Lampahnah 21
1 Tuithimkah, khosa Arad manghai Kanaan loh Atharim longpuei ah Israel. a pawk te. a yaak vaengah Israel te. a vathoh tih tamna. la a sol.
The king of Arad [city] lived in the area where the Canaan people-group lived, in the desert in the southern part of the land. He heard a report that the Israelis were approaching on the road to Atharim [village]. So his army attacked the Israelis and captured some of them.
2 Te vaengah Israel loh BOEIPA taengah olcaeng neh a caeng tih, “He pilnam he ka kut ah nan paek la nan paek atah a khopuei khaw ka thup bitni,” a ti nah.
Then the Israelis solemnly vowed: “Yahweh, if you will help us to defeat these people, we will completely destroy all their towns.”
3 BOEIPA loh Israelkah, ol te. a yaak dongah Kanaan te. a paek. Te dongah amih neh a khopuei te. a thup tih. a hmuen ming te Hormah. a sak.
Yahweh heard what they requested, and he enabled them to defeat the army of the Canaan people-group. The Israeli soldiers killed all the people and destroyed their towns. [Ever since that time], that place has been called Hormah [which means ‘destruction’].
4 Hor tlang lamloh carhaek tuili longpuei la Edom khohmuen te lan ham cet uh. Tedae longpueng ah pilnamkah, hinglu tah a huet pah.
Then the Israelis left Hor Mountain and traveled on the road towards the Red Sea, in order to go around [the land of] Edom. But the people became impatient along the way,
5 Te dongah pilnam loh Pathen taeng neh Moses taengah, “Khosoek ah duek ham mai he balae tih Egypt lamloh kaimih nang khuen. Buh om pawh, tui om pawh. Buh kak tangkik he kaimihkah, hinglu khaw. a mueipuel coeng,” a ti uh.
and they began to grumble/complain against God and against Moses/me. They said, “Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die here in this desert [RHQ]? There is nothing to eat here, and nothing to drink. And we detest this lousy [manna] food!”
6 Te dongah BOEIPA loh pilnam taengah minyuk rhul te. a tueih pah tih pilnam te. a tuk dongah Israel khui lamkah pilnam muep duek.
So Yahweh sent poisonous snakes among them. Many of the people were bitten by the snakes and died.
7 Te vaengah pilnam te Moses taengla cet tih, “BOEIPA taeng neh nang taengah ka cal uh tholh coeng. BOEIPA taengah thangthui lamtah rhul te kaimih taeng lamloh khoe mai saeh,” a ti uh. Te dongah Moses te pilnam ham. a thangthui pah.
Then the people came to Moses/me and cried out, saying, “We [now know that we] have sinned against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh, asking that he will take away the snakes!” So Moses/I prayed for the people.
8 Te dongah BOEIPA loh Moses te, “Namah loh minyuk saii lamtah rholik soah bang, te vaengah nana om bitni, rhul kah a tuk boeih loh te te. a hmuh vaengah hing ni,” a ti nah.
Then Yahweh told him/me, “Make a model/image of a poisonous snake, and attach it to the top of a pole. If those who are bitten by the snakes look at that model, they will (recover/get well).”
9 Te phoeiah Moses loh rhohum rhul te a saii tih rholik dongah. a tai. Te a om phoeiah atah rhul loh hlang. a tuk akhaw rhohum rhul te. a paelki tih hing.
So Moses/I made a snake from bronze and attached it to the top of a pole. Then, when those who had been bitten by a snake looked at the bronze snake, they recovered!
10 Te phoeiah Israel ca rhoek te thoeih uh tih Oboth ah rhaeh uh.
Then the Israelis traveled to Oboth and (camped/set up their tents) there.
11 Oboth lamloh thoeih uh tih khomik khocuk kah Moab dan, Ijeabarim khosoek ah rhaeh uh.
Then they left there, and went to Iye-Abarim, in the desert on the eastern border of Moab.
12 Te lamloh cet uh tih Zered soklong ah rhaeh uh.
From there they traveled to the valley where the Zered riverbed is, and camped there.
13 Te lamloh cet uh tih Amori khorhi lamkah aka pawk khosoek kah Arnon rhalvangan ah rhaeh uh. Moab khorhikah, Arnon tah Moab laklo neh Amori laklo ah om.
Then they traveled to the north side of the Arnon [River]. That area is in the desert next to the land where the Amor people-group lived. The Arnon [River] is the boundary between Moab and where the Amor people-group lived.
14 Te dongah BOEIPAkah, caemtloek cabu khuiah tah “Suphah kah Vaheb neh Arnon soklong,” a ti.
That is why in the book called ‘The Book of the Wars of Yahweh’ it tells about “Waheb [town] in the Suphah area, and the ravines there; and the Arnon [River]
15 Soklongkah, tuibah te Ar khosa la. a doo tih Moab khorhi te. a pangnat.
and the ravines there, which extend as far as Ar [village] on the border of Moab.”
16 Te lamloh Beer la thoeih uh tih tekah tuito ah tah BOEIPA loh Moses te, “Pilnam te coi lamtah amih te tui ka pae eh?,” a ti nah.
From there, the Israelis traveled to Beer. There was a well there, where Yahweh previously had said to Moses/me, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”
17 Te vaengah Israel loh hekah laa he. a hlai. Tuito phuet lah, amah te doo lah.
There the Israelis sang this song: “O well, give us water! Sing about this well!
18 Tuito te mangpa rhoek loh a too uh tih, pilnam hlangcong rhoek loh a vueh. Mattanah khosoek lamloh a conghol neh a taem uh.
