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Saa^mu^en Guei Seix

¹Saa^mu^en guei seix liuz, I^saa^laa^en nyei zuangx mienh gapv zunv daaih weic ninh nzauh nyiemv. Ninh mbuo yaac dorh ninh mingh zangx jienv wuov Laamaa, Saa^mu^en ganh nyei biauv⚓
Ndaawitv yaac suiv njiec mingh yiem Baalaan Deic-Bung-Huaang. ²Maaih dauh mienh yiem Maa^on Mungv. Ninh maaih ndau yiem nitv Kaanmen. Naaiv dauh mienh za'gengh butv zoih haic, maaih buo cin dauh ba'gi yungh caux yietc cin dauh yungh. Ninh yiem Kaanmen japv ba'gi yungh biei. ³Naaiv dauh mienh nyei mbuox heuc Naa^mbaan, se Kaalepv Mienh. Ninh nyei auv heuc Aa^mbi^gaa^yin, se guai haic, nzueic haic nyei m'sieqv dorn. Mv baac ninh nyei nqox hnyouv doqc yaac ciouv haic. ⁴Ndaawitv yiem deic-bung-huaang wuov zanc, ninh hiuv duqv Naa^mbaan japv ba'gi yungh biei. ⁵Ndaawitv ziouc paaiv ziepc dauh mienh⚓ mingh lorz Naa^mbaan yaac paaiv ziangx waac gorngv, “Mingh Kaanmen lorz Naa^mbaan, yaac longc yie nyei mbuox gorngv wuic buangh waac. ⁶Oix zuqc gorngv mbuox ninh, ‘Tov bun meih caux meih nyei biauv zong caux meih maaih nyei yietc zungv duqv baengh orn aqv.
⁷“ ‘Ih zanc yie haiz gorngv meih maaih mienh tengx meih japv ba'gi yungh biei. Meih nyei goux ba'gi yungh nyei mienh caux yie mbuo yiem Kaanmen nyei ziangh hoc, yie mbuo maiv zoux doqc bun ninh mbuo. Ninh mbuo yaac maiv caa yietc nyungc. ⁸Gunv naaic meih ganh nyei mienh, ninh mbuo zungv oix mbuox meih. Weic naaiv, tov meih korv-lienh yie nyei mienh, weic zuqc yie mbuo daaih doix meih mbuo zoux jorm nyei hnoi. Meih haih bun deix haaix nyungc meih nyei bou mbuo caux meih nyei dorn, Ndaawitv, tov bun aqv.’+”
⁹Ndaawitv nyei mienh mingh taux wuov, ninh mbuo ziouc longc Ndaawitv nyei mbuox gorngv wuov deix waac mbuox Naa^mbaan. Gorngv liuz, ninh mbuo zuov jienv aqv.
¹⁰Naa^mbaan dau Ndaawitv nyei bou, “Ndaawitv dongh haaix dauh? Jetc^si nyei dorn dongh haaix dauh? Ih jaax hnoi maaih bou camv haic biaux ninh mbuo nyei ziouv. ¹¹Yie fungc oix zuqc zorqv yie nyei njuov caux yie nyei wuom caux yie weic yie nyei japv ba'gi yungh biei nyei gong-mienh daix daaih nyei orv bun yie maiv hiuv duqv yiem haaix daaih nyei mienh?”
¹²Ndaawitv nyei mienh ziouc daaux sin nzuonx mingh aengx gorngv nzengc naaiv deix waac mbuox Ndaawitv. ¹³Ndaawitv gorngv mbuox ninh nyei mienh, “Meih mbuo dauh dauh zorqv meih mbuo nyei nzuqc ndaauv sai jienv.” Dauh dauh mienh ziouc zorqv nzuqc ndaauv sai jienv aqv. Ndaawitv ganh yaac sai jienv nzuqc ndaauv. Gan Ndaawitv mingh nyei mienh maaih leih maiv go feix baeqv dauh. Maaih nyic baeqv dauh liouh njiec wuov zuov ga'naaiv.
