Genesis 8
1 Then God remembered Noah, and all living things, and all the cattle, which were with him in the ark, and he brought a wind across the earth, and the waters were diminished.
Mungu akamtazama Nuhu, wanyama wote wa mwitu, na wanyama wote wa kufugwa ambao walikuwa pamoja naye kwenye safina. Mungu akafanya upepo uvume juu ya nchi, na maji yakaanza kuzama chini.
2 And the fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of heaven were closed. And the rain from heaven was restrained.
Chemichemi za vilindi pamoja na madirisha ya mbingu vikafungwa, na mvua ikakoma kunyesha.
3 And the waters were restored to their coming and going from the earth. And they began to diminish after one hundred and fifty days.
Maji ya gharika yakaanza kuzama kidogo kidogo katika nchi. na mwisho wa siku miamoja na hamsini maji yakawa yamezama chini.
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.
safina ikatulia katika mwezi wa saba, siku ya kumi na saba ya mwezi, juu ya milima ya Ararati.
5 Yet in truth, the waters were departing and decreasing until the tenth month. For in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tips of the mountains appeared.
Maji yakaendelea kuzama chini hadi mwezi wa kumi. Siku ya kwanza ya mwezi, vilele vya milima vikaonekana.
6 And when forty days had passed, Noah, opening the window that he had made in the ark, sent forth a raven,
Ikatokea kwamba baada ya siku arobaini Nuhu alifungua dirisha la safina ambayo aliitengeneza.
7 which went forth and did not return, until the waters were dried up across the earth.
Akatuma kunguru na akaruka hadi maji yalipo kauka katika nchi.
8 Likewise, he sent forth a dove after him, in order to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth.
Kisha akatuma njiwa kuona kama maji yamezama chini kutoka kwenye uso wa nchi,
9 But when she did not find a place where her foot might rest, she returned to him in the ark. For the waters were upon the whole earth. And he extended his hand and caught her, and he brought her into the ark.
lakini njiwa hakuona sehemu ya kutua unyayo wake, na akarudi kwake ndani ya safina, kwa kuwa maji yalikuwa bado yamefunika nchi yote. Akanyoosha mkono wake, akamchukua na kumuweka ndani ya safina pamoja naye.
10 And then, having waited a further seven days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark.
Akasubiri siku saba zingine akatuma tena njiwa kutoka kwenye safina.
11 And she came to him in the evening, carrying in her mouth an olive branch with green leaves. Noah then understood that the waters had ceased upon the earth.
Njiwa akarudi kwake jioni. Tazama! katika mdomo wake kulikuwa na jani bichi la mzeituni lililochumwa. Kwa hiyo Nuhu akatambua kuwa maji yamekwisha zama chini ya nchi.
12 And nevertheless, he waited another seven days. And he sent forth the dove, which no longer returned to him.
Akasubiri siku saba zingine na akamtuma njiwa tena. Njiwa hakurudi kwake tena.
13 Therefore, in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were diminished upon the earth. And Noah, opening the cover of the ark, gazed out and saw that the surface of the earth had become dry.
Ikawa kwamba katika mwaka wa mia sita na moja, katika mwezi wa kwanza, siku ya kwanza ya mwezi, maji yalikuwa yamekauka katika nchi. Nuhu akaondoa kifuniko cha safina, akatazama nje, na akaona kwamba, Tazama, uso wa nchi ulikuwa umekauka.
14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was made dry.
Katika mwezi wa pili, siku ya ishirini na saba ya mwezi, nchi ilikuwa imekauka.
15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying:
Mungu akamwambia Nuhu,
16 “Go out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons and the wives of your sons with you.
“Toka nje ya safina, wewe, mke wako, wanao wa kiume, na wake wa wanao pamoja nawe.
17 Bring out with you all the living things that are with you, all that is flesh: as with the birds, so also with the wild beasts and all the animals that move upon the earth. And enter upon the land: increase and multiply upon it.”
Wachukuwe utoke nje pamoja nao kila kiumbe hai chenye mwili ambacho kiko nawe - ndege, wanyama wa kufugwa, na kila kitambaacho ambacho hutambaa juu ya nchi - ili kwamba viweze kukua na kuwa na idadi kubwa zaidi ya viumbe hai katika nchi yote, kwa kuzaliana na kuongezeka juu ya nchi.”
18 And so Noah and his sons went out, and his wife and the wives of his sons with him.
Kwa hiyo Nuhu akatoka nje pamoja na watoto wake wa kiume, mke wake, na wake wa wa wanawe pamoja naye.
19 Then also all living things, and the cattle, and the animals that move upon the earth, according to their kinds, departed from the ark.
Kila kiumbe hai, kila kitambaacho, na kila ndege, na kila kiendacho juu ya nchi, kwa kabila zao, wakaiacha safina.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. And, taking from each of the cattle and birds that were clean, he offered holocausts upon the altar.
Nuhu akajenga madhabahu kwa Yahwe. Akachukua baadhi ya wanyama walio safi na baadhi ya ndege walio safi, na kutoa sadaka ya kuteketezwa juu ya madhabahu.
21 And the Lord smelled the sweet odor and said: “I will no longer curse the earth because of man. For the feelings and thoughts of the heart of man are prone to evil from his youth. Therefore, I will no longer pierce every living soul as I have done.
Yahwe akanusa harufu nzuri ya kuridhisha na akasema moyoni mwake, “Sita laani tena ardhi kwa sababu ya mwanadamu, ingawa nia za mioyo yao ni mbaya tokea utoto. Wala sita haribu kilakitu chenye uhai, kama nilivyo fanya.
22 All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, will not cease.”
Wakati nchi isaliapo, majira ya kupanda mbegu na mavuno, baridi na joto, kiangazi na majira ya baridi, mchana na usiku havitakoma.”
A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark
