Genesis 7
1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
UThixo wathi kuNowa, “Ngena emkhunjini, wena kanye lendlu yakho yonke, ngoba ngikufumane ulungile kulesi isizukulwane.
2 You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
Ngena lezinyamazana eziyisikhombisa ezemihlobo yonke yezinyamazana ezihlanzekileyo, enduna lensikazi, lezimbili ezemihlobo yonke yezinyamazana ezingcolileyo, enduna lensikazi yayo,
3 and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
njalo eziyisikhombisa zezinyoni zemihlobo yonke, ezinduna lezinsikazi, ukuze kugcinakale uhlobo lwazo zonke emhlabeni.
4 For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
Ngemva kwensuku eziyisikhombisa kusukela manje ngizathumela izulu emhlabeni okwensuku ezingamatshumi amane lobusuku obungamatshumi amane, njalo ngizatshabalalisa sonke isidalwa esiphilayo engasenzayo emhlabeni.”
5 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
UNowa wakwenza konke lokho akulaywa nguThixo.
6 Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
UNowa wayeleminyaka engamakhulu ayisithupha yobudala ekufikeni kukazamcolo emhlabeni.
7 And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
UNowa lamadodana akhe, lomkakhe kanye labomalukazana bakhe bangena emkhunjini ukuze baphephe emanzini kazamcolo.
8 The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
Ngazimbili izinyamazana ezihlanzekileyo lezingcolileyo, ezezinyoni lezezinanakazana zonke ezihuquzela emhlabathini,
9 came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
ezinduna lezinsikazi zeza kuNowa zangena emkhunjini, njengokulaywa kukaNowa nguNkulunkulu.
10 And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
Kwathi ngemva kwensuku eziyisikhombisa amanzi kazamcolo eza emhlabeni.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Ngomnyaka wamakhulu ayisithupha wokuphila kukaNowa, ngosuku lwetshumi lesikhombisa lwenyanga yesibili, ngalolosuku yonke imithombo yolwandle olukhulu yadabuka, lamasango amanzi amazulu avuleka.
12 And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Izulu lana emhlabeni okwensuku ezingamatshumi amane lobusuku obungamatshumi amane.
13 On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
Ngalolosuku uNowa lamadodana akhe, uShemu, uHamu loJafethi, kanye lomkakhe labomalukazana bakhe bamadodana akhe womathathu bangena emkhunjini.
14 they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
Babelazo zonke izinyamazana zeganga kusiya ngemihlobo yazo, zonke izifuyo kusiya ngemihlobo yazo, zonke izinanakazana ezihuquzela emhlabathini kusiya ngemihlobo yazo lazozonke izinyoni kusiya ngemihlobo yazo, yonke into elempiko.
15 They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
Zeza kuNowa ngazimbili zonke izidalwa ezilomphefumulo wokuphila zangena emkhunjini.
16 And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
Izinyamazana ezazingena zazingezinduna lezinsikazi ezezinto zonke eziphilayo, njengalokho uNkulunkulu ayekulaye uNowa. Emva kwalokho uThixo wasemvalela phakathi.
17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
Okwensuku ezingamatshumi amane impophoma zaphikelela zithululeka emhlabeni, kwathi ngokwanda kwamanzi awuphakamisa umkhumbi waba ngaphezulu komhlaba.
18 So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
Amanzi akhwela anda kakhulu emhlabeni, umkhumbi wandenda phezu kwamanzi.
19 Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.
Akhwela kakhulu emhlabeni, kwathi zonke izintaba eziphakemeyo ngaphansi kwawo wonke amazulu zasibekelwa.
20 The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
Amanzi akhwela asibekela izintaba zatshona okudlula izingalo ezingamatshumi amabili.
21 And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.
Zonke izinto eziphilayo ezihamba phezu komhlaba zafa, izinyoni, izifuyo, izinyamazana zeganga, zonke izidalwa ezazitshatshama phezu komhlaba, loluntu lonke.
22 Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
Yonke into ephefumula impilo ngamakhala ayo nxa isemhlabathini owomileyo yafa.
23 And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.
Yonke into ephilayo phezu komhlaba yakhukhulwa; abantu lezinyamazana lezinanakazana ezihuquzela emhlabathini kanye lezinyoni zemkhathini kwakhuculwa emhlabeni. NguNowa kuphela owasalayo, lalabo ababelaye emkhunjini.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.
Amanzi agcwala emhlabeni okwensuku ezilikhulu lamatshumi amahlanu.
The Great Flood
