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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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Noah’s Deliverance
1Then God ⚓remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. ⚓And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
2⚓The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also ⚓stopped, and ⚓the rain from heaven was restrained.
3And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end ⚓of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
4Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
6So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah ⚓opened the window of the ark which he had made.
7Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth.
8He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground.
9But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself.
10And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark.
11Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
12So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore.
13And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry.
14And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.
15Then God spoke to Noah, saying,
16“Go out of the ark, ⚓you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.
17Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and ⚓be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”
18So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.
19Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.
God’s Covenant with Creation
20Then Noah built an ⚓altar to the Lord, and took of ⚓every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered ⚓burnt offerings on the altar.
21And the Lord smelled ⚓a soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again ⚓curse the ground for man’s sake, although the ⚓imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; ⚓nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.
22“While the earth ⚓remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And ⚓day and night
Shall not cease.”