Visitors from the East
1 Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem in Judea, during the time when Herod was king. Soon afterward, some men who studied the stars came from the East to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the baby born to be the king of the Jews? We saw his star when it came up in the east, and we have come to worship him.”
3 When King Herod heard about this, he was very upset, and so was everyone else in Jerusalem. 4 He called together all the chief priests and the teachers of the Law and asked them, “Where will the Messiah be born?”
5 “In the town of Bethlehem in Judea,” they answered. “For this is what the prophet wrote:
6 ‘Bethlehem in the land of Judah,
you are by no means the least of the leading cities of Judah;
for from you will come a leader
who will guide my people Israel.’”
7 So Herod called the visitors from the East to a secret meeting and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. 8 Then he sent them to Bethlehem with these instructions: “Go and make a careful search for the child; and when you find him, let me know, so that I too may go and worship him.”
9-10 And so they left, and on their way they saw the same star they had seen in the East. When they saw it, how happy they were, what joy was theirs! It went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. 11 They went into the house, and when they saw the child with his mother Mary, they knelt down and worshiped him. They brought out their gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and presented them to him.
12 Then they returned to their country by another road, since God had warned them in a dream not to go back to Herod.
The Escape to Egypt
13 After they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph and said, “Herod will be looking for the child in order to kill him. So get up, take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you to leave.”
14 Joseph got up, took the child and his mother, and left during the night for Egypt, 15 where he stayed until Herod died. This was done to make come true what the Lord had said through the prophet, “I called my Son out of Egypt.”
The Killing of the Children
16 When Herod realized that the visitors from the East had tricked him, he was furious. He gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its neighborhood who were two years old and younger—this was done in accordance with what he had learned from the visitors about the time when the star had appeared.
17 In this way what the prophet Jeremiah had said came true:
18 “A sound is heard in Ramah,
the sound of bitter weeping.
Rachel is crying for her children;
she refuses to be comforted,
for they are dead.”
The Return from Egypt
19 After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt 20 and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go back to the land of Israel, because those who tried to kill the child are dead.” 21 So Joseph got up, took the child and his mother, and went back to Israel.
22 But when Joseph heard that Archelaus had succeeded his father Herod as king of Judea, he was afraid to go there. He was given more instructions in a dream, so he went to the province of Galilee 23 and made his home in a town named Nazareth. And so what the prophets had said came true: “He will be called a Nazarene.”
Looloo lonnaalu la naa
1 Kabiriŋ Yeesu wuluuta Betilehemu saatewo to Yudeya bankoo kaŋ Mansa Herodi la marali waatoo la, looloo lonnaalu bota naŋ tiliboo ka naa Yerusalaamu. 2 Ì ko, “Yahuudoolu la mansakewo meŋ wuluuta, a be mintoo le? Ŋà a la looloo je tiliboo la le, aduŋ ǹ naata le ka a batu.”
3 Kabiriŋ Mansa Herodi ye ñiŋ moyi, a niyo toorata, a niŋ Yerusalaamu bee. 4 A ye piriisi* ñaatonkoolu bee niŋ Luwaa karammoolu* bendi ñoo kaŋ. A ye ì ñininkaa, Alimasiihu* be wuluu la daameŋ to. 5 Bituŋ ì ko a ye ko, “Betilehemu le mu, Yudeya bankoo kaŋ, kaatu annabiyomoo ye a safee le ko:
6 ‘Aduŋ ite Betilehemu, Yahuuda bankoo kaŋ,
kana a miira ko, ite le dooyaata Yahuuda mansa maralilaalu kono.
Kaatu maralilaa be bo la ite kono le,
meŋ be n na moolu kanta la, Banisirayilankoolu.’ ”
7 Wo to le Herodi ye ñiŋ looloo lonnaalu kumandi kulloo kono. A ye ì ñininkaa, looloo fintita waati jumaa le faŋo la. 8 Aduŋ a ye ì kii ka taa Betilehemu, a ko ì ye ko, “Ali taa, dindiŋo ñini kendeke, aduŋ niŋ ali ye a je, ali si naa a fo n ye, fo m fanaa si taa ka a batu.”
