Ebandeli 13
1 Boye Abrami alongwaki na Ejipito mpe akendeki na Negevi elongo na mwasi na ye mpe biloko nyonso oyo azalaki na yango; Loti mpe akendeki na ye elongo.
Then Abram went vp from Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him toward the South.
2 Abrami akomaki na bozwi mingi: bibwele, palata mpe wolo.
And Abram was very rich in cattell, in siluer and in golde.
3 Longwa na Negevi, akendeki malembe-malembe kino na Beteli, na esika oyo ezalaki kati ya Beteli mpe Ayi, epai wapi ndako na ye ya kapo ezalaki
And he went on his iourney from ye South toward Beth-el, to the place where his tent had bene at ye beginning, betweene Beth-el and Haai,
4 mpe atongaki etumbelo ya liboso. Ezalaki na esika yango nde Abrami abelelaki Kombo ya Yawe.
Vnto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the Name of the Lord.
5 Loti, oyo azalaki kotambola elongo na Abrami, azalaki mpe na bameme, bantaba, bangombe mpe basali.
And Lot also, who went with Abram, had sheepe, and cattell and tentes,
6 Boye etuka ekomaki moke mpo na bango mibale, pamba te bomengo na bango ezalaki ebele penza, mpe bakokaki lisusu te kovanda esika moko;
So that the land coulde not beare them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they coulde not dwell together.
7 mpe koswana ekotaki kati na babateli bibwele ya Abrami mpe babateli bibwele ya Loti. Nzokande, na tango wana, bato ya Kanana mpe ya Perizi bazalaki kovanda kati na mokili yango.
Also there was debate betweene ye heardmen of Abrams cattell, and the heardmen of Lots cattell. (and the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelled at that time in the land.)
8 Abrami alobaki na Loti: « Tika ete koswana ezala te kati na ngai mpe yo to kati na babateli bibwele na yo mpe babateli bibwele na ngai, pamba te tozali bandeko.
Then saide Abram vnto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, betweene thee and me, neither betweene mine heardmen and thine heardmen: for we be brethren.
9 Mokili mobimba ezali liboso na yo. Ezali malamu tokabwana: soki yo okeyi na ngambo ya loboko ya mwasi, ngai nakokende na ngambo ya loboko ya mobali; soki okeyi na ngambo ya loboko ya mobali, ngai nakokende na ngambo ya loboko ya mwasi. »
Is not the whole land before thee? depart I pray thee from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will goe to the right: or if thou goe to the right hand, then I will take the left.
10 Boye Loti atalaki mpe amonaki etando nyonso ya Yordani oyo ezalaki na mabele kitoko mpe ekenda kino na Tsoari. Liboso ete Yawe abebisa Sodome mpe Gomore, ezalaki lokola elanga ya Yawe, lokola mokili ya Ejipito.
So when Lot lifted vp his eyes, he saw that all the plaine of Iorden was watered euery where: (for before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorah, it was as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest vnto Zoar)
11 Loti aponaki etando ya Yordani mpe akendeki na ngambo ya este. Ezalaki ndenge wana nde bakabwanaki.
Then Lot chose vnto him all the plaine of Iorden, and tooke his iourney from the East: and they departed the one from the other.
12 Abrami avandaki na mokili ya Kanana, mpe Loti avandaki kati na bingumba ya etando mpe atelemisaki bandako na ye ya kapo pene ya Sodome.
Abram dwelled in the lande of Canaan, and Lot abode in the cities of the plaine, and pitched his tent euen to Sodom.
13 Bato ya Sodome bazalaki penza bato mabe mpe bato ya masumu na miso ya Yawe.
Now the men of Sodom were wicked and exceeding sinners against the Lord.
14 Sima na bokabwani ya Abrami na Loti, Yawe alobaki na Abrami: « Na esika oyo ozali, tombola miso na yo mpe tala na ngambo ya nor, ya sude, ya este mpe ya weste.
Then the Lord saide vnto Abram, (after that Lot was departed from him) Lift vp thine eyes nowe, and looke from the place where thou art, Northward, and Southward, and Eastwarde, and Westward:
15 Mokili nyonso oyo ozali komona, nakopesa yango epai na yo mpe na bakitani na yo mpo na libela.
For all the land, which thou seest, will I giue vnto thee and to thy seede for euer,
16 Nakokomisa bakitani na yo ebele lokola putulu ya mabele; bongo soki moto akoki kotanga putulu, akokoka mpe kotanga bakitani na yo.
And I will make thy seede, as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seede be numbred.
17 Telema, tambola kati na mokili na bangambo nyonso, pamba te nakopesa yango epai na yo. »
Arise, walke through the land, in ye length thereof, and breadth thereof: for I will giue it vnto thee.
18 Abrami alongolaki bandako na ye ya kapo mpe akendeki kovanda na Ebron, pene ya banzete minene ya Mamire epai wapi atongaki etumbelo mpo na Yawe.
Then Abram remoued his tent, and came and dwelled in the plaine of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and builded there an altar vnto ye Lord.
