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1Tswv Ntuj nco ntsoov txog Nos Hes, tas cov tsiaj qus thiab tsiaj nyeg uas nrog Nos Hes nyob hauv lub nkoj; Tswv Ntuj tso ib nthwv cua tuaj tshuab lub ntiaj teb. Cov dej thiaj nqig tas. 2Cov dej txhawv hauv tiv txwv txhaws tas, hos cov qhov rooj thaiv dej saum ntuj kuj kaw tas huv tib si, ces nag tsis tau kev poob los rau ntiaj teb ntxiv lawm. 3Dej thiaj li nqig zuj zus hauv ntiaj teb. Tom qab ib puas tsib caug hnub dej thiaj mam nqig tas. 4Thaum lub xya hli, hnub tim kaum xya, lub nkoj los khuam rau saum cov ncov roob As Las Las. 5Dej nqig mus txog lub kaum hli, ces hnub tim ib lub kaum hli cov ncov roob mam li tshwm tuaj.
1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided. 2 The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained. 3 The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded. 4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains. 5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.
6Nos Hes tos plaub caug hnub, ces nws qhib lub qhov rai uas nws tau ua rau ntawm lub nkoj, 7nws tso tus uab lag tawm mus. Uab lag ya mus ya los, tos kom dej qhuav hauv ntiaj teb tso. 8 Nos Hes tso tus nquab tawm ntawm nws mus xyuas saib dej puas tau nqhuab hauv av, 9tiam sis tus nquab nrhiav tsis tau chaw tsaws li, ces nquab ya rov los rau ntawm lub nkoj, vim dej tseem nyab cov av hauv ntiaj teb thoob plaws. Nos Hes thiaj li xyab tes mus txais tus nquab thiab coj nquab los nrog nws nyob hauv lub nkoj. 10Nws tos tau xya hnub ntxiv; nws rov qab tso tus nquab tawm ntawm lub nkoj mus dua. 11Thaum tsaus ntuj, nquab ya rov los, ntawm nws kaus ncauj muaj ib tug ntsis txiv ntoo roj uas tus nquab nyuam qhuav de tshiab tshiab. Ces Nos Hes paub tias dej nqig lawm. 12Nws rov tos tau xya hnub ntxiv, nws mam rov tso tus nquab tawm mus dua; tus nquab tsis rov los ntxiv lawm.
6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made, 7 and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth. 8 He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground, 9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship. 10 He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship. 11 The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth. 12 He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.
13Thaum Nos Hes muaj rau pua ib xyoos, lub ib hlis, xiab ib, dej qhuav tas hauv ntiaj teb lawm. Nos Hes yaws lub ruv npog lub nkoj. Nws ntsia pom av tab tom pib qhuav. 14Lub ob hlis, hnub tim nees nkaum xya, ntiaj teb qhuav tas lawm.
13 In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15Tswv Ntuj hais rau Nos Hes tias 16“Koj tawm hauv nkoj los, koj thiab koj poj niam, nrog koj cov tub thiab koj cov tub cov poj niam. 17Coj tas puas tsav yam tsiaj muaj sia muaj lub cev nqaij nrog nej tawm los, cov noog, cov tsiaj txhu, thiab tas puas tsav yam txawj nkag uas nkag hauv av huv tib si, kom txhua yam coob mus puv ntiaj teb, kom txhua yam tsim noob thiab huam vam puv hauv ntiaj teb.”
15 God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 “Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”
18Nos Hes tawm hauv nkoj los, nrog nws cov tub thiab nws poj niam thiab nws cov tub thiab lawv cov poj niam. 19Txhua yam tsiaj, txhua yam txawj nkag, txhua yam noog, txhua yam txawj ua zog nyob hauv ntiaj teb, sawv daws tawm hauv nkoj los, nyias raws nyias npoj nyias pawg.
18 Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.
20Nos Hes tsa ib lub thaj txi Yas Ves, nws muab txhua yam tsiaj huv thiab txhua yam noog huv los hlawv txi Ntuj saum lub thaj. 21Thaum Yas Ves hnov cov pa ncho tsw qab. Yas Ves hais hauv nws nruab siab tias “Txawm tias yog tim tib neeg, los kuv yuav tsis foom phem rau av ib zaug ntxiv lawm, vim tias neeg lub siab yeej xeeb tau phem puag thaum yau los. Kuv yuav tsis ua kom txhua yam muaj sia tu noob li kuv tau ua no ib zaug ntxiv. 22Tsuav yog tseem muaj lub ntiaj teb, mas yuav muaj caij cog qoob thiab caij sau qoob, yuav muaj txias thiab muaj kub, yuav muaj caij sov caij no, yuav muaj nruab hnub thiab muaj hmo ntuj mus li.”
20 Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”