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12 Yehova yamba kuli Apalama ngwenyi: “Katuka ku chifuchi chenu, hichika asoko je ni zuwo lia tatenu, uye ku chifuchi chize mungukulweza. 2 Mungukakupwisa vungu linene, mungukakuwahisa ni kufumanyisa jina lie, mukapwa chiwape. 3 Mungukawahisa waze makuwahisa, mungukashinga waze makushinga. Mavungu eswe a hashi makatambula yiwape kupalikila muli yena.”
4 Apalama yaya ngwe chize Yehova amulwezele, ni Lote yaya hamwe nenyi. Apalama te hapwa ni miaka 75, muze akatukile ku Harane. 5 Apalama yanda mukwo-pwo Serai, Lote, mwana wa mwana-kwo, yanda nawa upite weswe ni ndungo eswe waze apichile mu Harane, mba yakatuka yaya ku chifuchi cha Kanana. Muze ahetele mu chifuchi cha Kanana, 6 Apalama yapalika ndusu mu chifuchi chacho yaya ndo ku chifuchi cha Shekeme, hakamwihi ni mitondo yinene-yinene ya More. (Ha mashimbu aze A-Kanana te katwama mu chifuchi chacho.) 7 Chocho, Yehova yasoloka kuli Apalama ni kwamba ngwenyi: “Munguhana chifuchi chino ku munyachi* we.” Mba Apalama yatungilako Yehova chilumbilo yoze wasolokele kuli iye. 8 Ha kupalika cha mashimbu, yakatukako, yaya ku chifuchi cha mulundu ku chivumbuko cha Mbetele, yatungako mbalaka yenyi, Mbetele ku chitokelo, Ehai ku chivumbuko. Yatungilako Yehova chilumbilo, yaputuka kutambika ha jina lia Yehova. 9 Mwapwa muze, Apalama yanunga ni wenyi wenyi yatalikisa ku Nengeve, ni kututulwoka ha chihela ni chihela.
10 Mba mu chifuchi chize yimunjila zala yinji, chocho Apalama yapalumuka ni kutalikisa ku Engitu hanga atwameko amwe mashimbu,* mumu zala te yoka naye. 11 Muze te himanjila mu Engitu, iye yamba kuli mukwo-pwo Serai ngwenyi: “Lisesa, ngupanjike. Ngunanyingika ngwami uli chileza. 12 Kashika, muze A-Engitu makumona, pundu lume mamba ngwo: ‘Au kali pwo lienyi.’ Mba mangushiha, makwecha yena ni mwono. 13 Lisesa, amba ngwe uli ndumbwami, hanga yuma yeswe yende kanawa kuli yami mumu lia yena, achine kungushiha.”*
14 Muze Apalama hanjila mu Engitu, A-Engitu yamona ngwo pwo yoze ali nenyi te chileza. 15 Muze yilolo ja Falau amumwene, yaputuka kumuchichimieka kumeso ja Falau, chocho yatwala pwo ku zuwo lia Falau. 16 Amu Falau azangile chinji Serai, yafunga kanawa Apalama ni kumwaha mapanga, ngombe, yimbulu a makuji ni a yihwo, ndungo a malunga ni a mapwo ni tumelu. 17 Kashika, Yehova yapinjisa Falau ni akwa-zuwo lienyi ni yilungo yipi chinji mumu lia Serai, pwo lia Apalama. 18 Mba Falau yasanyika Apalama ni kwamba kuli iye ngwenyi: “Mumu liaka wangulinga chuma chino? Mumu liaka kuwangulwezele ngwe iye kali mukwenu-pwo? 19 Mumu liaka wangulwezanga ngwe: ‘Iye kali ndumbwami?’ Te kwasala hakehe hanga ngumumbate! Mukwenu-pwo au, yako kwe!” 20 Mba Falau yahana shimbi kuli atu jenyi hakutwala kuli Apalama, chocho ayo yamwecha hanga aye kwenyi ni mukwo-pwo ni yuma yeswe yize apwile nayo.