Genesis 9 for Pidgin: Wetin God tell Noah and him pikin dem after di rain stop, how dem go live, and di covenant with rainbow.
📖 Genesis 9:1-29 in Pidgin English
1. God come bless Noah and him pikin dem. E tell dem, “Make una born plenty children, make una full di whole earth.”
2. All di animals wey dey for bush, birds for sky, fish for water go dey fear una. I don give all of dem to una hand.
3. Any animal or bird or fish wey una kill, make una chop am. Just like I give una green plants, na so I don give una meat.
4. But no chop meat wey still get blood for inside am, because na di life dey inside di blood.
5. If anything kill una or una kill another person, I go ask una for dat life. Human being blood get value.
6. Anybody wey kill another person, another person go kill am, because God make man to resemble Himself.
7. So make una born plenty children, make una full di whole earth.
8. Then God tell Noah and him pikin dem say,
9. “I wan make covenant with una and all una generation wey go come.
10. Also with all di animals wey come out di ark with una — birds, animals, and all creatures wey dey waka for ground.
11. I go make sure say flood no go ever again destroy all living things or wipe dem comot for earth.
12. This na di sign of di covenant wey I dey give between Me and una and every living thing wey dey with una for all generations:
13. I go put my rainbow for sky, and anytime una see am, e go remind Me of di covenant.
14. Anytime rain fall and rainbow show for sky,
15. I go remember di agreement wey I get with una and with all di animals; I no go ever use flood destroy earth again.
16. Di rainbow go show for sky and I go remember my covenant forever with una.
17. God tell Noah, “Na dis rainbow be di sign of di covenant wey I make with every living thing wey dey earth.”
18. Noah get three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham na di papa of Canaan.
19. From these three sons, all di people for di whole world come.
20. Noah start to farm and plant vineyard.
21. One day, e drink wine, get drunk, come naked for inside him tent.
22. Ham, papa of Canaan, see him papa nakedness, go tell him two brothers outside.
23. But Shem and Japheth carry cloth, waka backward enter tent, cover their papa without seeing him nakedness.
24. When Noah wake from sleep and know wetin him small pikin do, e talk:
25. “Canaan go suffer! E go be slave to him brothers.”
26. E come bless Shem, say, “Praise be to God wey Shem dey serve. Canaan go be him slave.”
27. “Make God enlarge Japheth, make e live for Shem land, and Canaan go be slave under dem.”
28. Noah live 350 years after di flood.
29. Noah live total of 950 years, then e die.
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