GENESIS 12 - Ombiimbeli Ondjapuki

Kalunga ti ithana Abram

¹ Omuwa okwa lombwele Abram ta ti: “Za mo mevi lyaandjeni, mezimo lyeni nomegumbo lyaho, u ye kevi ndyoka tandi ke li ku ulukila.

² Otandi ke ku pa oluvalo olwindji, olwo notalu ka ninga oshigwana oshinene. Otandi ku yambeke, edhina lyoye otandi li ningi enene, noto ka ninga elaleko nuuyamba.

³ Otandi ka yambeka mboka taye ku yambeke, ihe otii ka tula omutima mboka taye ku tula omutima. Omungoye iigwana ayihe otayi ka lalekwa nuuyamba.”

⁴ Abram sho a li e na omimvo omilongo heyali nantano, okwa tembuka mo muHaran, ngaashi Omuwa e mu lombwele; Lot nokwa yi pamwe naye.

⁵ Abram okwa kutha omukadhi Sarai, omwanagona Lot, omaliko gawo agehe naapika ayehe ya li ye ya na muHaran, oyo noya yi kevi lyaKaanan. Sho ya thiki muKaanan,

⁶ Abram okwe ende noshilongo, sigo okwe ya peha eyapuki puShekem, pomuti gwomwandi gwaMore. (Pethimbo ndyoka Aakaanana oya li moshilongo.)

⁷ Omuwa okwa holokele Abram e ta ti kuye: “Oshilongo shika otandi ke shi pa oluvalo lwoye.” Abram okwa tungile Omuwa, ngoka e mu ihololele, oshiyambelo.

⁸ Okuza nkoka oku uka lwokuumbugantu, kevi lyoondundu kuuzilo waBetel e ta yungu ontanda a gama Betel kuuninginino naAi kuuzilo. Naahoka okwa tungu oshiyambelo e ta simaneke Omuwa.

⁹ Nena okwa lunduluka po ta yi kehala nehala u uka lwokuumbugantu waKaanan.

Abram muEgipiti

¹⁰ MuKaanan omwa li mu na ondjala yekomba. Ondjala sho ya geye, Abram okwa yi kuEgipiti e ta kala ko ethimbo lyontumba.

¹¹ Sho a li pokutaaguluka ongamba a ye kuEgipiti, okwa ti komukadhi Sarai: “Ngoye omukiintu wa shitika.

¹² Ngele Aayegipiti taye ku mono, otaa ka dhiladhila kutya ngoye ogwandje. Oyo notaa dhipaga ndje po notaye ku etha u kale nomwenyo.

¹³ Ya lombwela kutya ngoye omumwameme; nena otaa hupitha ndje molwoye e taa ningi ndje nawa.”

¹⁴ Sho ya thiki kuEgipiti, Aayegipiti oya mono kutya omukiintu okwa shitika.

¹⁵ Omalenga gomukwaniilwa sho ge mu mono, nkene e li po a shitika, oge shi hokololele omukwaniilwa, Sarai nokwa falwa kuuwa.

¹⁶ MolwaSarai omukwaniilwa okwa ningi Abram nawa e te mu pe iigunda yoonzi niikombo, oongombe, uusino, aapika noongamelo.

¹⁷ Ihe molwashoka omukwaniilwa okwa kutha po Sarai, Omuwa okwa tumine omukwaniilwa naantu ye yomuuwa uuvu uudhigu.

¹⁸ Omukwaniilwa okwi ithana Abram e ta ti kuye: “Owa ningi ndje ngiini? Omolwashike inoo lombwela ndje kutya Sarai omukiintu gwoye?

¹⁹ Omolwashike wa tile kutya omumwanyoko, sigo nde mu kutha po nokuli, a ninge gwandje? Mukadhoye oye nguka, mu kutha po, mu ye.”

²⁰ Omukwaniilwa okwa lombwele aapiya ye, oyo noya kutha Abram e taye mu pititha mo moshilongo, pamwe nomukadhi neliko lye alihe.