Y Checho Y Apostoles Sija 7
1 AYONAE ilegña y magas mamale: Taegüine este sija?
Then the High Priest asked: “Is this true?”
2 Ya güiya ilegña: Mañelujo lalaje yan mañaena, ecungog. Si Yuus y minalag fumatoigüe y tatata as Abraham anae estatabaja guiya Mesopotamia, antes di usaga Charran.
And, upon that, Stephen spoke as follows: “Brothers and Fathers, hear what I have to say. God, who manifests himself in the Glory, appeared to our ancestor Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, and before he settled in Haran, and said to him —
3 Ya ilegña nu güiya: Suja gui tanomo yan y manparientesmo, ya maela jalom gui tano ni y finanuejo nu jago.
‘Leave your country and your kindred, and come into the country that I will show you.’
4 Ya güiya jumanao juyong gui tano y Chaldeosija, ya sumaga Charran: ya desde ayo, anae matae si tataña, ninamalofangüe as Yuus güine mague na tano anae mañasaga jamyo pago.
On this, Abraham left the country of the Chaldaeans and settled in Haran; and from there, after his father’s death, God caused him to migrate into this very country, in which you are now living.
5 Ya ti ninae güe jafa na erensiaña güije, aje, taya ni para upolo y adengña gui jiloña: lao prinemete güe na uninae para güinajaña, yan y semiyaña despues di güiya, sa güiyaja trabia tataepatgon.
God did not at that time give him any part of it, not even a foot of ground. But he promised to ‘give him possession of it and his descendants after him, though at that time he had no child.
6 Ya si Yuus jasangan taegüine, Na y semiyaña utaotao juyong gui ti tanoña; yan manmacone ya manmancautiba, ya manmatrata taelaye cuatro sientes años.
God’s words were these — ‘Abraham’s descendants shall live in a foreign country, where they will be enslaved and ill-treated for four hundred years.
7 Ya y nasion ni y manmancautiba, bae jujusga, ilegña si Yuus; na despues di ayo, ufanmamaela juyong ya guajo jumasetbe güine na lugat.
But I myself will judge the nation, to which they will be enslaved,’ God said, ‘and after that they shall leave the country and worship me in this place.’
8 Yan manae güe ni y traton sirconsision: ya si Abraham jalilis si Ysaac, ya masirconsida güe gui mina ocho na jaane; ya si Ysaac jalilis si Jacob; ya si Jacob jalilis y dose na patriarcasija.
Then God made with Abraham the Covenant of Circumcision; and under it Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him when he was eight days old; and Isaac became the father of Jacob; and Jacob of the Twelve Patriarchs.
9 Ya y patriarca sija pot y inigoñija, mabende si José guiya Egipto: lao si Yuus estaba guiya güiya,
The Patriarchs, out of jealousy, sold Joseph into slavery in Egypt; but God was with him,
10 Ya ninalibre güe todo gui chinatsaga, yan ninae güe finaborese yan tiningo, gui menan Faraon, ray guiya Egipto; yan ninamagalaje güe guiya Egipto, yan todo y guimaña.
and delivered him out of all his troubles, and enabled him to win favour and show wisdom before Pharaoh, King of Egypt, who appointed him Governor of Egypt and of his whole household.
11 Ayonae mato niñalang todo gui tano Egipto yan Charran, yan dangculon chinatsaga: ya y mañaenata ti manmañoda nengcanoñija.
Then a famine spread over the whole of Egypt and Canaan, causing great distress, and our ancestors could find no food.
12 Lao anae si Jacob jajungog na guaja trigo guiya Egipto, jatago y mañaenata finenana na biaje.
Hearing, however, that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob sent our ancestors there on their first visit.
13 Ya y mina dos biaje, matungo si José ni y mañeluña: ya y parientes José janatungo si Faraon.
In the course of their second visit, Joseph revealed himself to his brothers, and his family became known to Pharaoh.
