Bilombe 11
1 Jefite, moto ya Galadi, azalaki elombe ya bitumba. Azalaki mwana mobali oyo Galadi abotaki na mwasi ya makangu.
At that time, there was a Gileadite, Jephthah, a very strong man and a fighter, the son of a kept woman, and he was born of Gilead.
2 Nzokande mwasi ya Galadi abotelaki ye mpe bana mibali. Mpe tango bakolaki, babenganaki Jefite; balobaki na ye: « Ozali na libula te kati na ndako ya tata na biso, pamba te ozali mwana ya makangu. »
Now Gilead had a wife, from whom he received sons. And they, after growing up, cast out Jephthah, saying, “You cannot inherit in the house of our father, because you were born of another mother.”
3 Boye, Jefite akimaki mosika ya bandeko na ye ya mibali mpe akomaki kovanda kati na etuka ya Tobi. Bato ya mobulu basanganaki na ye mpe bazalaki kotambola elongo na ye.
And so, fleeing and avoiding them, he lived in the land of Tob. And men who were indigent and robbers joined with him, and they followed him as their leader.
4 Sima na mwa tango, bato ya Amoni babundisaki Isalaele.
In those days, the sons of Ammon fought against Israel.
5 Wana bato ya Amoni bazalaki kobundisa bana ya Isalaele, bampaka ya Galadi bakendeki koluka Jefite, kati na Tobi.
And being steadfastly attacked, the elders of Gilead traveled so that they might obtain for their assistance Jephthah, from the land of Tob.
6 Balobaki na Jefite: — Yaka, mpe zala mokambi na biso mpo ete tobundisa bato ya Amoni.
And they said to him, “Come and be our leader, and fight against the sons of Ammon.”
7 Jefite azongiselaki bampaka ya Galadi: — Boni, ezali bino te bato oyo boyinaki ngai mpe bobenganaki ngai wuta na ndako ya tata na ngai? Mpo na nini bozali koya sik’oyo epai na ngai, awa bokomi na pasi?
But he answered them: “Are you not the ones who hated me, and who cast me out of my father’s house? And yet now you come to me, compelled by necessity?”
8 Bampaka ya Galadi balobaki lisusu na Jefite: — Soki tozongi sik’oyo epai na yo, ezali mpo ete oya elongo na biso, obundisa bato ya Amoni mpe okoma mokonzi na biso, mokonzi ya bavandi nyonso ya Galadi.
And the leaders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “But it is due to this necessity that we have approached you now, so that you may set out with us, and fight against the sons of Ammon, and be commander over all who live in Gilead.”
9 Jefite azongiselaki bampaka ya Galadi: — Soki bozongisi ngai mpo na kobundisa bato ya Amoni, bongo Yawe akabi bango na maboko na ngai, boni, nakozala solo mokonzi na bino?
Jephthah also said to them: “If you have come to me so that I may fight for you against the sons of Ammon, and if the Lord will deliver them into my hands, will I truly be your leader?”
10 Bampaka ya Galadi bazongiselaki Jefite: — Tika ete Yawe azala Motatoli kati na biso! Tika ete apesa biso etumbu soki tosali te ndenge olobi.
They answered him, “The Lord who hears these things is himself the Mediator and the Witness that we shall do what we have promised.”
11 Boye Jefite akendeki nzela moko na bampaka ya Galadi, mpe bato ya Galadi bakomisaki ye mokambi mpe mokonzi ya mampinga. Mpe Jefite azongelaki koloba maloba na ye nyonso liboso ya Yawe, kati na Mitsipa.
And so Jephthah went with the leaders of Gilead, and all the people made him their leader. And Jephthah spoke all his words, in the sight of the Lord, at Mizpah.
12 Bongo Jefite atindaki bantoma epai ya mokonzi ya bato ya Amoni mpo na koloba na ye: — Ozwi biso na likambo nini mpo ete oya kobundisa mboka na biso?
And he sent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon, who said on his behalf, “What is there between you and me, that you would approach against me, so that you might lay waste to my land?”
13 Mokonzi ya bato ya Amoni azongiselaki bantoma ya Jefite: — Ezali mpo ete Isalaele abotolaki mokili na ngai tango abimaki na Ejipito; babotolaki mokili yango longwa na lubwaku ya Arinoni, mayi moke ya Yaboki kino na lubwaku ya Yordani. Sik’oyo, zongisela ngai yango na kimia.
And he responded to them, “It is because Israel took my land, when he ascended from Egypt, from the parts of Arnon, as far as the Jabbok and the Jordan. Now therefore, restore these to me with peace.”
14 Jefite atindaki lisusu bantoma epai ya mokonzi ya bato ya Amoni mpo na koloba na ye:
And Jephthah again commissioned them, and he ordered them to say to the king of Ammon:
15 — Tala maloba oyo Jefite alobi: « Bana ya Isalaele bazwaki mokili ya Moabi te to mokili ya bato ya Amoni te.
