Babel

The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11: 1-9)

Eipo (Lik Yupe)

Ishanja yo Ubabeli

1. Minop talak ara, tukwak mutuku im sirya, mutuku sirya nirya ulamik ninye ara, sik yupu tonok nyabuka yupu sisiklamik.

2. Yupu tonokuk nyalamikce, keting yangan tam binuka, aik dopnin balamikce, tonok mutuku, weik lyu mutuku el si ara, Sinar mutuku yayik. Yayikopura, ‘Lyuak ara telebe’ tenebikce, amutuku aik dobuka ulamik.

3. Sik daulamika ani, aminyan ara, nyalalamik. “Kume Amapo, nun nirya neika pil dopnyabe. Kat tuku doprobibirye, urasin teleb kibuka telibibirye, uku pum bisik dongobibiba, kat weik akunum uplyopura, batu tela atonunuk akunum upliba, kat aik donamabe,” nyabuka yupu taleamikce, winibik. Min ara, talye keil dobuka aik abilinga pilamik bukni, wini talak ara, kat tuku tilibuka, dobikba, batu tela kintinibik ning ap, yo pia mirin ning ap arye, cang kat aik dolamik.

4. Winibikopura, aminyan ara nyabik. “Amapuo, winira, weik nang asik dopnamabe. Amutuku noutamak ara, pia cang weik aik dopnin balamipya ani, im dup welepnamle. Winibuka doptibya deice arye, yuk nang nirya arye, nunti, ‘Se, anang ara, weik mambule,’ nyabuka, nunti ereipsikirye, weik nang unamabe. Winibipyopura, aminyan talak ara, yuk-yuk wilibuka tukwak mutuku noutam nirya, yuk-yukak kum bokdanamabe. Asukumuk neika unamabe,” nyabuka yupu talipdanamikce, apil deiyok koubuka dolamik.

5. Anyaik dopnin balamik ani, aminyan ara, Allah el si Yahweh arye, ‘Ninye tukwak nang arye, weik aik ap, ‘Im noutam welepnamle’ tenen, cang aik donmaka ara, dilbinun’ tenen, koulukuka, dilyayuk.

6. Dilyayukce, Allah el si Yahweh arye, nyabuk. “Kume, tukwak ninye nirya, tonok yala nang unyakce, tonok yupu uk nyabuka, yupu talilanyakce, weik cang aik ap, weik nang aik ap, akunum deiyok koubuka donmake. Aning ati, sik kanye aryuk ‘Winipnamap, winipnamap,’ tenebice ning nirya ara, ikin kum upliba, ‘Kanam aryuk winibicak’ tenen, aning ara, mambule.

7. Winibicak tenen ati, tukwak mutuku u binamabe. ‘Sik neika yupu talilamikibuk, moubuka kum kekepdanamake’ tenen, sik yupu deiyok, pia yuk-yuk kipdeipnuyabe. Winibipyopura, sik nirya pia kum kekelanamake.” Allah arye, nyabuk.

8-9. Utenebuka nyabuka ati, Allah el si Yahweh arye, tukwak mutuku im sirya, mutuku sirya ulamik ninye ati, sik yupu deiyok pia yuk-yuk kipdeibukba, sik nirya ara, yupu kekeplanmanto kum ubik. Aning winibuka deice arye, yupu moubuka kum kekelalamikce, amutuku batakuka, yuk-yuk uk bokuka balamikce, sik mutuku yuk-yuk binuka ulamik. Allah el si Yahweh arye, amutuku ulamik ninye nirya, sik yupu deiyok yuk-yuk kipdeibukba, yupu yuk-yuk nyalalamikba, pia walwal ubukba, kekepdanmanto kum ubika ati, amutuku si ara, ‘Babel mutuku,’ nyalamik. Babel deiyok ara, bokwalwalap danamikak ati nyanyake.

Source: https://www.bible.com/bible/3865/GEN.11.EIPA

Contributed by Wolfgang Kuhl

Eipo is an Eastern Mek language spoken in Highland Papua province in eastern Indonesian.

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