¹And it came to pass when mankind began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them,

¹Zvino zvakaitika vanhu pavaitanga kuwanda pachiso chenyika, vachiberekerwa vanasi­kana,

²that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose.

²kuti vanakomana vaMwari vakaona vakunda vevanhu kuti vakanaka, vakazvitorera vakadzi pakati pavose vavakasarudza.

³And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

³Zvino Jehovha wakati, Mweya wangu haungagari mumunhu nekusingaperi, nekuti iye inyamawo; asi mazuva ake achava makore zana nemakumi ma­viri.

⁴In those days were the giants on the earth, and also afterwards, when the sons of God had come in to the daughters of men, and they had borne [children] to them; these were the heroes, who of old were men of renown.

⁴Panguva iyo kwaiva nehamburamakaka panyika, nepashu­rewo, kana vanakomana vaMwari vakapinda kuvakunda vevanhu, ivo vakavaberekera vana. Ndivo vaiva vanhu vane simba vakare, vakange vakakuru­mbira.

⁵And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually.

⁵Zvino Jehovha wakaona kuti kuipa kwevanhu kwakakura panyika, nendangariro dzemifungo­yemoyo yavo dzaiva zuva rose.

⁶And Jehovah repented that he had made Man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

⁶Jehovha akazvidemba kuti wakaita munhu panyika, zvikamushungurudza pamoyo wake.

⁷And Jehovah said, I will destroy Man, whom I have created, from the earth -- from man to cattle, to creeping things, and to fowl of the heavens; for I repent that I have made them.

⁷Jeho­vha ndokuti: Ndichaparadza munhu wanda­kasika ndimubvise pachiso chenyika, kubva kunhu kuenda ku­mhuka kusvika kune zvinokambaira, neshiri dzedenga; nekuti ndinozvidemba kuti ndakazviita.

⁸But Noah found favour in the eyes of Jehovah.

⁸Asi Nowa wakawana nyasha pamberi paJehovha.

⁹This is the history of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect amongst his generations: Noah walked with God.

⁹Ndiyo nhoroondo yedzinza raNowa: Nowa waiva munhu wakarurama, wakaperedzerwa pamazera ake; Nowa wakafamba naMwari.

¹⁰And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

¹⁰Nowa ndokubereka vanakomana vatatu, Shemu, naHamu, naJafeti.

¹¹And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was full of violence.

¹¹Nyikawo yaiva yakaora pamberi paMwari, nyika yakanga izere nekumani­kidza.

¹²And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth.

¹²Mwari ndokuona nyika, zvino tarira, yakaora; nekuti nyama yose yakaodza nzira dzayo panyika.

¹³And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is full of violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

¹³Zvino Mwari wakati kuna Nowa, Kupera kwenyama yose kwasvika pamberi pangu; nekuti nyika izere nekumanikidza nekuda kwavo; zvino tarira, ndichavaparadza pamwe nenyika.

¹⁴Make thyself an ark of gopher wood: [with] cells shalt thou make the ark; and pitch it inside and outside with pitch.

¹⁴Zviitire areka nemuti wemugoferi; uite makamuri mua­reka, uiname mukati nekunze nenamo.

¹⁵And thus shalt thou make it: let the length of the ark be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

¹⁵Unofanira kuiita nenzira iyi: Kureba kweareka ngakuve makubhiti mazana matatu, kufara kwayo makubhiti makumi mashanu, nekukwi­rira kwayo makubhiti makumi matatu.

¹⁶A light shalt thou make to the ark; and to a cubit high shalt thou finish it above. And the door of the ark shalt thou set in its side: [with] a lower, second, and third [story] shalt thou make it.

¹⁶Buri uchariita paareka; uripedze kana kwasara kubhiti rimwe kubva kumusoro; nemusuwo weareka uuise parutivi rwayo; uiite ine dzimba nhatu, mupanda woku­tanga, nowechipiri, nowechitatu.

¹⁷For I, behold, I bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all flesh under the heavens in which is the breath of life: everything that is on the earth shall expire.

¹⁷Zvino tarira, ini ndinouyisa panyika mvura zhi­nji, kuzoparadze zvipenyu zvose zvine mweya weupenyu, kubva pasi pedenga; zvose zviri panyika zvichafa.

¹⁸But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt go into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

¹⁸Asi ndichagadza sungano yangu newe; uye unofa­nira kupinda muareka, iwe nevanako­mana vako, nemukadzi wako, nevakadzi vevanakomana vako pamwe newe.

¹⁹And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every [sort] shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep [them] alive with thee: they shall be male and female.

¹⁹Napazvipenyu zvose, nepanyama yose uise muareka zviviri zviviri zvemarudzi ose, kuti zvirarame pamwechete newe; zvichzva mukono nehadzi.

²⁰Of fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of each shall go in to thee, to keep [them] alive.

²⁰Pashiri nemarudzi adzo, nezvipfuwo namarudzi azvo, nezvinokambaira zvepasi zvose ne­marudzi azvo, zvichauya kwauri zviviri zviviri zvamarudzi ose, uzvichengete zviri zvipenyu.

²¹And take thou of all food that is eaten, and gather [it] to thee, that it may be for food for thee and for them.

²¹Iwe utore marudzi ose ezvoku­dya zvinodyiwa, uzviunganidzire kwauri; kuti zvive chikafu chako nechazvo.

²²And Noah did it; according to all that God had commanded him, so did he.

²²Nowa akaita saizvozvo; se­zvose zvaakarairwa naMwari, wakaita saizvozvo.