Ebandeli 9
1 Nzambe apambolaki Noa mpe bana na ye ya mibali. Alobaki na bango: « Bobota bana, bokoma ebele mpe botondisa mokili.
And God blesses Noah and his sons, and says to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill 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 your fear and your dread is on every beast of the earth, and on every bird of the heavens, on all that creeps on the ground, and on all fishes of the sea—into your hand they have been given.
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 creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;
4 Kasi bokolia te mosuni oyo ezali na makila, pamba te makila ezali bomoi.
only flesh in its life—its blood—you do 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 only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man’s brother 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 is his blood shed: for in the image of God has He made man.
7 Kasi bino, bobota bana, bokoma ebele mpe botondisa mokili. »
And you, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.”
8 Boye, Nzambe alobaki na Noa mpe na bana na ye ya mibali:
And God speaks 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 am establishing 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 which [is] with you, among bird, among livestock, and among every beast of the earth with you, from all who are going 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 have established My covenant with you, and all flesh is not cut off anymore by waters of a flood, and there is not a flood to destroy the earth anymore.”
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 says, “This is a token of the covenant which I am giving between Me and you, and every living creature that [is] with you, to continuous generations;
13 natie monama na Ngai na mapata, mpe yango ekozala elembo ya boyokani kati na Ngai mpe mokili.
My bow I have given in the cloud, and it has been 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 has come to pass (in My sending a cloud over the earth) that the bow has been 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 have remembered My covenant which is between Me and you, and every living creature among all flesh, and the waters no longer 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 has been in the cloud, and I have seen it—to remember the perpetual covenant between God and every living creature among all flesh which [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 says to Noah, “This [is] a 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 who are going out of the Ark are Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is father of Canaan.
19 Bango misato bazalaki bana ya Noa mpe na nzela na bango nde mokili etondaki lisusu na bato.
These three [are] sons of Noah, and from these has all the earth been overspread.
20 Noa azalaki mosali bilanga mpe alonaki elanga ya vino.
And Noah remains a man of the ground, and plants 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 drinks of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovers himself in the midst of the 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, father of Canaan, sees the nakedness of his father, and declares to his two brothers outside.
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 takes—Japheth also—the garment, and they place on the shoulder of them both, and go backward, and cover the nakedness of their father; and their faces [are] backward, and their father’s nakedness they have not seen.
24 Tango milangwa ya Noa esilaki, ayokaki likambo oyo mwana na ye ya suka asalaki.
And Noah awakens from his wine, and knows that which his young son has done to him,
25 Alobaki: « Tika ete Kanana alakelama mabe, azala mowumbu ya suka ya bandeko na ye! »
and says: “Cursed [is] Canaan, Servant of servants he is to his brothers.”
26 Alobaki lisusu: « Tika ete Yawe, Nzambe ya Semi, apambolama! Tika ete Kanana azala mowumbu ya Semi!
And he says: “Blessed of my God YHWH [is] Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.
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 gives beauty to Japheth, And he dwells in tents of Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.”
28 Sima na mpela, Noa awumelaki na bomoi mibu nkama misato na tuku mitano.
And Noah lives 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 are nine hundred and fifty years, and he dies.
