Tâconae 32
1 Mosi teh mon hoi kum laipalah ngailawi ao toe tie tamimaya ni a panue awh toteh, tamimaya teh Aron koe a kamkhueng awh teh ahni koe thaw haw, kai mouh han lah na kahrawikung cathut sak haw. Bangkongtetpawiteh, Izip ram hoi na katâcawtkhaikung Mosi e bang pawlawk hai thai hoeh toe, telah ati awh.
[(Moses/I) stayed on top of the mountain a long time]. When the people realized that he/I was not returning quickly, they gathered near Aaron and said to him, “We do not know what has happened to that man Moses who brought us here out of Egypt. So quickly, make us ([an idol/a statue of a god]) who will lead us!”
2 Aron ni, na yunaw hoi na capanaw hoi na canunaw a pacap awh e suihnapacap hah rading awh nateh kai koe thokhai awh atipouh.
Aaron replied to them, “All right, [I will do that, but] tell your wives and your sons and your daughters to take off all their gold earrings and bring them to me.”
3 Hottelah tami pueng ni suihnapacap a pacap awh lahun e hah a rading awh teh Aron koe a thokhai awh.
So the people did that. They took off all their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.
4 Aron ni ahnimouh koe e a la teh, hreca hoi a thuk teh, maitoca meikaphawk lah a hlun. Hahoi ahnimouh ni Oe Isarelnaw, hetteh Izip ram hoi na katâcawtkhaikung nangmae cathut doeh, telah ati awh.
He took all those gold earrings and melted them in a fire. He [poured the gold into a mold and] made a statue that looked like a young bull. The people saw it and said, “This is the god of us Israeli people! This is the one who brought us up from the land of Egypt!”
5 Aron ni a hmu toteh, a hmalah khoungroe hah a sak. Aron ni, tangtho vah BAWIPA hanlah pawi awm naseh telah a oung sak.
When Aaron saw [what was happening], he built an altar in front of the [statue of the] young bull. Then he announced, “Tomorrow we will have a festival to honor Yahweh!”
6 Hottelah a tangtho vah, amom a thaw awh. Hmaisawi thuengnae a poe awh, roum thuengnae hah a poe awh teh, tamimaya teh canei hanelah a tahung awh teh lamtu hanlah a thaw awh,
So the people got up early the next morning and brought animals to kill and burn as sacrifices on the altar. They also brought sacrifices to maintain fellowship with Yahweh. Then they sat down to eat and drink [wine]. Then they got up and started dancing in a very immoral way.
7 BAWIPA ni Mosi a pato teh, kum leih. Bangkongtetpawiteh, na taminaw Izip ram hoi na tâcokhai e naw hah amamouh hoi amamouh koung a kâraphoe awh toe.
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Go back down from the mountain, because your people, the ones that you brought up here from Egypt, have [already] (become very depraved/wicked)!
8 Kaie kâpoelawk hah tang a phen takhai awh toe. Maitoca meikaphawk a sak awh teh a bawk awh teh, hot koe thuengnae a sak awh teh, Oe Isarel hetheh Izip ram hoi na katâcawtkhaikung doeh ati awh telah ati.
They have already (left the road that I showed them/stopped obeying me)! They have made [a statue of] a young bull from melted gold. They have worshiped it and offered sacrifices to it. And they are saying, ‘This is the god of us Israeli people! This is the one who brought us up from Egypt!’”
9 BAWIPA ni Mosi koe hete taminaw hah ka khet toe, a lung ka patak poung e miphun doeh.
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “I have seen that these people are very stubborn.
10 Hatdawkvah, ahnimouh hmai koung sawi hanelah, ahnimouh lathueng ka lungkhueknae heh kaman naseh, nang heh ka lentoe e miphun lah na sak han telah ati.
I am very angry with them, and so I am going to get rid of them. Do not try to stop me! Then I will cause you and your descendants to become a great nation.”
11 Mosi ni, BAWIPA Cathut koe, BAWIPA bangkongmaw kalen e thaonae hoi thaonae kut hoi Izip ram hoi na tâcosak e na taminaw lathueng vah na lungkhueknae teh a kaman.
But Moses/I pleaded with his/my God, Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, (you should not be very angry with your people!/why are you so angry with your people [RHQ]?) These are the people whom you rescued from Egypt with very great power [MTY, DOU]!
