Genesis 7Genesis7

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1. 1AKWAfei, Awurade ka kyerɛɛ Noa se, “Wo ne wo fifo nyinaa nkɔ Adaka no mu, efisɛ asase so nnipa nyinaa mu no, wo na mahu sɛ woyɛ ɔtreneeni.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. 2AKWFa mmoa a wɔn ho tew biara, anini ason ne abere ason ka wo ho. Na fa mmoa biara a wɔn ho ntew nso abien, onini ne ɔbere.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. 3AKWNa fa nnomaa biara anini ason ne abere, sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a nsuyiri no akyi 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. 4AKWNnanson akyi no mɛma osu atɔ wɔ asase so awia ne anadwo adaduanan. Mɛpepa abɔde biara a nkwa wɔ mu a mabɔ afi 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. 5AKWNoa dii nsɛm a Awurade ka kyerɛɛ no no nyinaa so.BSBBSB: And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
6. 6AKWBere a nsuyiri baa asase so no, na Noa adi mfe ahansia.BSBBSB: Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
7. 7AKWNoa ne ne mmabarima ne ne yere ne ne nsenom mmea kɔhyɛɛ adaka no mu sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a nsuyiri 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. 8AKWMmoa a wɔn ho tew ne wɔn a wɔn ho ntew, nnomaa ne mmoa a wɔwea fam,BSBBSB: The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
9. 9AKWabien abien a wɔyɛ anini ne abere kɔkaa Noa ho wɔ adaka no mu, sɛnea 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. 10AKWNa nnanson no akyi no, nsuyiri no fii ase.BSBBSB: And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
11. 11AKWNoa dii mfe ahansia no mu no, ɔsram a ɛto so abien no da a ɛto so dunson no, nsuti a ɛwɔ asase mu no nyinaa bobɔe, na ɔsoro mfɛnsere nso buebuei.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. 12AKWOsu tɔɔ wɔ asase so awia ne anadwo adaduanan.BSBBSB: And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13. 13AKWSaa da no ara, Noa ne ne mmabarima Sem, Ham ne Yafet ne ne yere ne ne mmabarima 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. 14AKWNa wuram mmoa ahorow ne nyɛmmoa ahorow ne aboa biara a ɔnam asase so ne anomaa biara ne abɔde 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. 15AKWAbɔde biara a nkwa wɔ wɔn mu abien abien baa Noa nkyɛn bewuraa Adaka no mu.BSBBSB: They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
16. 16AKWMmoa a wowuraa mu no nyinaa, na wɔyɛ anini ne abere, sɛnea 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. 17AKWNsuyiri no toaa so adaduanan wɔ asase so. Ɛmaa Adaka no so maa ɛtɛn nsu 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. 18AKWNsu no kɔɔ so yirii tɛnn wɔ asase so, maa Adaka no tɛn nsu 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. 19AKWNsu no yirii tɛnn wɔ asase so ara kosii sɛ ɛkataa mmepɔw atenten akɛse 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. 20AKWNsu no yirii ara kosii sɛ ɛkataa mmepɔw no so boroo so anammɔn aduonu.BSBBSB: The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
21. 21AKWAbɔde biara a nkwa wɔ mu a ɛnam asase so te sɛ nnomaa, wuram mmoa a wɔwea asase so ne adesamma ase hyewee.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. 22AKWBiribiara a ɛte asase ani no nso ase hyewee.BSBBSB: Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
23. 23AKWWɔpepaa biribiara a nkwa wɔ mu a ɛte asase so no. Nnipa ne mmoa ne abɔde a wɔnam asase so ne wim nnomaa nyinaa nso wɔpepaa wɔn fii asase so. Ɛkaa Noa ne wɔn a na wɔka ne ho wɔ adaka no mu no 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. 24AKWNsuyiri no toaa so wɔ asase so nnafua ɔha aduonum.BSBBSB: And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.