Ebandeli 13
1 Boye Abrami alongwaki na Ejipito mpe akendeki na Negevi elongo na mwasi na ye mpe biloko nyonso oyo azalaki na yango; Loti mpe akendeki na ye elongo.
And Abram returned from Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
2 Abrami akomaki na bozwi mingi: bibwele, palata mpe wolo.
And Abram [was] very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
3 Longwa na Negevi, akendeki malembe-malembe kino na Beteli, na esika oyo ezalaki kati ya Beteli mpe Ayi, epai wapi ndako na ye ya kapo ezalaki
And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai;
4 mpe atongaki etumbelo ya liboso. Ezalaki na esika yango nde Abrami abelelaki Kombo ya Yawe.
To the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
5 Loti, oyo azalaki kotambola elongo na Abrami, azalaki mpe na bameme, bantaba, bangombe mpe basali.
And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
6 Boye etuka ekomaki moke mpo na bango mibale, pamba te bomengo na bango ezalaki ebele penza, mpe bakokaki lisusu te kovanda esika moko;
And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
7 mpe koswana ekotaki kati na babateli bibwele ya Abrami mpe babateli bibwele ya Loti. Nzokande, na tango wana, bato ya Kanana mpe ya Perizi bazalaki kovanda kati na mokili yango.
And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land.
8 Abrami alobaki na Loti: « Tika ete koswana ezala te kati na ngai mpe yo to kati na babateli bibwele na yo mpe babateli bibwele na ngai, pamba te tozali bandeko.
And Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we [are] brethren.
9 Mokili mobimba ezali liboso na yo. Ezali malamu tokabwana: soki yo okeyi na ngambo ya loboko ya mwasi, ngai nakokende na ngambo ya loboko ya mobali; soki okeyi na ngambo ya loboko ya mobali, ngai nakokende na ngambo ya loboko ya mwasi. »
[Is] not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if [thou wilt take] the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if [thou wilt depart] to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
10 Boye Loti atalaki mpe amonaki etando nyonso ya Yordani oyo ezalaki na mabele kitoko mpe ekenda kino na Tsoari. Liboso ete Yawe abebisa Sodome mpe Gomore, ezalaki lokola elanga ya Yawe, lokola mokili ya Ejipito.
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it [was] well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest to Zoar.
11 Loti aponaki etando ya Yordani mpe akendeki na ngambo ya este. Ezalaki ndenge wana nde bakabwanaki.
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
12 Abrami avandaki na mokili ya Kanana, mpe Loti avandaki kati na bingumba ya etando mpe atelemisaki bandako na ye ya kapo pene ya Sodome.
Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched [his] tent towards Sodom.
13 Bato ya Sodome bazalaki penza bato mabe mpe bato ya masumu na miso ya Yawe.
But the men of Sodom [were] wicked, and sinners before the LORD, exceedingly.
14 Sima na bokabwani ya Abrami na Loti, Yawe alobaki na Abrami: « Na esika oyo ozali, tombola miso na yo mpe tala na ngambo ya nor, ya sude, ya este mpe ya weste.
And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
15 Mokili nyonso oyo ozali komona, nakopesa yango epai na yo mpe na bakitani na yo mpo na libela.
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
16 Nakokomisa bakitani na yo ebele lokola putulu ya mabele; bongo soki moto akoki kotanga putulu, akokoka mpe kotanga bakitani na yo.
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then] shall thy seed also be numbered.
17 Telema, tambola kati na mokili na bangambo nyonso, pamba te nakopesa yango epai na yo. »
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it to thee.
18 Abrami alongolaki bandako na ye ya kapo mpe akendeki kovanda na Ebron, pene ya banzete minene ya Mamire epai wapi atongaki etumbelo mpo na Yawe.
Then Abram removed [his] tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which [is] in Hebron, and built there an altar to the LORD.
