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Dej nqeg
1Vaajtswv ncu txug Nau‑a hab tej tsaj qus tsaj nyeg huvsw kws nrug Nau‑a nyob huv lub nkoj. Mas Vaajtswv txhad ua cua ntsawj rua sau lub nplajteb dej txhad nqeg.
2Tej qhov dej txhawv huv nruab tiv txwv hab tej rooj ntug kuj raug muab kaw, naag sau ntuj txhad tu lawm.
3Dej txhad nqeg sau lub nplajteb quas zug lawm. Thaus dhau ib puas tswb caug nub lawm dej kuj nqeg lawm ntau.
4Nub tim kaum xyaa lub xyaa hli lub nkoj lug txawb rua sau tej roob Alalab.
5Dej nqeg quas zug moog txug lub kaum hli. Nub xab ib lub kaum hli tej ncov roob kuj tshwm tuaj.
6Dhau plaub caug nub lawm Nau‑a qheb lub qhov rais nkoj kws nwg ua,
7nwg tso ib tug uab voj tawm moog. Tug uab voj hov yaa moog yaa lug moog txug thaus dej qhuav taag huv lub nplajteb.
8Nau‑a tso ib tug nquab taug yaa moog, saib dej nqeg taag huv lub nplajteb los tsw tau.
9Tassws tug nquab taug nrhav tsw tau chaw tsaws vem dej tseed nyaab thoob nplajteb, mas txhad yaa rov lug rua ntawm Nau‑a huv lub nkoj. Mas Nau‑a cev teg moog nteg tug nquab hov lug rua huv lub nkoj.
10Nau‑a tog dua xyaa nub le tso tug nquab tawm huv lub nkoj moog dua ib zag.
11Thaus yuav tsaus ntuj tug nquab rov lug rua ntawm Nau‑a, tug kaug ncauj kwv ib daim nplooj txwv aulib ntsuab ntsuab kws nyav de lug. Nau‑a txhad paub tas dej nqeg taag huv lub nplajteb lawm.
12Nau‑a tog dua xyaa nub le tso tug nquab tawm moog, mas tug nquab tsw rov lug rua ntawm Nau‑a le lawm.
13Xyoo kws rau pua ib, lub ib hlis nub xab ib dej qhuav taag huv lub nplajteb, mas Nau‑a yaws tej vuag kws vuv lub nkoj saib mas pum tas aav qhuav lawm.
14Thaus txug nub tim neeg nkaum xyaa lub ob hlis lub nplajteb qhuav taag lawm.
15Yawmsaub has rua Nau‑a tas,
16“Koj hab koj quaspuj koj tej tub tej nyaab huvsw ca le tawm huv lub nkoj moog.
17Ca le coj txhua yaam tsaj caj sa kws nrug koj nyob tawm lug, tsw has naag noog tsaj txhu hab txhua yaam tsaj kws nkaag huv aav, sub txhad tau yeej noob fuam vaam coob rua huv nplajteb.”
18Nau‑a hab nwg tug quaspuj hab nwg tej tub tej nyaab txawm tawm lug.
19Txhua yaam tsaj txhu hab txhua yaam tsaj kws nkaag huv aav hab txhua yaam noog, yog txhua yaam tsaj kws nkaag hab yaa huv lub nplajteb, kuj tawm ib yaam zuj zug huv lub nkoj lug.
20Nau‑a ua ib lub thaaj rua Yawmsaub, mas muab tej tsaj kws huv hab tej noog kws huv qee tug lug hlawv xyeem sau lub thaaj hov.
21Thaus Yawmsaub nov tej paa tsw qaab kws hum nwg lub sab mas nwg has huv nwg lub sab tas, “Kuv yuav tsw tsawm foom nplajteb dua le lawm vem yog tim tuabneeg, txawm yog tuabneeg xaav zaaj phem rua huv lub sab ib txwm thaus yau lug kuj xwj. Hab kuv yuav tsw muab txhua yaam kws caj sa ua kuas puam tsuaj dua le lawm, ib yaam le kuv tau ua lug lawm.
22Thaus lub nplajteb tseed muaj nyob, yuav muaj lub caij tseb lub caij sau, muaj lub caij txag lub caij suv, muaj lub caij ntuj no lub caij ntuj kub, muaj nruab nub muaj mo ntuj tsw tu ncua le.”
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1But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.
2Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.
3The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
4and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
6After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark
7and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
8Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
9But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.
10He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
11When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
12He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
13By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
14By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
15Then God said to Noah,
16“Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
17Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”
18So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.
19All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.
20Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
21The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though⚓ every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
22“As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease.”