¹Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

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

²You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

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

³Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

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

⁴In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground.”

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

⁵Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

⁵Zvino Nowa wakaita sezvose Jehovha zvaakamuraira.

⁶Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

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

⁷Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the waters of the flood.

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

⁸Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

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

⁹went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

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

¹⁰It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on 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, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky’s windows were opened.

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

¹²The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

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

¹³In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship;

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

¹⁴they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its 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.

¹⁵They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.

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

¹⁶Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.

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

¹⁷The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

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

¹⁸The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

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

¹⁹The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

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

²⁰The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

²⁰Makubiti gumi nemashanu mvura yakakwirira nesimba makomo akaputirwa.

²¹All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on 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 the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

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

²³Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

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

²⁴The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.

²⁴Mvura ndokukwirira nesimba pamusoro pe­nyika mazuva zana nemakumi ma­shanu.