“Jephthah says this: Israel did not take the land of Moab, nor the land of the sons of Ammon.
16 Kasi tango bana ya Isalaele babimaki na Ejipito, batambolaki na esobe kino na ebale monene ya Barozo, mpe bakomaki na Kadeshi.
But when they ascended together from Egypt, he walked through the desert as far as the Red Sea, and he went into Kadesh.
17 Batindaki bantoma epai ya mokonzi ya Edomi, mpo na koloba na ye: ‹ Pesa biso nzela ya koleka na mokili na yo. › Kasi mokonzi ya Edomi aboyaki koyoka. Bana ya Isalaele batindaki lisusu bantoma epai ya mokonzi ya Moabi, kasi ye mpe aboyaki. Boye, bana ya Isalaele bawumelaki na Kadeshi.
And he sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Permit me to pass through your land.’ But he was not willing to agree to his petition. Likewise, he sent to the king of Moab, who also refused to offer him passage. And so he delayed in Kadesh,
18 Na sima, batambolaki na esobe mpe babalukaki na sima ya mokili ya Edomi mpe ya Moabi, balekaki na ngambo ya este ya mokili ya Moabi mpe batongaki milako na bango kuna, na ngambo mosusu ya lubwaku ya Arinoni. Kasi bakotaki te na mokili ya Moabi.
and he circled around the side of the land of Edom and the land of Moab. And he arrived opposite the eastern region of the land of Moab. And he made camp across the Arnon. But he was not willing to enter the borders of Moab. (Of course, Arnon is the border of the land of Moab.)
19 Bongo bana ya Isalaele batindaki bantoma epai ya Sikoni, mokonzi ya bato ya Amori, oyo azalaki kovanda na Eshiboni mpo na koloba na ye: ‹ Tika biso toleka na mokili na yo mpo ete tokende na esika na biso. ›
And so Israel sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amorites, who was living at Heshbon. And they said to him, “Permit me to cross through your land as far as the river.”
20 Kasi Sikoni andimaki te bana ya Isalaele mpo ete baleka na mokili na ye. Boye asangisaki bato na ye nyonso; batongaki milako, na Yakatsi, mpe babundisaki Isalaele.
But he, too, despising the words of Israel, would not permit him to cross through his borders. Instead, gathering an innumerable multitude, he went out against him at Jahaz, and he resisted strongly.
21 Kasi Yawe, Nzambe ya Isalaele, akabaki Sikoni mpe bato na ye nyonso na maboko ya bana ya Isalaele, mpe balongaki bango. Boye bana ya Isalaele babotolaki mokili nyonso ya bato ya Amori oyo bazalaki kovanda na etando wana.
But the Lord delivered him, with his entire army, into the hands of Israel. And he struck him down, and he possessed all the land of the Amorite, the inhabitant of that region,
22 Babotolaki etuka nyonso ya bato ya Amori, longwa na lubwaku ya Arinoni kino na mayi moke ya Yaboki, longwa na esobe kino na Yordani.
with all its parts, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.
23 Awa Yawe, Nzambe ya Isalaele, asili kobotola mokili ya bato ya Amori mpe apesi yango epai ya bana ya Isalaele, yo olingi sik’oyo kobotola bango yango?
Therefore, it was the Lord, the God of Israel, who overthrew the Amorites, by means of his people Israel fighting against them. And now you wish to possess his land?
24 Boni, okozwa te oyo Kemoshi, nzambe na yo, apesi yo? Biso tokozwa oyo Yawe, Nzambe na biso, apesi biso.
Are not the things that your god Chemosh possesses owed to you by right? And so, what the Lord our God has obtained by victory falls to us as a possession.
25 Boni, ozali malamu koleka Balaki, mwana mobali ya Tsipori, mokonzi ya Moabi? Boni, asila koswanisa to kobundisa bana ya Isalaele?
Or are you, perhaps, better than Balak, the son of Zippor, the king of Moab? Or are you able to explain what his argument was against Israel, and why he fought against him?
26 Mibu nkama misato, bana ya Isalaele bavandaki na Eshiboni, na Aroeri, na bamboka na yango ya mike mpe na bingumba nyonso oyo ezali pembeni ya Arinoni. Mpo na nini bobotolaki yango te na tango wana?
And though he has lived in Heshbon, and its villages, and in Aroer, and its villages, and in all the cities near the Jordan for three hundred years, why have you, for such long a time, put forward nothing about this claim?
27 Ngai nasali yo mabe te, kasi yo nde ozali kosala ngai mabe na kobundisa ngai. Tika ete Yawe, Mosambisi, akata lelo likambo kati na bana ya Isalaele mpe bato ya Amoni. »
Therefore, I am not sinning against you, but you are doing evil against me, by declaring an unjust war against me. May the Lord be the Judge and the Arbiter this day, between Israel and the sons of Ammon.”
