Genesis 8 (MKW)

1Nzambi bambukilaka Nowa moyo, na bibulu nyonso ya bwala mpe ya mfinda yina vwandaka kintwadi na yandi na kati ya nzaza. Yandi fidisaka kitembo na zulu ya maza, mpe maza bandaka na kukuluka.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.

2Maza ya yisi ya ntoto bikaka na kubasika. Banela ya dizulu kangamaka, mpe mvula bikaka na kunoka.The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

3Na manima ya bilumbu nkama mosi na makumi tanu (150), maza bandaka na kuyuma malembe-malembe.The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.

4Na kilumbu ya kumi na nsambwadi ya ngonda ya nsambwadi, nzaza kwendaka kangama na myongo ya kizunga ya Alalate.On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

5Maza tatamanaka na kukawuka tii na ngonda ya kumi. Na kilumbu ya ntete ya ngonda yina ya kumi, bansongi ya myongo kwizaka talana.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.

6Na manima ya bilumbu makumi yiya, Nowa fungulaka nela yina yandi salaka na nzaza.After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

7Yandi bikaka nkwankwa kukwenda. Nkwankwa basikaka, yawu kwendaka, mpe vutukaka bambala mingi tii kukawuka ya maza na ntoto.and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

8Na manima, yandi bikaka dibembe kukwenda, samu na kutala kana maza kulukaka na ntoto.Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

9Kasi dibembe yango kuzwaka ve kisika ya kutentama. Ni yawu yina, yawu vutukaka na sika ya Nowa, kuna na nzaza, samu ti maza vwandaka ntete na zulu ya ntoto nyonso. Nowa lambulaka diboko na kubaka yawu mpe kukotisa yawu na nzaza.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.

10Yandi vingilaka dyaka bilumbu nsambwadi ya nkaka. Na manima, yandi bikaka dyaka dibembe kudumuka na ngaanda ya nzaza.Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

11Na nkokila dibembe yango vutukaka na sika ya yandi. Yawu vwandaka na kintala ya yinti ya olive na yinwa. Ni mutindu yina Nowa zabaka ti maza vwandaka me kuluka na ntoto.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.

12Nowa vingilaka dyaka bilumbu nsambwadi ya nkaka. Na manima, yandi bikaka dibembe kukwenda, kasi yawu vutukaka dyaka ve na nzaza.And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.

13Na kilumbu ya ntete ya ngonda ya ntete, na mvula yina Nowa lungisaka bamvula bankama sambanu na mosi (601), maza sikaka na ntoto. Nowa katulaka muludi ya nzaza, mpe yandi talaka ti ntoto vwandaka me yuma.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.

14Na kilumbu ya makumi zole na nsambwadi ya ngonda ya zole, ntoto vwandaka ya kuyuma.By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.

15Nzambi zonzaka na Nowa mutindu yayi:Then God said to Noah,

16«Basika na nzaza, nge, na kento ya nge, na bana ya nge, na bakento ya bana ya nge.“Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.

17Bibulu nyonso yina kele kintwadi na nge, konso mutindu ya bandeke, konso mutindu ya bibulu ya nene na ya fyoti-fyoti yina ke tambulaka na ntoto, basisa bawu nzila mosi na nge. Bawu fwana kutambula na ntoto, kubutana, mpe kukuma mingi.»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.”

18Nowa basikaka na bana ya yandi, na kento ya yandi, mpe na bakento ya bana ya yandi.So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.

19Makanda na makanda ya bibulu nyonso, bibulu ya fyoti-fyoti, bandeke nyonso, mpe makanda na makanda ya nyonso yina ke tambulaka na ntoto, bawu basikaka na nzaza.Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.

20Nowa yidikaka kiyokolo ya minkayulu samu na Yave. Yandi bakaka mosi-mosi na konso mutindu ya bibulu ya kuvedila, na konso mutindu ya bandeke ya kuvedila, mpe yandi yokaka yawu mutindu minkayulu ya kuyoka na zulu ya kiyokolo ya minkayulu.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.

21Yave kuwaka nsunga ya kitoko mpe kanisaka mutindu yayi: «Mu ke siinga dyaka ve ntoto samu na muntu. Ya tsyelika, ntima ya muntu kele ya kukangama na yimbi kubanda buntwenya ya yandi. Mu ke kufwa dyaka ve nyonso yina kele moyo mutindu mu me sala yawu.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.

22«Bantangu nyonso yina ntoto ke zingila, kukunda bambuma mpe kuyonzika yawu, madidi mpe tiya, ntangu ya bamvula mpe ntangu ya madidi ya ngolo, mpimpa na ntangu, yawu ke manisa ve.»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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