Sing about this well which our leaders dug; they dug out [the dirt] with their royal scepters and their walking sticks.” Then the Israelis left that desert and went through Mattanah,
19 Mattanah lamloh kaloh Nahaliel, Nahaliel lamloh Bamoth,
Nahaliel, and Bamoth [villages].
20 Bamoth lamloh Moab khohmuen kah kolrhawk, Pisgah som neh khopong hmai kah. a dan la thoeihuh.
Then they went to the valley in Moab where Pisgah [Mountain] rises above the desert.
21 Israel loh Amori manghai Sihon taengah puencawn. a tueih tih,
Then the Israelis sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group. This was the message [that they/we gave him]:
22 “Na khohmuen longah ka kat mai eh, lohma li neh misurdum khuiah ka ael uh mahpawh, tuito tui khaw ka o uh mahpawh, na khorhi ka poeng hil manghai longpuei bangla ka vai uh bitni,” a ti nah.
“Allow us to travel through your country. We will stay on the king’s highway, [the main road that goes from the south to the north], until we have finished traveling through your land. We will not walk through any field or vineyard, or drink water from your wells.”
23 Tedae Sihon loh Israel te a khorhi longah kat sak pawh. Sihon loh a pilnam boeih te. a coi tih Israel doe ham khosoek la cet uh. Jahaz la. a pawk vaengah Israel te. a tloek.
But King Sihon refused. He would not allow them to walk through his land. Instead, he sent his whole army to attack the Israelis in the desert. They attacked the Israelis at Jahaz [village].
24 Te dongah Israel loh anih te cunghang ha neh. a tloek tih a khohmuen te Arnon lamloh Jabbok hil, Ammon koca taeng duela. a huul pa. Te vaengah Ammon koca khorhi tah cak.
But the Israelis completely defeated them and occupied their land, from the Arnon [River in the south] to the Jabbok [River in the north]. They stopped at the border of the land where the Ammon people-group lived, because [the Ammon army was defending] the border strongly.
25 Israel ca loh tekah, khopuei boeih te. a loh pah. Te dongah Israel loh Amori khopueirhoek, boeih ah khaw, Heshbon neh a khobuel boeih ah khaw kho a sak.
So the Israelis occupied all the cities and towns where the Amor people-group lived, and some of the Israelis began to live in them. They occupied Heshbon [city] and the nearby villages.
26 Amori manghai Sihonkah, khopuei Heshbon phoeiah tah lamhmakah, Moab manghai te. a tloek tih a kut lamkah a khohmuen pum te Arnon duela. a loh.
Heshbon was the capital of the country. It was the city where King Sihon ruled. His army had previously defeated the army of the king of Moab, and then his people had begun to live in all of the land of Moab as far as the Arnon [River in the south].
27 Te dongah aka thuidoek rhoek loh, “Halo uh, Heshbon thoh uh lamtah Sihon khopueikhaw, sikim saeh,” tila aka thuidoek rhoek loh a thuiuh.
For that reason, one of the poets wrote long ago, “Come to Heshbon, the city where King Sihon [ruled]. We want the city to be restored/rebuilt.
28 Hmai te Heshbon lamloh puek tih Sihon khorha lamkah hmaisai loh Arnonkah, hmuensang boei, Moab Ar te a hlawp.
A fire blazed from Heshbon; it burned down Ar [city] in Moab, it destroyed [everything on] the hills along the Arnon [River].
29 Anunae Moab nang aih te, Khemosh pilnam na milh coeng, a capa rhoek! te hlangyong la, a canurhoek, khaw Sihon Amori manghai taengah thongtla la. a paek.
You people of Moab, terrible things have happened to you! You people who [worship your god] Chemosh have been (annihilated/wiped out)! The men who [worshiped] [MET] Chemosh have run away and are now refugees, and the women [who worshiped him] have been captured by [the army of] Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group.
30 Amih te n'dong tih Heshbon tah Dibon duela milh, Medeba taengkah Nophah duela m'pong sak uh coeng,” a ti uh.
But we have defeated [Sihon and] those descendants of Amor, all the way from Heshbon [in the north] to Dibon [city in the south]. We have completely obliterated/destroyed them as far as Nophah and Medeba [towns].”
31 Te dongah Israel loh Amori khohmuen ah kho a sak.
So the Israeli people began to live in the land where the Amor people-group lived.
32 Te phoeiah Moses loh Jazer ah longyam la. a tueih tih a khobuel rhoek te a buem, a huul uh phoeiah Amori te pahoi. a vai uh.
After Moses/I sent some men to explore the area near Jazer [city], Israeli people began to live in all the towns in that region and expelled the Amor people-group who lived there.
33 Te phoeiah mael uh tih Bashan longpuei. a paan uh. Te vaengah Bashan manghai Oga tah amih doe hamla amah khaw a pilnam boeih khaw, Edrei caemtloeknah la cet.
Then they turned [north] toward the Bashan region, but King Og of Bashan and all his army attacked them at Edrei [town].
34 Tedae BOEIPA loh Moses taengah, “Anih te rhih boeh, Na kut dongah anih neh a pilnam boeih khaw, a khohmuen khaw kam paek coeng. Heshbon kah khosa, Amori manghai Sihon taengah na saii bangla anih te saii van,” a ti nah.
Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Do not be afraid of Og, because I am going to enable your men to defeat him and his army, and to take possession of all his land. You will do to him what you did to Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group, who ruled in Heshbon.”
35 Te dongah a taengah rhaengnaeng khaw a sueng pawt hil amah khaw, a carhoek, khaw, a pilnam boeih khaw a tloek pa uh tih a khohmuen te. a huul uh.
And that is what happened. We Israelis defeated Og’s army, and killed King Og and his sons and all his people. Not a person survived! And then we Israelis began to live in their land.
