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Genesis 3
3
Genesis
Creation and the fall
Kituba Bible
Adam
, person
Eden
, place
Eve
, person
Kituba Bible
Berean Standard Bible
1
MKW
Na kati ya bibulu nyonso ya mfinda yina Yave Nzambi yidikaka, ni nyoka lutilaka mayela ya kuvuna. Na yina, yandi yufulaka kento: «Ya kele ya tsyelika ti Nzambi zabisaka beno ti: “Beno fwana kudya ve bambuma nyonso ya bayinti ya bilanga”?»
BSB
BSB:
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
2
MKW
Kento vutulaka na nyoka: «Ve! Beto lenda kudya ya beto bambuma yina kele na bilanga.
BSB
BSB:
The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,
3
MKW
Kasi, samu na bambuma ya yinti yina kele na kati-kati ya bilanga, Nzambi tubaka: “Beno fwana kudya yawu ve, mpe beno kusimba yawu ve, kana beno sala yawu, beno ke kufwa.”»
BSB
BSB:
but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’”
4
MKW
Nyoka vutulaka na kento: «Ve! Beno ke kufwa ve!
BSB
BSB:
“You will not surely die,” the serpent told the woman.
5
MKW
Nzambi tubaka mutindu yina samu ti yandi zaba mbote ti, kilumbu yina beno ke kudya yawu, meso ya beno ke funguka, beno ke kuma mutindu banzambi yina ke na mayela ya kuzaba yimbi na mbote.»
BSB
BSB:
“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6
MKW
Kento talaka ti bambuma ya yinti yina vwandaka mbote na kudya, kitoko na kutala, mpe mbote na kupesa mayela ya kuswasikisa. Na yina, yandi bakaka mbuma mosi mpe yandi kudyaka yawu. Na manima ya kudya yawu, yandi pesaka yawu mpe na bakala ya yandi yina vwandaka na yandi kuna. Bakala ya yandi mpe kudyaka yawu.
BSB
BSB:
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
7
MKW
Mbala mosi, meso ya bawu fungukaka, bawu bakulaka ti bawu nyonso zole vwandaka banzutu mpamba. Bawu bakaka makasa ya yinti ya fike mpe bawu yidikaka na yawu bilele ya kufukila.
BSB
BSB:
And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.
8
MKW
Na nkokila, ntangu mwa mupepe ya madidi vwandaka fula, bawu kuwaka makelele ya Yave Nzambi yina vwandaka tambula na kati ya bilanga ya bayinti. Na yina, kento na bakala ya yandi, bawu kwendaka bumbama ntama ya Yave Nzambi, na kati-kati ya bayinti ya bilanga.
BSB
BSB:
Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
9
MKW
Yave Nzambi bokilaka bakala mpe yufulaka yandi: «Wapi sika nge kele?»
BSB
BSB:
But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”
10
MKW
Bakala vutulaka: «Mu me kuwa nge na kutambula na kati ya bilanga ya bayinti, mu me kuzwa boma samu ti mu kele nzutu mpamba, ni yawu yina, mu me bumbama!»
BSB
BSB:
“I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied, “and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
11
MKW
Yave Nzambi yufulaka dyaka yandi: «Nani me zabisa nge ti nge kele nzutu mpamba? Nge me kudya mbuma ya yinti yina mu yiminaka nge na kudya?»
BSB
BSB:
“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
12
MKW
Bakala vutulaka: «Ni kento yina nge pesaka munu, ni yandi me pesa munu mbuma ya yinti yina, mpe mu me kudya yawu!»
BSB
BSB:
And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13
MKW
Na yina, Yave Nzambi yufulaka kento: «Samu na yinki nge me sala mutindu yina?» Kento vutulaka: «Ni nyoka me vuna munu! Ni yawu yina, mu me kudya yawu!»
BSB
BSB:
Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”
14
MKW
Yave Nzambi tubaka na nyoka: «Samu ti nge me sala mutindu yina, mu me siinga nge na kati ya bibulu nyonso. Nge ke banda na kusyelumukaka na ntoto, nge ke banda na kudyaka fundu-fundu, bilumbu nyonso ya luzingu ya nge.
BSB
BSB:
So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.
15
MKW
Mu ke tula kitantu na kati ya nge na kento, na kati ya bana ya nge na bana ya yandi. Bawu ke kosona nge yintu, nge, nge ke tatika bawu na kinkoso.»
BSB
BSB:
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
16
MKW
Yandi tubaka na kento: «Nge ke banda na kutalaka mpasi mingi, ntangu nge ke vwanda na kivumu. Ni na mpasi nge ke banda na kubutilaka. Zaba ti, nge ke banda na kuvwandaka kaka na nsatu ya bakala ya nge, kasi bakala ya nge ke banda na kuyalaka nge.»
BSB
BSB:
To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
17
MKW
Yandi tubaka na Adami: «Nge me kuwa mambu ya kento ya nge, nge me kudya mbuma yina mu yiminaka nge. Na yina, mu ke siinga ntoto samu na nge. Ni na mpasi nge ke banda na kuzwaka madya, bilumbu nyonso ya luzingu ya nge.
BSB
BSB:
And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
18
MKW
Ntoto ke menisila nge bayinti ya bansende mpe bansolokoto. Nge ke banda na kudyaka bima yina ke menaka na bilanga.
BSB
BSB:
Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
19
MKW
Nge ke banda na kuzwaka madya na mutoki ya kizizi ya nge, tii kilumbu yina nge ke vutuka na ntoto, sika ba bakaka nge. Ya tsyelika nge kele fundu-fundu, ni na fundu-fundu nge ke vutuka.»
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BSB:
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
20
MKW
Bakala pesaka kento ya yandi nkumbu Eva, samu ti ni yandi kele mama ya bantu nyonso yina kele moyo.
BSB
BSB:
And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.
21
MKW
Yave Nzambi yidikilaka Adami na kento ya yandi binkuti na bampusu ya bibulu, mpe yandi lwatisaka bawu yawu.
BSB
BSB:
And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
22
MKW
Yave Nzambi tubaka: «Tala! Muntu me kuma mutindu mosi na beto, yandi me zaba yimbi na mbote. Yandi fwana kubaka ve mbuma yina ke pesaka luzingu. Samu ti kana yandi kudya yawu, yandi ke zinga bamvula na bamvula!»
BSB
BSB:
Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”
23
MKW
Ni yawu yina, Yave Nzambi bingisaka muntu na bilanga ya Edeni, samu ti yandi kwenda sala bilanga, ntoto yina ba bakaka na kuyidikila yandi.
BSB
BSB:
Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
24
MKW
Na manima ya kubingisa muntu, Yave Nzambi tulaka bakeluba ya kusimba bambele ya mvita ya tiya, na lweka ya esete ya bilanga ya Edeni, samu na kukengidila nzila yina ke kwendaka na yinti ya luzingu.
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BSB:
So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.
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