Mwanzo 8
1 Mungu akamtazama Nuhu, wanyama wote wa mwitu, na wanyama wote wa kufugwa ambao walikuwa pamoja naye kwenye safina. Mungu akafanya upepo uvume juu ya nchi, na maji yakaanza kuzama chini.
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 Chemichemi za vilindi pamoja na madirisha ya mbingu vikafungwa, na mvua ikakoma kunyesha.
The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and it stopped raining.
3 Maji ya gharika yakaanza kuzama kidogo kidogo katika nchi. na mwisho wa siku miamoja na hamsini maji yakawa yamezama chini.
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 safina ikatulia katika mwezi wa saba, siku ya kumi na saba ya mwezi, juu ya milima ya Ararati.
The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
5 Maji yakaendelea kuzama chini hadi mwezi wa kumi. Siku ya kwanza ya mwezi, vilele vya milima vikaonekana.
The waters continued to go down until the tenth month. On the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
6 Ikatokea kwamba baada ya siku arobaini Nuhu alifungua dirisha la safina ambayo aliitengeneza.
It came about after forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
7 Akatuma kunguru na akaruka hadi maji yalipo kauka katika nchi.
He sent out a raven and it flew back and forth until the waters were dried up from the earth.
8 Kisha akatuma njiwa kuona kama maji yamezama chini kutoka kwenye uso wa nchi,
Then he sent out a dove to see if the waters had gone down from the surface of the earth,
9 lakini njiwa hakuona sehemu ya kutua unyayo wake, na akarudi kwake ndani ya safina, kwa kuwa maji yalikuwa bado yamefunika nchi yote. Akanyoosha mkono wake, akamchukua na kumuweka ndani ya safina pamoja naye.
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 Akasubiri siku saba zingine akatuma tena njiwa kutoka kwenye safina.
He waited another seven days and again he sent out the dove from the ark.
11 Njiwa akarudi kwake jioni. Tazama! katika mdomo wake kulikuwa na jani bichi la mzeituni lililochumwa. Kwa hiyo Nuhu akatambua kuwa maji yamekwisha zama chini ya nchi.
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 Akasubiri siku saba zingine na akamtuma njiwa tena. Njiwa hakurudi kwake tena.
He waited another seven days, and sent out the dove again. She did not return again to him.
13 Ikawa kwamba katika mwaka wa mia sita na moja, katika mwezi wa kwanza, siku ya kwanza ya mwezi, maji yalikuwa yamekauka katika nchi. Nuhu akaondoa kifuniko cha safina, akatazama nje, na akaona kwamba, Tazama, uso wa nchi ulikuwa umekauka.
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 Katika mwezi wa pili, siku ya ishirini na saba ya mwezi, nchi ilikuwa imekauka.
In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15 Mungu akamwambia Nuhu,
God said to Noah,
16 “Toka nje ya safina, wewe, mke wako, wanao wa kiume, na wake wa wanao pamoja nawe.
“Go out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
17 Wachukuwe utoke nje pamoja nao kila kiumbe hai chenye mwili ambacho kiko nawe - ndege, wanyama wa kufugwa, na kila kitambaacho ambacho hutambaa juu ya nchi - ili kwamba viweze kukua na kuwa na idadi kubwa zaidi ya viumbe hai katika nchi yote, kwa kuzaliana na kuongezeka juu ya nchi.”
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 Kwa hiyo Nuhu akatoka nje pamoja na watoto wake wa kiume, mke wake, na wake wa wa wanawe pamoja naye.
So Noah went out with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.
19 Kila kiumbe hai, kila kitambaacho, na kila ndege, na kila kiendacho juu ya nchi, kwa kabila zao, wakaiacha safina.
Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, according to their families, left the ark.
20 Nuhu akajenga madhabahu kwa Yahwe. Akachukua baadhi ya wanyama walio safi na baadhi ya ndege walio safi, na kutoa sadaka ya kuteketezwa juu ya madhabahu.
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 Yahwe akanusa harufu nzuri ya kuridhisha na akasema moyoni mwake, “Sita laani tena ardhi kwa sababu ya mwanadamu, ingawa nia za mioyo yao ni mbaya tokea utoto. Wala sita haribu kilakitu chenye uhai, kama nilivyo fanya.
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 Wakati nchi isaliapo, majira ya kupanda mbegu na mavuno, baridi na joto, kiangazi na majira ya baridi, mchana na usiku havitakoma.”
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
