Mwanzo 8
1 Mungu akamkumbuka Noa na wanyama wote wa porini na wa kufugwa waliokuwa naye ndani ya safina, akatuma upepo ukavuma katika dunia, nayo maji yakaondoka.
And God remembers Noah, and every living thing, and all the livestock which [are] with him in the Ark, and God causes a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subside,
2 Zile chemchemi zilizo chini sana ya ardhi pamoja na malango ya mafuriko ya mbinguni yakawa yamefungwa nayo mvua ikawa imekoma kunyesha kutoka angani.
and the fountains of the deep and the network of the heavens are closed, and the shower is restrained from the heavens.
3 Maji yakaendelea kupungua taratibu katika nchi. Kunako mwisho wa siku ya 150, maji yalikuwa yamepungua,
And the waters return from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of one hundred and fifty days.
4 katika siku ya kumi na saba ya mwezi wa saba, safina ikatua katika milima ya Ararati.
And the Ark rests, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on mountains of Ararat;
5 Maji yakaendelea kupungua hadi mwezi wa kumi, na siku ya kwanza ya mwezi wa kumi, vilele vya milima vikaonekana.
and the waters have been going and decreasing until the tenth month; in the tenth [month], on the first of the month, the heads of the mountains appeared.
6 Baada ya siku arobaini Noa akafungua dirisha alilokuwa amelifanya katika safina
And it comes to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opens the window of the Ark which he made,
7 na akamtoa kunguru, akawa akiruka kwenda na kurudi mpaka maji yalipokwisha kukauka juu ya nchi.
and he sends forth the raven, and it goes out, going out and turning back until the drying of the waters from off the earth.
8 Kisha akamtoa hua ili aone kama maji yameondoka juu ya uso wa ardhi.
And he sends forth the dove from him to see whether the waters have been lightened from off the face of the ground,
9 Lakini hua hakupata mahali pa kutua kwa kuwa maji yalienea juu ya uso wa dunia yote, kwa hiyo akarudi kwa Noa ndani ya safina. Noa akanyoosha mkono akamchukua yule hua akamrudisha ndani ya safina.
and the dove has not found rest for the sole of her foot, and she turns back to him, to the Ark, for waters [are] on the face of all the earth, and he puts out his hand, and takes her, and brings her in to him, into the Ark.
10 Noa akangojea siku saba zaidi kisha akamtoa tena hua kutoka safina.
And he stays yet seven more days, and adds to send forth the dove from the Ark;
11 Wakati hua aliporejea kwa Noa jioni, alikuwa amechukua katika mdomo wake jani bichi la mzeituni, lililochumwa wakati ule ule! Ndipo Noa akajua ya kuwa maji yameondoka juu ya uso wa dunia.
and the dove comes to him at evening, and behold, an olive leaf [is] torn off in her mouth; and Noah knows that the waters have been lightened from off the earth.
12 Akangojea siku saba zaidi na akamtuma tena hua, lakini wakati huu hua hakurudi tena kwa Noa.
And he stays yet seven more days, and sends forth the dove, and it did not add to return to him anymore.
13 Katika siku ya kwanza ya mwezi wa kwanza ya mwaka 601, wa kuishi kwake Noa, maji yalikuwa yamekauka duniani. Kisha Noa akafungua mlango wa safina akaona ya kuwa uso wa ardhi ulikuwa umekauka.
And it comes to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], on the first of the month, the waters have been dried from off the earth; and Noah turns aside the covering of the Ark, and looks, and behold, the face of the ground has been dried.
14 Katika siku ya ishirini na saba ya mwezi wa pili dunia ilikuwa imekauka kabisa.
And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth has become dry.
15 Ndipo Mungu akamwambia Noa,
And God speaks to Noah, saying, “Go out from the Ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons’ wives with you;
16 “Toka ndani ya safina, wewe na mkeo na wanao na wake zao.
every living thing that [is] with you, of all flesh, among bird, and among livestock, and among every creeping thing which is creeping on the earth, bring out with you;
17 Utoe nje kila aina ya kiumbe hai aliye pamoja nawe: Ndege, wanyama na viumbe vyote vitambaavyo juu ya ardhi, ili wakazae, na kuongezeka na kuijaza tena dunia.”
and they have teemed in the earth, and been fruitful, and have multiplied on the earth.”
18 Kwa hiyo Noa akatoka nje pamoja na mkewe, wanawe na wake zao.
And Noah goes out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him;
19 Wanyama wote na viumbe vyote vitambaavyo juu ya ardhi na ndege wote, kila kitu kiendacho juu ya nchi, aina moja baada ya nyingine vikatoka katika safina, kila aina ya kiumbe, kimoja baada ya kingine.
every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird; every creeping thing on the earth, after their families, have gone out from the Ark.
20 Kisha Noa akamjengea Bwana madhabahu, akachukua baadhi ya wale wanyama na ndege wote walio safi, akatoa sadaka za kuteketezwa juu ya madhabahu.
And Noah builds an altar to YHWH, and takes from every clean beast and from every clean bird, and causes burnt-offerings to ascend on the altar;
21 Bwana akasikia harufu nzuri ya kupendeza, naye akasema moyoni mwake, “Kamwe sitailaani tena ardhi kwa sababu ya mwanadamu, hata ingawa kila mwelekeo wa moyo wake ni mbaya tangu ujana. Kamwe sitaangamiza tena viumbe hai vyote kama nilivyofanya.
and YHWH smells the refreshing fragrance, and YHWH says to His heart, “I do not continue to disfavor the ground because of man anymore, though the imagination of the heart of man [is] evil from his youth; and I do not continue to strike all living anymore, as I have done;
22 “Kwa muda dunia idumupo, wakati wa kupanda na wa kuvuna, wakati wa baridi na wa joto, wakati wa kiangazi na wa masika, usiku na mchana kamwe havitakoma.”
during all [the] days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night never cease.”
A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark
