Mwanzo 7
1 Yahwe akamwambia Nuhu, “Njoo, wewe na nyumba yako wote, katika safina, kwa kuwa nimeona kuwa wewe ni mwenye haki mbele yangu katika kizazi hiki.
Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
2 Kwa kila mnyama aliye safi utakuja nao saba wa kiume na saba wa kike. Na kwa wanyama wasio safi, lete wawili wawili, wakiume na wakike.
You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
3 Pia na kwa ndege wa angani, lete saba wa kiume na saba wa kike, ili kuhifadhi kizazi chao juu ya uso wa nchi yote.
and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
4 Kwa kuwa ndani ya siku saba nitasababisha mvua kunyesha juu ya nchi muda wa siku arobaini mchana na usiku. Nitaharibu kila kiumbe hai nilichokiumba juu ya uso wa ardhi.”
For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
5 Nuhu alifanya yote ambayo Yahwe alimuagiza.
And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
6 Nuhu alikuwa na umri wa miaka mia sita wakati gharika ilipokuja juu ya nchi.
Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
7 Nuhu, watoto wake wa kiume, mke wake, na wake za watoto wake waliingia katika safina pamoja kwa sababu ya maji ya gharika.
And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
8 Wanyama ambao ni safi na wanyama ambao si safi, ndege, na kila kitambaacho juu ya ardhi,
The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
9 wawili wawili mume na mke wakaja kwa Nuhu na wakaingia katika safina, kama vile Mungu alivyokuwa amemwagiza Nuhu.
came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 Ikawa kwamba baada ya siku saba, maji ya gharika yakaja juu ya nchi.
And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
11 Katika mwaka wa mia sita wa maisha yake Nuhu, katika mwezi wa pili, katika siku ya kumi na saba ya mwezi, katika siku iyo hiyo, chemchemi zote za vilindi vikuu zilipasuka na kufunguka, na madirisha ya mbinguni yakafunguka.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
12 Mvua ikaanza kunyesha juu ya nchi kwa siku arobaini mchana na usiku.
And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13 Katika siku iyo hiyo Nuhu pamoja na watoto wake, Shem, Ham, na Yafethi na mke wa Nuhu, na wale wake watatu wa wana wa Nuhu pamoja waliingia katika safina.
On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
14 Waliingia pamoja na kila mnyama wa mwitu kwa jinsi yake, na kila mnyama wa kufugwa kwa jinsi yake, na kila kitambaacho juu ya ardhi kwa jinsi yake, na kila aina ya ndege kwa jinsi yake, kila aina ya kiumbe chenye mabawa.
they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
15 Viwili viwili katika kila chenye mwili ambacho kilikuwa na pumzi ya uhai kilikuja kwa Nuhu na kuingia katika safina.
They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
16 Wanyama walioingia ndani walikuwa wakiume na kike katika wote wenye mwili; wakaingia kama vile Mungu alivyokuwa amemwagiza. Kisha Yahwe akawafungia mlango.
And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
17 Kisha gharika ikaja juu ya nchi kwa siku arobaini, na maji yakaongezeka na kuinua safina juu ya nchi.
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
18 Maji yakafunika kabisa nchi, na safina ikaelea juu ya uso wa maji.
So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
19 Maji yakaongezeka zaidi juu ya nchi kiasi kwamba milima yote mirefu ambayo ilikuwa chini ya anga ikafunikwa.
Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.
20 Maji yakaongezeka dhiraa kumi na tano juu ya vilele vya milima.
The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
21 Vitu vyote vyenye uhai ambavyo vilitembea juu ya nchi vilikufa: ndege, mifugo, wanyama wa mwituni, viumbe hai vyote kwa wingi vilivyoishi juu ya nchi, pamoja na watu.
And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.
22 Viumbe hai vyote ambavyo vilikaa juu ya ardhi, vilivyo pumua pumzi ya uhai kwa njia ya pua, vilikufa.
Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
23 Hivyo kila kilichokuwa hai ambacho kilikuwa juu ya uso wa mchi kilifutwa, kuanzia watu mpaka wanyama wakubwa, mpaka vitambaavyo, na mpaka ndege wa angani. Vyote viliangamizwa kutoka kwenye nchi. Nuhu tu pamoja na wale waliokuwa naye kwenye safina ndio walisalia.
And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.
24 Maji haya kuzama chini ya nchi kwa muda wa siku miamoja na hamsini.
And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.
The Great Flood
