The Book of 1 Meqabyan

1 Meqabyan (also known as 1 Ethiopian Maccabees and 1 Ethiopic Maccabees) is canonical scripture for the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. While “Meqabyan” is the Ge’ez equivalent of “Maccabees,” the content is completely different from 1 Maccabees. The only complete copies of 1 Meqabyan are available in Ge’ez (Classical Ethiopic), here used with permission by the Bible Society of Ethiopia.

The translation into English was provided by Haileyesus Woldemariam (UBS).

on earth as it is in heaven

The Greek and Ge’ez in Matthew 6:10 that is translated as “on earth as it is in heaven” or similar in English is translated in the German New Testament translation by Berger / Nord (publ. 1999) with damit das, was im Himmel bereits geschieht, auch auf Erden wirklich werden kann or “so that what is already happening in heaven can also become reality on earth.”

See also complete verse (Matthew 6:10) and Lord’s Prayer.