¹⁴Maaih dauh Naa^mbaan nyei bou mingh mbuox Naa^mbaan nyei auv, Aa^mbi^gaa^yin, “Ndaawitv yiem deic-bung-huaang paaiv douc fienx mienh daaih wuic buangh yie mbuo nyei ziouv. Ninh yaac gorngv ciouv bun ninh mbuo. ¹⁵Mv baac wuov deix mienh za'gengh zoux longx bun yie mbuo. Yie mbuo yaac maiv zuqc haaix dauh zoux doqc bun yie mbuo. Da'faanh yie mbuo caux ninh mbuo yiem wuov lomc-huaang nyei ziangh hoc, yie mbuo maiv caa haaix nyungc aqv. ¹⁶Lungh muonz yie mbuo caux ninh mbuo yiem bungx ba'gi yungh nyei ziangh hoc, ninh mbuo zoux hnangv laatc beu jienv yie mbuo. ¹⁷Ih zanc yie tov bun meih hiuv duqv naaiv deix sic yaac hnamv mangc gaax horpc zuqc hnangv haaix nor zoux. Nziex ninh mbuo oix hoic yie mbuo nyei ziouv caux ninh nyei biauv zong mienh. Ninh nyei fiem-fingx ciouv, doqc haic. Maiv maaih haaix dauh haih caux ninh gorngv waac.”
¹⁸Aa^mbi^gaa^yin ziouc siepv-siepv nyei liuc leiz nyic baeqc norm njuov, i ndopv-mbuoqc a'ngunc diuv, biaa dauh ziqv ziangx nyei ba'gi yungh, yietc tongv ziepc hmz morqv⚓ caauv zuoqc nyei hmeiv, caux yietc baeqv ndunh a'ngunc biouv-nqaai, caux nyic baeqv ndunh ngongh nyorx biouv-nqaai, bun lorh tor jienv. ¹⁹Aa^mbi^gaa^yin ziouc gorngv mbuox ninh nyei bou, “Meih mbuo gunv mingh ndaangc, yie nqa'haav gan jienv meih mbuo mingh.” Mv baac ninh maiv mbuox ninh nyei nqox, Naa^mbaan. ²⁰Aa^mbi^gaa^yin geh jienv lorh njiec zorng wuov zanc, buatc Ndaawitv caux ninh nyei mienh yiem ninh nyei wuov ndaangc maengx njiec, hungx jienv ninh daaih. Aa^mbi^gaa^yin ziouc buangh ninh mbuo. ²¹Ndaawitv coqv hoqc gorngv liuz, “Yie yiem deic-bung-huaang baeqc baeqc tengx goux wuov dauh mienh maaih nyei nyungc-nyungc ga'naaiv hnangv. Ninh nyei ga'naaiv maiv maaih yietc nyungc dingx laaih. Yie zoux longx bun ninh, mv baac ninh winh orqv bun yie. ²²Se gorngv taux njang ndorm yie corc liouh njiec wuov dauh mienh nyei yietc dauh m'jangc dorn nor, tov Tin-Hungh hniev-hniev nyei dingc yie, Ndaawitv, nyei zuiz.”
²³Aa^mbi^gaa^yin yietv buatc Ndaawitv, ninh siepv-siepv nyei njiec lorh daaih puoqv njiec taux ndau baaix Ndaawitv. ²⁴Aa^mbi^gaa^yin mbaapv njiec Ndaawitv nyei zaux ga'hlen gorngv, “Yie nyei ziouv aah! Zoux dorngc nyei zuiz ndortv zuqc yie ganh hnangv. Tov bun meih nyei m'sieqv bou gorngv bun meih muangx. Tov muangx meih nyei m'sieqv bou gorngv nyei waac. ²⁵Tov yie nyei ziouv maiv dungx dingc wuov dauh ciouv haic nyei mienh, Naa^mbaan, nyei zuiz. Ninh se hnangv ninh nyei mbuox. Ninh nyei mbuox heuc Naa^mbaan, eix leiz se Hngongx. Ninh benx zoux sic hngongx nyei mienh. Mv baac yie, meih nyei m'sieqv bou, maiv duqv buatc meih, yie nyei ziouv, paaiv daaih nyei mienh.
