1 PBL Bege, Rato madaka linage, “Na tena takkawae bataudage?” BSB BSB: Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?”
2 PBL Mono, Stefanus linage, “Bagu ole baigimi mono paama-paama rangewa nauwa. Allah kahada manadana na padelaka wikibena tabara ama weda waikada yita, Abraham, kole nyi ba engahona ta Mesopotamia, nyi aina enga hona Haran, BSB BSB: And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
3 PBL mono linage tabarana, ‘kakowu wali ta tanamu mono wali ta ole baiyimi, loho maiyimi ta tana pahatingogu tabaram.’ BSB BSB: and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.’
4 PBL Bege, Abraham na bijakage tana ata Kasdim mono engana ta Haran. Mono wal nedo bali, kole amana bana mate, Allah na halewayi dikki ta tana inne, haduwu engam batauge. BSB BSB: So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out of that place and into this land where you are now living.
5 PBL Tabolo, Allah walena yikmani hadauna tabarana, langka hodikak tana wale jalakma, tabolo jaji tutu yini ta barai Abraham aina kole hona anana. BSB BSB: He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a child.
6 PBL Tanyiduwe, Allah linage bana hanewe, oroge ana suhuna da'dudi ata lipalaka ta tana ata mono yida enga haata wikida loho hamayillayi mojage pata ngahu dauwu. BSB BSB: God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
7 PBL ‘Tabolo, nauwa enga hokugudi kabihu ata ka haatayi yida, ‘Linnai Allah, ‘Mono, beyo innage yida enga hud'a wali nedo bali mono kawojo ta baragu ta hadauwu inne.’ BSB BSB: ‘But I will punish the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come forth and worship Me in this place.’
8 PBL Loho, Allah na yini ta baranai Abraham jaji kabunyi, nyidawe Abraham na dadi amanai Ishak mono kabunyi kole ha podopata lado waiyi, mono Ishak bana dadi amanai Yakub, mono Yakub, kabulu dudana ama weda waikada yita. BSB BSB: Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
9 PBL Oro ka'wi tabarai Yusuf, ama weda waikada yita malajani ta Mesir. Tanyiduwe, Allah na oleni Yusuf, BSB BSB: Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him
10 PBL mono na hamame marani wali tangage kamayilla, loho na yini kanyuru mono maniwola pahangada ta aronai Firaun, Raja Mesir, mono kariyin nyi dadi paama tangage Mesir mono tangage hadau Raja. BSB BSB: and rescued him from all his troubles. He granted Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household.
11 PBL Hadaka rahi, na kadewe kareba kalla kadadi ta Mesir mono Kanaan loho dadi dangage mayilla aika anana madaka, mono ama wedada yita walena dadikmawe kolena hayayo. BSB BSB: Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.
12 PBL Tanyiduwe, kole Yakub rangewe ba' da' hayayo ta Mesir, nyi na halewayi ama weda da yita kako nedo bali mono abu hadaka waidage. BSB BSB: When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers on their first visit.
13 PBL Bada kako ha'du wai, Yusuf na rayige tauna kapiku tada daga ole baiyigu balina, mono tangada ole bainai Yusuf dadi dawe tubai Firaun. BSB BSB: On their second visit, Joseph revealed his identity to his brothers, and his family became known to Pharaoh.
14 PBL Kole innage Yusuf na hanauwuyi mono na kalehuni Yakub, amana, mono tangadi ole baina tangada pitu kabulu limada butada. BSB BSB: Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.
15 PBL Nyiwe, Yakub kako ta Mesir mono nyi na mate nedo bali nyi mono ama wedada yita. BSB BSB: So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our fathers died.
16 PBL Wali nedo bali, yidda da dikki ta Sikhem mono mono habaikayi ta rate ha hi'benai Abraham waige amaha kabuta wali ta anai Hemor ta Sikhem. BSB BSB: Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.
17 PBL Tanyiduwe, kole nakiki dahekawe rahige hajaji inna, hataki wiki dau benai Allah ta barai Abraham, ata rada kiki btadage mono hadu-du malapta ta Mesir, BSB BSB: As the time drew near for God to fulfill His promise to Abraham, our people in Egypt increased greatly in number.
18 PBL Kaha ba' da Raja wadeka ha keketa ta Mesir, aika tadawe tutui Yusuf. BSB BSB: Then another king, who knew nothing of Joseph, arose over Egypt.
19 PBL Raja nada na pahadayi ata Israel mono da hamayillayi ama wedada yita dajalage karuhuyi yidda baitadi anada abu kadadi lodoge yidda ilana dadiwe tahna morha. BSB BSB: He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.
