Ezekieli 44
1 Moto yango azongisaki ngai na ekuke ya libanda ya Esika ya bule; Ekuke yango ezalaki na ngambo ya este mpe ezalaki ya kokangama.
And he brought me back to the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary, which looked towards the east: and it was shut.
2 Yawe alobaki na ngai: « Ekuke oyo ekotikala ya kokangama, bakoki kofungola yango te, mpe moto moko te akoki kokota na nzela na yango. Ekotikala kaka ya kokangama, pamba te Yawe, Nzambe ya Isalaele, akotelaki na nzela na yango.
And the Lord said to me: This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall pass through it: because the Lord the God of Israel hath entered in by it, and it shall be shut
3 Kasi mokambi, ye kaka, lokola azali mokambi nde akoki kovanda na kati mpo na kolia bilei liboso ya Yawe; akokotela na nzela ya ndako moke ya kokotela mpe akobimela kaka na nzela wana. »
For the prince. The prince himself shall sit in it, to eat bread before the Lord: he shall enter in by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the same way.
4 Moto yango amemaki ngai lisusu na nzela ya ekuke ya nor kino na liboso ya Tempelo. Tango natalaki, namonaki nkembo na Yawe kotondisa Tempelo ya Yawe, mpe ngai nakweyaki elongi kino na mabele.
And he brought me by the way of the north gate, in the sight of the house: and I saw, and behold the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord: and I fell on my face.
5 Yawe alobaki na ngai: « Mwana na moto, sala keba! Fungola miso na yo mpe yoka na matoyi na yo makambo nyonso oyo nakoyebisa yo na tina na Tempelo mpe mitindo na yango! Sala penza keba na ekotelo ya Tempelo mpe bikuke nyonso ya Esika ya bule.
And the Lord said to me: Son of man, attend with thy heart, and behold with thy eyes, and hear with thy ears, all that I say to thee concerning all the ceremonies of the house of the Lord, and concerning all the laws thereof: and mark well the ways of the temple, with all the goings out of the sanctuary.
6 Yebisa batomboki oyo, libota ya Isalaele: ‹ Tala liloba oyo Nkolo Yawe alobi: Oh libota ya Isalaele, nalembi misala na bino nyonso ya nkele!
And thou shalt say to the house of Israel that provoketh me: Thus saith the Lord God: Let all your wicked doings suffice you, O house of Israel:
7 Wana bozalaki kobonzela Ngai bilei, mafuta mpe makila ya banyama, bokotisaki kati na Esika na Ngai ya bule bapaya oyo batosaka Ngai te mpe bakatama ngenga te, mpo na kobebisa bosantu ya Tempelo na Ngai; na bongo, bobebisaki boyokani na Ngai mpo na kokokisa misala na bino nyonso ya mbindo!
In that you have brought in strangers uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, and to defile my house: and you offer my bread, the fat, and the blood: and you have broken my covenant by all your wicked doings.
8 Na esika ete bomipesa na mosala ya biloko na Ngai ya bule, bino bozali nde kopesa mosala na Ngai epai ya bapaya, kati na Esika na Ngai ya bule.
And you have not kept the ordinances of my sanctuary: but you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
9 Tala liloba oyo Nkolo Yawe alobi: Mopaya moko te oyo atosaka Ngai te mpe oyo akatisa ngenga te akokota na Esika na Ngai ya bule, ezala bapaya oyo bazali kovanda kati na bana ya Isalaele.
Thus saith the Lord God: No stranger uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, no stranger that is in the midst of the children of Israel.
10 Balevi oyo bakomaki mosika na Ngai, tango Isalaele abungaki nzela mpe azalaki koyengayenga mosika na Ngai mpo na kolanda banzambe na bango ya bikeko, bakomema mikumba ya masumu na bango.
Moreover the Levites that went away far from me, when the children of Israel went astray, and have wandered from me after their idols, and have borne their iniquity:
11 Kati na Esika na Ngai ya bule, bakosala kaka mosala ya kokengela bikuke ya Tempelo mpe misala mosusu ya Tempelo; bakobanda koboma mpo na bato bambeka ya kotumba mpe bambeka mosusu mpe bakotelema liboso ya bato mpo na kosalela bango.
They shall be officers in my sanctuary, and doorkeepers of the gates of the house, and ministers to the house: they shall slay the holocausts, and the victims of the people: and they shall stand in their sight, to minister to them.
12 Kasi lokola basalelaki bango liboso ya banzambe na bango ya bikeko mpe bakweyisaki libota ya Isalaele na masumu, nalapi ndayi, na kotombola loboko, ete bakomema mikumba ya masumu na bango, elobi Nkolo Yawe.
Because they ministered to them before their idols, and were a stumblingblock of iniquity to the house of Israel: therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord God, and they shall bear their iniquity:
13 Bakopusana lisusu liboso na Ngai te mpo na kosalela Ngai lokola Banganga-Nzambe to pene ya biloko nyonso oyo ebulisami mpo na Ngai to mpe pene ya biloko oyo eleki bule. Boye, bakolata soni ya misala na bango ya nkele.
And they shall not come near to me to do the office of priest to me, neither shall they come near to any of my holy things that are by the holy of holies: but they shall bear their shame, and their wickednesses which they have committed.
14 Nakopesa bango mokumba ya kobatela Tempelo mpe kosala misala na yango nyonso, nyonso oyo esengeli kosalema kati na yango.