²⁶“Ziouv dangv jienv meih, yie nyei ziouv, maiv bun meih ganh nyei buoz jaauv win, liouc nziaamv cuotv. Weic naaiv yie ziangv jienv ziangh jienv nyei Ziouv houv waac yaac dorng jienv meih nyei nza'hmien houv jienv gorngv, tov bun meih nyei win-wangv caux yietc zungv oix hoic meih, wuov deix mienh hnangv Naa^mbaan nor. ²⁷Yie, meih nyei m'sieqv bou, dorh daaih naaiv deix ga'naaiv bun meih, yie nyei ziouv. Tov jiu bun gan meih nyei yietc zungv mienh. ²⁸Tov guangc nqoi meih nyei m'sieqv bou zoux dorngc nyei zuiz. Ziouv ndongc haaix zungv oix bun meih zoux hungh yaac liepc wuonv meih nyei hungh douh, weic zuqc meih tengx Ziouv mborqv jaax. Da'faanh meih maaih maengc ziangh jienv nyei hnoi-nyieqc, tov bun yiem meih gu'nyuoz maiv maaih haaix nyungc orqv sic. ²⁹Maiv gunv maaih mienh zunc jienv oix zorqv meih nyei maengc, Ziouv, meih nyei Tin-Hungh, oix beu jienv meih hnangv beu jaaix nyei ga'naaiv nor, mv baac meih nyei win-wangv nyei maengc Ziouv oix longc ndopv-hlaang⚓ fengx guangc hnangv fengx la'bieiv guangc nor. ³⁰Taux Ziouv ziux ninh laengz nyei waac zoux longx bun meih aengx liepc meih zoux hungh gunv I^saa^laa^en Mienh wuov zanc, ³¹meih maiv bun mienh nyei nziaamv liouc cuotv yaac maiv tengx ganh jaauv win, meih nyei hnyouv ziouc maiv zuqc guaix ganh. Ziouv bun meih duqv longx nyei ziangh hoc, tov meih jangx meih nyei m'sieqv bou.”
³²Ndaawitv gorngv mbuox Aa^mbi^gaa^yin, “Ceng Ziouv, I^saa^laa^en nyei Tin-Hungh, dongh ih hnoi paaiv meih daaih buangh yie wuov dauh. ³³Laengz zingh Tin-Hungh weic meih maaih cong-mengh. Yaac tov Tin-Hungh ceix fuqv bun meih, weic zuqc ih hnoi meih laanh jienv yie, maiv bun yie longc yie ganh nyei buoz jaauv win, bun mienh nyei nziaamv liouc cuotv. ³⁴Ziouv dangv jienv maiv bun yie hoic meih. Mv baac yie ziangv jienv ziangh jienv nyei Ziouv gorngv, se gorngv meih maiv siepv-siepv nyei daaih buangh yie nor, taux njang hnoi ndorm, da'faanh Naa^mbaan nyei biauv zong yietc zungv m'jangc dorn maiv zengc yietc dauh.”
³⁵Ndaawitv ziouc zipv Aa^mbi^gaa^yin dorh daaih bun ninh nyei yietc zungv ga'naaiv. Ndaawitv aengx gorngv mbuox ninh, “Gunv baengh orn nyei nzuonx biauv aqv. Yie muangx meih gorngv liuz yaac ei jienv meih tov nyei waac zoux.”