20 PBL Ta rahi mahiggo inna, Musa dadi mono nyi na dahha ta aro matai Allah. Mono, Musa karawayi ta uma amana tauda wullana. BSB BSB: At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.
21 PBL Mono, kole nyi ba baitani, ana lawainai Firaun ngalayi mono na hamatuyi tujjayi ana dauna. BSB BSB: When he was set outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.
22 PBL Nyiwe, Musa hakolayi lar tangage angta ata Mesir mono nyi na kole kahage lar ta hanewe mono harayina. BSB BSB: So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.
23 PBL Tabolo, kolei Musa pata kabulu dauwuna haudawe lar ta atena tutu di'kidi ole baina, haluguna ana suhu Israel. BSB BSB: When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
24 PBL Mono, bana kole haetayi wu ata wali ta yida harayi aika tijana wali ta ata Mesir, Musa amini tuluni ata pahamayilada nada mono na hagabawe waige hamateyi nada ata Mesir. BSB BSB: And when he saw one of them being mistreated, Moses went to his defense and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian who was oppressing him.
25 PBL Musa tahangadana rada olebaina yappag dage nadai Allah na yidi yida manemara ledege tauna, tabolo yida wale yapak mawe. BSB BSB: He assumed his brothers would understand that God was using him to deliver them, but they did not.
26 PBL Dammage tana, Musa na di'kidi ata Israel katamrana hatauwu, mono nyi na baige hamolidi yida, waige ba linna, ‘Ta, walem tadak mawe inna miyo bakaha inna miyo kaduwu ka ha olebainagimi, aha mam hatauwu wikna? BSB BSB: The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’
27 PBL Tabolo, ata kahapakha ole baina nada pahilinage wali tai Musa ta tibina mono linage, iya ka keketawu yauyo dauge mono yauwu yigama rakkama nami? BSB BSB: But the man who was abusing his neighbor pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us?
28 PBL Inna yauwu baimuge hamatewa tujawe bamu hamateyi ata Mesir nada manana?’ BSB BSB: Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
29 PBL Bana rangewe hanewena nada ata, Musa malainage mono na dadi ata ka abu maiyi ta tana Midian. Nedo bali, nyi nadadi haama wali kadudana ana kabanina. BSB BSB: At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.
30 PBL Kole banuge pata kabulu dauwu, diha wu malaikat hadedala wikina tai Musa ta marada gilra ta lete Sinai, lar ta rewo latti ta tara warri. BSB BSB: After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
31 PBL Kolei Musa bana etawe, nyi na hangatara waige bana etawe inna mono nyi kole bana daheka kagu hamatarage balinna amige linai Mori, BSB BSB: When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight. As he approached to look more closely, the voice of the Lord came to him:
32 PBL ‘Nauwaknai Allah ama weda waikamu, Allah Abraham, mono Allah Ishak, mono Allah Yakub.’ Musa na kadadaka madauta mono walena baikmawe atena tutu hamatarage. BSB BSB: ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.
33 PBL Bege, Mori linage tabarana, ‘laiyidi kopa ledumu wali ta ledumu oro haduwu giyo dauwu dedemu nyikwe tana kamuraha. BSB BSB: Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.
34 PBL Nauwag eta taka bedage ho'da yida. Mono, nauwa buru bewa tutu pahoilayi yida. Mono batauge maidage, nauwa enga halewagugu yauwu ta Mesir.’ BSB BSB: I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’
35 PBL Musa, hatulara beda yida waige ba lidda, “iya ka keketawu dauwu pareha mono yiyo rakkana ta nami?” Nyikna ata halewanai Allah tutu dadi, dauge hareha, loho dumo pahoilayi, lede lina Malikat ka padedala wikbena ta barana ta tara warri. BSB BSB: This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
36 PBL Ata nade kakododi yida huna, tamrage pahadayi Mukjizat mono tadka-tadka hangatara danga ta tana Mesir, mono ta marada gilra pata kabulu dauge mojage. BSB BSB: He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
38 PBL Nyi nade kadana ta jonga kangote ta marada gilra oleni Malaikat kahanewe ta barana ta lete Sinai, mono oledi weda waikada yita mono nyi na yibewe lina kamorha tutu bana yidage tabarada yita. BSB BSB: He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
39 PBL Weda waikada yita tularage tutu manudu ta barai Musa, tabolo da wugayi nyi mono baige hagga ta Mesir lari ta ateda yida, BSB BSB: But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.