28 Kasi mokonzi ya Amoni aboyaki koyoka maloba oyo Jefite atindelaki ye.
But the king of the sons of Ammon was not willing to agree to the words of Jephthah that he commissioned by the messengers.
29 Molimo na Yawe akitelaki Jefite. Jefite akatisaki Galadi mpe Manase, mpe alekaki na Mitsipe ya Galadi. Wuta na Mitsipe ya Galadi, akendeki kobundisa bato ya Amoni.
Therefore, the Spirit of the Lord rested upon Jephthah, and circling around Gilead, and Manasseh, and also Mizpah of Gilead, and crossing from there to the sons of Ammon,
30 Jefite alapaki ndayi epai na Yawe, alobaki: « Soki okabi bato ya Amoni na maboko na ngai,
he made a vow to the Lord, saying, “If you will deliver the sons of Ammon into my hands,
31 nakobonzela Yo, Yawe, lokola mbeka ya kotumba, nyonso oyo ekobima na ekuke ya ndako na ngai mpo na koyamba ngai, tango nakozonga na elonga wuta na bato ya Amoni. »
whoever will be the first to depart from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the sons of Ammon, the same will I offer as a holocaust to the Lord.”
32 Bongo Jefite akatisaki bandelo ya bato ya Amoni, mpe Yawe akabaki bango na maboko na ye.
And Jephthah crossed to the sons of Ammon, so that he might fight against them. And the Lord delivered them into his hands.
33 Abebisaki bingumba tuku mibale oyo ezali na kati-kati ya Aroeri mpe Miniti kino na Abele-Keramimi. Ezalaki kobebisama ya makasi mpo na bato ya Amoni oyo bakweyaki liboso ya bana ya Isalaele.
And he struck them down from Aroer, as far as the entrance to Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel, which is covered with vineyards, in an exceedingly great slaughter. And the sons of Ammon were humbled by the sons of Israel.
34 Tango Jefite azongaki na ndako na ye, na Mitsipa, mwana na ye ya mwasi abimaki mpo na koyamba ye; azalaki kobina mpe kobeta mbonda ya moke. Azalaki mwana na ye kaka moko: azalaki na mwana mosusu te, ezala ya mwasi to ya mobali.
But when Jephthah returned to Mizpah, to his own house, his only daughter met him with timbrels and dances. For he had no other children.
35 Tango kaka Jefite amonaki ye, apasolaki bilamba na ye mpe agangaki: — Ah, mwana na ngai ya mwasi! Opesi ngai mawa mingi mpe otie ngai na mobulu, pamba te nalapaki ndayi epai na Yawe mpe nakoki lisusu kozonga sima te.
And upon seeing her, he tore his garments, and he said: “Alas, my daughter! You have cheated me, and you yourself have been cheated. For I opened my mouth to the Lord, and I can do nothing else.”
36 Mwana na ye ya mwasi alobaki: — Tata na ngai, opesaki elaka epai na Yawe. Sala na ngai ndenge olakaki epai na Yawe, pamba te Yawe azongisi mabe na mabe epai ya banguna na yo, bato ya Amoni.
And she answered him, “My father, if you have opened your mouth to the Lord, do to me whatever you have promised, since victory has been granted to you, as well as vengeance against your enemies.”
37 Abakisaki: — Pesa ngai nzela ete likambo oyo moko esalema mpo na ngai: Tikela ngai basanza mibale mpo ete nakende koyengayenga mpe kolela, elongo na baninga na ngai, bozangi na ngai koyeba nzoto ya mobali.
And she said to her father: “Grant to me this one thing, which I request. Permit me, that I may wander the hillsides for two months, and that I may mourn my virginity with my companions.”
38 Jefite alobaki na ye: — Okoki na yo kokende. Mpe atikaki ye kokende mpo na basanza mibale. Boye mwana mwasi akendeki na ngomba elongo na baninga na ye ya basi, mpe alelaki mpo ete ayebaki nanu nzoto ya mibali te.
And he answered her, “Go.” And he released her for two months. And when she had departed with her friends and companions, she wept over her virginity in the hillsides.
39 Sima na basanza mibale, azongaki epai ya tata na ye, Jefite; mpe Jefite akokisaki epai ya mwana na ye ya mwasi, ndayi oyo alapaki. Nzokande, atikalaki kaka koyeba nzoto ya mobali te. Boye, ekoma momesano kati na Isalaele:
And when the two months expired, she returned to her father, and he did to her just as he had vowed, though she knew no man. From this, the custom grew up in Israel, and the practice has been preserved,
40 mibu nyonso, bilenge basi ya Isalaele babimaka mikolo minei, mpo na kosala feti na tina na mwana mwasi ya Jefite, moto ya Galadi.
such that, after each year passes, the daughters of Israel convene as one, and they lament the daughter of Jephthah, the Gileadite, for four days.