9 Kabiriŋ ì ye mansa la kumoo moyi, ì taata ì la siloo la. Ì be taa kaŋ waatoo meŋ na, ì naata looloo je, ì ye meŋ je nuŋ tiliboo la. A be taa kaŋ ì ñaato, fo a taata loo dulaa ñiŋ kunto, dindiŋo be daameŋ. 10 Biriŋ ì ye looloo je, ì jusulaata ka seewoo baake. 11 Ì dunta buŋo kono, ì ye deenaanoo niŋ a baamaa Mariyaama je. Bituŋ ì sujudita ka a batu. Wo to le ì naata ì la kufoolu yele ka soorifeŋolu dii a la, mennu mu sanoo ti, cuuraayi munkoo aniŋ miiri* munkoo. 12 Wo koolaa ì naata taa ì la bankoo kaŋ sila doo la, kaatu ì ye dandalaaroo soto ì la siiboo kono le ko, ì kana muru Herodi yaa.
Ì ye Yeesu borindi ka taa Misira
13 Kabiriŋ looloo lonnaalu taata, Maariyo la malaayikoo fintita Yusufa kaŋ siiboo kono, a ko a ye ko, “Wuli, i ye deenaanoo niŋ a baamaa borindi ka taa Misira. I si sabati jee, fo janniŋ m be a fo la ali ye muru naŋ, kaatu Herodi pareeta le ka dindiŋo ñini ka a faa.”
14 Wo to le a wulita, a ye dindiŋo niŋ a baamaa taa ka taa Misira bankoo kaŋ wo suutoo la. 15 Aduŋ ì sabatita jee fo Herodi la saayaa koolaa. Ñiŋ keta le, fo Maariyo la kumoo si timma, annabiyomoo ye meŋ fo ko:
“Ka bo Misira, ŋa n dinkewo kili.”
Herodi la dindiŋ faa
16 Kabiriŋ Herodi ye a je ko, ñiŋ looloo lonnaalu ye a neenee le, a kamfaata baake. Wo to le a ye yaamaroo dii ka kambaanendiŋolu bee faa, mennu siyo be sanji fula ka taa wo ye duuma la, Betilehemu saatewo kono aniŋ wo maafaŋo bee to. A ye ñiŋ bendi waatoo le fee, a ye meŋ loŋ ka bo wo looloo lonnaalu bulu. 17 Wo ye kumoo le timmandi, Annabilayi Yeremiya ye meŋ fo ko:
18 “Kumboo kaŋo moyita Rama le,
saŋakumboo aniŋ woosii baa.
Raheli be a diŋolu kumboo kaŋ.
A balanta ka sabari,
kaatu ì te keriŋ kotenke.”
Yeesu la seyoo Nasareti
19 Kabiriŋ Herodi faata, Maariyo la malaayikoo fintita Yusufa kaŋ siiboo kono Misira bankoo kaŋ, 20 a ko a ye ko, “Wuli! I ye dindiŋo niŋ a baamaa taa, ali ye muru Banisirayila bankoo kaŋ, kaatu mennu ye a kata ka dindiŋo faa, wolu faata le.”
21 Wo to le a wulita, a ye dindiŋo niŋ a baamaa taa ka muru Banisirayila bankoo kaŋ. 22 Bari kabiriŋ a ye a moyi ko, Arikelawus le be maraloo la Yudeya a faamaa Herodi noo to, a silata ka taa jee. A naata dandalaaroo soto siiboo kono, bituŋ a taata Kalilee tundoo kaŋ. 23 A sabatita saatewo to, ì ka a fo daameŋ ye Nasareti, fo annabiyomoolu la kumoo si timma ko:
“A be kumandi la Nasaretinkoo le la.”
