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7 Story Sentence Search Results For "church"
English:
25. A person should not go to sleep with the red paint (used on the faces of dancers, or participants in the Big House
Church
)on his or her face because the departed people will say, "Oh, this person has come to see us," because when a person leaves this world he or she is painted, and that is the reason they say that.
Lenape:
25. Matàch awèn kawi ènta èlahkënate wëshkinkw èli yuki nèlkahkonkwik awènik xu luweyok, "O, pèchi washe awèn nehkuna," èli ènta awèn alëmskat yushe xkwithakamika èlahkënao, nal në wënchi në luweyok.
English:
inside of the Big House
Church
for twelve nights.
Lenape:
lamunkwe Xinkwikaonink tèlën òk nisha piskèk. .
English:
I saw him, he was swimming this direction in the water," [he told this] when he told his vision in the
church
.
Lenape:
neyo petashëwihëlëk mpink," ènta wënchikaneit.
English:
it is Fall again it is time to set up the Big House
church
.
Lenape:
làpi ënta tahkokik, na hùnt ulixtuneyo në Xinkwikaon.
English:
That is the only reason, they say, why this place where one prays [the Big House
Church
] was set up.
Lenape:
Nà në shùk shè hùnt wënchi në wëlixën në yukwe yu shè ënta patamànk.
English:
That is what they say the Big House
church
comes from.
Lenape:
Na yukwe hùnt në wënchixën yu Xinkwikaon.
English:
"That is why there is the Big House
Church
, what happened at that time."
Lenape:
"Nal në wënchixën në Xinkwikaon, èlèk nìki lëkhìkwi."