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37 (A)Omuwala omukulu n’azaala omwana wabulenzi n’amutuuma Mowaabu, ye jjajja w’Abamowaabu abaliwo kaakano.

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37 The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab[a];(A) he is the father of the Moabites(B) of today.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 19:37 Moab sounds like the Hebrew for from father.

17 (A)“Mmulaba, naye si kaakano;
    mmutunuulira, naye tali kumpi.
Emmunyeenye eriva ewa Yakobo;
    omufuzi alisituka ng’ava mu Isirayiri.
Alibetenta Mowaabu,
    obuwanga bw’abatabani ba Seezi.

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17 “I see him, but not now;
    I behold him, but not near.(A)
A star will come out of Jacob;(B)
    a scepter will rise out of Israel.(C)
He will crush the foreheads of Moab,(D)
    the skulls[a](E) of[b] all the people of Sheth.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 24:17 Samaritan Pentateuch (see also Jer. 48:45); the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.
  2. Numbers 24:17 Or possibly Moab, / batter
  3. Numbers 24:17 Or all the noisy boasters