Ebandeli 9
1 Nzambe apambolaki Noa mpe bana na ye ya mibali. Alobaki na bango: « Bobota bana, bokoma ebele mpe botondisa mokili.
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
2 Banyama nyonso ya mokili, bandeke nyonso ya likolo mpe bikelamu oyo etambolaka na mokili elongo na mbisi ya ebale, ekobanga bino makasi; nyonso epesami na maboko na bino.
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, and on every fowl of the air, on all that moves on the earth, and on all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
3 Bikelamu nyonso oyo ezali na bomoi mpe oyo etambolaka, ekozala bilei na bino. Ndenge kaka napesaki bino matiti, sik’oyo napesi bino biloko nyonso.
Every moving thing that lives shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
4 Kasi bokolia te mosuni oyo ezali na makila, pamba te makila ezali bomoi.
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall you not eat.
5 Bongo lokola makila na bino ezali bomoi na bino, nakosambisa oyo nyonso akotangisa yango, ezala nyama to moto. Nakosambisa moto nyonso mpo na bomoi ya moninga na ye.
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
6 Yango wana, soki moto asopi makila ya moto, bakosopa mpe makila na ye epai ya moto, pamba te Nzambe asalaki moto na elilingi na Ye.
Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
7 Kasi bino, bobota bana, bokoma ebele mpe botondisa mokili. »
And you, be you fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
8 Boye, Nzambe alobaki na Noa mpe na bana na ye ya mibali:
And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9 « Nasali sik’oyo boyokani elongo na yo mpe na bakitani na yo sima na yo,
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
10 na bikelamu nyonso ya bomoi oyo ezali elongo na yo: bandeke, bibwele mpe banyama ya zamba, banyama nyonso oyo ebimaki na masuwa elongo na yo, bikelamu nyonso ya bomoi oyo ezali na mokili.
And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
11 Nasali boyokani elongo na yo: bikelamu nyonso oyo ezali na bomoi ekobebisama te na mayi ya mpela. Mpe mpela ekozala lisusu te mpo na kobebisa mokili. »
And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
12 Nzambe alobaki lisusu: « Tala elembo ya boyokani oyo natie kati na Ngai mpe bino, mpe bikelamu nyonso ya bomoi oyo ezali na bino elongo. Ezali boyokani mpo na milongo nyonso oyo ekoya:
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 natie monama na Ngai na mapata, mpe yango ekozala elembo ya boyokani kati na Ngai mpe mokili.
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 Tango nyonso nakosangisa mapata na likolo ya mokili mpe monama ekobima na mapata,
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15 nakokanisa boyokani na Ngai elongo na bino mpe na bikelamu ya lolenge nyonso oyo ezali na bomoi. Mpe mayi ekokoma lisusu mpela te mpo na kobebisa nyonso oyo ezali na bomoi.
And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 Tango nyonso monama ekobima na mapata, nakomona yango mpe nakokanisa boyokani ya seko kati na Nzambe mpe bikelamu nyonso ya bomoi oyo ezali na mokili. »
And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look on it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.
17 Nzambe alobaki lisusu na Noa: « Yango nde ezali elembo ya boyokani oyo natie kati na Ngai mpe bikelamu nyonso ya bomoi oyo ezali kati na mokili. »
And God said to Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.
18 Tala bana mibali ya Noa oyo babimaki na masuwa: Semi, Cham mpe Jafeti. Cham azalaki tata ya Kanana.
And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
19 Bango misato bazalaki bana ya Noa mpe na nzela na bango nde mokili etondaki lisusu na bato.
These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth covered.
20 Noa azalaki mosali bilanga mpe alonaki elanga ya vino.
And Noah began to be an farmer, and he planted a vineyard:
21 Tango amelaki masanga ya vino oyo ewutaki na elanga na ye, alangwaki mpe atikalaki bolumbu kati na ndako na ye ya kapo.
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22 Cham, tata ya Kanana, amonaki bolumbu ya tata na ye mpe ayebisaki bandeko na ye ya mibali oyo bazalaki na libanda.
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers without.
23 Kasi Semi mpe Jafeti bazwaki elamba mpe batiaki yango na mapeka na bango. Bazongaki sima-sima mpe bazipaki bolumbu ya tata na bango. Lokola bilongi na bango etalaki na ngambo mosusu, bamonaki bolumbu ya tata na bango te.
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
24 Tango milangwa ya Noa esilaki, ayokaki likambo oyo mwana na ye ya suka asalaki.
And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him.
25 Alobaki: « Tika ete Kanana alakelama mabe, azala mowumbu ya suka ya bandeko na ye! »
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.
26 Alobaki lisusu: « Tika ete Yawe, Nzambe ya Semi, apambolama! Tika ete Kanana azala mowumbu ya Semi!
And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
27 Tika ete Nzambe ayeisa monene mabele ya Jafeti! Tika ete Jafeti avanda na bandako ya kapo ya Semi, mpe Kanana azala mowumbu na ye! »
God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
28 Sima na mpela, Noa awumelaki na bomoi mibu nkama misato na tuku mitano.
And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29 Mibu nyonso ya bomoi ya Noa ezalaki nkama libwa na tuku mitano, sima akufaki.
And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
