¹The high priest said, “Are these things so?”

¹Lmuqeddem ameqqran isteqsa Stifan yenna-yas : Ț-țideț wayen akka i d-nnan ?

²He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

²Stifan yerra-yas : Ay atmaten, ay imɣaṛen n wat Isṛail, ḥesset-iyi-d ! Sidi Ṛebbi di lɛaḍima-s tameqqrant, yesbeggen-ed iman-is i jeddi-tneɣ Sidna Ibṛahim, mi gella di tmurt n Mizubuṭamya uqbel ad yezdeɣ di temdint n Haran.

³and said to him, ‘Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’ Genesis 12:1

³Yenna-yas : Ffeɣ si tmurt-ik, si tmurt n imawlan-ik, tṛuḥeḍ ɣer tmurt ara k-d-ssekneɣ.

⁴Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.

⁴Iffeɣ ihi si tmurt n iqaldiyen, iṛuḥ ad izdeɣ di temdint n Haran. Mi gemmut baba-s, Sidi Ṛebbi yewwi-t-id ɣer tmurt-agi i deg tzedɣem tura.

⁵He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.

⁵Sidi Ṛebbi ur s-yefki ara di tmurt-agi ula d azal n terdast i deg ara yesres aḍar-is ; meɛna iwɛed-as a s-yefk tamurt-agi i nețța d dderya n dderya-s ɣas akken imiren mazal ur yesɛi ara dderya, Sidi Ṛebbi yenna-yas :

⁶God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

⁶Dderya n dderya-k aț-țezdeɣ deg yiwet n tmurt tabeṛṛanit, dinna a ten-erren d aklan, ad sɛeddin fell-asen lḥif azal n ṛebɛa meyya iseggasen.

⁷‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.’ Genesis 15:13-14

⁷Lameɛna Sidi Ṛebbi yenna-d : Ad uɣalen a d-ffɣen si tmurt-nni, ad iyi-ɛebden deg wemkan-agi ; ma d lǧens-nni i ten-yerran d aklan, d nekk ara ten-iḥasben.

⁸He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.

⁸Dɣa Sidi Ṛebbi yefka-d i Sidna Ibṛahim leɛqed yeɛnan ṭṭhaṛa. S wakka, mi d-yesɛa mmi-s Isḥaq, Sidna Ibṛahim iṭeḥheṛ-as deg wass wis tmanya n tlalit-is. Isḥaq daɣen yexdem akken i mmi-s yeɛqub ; ula d Yeɛqub iṭeḥheṛ i tnac-nni warraw-is yellan d lejdud-nneɣ.

⁹“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

⁹Ihi arraw-agi n yeɛqub usmen ɣef gma-tsen Yusef, kkren zenzen-t ɣer tmurt n Maṣer anda yuɣal d akli.

¹⁰and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

¹⁰Lameɛna Sidi Ṛebbi yella yid-es, ițsellik-it si tegnatin n ccedda ; issers-ed fell-as ṛṛeḥma yerna-yas-d leɛqel s wayes ara yeɛziz ɣer Ferɛun agellid n tmurt n Maṣeṛ. Ferɛun isbedd-it d lḥakem ɣef tmurt-is akk-d wexxam-is meṛṛa.

¹¹Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

¹¹Yeɣli-d laẓ ɣef tmurt n Maṣeṛ akk ț-țmurt n Kenɛan, d lweqt n cedda tameqqrant ; lejdud-nneɣ ur ufin ara ayen ara ččen.

¹²But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.

¹²Mi gesla Yeɛqub belli llan yirden di tmurt n Maṣer, iceggeɛ ɣer dinna tikkelt tamezwarut, arraw-is yellan d lejdud-nneɣ.

¹³On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s race was revealed to Pharaoh.

¹³Mi uɣalen tikkelt tis snat, Yusef isbeggen-ed iman-is ɣer watmaten-is, ɛeqlen-t d nețța. Yuɣal Ferɛun yeẓra laṣel n Yusef ansi-t.

¹⁴Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.

¹⁴Yusef iceggeɛ a d-awin baba-s Yeɛqub akk-d wat wexxam-is meṛṛa i gellan di xemsa usebɛin yid-sen.

¹⁵Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,

¹⁵Yeɛqub iṣubb ɣer tmurt n Maṣer ikemmel dinna ussan-is armi yemmut, am nețța am lejdud-nneɣ.

