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1 Mɔla li dandanli tie yaasanbili daani paani. Li tie yaala gu yali ke a daa la.
It is because people trust [God] that they are sure that they will receive the things that they confidently expect [God to give them]. They are also certain [that they will see those things], though no one sees them yet.
2 Lanya po ti danba bo gaa Kristi.
It was because our ancestors trusted in God that they pleased him.
It is because we trust in God that we understand that he formed the universe by commanding [it to exist]. The result is that the things that we see were not made from things that already existed. (aiōn g165)
4 Li dandanli ya po i, ke Abel bo teni U Tienu yaa padli n cie cain. Lanya po i ke ti den la ke li ŋani. Ke U Tienu bo pagi o o sala po. Li dandanli po, Abel bo maadi yaala n ñani o po.
It was because [Adam’s son] Abel trusted God that he sacrificed something better to God than what [his older brother] Cain offered to God. Because Abel did that, when God spoke well about what Abel sacrificed, God declared that Abel was righteous. And although Abel is dead, we still learn from him [about trusting God].
5 Li dandanli po i ke Enɔki den ñani ke ji la kuuma; «o den ji la kelima U Tienu bo ñani o» kelima ki fidi ban ñani o, o den yedi ke U Tienu pali mani o po.
It was because Enoch believed [God that God] took him [up to heaven]. The result was that he did not die. No one found him, because he was taken up {[God] had removed him} from the earth [to heaven]. Before [God] took him away, [he] testified that Enoch pleased him well.
6 dandanli yaa ye li pa yeni U Tienu pali n yaa mani a po. Kelima yua gaa U Tienu baa yaa daani ke o ye.
It is possible for people to please God only if they trust God, because anyone who wants to come to God must first believe that God exists and that he rewards those who seek [to know] him.
7 Li dandanli yapo ke Nowe bo bandi li sɔnbiŋanli. Ke o den kɔni yeni liŋandunli ki yendi li dandanli gaama.
It was because Noah trusted [God] that after he was warned by God {after [God] warned him} about [a flood that] had not yet happened, Noah [showed that he] revered God by building a huge ship to save his family. By doing that, he [showed all the people who did not believe him] [MTY] [that they deserved to be condemned] {[that God would] condemn them}. He was someone whom God declared to be righteous because of his trusting in God.
8 Li dandanli po i ke Abraham bo fidi ki gadi naani keo bo gaa o faali. O bo caa ke a bani wan caa naani.
It was because Abraham trusted God that when he was told to go {when [God] told him to go}, he obeyed [God], he left [his own country], and went to a place that God would give him. Abraham left his own country, even though he did not know where he would be going.
9 Li dandanli po ke bo ye ki tinpuonkagi nni o caani yeni.
It was because Abraham trusted God that he lived as though he was a foreigner in the land that [God] had promised to him. Abraham lived in tents, and his son Isaac and his grandson Jacob did also. God promised to give to Isaac and Jacob the same things that he promised to give Abraham.
10 kelima o den guu yaa dogupienu ke U Tienu maa.
Abraham was waiting to live in a city [in heaven] that would exist forever [MET]. It was a city that God is building [DOU].
11 Li dandanli gaama yaa po i ke Abraham fidi ki baa ki biga yeni o pua Sara n bo tie ŋɔlga. Li den tieni yeni wan bo padi kuli kelima bi bo ye yeni bi dandanli yua n bo puonma po.
It was because Abraham trusted God that God gave Abraham strength so that he [was] able to produce a son. Even though his wife Sarah was past the age [when women bear children], [God] promised [that he would give her a son], and Abraham considered that God would do what he promised to do.
12 Lanyapo i ke yeni wan bo ciandi kuli, ke o baa bacianli. Bi ji bo yabi nani i ŋmabinmu yeni nani mi ñinciamo tanbiiniyeni ke kan tuo cɔdi.
So, although Abraham was also too old to have children, so many people descended from that one man that they were as numerous as the stars in the sky and are as countless as the grains of sand along the seashore, [just like God promised him].
13 Bi kuli bo ye yeni li dandanli ke puoni ba kuli ki tieni. Bi bo bandi ke bi tie canba ki tinga po.
It was while they still trusted in God that all those people died. Even though they had not yet received the things that God had promised to give them, [it was as though] they saw those things in a distance. They were glad [to know] about what God promised. It was as though they admitted that they were not from this earth, but that they were only here temporarily.
14 kelima yaaba n maadi lanya maama kuli lingi ban baa yaa ye naani.
As for those people who talk like that, they clearly show that they long for [a place that will become] their true native land.
