Numbers 21
1 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.
Arad Canaan gam lhanglamma lengpa chun Israel mite chun agamkai chu ahin jotpa tauve tithu ajah doh phat in, gal abol khum tan ahile Israel mite phabep songkul atang den tauvin ahi.
2 Then the Israelis solemnly vowed: “Yahweh, if you will help us to defeat these people, we will completely destroy all their towns.”
Chuin Israel miten hitin aseijun Pakai masangah akitom tauvin ahi. Pakai, Pathen nangma in hiche mite hi keima ho khutna neipeh doh ule keihon amaho khopi jaona abonchauva ka suh gam diu ahi, tin asei tau vin ahi.
3 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’].
Pakaiyin Israel mite taona chu asan peh tan Canaan mite chunga galjona aneitauvin, khopi jong abonchan ajousoh heltauvin chuleh hiche mun chu Hormah asah taove.
4 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,
Israelte chun hikom muna kon chun tuisan lam ahin jon’un Edom gam ahin jotpa uvin, hinlah Israel mite chun lamsao tah ahin jot phat uvin Mose henga akiphin gam taovin ahi.
5 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!”
Israel mite chu Pathen chule Mose heng nga aki phintauvin, itidan a gamthip lah a Egypt apatna nei hin puidoh mong mong uham ati tauvin ahi. Hilai mun hi don ding jong imacha umlou chule keiho hiche manna jong hi kachim tauve tin aseiyuve.
6 So Yahweh sent poisonous snakes among them. Many of the people were bitten by the snakes and died.
Hichun Pakajin Israel mite chunga alunghang na ahin bunglhan ahile aneh nauva chun gu ajaovin mi phabep in thina atoh tauvin ahi.
7 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.
Chuin Israel mite Pakai henga ataovun keihon Pakai doumah seijin ka um un ahile gimbolna ka chung uva ahung lhung jeng tan ahi. Nei ngaidam tauvin tin Pakai henga atao un ahi.
8 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).”
Hichun Pakaiyin Mose hengah hiti hin aseijin gul lim semthu in lang khom phung a dinsah in lang, koi hita jong leh hi che gul ve tapou chu dam doh ding, gul in achuh khah jongle damna anei thei ding ahi.
9 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!
Mose’n gul asem thun khom ma akhen beh in, koi hita jong le hiche ve achu gul’in achuh khah na akon damna um jeng ding ahi, tin aseijin ahi.
10 Then the Israelis traveled to Oboth and (camped/set up their tents) there.
Chu in Israel mite ngahmun lam jon in akitol kittauvin ahi.
11 Then they left there, and went to Iye-Abarim, in the desert on the eastern border of Moab.
Chuin amaho Oboth apat in Ije-Abarim mun lam ahoh pauvin gamthip lam Moab sodoh nalam chu ahi.
12 From there they traveled to the valley where the Zered riverbed is, and camped there.
Ije-Abarim kiti Oboth solam gamthip lah a pat’in aki patdoh un Zared luikhuh a aki chol do tauvin ahi.
13 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.
Hichun amaho aki pat doh un Arnon vadung gamthip Amor mite chenna gam lam jon in achie kit tauvin, Arnon vadung hi Moab mite le Amor mite gamgi ahiye.
14 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]
Hijeh chun Pathen lekhabua kimu Pakai galbolna hichu Arnon vadung mun ahi.
15 and the ravines there, which extend as far as Ar [village] on the border of Moab.”
Hiche mun chu Arnon gam chule Moab gamgi ahi.
16 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.”
Chuin Arnon gam le Moab gamgi’a pat chun Israel mite Beer jon in akitol tauvin ahi. Hiche muna hi PakaiyinMose hengah thu aseiyin nangho kikoukhom’un keiman nadon diu twi ka peh ding nahiuve tia aseina mun chu ahiye.
17 There the Israelis sang this song: “O well, give us water! Sing about this well!
Hiche muna chun Israel miten Pathen vahchoila asauvin, ama thangvah nan adim uve.
18 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,
Hiche tui umna muna chun lengnu apang hoi ahiuvin, lamkai ho ahin, abonchauvin twikhuh chu alaiyun chu in Mattanah lam jon in ache tauvin ahi.
19 Nahaliel, and Bamoth [villages].
Mattanah apat’in Nahaliel gam chu ajon un chu in Nahaliel apat in Bamoth ajon un ahi.
