1 I na nina kpa ko. Yawɛ ha nɛ i na osɔfo nɔkɔtɔma pe kulaa Yoshua nɛ daa si ngɛ Yawɛ bɔfo ɔ hɛ mi; nɛ Abosiami ba daa si ngɛ Yoshua hiɔ nɔ, konɛ e po Yoshua nya.
Nyɛɛ hyɛ nyɛ he nɔ saminya, nɛ nyɛɛ sɔle daa, konɛ Mawu nɛ ha nyɛ he wami nɛ nyɛ kɛ gblee ní nɛ ɔmɛ tsuo nɛ maa ba a a mi slɔkee, nɛ nyɛ nyɛ nɛ nyɛɛ da Nɔmlɔ Bi ɔ hɛ mi.”
Yawɛ Tabohiatsɛ ɔ ke, “Ma tsɔ ye tsɔlɔ ɔ, nɛ e ma ya dla blɔ ngɔ to mi. Lɔ ɔ se ɔ, Nyɔmtsɛ ɔ nɛ nyɛ ngɛ blɔ hyɛe ɔ maa ba e we ɔ tlukaa. Tsɔlɔ ɔ nɛ nyɛ hla kaa nyɛ maa na a maa ba, nɛ e ma ba fiɛ ye somi ɔ.”
Jehanɛ Yoshua, mo osɔfo nɔkɔtɔma pe kulaa, kɛ o nyɛmimɛ nɛ hii si ngɛ o hɛ mi, nyɛɛ bu tue. Níhi nɛ maa ba hwɔɔ se he okadi ma de nyɛ nɛ ɔ nɛ. Ma ha ye tsɔlɔ nɛ ji Tso Kɔni ɔ maa ba.
Kɛkɛ nɛ Shealtiel Zerubabel, kɛ Yehozadak bi Yoshua, kɛ ma a tsuo nɛ kpale kɛ je ma se ngɛ Babilonia kɛ ba a, pee nɔ́ nɛ Yawɛ, a Mawu ɔ de mɛ ke a pee ɔ, nɛ a bu gbalɔ Hagai, Yawɛ tsɔlɔ ɔ tue, ejakaa Yawɛ nɛ tsɔ lɛ. Ma a tsuo ye gbeye.
Mawu bɔfo ɔ nɛ hyɛ ye nɔ, nɛ je mi kɛ je haomihi tsuo a mi ɔ, e gbaa nyumuwi nɛ ɔmɛ! Nyumuwi nɛ ɔmɛ nɛ a wo imi, kɛ nɛnɛ Abraham, kɛ tsaatsɛ Isak wa biɛ ɔmɛ a hɛ mi nyami daa! A fɔ, nɛ a he nɛ hiɛ babauu ngɛ zugba a nɔ!”
Kɛkɛ nɛ i bi Yawɛ bɔfo ɔ nɛ kɛ mi tu munyu ɔ ke, “Koli nɛ ɔmɛ ɔ, mɛni a tsɔɔ?” E he nɔ ke, “Mɛ ji je ɔ mi he wami ɔmɛ nɛ gbɛ Yuda, Israel, kɛ Yerusalem bi ɔmɛ fĩa a nɛ.”
Nyɔmtsɛ Yawɛ ke, “Benɛ Israel ma a nɛ piɛ ɔ tsuo kua mi ɔ, Levi weku ɔ mi osɔfohi nɛ ji Zadok nina a, mɛɛ lɛɛ a sɔmɔ mi saminya ngɛ ye we ɔ. Lɔ ɔ he ɔ, mɛ pɛ ji nihi nɛ maa ba ye hɛ mi nɛ a ba sɔmɔ mi. Mɛ ji nihi nɛ maa ngɔ zɔ, kɛ nu ɔ kɛ ba ha imi Nyɔmtsɛ Yawɛ.
A ma sɔmɔ ngɛ ye we ɔ; a maa bu agbo ɔmɛ a nya, nɛ a ma tsu ní ngɛ we ɔ. Lohwehi nɛ a kɛ ba sãã sami bɔ, kɛ bɔ kpahi ɔ, mɛ lɛ a maa gbe lohwe ɔ, nɛ mɛ nɔuu lɛ a ma sɔmɔ nihi nɛ ba bɔ sami ɔ.
Yawɛ he nɔ ke, “Ke o kpale kɛ ba a, i kɛ o blɔ he ɔ ma ha mo, nɛ o ma ba pee ye tsɔlɔ ekohu. Ke o maa fiɛ fiɛmi kpakpa, nɛ o be munyu gu tue ɔ, lɛɛ o maa pee ye gbalɔ ekohu. Ma a maa kpale kɛ ba o ngɔ, nɛ e be hiae kaa moo o ya a ngɔ.
Benɛ a ngɛ yoku ɔ he ɔ, Yawɛ hla Levi wɛtso ɔ mi nyumuhi, konɛ a hyɛ somi daka a nɔ, nɛ a sɔmɔ kaa osɔfohi, nɛ́ a ngɔ Yawɛ biɛ kɛ gbaa ma a. A blɔ nya ní tsumihi ji enɛ ɔmɛ kɛ mwɔɔ.
Nihi nɛ kɛ mɛ ba ji Zerubabel, Yoshua, Nehemia, Seraya, Reelaya, Mordekai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, kɛ Baana. Israel bi nɛ kpale kɛ je ma se kɛ ba a ji nɛ ɔmɛ nɛ: