Jozue 7
1 Bato ya Isalaele babebisaki ekila ya Yawe. Akana, mwana mobali ya Karimi, mwana mobali ya Zabidi, mwana mobali ya Zera, moto ya libota ya Yuda, akamataki biloko oyo Yawe apekisaki. Bongo, kanda ya Yawe epelaki likolo ya bana ya Isalaele.
But the children of Israel transgressed the commandment, and took to their own use of the anathema. For Achan the son of Charmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare of the tribe of Juda, took something of the anathema: and the Lord was angry against the children of Israel.
2 Wuta na Jeriko, Jozue atindaki bato kokende na engumba Ayi oyo ezalaki pene ya Beti-Aveni, na ngambo ya este ya Beteli. Alobaki na bango: « Bokende kononga mokili wana. » Bato yango bakendeki mpe banongaki Ayi.
And when Josue sent men from Jericho against Hai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of the town of Bethel, he said to them: Go up, and view the country: and they fulfilled his command, and viewed Hai.
3 Tango bazongaki epai ya Jozue, balobaki na ye: « Ezali penza na tina te ete bato nyonso bakende kobundisa Ayi. Tinda kaka bato nkoto mibale to nkoto misato mpo na kobotola yango. Komonisa bato nyonso pasi te, pamba te engumba yango ezali kaka na bato moke. »
And returning they said to him: Let not all the people go up, but let two or three thousand men go and destroy the city: why should all the people be troubled in vain against enemies that are very few?
4 Boye, bato pene nkoto misato bakendeki, kasi bakimaki liboso ya bato ya Ayi.
There went up therefore three thousand fighting men: who immediately turned their backs,
5 Bato ya Ayi babomaki bato pene tuku misato na motoba na molongo ya Isalaele. Balandaki bango kino koleka ekuke ya engumba Shebarimi mpe babomaki bango na kokita ya ngomba. Mpo na yango, mitema ya bana ya Isalaele elembaki mpe bakomaki lokola mayi oyo ezali kotiola.
And were defeated by the men of the city of Hai, and there fell of them six and thirty men: and the enemies pursued them from the gate as far as Sabarim, and they slew them as they fled by the descent: and the heart of the people was struck with fear, and melted like water.
6 Jozue apasolaki bilamba na ye mpe amibwakaki elongi kino na mabele liboso ya Sanduku ya Yawe kino na pokwa. Bakambi ya Isalaele mpe basalaki kaka ndenge moko, bamisopelaki putulu na mito na bango.
But Josue rent his garments, and fell flat on the ground before the ark of the Lord until the evening, both he and all the ancients of Israel: and they put dust upon their heads.
7 Jozue alobaki: — Ah Nkolo Yawe, mpo na nini otikaki ete bato oyo bakatisa Yordani? Boni, ezalaki mpo ete okaba biso na maboko ya bato ya Amori ete baboma biso? Elekaki malamu ete totikala na biso na ngambo mosusu ya ebale!
And Josue said: Alas, O Lord God, why wouldst thou bring this people over the river Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and to destroy us? would God, we had stayed beyond the Jordan as we began.
8 Oh Nkolo, sik’oyo naloba nini, awa Isalaele akimi liboso ya banguna na ye?
My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs to their enemies?
9 Bato ya Kanana mpe bato mosusu ya mokili bakoyoka sango yango, bakobalukela biso mpe bakolongola kombo na biso na mokili. Boye, okosala nini mpo na monene ya Kombo na Yo?
The Chanaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and being gathered together will surround us and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?
10 Yawe alobaki na Jozue: — Telema! Mpo na nini omibwaki elongi kino na mabele?
And the Lord said to Josue: Arise, why liest thou flat on the ground?
11 Isalaele asali lisumu. Babebisi boyokani na Ngai oyo natindaki bango ete babatela. Bakamati ndambo ya biloko oyo ekabami mpo na kobebisama, bayibi yango mpe babombi yango kati na biloko na bango.
Israel hath sinned, and transgressed my covenant: and they have taken of the anathema, and have stolen and lied, and have hidden it among their goods.
12 Yango wana, bana ya Isalaele bakolonga kotelema te liboso ya banguna na bango, bakozonga sima mpe bakokima liboso ya banguna na bango, pamba te babebisi ekila. Nakozala elongo na bino te soki bolongoli te mabe oyo ezali kati na bino.
Neither can Israel stand before his enemies, but he shall flee from them: because he is defiled with the anathema. I will be no more with you, till you destroy him that is guilty of this wickedness.
13 Telema, bulisa bato. Loba na bango: « Bomibulisa mpo na lobi, pamba te Yawe, Nzambe ya Isalaele, alobi boye: ‹ Mabe ezali kati na yo Isalaele, okolonga kobundisa banguna na yo te kino tango okolongola yango. ›
Arise, sanctify the people, and say to them: Be ye sanctified against tomorrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel: The anathema is in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thy enemies, till he be destroyed out of thee that is defiled with this wickedness.
14 Lobi na tongo, bokopusana pene na Ngai, libota na libota. Libota oyo Yawe akopona ekopusana, etuka na etuka; etuka oyo Yawe akopona ekopusana, ndako na ndako; mpe ndako oyo Yawe akopona ekopusana, moto na moto.
And you shall come in the morning every one by your tribes: and what tribe soever the lot shall find, it shall come by its kindreds and the kindred by its houses, and the house by the men.
15 Moto nyonso oyo mabe ekomonana kati na ye asengeli kokufa na moto, ye elongo na nyonso ya ye, pamba te abebisi boyokani ya Yawe mpe asali likambo ya soni kati na Isalaele. »
And whosoever he be that shall be found guilty of this fact, he shall be burnt with fire with all his substance, because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and hath done wickedness in Israel.
16 Mokolo oyo elandaki, Jozue alamukaki na tongo-tongo penza, mpe abengisaki Isalaele, libota na libota. Mpe ezali libota ya Yuda nde eponamaki.
Josue, therefore, when he rose in the morning, made Israel to come by their tribes, and the tribe of Juda was found,
17 Tango abengisaki etuka na etuka ya libota ya Yuda, etuka ya Zera nde eponamaki. Tango abengisaki ndako na ndako kati na etuka ya Zera, ndako ya Zabidi nde eponamaki.
Which being brought by its families, it was found to be the family of Zare. Bringing that also by the houses, he found it to be Zabdi.
18 Sima, tango abengisaki moto na moto kati na ndako ya Zabidi, Akana, mwana mobali ya Karimi, mwana mobali ya Zabidi, mwana mobali ya Zera, moto ya libota ya Yuda, nde aponamaki.
And bringing his house man by man, he found Achan the son of Charmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare of the tribe of Juda.
19 Jozue alobaki na Akana: — Mwana na ngai, pesa nkembo epai na Yawe, Nzambe ya Isalaele, mpe pesa Ye penza lokumu. Yebisa ngai likambo oyo osalaki, kobombela ngai eloko moko te.
And Josue said to Achan: My son, give glory to the Lord God of Israel, and confess, and tell me what thou hast done, hide it not.
20 Akana azongiselaki Jozue: — Solo, nasali lisumu liboso ya Yawe, Nzambe ya Isalaele. Tala likambo oyo nasalaki:
And Achan answered Josue, and said to him: Indeed I have sinned against the Lord the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.
21 Namonaki, kati na bomengo ya bitumba, kazaka moko ya kitoko ya mboka Mezopotami, mbongo ya bibende ya palata, nkama mibale mpe ndambo ya kilo ya wolo; nalulaki yango mpe nazwaki yango. Nakundaki yango na kati-kati ya ndako na ngai ya kapo, mpe palata ezali na se na yango.
For I saw among the spoils a scarlet garment exceeding good, and two hundred sides of silver, and a golden rule of fifty sides: and I coveted them, and I took them away, and hid them in the ground is the midst of my tent, and the silver I covered with the earth that I dug up.
22 Jozue atindaki bato, mpe bakendeki mbangu kati na ndako ya kapo ya Akana mpe bakutaki penza kazaka bakunda na se ya ndako ya kapo, elongo na palata, na se na yango.
Josue therefore sent ministers: who running to his tent, found all hidden in the same place, together with the silver.
23 Babimisaki biloko yango wuta na ndako na ye ya kapo, bamemaki yango liboso ya Jozue mpe ya bana nyonso ya Isalaele; mpe sima, basopaki yango liboso ya Yawe.
And taking them away out of the tent, they brought them to Josue, and to all the children of Israel, and threw them down before the Lord.
24 Jozue elongo na bana nyonso ya Isalaele bakamataki Akana, mwana mobali ya Zera, elongo na palata, kazaka, liboke ya wolo, bana na ye ya mibali mpe ya basi, bangombe na ye, ba-ane na ye, bameme mpe bantaba na ye, ndako na ye ya kapo mpe biloko na ye nyonso; bamemaki bango na Lubwaku ya Akori.
Then Josue and all Israel with him took Achan the son of Zare, and the silver and the garments, and the golden rule, his sons also and his daughters, his oxen and asses and sheep, the tent also, and all the goods: and brought them to the valley of Achor:
25 Jozue alobaki: « Mpo na nini omemeli biso pasi? Tika ete Yawe amonisa yo pasi lelo! » Bongo bato nyonso ya Isalaele babambaki ye mabanga mpe akufaki; babambaki lisusu mabanga na bato oyo batikalaki mpe bato yango bakufaki; mpe batumbaki bibembe na bango na moto.
Where Josue said: Because thou hast troubled us, the Lord trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him: and all things that were his, were consumed with fire.
26 Babwakaki na likolo ya Akana liboke ya mabanga ebele oyo ezali kino na mokolo ya lelo, mpe kanda ya Yawe esilaki. Yango wana, kino na mokolo ya lelo, babengaka esika yango Lubwaku ya Akori.
And they gathered together upon him a great heap of stones, which remaineth until this present day. And the wrath of the Lord was turned away from them. And the name of that place was called the Valley of Achor, until this day.
