The English-Kalanga Bilingual Language Learning Bible
Old Testament
Read each verse in English beside its African Kalanga equivalent.
Genesis 8English
Kutangisa 8African Kalanga
- English1
But 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.
African KalangaKoga Ndzimu ukakumbula Nuwa ne phuka dzose dze shango ne zwithuwo zwakabe zwinaye mu araka, ngono ukatumila phepo mu shango, ndizo vula ikatapudzika.
- English2
Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.
African KalangaMisenya i pasi ne kudzimu kukazhaligwa, ngono vula ikakaamudza.
- English3
The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
African KalangaVula ikatapudzika nge bunono mu shango. Ku bupelo gwe mazhuba ali zana lina mazhuba ali makumi mashanu (150) vula yakabe yabe tja pasi.
- English4
and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
African KalangaMu zhuba le bugumi lina mazhuba ali kutendeka le mwedzi we kutendeka, araka ikagala pezhugwi kwe matombo e Ararati.
- English5
The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
African KalangaVula yakadwilila ngotapudzika kudzina kunoti mu mwedzi we bugumi, ngono mu zhuba le kutanga le mwedzi we bugumi theswi dze matombo dzikaboneka.
- African Kalanga
Ku bupelo gwe mazhuba ali makumi manna Nuwa kazhula fesitere laakabe athama mu araka.
- English7
and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
African KalangaKatuma gungubo ngono likawuluka wuluka liyenda yeno na yeno kuswikila vula yapkhwa mu shango.
- African Kalanga
Ipapo katuma njiba kubona kene vula yatapudzika mu shango.
- English9
But the dove could find no place to set its feet 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.
African KalangaKoga njiba ikasheta paingabiga gumbo layo ngoti vula yakabe itjizhele shango yose, ndizo ikabgwilila kuna Nuwa ku araka. Kadusa luboko kaitola kaibgwiliza mu araka.
- African Kalanga
Kagala mazhuba mamwe ali kutendeka ngono katuma njiba kakale.
- English11
When 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.
African KalangaNjiba yakati ibuya madekwana ikabe yakaluma zhani nyolo le ntoba litjadwa pa tjegwa. Ipapo Nuwa kaziba kuti vula yatapudzika mu shango.
- English12
He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
African KalangaKagala mamwe mazhuba ali kutendeka kabe etuma njiba kakale, koga mu tjibaka itjetjo ikasitongo bgwilila kunli kakale.
- English13
By 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.
African KalangaMu zhuba le kutanga le mwedzi we kutanga we gole le mazana ali matathatu ana gole ling'ompela (601) e butjilo gwa Nuwa vula yakabe yapkhwa mu shango. Nuwa kadusa denga le araka ngono kalinga kabona kuti pasi patjiwoma.
- African Kalanga
Mu zhuba le makumi mabili ana mazhuba ali kutendeka (27) le mwedzi we bubili shango yakabe yatjiwoma nge buzhalo.
- African Kalanga
Ipapo Ndzimu ukadwa Nuwa ukati,
- African Kalanga
“Tjibhuda mu araka ne nkadzi uwo ne bakololo babo ne bakadzi babo.
- English17
Bring 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 upon it.”
African KalangaBhuda ne tjimwe ne tjimwe tjinotjila tjinawe: Nyuni ne phuka ne tjimwe ne tjimwe tjinokambayila mu shango kuti zwizwale zwiwande mu shango, zwibe ne zwizwalo zwiwande mu shango.”
- African Kalanga
Ndizo Nuwa kabhuda ne nkadzi uwe ne bakololo babe ne bakadzi babo.
- English19
All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds–everything that moves on the earth–came out of the ark, one kind after another.
African KalangaPhuka dzose ne zwitjili zose zwinokambayila ne nyuni imwe ne imwe, tjimwe ne tjimwe tjinoyendayenda mu shango tjikabhuda mu araka ludzi nge ludzi.
- English20
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
African KalangaIpapo Nuwa kabakila Yahwe tjibeso tjinopisigwa zwibhayilo, katola dzimwe phuka mu ludzi gumwe ne gumwe lubuyanana gwe phuka ne gwe nyuni kapisila zwibhayilo zwinopisiwa mu tjibeso tjinopisigwa zwibhayilo.
- English21
The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
African KalangaYahwe bakati bewha nnuwho unozipa bakazwidwa mu moyo bakati, “Andingatjazhise bhiso kakale mu shango ngekwe nthu, ngoti mikumbulo ye nthu yakabipa kudwila mu butjetjana gugwe. Kakale andingatjabulaye zwibumbiwa zose sekwa ndakathama.
- English22
“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
African KalangaHa shango itjiyapo, tjibaka tje kudzwala ne tje kuvuna, tje kupota ne tje kupisa, tjilimo ne mbaba, sikati ne siku azwitowopela.”
Source: The English-Kalanga Bilingual Language Learning Bible, Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo, 2026. This online edition was extracted and reformatted from the PDF edition. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.