Luuta 1:1-22
1 Biabia, mu mafuku abaadi ba nsushi abakunkusha, nsala ibatuelele muiumbo; ungi muntu bakatukile mu Beteleme mu Yunda, enda mu kushala bu muenyi mu nsenga ya Moabe na mukashi aaye na bana baye balume babidi.
2 Eshina dia yawa muntu nyi Elimeleke,* mukashi aaye baadi Naomi,* na bana baye babaadi Malone* na Kilione.* Babaadi bena Efrata ba mu Beteleme mu Yunda. Babafikile mu nsenga ya Moabe na abo nkuimushala.
3 Kunyima kua mafuku, Elimeleke mulume a Naomi bafuile, na Naomi bashadile na bana baye balume babidi.
4 Kunyima, bana baye babaadi bebakile bakashi babidi bena Moabe; umune baadi Orpa na ungi baadi Luuta. Babaadi bashale kuakua munda mua bipua bifikie ku ekumi.
5 Akupu, bana baye balume babidi Malone na Kilione babafuile namu, na Naomi bashadile bupenka kushi bana baye balume babidi sunga mulume aaye.
6 Biabia babangile luendo na bakashi ba bana baye bua kualukiila muiumbo diaye, muanda babamulunguile mu Moabe’shi, Yehowa balusha binangu kui muilo waye pa kuibapa bia kudia.
7 Bakatukile na bakashi ba bana baye babidi mu mbalo ibaadi mushale. P’abaabadi muishinda abalukiila muiumbo dia Yunda,
8 Naomi balunguile bakashi ba bana baye boso babidi’shi: “Alukiilayi, muntu oso ende ku nshibo kua nyinaye. Yehowa enuleshe kifulo kia lulamato, anka bu bianubekilesha bana bande babidi bafue mpa n’ami.
9 Yehowa akuashe oso a kuanudi bua’shi apete butaale* mu nshibo ya mulume aaye.” Paapa bebanyine kiipa, na abo nkudila ngofu.
10 Kadi babatungunukile na kumulungula’shi: “Nya, atuende nobe kui muilo oobe.”
11 Anka Naomi bebalunguile’shi: “Alukiilayi bana bande. Buakinyi anukimbi kuenda nami? Ne mulombene dingi kutanda bana balume balombene kuinuibakila su?
12 Alukiilayi bana bande. Endayi, muanda napu kununupa bikile bua kutuela ku bulunda. Sunga bi’ekalashi bangibakila lelo uno na natanda bana balume,
13 anutungunuka na kuibatengiela mpa na p’abakulu su? Anupele kuibakilua pa muanda wabo? Nya, bana bande, muanda wenu aunkalakasha ngofu, muanda eyasa dia Yehowa ndingalulukile.”
14 Abadidile’nyi dingi ngofu, akupu Orpa nkuanya nyinaye mueno kiipa na aye nkualukiila. Kadi Luuta bashadile mumulamate.
15 Paapa Naomi bakuile’shi: “Tala! Mukua-n’obe mufuishe namu mulume ngiawa balukiila kui muilo waye na kui b’efile baye. Alukiila na mukua-n’obe.”
16 Kadi Luuta bamulunguile’shi: “Tonkitshishanga buandia nkuleka, bua’shi ngalukiile nkulekie bupenka; muanda koso kuende, nami namu nakende, na kuakua kolala ami namu nyi kuankalala. Muilo oobe awikala muilo wande, n’Efile Mukulu oobe ekala namu Efile Mukulu ande.
17 Kuakua kofuila nyi kuanfuila, na nyi ku’abakanshikila. Yehowa anyokie* ngofu su kingi kintu kukatusha penda lufu kietuabuula nobe.”
18 Pabamuene Naomi’shi Luuta kuete nka kushishimika bua kuenda naye, balekiele kumutosha.
19 Boso babatungunukile na luendo mpa na p’ababafikile ku Beteleme. Musango umune n’abo kufika mu Beteleme, kibundi kishima kibasanyine pa muanda wabo, na bana bakashi babaadi abamba’shi: “Uno nyi Naomi?”
20 Baadi alungula bana bakashi’shi: “Tanungitanyinanga bu Naomi. Ngitanyineyi bu Mara,* muanda Sha Bukome Boso bayikasha nshalelo ande buulo bukile.
21 Nayile muule nda, anka Yehowa bangalusha maasa bisumanga. Buakinyi anungitanyina bu Naomi, aku namu Yehowa nyi muntombokiele, na Sha Bukome Boso nyi mufuishe malua ande?”
22 Bino nyi bibalukiile Naomi akatukila ku Moabe, na Luuta muina Moabe, mukashi a muana aaye. Babafikile mu Beteleme ku mbangilo kua kipungo kia kuumbula orje.
Mayi e mushi mwesaki
^ Dino eshina adipushisha’shi, “Efile Mukulu ande nyi Nfumu.”
^ Dino eshina adipushisha’shi “muloo wande.”
^ Dino eshina adikatukila pangi ku kishima kia mu kina Ebelu akipatuula’shi “kubofula, kukumba maladi.”
^ Dino eshina adipushisha’shi “muntu akooko, muntu afudiila.”
^ Kish ku kish. “mbalo ya kuikisha.”
^ Kish ku kish. “ankitshine biabia, mpa na bikile’nyi paapa.”
^ Adipushisha “buulo.”
