Tobit
1: 1 Igitabo cyamagambo ya Tobiti, mwene Tobyeli, mwene Ananiel, Uwiteka
mwene Adueli, mwene Gabaeli, wo mu rubyaro rwa Asaeli, wo mu muryango wa
Nephali;
1: 2 Mu gihe c'Umwanzi umwanzi w'Abashuri yajyanywe bunyago
ya Thisbe, iri iburyo bw'uwo mujyi, witwa
neza Nephthali muri Galilaya hejuru ya Aser.
1: 3 I Tobit nagenze iminsi yose yubuzima bwanjye muburyo bwukuri kandi
ubutabera, kandi nkorera benewacu byinshi, nigihugu cyanjye, ninde
yazananye nanjye i Nineve, mu gihugu cya Ashuri.
1: 4 Kandi igihe nari mu gihugu cyanjye, mu gihugu cya Isiraheli ariko
muto, umuryango wose wa Nephthali data yaguye mu nzu ya
Yerusalemu, yatoranijwe mumiryango yose ya Isiraheli, ko bose
amoko agomba gutamba aho, aho urusengero rwo guturamo
Isumbabyose yeguriwe kandi yubatswe kumyaka yose.
1: 5 Imiryango yose hamwe yigometse, n'inzu ya data
Nephthali, yatambiye inyana Baali.
1: 6 Ariko jyenyine nagiye kenshi i Yerusalemu mu minsi mikuru, nk'uko byari byateganijwe
ku Bisirayeli bose bakoresheje iteka ryose, bafite Uwiteka
imbuto n'icumi byiyongera, hamwe nicyogoshe bwa mbere; na
Nampaye ku gicaniro abatambyi abana ba Aroni.
1: 7 Igice cya cumi cyambere cyo kwiyongera nahaye abahungu ba Aroni, uwo
yakoreye i Yerusalemu: ikindi gice cya cumi naragurishije, ndagenda, kandi
yabikoresheje buri mwaka i Yeruzalemu:
Uwa gatatu nabahaye uwo bahuye, nka Debora wanjye
nyina wa se yari yarantegetse, kubera ko nari nsigaye ari impfubyi
se.
1: 9 Byongeye kandi, igihe nageraga kumyaka yumugabo, nashakanye na Anna wanjye
bene wabo bwite, kandi kuri we nabyaye Tobiya.
1:10 Kandi ubwo twajyanwaga bunyago i Nineve, bavandimwe banjye bose kandi
abo mu muryango wanjye bariye ku mugati w'Abanyamahanga.
1:11 Ariko narinze kurya;
1:12 Kuberako nibutse Imana n'umutima wanjye wose.
1:13 Kandi Usumbabyose yampaye ubuntu nubuntu imbere ya Enemessar, kugirango njye
yari umusuku.
1:14 Ninjira mu Itangazamakuru, ngenda niringira Gabael umuvandimwe wa
Gabrias, kuri Rages umujyi wa Media impano icumi ya feza.
1:15 Enemessar amaze gupfa, Senakeribu umuhungu we yima ingoma ye;
umutungo we wagize ibibazo, ko ntashobora kujya mubitangazamakuru.
1:16 Kandi mugihe cya Enemessar nahaye benewacu imfashanyo nyinshi, ndatanga
Umugati wanjye ushonje,
1:17 Imyenda yanjye nambaye ubusa, kandi nihagira umuntu wo mu bwoko bwanjye apfa, cyangwa natewe
hafi y'urukuta rwa Nineve, namushyinguye.
1:18 Niba umwami Senakeribu yishe umuntu uwo ari we wese, araza arahunga
mvuye muri Yudaya, nabashyinguye wenyine; kuko uburakari bwe yishe benshi; ariko
imirambo ntiyabonetse, igihe bashakishwaga n'umwami.
1:19 Igihe umwe mu Banyanineya yagiye kundega umwami,
ko nabashyinguye, nkihisha; kumva ko nashakishijwe
kwicwa, nanze kwikuramo ubwoba.
1:20 Ibicuruzwa byanjye byose byambuwe ku gahato, nta kintu na kimwe cyari gihari
yansize, iruhande rw'umugore wanjye Anna n'umuhungu wanjye Tobiya.
Hashize iminsi itanu n'itanu, abahungu be babiri bicwa
we, bahungira mu misozi ya Ararati; na Sarikedoni
umuhungu we yima ingoma mu cyimbo cye; washyizeho konti za se, kandi
Akiacharus murumuna wanjye Anaeli.
1:22 Akiacharus aranyinginga, nsubira i Nineve. Akiacharus
yari umutware w'ibikombe, n'umuzamu w'ikimenyetso, igisonga, n'umugenzuzi wa
inkuru: Sarikedoni amushyira iruhande rwe, kandi yari uwanjye
umuhungu wa murumuna.