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Genesis 16
16
Genesis
Abraham
Kituba Bible
Abram
, person
Sarai
, person
Hagar
, person
Ishmael
, person
Canaan
, place
Kadesh
, place
Shur
, place
Beer-lahai-roi
, place
1 more
Kituba Bible
Berean Standard Bible
1
MKW
Salayi, kento ya Abayami, butilaka ve Abalami mwana. Salayi vwandaka na mundongo mosi ya kento, muntu ya Ngipiti, nkumbu ya yandi Angale.
BSB
BSB:
Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
2
MKW
Salayi tubaka na Abalami: «Yave me sala ti mu vwanda ve na bana. Vukisa mfulu na Angale, mundongo ya munu. Ya lenda vwanda ti yandi butila munu mwana.» Abalami ndimaka mambu ya Salayi.
BSB
BSB:
So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
3
MKW
Salayi, kento ya Abalami, bakaka Angale, kisadi ya yandi ya mu-Ngipiti, mpe pesaka yandi na Abalami mutindu kento ya yandi. Abalami lutisaka bamvula kumi kuna na yinsi ya Kaana, tekila dyambu yayi kusalama.
BSB
BSB:
So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.
4
MKW
Abalami vukanaka na Angale, mpe Angale kumaka na kivumu. Na manima, Angale vwandaka zitisa dyaka ve Salayi, mpe yandi bandaka tala yandi mutindu kima ya mpamba.
BSB
BSB:
And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
5
MKW
Ni yawu yina, Salayi tubaka na Abalami: «Nkadulu ya yimbi ya Angale na ntwala ya munu ke kubwa na zulu ya yintu ya nge. Ni munu mosi pesaka nge mundongo ya munu. Kasi ntangu yandi me tala ti yandi me kuma na kivumu, yandi ke na kuzitisa dyaka ve munu, mpe yandi ke na kutala munu mutindu kima ya mpamba. Bika ti Yave kuzenga dyambu yayi na kati ya nge na munu.»
BSB
BSB:
Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
6
MKW
Abalami vutulaka na Salayi: «Angale kele mundongo ya nge, yandi kele na yisi ya lutumu ya nge. Sala mutindu nge zola.» Na yina, Salayi nyokolaka Angale, mpe Angale kimaka na yinsi ya kuyuma.
BSB
BSB:
“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.
7
MKW
Mbazi ya Yave kutanaka Angale pene-pene ya mukelo ya maza na yinsi ya kuyuma yina ke na nzila ya Sule.
BSB
BSB:
Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.
8
MKW
Mbazi tubaka mutindu yayi: «Angale, mundongo ya Salayi, wapi sika nge me katuka, mpe wapi sika nge ke na kukwenda?» Angale vutulaka: «Mu ke na kukima Salayi, mfumu ya munu.»
BSB
BSB:
“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.
9
MKW
Mbazi ya Yave tubaka na Angale: «Vutuka na sika ya mfumu ya nge, mpe vwanda ya kutumama na yandi.»
BSB
BSB:
So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”
10
MKW
Mbazi ya Yave zonzaka dyaka na Angale: «Mu ke sala ti dikanda yina ke butuka na nge kuvwanda na bantu mingi. Mpe ata muntu ve ke lenda kutanga bawu.»
BSB
BSB:
Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”
11
MKW
Mbazi ya Yave tatamanaka na kutuba ti: «Tala, nge ke na kivumu, mpe nge ke buta mwana ya bakala yina nge ke pesa nkumbu Isemayele, samu ti Yave me kuwa bidilu ya nge.
BSB
BSB:
The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.
12
MKW
Isemayele ke vwanda mutindu mbuluku ya mfinda. Yandi ke nwanisa bantu nyonso mpe bantu nyonso ke nwanisa yandi. Isemayele ke zinga yandi mosi, yandi ke zinga ve kisika mosi na bampangi ya yandi.»
BSB
BSB:
He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
13
MKW
Angale pesaka Yave yina sololaka na yandi nkumbu yayi: «Nge kele Nzambi yina ke na kutala munu.»
BSB
BSB:
So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”
14
MKW
Ni yawu yina, ba pesaka dibulu ya maza nkumbu: «Dibulu ya maza ya Layayi-loyi», yina zola kutuba: Yandi yina kele Moyo mpe ke na kutala munu. Yawu kele na kati-kati ya babwala Kadese na Belede.
BSB
BSB:
Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.
15
MKW
Angale butilaka Abalami mwana ya bakala. Abalami pesaka mwana yina nkumbu Isemayele.
BSB
BSB:
And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
16
MKW
Abalami vwandaka na bamvula makumi nana na sambanu ntangu Angale butilaka yandi Isemayele.
BSB
BSB:
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.
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