12 Bangkongmaw Izipnaw ni monsom vah patawnae poe hane hoi, thei hanelah a tâcokhai awh, telah a dei awh han. Puenghoi na lungkhueknae hah roum sak nateh, na taminaw lathueng vah, hawihoehnae sak han na noe e heh kâhno lawih.
Do not [do anything that would] allow the people of Egypt to say, ‘Their god led them out from our country, but [he did that] only [because he wanted] to kill them in the mountains and get rid of them completely [RHQ]!’ Stop being so angry! (Change your mind/Do not do what you have told me that you will do)! Do not do to your people this terrible thing [that you have just said that you will do]
13 Na san Abraham hoi Isak hoi Isarel koevah kalvan e âsinaw yit touh na catounnaw ka pung sak vaiteh, ka dei tangcoung ram heh na catoun ka poe vaiteh, a yungyoe a coe awh han, telah amahoima noe lahoi lawk na kam tangcoung e hah pahnim hanh lah a telah a kâhei.
Think about your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You solemnly promised them, ‘I will enable you to have as many descendants as there are stars in the sky.’ You said to them, ‘I will give to your descendants all the land that I am promising to give them. It will be their land forever.’”
14 Hot patetlah BAWIPA teh, a taminaw lathueng vah thoenae ka sak han ati nakoehoi a kâhno.
So Yahweh changed his mind. He did not do to his people the terrible thing that he said he would do.
15 Mosi teh a kamlang teh monsom hoi a kum teh, a kut dawk lawkpanuesaknae lungphen kahni touh ao. Lungphen teh avoivang lah thut e doeh.
Moses/I turned away from God and went down the mountain, carrying in his hands the two stone slabs on which Yahweh had engraved his commandments. He had written on both sides of the slabs.
16 Lungphen teh Cathut ni sak e lah ao teh, thut e naw teh Cathut ma roeroe ni lungphen dawk thut e doeh.
God [himself] had made the slabs, and he was the one who had engraved the commandments on them.
17 Hahoi Joshua ni tamimaya pawlawk a thai toteh, Mosi koevah, roenae hmuen koe kâtuknae ao nahoehmaw telah ati.
Joshua heard the very loud noise of the people shouting. So when he and I got near the camp, Joshua said, “There is a noise in the camp that sounds like [the noise of] a battle!”
18 Hatei, ahni ni tânae pawlawk nahoeh, tâ e naw e hramki lawk hai nahoeh. Hateiteh, ka thai e heh la sak pawlawk doeh ati.
But Moses/I replied, [“No], that is not the shouting that people do when they have won a victory or when they have been defeated [in a battle] What I hear is the sound of [loud] singing!”
19 Hahoi, roenae teng a pha tahma hoi maitoca meikaphawk hoi kalamtunaw hah a hmu. Hottelah Mosi lungkhueknae teh a kaman teh lungphen a sin e hah a tâkhawng teh mon khok koe a kâbawng.
As soon as Moses/I came close to the camp and saw the statue of the young bull and saw the people dancing, he/I became extremely angry. He/I threw the stone tablets that he/I was carrying down onto the ground, there at the base of the mountain.
20 A sak awh e maitoca hah a la teh, hmai a phum teh vitkatip lah a phom. Tui dawk a phuen teh Isarelnaw hah a nei sak.
Then he/I took the statue of the young bull that they had made and melted it in the fire. [When it cooled], he/I ground it into [fine] powder. Then he/I mixed the powder with water and forced the Israeli people to drink it.
21 Mosi ni Aron koevah, hettelah totouh yonnae kalen hah ahnimouh lathueng pha sak hanelah, hetnaw ni nang lathueng bangmaw a sak awh, telah atipouh.
Then he/I said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, with the result that you have made them commit such a terrible sin?”
22 Aron ni ka bawipa lungkhueknae heh kaman payon hanh naseh. Hete tamimayanaw heh hawihoehnae koe lah pou kangvawinaw doeh tie teh na panue toe.
Aaron replied, “Please do not be angry with me, sir. You know that these people are very determined to do evil things.
23 Bangkongtetpawiteh, kai koevah, kaimouh na ka hrawi hanelah cathut hah na sak pouh. Bangkongtetpawiteh, Mosi Izip ram hoi na kahrawikung heh a kamthang banghai thai e lah awm hoeh toe telah ati awh.
They said to me, ‘As for that man Moses, the one who brought us up here from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him. So make for us an idol that will lead us!’
