Ebandeli 15
1 Sima na makambo oyo, Yawe alobaki na Abrami na nzela ya emoniseli: — Kobanga te, Abrami! Nazali nguba na yo, lifuti na yo ekozala monene.
Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great.
2 Kasi Abrami azongisaki: — Oh Nkolo Yawe, okopesa ngai nini? Nazali na mwana te, mpe ezali Eliezeri ya Damasi nde akokitana na libula na ngai.
And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer.
3 Abrami alobaki lisusu: — Opesi ngai mwana te; yango wana mosali moko kati na ndako na ngai akozala mokitani ya libula na ngai!
And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant, born in my house, shall be my heir.
4 Yawe alobaki na ye: — Moto wana akozala mokitani ya libula na yo te. Kasi mwana oyo akobima na mokongo na yo nde akozala mokitani ya libula na yo.
And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying: He shall not be thy heir: but he that shall come out of thy bowels, him shalt thou have for thy heir.
5 Yawe amemaki Abrami na libanda mpe alobaki na ye: — Tala na likolo mpe tanga minzoto soki okokoka kotanga yango. Alobaki na ye lisusu: — Ezali boye nde bakitani na yo bakozala.
And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars, if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be.
6 Abrami azalaki na kondima epai ya Yawe, yango wana Yawe atangaki ye lokola moto ya sembo.
Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.
7 Alobaki na ye lisusu: — Nazali Yawe oyo nabimisaki yo wuta na Uri, mokili ya bato ya Chalide, mpo na kopesa yo mokili oyo.
And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.
8 Kasi Abrami alobaki: — Ah Nkolo Yawe, nakoyeba ndenge nini ete mokili oyo epesameli ngai?
But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it?
9 Yawe alobaki na ye: — Memela Ngai mwana ngombe moko ya mwasi ya mibu misato, ntaba ya mwasi ya mibu misato, meme ya mobali ya mibu misato, ebenga moko ya zamba mpe ebenga moko ya mboka.
And the Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years old, and a she goat of three years, and a ram of three years, a turtle also, and a pigeon.
10 Abrami amemelaki Ye banyama oyo nyonso, akataki yango na biteni mibale mpe atiaki yango etalana eteni moko na eteni mosusu; kasi akataki bandeke te.
And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the two pieces of each one against the other; but the birds he divided not.
11 Bandeke oyo eliaka misuni ekitaki mpo na kolia misuni yango, kasi Abrami abenganaki yango.
And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
12 Tango moyi ekitaki, Abrami alalaki pongi makasi. Na kati ya molili makasi, somo ekangaki ye.
And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him.
13 Boye, Yawe alobaki na Abrami: — Yeba solo ete bakitani na yo bakozala bapaya kati na mokili ya bapaya epai wapi bakozala bawumbu; mpe bakonyokola bango kuna mibu nkama minei.
And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them under bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.
14 Kasi nakopesa etumbu na ekolo oyo ekokomisa bango bawumbu; mpe na sima, bakobima longwa na mokili yango elongo na bozwi ebele.
But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance.
15 Bongo yo, okokufa na kimia mpe okokundama sima na kimobange ya esengo.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.
16 Na molongo ya minei, bakitani na yo bakozonga awa, pamba te masumu ya bato ya Amori ekomi nanu ebele te.
But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time.
17 Tango moyi elalaki mpe molili eyaki makasi, mbabola ya milinga mpe koni ya moto elekaki kati ya biteni ya banyama.
And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions.
18 Na mokolo yango, Yawe asalaki boyokani elongo na Abrami mpe alobaki: « Nakopesa mokili oyo na bakitani na yo wuta na moluka ya Ejipito kino na ebale Efrate:
That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt even to the great river Euphrates.
19 mokili ya bato ya Keni, ya bato ya Kenizi, ya bato ya Kadimoni,
The Cineans and Cenezites, the Cedmonites,
20 ya bato ya Iti, ya bato ya Perizi, ya bato ya Refayimi,
And the Hethites, and the Pherezites, the Raphaim also,
21 ya bato ya Amori, ya bato ya Kanana, ya bato ya Girigazi mpe ya bato ya Yebusi. »
And the Amorrhites, and the Chanaanites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.
