Ebandeli 8
1 Nzambe akanisaki Noa mpe banyama nyonso oyo ezalaki elongo na ye kati na masuwa, atindaki mopepe na mokili mpe mayi ekitaki.
But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
2 Bitima ya se mpe maninisa ya likolo ekangamaki mpe mvula etikaki konoka.
The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
3 Mayi ekomaki kolongwa moke-moke likolo ya mabele, mpe sima na mikolo nkama moko na tuku mitano, mayi ekitaki.
The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
4 Na mokolo ya zomi na sambo ya sanza ya sambo, masuwa esemaki likolo ya bangomba Ararati.
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5 Mayi ezalaki kokoba kokita kino na sanza ya zomi. Na mokolo ya liboso ya sanza yango, basonge ya bangomba emonanaki.
And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
6 Sima na mikolo tuku minei, Noa afungolaki lininisa ya masuwa oyo asalaki
After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
7 mpe abimisaki yanganga. Yanganga yango ezalaki kokende mpe kozonga kino tango mayi ekawukaki na mokili.
and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
8 Mpe lisusu, Noa abimisaki ebenga mpo na kotala soki mayi ekawuki na mokili.
Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.
9 Kasi ebenga ezwaki esika ya kotia matambe na yango te, pamba te mayi ezalaki na etando nyonso ya mokili. Boye, ezongaki na masuwa epai ya Noa. Noa abimisaki loboko, azwaki ebenga mpe akotisaki yango kati na masuwa.
But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.
10 Azelaki mikolo sambo mpe abimisaki lisusu ebenga libanda ya masuwa.
Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
11 Tango ebenga ezongaki epai na ye na pokwa, ememaki lokasa ya olive ya mobesu na monoko na yango. Boye, Noa asosolaki ete mayi ekiti na mokili.
And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
12 Azelaki lisusu mikolo sambo mosusu, mpe abimisaki ebenga. Kasi ebenga ezongaki lisusu te.
And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
13 Na mokolo ya liboso na sanza ya liboso, tango Noa akokisaki mibu nkama motoba na moko ya mbotama, mayi ekawukaki na mokili; Noa afungolaki masuwa na likolo na yango mpe amonaki ete mabele ekawuki.
In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
14 Na mokolo ya tuku mibale na sambo ya sanza ya mibale, mabele ekawukaki penza.
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.
15 Boye, Nzambe alobaki na Noa:
Then God said to Noah,
16 « Bima na masuwa elongo na mwasi na yo, mpe bana na yo ya mibali elongo na basi na bango.
“Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.
17 Bimisa mpe bikelamu oyo ezali elongo na yo: bandeke, banyama mpe bikelamu nyonso oyo etambolaka na libumu, mpo ete ebotana mpe ekoma ebele kati na mokili. »
Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”
18 Boye, Noa abimaki libanda elongo na bana na ye ya mibali, mwasi na ye mpe basi ya bana na ye.
So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.
19 Banyama nyonso, bikelamu nyonso oyo etambolaka na libumu mpe bandeke nyonso, bikelamu nyonso oyo etambolaka na mokili, ebimaki na masuwa na molongo kolanda lolenge na yango.
Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.
20 Noa atongaki etumbelo mpo na Yawe mpe azwaki ndambo ya banyama mpe bandeke ezanga mbindo, abonzelaki yango Yawe lokola mbeka ya kotumba.
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 Boye, Yawe ayokaki solo kitoko mpe amilobelaki: « Nakolakela lisusu mabele mabe te likolo ya moto, pamba te wuta bomwana ya moto, motema ya moto elukaka kaka makambo mabe; nakoboma lisusu te bikelamu nyonso ya bomoi ndenge nawuti kosala.
When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
22 Na tango nyonso oyo mokili ekozala, tango ya kolona mpe tango ya kobuka, tango ya malili mpe tango ya molunge, tango ya mvula mpe tango ya elanga, tango ya moyi mpe tango ya butu, ekozanga te. »
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark
