The English-Kalanga Bilingual Language Learning Bible
Old Testament
Read each verse in English beside its African Kalanga equivalent.
Joshua 14English
Joshuwa 14African Kalanga
- English1
Now these are the areas the Israelites received as an inheritance in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel allotted to them.
African KalangaEdzi ndidzo shango dzakakobegwa Baiziraela kube thaka yabo mu shango ye Kanana, bedzikobegwa ne mpirisiti Eleazari na Joshuwa nkololo wa Nuni ne batungamili be misha ye njudzi dze Izirael.
- English2
Their inheritances were assigned by lot to the nine- and-a-half tribes, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.
African KalangaThaka yabo bakaipiwa ngeku posa hakata koga Yahwe sekwa bakabudza Mushe ngekwe njudzi dzili zhanalume dzina gwamu.
- English3
Moses had granted the two-and-a-half tribes their inheritance east of the Jordan but had not granted the Levites an inheritance among the rest,
African KalangaMushe wakakobela njudzi mbili dzina gwamu shango kube thaka bhezhuba kwe Jorodani koga Balevi ibo kasibakobele shango kuti ibe thaka yabo.
- English4
for the sons of Joseph had become two tribes– Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites received no share of the land but only towns to live in, with pasturelands for their flocks and herds.
African KalangaBakololo ba Josefa bakabe bazwithubukanya babe njudzi mbili gwa Manase ne gwa Ifureimi koga Balevi abazokobegwa shango kube thaka kuzhe kwe mizi yabanga gala koga ina mafulilo e zwithuwo zwabo.
- African Kalanga
Baiziraela bakathubukanya shango koga Yahwe sekwa bakabudza Mushe.
- English6
Now the men of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and me.
African KalangaKwakati limwe zhuba Balume be ludzi gwa Juda bakazha kuna Joshuwa ali ku Giligala. Ipapo Khalebu nkololo wa Jefune we N'kenizi kadwa Joshuwa kati, “Unoziba atenti kuti tjibaka tja Mushe tjaakabe ali ku Kadeshibhareneya Yahwe bakadwa Mushe nlume we Ndzimu betini nge kuko ne kwangu?
- English7
I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions,
African KalangaNdakabe ndili makole ali makumi manna anditung'wa ndi Mushe nlanda wa Yahwe kudwa mu Kadeshibhareneya kuti ndiyende kushola shango iyeyi ye Kanana. Ngono ndakazha ndikambikila nge malebeswa tjandakabona.
- English8
but my brothers who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt with fear. I, however, followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.
African KalangaKoga bandakabe ndayenda nabo bakatema bathu mafupa. Koga imi atobela Yahwe Ndzimu wangu nge moyo wangu wose.
- English9
So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.’
African KalangaNdizo mu zhuba ilelo Mushe katuna kundili kati, ‘Tjoselele shango yawakatshamba mavu ayo, ndowokupa iyo ikabe thaka iyo nenge bana babo nge kusingapele, ngoti watobela Yahwe Ndzimu wangu nge moyo uwo wose.’
- English10
“Now then, just as the Lord promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the desert. So here I am today, eighty-five years old!
African KalangaNdizo ngwenu, bona koga Yahwe sekwa bakagadzabgwe, nditjatjila nasi, ndatjibe makole ali makumi manna ana mashanu (45) kudwa mu tjibaka Yahwe tjabakagadzabgwe ikoku Mushe, tjibaka tje Baiziraela tjabakabe batjayenda bali mu tjilambanyika. Ndimi nasi, ndipano ndabe ne makole mangapa makumi ali zhanakadzi ana ali mashanu (85).
- English11
I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then.
African KalangaNditjakasima koga sekwa ndakabe ndili iko tjibaka tjandakatumwa ndi Mushe, na ngwenu nditjina simba le kugwa koga sa ntolo.
- English12
Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.”
African KalangaNgono ngwenu undipe shango iyeyi ye matombo yandakagadziwabgwe ndi Yahwe zhuba ilelije. Wakazwiwhigwa nge zebe dzidzo kuti bathu be Anakimu bayapo, bana mizi mikulu ina matizhilo akasima, pamwe swiyo Yahwe bangandibhatsha abatatila kutjena koga Yahwe sekwa bakaleba.”
- African Kalanga
Ngono Joshuwa kakombolela Khalebu nkololo wa Jefune ngono kampa nzi we Heburoni kuti ibe thaka iye.
- English14
So Hebron has belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite ever since, because he followed the Lord, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly.
African KalangaNdizo Heburoni ikabe ya Khalebu kudwa tjose zhuba ilelo ngekuti wakagalabgwe muna Yahwe Ndzimu we Iziraela nge moyo uwe wose.
- English15
(Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba after Arba, who was the greatest man among the Anakites.) Then the land had rest from war.
African KalangaHeburoni yakati isathu yapiwa Khalebu yakabe idang'wa Kiriyatiaribha, Abha iwoyo wakabe ali nlume nkulu kulu mu bathu be Baanakimu. Ngono kudwapo shango ye Heburoni ikagala nge kunyalala.
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.