¹⁶and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.

¹⁶Wwin-d iɣsan-nsen ɣer taddart n Sicem, meḍlen-ten deg uẓekka i guɣ Sidna Ibṛahim s yedrimen ɣef warraw n Hamur n taddart n Sicem.

¹⁷“But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

¹⁷Mi d-yewweḍ lweqt i deg ara yedṛu wayen i gewɛed Sidi Ṛebbi i Sidna Ibṛahim s limin, agdud-nneɣ yufa-t-id lḥal innerna s waṭas di tmurt n Maṣer ;

¹⁸until there arose a different king, who didn’t know Joseph.

¹⁸imiren ikker-ed ugellid nniḍen ur nessin ara Yusef.

¹⁹The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.

¹⁹Agellid-nni iḥqeṛ lɣaci-nneɣ, yețqehhiṛ lejdud nneɣ, yeṣṣaweḍ armi i gefka lameṛ ad ǧǧen arraw-nsen i cceṛ akken kan ara d-lalen, iwakken ur țidiren ara.

²⁰At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.

²⁰Di lweqt-nni i d-ilul Sidna Musa ; icbeḥ yerna eɛziz ɣer Sidi Ṛebbi. Yețțuṛebba deg wexxam n imawlan-is tlata wagguren s tuffra ;

²¹When he was thrown out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.

²¹uɣalen rran-t zdaxel n tqecwalt, serrḥen-as deg wasif ; d yelli-s n Ferɛun i t-id-ijemɛen, tṛebba-t-id am mmi-s.

²²Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

²²Ikker-ed ger imaṣriyen, yelmed akk tamusni-nsen ifazen. Yuɣal d argaz amusnaw, izewṛen ama deg yimeslayen ama di lecɣal.

²³But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” , the children of Israel.

²³Mi geṣṣaweḍ ṛebɛin iseggasen di leɛmeṛ-is, yemmekta-d atmaten-is at Isṛail, iṛuḥ ad iẓer acu n lḥala i deg țɛicin.

²⁴Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.

²⁴Yiwen wass iwala s wallen-is yiwen umaṣri ikkat yiwen seg wat Isṛail ; ikker a t-iḥudd, yerra-as-d țțar ; yewwet amaṣri-nni, yenɣa-t.

²⁵He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.

²⁵Yenwa ad fehmen watmaten-is belli s ufus-is ara ten-isellek Sidi Ṛebbi ; lameɛna nutni ur fhimen ara.

²⁶“The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?’

²⁶Azekka-nni iwala sin yergazen n wat Isṛail țnaɣen wway gar-asen, iger iman-is, yeɛṛed a ten-ifru, yenna-yasen : Eɛni mačči d atmaten i tellam ? Acimi i tețțnaɣem wway gar-awen ?

²⁷But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

²⁷Lameɛna win akken iḍelmen wayeḍ idemmer Musa yenna-yas : Anwa i k-yerran d aqeṛṛuy neɣ d lḥakem fell-aɣ ?

²⁸Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’ Exodus 2:14

²⁸Eɛni tebɣiḍ a yi-tenɣeḍ akken tenɣiḍ iḍelli amaṣri-nni ?

²⁹Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

²⁹Ɣef ddemma n yimeslayen-agi Sidna Musa yerwel, iṛuḥ ad izdeɣ di tmurt n Madyan. Dinna i gesɛa sin n warrac.

³⁰“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

³⁰Mi ɛeddan ṛebɛin n iseggasen, idheṛ-as-ed yiwen n lmelk deg yiwen uḥeǧǧaǧu n tmes iceɛlen deg inijel, mi gella deg unezṛuf n wedrar n Sinay.

³¹When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,

³¹Sidna Musa yewhem deg wayen yețwali ; akken kan iqeṛṛeb ɣuṛ-es, Sidi Ṛebbi yessawel-as-d seg uḥeǧǧaǧu-nni n tmes, yenna-yas-d :

³²‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ Exodus 3:6 Moses trembled, and dared not look.

³²D nekk i d Illu n lejdud-ik, d Illu n Ibṛahim, n Isḥaq akk-d Yeɛqub. Sidna Musa yeqqim ițergigi, yuggad ad yerfed ula d allen-is.

