Kubara 20:1-29
20 Mu kwezi kwa mbere, Abisirayeli bose bagera mu butayu bwa Zini, bashinga amahema i Kadeshi.+ Aho ni ho Miriyamu+ yapfiriye kandi ni ho bamushyinguye.
2 Nuko Abisirayeli bose babuze amazi+ biyemeza kurwanya Mose na Aroni.
3 Abantu batonganya Mose+ bati: “Iyaba natwe twarapfuye igihe abavandimwe bacu bapfiraga imbere ya Yehova.
4 Kuki mwazanye abantu ba Yehova muri ubu butayu kugira ngo twe n’amatungo yacu tuhapfire dushire?+
5 Kuki mwadukuye muri Egiputa mukatuzana aha hantu habi?+ Ni ahantu utabona aho ubiba imbuto cyangwa aho utera imitini cyangwa imizabibu cyangwa amakomamanga,* kandi nta n’amazi yo kunywa ahaba.”+
6 Mose na Aroni bava imbere y’Abisirayeli bajya ku muryango w’ihema ryo guhuriramo n’Imana bapfukama hasi bakoza imitwe hasi, maze babona ubwiza bwa Yehova.+
7 Nuko Yehova abwira Mose ati:
8 “Fata inkoni yawe, maze wowe na Aroni umuvandimwe wawe mukoranye Abisirayeli, mubwire urutare ruvemo amazi Abisirayeli babireba. Mukure amazi mu rutare, muyabahe bayanywe, bahe n’amatungo yabo.”+
9 Nuko Mose akura iyo nkoni imbere ya Yehova+ nk’uko yari yabimutegetse.
10 Hanyuma Mose na Aroni bahuriza Abisirayeli imbere y’urwo rutare, barababwira bati: “Mutege amatwi mwa byigomeke mwe! Murifuza ko tubakurira amazi muri uru rutare?”+
11 Mose ahita azamura ukuboko akubita inkoni ye kuri urwo rutare inshuro ebyiri, havamo amazi menshi. Abisirayeli bose baranywa, baha n’amatungo yabo.+
12 Nyuma yaho Yehova abwira Mose na Aroni ati: “Kubera ko mutanyizeye ngo mumpeshe icyubahiro imbere y’Abisirayeli, ntimuzajyana Abisirayeli mu gihugu nzabaha.”+
13 Ayo mazi ni yo yiswe amazi y’i Meriba,*+ kubera ko Abisirayeli batonganyije Yehova maze akihesha icyubahiro muri bo.
14 Nuko bakiri i Kadeshi, Mose atuma abantu ku mwami wa Edomu ngo bamubwire bati:+ “Umuvandimwe wawe Isirayeli+ aradutumye ngo tukubwire tuti: ‘uzi neza imibabaro yose twahuye na yo.
15 Ba sogokuruza baramanutse bajya muri Egiputa,+ tuhamara imyaka myinshi.+ Ariko Abanyegiputa batugiriye nabi, twe na ba sogokuruza.+
16 Amaherezo dutakira Yehova+ aratwumva, yohereza umumarayika+ adukura muri Egiputa. None turi hano i Kadeshi, umujyi uri ku mupaka w’igihugu cyawe.
17 Turakwinginze, reka tunyure mu gihugu cyawe. Ntituzanyura mu murima cyangwa mu ruzabibu, kandi nta riba* tuzanywaho amazi. Tuzanyura mu nzira yitwa inzira y’umwami. Ntituzanyura iburyo cyangwa ibumoso, kugeza aho tuzarangiriza kwambukiranya igihugu cyawe.’”+
18 Icyakora umwami wa Edomu arabasubiza ati: “Ntimuzanyure mu gihugu cyanjye, kuko nimuhanyura nzabasanganiza inkota.”
19 Abisirayeli baramusubiza bati: “Tuzanyura mu muhanda gusa. Kandi nitunywa amazi, yaba twe cyangwa amatungo yacu, tuzayakwishyura.+ Nta kindi tugusaba uretse kunyura mu gihugu cyawe twigendera.”+
20 Ariko umwami wa Edomu arabasubiza ati: “Ntimuzanyura mu gihugu cyanjye.”+ Umwami wa Edomu ahita aza kubasanganira azanye n’abantu benshi n’ingabo zikomeye.
21 Uko ni ko umwami wa Edomu yanze guha Abisirayeli inzira ngo banyure mu gihugu cye. Nuko Abisirayeli barahindukira banyura indi nzira.+
22 Hanyuma Abisirayeli bose bava i Kadeshi bagera ku Musozi wa Hori.+
23 Nuko Yehova abwirira Mose na Aroni ku Musozi wa Hori uri ku mupaka w’igihugu cya Edomu, ati:
24 “Aroni agiye gupfa.+ Ntazinjira mu gihugu nzaha Abisirayeli, kuko mwarenze ku itegeko nabahaye ku birebana n’amazi y’i Meriba.+
25 Fata Aroni n’umuhungu we Eleyazari muzamukane ku Musozi wa Hori.
26 Aroni umukuremo imyenda ye+ y’ubutambyi uyambike umuhungu we Eleyazari.+ Aho ni ho Aroni ari bupfire.”
27 Mose abigenza nk’uko Yehova yabimutegetse, azamuka Umusozi wa Hori Abisirayeli bose bamureba.
28 Mose akuramo Aroni imyenda ye y’ubutambyi ayambika umuhungu we Eleyazari. Hanyuma Aroni apfira aho hejuru ku musozi.+ Mose na Eleyazari baramanuka bava kuri uwo musozi.
29 Nuko Abisirayeli bamaze kubona ko Aroni yapfuye, bamara iminsi 30 yose bamuririra.+
Ibisobanuro ahagana hasi
^ Ni imbuto zijya kumera nka pome.
^ Bisobanura “intonganya.”
^ Cyangwa “ivomero.”
