Wuok 1

1 Magi e nying jo-Israel mane odhi e piny Misri gi Jakobo, moro ka moro gi joode:

And these [are] the names of the sons of Israel who are coming into Egypt; each man and his household have come with Jacob:

2 Reuben, Simeon, Lawi, kod Juda;

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

3 Isakar, Zebulun kod Benjamin;

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

4 Dan kod Naftali; Gad kod Asher.

Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

5 Joka Jakobo duto noromo ji piero abiriyo, nikech Josef to noyudo osechopo e piny Misri.

And all the persons coming out of the thigh of Jacob are seventy persons; as for Joseph, he was in Egypt.

6 Koro Josef gi owetene duto kod tiengʼno duto notho,

And Joseph dies, and all his brothers, and all that generation;

7 to jo-Israel nonyaa kendo gimedore ahinya mi gimedo bedo oganda mathoth moloyo mane gipongʼo pinyno duto.

and the sons of Israel have been fruitful, and they teem, and multiply, and are very, very mighty, and the land is filled with them.

8 Bangʼe ruoth manyien mane ok ongʼeyo wach Josef nobedo e loch e piny Misri.

And there rises a new king over Egypt, who has not known Joseph,

9 Nonyiso joge niya, “Neuru, jo-Israel osenyaa moloyowa.

and he says to his people, “Behold, the people of the sons of Israel [are] more numerous and mighty than we.

10 Watangʼuru, nono to gibiro medore ahinya kendo bedo maratego, ma ka lweny owuok ginyalo dok ne wasikwa mondo giked kodwa, mi giring gia e pinywa.”

Give help! Let us act wisely concerning it, lest it multiply, and it has come to pass, when war happens, that it has been joined, even it, to those hating us, and has fought against us, and has gone up out of the land.”

11 Kuom mano, jo-Misri noketo nyipeche mondo ochun jo-Israel gi tich matek, kendo negigero Pithom gi Rameses kaka miech keno mag ruoth Farao.

And they set princes of tribute over it, so as to afflict it with their burdens, and it builds the store-cities of Pithom and Rameses for Pharaoh;

12 To kaka ne imedo sandgi, e kaka negimedo nyaa kendo gimedore; omiyo jo-Misri nomedo luoro jo-Israel,

and as they afflict it, so it multiplies, and so it breaks forth, and they are distressed because of the sons of Israel;

13 kuom mano jo-Misri nobembo jo-Israel gi tich mapek mar wasumbini.

and the Egyptians cause the sons of Israel to serve with rigor,

14 Negimiyo ngimagi odoko matek gi tije achuna mag nyono lowo mar matafare; e tijegi duto jo-Misri noketogi gi tich mapek mar wasumbini.

and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every [kind] of service in the field; all their service in which they have served [is] with rigor.

15 Bangʼe ruodh jo-Misri nogolo chik mondo mond jo-Hibrania ma jocholo miluongo ni Shifra kod Pua niya,

And the king of Egypt speaks to the midwives, the Hebrewesses (of whom the name of the first [is] Shiphrah, and the name of the second Puah),

16 “Ka ucholo mond jo-Hibrania mi uneno ka onywolo nyathi ma wuowi, to negeuru, to ka en nyathi ma nyako, to kik unege.”

and says, “When you cause the Hebrew women to bear, and have looked on the children, if it [is] a son, then you have put him to death; and if it [is] a daughter, then she has lived.”

17 To kata kamano, jochologo noluoro Nyasaye kendo ne ok gitimo gima ruodh jo-Misri nonyisogi mondo gitim, mine ok ginego nyithindo ma yawuowi.

And the midwives fear God, and have not done as the king of Egypt has spoken to them, and they keep the boys alive;

18 Ruodh jo-Misri noluongo jochologo mi openjogi niya, “En angʼo momiyo utimo kama? Angʼo momiyo ok uneg nyithindo ma yawuowi?”

and the king of Egypt calls for the midwives and says to them, “Why have you done this thing, and keep the boys alive?”

19 Jochologo nodwoko Farao niya, “Mond jo-Hibrania ok chal gi mond jo-Misri, gin giteko kendo ginywol kapok jocholo ochopo irgi.”

And the midwives say to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women [are] not as the Egyptian women, for they [are] lively; before the midwife comes to them—they have borne!”

20 Kuom mano Nyasaye nogwedho jochologo, kendo jo-Israel nomedo nyaa mi odoko oganda maduongʼ.

And God does good to the midwives, and the people multiply, and are very mighty;

21 Nikech jochologo noluoro Nyasaye, Nyasaye nogwedhogi gi nyithindo.

and it comes to pass, because the midwives have feared God, that He makes households for them;

22 Bangʼe Farao nogolo chik ne joge kowacho niya, “Nyathi ma wuowi moro amora monywol nyaka udir e aora Nael, to nyithindo ma nyiri to uwe odongi.”

and Pharaoh lays a charge on all his people, saying, “Every son who is born—you cast him into the River, and every daughter you keep alive.”