iEksodus
1:1 Ngawo la amagama oonyana bakaSirayeli, ababengenayo
Jiphethe; weza elowo nendlu yakhe noYakobi.
1:2 uRubhen, noSimon, noLevi, noYuda;
1:3 uIsakare, noZebhulon, noBhenjamin;
1:4 uDan, noNafetali, noGadi, noAshere.
1:5 Iyonke imiphefumlo eyaphumayo esinqeni sikaYakobi yayingamashumi asixhenxe
ngokuba uYosefu ebeseleseYiputa.
1:6 Wafa ke uYosefu, nabazalwana bakhe bonke, naso sonke eso sizukulwana.
1:7 Baqhama oonyana bakaSirayeli, banda kakhulu;
Wanda, waba namandla ngokuncamisileyo; lazala ilizwe
bona.
1:8 Ke kaloku kwavela ukumkani omtsha phezu kweYiputa, owayengamazi uYosefu.
1:9 Wathi ebantwini bakhe, Yabonani, abantu boonyana bakaYehu
USirayeli baninzi kwaye unamandla kunathi.
1:10 Yizani silumke kubo; Hleze bande, ize
ukuze kuthi, kwakuthe kwabakho imfazwe, bathelele nathi
nize nilwe nathi, nize ke ninyuke niphume elizweni.
1:11 Bamisa phezu kwabo abaqhubi-kalukhuni babantu, ukuze babacinezele ngeento zabo
imithwalo. Bamakhela uFaro izixeko ezingoovimba, iPitom neRameses.
1:12 Okukhona babatshutshisayo, kokukhona bandayo, banda. Kwaye
baba buhlungu ngoonyana bakaSirayeli.
1:13 AmaYiputa ke abacinezela oonyana bakaSirayeli.
1:14 Babenza bakrakra ubomi babo ebukhobokeni obulukhuni, ngodaka nangaphakathi
nakuwo wonke umsebenzi wasendle, nangawo wonke umsebenzi wabo.
apho babekhonza khona, kwaba nzima.
1:15 Wathi ukumkani waseYiputa wathetha kubazalisikazi abangamaHebherekazi, igama labo
igama lomnye belinguShifra, igama lomnye belinguPuwa;
1:16 wathi, Ekuzaliseni kwenu amaHebherekazi, naxa nizalayo
zibonele phezu kwezitulo; ukuba ungunyana, nombulala; ukuba ke ngunyana
makube yintombi, iphile.
1:17 Abazalisikazi boyika uThixo, abenza ngokomyalelo wokumkani waseYiputa
wawasindisa, wawasindisa amadodana.
1:18 Wababiza ukumkani waseYiputa abazalisikazi, wathi kubo, Yini na?
Niyenzile na le nto, basisindisa oonyana?
1:19 Bathi abazalisikazi kuFaro, kuba amaHebherekazi akafanga
abafazi baseYiputa; ngokuba baphilile, bayahlangulwa ungekafiki uYehova
bangena kuwo abazalisikazi.
1:20 Ngoko uThixo wabenzela okulungileyo abazalisikazi. Banda abantu.
waza waba namandla kakhulu.
1:21 Kwathi, ekubeni abazalisikazi bemoyika uThixo, wabenza
izindlu.
1:22 UFaro wabawisela umthetho abantu bakhe bonke, wathi, Bonke oonyana abathe bazalwa;
niziphose emlanjeni, nizisindise zonke iintombi.