40 PBL Waige balina tai Harun, ‘rayigama nami halatauwu ka kako ta aroma nami oroi Musa nade, ka kodo gama nami walena tadakmawe agawe kadadi tabarana.’ BSB BSB: They said to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us! As for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’
41 PBL Ta mahiggo inna, yida da rayina wuyo hala tauwu ana hapi, mono yi manuta ta bara hala katauwu nada, loho lagebora waige haulla waida limmada yida. BSB BSB: At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.
42 PBL Tanyiduwe Allah na peli wali ta yida mono pahaidi yida kangakka tangada tentara langta, tujawe kamatolha ta jurata nabi, “Dakakna miyo hangidimi tabara-Gu ranga haropomi mono marakami kapata kabulu dauwuna tamarada gilra, ta ana suhugu Israel? BSB BSB: But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
43 PBL Miyo umm ngidiwe kareka Molokh mono ranga halatauwumu Refan, halatauwumi harayimi tutu kangakkani, mono Nauwa enga baitagimi neda bali ta Babel.” BSB BSB: You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’
44 PBL Weda waikada yita dage kareka hadauwu takidage tamarada gilra, tujawe harehanai Allah kole bana hanewe tabarai Musa tutu pahadawe dokuge waige mawoge haetabena. BSB BSB: Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.
45 PBL Kole bana hobawe kareka inna, weda waikada yita na ngidi tama maranga dangage Yosua, rahi karamage tanada yida wali ta kabihu ata wadeka, hatikala benai Allah, wali ta aroda weda waikada yita, kahha ta morhai Daud. BSB BSB: And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,
46 PBL Daud nakolege manawara marada ate ta aroi Allah mono karaiyi tutu kolege hadau dauwunai Allah Yakub. BSB BSB: who found favor in the sight of God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
47 PBL Tanyiduwe, Salomo kahakadewe wuyo uma tubana Nyi. BSB BSB: But it was Solomon who built the house for Him.
48 PBL Tabolo, kahada madehta walena engakmana lar ta umma harayi wai limma kadadi ata, dokuge hatakda nabi, BSB BSB: However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:
49 PBL “Langta nyikwe hadauwu ngodo-Gu mono tana nyikwe dauwu dekedi ledu-Gu. Aga umawe hakademi miyo tuba-Gu?” Allah na yiwe lina, waleka, dauwu ngahu-Gu? BSB BSB: ‘Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or where will My place of repose be?
50 PBL Wale limma dugu karayidi tangadi rada?” BSB BSB: Has not My hand made all these things?’
51 PBL Ta, miyo ata ka ka'tu katakna, waige ate mono katillu aika kabunyi, miyo umm gabba hangatani Waddi Katenguna, tujawe harayida weda waikamu! BSB BSB: You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
52 PBL Iya Nabi dumo hoyi ai hamayillada weda waikamu? Mono, yidda da hamateyi ata uluhoge da takki meme bewe tutu maina paama katena, inna batauge ka hadadi guge tau daumu katauna ata bokala mono hamate ata. BSB BSB: Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
53 PBL Miyo, ka hibba bewe uku pareha Taurat tujai pahadiki beda tangada Malaikat, tabolo miyo walem karawakmawe!” BSB BSB: you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”
54 PBL Kole yida bada rangewe hada inna, ateda yida na maduhkayi mono hakati dangadi ngududa yida tabarai Strfanus. BSB BSB: On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
55 PBL Tanyiduwe, Stefanus habanuna Waddi Katenguna na tangara ta langta mono na etawe manadanai Allah, monoi Yesus na dede ta bara kawananai Allah. BSB BSB: But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
56 PBL Stefanus linage, “rangewe! Nauwag etawe langta mabugera mono amana kadadi ata dede ta bara kawananai Allah.” BSB BSB: “Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
57 PBL Tabolo, yida da kawula waige li'da ka ballo, mono da toniyi katiluda yida, loho da hawuna kadukani Stefanus. BSB BSB: At this they covered their ears, cried out in a loud voice, and rushed together at him.
58 PBL Loho, yida da werakani huna wali ta harona mono kapudage tukku waini watu. Kole innage, tangage haetawi mata da laidi kalabeda yida da tauwuyi ta koko leduna wuyo baumane kangaranai Saulus. BSB BSB: They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
59 PBL Mono, yida da hangatni tukkuyi Stefanus ka tamrana kawula kalina, “Mori Yesus, hibba gani Waddigu.” BSB BSB: While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
60 PBL Bege, kole bana takkodi kuddona, nyi na kawula waige li'na kaballo, “Mori ilam hatagu kadage jala inne ta barada yida!” Mono kole ba linnage nyi na mate. BSB BSB: Falling on his knees, he cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
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