The English-Kalanga Bilingual Language Learning Bible
Old Testament
Read each verse in English beside its African Kalanga equivalent.
Deuteronomy 8English
Matama 8African Kalanga
- English1
Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land that the Lord promised on oath to your forefathers.
African Kalanga“Milayo yose yandinomupa nasi mube ne njele kuyilondolodza kuyita kuti mutjile muwande, mungine mutole shango Yahwe yabakatuna kuyipa bobatategulu benyu.
- English2
Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.
African KalangaNgono ukumbule zila yose Yahwe Ndzimu uwo yabakakutungamila makole iyawa ali makumi manna (40) mu tjilambanyika bekuyita kuti ube unozwiyisa pasi, kukulika kuziba kuti tjimu moyo uwo ini, kene unowolondolodza milayo yabo kene aa.
- English3
He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
African KalangaBakakuyisa pasi bakakuletja ukafa ne zhala bakakupa mana zwili zojiwa zwawakabe usingazibe na bobatategulu babo abazotongo zwiziba bakabe bethamila kuti bakuthame uzibe kuti nthu aatotjila nge zojiwa zoga, koga kuti nthu unotjila nge tjimwe ne tjimwe tjinodwa mu nlomo wa Yahwe.
- African Kalanga
Zwiambalo zwizo azwizo kushakalila ne makumbo awo aazotongo zwimba mu makole iyawa ali makumi manna (40).
- English5
Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
African KalangaNgwenu wali ziba mu moyo uwo kuti se nlume elaya nkololo uwe, Yahwe Ndzimu uwo unokulaya.
- African Kalanga
Ndizo ulondolodze milayo ya Yahwe Ndzimu uwo nge kuyenda mu zila dzabo nge kubatja.
- English7
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land–a land with streams and pools of water, with springs flowing in the valleys and hills;
African KalangaNgoti Yahwe Ndzimu uwo unokuzhisa mu shango mbuya, shango ye wobana dze vula, ye misenya ne madziba anodwilila ewunga mu mikuku ne mu matuthu,
- African Kalanga
shango ye koroni ne bhali ye mikumbi ye zhambi ne mipaya ne pomegiranate, shango ye mitoba ne butji,
- English9
a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.
African Kalangashango yaunoja zojiwa zwisingatongo sheteka, yausingosheta tjimwe muili, shango ina mabgwe e butale, mu matuthu ayo unowotsha khopa.
- English10
When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.
African KalangaUnowoja ukaguta ngono ukakudza Yahwe Ndzimu uwo ubakudzila shango mbuya yabakupa.”
- English11
Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day.
African Kalanga“Ibe ne njele usidwe ukangang'wa Yahwe Ndzimu uwo nge kusalondolodza milayo yabo iyo yandinomupa mu zhuba ileli,
- African Kalanga
usitongodwa uti waja waguta ngono wabaka ng'umba dzakanaka ngono ugala mudzili
- English13
and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied,
African Kalangane ng'ombe dzidzo ne ngubi dzidzo dzawanda, siliva iyo ne golide iyo, kose kwaunako kwawanda,
- English14
then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
African Kalangaipapo moyo uwo uzwikudza ube ukangang'wa Yahwe Ndzimu uwo iwo wakakudusa mu Egipiti, mu ng'umba ye busungwa.
- English15
He led you through the vast and dreadful desert, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock.
African KalangaBakamutungamila mu tjilambanyika tjikulu tjakabangalala tjina nyoka dzakabangalala ne phani na pasi pakawomelela pasina vula, ibo bakakuzhisila vula kudwa mu shongwe yakasima.
- English16
He gave you manna to eat in the desert, something your fathers had never known, to humble and to test you so that in the end it might go well with you.
African KalangaBakakupa mana mu tjilambanyika zojiwa zwisakatongozibgwa ndi bobatategulu babo, bakathama kuti uzwiyise pasi, bakakulika kukuthamila bubuya kubupelo.”
- English17
You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.”
African Kalanga“Uyele njele usitongo zwidwa mu moyo ukati, ‘Simba langu ne matatabuko angu akandiwanila fumwa iyeyi.’ ”
- English18
But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.
African KalangaUkumbule Yahwe Ndzimu uwo ngoti ndibo banokupa simba kuti uwane fumwa kuti bathumbidze tjidumano tjabo tjabakathama nge kutuna kuna bobatategulu babo sekwa kuli iko mu zhuba ileli.
- English19
If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed.
African KalangaNgono ha ungadzina ukakangang'wa Yahwe Ndzimu uwo ukatobela mimwe midzimu ngono ukayishingila ukabuya ukayinamata, ndokukumbuludza ndisimisa mu zhuba ileli kuti nge malebeswa unowoloba.
- English20
Like the nations the Lord destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the Lord your God.
African KalangaUnowofanana koga ne njudzi idzedzi Yahwe dzabanolobesa mbeli kuko ngoti unowobe usawha whi la Yahwe Ndzimu uwo.
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.