14 Ya manago si José na umaagange si tataña as Jacob para iya güiya, yan todo y manparientesña, setentaisinco na taotao.
Then Joseph sent an urgent invitation to his father Jacob and to his relations, seventy-five persons in all;
15 Ya si Jacob jumanao papa Egipto, ya matae güije yan y mañaenata sija.
and so Jacob went down into Egypt. There he died, and our ancestors also,
16 Ya manmachule guato Siquem, ya manmapolo gui naftan, ni y finajan Abraham pot salape, gui famaguon Emmor guiya Siquem.
and their bodies were removed to Shechem, and laid in the tomb which Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
17 Lao anae esta jijot y tiempon y promesa, ni y si Yuus manjula as Abraham, ya y taotao lumamegae, yan manlajyan guiya Egipto,
As the time drew near for the fulfilment of the promise which God had made to Abraham, the people increased largely in numbers in Egypt,
18 Asta qui y otro ray cajulo, ya ti jatungo si José.
until a new king, who knew nothing of Joseph, came to the throne.
19 Este jausa y malamañaña gui manparientesta, yan jatrata taelaye y mañaenata, sa janafanmayute y famaguonñija ni y pago finañago para chañija fanlalâlâ.
This king acted deceitfully towards our race and ill-treated our ancestors, making them abandon their own infants, so that they should not be reared.
20 Ya ayo na tiempo nae mafañago si Moises, ya sumenbonito; ya mapogsae gui guima tataña tres meses.
It was just at this time that Moses was born. He was an exceedingly beautiful child, and for three months was brought up in his own father’s house;
21 Ya anae mayute, y jagan Faraon jumoca, ya pinegsae para lajiña.
and, when he was abandoned, the daughter of Pharaoh found him and brought him up as her own son.
22 Ya si Moises, maeyag ni y todo y tiningo y taotao Egipto, ya mangaeninasiñaña y finoña yan y chechoña sija.
So Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and proved his ability both by his words and actions.
23 Ya anae cana jacumple cuarenta años y sacaña, mato gui corasonña na ubisita y mañeluña ni y famaguon Israel.
When he was in his fortieth year, he resolved to visit his brother Israelites;
24 Ya jalie uno guiya sija ni y japadese y maltrato, ya jadefiende y mumatrata, ya japuno y taotao Egipto.
and, seeing an Israelite ill-treated, he defended him, and avenged the man, who was being wronged, by striking down the Egyptian.
25 Sa pineluña na jatungo y mañeluña na uninafanlibre as Yuus ni y canaeña; lao ti jatungo sija.
He thought his brothers would understand that God was using him to save them; but they failed to do so.
26 Ya y inagpaña na jaane, jafanue sija nu güiya anae managuaguat, ya malago na unaunoja talo sija, ilegña: Señores, jamyo mañelo; jafa na mananataelaye y uno yan y otro?
The next day he again appeared upon the scene, when some of them were fighting, and tried to make peace between them. ‘Men,’ he said, ‘you are brothers; how is it that you are ill-treating one another?’
27 Lao ayo y minalalamen y tiguangña, jachonegñaejon, ilegña: Jaye munamagas jao gui jilo mame?
But the man who was ill-treating his fellow workman pushed Moses aside saying — ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?
28 Malago jao unpunoyo taegüije anae unpuno nigap y taotao Egipto?
Do you mean to make away with me as you did yesterday with that Egyptian?’
29 Ya ninafalago si Moises ni este na sinangan, ya tumaotao juyong gui tano Madian, gui anae jalilis y dos na lajiña.
At these words Moses took to flight, and became an exile in Midian; and there he had two sons born to him.
30 Ya anae jacumple cuarenta años, mato guiya güiya un angjet gui jalomtano gui egso Sinae, gui mañila y guafe gui jalom y trongcon chaguan.
Forty years had passed when there appeared to him, in the Desert of Mount Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush.
