In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth.
(Genesis 1 v1)
1. Sayewi talli wemiguma wokgetaki,
And the earth was without form and void;
and darkness was upon the face of the deep;
and the spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters.
2. Hackung kwelik owanaku wak yutali Kitanitowit-essop.
and the spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters.
2. Hackung kwelik owanaku wak yutali Kitanitowit-essop.
And God Said, "Let their be light."
And there was light."
And there was light."
4. Sohawalawak kwelik hakik owak [read, woak] awasagamak.
5. Sohalawak gishuk nipahum alankwak
..to give light onto the
earth: and to rule over the day and the night, and to divide the light from the
darkness: and God saw it was good. (Genesis 1 v17-18)
6. Wemi-sohalawak yulikyuchaan.
(At this stanza I realized the Bible had the correct English version of the pictographs. So I stopped translating from Lenape (Old Norse) to English. Viewers are encouraged to make their own comparison between the pictograph and an English Bible.)
6. Wemi-sohalawak yulikyuchaan.
(At this stanza I realized the Bible had the correct English version of the pictographs. So I stopped translating from Lenape (Old Norse) to English. Viewers are encouraged to make their own comparison between the pictograph and an English Bible.)
7. Wich-owagan kshakan moshakwat [Var. moshakguat.] kwelik kshipehelep.
9. Lappinup Kitanitowit manito
manitoak.
10. Owiniwak angelatawiwak chichankwak wemiwak.
11. Wtenk manito jinwis lennowak mukom.
12. Milap netami gaho owini gaho.
13. Namesik milap, tulpewik milap, awesik milap, cholensak milap.
14. Makimani shak sohalawak makowini nakowak amangamek.
15. Sohalawak uchewak, sohalawak pungusak.
16. Nitisak wemi owini w'delisinewuap
18. Nijini netami lennowak, nigoha netami okwewi, nantine'wak.
19. Gattamin netami mitzi nijini nantine'.
21. Shukand eli-kimi mekenikink wakon powako init'ako.
22. Mattalogas pallalogas
maktaton owagan payat-chik yutali.