24 Kai ni ahnimouh koe, sui katawnnaw ni rading awh naseh, ka ti pouh teh na poe awh. Hmai dawk ka phum toteh hete maitoca meikaphawk heh a tâco telah ati.
So I said to them, ‘Everyone who is wearing [gold earrings] should take them off.’ So they [took them off and] gave them to me. I threw them into the fire, and out came this statue of a young bull!”
25 Hahoi tamipueng khenyawn laipalah a ngai patetlah kho a sak awh tie hah a hmu teh, bangkongtetpawiteh, a tarannaw hmunae koe Aron ni khenyawn awh hoeh.
Moses/I saw that Aaron had allowed the people to become completely out of control and to do things that would make their enemies think the Israeli people were foolish.
26 Mosi teh roenae rim longkha koe a kangdue teh, BAWIPA koelah kampang e pueng kai koe tho awh naseh, telah ati. Hattoteh Levih capanaw pueng teh ahni koe a cei awh.
So he/I stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, “Everyone who is loyal to Yahweh should come [closer] to me!” So the descendants of Levi gathered around him/me.
27 Ahnimouh koe, BAWIPA Cathut ni, tami pueng ni na tahloi lat awh nateh, roenae hmuen koe kâennae longkha koehoi tâconae longkha koe totouh, na hmaunawngha thoseh, na huiko thoseh, na imri thoseh thet awh atipouh.
Then he/I said to them, “Yahweh, the God of us Israeli people, commands that every one of you should fasten your sword to your side, and then go through the camp from this entrance to the other one, and kill some of your relatives and your companions and your neighbors.”
28 Hatdawkvah, Levih capanaw ni Mosi ni dei e patetlah a sak awh teh, hot hnin vah tami 3, 000 tabang a due awh.
The descendants of Levi did what Moses/I told them to do, and they killed 3,000 men on that day.
29 Hattoteh Mosi ni, sahnin yawhawinae na poe awh nahanelah, na mahmawk BAWIPA hanelah kâhmoun awh. Bangkongtetpawiteh, tami pueng ni a capa hoi a hmaunawngha hah a taran toe, telah ati.
Moses/I said to the descendants of Levi, “Today you have dedicated yourselves to serving Yahweh by (killing/not sparing) [even] your own sons and brothers, and as a result Yahweh will bless you.”
30 Hahoi, a tangtho vah Mosi ni tamimaya koevah, yonnae kalen na sak awh toe. Hatdawkvah, BAWIPA koe ka ceitakhang han. Na yonnae yontha thai han vaimoe, telah ati.
The next day, Moses/I said to the people, “You have committed a terrible sin. But I will now climb up the mountain again to talk with Yahweh. Perhaps I can [persuade him] to forgive you for sinning [like this].”
31 Hottelah Mosi teh BAWIPA koe a ban teh, Oe hetnaw ni yonnae kalen a sak awh teh, sui cathut hah a sak awh.
So Moses/I went back up the mountain and said to Yahweh, “I am sorry to admit that these people have committed a terrible sin. They have made for themselves a gold idol and have worshiped it.
32 Hatei nakunghai, a yonnae hah ngaithoum pouh haw. Hatei, na ngaithoum hoehpawiteh na cauk dawk na thut e ka min hah raphoe hanelah ka kâhei atipouh.
But now I ask you to please forgive them for having sinned. If you will not forgive them, then erase my name from the book in which you have written [the names of your people].”
33 BAWIPA ni Mosi koevah, kai taranlahoi yonnae ka sak e pueng teh, ka cauk dawk hoi a min ka raphoe han.
But Yahweh said to Moses/me, “It is [only] those who have sinned against me whose names I will erase from that book.
34 Hatdawkvah cet nateh, ka dei e hmuen koe tamimaya hah cetkhaih. Khenhaw! kaie kalvantaminaw na hmalah a cei han. Hatei, rek hanelah ka hloe awh nah hnin vah, a yonnae dawk roeroe ka rek awh han telah ati.
Now you go back down and lead the [Israeli] people to the place that I told you about. Keep in mind that my angel will go in front of you. But, at the time that I determine, I will punish them for their sin.”
35 Hottelah Aron ni a sak e patetlah maitoca meikaphawk a sak awh dawkvah, BAWIPA ni tamimaya teh a rek.
[Later] Yahweh caused a plague to strike the people because they had told Aaron to make the gold [statue of a] young bull.
