Oekyuk 21
1 Ke tokosra lun acn Arad, su oan layen eir in acn Canaan, el lohngak lah mwet Israel elos tuku sun acn Atharim, el som mweunelos ac sruokya kutu selos.
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.
2 Na mwet Israel elos orala sie wulela na ku nu sin LEUM GOD: “Kom fin lela kut in kutangla mwet inge, kut ac kisakunuloswot nu sum oayapa siti selos, ac kut ac fah kunauselosla.”
Then the Israelis solemnly vowed: “Yahweh, if you will help us to defeat these people, we will completely destroy all their towns.”
3 LEUM GOD El lohngolos ac kasrelos kutangla mwet Canaan. Ouinge mwet Israel arulana sukelosla ac siti selos, ac sang inen acn sac Hormah.
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’].
4 Mwet Israel som liki Fineol Hor, ac ut ke inkanek ma som nu ke Meoa Srusra, tuh elos in ut na sisken facl sin mwet Edom. Tusruktu ke elos srak fahsr, mwet uh semutengla
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,
5 ac kaskas lain God ac Moses. Elos torkaskas ac fahk, “Efu kom ku uskutme liki acn Egypt kut in tuh misa in acn mwesis se inge, yen wanginna mongo ac kof we? Kut tasak ke mwe mongo koluk inge!”
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!”
6 Na LEUM GOD El supwala serpent pwasin nu inmasrlon mwet uh, ac mwet Israel puspis ngalnguli ac misa.
So Yahweh sent poisonous snakes among them. Many of the people were bitten by the snakes and died.
7 Ac mwet uh tuku nu yorol Moses ac fahk, “Kut orekma koluk ke kut kaskas lain LEUM GOD ac lain kom. Pre nu sin LEUM GOD Elan usla serpent inge.” Ke ma inge Moses el pre ke mwet uh.
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.
8 Na LEUM GOD El fahk nu sel Moses elan orala soko serpent osra, ac likiya mutun soko sak ah, tuh kutena mwet su ngalnguli fin ngetak nu kac, elos fah moul ac tia misa.
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).”
9 Ouinge Moses el orala soko serpent ke bronze ac likiya fin soko sak. Na kutena mwet su ngalnguli, elos ac ngetak nu ke serpent bronze soko ah, ac moul.
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!
10 Mwet Israel elos sifil mukuiyak ac tulokunak lohm nuknuk selos in acn Oboth.
Then the Israelis traveled to Oboth and (camped/set up their tents) there.
11 Toko elos som liki acn sac, ac tulokunak nien aktuktuk selos ke mahnum lun Abarim in acn mwesis kutulap in facl Moab.
Then they left there, and went to Iye-Abarim, in the desert on the eastern border of Moab.
12 Na elos sifilpa mukuiyak liki acn we ac aktuktuk ke infahlfal Zered.
From there they traveled to the valley where the Zered riverbed is, and camped there.
13 Elos sifilpa mukuiyak liki acn we ac tuku nu layen epang in Infacl Arnon ac aktuktuk we, ke yen mwesis se su fahla nwe ke facl sin mwet Amor. (Infacl Arnon pa masrol lun facl sin mwet Moab ac mwet Amor.)
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.
14 Pa sis [Book In Mweun Lun] LEUM GOD sramsramkin “...siti srisrik Waheb ke ipin acn lun Suphah, ac infahlfal uh, ac Infacl Arnon,
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]
15 ac acn oatu ke infahlfal se ma fahla nwe ke siti srisrik Ar, ac suwosang nwe ke masrol lun acn Moab.”
and the ravines there, which extend as far as Ar [village] on the border of Moab.”
16 Liki acn we elos som na nwe ke sie acn pangpang Lufin Kof, acn se ma LEUM GOD El fahk nu sel Moses, “Usani mwet uh nu sie, ac nga ac fah sang kof nu selos.”
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.”
17 In pacl sac mwet Israel uh yuk on soko inge: “Lufin kof uh, unonak; Kut ac fah onkakin kom ke soko on.
There the Israelis sang this song: “O well, give us water! Sing about this well!
