Exodus 17
1 And all the congregation of the sons of Israel journey from the wilderness of Sin, on their journeys, by the command of YHWH, and encamp in Rephidim, and there is no water for the people to drink;
Awo ekibiina kyonna eky’abaana ba Isirayiri ne kisitula okuva mu ddungu lya Sini, ne batambula ng’ekiragiro kya Mukama bwe kyali. Ne bakuba eweema zaabwe mu Lefidimu, naye nga tewaliiwo mazzi bantu ge banaanywa.
2 and the people strive with Moses, and say, “Give us water, and we drink.” And Moses says to them, “Why do you strive with me? Why do you try YHWH?”
Abantu ne bayombesa Musa nga bagamba nti, “Tuwe amazzi tunywe.” Musa n’abaddamu nti, “Lwaki munnyombesa? Lwaki mugezesa Mukama?”
3 And the people thirst for water there, and the people murmur against Moses, and say, “Why [is] this [that] you have brought us up out of Egypt to put us to death, also our sons and our livestock, with thirst?”
Naye abantu ennyonta y’amazzi n’ebaluma, ne beemulugunyiza Musa. Ne bagamba nti, “Lwaki watuggya mu Misiri, ennyonta okututtira wano, ffe n’abaana baffe n’ebisibo byaffe?”
4 And Moses cries to YHWH, saying, “What do I do to this people? Yet a little, and they have stoned me.”
Musa n’akaabira Mukama nti, “Abantu bano mbakole ntya? Baabano baagala kunkuba mayinja.”
5 And YHWH says to Moses, “Pass over before the people, and take with you from [the] elderly of Israel, and take your rod in your hand, with which you have struck the River, and you have gone.
Mukama n’addamu Musa nti, “Abantu abo bakulembere, otwale ne ku bakulembeze ba Isirayiri; n’omuggo gwo gwe wakubisa ku mugga genda nagwo ng’ogukutte mu mukono gwo, mutambule.
6 Behold, I am standing before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you have struck on the rock, and waters have come out from it, and the people have drunk.” And Moses does so before the eyes of [the] elderly of Israel,
Nange nzija kukwesooka mu maaso nyimirire ku lwazi e Kolebu, onookuba olwazi ne muvaamu amazzi abantu banywe.” Musa n’akola bw’atyo nga n’abakulembeze ba Isirayiri balaba.
7 and he calls the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the strife of the sons of Israel, and because of their trying YHWH, saying, “Is YHWH in our midst or not?”
Ekifo ekyo n’akituuma erinnya Masa ne Meriba, olw’okuyomba kw’abaana ba Isirayiri, n’olw’okugezesa Mukama nga bagamba nti, “Mukama waali mu ffe oba taliiwo?”
8 And Amalek comes, and fights with Israel in Rephidim,
Awo Abamaleki ne bajja balwane ne Isirayiri mu Lefidimu.
9 and Moses says to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek: tomorrow I am standing on the top of the hill, and the rod of God in my hand.”
Musa n’agamba Yoswa nti, “Tuyunguliremu abasajja bagende balwanyise Abamaleki. Enkya nzija kuyimirira ku ntikko y’olusozi nga nkutte omuggo gwa Katonda mu mukono gwange.”
10 And Joshua does as Moses has said to him, to fight with Amalek, and Moses, Aaron, and Hur have gone up [to] the top of the height;
Yoswa n’akola nga Musa bwe yamulagira, n’alwana n’Abamaleki. Musa ne Alooni ne Kuli ne bambuka ku ntikko y’olusozi.
11 and it has come to pass, when Moses lifts up his hand, that Israel has been mighty, and when he lets his hands rest, that Amalek has been mighty.
Musa bwe yawanikanga emikono gye, Abayisirayiri nga bagoba, naye bwe yagissanga, nga Abamaleki bagoba.
12 And the hands of Moses [are] heavy, and they take a stone and set [it] under him, and he sits on it, and Aaron and Hur have taken hold on his hands, one on this [side] and one on that [side]; and his hands are steadfast until the going in of the sun;
Emikono gya Musa ne gitandika okumufuuyirira. Alooni ne Kuli ne bamuleetera ejjinja, n’atuula okwo; ne bawanirira emikono gye, omu ng’ali ku ludda olumu, ne munne ku ludda olulala, emikono gye olwo ne ginywerera waggulu okutuusa enjuba lwe yagwa.
13 and Joshua weakens Amalek and his people by the mouth of the sword.
Yoswa n’awangula Abamaleki ng’akozesa obwogi bw’ekitala.
14 And YHWH says to Moses, “Write this, a memorial in a Scroll, and set [it] in the ears of Joshua, that I utterly wipe away the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens”;
Awo Mukama n’agamba Musa nti, “Kino kiwandiike mu kitabo kiryoke kijjukirwenga ennaku zonna, era Yoswa asaana akimanye, kubanga Abamaleki ŋŋenda kubasangulirawo ddala ku nsi.”
15 and Moses builds an altar, and calls its name YHWH-Nissi,
Musa n’azimbawo ekyoto n’akituuma erinnya Mukama ye Bendera Yange.
16 and says, “Because a hand [is] on the throne of YAH, war [is] to YHWH with Amalek from generation [to] generation.”
N’agamba nti, “Kubanga Abamaleki baalwanyisa entebe ya Mukama ey’obwakabaka, Mukama alayidde okubalwanyisa emirembe gyonna.”
