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

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

²The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.

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

³Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.

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

⁴But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.

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

⁵I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.

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

⁶Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

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

⁷Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”

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

⁸God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

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

⁹“As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

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

¹⁰and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.

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

¹¹I will establish my covenant with you: all flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

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

¹²God 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:

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

¹³I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

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

¹⁴It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,

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

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

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

¹⁶The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

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

¹⁷God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

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

¹⁸The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.

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

¹⁹These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.

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

²⁰Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

²⁰Zvino Nowa wakatanga kuva murimi, aka­rima munda wemuzambiringa.

²¹He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.

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

²²Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

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

²³Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.

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

²⁴Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

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

²⁵He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be servant of servants to his brothers.”

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

²⁶He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.

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

²⁷May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.”

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

²⁸Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.

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

²⁹All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.

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