Kutoka 9
1 Kisha Yahweh akamwambia Musa, Nenda kwa Farao na umwambie, 'Yahweh, Mungu wa Waebrania, anasema hivi: “Acha watu wangu waende ili wakaniabudu mimi.”
Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says this: “Let my people go so that they may worship me.”
2 Lakini ukikataa kuwaruhusu waende, kama utaendelea kuwa bakiza nyuma,
But if you refuse to let them go, if you still keep them back,
3 basi mkono wa Yahweh utakuwa kinyume dhidi ya mifugo yako shambani na kwa farasi, punda, ngamia, ng'ombe na kondoo, naitasababisha ugonjwa mbaya sana.
then Yahweh's hand will be on your cattle in the fields and on the horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks, and it will cause a terrible disease.
4 Yahweh ata tendea tofauti mifugo ya Israeli na mifugo Misri: Haukuna mnyama wa Waisraeli ataye kufa.
Yahweh will treat Israel's cattle and Egypt's cattle differently and no animal that belongs to the Israelites will die.
5 Yahweh ametenga muda; amesema, “Ni kesho ambapo nitafanya ilitukio katika nchi."”'
Yahweh has fixed a time; he has said, “It is tomorrow that I will do this thing in the land.”'”
6 Yahweh akafanya hivi siku iliyofuata: mifugo yote ya Misri ikafa. Lakini hamna mnyama wa Waisraeli aliye kufa, hamna mnyama ata mmoja.
Yahweh did this the next day: All the cattle of Egypt died, but none of the Israelites' animals died, not one animal.
7 Farao akafanya utafiti, na tazama, hakuna mnyama ata mmoja aliye kufa. Lakini moyo wake ulikuwa mjeuri, hivyo hakuwaacha watu waende.
Pharaoh investigated, and, behold, not even one animal of the Israelites died. But his heart was stubborn, so he did not let the people go.
8 Kisha Yahweh akawambia Musa na Aruni, “Chukuwa majivu na uyajaze mkononi kutoka kwenye tanuru. Wewe, Musa, lazima uyarushe juu wakati Farao akitazama.
Then Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, “Take some handfuls of ashes from a kiln. You, Moses, must throw the ashes up into the air while Pharaoh is watching.
9 Yatakuwa vumbi safi nchi nzima ya Misri. Yatasababisha majipu na mafua kulipuka kwa watu na wanyama katika nchi yote ya Msri.”
They will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt. They will cause blisters and sores to break out on people and animals throughout all the land of Egypt.”
10 Hivyo Musa na Aruni wakachukuwa majivu kutoka kwenye tanuru na kusimama mbele ya Farao. KIsha Musa akarusha majivu juu. Majivu yakasababisha majipu na mafua kutokea kwa watu na wanyama.
So Moses and Aaron took ashes from a kiln and stood in front of Pharaoh. Then Moses threw the ashes up into the air. The ashes caused blisters and sores to break out on people and animals.
11 Waganga hawakuweza kumzuia Musa kwasababu ya majipu, kwasababu majipu yalikuwa kwao na kwa Wamisri wote.
The magicians could not resist Moses because of the blisters, because the blisters were on them and on all the other Egyptians.
12 Yahweh akaufanya moyo wa Farao kuwa mgumu, Farao hakuwasikiliza Musa na Aruni. Hili ndilo Yahweh alilo mwambia Musa Farao atalo fanya.
Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, so Pharaoh did not listen to Moses and Aaron. This was just as Yahweh had said to Moses that Pharaoh would do.
13 Kisha Yahweh akamwambia Musa, Amka asubui mapema, simama mbele ya Farao, na umwambie, 'Yahweh, Mungu wa Waebrania, anasema hivi: Acha watu wangu waende ili wakaniabudu mimi.
Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, stand in front of Pharaoh, and say to him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says this: “Let my people go so that they may worship me.
14 Kwa muda huu nitatuma mapigo kwako wewe, kwa watumishi wako na watu wako. Nitafanya hivi ili ujue hakuna kama mimi kwenye dunia yote.
For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, on your servants and your people. I will do this so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
15 Mpaka sasa ningeweza kuunyosha mkono wangu na kukushambulia wewe na watu wako kwa ugonjwa, na ungeondelewa kwenye nchi.
By now I could have reached out with my hand and attacked you and your people with disease, and you would have been eradicated from the land.
16 Lakini ni kwa sababu hii nimekuruhusu uishi: ili kukuonyesha nguvu zangu, ili kwamba jina langu litangazwe dunia nzima.
But it was for this reason I allowed you to survive: In order to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed throughout all the earth.
17 Bado unajiinua dhidi ya watu wangu kwa kuwaacha wasiende.
You are still lifting yourself up against my people by not letting them go.
18 Sikiliza! Kesho muda kama huu nita leta mvua ya mawe ya barafu kubwa, kama ambayo haijawai kuonekana Misri toka ilipo anza hadi sasa.
