The English-Kalanga Bilingual Language Learning Bible
Old Testament
Read each verse in English beside its African Kalanga equivalent.
Numbers 25English
Mbalo 25African Kalanga
- English1
While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women,
African KalangaKukati Baiziraela batjigele mu Shitimu balume bakatangisa kuthama bufukula ne bakololokadzi be Moabu.
- English2
who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate and bowed down before these gods.
African KalangaBakadzi ibaba bakakokela Baiziraela ku mishingo ye kupisa zwibhayilo ne kunamata midzimu yabo ye Moabu. Ngono Baiziraela bakaja bakabuya bakanamata midzimu ye Moabu.
- African Kalanga
Ndizo Baiziraela bakazwibhatshanya na Bhaale we Peori. Ngono Yahwe bakazhala bushongola kwazo ngekwe Iziraela.
- English4
The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the Lord, so that the Lord’s fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”
African KalangaYahwe bakadwa Mushe bakati, “Tola batungamili bose be Iziraela ubabulaye nge kubalembeledza mbeli kwa Yahwe kuli masikati, kuti bushongola gwa Yahwe gushanduke gudwe mu Iziraela.”
- English5
So Moses said to Israel’s judges, “Each of you must put to death those of your men who have joined in worshiping the Baal of Peor.”
African KalangaNgono Mushe kadwa basumikilisi be Iziraela kati, “Mmwe ne mmwe wenyu abulaye bathu babe bose bakazwibhatshanya na Bhaale we Peori.”
- English6
Then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
African KalangaNgono bonani, mmwe nlume we Iziraela kazha ne nkadzi we Midiyani kangina naye mu nshasha uwe, Mushe ne gubungano lose le Iziraela bakalinga. Baiziraela bakabe batjalila bali pa nkoba we nshasha wa Yahwe we bushanganilo.
- English7
When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand
African KalangaKukati Finihasi nkololo wa Eleazari, mwana we mwana we mpirisiti Aroni ebona ikoku, kamilika mu gubungano akabhata thumo,
- English8
and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear through both of them–through the Israelite and into the woman’s body. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped;
African Kalangakanginilila nlume uwoyo ne nkadzi mukati kwe nshasha, kababhaya bose ngethumo kang'ompela. Ndiyo zila yakamisa tjiga tjakabe tjishingikala mu bathu be Iziraela.
- African Kalanga
Nenguba kwakajalo, bathu bakabe bafa kale nge tjiga bakabe bali zwiwulu zwili makumi mabili ana banna (24 000).
- African Kalanga
Ngono Yahwe bakadwa Mushe bakati,
- English11
“Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites; for he was as zealous as I am for my honor among them, so that in my zeal I did not put an end to them.
African Kalanga“Finihasi nkololo wa Eleazari nkololo we mpirisiti Aroni, wapodza moyo wangu mu bushongola gwandabe ndili igo mu bathu be Iziraela nge kumusa meya kungapa pakati kwabo nge kwangu mu kunamata kwabo mindzimu ipoga kuzhe kwangu ndizo ndisalobesa Baiziraela ngekwe fupa langu.
- African Kalanga
Ndizo ubudze Finihasi uti, ‘Bona, ndothama tjidumano tje mbakiso naye.
- English13
He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”
African KalangaTjowobe tjidumano tjitje ne zwizekugwana zwizwe zwinowozha. Tjidumano tje bupirisiti nge kusingapele, ngobe wathamila fupa Baiziraela ebathamila fupa ngekwe Ndzimu uwe. Kabe ethamila bathu be Iziraela gadzano na Yahwe.’ ”
- English14
The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.
African KalangaNlume we Iziraela wakabulawa ana nkadzi we Midiyani zina lile lakabe liyi Zimiri nkololo wa Salu nsholo we nsha wa tate babe mu ludzi gwa Simiyoni.
- English15
And the name of the Midianite woman who was put to death was Cozbi daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.
African KalangaZina la iwoyo we Midiyani liyi Khozibhi nkololokadzi wa Zuri, wakabe ali nsholo we nsha wa tate babe mu Midiyani.
- African Kalanga
Yahwe bakadwa Mushe bakati,
- African Kalanga
“Udziyidze Bamidiyani ubalobese,
- English18
because they treated you as enemies when they deceived you in the affair of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, the woman who was killed when the plague came as a result of Peor.”
African KalangaNgobe bakamudziyidza nge bupitipiti gwabo kamutjebela mu mija ye Peori. Ne mu nshingo we lufu gwe hazwadzi yabo Khozibhi nkololokadzi we ntungamili we Midiyani, wakabulawa mu zhuba le tjiga tjakashingikala nge mija ye Peori.”
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.