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1Ungā e koutou ngā remeki te rangatira o te whenua,i Hera i te koraha,ki te maunga o te tamāhine a Hiona.2Kei te manu hāereere noa hoki,kei te mea i makā mai i te kōhanga,i te rite o ngā tamāhine a Moapai ngā kauanga i Aranona.3“Kia takoto te whakaaro,whakaritea te whakawā.Ko tōu whakamarumaru i te poutūmārōtangakia rite ki te pō;hunā te hunga i peia;kaua te ātiutiu noa e whakaaturia.4Tukua āku whati kia noho ki a koe; tēnā ko Moapa,ko koe hei piringa mō rātou kei mate i te kaipāhua.”Kua kore hoki te kaiwhakatē,mutu pū tā te kaipāhua,kua poto atu ngā kaiwhakatupu kino i runga i te whenua,5ā, ka whakapūmautia he torōna i runga i te tohu tangata;ka nohoia e tētahi i runga i te pono,i roto anō i te tēneti o Rāwiri;me te whakawā, me te rapu i te tikanga o te whakawā,he hohoro hoki ki te mahi i te tika.6Kua rongo tātou ki te whakakake o Moapa –nui atu tōna whakakake, ki tōna whakapehapeha,ki tōna whakakake, ki tōna pukuriri –kāhore he tikanga o āna whakamanamana.7Mō reira ka auē a Moapaki a Moapa, ka auē katoa.Ka tangi koutou ki ngā keke karepe o Kiriharehete,kua mōtī rawa.8Kua kahakore hoki ngā māra o Hehepona,me te wāina o Hipima;he mea whatiwhati nā ngā rangatira o ngā iwiōna wāina pai rawa,i tae nei ki Iatere rawa,i toro haere atu ki te koraha.I toha haere ōna peka,i whiti ki tērā taha o te moana.9Mō reira ka tangihia e ahau te wāina o Hipima,kei te tangi mō Iatere te rite.Ka whakamākūkū ahau i a koe ki ōku roimata,e Hehepona, e Ereare;kua tau hoki te hāmama o te pakanga ki runga ki āu hua raumati,ki runga ki tāu tapahanga wīti.10Kua tangohia atu te hari, me te koa i te māra mōmona;kāhore hoki he waiata i ngā māra wāina, kāhore he iere harakoa;e kore ngā kaitakahi e takahi wāina i ā rātou poka wāina;kua whakamutua e ahau te hāmama o te mahinga wāina.11Nā reira, ānō he hāpa ōku whēkau e tangi ana ki a Moapa,a roto i ahau ki Kiriharehe.12Nā, ka puta mai a Moapa,ka māuiui i runga i te wāhi tiketike,ā, ka haere ki tōna wāhi tapu īnoi ai,heoi e kore e taea e ia.13Ko te kupu tēnei i kōrerotia e Ihowā mō Moapa i mua.14Engari kua kōrero a Ihowā ināianei, kua mea: “Kia toru ngā tau, kia rite ki ngā tau o te kaimahi, ka whakahāweatia te korōria o Moapa, me tōna mano tini; ā, ko te toenga he iti rawa, he kāhore noa iho.”