³³The Lord said to him, ‘Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.

³³Sidi Ṛebbi yenna-yas : Kkes arkasen seg iḍaṛṛen-ik axaṭer amkan-agi anda tbeddeḍ d amkan iqedsen.

³⁴I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’ Exodus 3:5,7-8,10

³⁴Walaɣ lbaṭel ideṛṛun d wegdud-iw di tmurt n Maṣer ; sliɣ-ed i unazeɛ-nsen ; ṣubbeɣ-d iwakken a ten-sellkeɣ. Ṛuḥ tura a k-ceggɛeɣ ɣer tmurt n Maṣeṛ.

³⁵“This Moses, whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

³⁵Musa-nni i nekṛen m'akken i s-nnan : Anwa i k-yerran d amdebbar neɣ d lḥakem ? D nețța i d-iceggeɛ Sidi Ṛebbi d aqeṛṛuy, d amcafeɛ n wegdud ; s lemɛawna n lmelk i s-d-idehṛen deg udarnu ireqqen.

³⁶This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

³⁶D nețța i ten-id-issufɣen si tmurt n Maṣer. Yexdem aṭas n lbeṛhanat d leɛǧayeb di tmurt-nni, di lebḥeṛ azeggaɣ, deg unezṛuf n Sinay, anda akken qqimen ṛebɛin iseggasen.

³⁷This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. TR adds “You shall listen to him.” ’ Deuteronomy 18:15

³⁷D nețța daɣen i gennan i wat Isṛail : Sidi Ṛebbi a wen-d-yefk si ger watmaten-nwen yiwen n nnbi am nekk.

³⁸This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us,

³⁸Asm'akken i gennejmaɛ wegdud deg unezṛuf, d nețța iwumi d yemmeslay lmelk-nni deg wedrar n Sinay, d nețța iwumi d-yefka Sidi Ṛebbi awal n tudert iwakken a ɣ-t-id issiweḍ.

³⁹to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

³⁹Lameɛna lejdud-nneɣ ugin a s-aɣen awal ; ur t-qbilen ara axaṭer deg ulawen-nsen bɣan ad uɣalen ɣer tmurt n Maṣer.

⁴⁰saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’ Exodus 32:1

⁴⁰Nnan i Haṛun gma-s n Sidna Musa : Xdem-aɣ-d iṛebbiten am wid n imaṣriyen, ara nezzwer zdat-nneɣ, axaṭer Musa-agi i ɣ-d-yessufɣen si tmurt n Maṣeṛ, ur neẓri ara d acu i gedṛan yid-es.

⁴¹They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

⁴¹Dɣa deg ussan-nni, jemɛen-d ddheb, ssefsin-t xedmen yis yiwen ugenduz. Imiren zlan-as asfel, xedmen-as tameɣṛa, feṛḥen s wayen xedmen yifassen-nsen.

⁴²But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, This idiom could also be translated “host of heaven,” or “angelic beings,” or “heavenly bodies.” as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

⁴²Sidi Ṛebbi yeṭṭaxeṛ fell-asen, yeǧǧa-ten ad ɛebden itran n yigenni , d ayen i guran di tektabt n lenbiya : Ay agdud n wat Isṛail, eɛni i nekk iwumi d-tefkam lewɛadi d iseflawen, di ṛebɛin iseggasen-nni i tesɛeddam deg unezṛuf ?

⁴³You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship. I will carry you away Amos 5:25-27 beyond Babylon.’

⁴³Xaṭi meɛna tbubbem aqiḍun n Mulux akk-d itri n Rufan i tḥesbem d iṛebbiten-nwen ;+ lmeṣnuɛat nni i txedmem iwakken a ten-tɛebdem ! Daymi ara kkun-nfuɣ ɣer lebɛid, akkin i temdint n Babilun !

⁴⁴“Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;

⁴⁴Deg unezṛuf, lejdud-nneɣ sɛan aqiḍun i deg yella leɛqed n Sidi Ṛebbi ; aqiḍun-nni ițwaxedmen akken i s-t-id-yemla Sidi Ṛebbi i Sidna Musa mi s-d-yenna : Xdem-it am akken i t-twalaḍ di lemtel i k-d-ssekneɣ.

