The First Book of Moses Called Genesis
Translated into the Galla Language. /
Maxaafonnii kakuu moofaa;
Maxaafii jalqabaa kan Musee, Maxaafii kan Uumamaa.
Jaagan Ilma Leeqaa kan hiike,
Luwiis Kiraaphiif nama Garmaniyaa (Niimsaa) attamuudhaaf kan qajeelche kan qopheesses ganda Korintaaliitii.
English translation of the Oromo title:
- Books of the Old Testament.
The first book of Moses, Genesis.
Translated by Jaagan, a man from Leeqaa.
Edited and prepared for printing by Ludwig Krapf
a Germany (Nimsa) man, at Korntal.
Printed at the expense and by the request of the British and Foreign Bible-Society in London. At the Mission-Press of St. Chrischona, near Basle, Switzerland. 1872.
Note
The Oromo title should be improved as follows:
Macaafota kakuu moofaa
Macaafa jalqaba Museen caafe, Macaafa Seera Uumamaa:
Kan hiikee Jaagan nama biyya Leeqaati.
Maxxansaaf akka ta’utti kan qajeelchee qopheesse Luwiis Kiraaphiif nama biyya Jarmanii (Niimsaa), ganda Korintaaliiti.
Transliteration into Qubee and English translation
by Sadirak Taasisaa.
Cross-reference
Kan Moshē dura kitabne, oriti dalōta kan čeddame: [The First Book of Moses called Genesis] Translated from the original into the Galla language [by Krapf and Barkii in Ankober in] 1841.
- View manuscript copied by Paul de Lagarde in London in 1851.