20 Then they went to the valley in Moab where Pisgah [Mountain] rises above the desert.
Bamoth phaicham alhung tauvin hichu Moab gamsung ahin Pisgah mun hiche apat chu Jeshimon lam ki galdot ahi tai.
21 Then the Israelis sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group. This was the message [that they/we gave him]:
Chuin Israel miten Mose lamkaijin Amor mite lengpa Sihon henga thuthot aneiyun ahi.
22 “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.”
Keima hon nagam leiset chu kapel thei diu ham keiho ching thei tah a kachi diu chule lengpi lei lah a kachi lou diu nangho tuikhuh a jong tui kadon lou diu ahi. Nangho gamkai sunga hi lengpa lamlen bou kaho pa diu ahi bouve, tin aseiyun ahi.
23 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].
Ahinlah Amor mite lengpa Sihon chun Israel mite chu agam ajotpa na diu chu aphal peh tapon, phalpih malah chun lengpa Sihon chu agalsat techu akou khom in abonchauvin gam thip laitah ah chun abulu tan Jahaz kiti mun a chun aki bulu to tauvin ahi.
24 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.
Isreal miten jong Amor mite chu ale thuh un agam leiset ho jouse jong atou pha tauvin, Arnon vadung apat Jabbok vadung gei Isreal mite chu Amon mite gamgi chan ahung galkaijun Amon mite khopi chu hoitah a kigen kul ahijeh chun hiche muna chun ahung lhung tauvin ahi.
25 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.
Hichun Isreal mite le Amon miten agam le lei jouse alo sohtauvin Hesbon khopi ahin adang dang khovel ho jong atou pha sohtauvin ahi.
26 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].
Amor mite lengpa Sihon dinga Hesbon khopi ana hin Moab mite lengpa kulpi jong ana tou pha in chule Arnon vadung gei ana toupha in ahi.
27 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.
Mimasa hon Sihon thusimho anajihlut un ahile Hesbon lang apat nang ho hung umdol thusim chu hiche ahin Sihon khopi avella kitung doh kit ahiye.
28 A fire blazed from Heshbon; it burned down Ar [city] in Moab, it destroyed [everything on] the hills along the Arnon [River].
Hesbon na kon in mei kong ahung kong doh in Sihon kiti’a konin meikhu ahung khu doh in Maob khopi a Arnon umna Moab khopi Arnon chu meikong in ahal lhatai Arnon mite lah a sangtah'a umho chu asuse taove.
29 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.
Moab mite hi itabang genthei nan alhun khum hitam! Chemosh boh khup teho nangma akichai na hitai Chemosh in pasal ho umna neilou bang asoh tan a chanu te vang chu Sihon, Amor mite lengpa khut’a asoh achang tauvin ahi.
30 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].”
Eihon amaho chu Hesbon a pat’a Dibon gei chu isuh cheh taovin, eihon amho chu Nophah apat Medeba gei chu ipum nocheh taovin ahi.
31 So the Israeli people began to live in the land where the Amor people-group lived.
Hiti ahi jeh chun Isreal miten Amor mite chenna gam alo khum taovin ahi.
32 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.
Mose’n phat chomkhat jouvin Jaazer lam ah’a khol chedin asoltan Isreal miten hiche vel'a khopi um jouse chu atou pha tauvin hikom a cheng Amor mite chu abonchauvin ano doh tauve.
33 Then they turned [north] toward the Bashan region, but King Og of Bashan and all his army attacked them at Edrei [town].
Hichun Isreal mite aki nung hei taovin Bashan jotna lam ajon tauvin, amavang Bashan lengpa Og chun ama nam mite jouse chutoh Edrei mun ah ana bulhu uvin ahi.
34 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.”
Pakajin Mose henga thu aseiyin Bashan lengpa Og chu ging hih beh in ajeh chu keiman nangma hi gal jona ka peh ding, amaho gamle leiset jouse chule amite chunga thanei na le galjona kapeh nahi tai. Heshbon vaipopa Amor mite lengpa Sihon nabol na bang tah a nagal jo kitding ahi.
35 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.
Hichun Isreal miten Og lengpa kiti pa ahin amite jouse chu koimacha ahing a nakoi loubeh diu ahi tai. Hichun Isreal miten Bashan mite jouse chu agam le aleiset atou pha taovin asat gam tauve.