15 Bi bo yaa bua ban ñani yaa dogu, nani bi guani ki kuni.
If they had been thinking about [that place being] the place from which they had come, they would have taken the opportunity to return there.
16 Bi bo lingi dogu ŋanu ke o diedo den tuo ki gaaba ki lingi u dogu bi po.
But, instead, they desired a better [place in which to live]; that is, they desired [a home] in heaven. So God has prepared a city for them to live [with him], and he is pleased [LIT] for them to say that he is their God.
17 Lan ya po i ke Abraham n bo la yaa ŋanma ke o teni Izaka, li bo tie o bija yenga keo bo tuo ki teni o wan bo la lidandanli.
It was because Abraham trusted [God] that he [was ready to] kill his son Isaac as a sacrifice when [God] tested him. This same man to whom [God] promised [to give] ([a son/many descendants]) was going to sacrifice [that same son], the only son [whom his own wife had borne]!
18 Abraham ke o bo yedi o. «ke izaki po ke o miana ba ñaa.»
It was to Abraham that God said, “It is [only] from Isaac that I will consider your family to descend.”
19 Abraham bo tuo ke U Tienu baa fidi ki fiini Izaka.
Abraham considered that [to fulfill that promise], God could make [Isaac] live again [even if] he had died [after Abraham sacrificed him]! The result was that when Abraham did receive Isaac back [after God told him not to harm Isaac], it was as though he received him back even after he died.
20 Li dandanli po i ke Izank yadi mi yediŋanli Jakoba yeni Izai po. Yaala n den nua yaa bona n kpendi po,
It was because Isaac trusted God that he [prayed that after he died, God would] bless [his] sons Jacob and Esau.
21 Li dandanli po i ke Jakoba n bo n bo bua kpe yaa yognu ke o bo yadi yediŋanma o biga zozefa po. Zakoba bo ñii o lanbanli po.
It was because Jacob trusted God that, as he was dying, he [prayed that God would] bless each of the sons of [his own son Joseph]. He worshipped God as he leaned upon his walking stick [before he died].
22 Li dandanli po i ke zozefakuuma bonagidi ke o maadi yeni Israel bibi bi Egipti gadima po ke madiba ke ban tugi yeni o kpaba kuli.
It was because Joseph trusted God that, when he was about to die [in Egypt], he anticipated the time when the Israelis would leave Egypt; and he instructed [that] his people [should carry] his bones [with them when they] ([left Egypt/returned to Canaan]).
23 Li dandanli po i ke Moyizi wan bo mali ke o danba bo wuoni o ŋmaalita i kelima o bo ŋani, ki pendi. Bi bo ki jie o bado mala.
It was because Moses’ father and mother trusted God that they hid [their son] for three months shortly after he was born, because they saw that he was so beautiful. They were not afraid of [disobeying] what the king of Egypt had commanded, [namely, that all the Jewish male babies must be killed].
24 Lanya po i ke Moyize n bo kpaadi o bo yie ke ban daa yuu Farawon bisalo bija.
The daughter of the [king, whom they called] Pharaoh, [raised] Moses, but when he had grown up, it was because he trusted God that he refused to [accept the privileges that would have been his if people] considered that he was (the son of the king’s daughter/the king’s own grandson).
25 O bo tuo li mabili yeni UTienu yaaba ki cie yeni wan yaa ye o manu nni.
He decided that it was better for others to mistreat him for a time along with the Israeli people, than to temporarily enjoy living sinfully [in the King’s palace].
26 O bo tuo i fe yeni Kristi kani ki cie Egipiti baali kelima o nunbina kuli bo ye ya baali n kpendi po.
This is because he decided that if he suffered for the Messiah, it would be worth far more [in God’s sight] than his owning all the treasures of Egypt [that he would receive as Pharaoh’s heir. He decided that] because he looked forward to the time when [God would give him] an [eternal] reward.
27 O bo tuo ki gaa Kristi ke li tie baa cianli o po ki cie Egipiti baali. O bo ki jie o bado, o bo tuo fala ki daani yua ke waa baa ki laa.
It was because he trusted God that he left Egypt. He was not afraid that the king would be angry [because of his doing that]. He (kept going/did not turn back) because [it was as though] he kept seeing [God], whom no one can see.
28 Li dandanli po i ke o bo tuo yaala n ye Israyeli.
It was because Moses believed [that God would save his own people] that he instituted the [festival called] Passover. He did that [by commanding that the people should kill lambs and] sprinkle their blood [on their] doorposts. They did that in order that [the angel who] causes people to die would not kill [EUP] the oldest male Israelites [when he killed the oldest sons in each Egyptian family].
