Genesis 7Genesis7

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1. 1ASWAfei, Awurade ka kyerɛɛ Noa sɛ, “Wo ne wo fiefoɔ nyinaa nkɔ Adaka no mu, ɛfiri sɛ, asase so nnipa nyinaa no, wo na mahunu sɛ woyɛ ɔteneneeni.BSBBSB: 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. 2ASWFa mmoa a wɔn ho te biara, anini nson ne abereɛ nson ka wo ho. Na fa mmoa biara a wɔn ho nte nso mmienu, onini ne ɔbereɛ.BSBBSB: 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. 3ASWNa fa nnomaa biara anini nson ne abereɛ, sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a, nsuyire no akyiri no, wɔn ase bɛfɛe.BSBBSB: 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. 4ASWNnanson sɛ ɛnnɛ pɛpɛɛpɛ, mɛma osuo atɔ asase so awia ne anadwo adaduanan. Mɛpepa abɔdeɛ biara a nkwa wɔ mu a mabɔ afiri asase so.”BSBBSB: 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. 5ASWNoa dii nsɛm a Awurade ka kyerɛɛ no no nyinaa so.BSBBSB: And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
6. 6ASWƐberɛ a nsuyire baa asase so no, na Noa adi mfeɛ aha nsia.BSBBSB: Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
7. 7ASWNoa ne ne mmammarima ne ne yere ne ne nsenom mmaa kɔhyɛɛ adaka no mu sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a, nsuyire no renka wɔn.BSBBSB: And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
8. 8ASWMmoa a wɔn ho te ne wɔn a wɔn ho nte, nnomaa ne mmoa a wɔwea fam,BSBBSB: The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
9. 9ASWmmienu mmienu a wɔyɛ anini ne abereɛ kɔkaa Noa ho wɔ adaka no mu, sɛdeɛ Onyankopɔn ka kyerɛɛ Noa sɛ ɔnyɛ no.BSBBSB: came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
10. 10ASWNa nnanson no akyiri no, nsuyire no hyɛɛ aseɛ.BSBBSB: And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
11. 11ASWNoa dii mfeɛ ahansia no mu no, bosome a ɛtɔ so mmienu no ɛda a ɛtɔ so dunson no, nsutire a ɛwɔ asase mu no nyinaa bobɔeɛ, na ɛsoro mpomma nso buebueeɛ.BSBBSB: 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. 12ASWOsuo tɔɔ asase so awia ne anadwo adaduanan.BSBBSB: And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13. 13ASWSaa ɛda no ara, Noa ne ne mmammarima Sem, Ham ne Yafet ne ne yere ne ne mmammarima baasa no yerenom kɔhyɛɛ adaka no mu.BSBBSB: 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. 14ASWNa wiram mmoa ahodoɔ ne nyɛmmoa ahodoɔ ne aboa biara a ɔnam asase so ne anomaa biara ne abɔdeɛ biara a ɛwɔ ntaban ka wɔn ho wɔ Adaka no mu.BSBBSB: they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
15. 15ASWAbɔdeɛ biara a nkwa wɔ wɔn mu mmienu mmienu baa Noa nkyɛn bɛwuraa Adaka no mu.BSBBSB: They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
16. 16ASWMmoa a wɔwuraa mu no nyinaa, na wɔyɛ anini ne abereɛ, sɛdeɛ Onyankopɔn ka kyerɛɛ Noa no. Afei, Awurade kaa Noa hyɛɛ adaka no mu, too no mu.BSBBSB: And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
17. 17ASWNsuyire no toaa so adaduanan asase so. Ɛmaa Adaka no so ma ɛtɛɛ nsuo no ani.BSBBSB: For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
18. 18ASWNsuo no kɔɔ so yirii tɛnn wɔ asase so, ma Adaka no tɛɛ nsuo no ani.BSBBSB: So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
19. 19ASWNsuo no yirii tɛntɛntɛn wɔ asase so ara kɔsii sɛ, ɛkataa mmepɔ atentene akɛseɛ a ɛwɔ asase so nyinaa so.BSBBSB: Finally, the waters completely prevailed upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.
20. 20ASWNsuo no yirii ara kɔsii sɛ ɛkataa mmepɔ no so boroo so anammɔn aduonu.BSBBSB: The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
21. 21ASWAbɔdeɛ biara a nkwa wɔ mu a ɛnam asase so te sɛ nnomaa, wiram mmoa a wɔwea asase so ne adasamma ase hyeeɛ.BSBBSB: And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.
22. 22ASWBiribiara a ɛte asase kesee so nso ase hyeeɛ.BSBBSB: Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
23. 23ASWWɔpepaa biribiara a nkwa wɔ mu a ɛte asase so no. Nnipa ne mmoa ne abɔdeɛ a wɔnam asase so ne ewiem nnomaa nyinaa nso, wɔpepaa wɔn firii asase so. Ɛkaa Noa ne wɔn a na wɔka ne ho wɔ adaka no mu nko ara.BSBBSB: 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. 24ASWNsuyire no toaa so asase so nnafua ɔha aduonum.BSBBSB: And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.