Ebandeli 8
1 Nzambe akanisaki Noa mpe banyama nyonso oyo ezalaki elongo na ye kati na masuwa, atindaki mopepe na mokili mpe mayi ekitaki.
God considered Noah, all the wild animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters started going down.
2 Bitima ya se mpe maninisa ya likolo ekangamaki mpe mvula etikaki konoka.
The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and it stopped raining.
3 Mayi ekomaki kolongwa moke-moke likolo ya mabele, mpe sima na mikolo nkama moko na tuku mitano, mayi ekitaki.
The flood waters went down slowly from the earth, and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had gone down.
4 Na mokolo ya zomi na sambo ya sanza ya sambo, masuwa esemaki likolo ya bangomba Ararati.
The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon 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.
The waters continued to go down until the tenth month. On the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
6 Sima na mikolo tuku minei, Noa afungolaki lininisa ya masuwa oyo asalaki
It came about after forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
7 mpe abimisaki yanganga. Yanganga yango ezalaki kokende mpe kozonga kino tango mayi ekawukaki na mokili.
He sent out a raven and it flew back and forth until the waters were dried up from the earth.
8 Mpe lisusu, Noa abimisaki ebenga mpo na kotala soki mayi ekawuki na mokili.
Then he sent out a dove to see if the waters had gone down from the surface of the earth,
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, for the waters were still covering the whole earth. He reached out with his hand, and took and brought her into the ark with him.
10 Azelaki mikolo sambo mpe abimisaki lisusu ebenga libanda ya masuwa.
He waited another seven days and again he 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.
The dove returned to him in the evening. Look! In her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had gone down from the earth.
12 Azelaki lisusu mikolo sambo mosusu, mpe abimisaki ebenga. Kasi ebenga ezongaki lisusu te.
He waited another seven days, and sent out the dove again. She did not return again 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.
It came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, looked out, and saw that, behold, the surface of the ground was dry.
14 Na mokolo ya tuku mibale na sambo ya sanza ya mibale, mabele ekawukaki penza.
In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15 Boye, Nzambe alobaki na Noa:
God said to Noah,
16 « Bima na masuwa elongo na mwasi na yo, mpe bana na yo ya mibali elongo na basi na bango.
“Go out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
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. »
Take out with you every living creature of all flesh that is with you—the birds, the animals, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth—so that they may grow unto very large numbers of living creatures throughout the earth, be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.”
18 Boye, Noa abimaki libanda elongo na bana na ye ya mibali, mwasi na ye mpe basi ya bana na ye.
So Noah went out with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.
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 on the earth, according to their families, left the ark.
20 Noa atongaki etumbelo mpo na Yawe mpe azwaki ndambo ya banyama mpe bandeke ezanga mbindo, abonzelaki yango Yawe lokola mbeka ya kotumba.
Noah built an altar to Yahweh. He took some of the clean animals and some of the clean birds, and 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.
Yahweh smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground because of mankind, even though the intentions of their hearts is evil from childhood. Nor will I again destroy everything living, 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. »
While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark
