Genesisi 50 - Siswati 1996 Bible

¹ Josefa watijika etikweyise, wakhala, amanga.

² Josefa wayala tisebenti takakhe nabochwephesha bekomisa tidvumbu kutsi batsatse sidvumbu seyise bayesomisa ngemitsi kuze singaboli; ngempela sidvumbu sa-Israyeli somiswa ngemitsi.

³ Lesidvumbu sasetjentwa emalanga langema-40 lekwakusikhatsi lesasidzingeka ekufezeni lowo msebenti. EmaGibhithe azilela Israyeli emalanga langema-70.

⁴ Kwatsi kube kuphele emalanga ekuzila, Josefa wakhuluma etindvuneni taFaro kutsi tiyewumbika kuFaro, watsi: “Ngicela ningibike kuFaro kutsi:

⁵ Babe wangifungisa asengakafi watsi: ‘Sengitakufa, uze ungisite ungingcwabe ethuneni lami lengalimba eveni laseKhenani.’ Manje-ke, ngicela kutsi angivumele Faro, ngiyewungcwaba babe, ngitawuphindze ngibuye.”

⁶ Faro wamphendvula watsi: “Hamba uyewungcwaba uyihlo njengobe akufungisa.”

⁷ Ngako-ke Josefa wenyuka wayawungcwaba uyise. Waphekeletelwa ngito tonkhe tisebenti taFaro, netikhulu taFaro, netikhulu telive laseGibhithe,

⁸ kanye nemndeni waJosefa, nabomnakabo, nemndeni wonkhe weyise. Kwasala bantfwana labancane babo netifuyo kulaseGosheni.

⁹ Wenyuka ngetincola kanye nebagibeli bemahhashi; kwaba sicumbi lesikhulu.

¹⁰ Batsi nabefika ka-Athadi ebaleni lekubhulela emabele ngesheya kwe-Jordane, bakhala kabuhlungu. Josefa wenta imisimeto yekulila emalanga lasikhombisa.

¹¹ Kwatsi kube emaKhenani, takhamiti takulelo live, bakubone lokulila, ebaleni laka-Athadi, atsi: “Maye, lokulila kwemaGibhithe kubuhlungu bo!” Ngako-ke, lendzawo yetsiwa libito ngekutsi yi-Abela Misrayimu; ingesheya kwemfula iJordane.

¹² Ngako emadvodzana aJakobe enta njengobe abewayalile.

¹³ Emadvodzana aJakobe ametfwala uyise ambuyisela eveni laseKhenani, amngcwaba emhumeni wensimi yaseMakhaphela, ngasemphumalanga yeMamre. Lomgedze watsengwa kanye nensimi ngu-Abrahama ku-Efroni, umHethi, kutsi ube yindzawo yekungcwaba.

¹⁴ Watsi kube Josefa angcwabe uyise, wancandzeka wabuyela eGibhithe, ahamba kanye nabomnakabo nabo bonkhe labehambe nabo.

Josefa unika siciniseko kubomnakabo

¹⁵ Kwatsi kube bomnakaboJosefa babone kutsi uyise sewufile, bakhuluma bodvwana batsi: “Kungahle kwenteke kutsi Josefa usasibambele emagcubu, afune kutenanela ngako konkhe lokubi lesamenta kona.”

¹⁶ Ngako-ke batfumela kuJosefa batsi: “Babe wasinika lomyalo ngaphambi kokufa kwakhe watsi: ‘Nibohamba niye kuJosefa nifike nitsi:

¹⁷ Mine yihlo ngicela ubatsetselele laba bomnakenu ngalobubi lababenta kuwe, ngobe bakona.’ Sesiyakucela-ke kutsi usitsetselele kulobubi lesabenta kuwe, tsine tinceku taNkulunkulu weyihlo.” Josefa wakhala nakeva lomlayeto.

¹⁸ Bomnakabo befika kuJosefa bamkhotsama, batsi: “Sesilapha tsine tinceku takho.”

¹⁹ Kodvwa Josefa wakhuluma kubo watsi: “Ningesabi. Ngingeke ngitibeke endzaweni yaNkulunkulu.

²⁰ Nine nanitimisele lokubi ngami; kodvwa Nkulunkulu loko wakugucula kwaba ngulokuhle, entela kutsi ngalesikhatsi kusindziswe bantfu labanyenti, bangabulawa yindlala.

²¹ Ngako-ke ningesabi. Nine nebantfwabenu ngitaniphatsa ngetandla letifutfumele.” Ngalenkhulumo wabanika siciniseko, tinhlitiyo tabo tadvudvuteka.

Kufa kwaJosefa

²² Josefa wachubeka wahlala eGibhithe, yena nemndeni weyise. Wakhula waze waba neminyaka leli-110 budzala, wase uyafa.

²³ Josefa wakhula, wadzimate wabona bantfwana ba-Efrayimu nebatukulu bakhe; wabona nebantfwana baMakhire, umsa waManase; Josefa wabafaka emndenini wakhe.

²⁴ Josefa wakhuluma kubomnakabo, watsi: “Sengitakufa; kodvwa ngiyati kutsi Nkulunkulu utawuba nani anikhiphe kulelive, anibuyisele eveni labetsembisa lona bo-Abrahama, na-Isaka, naJakobe.”

²⁵ Josefa wabafungisa bomnakabo, emadvodzana a-Israyeli, watsi: “Ngetsembiseni kutsi Nkulunkulu nanikhumbula atenikhipha la, niyawuhamba nawo ematsambo ami.”

²⁶ Ngako-ke Josefa wafela eGibhithe asaneminyaka leli-110, sidvumbu sakhe somiswa ngemitsi, kuze singaboli, sabe sesiyalondvolotwa.