18 Lufin kof pukpukyak sin leum uh, Ac sin mwet kol lun mwet uh; Pukpukyak ke soko scepter lun tokosra, Oayapa ke sikal lun mwet kol lalos.” Elos mukuiyak liki yen mwesis nu Mattanah,
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,
19 ac liki acn we elos som na nwe Nahaliel, ac liki acn Nahaliel me nu Bamoth,
Nahaliel, and Bamoth [villages].
20 ac liki acn Bamoth nu infahlfal in acn lun mwet Moab, ye mangon eol Pisgah, su oan ngeta nu fin acn mwesis.
Then they went to the valley in Moab where Pisgah [Mountain] rises above the desert.
21 Na mwet Israel supwala mwet utuk kas nu sel Sihon, tokosra lun mwet Amor, ac fahk:
Then the Israelis sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group. This was the message [that they/we gave him]:
22 “Nunak munas, lela nu sesr in fahsr sasla in acn sum. Kut, ac cow natusr, fah tia kuhfla liki inkanek lulap in utyak nu in ima lom ku ima in grape sunom, ac kut ac fah tia nim kof ke lufin kof lowos uh. Kut ac fahsrna fin inkanek lulap ah, nwe ke kut alukela facl sum uh.”
“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.”
23 Tusruktu Tokosra Sihon el tiana fuhlela mwet Israel in fahla fin acn sel. El orani un mwet mweun lal ac illa som nu Jahaz in acn mwesis, ac mweuni mwet Israel.
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].
24 Tusruktu mwet Israel elos onela mwet puspis sin mwet lokoalok lalos ke mweun sac, ac sruokya acn selos, mutawauk ke Infacl Arnon nwe ke Infacl Jabbok layen epang, aok nwe ke sun masrol lun mwet Ammon uh, mweyen masrol se ingan musaiyukla arulana ku!
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.
25 Na mwet Israel uh kutangla siti nukewa sin mwet Amor, weang Heshbon ac inkul nukewa ma oan apkuran nu we, na elos oakwuki we.
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.
26 Heshbon pa capital siti lal Tokosra Sihon lun mwet Amor, su tuh mweun lain tokosra lun mwet Moab meet, ac eisla acn lal nukewa fahla na nwe Infacl Arnon.
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].
27 Pa oru mwet ma yuk pas uh onkakin mu, “Fahsru nu Heshbon, siti sel Tokosra Sihon! Kut kena liye in sifilpa musaiyukyak ac akwoyeyukla.
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.
28 Sie pacl ah, in siti se inge Heshbon, Un mwet mweun lal Sihon illa oana sie e. Elos kunausla siti Ar in acn Moab Ac sukela inging sisken infacl Arnon.
A fire blazed from Heshbon; it burned down Ar [city] in Moab, it destroyed [everything on] the hills along the Arnon [River].
29 We nu suwos, mwet Moab! Kowos su alu nu sin Chemosh, kowos arulana musalla! God lowos uh oru tuh mukul we uh in mwet kakaing, Ac mutan we elos mwet sruoh lal Tokosra Sihon lun mwet Amor.
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.
30 Tusruktu fwilin tulik natulos kunausyukla, Mutawauk Heshbon lac na nwe Dibon, Liki acn Nashim nwe Nophah, apkuran nu Medeba.”
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].”
31 Ouinge mwet Israel oakwuki in acn lun mwet Amor,
So the Israeli people began to live in the land where the Amor people-group lived.
32 ac Moses el supwala kutu mwet kalngeyuk nu ke siti Jazer in konauk lah elos ac mweuni fuka acn we. Mwet Israel elos sruokya siti sac wi inkul nukewa ma oan apkuran nu we, ac lusak mwet Amor su muta we.
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.
33 Toko mwet Israel forla ac ut ke inkanek nu Bashan, ac tokosra Og lun Bashan el illa us un mwet mweun lal in mweunelos in acn Edrei.
Then they turned [north] toward the Bashan region, but King Og of Bashan and all his army attacked them at Edrei [town].
34 LEUM GOD El fahk nu sel Moses, “Nik kom sangeng sel. Nga ac oru tuh kom in kutanulla, ac mwet lal nukewa ac acn sel. Oru nu sel oana ma kom tuh oru nu sel Sihon, tokosra lun mwet Amor, su leumi acn Heshbon.”
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.”
35 Ouinge mwet Israel elos unilya Tokosra Og, ac wen natul ac mwet lal nukewa — wangin mwet painmoulla — na elos oakwuki in acn sel.
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.
