The English-Kalanga Bilingual Language Learning Bible
Old Testament
Read each verse in English beside its African Kalanga equivalent.
Deuteronomy 11English
Matama 11African Kalanga
- English1
Love the Lord your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always.
African Kalanga“Ude Yahwe Ndzimu uwo uthame tjabanoshaka, ulondolodze milayo yabo misi yose.
- English2
Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the Lord your God: his majesty, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm;
African KalangaUzibe muna lino zhuba kuti bana babo ate ibo bakabona bakaziba kulaya kwa Yahwe Ndzimu uwo ne bukulu gwabo, tjiazha tjabo tjakasima ne luboko gwabo gwakatambunuka,
- English3
the signs he performed and the things he did in the heart of Egypt, both to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his whole country;
African Kalangazwilakidzo zwabo ne mishingo yabo yabakashinga ku Egipiti kuna Faro mambo we Egipiti neku shango iye yose,
- English4
what he did to the Egyptian army, to its horses and chariots, how he overwhelmed them with the waters of the Red Sea as they were pursuing you, and how the Lord brought lasting ruin on them.
African Kalangane tjabakathama ku ngwa ye Egipiti, ku mbizi dzabo neku koloyi dzabo dze ngwa ne sekwa bakathama vula dze Gungwa Shaba kubakwididza pabakabe bemulonda na Yahwe sekwabaka balobesa kuswikila mu zhuba lino.
- English5
It was not your children who saw what he did for you in the desert until you arrived at this place,
African KalangaBana babo abazobona Yahwe tjabakakuthamila mu tjilambanyika kudzina uswika mu bugalo igogu,
- English6
and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth right in the middle of all Israel and swallowed them up with their households, their tents and every living thing that belonged to them.
African Kalangane tjabakathamila Datani na Abiramu bakololo ba Eliyabu nkololo wa Rubheni, shango sekwa yakaashama nlomo wayo ikabamidza ne misha yabo ne mishasha yabo ne tjimwe ne tjimwe tjabo tjinotjila pakati kwe Baiziraela.
- African Kalanga
Mesho awo ndiwo akabona zwithu izwezwi zwikulukulu Yahwe zwabakathama.
- English8
Observe therefore all the commands I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,
African Kalanga“Ndizo wali mowolondolodza nlayo wose wandinomupa mu zhuba lino, ndizo musime, mungine mutole shango yamunoyenda kuithuwa,
- English9
and so that you may live long in the land that the Lord swore to your forefathers to give to them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
African Kalanganekuti mutjile tjibaka tjilefu mu shango Yahwe yabakatuna kuna bobatategulu benyu kubapa iyo ne bana babo, shango inowunga nkaka ne butji.
- English10
The land you are entering to take over is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as in a vegetable garden.
African KalangaNgoti shango yamunongina kuithuwa aitofanana ne shango ye Egipiti yamakabhuda muili kwamakadzwala mbewu yenyu mukaidilidzila nge makumbo se nnda we milibo,
- English11
But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven.
African Kalangakoga shango yamunoyenda kuithuwa i shango ye matuthu ne mikuku inong'wa vula inona idwa kudzimu,
- English12
It is a land the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the Lord your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end.
African Kalangashango Yahwe Ndzimu wenyu yabana hanya nayo, mesho a Yahwe Ndzimu wenyu amuili misi yose, kudwa mu kutangisa kwe gole kunoti ku bupelo gwe gole.
- English13
So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today–to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul–
African Kalanga“Ngono ha mungawha milayo yangu iyo yandinomupa nasi mu zhuba ileli, kuda Yahwe Ndzimu wenyu ne kubashingila nge moyo wenyu wose nenge meya yenyu yose,
- English14
then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and oil.
African Kalangaipapo banowonisa vula mu minda yenyu nge tjibaka tjayo, vula ye ntovudzo neye tjibodza mashanga kuti muvune mathunde enyu muwane nkumbi we zhambi ne mafuta.
- African Kalanga
Ngono banowomedza bushwa mu shango yenyu gwe ng'ombe dzenyu, mowoja mukaguta.
- English16
Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.
African KalangaMube ne njele moyo wenyu usitongo tjengedzeka mube mupambuka mushingila midzimu mimwe mube muinamata,
- English17
Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and he will shut the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you.
African Kalangamube mugwadzisa moyo Yahwe bebe bezhalila kudzimu vula ibe isingane ngono minda ibe isina tjainodusa ngono mube muloba mulibilidza mu shango mbuya Yahwe yabanomupa.
- English18
Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
African Kalanga“Ndizo wali mulonge matama angu iyawa mu moyo wenyu nemu meya yenyu, muasungilile mu maboko enyu tjili tjilakidzo ne mu phazha dzenyu.
- English19
Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
African KalangaMuidiye bana benyu, mulebe nge kwayo muligele mu ng'umba dzenyu ne muyenda mu zila ne mulala pasi ne mumilika.
- African Kalanga
Muikwale mu makwasayile e mikoba ye ng'umba dzenyu nemu zwizhalilo zwe mikoba ye mizi yenyu
- English21
so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the Lord swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.
African Kalangakuti mazhuba enyu ne e bana benyu awande mu shango Yahwe yabakatuna kuna bobatategulu benyu kubapa iyo ha kudzimu ku tjipezhugwi kwe shango.
- English22
If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow–to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways and to hold fast to him–
African KalangaNgoti ha mungabe ne njele kulondolodza nlayo wose iwoyu wandinomupa kuwulondolodza, muda Yahwe Ndzimu wenyu, muyenda mu zila dzabo dzose ne kuzwibhatilila ndibo,
- English23
then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you.
African Kalangaipapo Yahwe banowotata njudzi dzose idzedzi mbeli kwenyu, ngono mowotolela njudzi whulu kakale dzakasima kumupinda.
- English24
Every place where you set your foot will be yours: Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the western sea.
African KalangaPamwe ne pamwe makumbo enyu paanowotshamba panowobe penyu, shango yenyu inowotangisa pa tjilambanyika tje Lebanoni ne kudwa pa Gwizi, gwizi gwe Yufuratesi kunoti ku gungwa gwe kugolombedzo.
- English25
No man will be able to stand against you. The Lord your God, as he promised you, will put the terror and fear of you on the whole land, wherever you go.
African KalangaAkuna unowotubula kumidzana namwi, Yahwe Ndzimu wenyu banowolonga kutjiwa kwenyu ne kupalukamoyo mu shango yose yamunowotshamba muili sekwa bakamugadzabgwe.
- African Kalanga
“Bonani, ndobiga makombolelo ne bhiso mbeli kwenyu mu zhuba ileli,
- African Kalanga
makombolelo ha muwha milayo ya Yahwe Ndzimu wenyu iyo yandinomupa zhuba lino,
- English28
the curse if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
African Kalangabhiso ha musingawhe milayo ya Yahwe Ndzimu wenyu koga mupambuka mu zila yandinomupa zhuba lino mutobela midzimu mimwe yamusakatongo ziba.
- English29
When the Lord your God has brought you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim on Mount Gerizim the blessings, and on Mount Ebal the curses.
African KalangaNgono kuti Yahwe Ndzimu wenyu bemuzhisa mu shango yamakalingisana nge kuingina kuithuwa, mubige makombolelo pezhugwi kwe Dombo le Gerizimu, bhiso ilo mulibige pezhugwi kwe Dombo le Ebali.
- English30
As you know, these mountains are across the Jordan, west of the road, toward the setting sun, near the great trees of Moreh, in the territory of those Canaanites living in the Arabah in the vicinity of Gilgal.
African KalangaApa ate ali seli kwe Jorodani kunomila zhuba kwe zila, kudelukila ku bhezhuba, mu shango ye Bakanana banogala mu Araba kulingisana ne Giligala kubapa ne nti nkulu wa More kene?
- English31
You are about to cross the Jordan to enter and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you. When you have taken it over and are living there,
African KalangaNgoti mabe pejo ngotjuluka Jorodani kutola shango yamunopiwa ndi Yahwe Ndzimu wenyu. Muti mayitola mogala muili,
- African Kalanga
mube ne njele kulondolodza milayo yose yandinomupa mu zhuba lino.
Source: The English-Kalanga Bilingual Language Learning Bible, Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo, 2026. This online edition was extracted and reformatted from the PDF edition. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.