Hasumiyar Babila/The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11: 1-9)
Mafa
Gi mbia’a te Babel
Herkeda tèlèba, a nè’èn ta staḋ, a da’ai ta staḋ.
Aman ta shkè te man a civèḋ mvèng pats, ta ngots dala te kokwar Shinear, a ta nza a pa.
A ta goḋ a va ta: Yowa, ngo-romokoy wujèḋ ara kwa, a ngo-ndorokoya zura’a! A ta rom staḋ staḋ tèlèba ara kwa, a ta poḋ mpèḋè a bitume.
A ta gaḋa: Ngo-ḋüzlokoy kokwar, gi staḋ te va mbia’a, géd nenga’a da lamka na giḋfèk! Da nda a skwi nslébèrdè nga, a nga vindè gèḋ a gèḋ herkeda asaɓai.
Te deɓa’a Ndo zi pèc pècèk a mshkèhai, a nrka kokwar mbia’a, a gi ngurèa, man ndohi herkeda ta roma.
A Ndo nzi pèc pèck a ngaḋa: Na haha, ndohi kokwar staḋ, a da’ai ta staḋ, a ta hinè ngi aranta di genè; anai ta da dè a ma ma, a ta gi skwi man ta hérè’a.
Yowa, ngodo a hai, ngo-dzokoɓokoy nè’èn ta, a ngiḋè a tsena da’ai ngiḋè ɓai, ngiḋè a tsena da’ai ngiḋè ɓai.
A Ndo nzi pèc pècèk a venda ta gèḋ a géḋ herkeda tèlèba aranta, a ta jèkeda nḋizl kokwar mbia’a.
Gar haha nzlembaḋ kokwar sa, Babel, a géḋ man Ndo nzi pèc pècèk a ndzakaɓama ta nè’èn a ndohi herkeda tèlèba te pa, a venda ta gèḋ a géḋ herkeda tèlèba.
Source: Ma Zhiklè. Testament m’mova’a
Testament mɓua’a. La Bible en langue mofa. Société
biblique du Cameroun, Yaoundé, 1978.
Contributed by Wolfgang Kuhl
Mafa is a Chadic language with about 141,000 speakers in northern Cameroon and eastern Nigeria.
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