< Exodus 1 >

1 And these [are] the names of the sons of Israel who are coming into Egypt; each man and his household have come with Jacob:
Aya ndiwo mazita avanakomana vaIsraeri vakaenda naJakobho kuIjipiti, mumwe nomumwe nemhuri yake:
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Rubheni, Simeoni, Revhi naJudha;
3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
Isakari, Zebhuruni naBhenjamini;
4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
Dhani naNafutari; Gadhi naAsheri.
5 And all the persons coming out of the thigh of Jacob are seventy persons; as for Joseph, he was in Egypt.
Zvizvarwa zvose zvaJakobho zvakanga zviri makumi manomwe pakuwanda; Josefa akanga atova muIjipiti.
6 And Joseph dies, and all his brothers, and all that generation;
Zvino Josefa nehama dzake dzose navose vezera iroro vakafa,
7 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.
asi vaIsraeri vakaberekana vakawanda zvikuru uye vakava vazhinji kwazvo, zvokuti nyika yakanga yazara navo.
8 And there rises a new king over Egypt, who has not known Joseph,
Ipapo mambo mutsva, akanga asingazivi nezvaJosefa, akatanga kutonga muIjipiti.
9 and he says to his people, “Behold, the people of the sons of Israel [are] more numerous and mighty than we.
Akati kuvanhu vake, “Tarirai, vaIsraeri vanyanya kuwanda kwazvo.
10 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.”
Uyai tivafungire zano nokuti vangazonyanya kuwanda uye kana hondo ikamuka, vangazobatana navavengi vedu, vakarwa nesu vakazobva munyika.”
11 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;
Saka vakagadza vatariri vebasa pamusoro pavo kuti vavadzvinyirire nebasa rechibharo, uye vakavaka Pitomu neRamesesi kuti ave maguta amatura aFaro.
12 and as they afflict it, so it multiplies, and so it breaks forth, and they are distressed because of the sons of Israel;
Asi pavakanyanya kudzvinyirirwa ndipo pavakanyanya kuwanda uye nokupararira; saka vaIjipita vakasvika pakutya vaIsraeri
13 and the Egyptians cause the sons of Israel to serve with rigor,
uye vakavashandisa zvino utsinye.
14 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.
Vakashungurudza upenyu hwavo nebasa rakaoma rezvidhina nedhaka uye nemhando dzose dzebasa romuminda; vaIjipita vakavashandisa noutsinye mubasa rakaoma.
15 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),
Mambo weIjipiti akati kuna vananyamukuta vechiHebheru vainzi Shifura naPua,
16 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.”
“Pamunobatsira vakadzi vechiHebheru pakusununguka uye mukavacherechedza vachisununguka, kana ari mukomana, mumuuraye; kana ari musikana murege ari mupenyu.”
17 And the midwives fear God, and have not done as the king of Egypt has spoken to them, and they keep the boys alive;
Asi, vananyamukuta vakanga vachitya Mwari, uye havana kuita zvavakanga varayirwa namambo weIjipiti kuti vaite; vakarega vanakomana vari vapenyu.
18 and the king of Egypt calls for the midwives and says to them, “Why have you done this thing, and keep the boys alive?”
Ipapo mambo weIjipiti akadana vananyamukuta akavabvunza achiti, “Seiko maita izvi? Seiko marega vana vechikomana vari vapenyu?”
19 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!”
Vananyamukuta vakapindura Faro vachiti, “Vakadzi vechiHebheru havana kufanana navakadzi veIjipiti; vane simba uye vanosununguka vananyamukuta vasati vasvika.”
20 And God does good to the midwives, and the people multiply, and are very mighty;
Saka Mwari akaitira vananyamukuta zvakanaka uye vanhu vakawedzerwa vakava vazhinji kwazvo.
21 and it comes to pass, because the midwives have feared God, that He makes households for them;
Uye nokuda kwokuti vananyamukuta vaitya Mwari, iye akavapa mhuri dzavo pachavo.
22 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.”
Ipapo Faro akarayira vanhu vose kuti, “Vanakomana vose vanoberekwa munofanira kuvakanda murwizi Nairi, asi murege vanasikana vose vari vapenyu.”

< Exodus 1 >