³⁶Aa^mbi^gaa^yin nzuonx mingh lorz Naa^mbaan. Wuov zanc ninh yiem biauv mbenc hnaangx hlo nyei hnangv hungh diex mbenc nor. Naa^mbaan hopv diuv nquin duqv longx haic, hnyouv za'gengh orn-lorqc aqv. Aa^mbi^gaa^yin ziouc maiv gorngv haaix nyungc mbuox ninh, zuov taux da'nyeic ndorm cingx daaih gorngv. ³⁷Da'nyeic ndorm Naa^mbaan nzang daaih, ninh nyei auv gorngv naaiv deix jauv bun ninh muangx. Naa^mbaan ziouc butv baengc hniev, ziangh sin mbai mi'aqv.⚓ ³⁸Nqa'haav leih maiv go ziepc hnoi Ziouv ziouc daix Naa^mbaan. Ninh ziouc daic mi'aqv.
³⁹Ndaawitv haiz gorngv Naa^mbaan daic mi'aqv, ninh ziouc gorngv, “Ceng Ziouv, ninh tengx yie jaauv win bun Naa^mbaan weic Naa^mbaan mangc piex yie nyei sic. Ziouv yaac laanh jienv maiv bun yie zoux dorngc, yaac bun Naa^mbaan zoux dorngc nyei sic ndortv zuqc Naa^mbaan ganh.”
Ndaawitv ziouc paaiv mienh mingh tov Aa^mbi^gaa^yin daaih zoux ninh nyei auv. ⁴⁰Ndaawitv nyei bou mingh taux Kaanmen wuov, ninh mbuo gorngv mbuox Aa^mbi^gaa^yin, “Ndaawitv paaiv yie mbuo daaih oix meih mingh zoux ninh nyei auv.”
⁴¹Aa^mbi^gaa^yin ziouc puoqv njiec hmien taux ndau yaac gorngv, “Yie se meih nyei m'sieqv bou. Yie a'hneiv nzaaux meih nyei bou nyei zaux.” ⁴²Aa^mbi^gaa^yin ziouc siepv-siepv nyei jiez sin daaih geh jienv lorh aengx caux biaa dauh fu-sux ninh nyei nouh beiz gan jienv Ndaawitv nyei douc waac mienh mingh. Ninh ziouc benx Ndaawitv nyei auv mi'aqv. ⁴³Ndaawitv longc ndaangc Yitv^le^en Mienh, Aa^hi^no^am. Ninh mbuo i dauh ziouc benx Ndaawitv nyei auv. ⁴⁴Mv baac Saulo zorqv ninh nyei sieqv, Mikaan, se Ndaawitv nyei auv-hlo, jiu bun Ganlim Mienh, Laa^itc nyei dorn, Banti, longc zoux auv mi'aqv.⚓

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Death of Samuel

¹Then ⚓Samuel died; and the Israelites gathered together and ⚓lamented for him, and buried him at his home in Ramah. And David arose and went down ⚓to the Wilderness of Paran.

David and the Wife of Nabal

²Now there was a man ⚓in Maon whose business was in ⚓Carmel, and the man was very rich. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. And he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. ³The name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. And she was a woman of good understanding and beautiful appearance; but the man was harsh and evil in his doings. He was of the house of⚓Caleb.
⁴When David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was ⚓shearing his sheep, ⁵David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, go to Nabal, and greet him in my name. ⁶And thus you shall say to him who lives in prosperity:⚓‘Peace be to you, peace to your house, and peace to all that you have! ⁷Now I have heard that you have shearers. Your shepherds were with us, and we did not hurt them, ⚓nor was there anything missing from them all the while they were in Carmel. ⁸Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we come on ⚓a feast day. Please give whatever comes to your hand to your servants and to your son David.’ ”
⁹So when David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all these words in the name of David, and waited.
¹⁰Then Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, ⚓“Who is David, and who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants nowadays who break away each one from his master. ¹¹⚓Shall I then take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men when I do not know where they are from?”
