Genesis 7 (NDE)

1UThixo wathi kuNowa, “Ngena emkhunjini, wena kanye lendlu yakho yonke, ngoba ngikufumane ulungile kulesi isizukulwane.Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

2Ngena lezinyamazana eziyisikhombisa ezemihlobo yonke yezinyamazana ezihlanzekileyo, enduna lensikazi, lezimbili ezemihlobo yonke yezinyamazana ezingcolileyo, enduna lensikazi yayo,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;

3njalo eziyisikhombisa zezinyoni zemihlobo yonke, ezinduna lezinsikazi, ukuze kugcinakale uhlobo lwazo zonke emhlabeni.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.

4Ngemva kwensuku eziyisikhombisa kusukela manje ngizathumela izulu emhlabeni okwensuku ezingamatshumi amane lobusuku obungamatshumi amane, njalo ngizatshabalalisa sonke isidalwa esiphilayo engasenzayo emhlabeni.”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.”

5UNowa wakwenza konke lokho akulaywa nguThixo.And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.

6UNowa wayeleminyaka engamakhulu ayisithupha yobudala ekufikeni kukazamcolo emhlabeni.Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.

7UNowa lamadodana akhe, lomkakhe kanye labomalukazana bakhe bangena emkhunjini ukuze baphephe emanzini kazamcolo.And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

8Ngazimbili izinyamazana ezihlanzekileyo lezingcolileyo, ezezinyoni lezezinanakazana zonke ezihuquzela emhlabathini,The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground

9ezinduna lezinsikazi zeza kuNowa zangena emkhunjini, njengokulaywa kukaNowa nguNkulunkulu.came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

10Kwathi ngemva kwensuku eziyisikhombisa amanzi kazamcolo eza emhlabeni.And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.

11Ngomnyaka wamakhulu ayisithupha wokuphila kukaNowa, ngosuku lwetshumi lesikhombisa lwenyanga yesibili, ngalolosuku yonke imithombo yolwandle olukhulu yadabuka, lamasango amanzi amazulu avuleka.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.

12Izulu lana emhlabeni okwensuku ezingamatshumi amane lobusuku obungamatshumi amane.And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

13Ngalolosuku uNowa lamadodana akhe, uShemu, uHamu loJafethi, kanye lomkakhe labomalukazana bakhe bamadodana akhe womathathu bangena emkhunjini.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—

14Babelazo zonke izinyamazana zeganga kusiya ngemihlobo yazo, zonke izifuyo kusiya ngemihlobo yazo, zonke izinanakazana ezihuquzela emhlabathini kusiya ngemihlobo yazo lazozonke izinyoni kusiya ngemihlobo yazo, yonke into elempiko.they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.

15Zeza kuNowa ngazimbili zonke izidalwa ezilomphefumulo wokuphila zangena emkhunjini.They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.

16Izinyamazana ezazingena zazingezinduna lezinsikazi ezezinto zonke eziphilayo, njengalokho uNkulunkulu ayekulaye uNowa. Emva kwalokho uThixo wasemvalela phakathi.And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

17Okwensuku ezingamatshumi amane impophoma zaphikelela zithululeka emhlabeni, kwathi ngokwanda kwamanzi awuphakamisa umkhumbi waba ngaphezulu komhlaba.For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

18Amanzi akhwela anda kakhulu emhlabeni, umkhumbi wandenda phezu kwamanzi.So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

19Akhwela kakhulu emhlabeni, kwathi zonke izintaba eziphakemeyo ngaphansi kwawo wonke amazulu zasibekelwa.Finally, the waters completely prevailed upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.

20Amanzi akhwela asibekela izintaba zatshona okudlula izingalo ezingamatshumi amabili.The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.

21Zonke izinto eziphilayo ezihamba phezu komhlaba zafa, izinyoni, izifuyo, izinyamazana zeganga, zonke izidalwa ezazitshatshama phezu komhlaba, loluntu lonke.And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.

22Yonke into ephefumula impilo ngamakhala ayo nxa isemhlabathini owomileyo yafa.Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

23Yonke into ephilayo phezu komhlaba yakhukhulwa; abantu lezinyamazana lezinanakazana ezihuquzela emhlabathini kanye lezinyoni zemkhathini kwakhuculwa emhlabeni. NguNowa kuphela owasalayo, lalabo ababelaye emkhunjini.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.

24Amanzi agcwala emhlabeni okwensuku ezilikhulu lamatshumi amahlanu.And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.

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