¹Zvino matenga nenyika zvikapera saizvo­zvo, nehondo yazvo yose.

¹The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array.

²Mwari aka­pedza basa rake raakaita nezuva rechinomwe; ndokuzorora nezuva rechinomwe pabasa rake rose raakange aita.

²On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

³Zvino Mwari wakaropafadza zuva rechinomwe, akariita dzvene; nekuti wakazorora naro pabasa rake rose, Mwari raakange asika nekuita.

³God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

⁴Ndiyo nhoroondo yemazera ematenga nenyika, pakusikwa kwazvo; nezuva iro Jeho­vha Mwari raakaita nyika nematenga,

⁴This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. God made the earth and the heavens.

⁵nemakwenzi esango akanga achigere ku­vapo panyika, nemuriwo umwe neumwe wesango waka­nge uchigere kumera; nekuti Jehovha Mwari akange asati anaisa mvura pa­nyika, uye kwakange kusina munhu ku­zorima pasi.

⁵No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

⁶Asi mhute yaisimuka ichi­bva panyika ichinyorovesa chiso chose chenyika.

⁶but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

⁷Zvino Jehovha Mwari wakaumba munhu neguruva revhu, akafemera mumhino dzake mweya weupenyu; munhu ndokuva mweya mupenyu.

⁷Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

⁸Zvino Jehovha Mwari wakasima munda muEdheni, kumabvazuva, ndokuisapo mu­nhu waakange aumba.

⁸Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

⁹Zvino Jehovha Mwari wakameresa pasi miti yose inofadza pakuona, uye yakanaka kudya; uye muti weupenyu pakati pemunda, nemuti wokuziva zva­kanaka nezvakaipa.

⁹Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁰Zvino rwizi rwakabuda muEdheni kuzodiridza munda, uye kubva ipapo rwakaparadzaniswa rwukava misoro mina.

¹⁰A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.

¹¹Zita rerwekutanga ndiPishoni; ndirwo runopoteredza nyika yose yeHavhira, pane ndarama ipapo;

¹¹The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

¹²uye ndarama yenyika iyoyo yakanaka; pane dheriumu nebwe reonikisi.

¹²and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.

¹³Zvino zita rerwizi rwechipiri ndiGihoni; ndirwo runopoteredza nyika yose yeKushi.

¹³The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.

¹⁴Zvino zita rerwizi rwechitatu ndiHedhekeri, ndirwo runoyerera kumabva­zuva kweAsiria. Uye rwizi rwechina ndiYu­furatesi.

¹⁴The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

¹⁵Zvino Jehovha Mwari wakatora munhu, akamuisa mumunda weEdheni, kuti au­rime nekuuchengeta.

¹⁵Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

¹⁶Zvino Jehovha Mwari wakaraira munhu achiti: Pamiti yose yemunda ungadya uchidya,

¹⁶Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

¹⁷asi muti werizivo rwezvakanaka nezvakaipa usadya pauri; nekuti nemusi waunoudya, uchafa zvirokwa­zvo.

¹⁷but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die.”

¹⁸Zvino Jehovha Mwari wakatizve, Ha­zvina kunaka kuti munhu ave oga; ndichamuitira mubatsiri wakafanana naye.

¹⁸Yahweh God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”

¹⁹Zvino Jehovha Mwari wakaumba nevhu mhuka dzose dzesango, neshiri dzose dzedenga, akadziisa kumunhu kuti aone kuti acha­dzitumidza kuti chii, uye chipenyu chose sechazvakatumidzwa nemunhu, ndiro rakava zita racho.

¹⁹Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

²⁰Zvino munhu wakapa mazita kuzvipfuwo zvose nekushiri dzedenga, nemhuka dzose dzesango; asi kumunhu kwakashaikwa mubatsiri wakamukwanira.

²⁰The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.

²¹Zvino Jehovha Mwari wakakonzera hope huru kuwira pamusoro pemunhu, ndokuvata; zvino wakatora rumwe rwemabvu dzake, akadzivira nyama panzvimbo yarwo.

²¹Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

²²Zvino nerumbabvu urwo Jehovha Mwari rwaakatora pamunhu, akaita mukadzi, akamuisa kumu­nhu.

²²He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.

²³Munhu akati: Ikozvino uyu ipfupa remafupa angu, nenyama yenyama ya­ngu, uchanzi mukadzi, nekuti wa­kabviswa pamurume.

²³The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

²⁴Naizvozvo munhu uchasiya baba vake namai vake, anamatire mukadzi wake, uye vachava nyama imwe.

²⁴Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

²⁵Zvino vose vari vaviri vakange vasina kupfeka, munhu nemukadzi wake, asi ha­vana kunyara.

²⁵They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.