¹²So David’s young men turned on their heels and went back; and they came and told him all these words. ¹³Then David said to his men, “Every man gird on his sword.” So every man girded on his sword, and David also girded on his sword. And about four hundred men went with David, and two hundred ⚓stayed with the supplies.
¹⁴Now one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master; and he reviled them. ¹⁵But the men were very good to us, and ⚓we were not hurt, nor did we miss anything as long as we accompanied them, when we were in the fields. ¹⁶They were ⚓a wall to us both by night and day, all the time we were with them keeping the sheep. ¹⁷Now therefore, know and consider what you will do, for ⚓harm is determined against our master and against all his household. For he is such a ⚓scoundrel that one cannot speak to him.”
¹⁸Then Abigail made haste and ⚓took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep already dressed, five seahs of roasted grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys. ¹⁹And she said to her servants, ⚓“Go on before me; see, I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
²⁰So it was, as she rode on the donkey, that she went down under cover of the hill; and there were David and his men, coming down toward her, and she met them. ²¹Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belongs to him. And he has ⚓repaid me evil for good. ²²⚓May God do so, and more also, to the enemies of David, if I ⚓leave ⚓one male of all who belong to him by morning light.”
²³Now when Abigail saw David, she ⚓dismounted quickly from the donkey, fell on her face before David, and bowed down to the ground. ²⁴So she fell at his feet and said: “On me, my lord, on me let this iniquity be! And please let your maidservant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your maidservant. ²⁵Please, let not my lord regard this scoundrel Nabal. For as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly is with him! But I, your maidservant, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent. ²⁶Now therefore, my lord, ⚓as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, since the Lord has ⚓held you back from coming to bloodshed and from ⚓avenging yourself with your own hand, now then, ⚓let your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be as Nabal. ²⁷And now ⚓this present which your maidservant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord. ²⁸Please forgive the trespass of your maidservant. For ⚓the Lord will certainly make for my lord an enduring house, because my lord ⚓fights the battles of the Lord, ⚓and evil is not found in you throughout your days. ²⁹Yet a man has risen to pursue you and seek your life, but the life of my lord shall be ⚓bound in the bundle of the living with the Lord your God; and the lives of your enemies He shall ⚓sling out, as from the pocket of a sling. ³⁰And it shall come to pass, when the Lord has done for my lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you ⚓ruler over Israel, ³¹that this will be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. But when the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your maidservant.”
³²Then David said to Abigail: ⚓“Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! ³³And blessed is your advice and blessed are you, because you have ⚓kept me this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand. ³⁴For indeed, as the Lord God of Israel lives, who has ⚓kept me back from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely ⚓by morning light no males would have been left to Nabal!” ³⁵So David received from her hand what she had brought him, and said to her, ⚓“Go up in peace to your house. See, I have heeded your voice and ⚓respected your person.”
³⁶Now Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was, ⚓holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until morning light. ³⁷So it was, in the morning, when the wine had gone from Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became like a stone. ³⁸Then it happened, after about ten days, that the Lord⚓struck Nabal, and he died.
³⁹So when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, ⚓“Blessed be the Lord, who has ⚓pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has ⚓kept His servant from evil! For the Lord has ⚓returned the wickedness of Nabal on his own head.”
And David sent and proposed to Abigail, to take her as his wife. ⁴⁰When the servants of David had come to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her saying, “David sent us to you, to ask you to become his wife.”
⁴¹Then she arose, bowed her face to the earth, and said, “Here is your maidservant, a servant to ⚓wash the feet of the servants of my lord.” ⁴²So Abigail rose in haste and rode on a donkey, attended by five of her maidens; and she followed the messengers of David, and became his wife. ⁴³David also took Ahinoam ⚓of Jezreel, ⚓and so both of them were his wives.
⁴⁴But Saul had given ⚓Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was from ⚓Gallim.