8 Ngako Abrama watsi kuLoti: “Tsine nawe sitihlobo. Ngako-ke akukafaneli kutsi sicabane ngenca yekucabana kwebelusi betfu.
Angitsi uyalibona lonkhe lelive? Asehlukane. Nawukhetsa kuya ngesancele, mine ngitakuya ngesekudla; nawukhetsa kuya ngesekudla, mine ngitakuya ngesancele.”
Abrama watsi kube eve kutsi umntfwanemnakabo bamtfumbile, wabutsa emadvodza labetalelwe ekhaya lakhe labececeshelwe timphi. Asawonkhe abesangema-318. Abrama nalamadvodza wacosha lamakhosi lamane wadzimate wawefikisa ngakaDani.
Wase uyabahambisa labomnakabo, batsi nase besuka wabayala watsi: “Ningabohambe nilwa endleleni.”
nibomphendvula nitsi: ‘Tinceku takho tibelusi betinkhomo kusukela ebusheni bato kuze kube ngunyalo, tsine nabobabe betfu.’ Nanimlandzise kanjalo, utanivumela kutsi nakhe lapha eGosheni.” Phela Josefa abesho loku, ngobe emaGibhithe abewubukela phansi umsebenti wekwelusa.
Maye, kuhle kumnandzi kuhlalisana kwebazalwane ngekuvana.
Ngakusasa wabuyela futsi wabavakashela; wabona emadvodza lamabili emaHebheru alwa odvwa. Wakhuluma kulona lekwakunguyena onile, watsi: “Umshayelani lomuntfu wakini, longumHebheru?”
Imphendvulo letfobekile icitsa intfukutselo; kodvwa leyedzelelako nalenelulaka iyatfukutselisa.
Umuntfu lonenhlitiyo lencane ususa lutfutfuva; kodvwa umuntfu lobeketelako uletsa kuthula lapho kunembango khona.
Umuntfu longakufuni kulwa uzuza ludvumo; silima sihlala ngekususa lutfutfuva singatibambi.
Babusisiwe labalamulako, ngobe bayawutsiwa bantfwana baNkulunkulu.
Ngakusasa wabona ema-Israyeli lamabili alwa, wetama kuwalamula. Watsi kubo: ‘Madvodza, lalelani la, nine nibandzawonye, nibangani?’
Tsandzanani ngelutsandvo lwebuzalwane, nijakiselane ngekuhloniphana.
Yentani konkhe ningakhononi, ningaphikisani,
Macondzana nelutsandvo lwebuzalwane asikho sidzingo sekunibhalela ngaloko, ngobe Nkulunkulu sewunifundzisile kutsi nifanele nitsandzane njani.
Yetamani kuba nekuthula nabo bonkhe bantfu, nifune kungcweliswa, ngobe kute loyawuyibona iNkhosi angakangcweliswa.
Hlalani njalo nitsandzana njengebazalwane.
Njengobe senihlambulule imiphefumulo yenu ngekulalela liciniso ngaMoya kuze nitsandze bazalwane benu ngelutsandvo lolute kutentisa, tsandzanani ngenhlitiyo lephelele.
Hloniphani bonkhe bantfu, nitsandze bazalwane, nesabe Nkulunkulu, nihloniphe uMbusi.
Kwekugcina-ke, hawukelanani, nibe munye nonkhe, nitsandzane ngebuzalwane, nibe nebubele nekutfobeka.
Ngetulu kwako konkhe hlalani nitsandzana, ngobe lutsandvo lusibekela tono letinyenti.
nasekumesabeni Nkulunkulu nengete kutsandza bazalwane, nasekutsandzeni bazalwane nengete lutsandvo.
Batsandzekako, asitsandzaneni ngobe lutsandvo luvela kuNkulunkulu; wonkhe umuntfu lonelutsandvo usuke atelwe nguNkulunkulu, futsi uyamati Nkulunkulu.
Kwabe sekufika Gali, umsa wa-Ebedi, eShekhemu, ahamba nabomnakabo, emadvodza aseShekhemu ase etsembela kuye.