Genesis 7

1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

1 Ndipo Bwana akamwambia Noa, “Ingia katika safina wewe na jamaa yako yote, kwa sababu katika kizazi hiki nimeona ya kuwa wewe ni mwenye haki.

2 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;

2 Uchukue wanyama saba walio safi wa kila aina, wa kiume na wa kike, na wanyama wawili wawili wa kila aina walio najisi wa kiume na wa kike.

3 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.

3 Pia uchukue ndege saba walio safi wa kila aina, wa kiume na wa kike, ili kuhifadhi aina zao mbalimbali katika dunia yote.

4 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.”

4 Siku saba kuanzia sasa nitaleta mvua juu ya nchi kwa siku arobaini usiku na mchana, nami nitafutilia mbali kutoka uso wa nchi kila kiumbe hai nilichokiumba.”

5 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.

5 Noa akafanya yote kama Bwana alivyomwamuru.

6 Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.

6 Noa alikuwa na miaka 600 gharika ilipokuja juu ya dunia.

7 And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

7 Noa na mkewe na wanawe na wake zao wakaingia katika safina ili waepuke ile gharika.

8 The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground

8 Jozi ya wanyama walio safi na walio najisi, ndege na viumbe vitambaavyo,

9 came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

9 wa kiume na wa kike, walikuja kwa Noa wakaingia katika safina kama Mungu alivyomwamuru Noa.

10 And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.

10 Baada ya siku saba, maji ya gharika yakaja juu ya dunia.

11 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.

11 Katika siku ya kumi na saba ya mwezi wa pili mwaka wa 600 wa kuishi kwake Noa, siku hiyo ndipo chemchemi zote hata zilizo chini sana ya ardhi zilibubujika kwa nguvu, na malango ya mafuriko ya mbinguni yakafunguliwa.

12 And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

12 Mvua ikanyesha juu ya nchi siku arobaini usiku na mchana.

13 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—

13 Siku hiyo Noa, na mkewe, na wanawe Shemu, Hamu na Yafethi pamoja na wake zao wakaingia katika ile safina.

14 they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.

14 Nao walikuwa pamoja na kila mnyama wa mwituni kufuatana na aina yake, wanyama wote wafugwao kufuatana na aina zao, kila kiumbe kitambaacho juu ya ardhi kwa aina yake, na kila ndege kufuatana na aina yake, naam kila kiumbe chenye mabawa.

15 They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.

15 Viumbe vyote vyenye pumzi ya uhai ndani yake vikaja kwa Noa viwili viwili, vikaingia katika safina.

16 And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

16 Wanyama walioingia katika safina walikuwa wa kiume na wa kike, wa kila kiumbe chenye uhai kama Mungu alivyomwamuru Noa, ndipo Bwana akamfungia ndani.

17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

17 Kwa siku arobaini mafuriko yaliendelea kujaa duniani na maji yalivyozidi kuongezeka, yaliinua safina juu sana kutoka kwenye uso wa nchi.

18 So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

18 Maji yakajaa na kuongezeka sana juu ya nchi, na safina ikaelea juu ya uso wa maji.

19 Finally, the waters completely prevailed upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.

19 Maji yakazidi kujaa juu ya nchi, yakaifunika milima yote mirefu chini ya mbingu yote.

20 The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.

20 Maji yakaendelea kujaa yakaifunika milima kwa kina cha zaidi ya dhiraa kumi na tano.

21 And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.

21 Kila kiumbe hai kitambaacho juu ya nchi kikaangamia: Ndege, wanyama wa kufugwa, wanyama pori, viumbe vyote juu ya nchi na wanadamu wote.

22 Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

22 Kila kiumbe juu ya nchi kavu chenye pumzi ya uhai kikafa.

23 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.

23 Kila kitu chenye uhai juu ya uso wa nchi kilifutiliwa mbali, watu, wanyama, viumbe vitambaavyo na ndege warukao angani wakafutiliwa mbali toka duniani. Waliobaki ni Noa peke yake na wale waliokuwa pamoja naye ndani ya safina.

24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.

24 Maji yakaifunika dunia kwa siku 150.