The English-Kalanga Bilingual Language Learning Bible
Old Testament
Read each verse in English beside its African Kalanga equivalent.
Exodus 2English
Kufuluka 2African Kalanga
- African Kalanga
Ipapo nlume mmwe mu nsha wa Levi kalobola nkadzi we Nlevi
- English2
and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.
African KalangaNkadzi iwoyo kazwisenga kawana mwana we tjilisana. Kati ebona kuti mwana wakanaka kansumbika mimwedzi ili mitatu.
- English3
But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
African KalangaWakati asingatjatubule kunsumbika kanlukila itundu tje lutokwe katjidzulula nge ikontiri. Kabe elonga mwana mukati kwatjo ebe etjibiga pakati kwe shanga dze gwizi mu phili yago.
- African Kalanga
Hazwadzi ye mwana iwoyo yakabe inlinda ili thambgwana kubona tjinganshingikalila.
- English5
Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the river bank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it.
African KalangaNkololokadzi wa Faro kazha kuwongula mu gwizi, ngono balandakadzi babe bakabe beyenda mu phili dzago. Iye kabona itundu pakati kwe shanga dze gwizi ngono katuma nlandakadzi uwe kunotjitola.
- English6
She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.
African KalangaKati etjifumula kawana mwana mutjili. Mwana wakabe elila ngono iye kan’whila ngoni kabe eti, “Iwoyu wakafanila ali mmwe we bana be Bahebheru.”
- English7
Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”
African KalangaHazwadzi iye ipapo ikabe iti ku nkololokadzi wa Faro, “Ndiyende kene ndinokushakila nledzi mu bakadzi be Bajuta kukulelela iye?”
- African Kalanga
Nkololokadzi wa Faro kabe eti, “Ee, yenda.” Ndizo mwanadi iwoyo kayenda kanodana mayi be mwana.
- English9
Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him.
African KalangaNkololokadzi wa Faro kabe ebadwa eti, “Tola mwana iwoyu undilelele iye, ndowokupa mbhayilo uwo.” Ndizo nkadzi iwoyo katola mwana kanlela.
- English10
When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”
African KalangaMwana kati akula, kantola kan'yisa ku nkololokadzi wa Faro ngono iye kantola kanthama nkololo uwe. Kantumila eti Mushe ngoti wakati, “Ndakan'dusa mu vula.”
- English11
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
African KalangaMu limwe zhuba Mushe atjikula, kabhuda kayenda ku bathu bakanyi kukwe ngono kabona nshingo unolema wabanokombeledzwa. Kabona N'egipiti eloba Nhebheru, mmwe we bakanyi kukwe.
- English12
Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
African KalangaMushe kalinga yeno na yeno, kati asina waanobona kabulaya N'egipiti kansumbika mu nsetje.
- English13
The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”
African KalangaKati tjimuka etendeleka kakale, kabona Bahebheru babili begwa ngono kabhuzwa wakabe ali nlandu kati, “Unolobelani Nhebheru sawe kene?”
- English14
The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”
African KalangaIye kadabila eti, “Ndiani wakakubiga kube nlauli ne nsumikilisi wedu? Unoshaka kundibulaya se kwawakabulaya N'egipiti kene?” Ipapo Mushe kazhigwa ngotja ngono kakumbula eti, “Tjandakashinga tjakafanila tjozibgwa.”
- English15
When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.
African KalangaFaro kati ewha ngekwako, kada kubulaya Mushe. Koga Mushe katizha Faro kayenda ku shango ye Midiyani. Kaswika pakabe pana tshime kabe egala pawhunde ne tshime.
- English16
Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.
African KalangaMpirisiti we Midiyani wakabe ana bakololokadzi bali kutendeka. Bakazha bakazhadza vula mu migoro kung'wisa pkhwizi ne mbudzi dza tate babo.
- English17
Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.
African KalangaBamwe balisi bakazha bakabatata. Mushe kamilika kabagwila kang'wisa pkhwizi ne mbudzi dzabo
- English18
When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”
African KalangaBakati bebgwilila kuna tate babo Ruwele, bakabhuzwa beti, “Nasi mabuya tjinyolotjo zwingapa kwatini?”
- English19
They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
African KalangaIbo bakabe beti, “Tagwigwa nge N'egipiti mu balisi, wabuya kating'wisila pkhwizi ne mbudzi dzedu.
- English20
“And where is he?” he asked his daughters. “Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.”
African KalangaIye kabhuzwa bakololokadzi babe kati, ‘Ungayi ngono? Mansiyilani kene? Mun'dane awoja zojiwa naswi.’ ”
- African Kalanga
Mushe kadumana ne kugala ne nlume iwoyo, ngono nlume iwoyo kampa nkololokadzi uwe Ziphora kunlobola.
- English22
Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become an alien in a foreign land.”
African KalangaZiphora kawana mwana we tjilisana, ngono Mushe kantumila zina eti Geshomu, ngoti wakati, “Ndi nzhi mu shango isi ya kanyi kwedu.”
- English23
During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.
African KalangaShule kwe tjibaka tjilefu, Mambo we Egipiti kafa. Baiziraela bakabe batjatshinda nge bulanda gwabo belila. Bakalilila Ndzimu ngekwe bulanda gwabo beti ubabhatshe.
- English24
God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.
African KalangaNdzimu ukawha kutshinda kwabo ngono Ndzimu ukakumbula tjidumano tjawo na Abhurahama na Isaki na Jakubo.
- African Kalanga
Ndzimu ukalinga Baiziraela ukabayitila hanya.
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.