29 Li dandanli po i ke o bo puodi li mɔgi mɔnli nni naani ki tinkuonga po, Egipiti yaaba bo bigni ke ban puodi bi bo baa mi ñinma nni.
It was because they trusted God that [when] the [Israelite] people walked through [where] the Red Sea [had been, it was] as [though they walked] on dry land! But, when the [army of] Egypt also attempted to [cross that same water], they drowned, because [the sea came back and flooded them]!
30 Li dandanli po i ke Jeriko guona bo baa yaa yognu ke bo lindiba danalele.
It was because the [Israeli] people trusted God that the walls around Jericho [city] collapsed, after the Israelis marched around the walls for seven days.
31 Li dandanli po i ke Raaba li conconli bo kikpe.
Rahab [had been] a prostitute, but because she trusted God, she did not perish with those [inside Jericho] who disobeyed [God. Joshua sent some spies] into the city [in order] to find ways to destroy it, but God saved her because she welcomed those spies [peaceably].
32 Ti bia baa fidiki pugni be? kelima o yognu pɔdi yeni tin maadi Gedewon, Baraka, Samison, Jepiti, Davidi, Samiali yeni a labaali muanda kuli maama.
I do not know what more I should say [RHQ] [about others who trusted in God]. It would take too much time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the [other] prophets.
33 Yaaba n den fidi bi tuoma po ki paadi bi baditieba diema ki kuani mi yanduama, ki baa i puondi.
It was because they trusted God that some of them [did great things for him]. Some conquered lands ruled by powerful men. Some ruled [Israel] and justly [punished those men and nations who rebelled against God]. Some obtained [from God] the things that he promised to give them [MTY].
34 ki go gbindiyaa fantama n co jama ki sanikifaabi bi yulamu jugisiemu ñona nni, ki paani i yiani, ki tua jakɔnda bu tɔbu nni, ki deli bi nilaba tɔgola.
Some forced lions to keep their mouths shut. Some escaped from being destroyed by fire. Some of those people escaped from [being killed with] a sword [MTY]. Some of those [people who trusted God] were made strong {became mighty} again after they had once been weak. Some became powerful when they fought wars. Some caused armies [that came from foreign lands] to run away from them.
35 Li dandanli po den cedi ke potɔba baa ke bi kpiiba n kpe gɔ ki fii bi tinkpiba siiga. Bi den waani bi nitianba mo fala ke baa tuo ki ga mi faabima kelima bi den bua ki baa yaa tinkpifiima ŋani ki cie.
Some women [who trusted God] received [their relatives] back again when [God] ([made them live again after they had died/raised them from the dead]). But [others who trusted God] were tortured until they died. They were tortured because they refused to agree when [their captors said, “We will] release you [if you deny that you believe in God.” They refused to do that], because they wanted to live with God forever, which is better than [continuing to live on earth] after having almost died.
36 Bi den ṅuadi bine ki pua ba i baliji, ki go kpaa bi tianba ti kpaadi ki kuani ba li kpaadidieli nni.
Other [people who trusted God] were mocked; [some had their backs] cut [open by being struck] with leaded whips. Some were chained and put in prison.
37 Bi den lugidi bine a tana, ki go waani bi tianba yeni mu jugisiemu. Bi nitianba mo den tie luoda ki gɔgɔdi ki yie ti pegbanli yeni ti ŋuagbandi, ke bi niba bia bipo ki wangi ba fala.
[Some of] those believers were stoned to death {People [killed some of those believers by] throwing stones at them}. Others were cut completely in two. Others were killed with swords. Others of these people who trusted God wandered around the land [wearing garments made only of] skins from sheep and goats. They did not have any money. They were continually oppressed and tormented {People continuously oppressed them and tormented them}.
38 ŋanduna ki den pundi ki yaa pia laa nimoanba o niinni. Bi den gɔgɔdi mi fanpienma nni yeni i fali nni kuli.
[The people on earth who caused those who trusted in God to suffer were so bad that] they did not deserve [to live with people who trusted God. Some who trusted God] wandered in deserts and on mountains. Some lived in caves and in other [large] holes in the ground.
39 Baa ke bani kuli den baa ke U Tienu tieni bipo o siediŋamo kelima bi dandanli yaa po, baa den baa wan den niani ba yaala,
Although all these people were commended [by God] {[God] commended all these people} because they trusted him, God did not give them all that he promised them [while they were alive].
40 kelima U Tienu den jagi tipo yaala n ŋani ki cie, kaa bua ban ŋanbi ki dagidi cain ke tii ye lienni.
God knew ahead of time that what he would give us and them [later] would be better than giving [them immediately what he promised]. What God intends is that only when they and we are together will we have all that God intends us to have.