Listen! Tomorrow about this time I will bring a very strong hail storm, such as has not been seen in Egypt since the day it was begun until now.
19 Kisha sasa, tuma wanaume na ukusanye mifugo yako na vitu vyote ulivyo navyo mashambani sehemu salama. Kila mtu na mnyama aliyeko shambani na hajaletwa nyumbani - mawe ya barufu yatawashukia, na watakufa."”'
Now then, send men and gather your cattle and everything you have in the fields to a safe place. Every man and animal that is in the field and is not brought home—the hail will come down on them, and they will die.”'”
20 Kisha hao wa watumishi wa Farao walio amini ujumbe wa Yahweh waka harakisha kuleta watumwa na mifugo yao ndani ya nyumba zao.
Then those of Pharaoh's servants who believed in Yahweh's message hurried to bring their slaves and cattle into the houses.
21 Lakini hao ambao hawa kuchukuwa ujumbe wa Yahweh maanani waliacha watumwa wao na mifugo shambani.
But those who did not take Yahweh's message seriously left their slaves and cattle in the fields.
22 Kisha Yahweh akamwambia Musa, “Nyoosha mkono wako kuelekea mbingu ili kuwe na mawe ya barafu katika nchi yote ya Misri, kwa watu, kwa wanyama, na kwenye mimea yote shambani na nchi nzima ya Misri.”
Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Reach out with your hand toward the sky so that there will be hail in all the land of Egypt, on people, on animals, and on all the plants in the fields throughout the land of Egypt.”
23 Musa akanyoosha mkono na gongo lake kuelekea mbiguni, na Yahweh akatuma mngurumo, mawe ya barafu, na radi kwenye nchi. Pia alinyesha mvua kwenye nchi ya Misri.
Moses reached out with his staff toward the sky, and Yahweh sent thunder, hail, and lightning to the ground. He also rained hail on the land of Egypt.
24 Hivyo kulikuwa na radi iliyo changanyika na mawe ya barafu, ilikuwa hatari sana, kuliko yeyote iliyowai kutokea kwenye nchi ya Misri tangu liwe taifa.
So there were hail and lightning mixed with hail, very severe, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
25 Katika nchi yote ya Misri, barafu ya mawe ilipiga kila kitu kwenye shamba, watu na wanyama. Ilipiga kila mmea shambani na kuvunja kila mti.
Throughout all the land of Egypt, the hail struck everything in the fields, both people and animals. It struck every plant in the fields and broke every tree.
26 Isipo kuwa tu nchi ya Gosheni, walipo ishi Waisraeli, hapakuwa na mawe ya barafu.
Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was there no hail.
27 Kisha Farao akatuma wanaume wakawaite Musa na Aruni. Akawaambia, “Nimetenda dhambi wakati huu. Yahweh ni mwenye haki, na mimi na watu wangu ni waovu.
Then Pharaoh sent men to summon Moses and Aaron. He said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
28 Muombe Yahweh, kwasababu radi na barafu ya mawe imezidi. Nitawaacha muende, na hamtabaki tena hapa.”
Pray to Yahweh, because the mighty thunderbolts and hail are too much. I will let you go, and you will stay here no longer.”
29 Musa akamwambia, “Nitakapo ondoka tu kwenye mji, nitaitanua mikono yangu kwa Yahweh. Mngurumo utaacha, na hakutakuwa na barafu ya mawe tena. Kwa ili utajua kuwa nchi ni ya Yahweh.
Moses said to him, “As soon as I leave the city, I will spread my hands out to Yahweh. The thunder will stop, and there will not be any more hail. In this way you will know that the earth belongs to Yahweh.
30 Lakini kwa wewe na watu wako, najua bado hamu mheshimu Yahweh Mungu.”
But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet really honor Yahweh God.”
31 Sasa kitani na shayiri ziliharibiwa, kwa kuwa shayiri ilikuwa katika kukomaa, na kitani ilikuwa imestawi.
Now the flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was maturing in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.
32 Lakini ngano na kusemethu hazikupigwa mana zinachelewa kukua.
But the wheat and the spelt were not harmed because they were later crops.
33 Musa alipo muacha Farao na mji, alitanua mikono yake kwa Yahweh; mngurumo na barafu ya mawe ikasimama, na mvua haikunyesha tena.
When Moses had left Pharaoh and the city, he spread out his hands to Yahweh; the thunder and hail stopped, and the rain came down no more.
34 Farao alipoona mvua, barafu ya mawe, na mngurumo umekatika, akatenda dhambi na kufanya moyo wake kuwa mgumu, pamoja na watumishi wake.
When Pharaoh saw that the rain, hail, and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart, together with his servants.
35 Moyo wa Farao ulikuwa mgumu, hakuacha watu wa Israeli waende. Hivi ndivyo Yahweh alimwambia Musa Farao atafanya.
Pharaoh's heart was hardened, so he did not let the people of Israel go. This was the way that Yahweh had said to Moses that Pharaoh would act.
