Genesi
6 Anhu paakatanga kuwanda pa nyika uye ecibara ana e anakadzi, 2 ana a Mwari we zvirokwazvo* akatanga kuona kuti ana e anhu ainga akarungama. Hino awona akatanga kutora ese aakasanangura kuti agare akadzi awo. 3 Hino Djehovha akati: “Andizosii munhu wakadaro nokusikaperi, ngokuti andoriwo munhu we nyama hake.* Ngokudaro, mazuwa ake acakwana 120.”
4 Mu mazuwa awona uye mu mazuwa akazoteera, pa nyika painga pano Manefirimu.* Ana a Mwari we zvirokwazvo akarumbwa eciita zvepamaponde no ana e anhu, uye awona akaabarira ana. Aya ndiwo anhu e kare ainga ano simba, anarume ainga ano mbiri.
5 Ngokudaro, Djehovha akaona kuti ushaishi we anhu wainga wanyanya pa nyika uye kuti zvese zvaairangarira uye zvainga zviri mu mwoyo mawo zvainga zvakashata nguwa dzese. 6 Djehovha akatsumba* nge kusika kaakaita anhu pa nyika, uye mwoyo wake wakarhwadziwa maningi.* 7 Hino Djehovha akati: “Ndicatsakatisa pa nyika anhu andakasika, anhu pamwepo no zvipfuyo, no zvinyama zvinopsveremenda,* uye no zvisikwa zvinomburuka zve kudenga, ngokuti ndiri kutsumba nge ndaa ye kuasika kandakaita.” 8 Asi Nowa wakapfarirhwa na Djehovha.
9 Ii ndiyo ngano inoreketa ngezve upenyu wa Nowa.
Nowa wainga ari munhu munatsi. Iyena wainga ari munhu asina ndaa pakati pe anhu e mu nguwa yake.* Nowa waihamba na Mwari we zvirokwazvo. 10 Nokuhamba ke nguwa, Nowa wakabara ana atatu, Semi, Kami, na Djafeti. 11 Asi nyika yainga yakashata mu maonero a Mwari we zvirokwazvo, uye nyika yainga yakadzara no zvecisimba. 12 Zvezvirokwazvo, Mwari akaringira pa nyika, uye akaona kuti yainga yashata; makwanza e munhu wese* ainga ashata pa nyika.
13 Mumasure mazvo, Mwari akabvunza Nowa kuti: “Ndasanangura kutsakatisa anhu ese,* ngokuti nyika yadzara no uzondi nge ndaa yawo; ndiyo ndaa ndicaatsakatisa pamwepo no nyika. 14 Gadzira areka* no matabwa e muti unobudisa zviro zvinonama. Mukati mayo, unodikana kugadzira makwartu uye woinama no thara* mukati no kunza kayo. 15 Areka ii unodikana kuiwaka kudai: Inodikana kukura makubhiti* 300, yopamhama makubhiti 50, uye yoreba makubhiti 30. 16 Iwewe ucagadzira janera rinopinza ciedza* mu areka, unozopima kubhiti rimwe kubva panotangira denga dakara pajanera. Unodikana kukanda musuwo pa areka ngo pamuceto uye wogadzira andari yokutanga, yocipiri, uye yocitatu.
17 “Inini ndicaunza ndambi pa nyika, kuti itsakatise zvisikwa zvese* zvino upenyu* zviri pasi pe denga. Zvese zviri pa nyika zvicafa. 18 Uye ndiri kuita citenderano na iwewe, uye iwewe unodikana kupinda mu areka pamwepo no ana ako, mukadzi wako, uye no akadzi e ana ako. 19 Uye pinza zvisikwa zvese zviri pa nyika zviri zviiri-zviiri, cekono no cekadzi, kuti zvipone pamwepo na iwewe; 20 zvisikwa zvinomburuka maererano no mushobo wazvo, zvipfuyo maererano no mushobo wazvo, uye zvinyama zvese zvinopsveremenda maererano no mushobo wazvo, zvinodikana kupinda imona maunonga uri zviri zviiri-zviiri kuti zvipone. 21 Asi iwewe unodikana kuunganidza zvokurhya zve mushobo wese, kuti zvizogare zvokurhya zvako no zve zvinyama.”
22 Uye Nowa wakaita zvese zvaainga abvunzwa na Mwari. Wakaita izvona kamare.