¹And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

¹Zvino Jehovha wakati kuna Nowa: Pindai iwe nemhuri yako yose muareka, nekuti iwe ndakuona wakaru­rama pamberi pangu pazera iri.

²Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

²Pa­mhuka yose yakanaka uzvitorere nomwe nomwe, mukono nehadzi yayo; nepamhuka dzose dzisina kunaka mbiri mbiri, mukono nehadzi yayo.

³Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

³Nepashiri dzedenga utore nomwe nomwe, mukono nehadzi, kuchengetedza mbeu iri mhenyu pachiso chenyika yose.

⁴For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

⁴Nekuti kwasara mazuva manomwe, zvino ndichanaisa mvura pa­nyika mazuva makumi mana neusiku makumi mana; uye chipenyu chose chandakaita ndichachiparadza pachiso chenyika.

⁵And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

⁵Zvino Nowa wakaita sezvose Jehovha zvaakamuraira.

⁶And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

⁶Zvino Nowa wakange ava nemakore mazana matanhatu panguva yekuuya kwemvura zhinji pamusoro penyika.

⁷And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

⁷Nowa ndokupinda, nevanakomana vake nemukadzi wake nevakadzi veva­nakomana vake vanaye muareka, nekuda kwemvura yemafashame.

⁸Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

⁸Pamhuka dzakachena, nepamhuka dzisina kuchena, nepashiri, nepazvose zvinoka­mbaira pamusoro penyika,

⁹There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

⁹zvakapinda zviviri zviviri kuna Nowa muareka, mukono nehadzi, Mwari sezvaakaraira Nowa.

¹⁰And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

¹⁰Zvino zvakaitaika shure kwemazuva manomwe, kuti mvura yemafashame yakavapo panyika.

¹¹In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

¹¹Mugore remazana matanhatu reu­penyu hwaNowa, mumwedzi wechipiri, zuva regumi nemanomwe remwedzi, nezuva iroro zvitubu zvose zvepakadzika­dzika zvakadzuturwa, nemahwindo ematenga akazarurwa.

¹²And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹²Zvino mvura zhinji ikava pamusoro penyika mazuva makumi mana neusiku makumi mana.

¹³In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

¹³Nezuva iro rakadaro Nowa rakapinda muareka, naShemu, naHamu, naJafeti, vanakomana vaNowa, nemukadzi waNowa, nevakadzi vatatu vevanakomana vake pamwe naye;

¹⁴They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

¹⁴ivo, nemhuka yose nemarudzi ayo, nechi­pfuwo chose nemarudzi acho, nechino­kambaira chose chinokambaira panyika nemarudzi acho, nechinobhururuka chose nemarudzi acho neshiri yose yemarudzi ose.

¹⁵And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

¹⁵Zvino zvakapinda kuna Nowa muareka, zviviri zviviri zvenyama yose zvine mweya weupenyu.

¹⁶And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

¹⁶Nezvakapinda, zvakapinda mu­kono nehadzi, zvenyama yose, Mwari sezvaakaraira, Jehovha akamupfigira mukati.

¹⁷And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

¹⁷Zvino mafashame akavapo pamusoro penyika ma­zuva makumi mana; mvura ikawa­nda, ikasimudza areka, ikakwiridzirwa pamusoro penyika.

¹⁸And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

¹⁸Mvura ndokukwirira nesimba, ikawanda kwazvo pamusoro penyika, areka ikafa­mba pamusoro pechiso chemvura.

¹⁹And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

¹⁹Zvino mvura yaka­kwirira nesimba zvikurusa pamusoro penyika, makomo marefu ose pasi pedenga rose akaputirwa.

²⁰Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

²⁰Makubiti gumi nemashanu mvura yakakwirira nesimba makomo akaputirwa.

²¹And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

²¹Nenyama yose yaifamba pamusoro penyika ikafa, zvose yeshiri neyechipfuwo neyemhuka neyechose chinokambaira, chinokambaira pamusoro penyika, nemunhu wose;

²²All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

²²chose chine kufema kwemweya weupenyu mumhino dzacho, zvose zvakanga zviri pakaoma pasi, zvakafa.

²³And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

²³Chipenyu chose, chaivapo, chaiva pachiso chepasi, kubva kumunhu kusvika kuchipfuwo, nezvinhu zvinokambaira zvose nekushiri dzematenga zvakaparadzwa. Nowa oga wakasara, nezvaiva naye muareka.

²⁴And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

²⁴Mvura ndokukwirira nesimba pamusoro pe­nyika mazuva zana nemakumi ma­shanu.