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1 A: ibala: me ea lalelegei ode 99 da gidigiloba, Hina Gode da ema misini, amane sia: i, “Na da Gode Bagadedafa. Di da Na hadigi ganodini ahoanoma amola hou moloidafa fawane hamoma.
When Abram was 99 years old, Yahweh appeared to him again and said to him, “I am God Almighty. I want you to live in a way that I will regard you as someone that cannot be criticized.
2 Na da ania gousa: su hamoi amo dafawane hamomu. Na da digaga dunu bagohame dima imunu.”
If you do that, I will make an agreement with you in which I will promise to enable you to have very many descendants.” [MTY]
3 A: ibala: me da beguduli ea odagiga osobo digila sa: i. Amalalu, Gode da ema amane sia: i,
Abram prostrated himself with his face on the ground. Then God said to him,
4 “Na gousa: su dima da agoane. Di da dunu fi bagohame ilima eda agoane ba: mu.
“Listen to this agreement that I am making with you: People of many nations will be your descendants.
5 Na da di dunu fi bagohame ilima eda hamoi dagoiba: le, wali dia dio da A: ibala: me hame, be bu afadenene A: ibalaha: me hamoi dagoi.
And no longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham, [which means ‘father of many nations,’] because the people of many nations will descend from you.
6 Di da mano bagohame lamu. Di da dunu fi bagohame lamu, amola fi hina bagade dunu bagohame di da lamu.
I will enable you to have very many descendants, and I will cause them to become great nations/people-groups, and some of your descendants will become kings.
7 Na gousa: su Na da di amola digaga mano dilima Na da hamomu, da mae dagole dialalalumu. Na da dia Gode esalumu amola digaga mano huluane ilia Gode esalumu.
I will make this agreement between me and you and your descendants. It will be an everlasting agreement to be in effect for many generations. This agreement is that I will be your God, and the God of your descendants.
8 Di da wali Ga: ina: ne soge ganodini ga fi dunu agoane ba: sa. Be amo soge huluane, di eso huluane mae yolesili gagulaloma: ne, Na da di amola dia fa: no lalelegemu manolali dilima imunu. Amola Na da ilia Gode esalumu.”
I will give to you and to your descendants the land through which you are now traveling, all of the Canaan region. It will be an everlasting possession for your descendants, and I will be the God that they [will worship].”
9 Amalalu, Gode da A: ibalaha: mema amane sia: i, “Be di da Na gousa: su noga: le ouligima. Di amola digaga fa: no lalelegemu fi.
Then God said to Abraham, “Now you must obey [your part of] the agreement that I am making with you, and your descendants must also obey it, for all generations.
10 Na gousa: su dima amola dia manolali ilima - amo gousa: su di noga: le agoane ouligima. Dunu huluane dia fi amo ganodini da ilia gadofo damuma: mu.
This is the agreement that I am making, between myself and you and all your descendants: Every male among you must be circumcised.
11 Dilia huluane gadofo damuma: mu. Amo da Na gousa: su dilima amo dawa: digima: ne olelesu gala.
(Cutting the foreskins of/Circumcising) them will be the sign [that you have accepted] the agreement I am making with you.
12 Dunu huluane dia fi ganodini fa: no lalelegesea, dunu mano huluane da lalelegesea, eso godoane fisili ilia gadofo damuma: mu. Amo da huluanedafa - dia fi amo ganodini lalelegei amola dunu mano ga fi amoga bidilai, amo huluane.
Every male child among you must be circumcised when he is eight days old, in all future generations. That includes baby boys in your household or those born from slaves that have been bought, and baby boys of foreigners who live among you but do not belong to your household.
13 Dia fi amo ganodini lalelegei o ga fi ilima bidi lai - huluane. Na gousa: su defei dilia hu amo ganodini hamoi da eso huluane mae dagole dialalalumu. Amo da Na dilima gousa: su hamoi dagoi olelesa.
It does not matter whether their parents are members of your household or slaves that have been bought; they must all be circumcised. Your bodies will have this mark to show [you have accepted] this everlasting agreement I am making.
14 Be nowa dunu da dia fi amo ganodini ea hu gadofo hame damui ba: sea, amo dunu da Na gousa: su fi dagoiba: le, fadegale fasima.”
You must expel from your community any male who has not been circumcised, because [by not being circumcised] that person has disobeyed my agreement.”
15 Gode da A: ibalaha: mema eno amane sia: i, “Dia uda Selai ema Selai dio bu mae sia: ma. Ea dio da wali Sela.
God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai, your wife, you must not call her Sarai any longer. [Since I changed your name, I will change her name also]. Her name will now be Sarah.
16 Na da ema hahawane dogolegele ilegemu. Amola e da diagofe lalelegemu. E da dunu fi bagohame ilima eme esalumu. Dunu fi hina dunu bagohame da ema lalelegemu.”
I will bless her, and she will surely give birth to a son for you. And I will bless her so much that she will be the ancestor of people of many nations. Kings of some people-groups will be descended from her.”
17 A: ibalaha: me da beguduli ea odagiga osobo digila sa: ili, hahawane bagade ousu. E da ea dogo ganodini amane sia: i, “Dunu da 100 ode lai, amo mano lamu da defelela: ? Sela amola da ode 90 lai dagoiba: le, mano lama: bela: ?”
Abraham prostrated himself with his face on the ground [to show respect to God]. But then he laughed as he said to himself, “Can a man who is a 100 years old become a father of a son? And since Sarah is 90 years old, how can she bear a child?”
18 E da Godema amane adole ba: i, “Isiama: ile da na fi ganodini na sogebi lamu da defeala: ?”
Then Abraham said to God, “Perhaps you will let Ishmael receive your blessing [and inherit all I possess].”
19 Be Gode bu adole i, “Hame mabu! Dia uda Sela da dia manodafa dia da: i amoga hamoi, amo lalelegemu. Di da ema Aisage dio asulima. Na da Na gousa: su ema amola egaga mano ilima hamoi, amo hamedafa yolesimu. Amo gousa: su da mae dagole eso huluane dialalalusu liligi.
Then God replied, “[No!] Your wife Sarah will bear a son for you. You must name him Isaac. I will establish my agreement with him, one which will be an everlasting agreement for him and his descendants.
20 Dia adole ba: su amo Isiama: ile fidima: ne Na da nabi dagoi. Amaiba: le, Na da ema amola hahawane dogolegele ilegemu. Na da ema mano bagohame imunu. Ema da fi hina bagade dunu fagoyale amo lalelegemu, amola ea mano da dunu fi bagadedafa hamomu.
As for Ishmael, I have heard what you asked me to do for him. I will bless him so that he also will have many descendants. Among his descendants will be rulers of twelve nations. And I will cause his [descendants] [MTY] to also become a great nation.
21 Be Na gousa: sudafa da dia mano Aisage ema dialumu. Waha oubi wewaba amo ode enoga e da Selama lalelegemu.”
But Isaac, the son whom Sarah will give birth to at this time next year, is the one with whom I will establish my agreement.”
22 Gode da A: ibalaha: mema sia: i dagoiba: le, yolesili asi.
When God finished talking to Abraham, God disappeared from his sight.
23 Amo esoga A: ibalaha: me da hedolo nabasu hou hamoi. E da Isiama: ile amola ea fi dunu huluane amola dunu da ea fi amo ganodini lalelegei amola udigili hawa: hamosu dunu e bidi lai, amo huluane ilia gadofo damui.
On that same day, Abraham took his son Ishmael and all the males that were in his household, including the sons of all the slaves he had bought, and circumcised them. He cut off their foreskins, just as God told him to do.
24 A: ibalaha: me da lalelegele, ode 99 doaga: le, gadofo damui.
Abraham was 99 years old when (he was circumcised/someone circumcised him),
25 Amola Isiama: ile da ea ode 13 amoga gadofo damui ba: i.
and Ishmael was thirteen years old when Abraham circumcised him.
26 A: ibalaha: me amola egefe Isiama: ile ela da eso afae ganodini gadofo damui.
On that very day Abraham and his son, Ishmael were circumcised.
27 Amola dunu huluane A: ibalaha: me ea sosogo fi ganodini-amo da ea fi ganodini lalelegei, amola ga fi dunu e da bidilai dagoi-huluane da e amola gilisili gadofo damui ba: i.
And all the males in his household, the ones who had been born there and those who had been bought from foreigners, were also circumcised.