31 Ya anae jalie ayo si Moises, ninagosmanman ni y liniiña; ya anae lumajijot para ugueslie, y inagang y Señot mato guiya güiya,
When Moses saw it, he was astonished at the vision; but on his going nearer to look at it more closely, the voice of the Lord was heard to say —
32 Ilegña: Guajo y Yuus y mañaenamo, y Yuus Abraham, yan y Yuus Ysaac, yan y Yuus Jacob. Lao si Moises manlalaolao, ya ti siña jaatan.
‘I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled, and did not dare to look.
33 Ya y Señot ilegña nu güiya: Pula y sapatosmo gui adengmo; sa y lugat anae tumotojgue jao, santos na oda.
Then the Lord said to him — ‘Take your sandals off your feet, for the spot where you are standing is holy ground.
34 Sa seguro julie, y manmasapet y taotaojo guiya Egipto, yan jujungog y inigongñiñija, ya tumunogyo para junafanlibre sija. Ya pago maela jao, sa jutago jao guato Egipto.
I have seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt, and heard their groans, and I have come down to deliver them. Come now and I will send you into Egypt.’
35 Este y as Moises ni y jarechasa ilegñija: Jaye munamagas jao yan unjues? Güiya tinago as Yuus na umagas yan uninafanlibre pot y canae y angjet ni y mafato guiya güiya gui jalomtano.
This same Moses, whom they had disowned with the words — ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ was the very man whom God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer, under the guidance of the angel that had appeared to him in the bush.
36 Güiya chumule sija juyong, ya despues manfinanue ni y namanman, yan señat sija gui tano Egipto, yan y Tasen Agaga, yan y jalomtano cuarenta anos.
He it was who led them out, after he had shown wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the Desert during forty years.
37 Este ayo y as Moises, ni y ilegña ni y famaguon Israel: Y Yuusmiyo janacajulo un profeta guiya jamyo gui mañelunmiyo taegüine iya guajo.
This was the Moses who said to the people of Israel — ‘God will raise up for you, from among your brothers, a Prophet, as he raised up me.’
38 Este ayo y estaba gui inetnon, gui jalomtano, yan y angjet ni y cumuentuse güe gui egso Sinae, yan y mañaenata; ni y rumesibe y nalâlâ na tinago para ufanmanaejit.
He, too, it was who was present at the assembly in the Desert, with the angel who talked to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and who received living truths to impart to you.
39 Ni y mañaenata ti manmalago jaosgue lao mayute juyong guiya sija, ya y corasonñija manalo tate Egipto,
Yet our ancestors refused him obedience; more than that, they rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,
40 Ilegñija as Aaron: Fatinasejam Yuus para ujanao gui menanmame, as este y as Moises ni y cumonejam juyong gui tano Egipto, ti intingo jafa ujuyong.
while they said to Aaron — ‘Make us Gods who will lead the way for us, since, as for this Moses who has brought us out of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’
41 Ya sija manmamatinas un tatnero, ya machule y inefrese para idolo sija, güije sija na jaane, ya ninafansenmagof ni y checho y canaeñija.
That was the time when they made the Calf and offered sacrifice to their idol, and held festivities in honour of their own handiwork!
42 Ayonae jabira si Yuus, ya japolo na ujaadora y inetnon y langet; taegüije esta matugue gui leblon y profeta: O jamyo ni y guima Israel, inofreseyo pinino gâgâ sija yan inefrese sija gui cuarenta años gui jalomtano?
So God turned from them and left them to the worship of the Starry Host, as is written in the Book of the Prophets — ‘Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me, O House of Israel, All those forty years in the Desert?
43 Yan injatsa y tabemaculon Moloc, yan y estreyas y Yuus Refán, jechura sija ni y infatinas para inadora sija; ya guajo juchule jamyo mas chago qui Babilonia.
You took with you the tabernacle of Moloch And the Star of the god Rephan — The images which you had made to worship. Therefore I will exile you beyond Babylon.’
44 Y mañaenata, guaja ni y tabernaculon y testimonio gui jalomtano, taegüije tinanchoña ni ilegña as Moises na ufatinas taemanoja na jechura y liniiña.
Our ancestors had the Tabernacle of Revelation in the Desert, constructed, just as he who spoke to Moses had directed him to make it, after the model which he had seen.
