaba no bi wɔ so ana. Nanso oduu hɔ no ohuu sɛ nhaban nko ara na ɛwɔ so. Saa bere no nso na ɛnyɛ bere a ɛsɛ sɛ borɔdɔma no sow.


eng: A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.

aka: Prɛko pɛ, ahum kɛse bi tu maa asorɔkye bu bɛkataa ɔkorow no so ma ɛyɛɛ sɛ ɛremem.


eng: He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and asked him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”

aka: Saa bere no, na Yesu wɔ ɔkorow no to de ne ti ato sumii so ada. Asuafo no de ahopopo ne nteɛteɛ mu konyan no kae se, “Kyerɛkyerɛfo, yɛreyɛ amem yi ɛmfa wo ho?”


eng: Don’t take any gold, silver, or brass in your money belts.

aka: “Mommmfa sikakɔkɔɔ, dwetɛ anaa kɔbere biara mmɔ mo ho.


eng: Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor sandals, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

aka: Mommmfa akwantukotoku anaa ntade anaa mpaboa anaa pema. Ɛsɛ sɛ odwumayɛni didi.


eng: “Enter in by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter in by it.

aka: “Ɔkwan teateaa no nko ara so na wubetumi afa akɔ ɔsoro! Ɔkwan a ɛkɔ ɔbonsam kurom no trɛw, na nʼapon nso mu bae ma nnipadɔm a wɔfa so kɔ ɔsɛe mu.


eng: How narrow is the gate and the way is restricted that leads to life! There are few who find it.

aka: Ɔpon a wowura mu de kɔ nkwa mu no yɛ hiahiaa na ɔkwan a wɔfa so no nso yɛ teateaa, na nnipa kakraa bi na wohu fa so.


eng: “Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

aka: “Monnhyehyɛ mo agyapade wɔ asase yi so, nea ntɛferɛw betumi awe, na ebetumi agye nkannare na asɛe, na akorɔmfo betumi awia.


eng: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;

aka: Mmom monhyehyɛ mo agyapade wɔ ɔsoro, nea ntɛferɛw ntumi nwe, na entumi nnye nkannare nsɛe, na akorɔmfo ntumi nwia.


eng: “Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. According to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.

aka: “Afei da wo benkum so na fa Israel bɔne to wo ho so. Wobɛsoa wɔn bɔne nna dodow a wode da wo fa so no.


eng: For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

aka: Mede wɔn bɔne mfe no ayɛ nna dodow ama wo. Enti nnafua ahaasa ne aduɔkron na wode bɛsoa Israelfi bɔne.


eng: and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even to the sheep gate; and they stood still in the gate of the guard.

aka: afei yetwaa Efraim Pon no ho, kosii Kuropɔn Dedaw Pon no, yɛfaa Mpataa Pon no ho, kosii Hananel Abantenten ho kɔɔ Ɔha Abantenten no ho. Yɛtoaa so kɔɔ Nguan Pon no ho, na yekogyinaa Ɔwɛn Pon no ano.


eng: So the two companies of those who gave thanks in God’s house stood, and I and the half of the rulers with me;

aka: Nnwontokuw abien a na wɔreda ase no kɔɔ Awurade Asɔredan mu kɔtenatenaa ase. Me nso me ne akuw ntuanofo a na wɔka me ho no yɛɛ saa ara.


eng: and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;

aka: Yɛne asɔfo a na wɔhyɛn torobɛnto a wɔne Eliakim, Maaseia, Miniamin, Mikaia, Elioenai, Sakaria, Hanania


eng: By the spring gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of David’s city, at the ascent of the wall, above David’s house, even to the water gate eastward.

aka: Wɔfaa Asu Aniwa Pon no ho, kɔɔ tee kɔforoo kuropɔn no fasu antweri a ɛkyerɛ Dawid kuropɔn no. Wɔfaa Dawid fi ho, kosii Nsu Pon a ɛwɔ apuei fam no ho.


eng: The other company of those who gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people on the wall above the tower of the furnaces, even to the wide wall,

aka: Nnwontofo a wɔto so abien no faa atifi kwan kohyiaa wɔn. Me ne ɔmanfo no mu fa dii wɔn akyi. Yɛfaa ɔfasu no so nam Fononoo Abantenten no ho kosii Ɔfasu Tɛtrɛɛ no,


eng: These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, nor their offspring, whether they were of Israel:

aka: Kuw foforo bi a saa bere yi wofi Tel-Melah, Tel-Harsa, Kerub, Adon ne Imer san baa Yerusalem, nanso, wɔantumi ankyerɛ mu yiye sɛ, wɔn anaa wɔn asefo no ase fi Israel:


eng: The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda: six hundred forty-two.