And I will make them doorkeepers of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
15 Kasi Banganga-Nzambe oyo bazali Balevi mpe bakitani ya Tsadoki, oyo bakobaki kobatela na boyengebene misala na bango kati na Esika na Ngai ya bule tango bana ya Isalaele babungaki nzela na Ngai, bakopusana pene na Ngai mpo na kosalela Ngai; bakotelema liboso na Ngai mpo na kobonza bambeka ya mafuta mpe makila ya banyama, elobi Nkolo Yawe.
But the priests, and Levites, the sons of Sadoc, who kept the ceremonies or my sanctuary, when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me, to minister to me: and they shall stand before me, to offer me the fat, and the blood, saith the Lord God.
16 Bango kaka nde bakokota na Esika na Ngai ya bule, bakopusana pene ya mesa na Ngai mpo na kosalela Ngai mpe kokokisa mosala na Ngai.
They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and to keep my ceremonies.
17 Tango bakokota na bikuke ya lopango ya kati, basengeli kolata bilamba ya lino; bakoki kolata bilamba oyo basala na bapwale ya meme te tango bakozala kosala mosala na bikuke ya lopango ya kati to kati na Tempelo.
And when they shall enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments: neither shall any woollen come upon them, when they minister in the gates of the inner court and within.
18 Bakolata bitendi ya lino na mito na bango mpe bakaputula ya lino na baloketo na bango; bakoki kolata te bilamba oyo etokisaka bato.
They shall have linen mitres on their heads, and linen breeches on their loins, and they shall not be girded with any thing that causeth sweat.
19 Tango bakobima mpo na kokende na lopango ya libanda, na esika oyo bato bazalaka, bakolongola bilamba oyo bazalaki kosalela mosala na kati mpe bakotika yango kati na bashambre ya bule; bakolata bilamba mosusu mpo ete babulisa bato te na nzela ya bilamba na bango.
And when they shall go forth to the outward court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them up in the store chamber of the sanctuary, and they shall clothe themselves with other garments: and they shall not sanctify the people with their vestments.
20 Banganga-Nzambe bakoki te kokokola suki ya mito na bango to kokolisa makasi suki na bango; kasi basengeli kokata suki na bango malamu.
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor wear long heir: but they shall only poll their heads.
21 Nganga-Nzambe moko te akomela masanga ya vino liboso ete akota na lopango ya kati.
And no priest shall drink wine when he is to go into the inner court.
22 Bakoki kobala te basi oyo bakufisa mibali to basi oyo bakabwana na mibali na bango na libala, kasi bakobala kaka bilenge basi ya Isalaele oyo bayebi nanu nzoto ya mibali te to basi ya Banganga-Nzambe oyo basila kokufa.
Neither shall they take to wife a widow, nor one that is divorced, but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel: but they may take a widow also, that is, the widow of a priest.
23 Bakoteya bato ete bayeba kosala bokeseni kati na biloko ya bule mpe oyo ya bule te, kati na biloko ya mbindo mpe oyo ya peto.
And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and profane, and shew them how to discern between clean and unclean.
24 Na tango ya matata, Banganga-Nzambe bakotelema lokola basambisi mpo na kokata makambo kolanda mibeko, bakotosa mibeko mpe bikateli na Ngai, bafeti na Ngai, oyo ekatama mpe bosantu ya mikolo na Ngai ya Saba.
And when there shall be a controversy, they shall stand in my judgments, and shall judge: they shall keep my laws, and my ordinances in all my solemnities, and sanctify my sabbaths.
25 Nganga-Nzambe moko te akomikomisa mbindo na kopusana pene ya moto ya kokufa. Nzokande, akoki kondima komikomisa mbindo soki moto oyo akufi azali tata to mama na ye, mwana na ye ya mobali to ya mwasi, ndeko na ye ya mobali to ya mwasi oyo amibalelaki te.
And they shall come near no dead person, lest they be defiled, only their father and mother, and son and daughter, and brother and sister, that hath not had another husband: for whom they may become unclean.
26 Sima na kopetolama na ye, akozela mikolo sambo.
And after one is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.
27 Na mokolo oyo akokota kati na Esika ya bule, kati na lopango ya kati mpo na kosala mosala, akobonza mbeka mpo na masumu na ye moko, elobi Nkolo Yawe.
And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, to the inner court, to minister unto me in the sanctuary, he shall offer for his sin, saith the Lord God.
28 Tala oyo ekozala libula ya Banganga-Nzambe: Ngai moko nde nazali libula na bango. Bokopesa bango mabele te kati na Isalaele; Ngai moko nde nakozala mabele na bango.
And they shall have no inheritance, I am their inheritance: neither shall you give them any possession in Israel, for I am their possession.
29 Bakolia makabo ya bambuma, bambeka ya masumu mpe bambeka ya kozongisa boyokani; biloko nyonso oyo, kati na Isalaele, ebulisama mpo na Yawe ekozala ya bango.
They shall eat the victim both for sin and for trespass: and every vowed thing in Israel shall be theirs.
30 Bambuma ya liboso oyo ya kitoko mpe makabo na bino nyonso, kolongola ata eloko moko te, ekozala ya Banganga-Nzambe; bokopesa bango bambuma ya liboso ya bilanga na bino ya ble mpo ete mapamboli ezala kati na bandako na bino.
And the firstfruits of all the firstborn, and all the libations of all things that are offered, shall be the priest’s: and you shall give the firstfruits of your meats to the priest, that he may return a blessing upon thy house.
31 Banganga-Nzambe bakoki kolia te ndeke to nyama oyo ekufi yango moko to oyo nyama mosusu esili koboma.
The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself or caught by a beast, whether it be fowl or cattle.