⁴⁵which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,

⁴⁵Mi d-yewweḍ uqiḍun-nni ɣer ifassen n lejdud-nneɣ , wwin-t-id yid-sen mi i ten-issekcem Yacuɛa ɣer tmurt-nni i sen-yewɛed Sidi Ṛebbi , mi ssufɣen imezdaɣ-is s tezmert n Sidi Ṛebbi. Aqiḍun-nni yeqqim dinna armi d zzman n Sidna Dawed.

⁴⁶who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

⁴⁶Sidna Dawed eɛzizen ɣer Sidi Ṛebbi, yedɛa ɣuṛ-es yenna : A Sidi Ṛebbi ! A Yillu n jeddi-tneɣ Yeɛqub ! Eǧǧ-iyi ad a k-bnuɣ lǧameɛ iqedsen ara yilin ț-țanezduɣt-ik !

⁴⁷But Solomon built him a house.

⁴⁷Lameɛna d Sidna Sliman i s yebnan lǧameɛ-nni !

⁴⁸However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,

⁴⁸Ɣas akken Sidi Ṛebbi ɛlayen ur izeddeɣ ara deg ixxamen ițwabnan s ufus n wemdan, akken i d-yenna nnbi Iceɛya :

⁴⁹‘heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord; ‘or what is the place of my rest?

⁴⁹Igenni d amkan n lḥekma-w, ma d lqaɛa ț-țaḥsiṛt i ɣef srusuɣ idaṛṛen-iw. Sidi Ṛebbi yenna-d : Acu n wexxam i tzemrem a yi-tebnum, neɣ anda-t wemkan i deg zemreɣ ad steɛfuɣ ?

⁵⁰Didn’t my hand make all these things?’ Isaiah 66:1-2

⁵⁰Eɛni mačči d afus-iw i d-ixelqen kullec ?

⁵¹“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

⁵¹A wid isbeddayen iɛenqiqen nsen ! Tesɣaṛayem ulawen-nwen, tqeflem imeẓẓuɣen-nwen, tețțeddum di nneqma i Ṛṛuḥ iqedsen am kunwi am lejdud-nwen !

⁵²Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

⁵²Anwa nnbi ur qhiṛen ara lejdud-nwen ? Nɣan wid akk ițbecciṛen si zik ɣef Uḥeqqi ara d-yasen ; tura d kunwi i t-ixedɛen yerna tenɣam-t.

⁵³You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

⁵³Tewweḍ-ikkun-id ccariɛa n Sidi Ṛebbi s ufus n lmalayekkat, lameɛna kunwi tugim a s-taɣem awal !

⁵⁴Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

⁵⁴Mi slan i yemslayen-agi, lmuqedmin iffeɣ-iten leɛqel, qeṛcen tuɣmas-nsen fell-as.

⁵⁵But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

⁵⁵Lameɛna Stifan yeččuṛen d Ṛṛuḥ iqedsen, yerfed allen-is ɣer igenni, iwala tamanegt n Sidi Ṛebbi akk-d Sidna Ɛisa ibedden ɣer uyeffus-is.

⁵⁶and said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

⁵⁶Imiren iɛeggeḍ, yenna : Atan țwaliɣ igenwan ldin, țwaliɣ Mmi-s n bunadem ibedd ɣer tama tayeffust n Ṛebbi !

⁵⁷But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.

⁵⁷Qeflen imeẓẓuɣen-nsen, bdan țɛeggiḍen, ẓedmen fell-as akken ma llan.

⁵⁸They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

⁵⁸Zzuɣṛen-t beṛṛa n temdint, ṛejmen-t s iblaḍen iwakken a t-nɣen. Inigan ǧǧan leḥwayeǧ-nsen ɣer yiwen ilemẓi isem-is Caɛul, iwakken a ten-iɛas.

⁵⁹They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

⁵⁹M'akken i t-ṛeǧmen, Stifan ideɛɛu ɣer Sidi Ṛebbi yeqqaṛ : A Sidna Ɛisa, atan ṛṛuḥ-iw ger ifassen-ik !

⁶⁰He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

⁶⁰Imiren yeɣli ɣef tgecrar, iɛeggeḍ s lǧehd-is : A baba Ṛebbi ur ten-țḥasab ara ɣef ddnub-agi ! Akken kan i d-yenna imeslayen agi, iffeɣ-it ṛṛuḥ.