¹Zvino Mwari wakaropafadza Nowa nevanakomana vake, akati kwavari: Berekanai muwande muzadze nyika.

¹And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

²Nekutyiwa kwenyu nekuvhundukwa kwenyu kuchava pamusoro pemhuka imwe neimwe yenyikaepamusoro peshiri imwe neimwe yedenga; chose chinokambaira pasi, nehove dzose dzegungwa, zvinopiwa pamaoko enyu.

²And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

³Choga choga chinofamba chipenyu chi­chava chikafu chenyu; kunyange miriwo mitema ndakupa zvose.

³Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

⁴Asi nyama, kana ine upenyu hwayo, ropa rayo, musadya.

⁴But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

⁵Zvino zvirokwazvo ropa renyu, reupenyu hwenyu, ndicharitsvaka; paruoko rwechipenyu chipi nechipi; ndicharitsvaka, neparuoko rwemunhu; paruoko rwehama yeumwe neumwe; ndichatsvaka upenyu hwemunhu.

⁵And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

⁶Ani naani anoteura ropa remunhu, nemunhu richateurwa ropa rake; ne­kuti nemufananidzo waMwari wakaita munhu.

⁶Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

⁷As imwi berekanai, muwande, berekanai zvikuru panyika, muwande mairi.

⁷And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

⁸Zvino Mwari wakataura kunaNowa neva­nakomana vake vaiva vanaye, akati:

⁸And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

⁹Zvino ini, tarirai, ini ndinogadza sungano yangu nemwi nembeu yenyu inokuteverai;

⁹And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

¹⁰ne­chipenyu chimwe nechimwe chinemwi, cheshiri, nezvipfuwo, nemhuka ipi neipi yenyika inemwi; zvose zvinobuda paareka, kumhuka ipi neipi yepanyika.

¹⁰And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

¹¹Uye ndichamisa sungano yangu nemwi; nenyama yose haingazopedzwizve nemvura zhinji: mvura zhinji haingazovepozve kuti ipara­dze nyika.

¹¹And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

¹²Zvino Mwari wakati: Ndi­cho chiratidzo chesungano yandinoita pakati pangu nemwi nechisikwa chipenyu chose chineni kusvikira kumarudzi asingaperi.

¹²And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

¹³Ndinodzika gangauta rangu wangu mugore, uye uchava chiratidzo chesungano pakati pangu nenyika.

¹³I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

¹⁴Zvino zvichaitika kana ndikauyisa gore pamusoro penyika, kuti mu­raraungu uyu ukaonekwa mugore;

¹⁴And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

¹⁵uye ndi­charangarira sungano yangu iri pakati pangu nemwi, nechisikwa chose chipenyu chenyama, nemvura haichazovi mafashame kuti iparadze nyama yose.

¹⁵And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

¹⁶Zvino murarabungu uchava mugore; uye ndichautarira, kuti ndirangarire sungano isingaperi pa­kati paMwari nechisikwa chose chipenyu chenyama chiri panyika.

¹⁶And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

¹⁷Zvino Mwari wakati kuna Nowa: Ndicho chiratidzo chesu­ngano yandakagadza pakati pangu nenyama yose iri pamusoro penyika.

¹⁷And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

¹⁸Zvino vanakomana vaNowa vakabuda muareka vaiva: Shemu naHamu naJafeti; uye Hamu ndiye baba vaKanani.

¹⁸And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

¹⁹Ava vatatu vanakomana vaNowa, nyika yose yakazadzwa nevakabva kwavari.

¹⁹These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.

²⁰Zvino Nowa wakatanga kuva murimi, aka­rima munda wemuzambiringa.

²⁰And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

²¹Zvino wakamwa waini, akadhakwa, akazvifukura pakati petende rake.

²¹And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

²²Zvino Hamu, baba vaKanani, akaona kusapfeka kwababa vake, akazi­visa vanakomana vamai vake vaviri panze.

²²And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

²³Zvino Shemu naJafeti vakatora nguvo, vakaiisa pamafu­dzi avo, vakaenda chinhembeshure, vakapfekedza kushama kwababa vavo; uye zviso zvavo zvaiva zvakatarira shure, vakasaona kushama kwababa vavo.

²³And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

²⁴Zvino Nowa wakamuka pawaini yake, akaziva zvaakaitirwa nemwanako­mana wake muduku.

²⁴And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

²⁵Zvino wakati: Kanani ngaapiwe rushambwa; achava muranda wevaranda kuvanakomana vamai vake.

²⁵And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

²⁶Zvino wkati: Jehovha Mwari waShemu ngaakudzwe, uye Kanani ngaave muranda wake.

²⁶And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

²⁷Mwari ngaakurise Jafeti, uye ngaagare mumatende aShemu, naKanani ngaave muranda wake.

²⁷God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

²⁸Zvino Nowa wakararama shure kwemafashame makore mazana matatu nemakumi mashanu.

²⁸And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

²⁹Mazuva ose Noa aiva mazana mapfumbamwe nemakumi ma­shanu, akafa.

²⁹And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.