aka: Delaia, Tobia ne Nekoda mmusua no ka saa kuw yi ho, na wɔn dodow yɛ 642


eng: Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,

aka: Na Awurade bo fuw Salomo, efisɛ ne koma adan afi Awurade, Israel Nyankopɔn, a wada ne ho adi akyerɛ no mprenu no ho.


eng: and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he didn’t keep that which Yahweh commanded.

aka: Ɔbɔɔ Salomo kɔkɔ sɛ onni anyame afoforo akyi, nanso Salomo anni Awurade ahyɛde so.


eng: When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.

aka: Dawid tee sɛ Nabal awu no, ɔkae se, “Nhyira nka Awurade a watua Nabal ka na wamma mankum no. Nabal anya ne bɔne so akatua.” Na Dawid yɛɛ ntɛm soma kɔɔ Abigail nkyɛn, ma wɔkɔka kyerɛɛ no se ɔbɛware no.


eng: When David’s servants had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife.”

aka: Asomfo no kɔɔ Karmel kɔka kyerɛɛ Abigail se, “Dawid asoma yɛn sɛ yɛmmra mmɛfa wo mmrɛ no sɛ ne yere.”


eng: Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.

aka: nanso na Dawid di akɔneaba; ɔkɔsom Saulo na wakɔhwɛ nʼagya nguan wɔ Betlehem nso.


eng: The Philistine came near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

aka: Filistini yi pue mema ne ho so wɔ Israelfo asraafo nʼanim anɔpa ne anwummere, saa ara adaduanan.


eng: “Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar. The prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of Zuar.

aka: Isakar abusuakuw na wobedi so. Wɔn ntuanoni ne Suar babarima Netanel.


eng: His division, and those who were counted of it, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

aka: Na ne dɔm no ano si mpem aduonum anan ne ahannan (54,400).


eng: “The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment;

aka: “Sɛ kwata ho nsɛnkyerɛnne bi ka atade,


eng: whether it is in warp or woof; of linen or of wool; whether in a leather, or in anything made of leather;

aka: kuntutam anaa nweratam, aboa nhoma anaa biribiara a wɔde aboa nwoma ayɛ mu,


eng: Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

aka: Awurade ka kyerɛɛ Mose se,


eng: “Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

aka: “Mapaw Besaleel a ɔyɛ Uri babarima na ɔyɛ Hur nena a ofi Yuda abusua mu no


eng: The famine was severe in the land.

aka: Saa bere no mu no, na ɔkɔm no ano da so yɛ den wɔ asase no so nyinaa.


eng: When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”

aka: Enti bere a aduan a wɔkɔtɔ fii Misraim bae no reyɛ asa no, wɔn agya Yakob ka kyerɛɛ wɔn se, “Monsan nkɔ nkɔtɔ aduan kakra mmra bio.”


eng: Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is near Mamre,

aka: Ne mmabarima Isak ne Ismael siee no wɔ Makpela boda a ɛwɔ Efron no mu. Na ɛhɔ yɛ Hetini Sohar babarima no afuw a ɛwɔ Mamrɛ apuei fam.


eng: the field which Abraham purchased from the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.

aka: Eyi ne asase a Abraham tɔ fii Hetifo nkyɛn no. Ɛhɔ na wosiee Abraham ne ne yere Sara.


eng: Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.

aka: Na Rebeka wɔ nuabarima bi a ne din de Laban. Laban tee asɛm no, ɔde ahoɔhare kɔɔ ɔbarima no nkyɛn wɔ abura no so.


eng: When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

aka: Laban huu hwenemkaa no ne nkapo a egu ne nuabea no nsa no, na ɔtee asɛm a ɔbarima no ka kyerɛɛ Rebeka no, ɔkɔɔ ɔbarima no nkyɛn kohuu sɛ ogyina yoma no ho wɔ asubura no so.


eng: So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded

aka: Enti wɔde Efron asase a ɛwɔ Makpela a ɛbɛn Mamrɛ, a ɛyɛ afuw no, ɔboda a ɛwɔ mu no, nnua a ɛwɔ afuw no mu ne nʼahye so nyinaa maa


eng: to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

aka: Abraham sɛ nʼagyapade. Eyi nyinaa sii wɔ Hetifo no ne wɔn a wɔbaa kurow no pon no ano nyinaa anim.


eng: God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

aka: Onyankopɔn yɛɛ akanea akɛse abien a ɛyɛ owia ne ɔsram sɛ, owia no nni adekyee so na ɔsram no nni anadwo so. Ɔbɔɔ nsoromma nso.


eng: God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,

aka: Onyankopɔn de akanea akɛse abien yi sii nkyɛmu a ɛwɔ wim no mu sɛ ɛnhyerɛn wɔ asase so,


eng: and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

aka: na wonni adekyee ne adesae no so, na ɛntew hann no mfi sum no ho. Na Onyankopɔn hui sɛ eye.