45 Ni y mañaenata locue gui tiempoñija a machule jalom yan si Josué anae jumalom gui erensian y Gentiles, ni y si Yuus yumute juyong gui menan y mañaenata, asta y jaanen David;
This Tabernacle, which was handed down to them, was brought into this country by our ancestors who accompanied Joshua (at the conquest of the nations that God drove out before their advance), and remained here until the time of David.
46 Ni y sumoda finaborese gui menan Yuus, yan jagagao na ualiligao tabernaculo para si Yuus Jacob.
David found favour with God, and prayed that he might find a dwelling for the God of Jacob.
47 Lao si Salomon fumatinase güe un guma.
But it was Solomon who built a House for God.
48 Sa y Gueftaquilo, ti sumasaga gui guima sija ni y finatinas canae; taegüije y sinangan y profeta.
Yet it is not in buildings made by hands that the Most High dwells. As the Prophet says —
49 Y langet tronujo, ya y tano fañajangan y papa adengjo; jafa na guma injatsayeyo? ilegña y Señot; pat jafa na sagayan nae jusaga?
‘The heavens are a throne for me, And the earth a stool for my feet. What manner of House will you build me, saith the Lord, Or what place is there where I may rest?
50 Ada ti y canaejo fumatinas todo este sija na güinaja?
Was it not my hand that made all these things?’
51 Jamyo ni y gaetongjo tiso, yan ti manmasirconsida y corason yan y talanga, sa siempre incontra y Espiritu Santo; taegüije y checho y mañaenanmiyo inchechegüe.
O! stubborn race, heathen in heart and ears, you are for ever resisting the Holy Spirit; your ancestors did it, and you are doing it still.
52 Jaye gui profeta ti japetsigue y mañaenanmiyo? ya japuno ayo sija y manmañangangane antes ni y mamamaela Uno na Tunas; ya jamyo pago inentrega, yan inpino;
Which of the Prophets escaped persecution at their hands? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One; of whom you, in your turn, have now become the betrayers and murderers —
53 Ni y inresibe y tinago pot y inareglan y angjet, ya ti inadaje.
You who received the Law as transmitted by angels and yet failed to keep it.”
54 Ya anae jajungog estesija, manchinachat asta y corasonñija, ya janafañegcheg y nifenñija guiya güiya.
As they listened to this, the Council grew frantic with rage, and gnashed their teeth at Stephen.
55 Lao güiya, bula ni y Espiritu Santo, ya jaatan meton y langet, ya jalie y minalag Yuus, yan si Jesus na tumotojgue gui agapa na canae Yuus.
He, filled as he was with the Holy Spirit, fixed his eyes intently on the heavens, and saw the Glory of God and Jesus standing at God’s right hand.
56 Ya ilegña, Estagüe na julie y langet na mababa, ya y Lajin taotao tumotojgue gui agapa na canae Yuus.
“Look,” he exclaimed, “I see Heaven open and the Son of Man standing at God’s right hand!”
57 Ayonae sija managang ni y dangculo na inagangñija, yan jatampe y talanganñija, ya manmalago guato guiya güiya;
At this, with a loud shout, they stopped their ears and all rushed upon him, forced him outside the city,
58 Ya mayute juyong gui siuda, ya mafagas ni y acho: ya y testigo sija, japolo papa y magagoñija gui adeng un patgon na taotao na y naanña si Saulo.
and began to stone him, the witnesses laying their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.
59 Ya mafagas ni y acho si Esteban, ya jaaagang ni Yuus, ilegña: Señot, Jesus, resibe y Espiritujo.
And they stoned Stephen, while he cried to the Lord: “Lord Jesus! receive my spirit!”
60 Ya dumimo papa, ya umagang ni y dangculo na inagangña, ilegña: Señot, chamo pumopolo este na isao gui cuentanñija; ya anae munjayan jasangan este, maego.
Falling on his knees, he called out loudly: “Lord! do not charge them with this sin;” and with these words he fell asleep.
