Genesis 8 (GOFL)

1Shin Xoossay Nohe, iyara markabiya giddon de7iya do7a ubbaanne mehe ubbaa qopidi sa7a bolla carko carkisin he haathay wodhi wodhi bis.But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

2Qassi biitta giddon de7iya ciimmuwa pultoynne salon de7iya haatha maskooteti gordetidosona; irayka salon teqetis.The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

3Yaanin, haathay xeetanne ishatamu gallas gakanaw wodhi wodhi bis.The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.

4Haathay wodhin laapuntha ageenan, tammanne laapuntha gallasan markabey Araraate zumata bolla uttis.On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

5Haathay tammantha ageena gakanaw wodhi wodhi bis. Tammantho ageenas koyro gallas zumata xeerati bentidosona.And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

6Oytamu gallasape guye, Nohey ba keexida markabiya maskootiyaAfter forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

7dooyidi issi quuro kare yeddin quuroy haathay biitta bollafe melana gakanaw, yaanne haanne piradhishe gam7is.and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

8Qassi Nohey haathay biitta bollafe wodhi wuridaako be7anaw issi holle kare yeddis.Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

9Shin he holliya haathay biitta ubbaa bolla ha7ika de7iya gisho, shempiya bessi demmabuku. Hessa gisho, simmada, markabiyako yin, Nohey ba kushiya yeddidi, baako markabiya giddo ekis.But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.

10Hessafe guye, laapun gallas gam7idi, holliw zaaridi yeddis.Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

11He holliya sa7i omarsiya wode iyako simmada yashe shamaho aacape duuthida irxa haythi ba doonan saxa ekada yasu. Yaatin, haathay biitta bollafe wodhidaysa Nohey eris.And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

12Qassi Nohey hara laapun gallas gam7idi, he holliw zaaridi yeddis. Shin he holliya iyako simmada yabuuku.And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.

13Nohey usupun xeetanne issi laythi de7in, koyro ageenan koyro gallas, haathay biitta bollafe xiz7is. Nohey markabiya kamaa qaari xeellidi, biittay xiz7idaysa be7is.In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

14Nam7antho ageenan laatamanne laapuntha gallasan, biittay kumethi melis.By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.

15Xoossay he wode Nohe haysada yaagidi kiittis;Then God said to Noah,

16“Neeni, ne machiw, ne adde naytanne ne nayta macheta ekada markabiya giddofe keya.“Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.

17Enti yeletidi, darana mela de7oy de7iya medhetetha ubbaafe neera de7eyisata kafota, meheta, do7atanne biittara gooshetiya ubbaa neera kessa” yaagis.Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”

18Yaatin Nohey ba adde naytara, ba macheranne ba nayta machetara markabiya giddofe keyis.So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.

19Yaanin, meheynne do7ay, sa7ara gooshetiya medhetethay, kafoynne sa7a bolla woxi qaaxiyaba ubbay ba qommuwan qommuwan markabiya giddofe keyidosona.Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.

20Hessafe guye, Nohey Godaas yarsho bessi gimbidi tuna gidonna mehenne do7a ubbaafe, tuna gidonna kafo ubbaafe ekidi, giigisida bessan yarsho oothidi xuuggis.Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21Yaatin, Goday he yarshuwa peenuwa singidi, ba wozanan haysada yaagis; “Na7atethafe doomidi asi wozanan qopiyaba ubbay iita gidikoka taani asa qoho gisho gada nam7antho ha sa7aa baaddike. Qassi taani ha7i oothidaysada de7oy de7iya medhetetha ubbaa nam7antho dhaysike.When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

22Ha biittay de7ida wode ubban, zeriya wodeynne cakiya wodey, meegoyinne hombey, boneynne balgoy, gallasinne qammi ubba wode daana” yaagis.As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

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