創世記 7
1 上主對諾厄說：「你和你全家進入方舟，因為在這一世代，我看只有你在我面前正義。
And Yahweh said to Noah, Enter thou and all thy house, into the ark, —for, thee, have I seen righteous before me, in this generation.
2 由一切潔淨牲畜中，各取公母七對；由那些不潔淨的牲畜中，各取公母一對；
Of all the clean beasts, shalt thou take to thee by sevens, a male and his female, —and, of the beasts that are not clean, shall be two a male and his female.
3 由天空的飛鳥中，也各取公母七對；好在全地面上傳種。
Also of the bird of the heavens, by sevens, male and female, —to keep alive a seed on the face of all the earth.
4 因為還有七天，我要在地上降雨四十天四十夜，消滅我在地面上所造的一切生物。」
For in seven days more, I, am sending rain on the earth, forty days and forty nights, —so will I wipe out all the living things which I have made, from off the face of the ground.
5 諾厄全照上主吩咐他的做了。
And Noah did, —according to all that Yahweh commanded him.
6 當洪水在地上氾濫時，諾厄已六百歲。
Now, Noah, was six hundred years old, —when, the flood, came, even waters on the earth.
7 諾厄和他的兒子，他的妻子和他的兒媳，同他進了方舟，為躲避洪水。
So Noah entered, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him into the ark, —from before the waters of the flood,
8 潔淨的牲畜和不潔淨的牲畜，飛鳥和各種在地上爬行的動物，
Of the beasts that were clean, and of the beasts that were not clean, —and of the birds, and everything that creepeth on the ground,
9 一對一對地同諾厄進了方舟；都是一公一母，照天主對他所吩咐的。
two and two, went they in unto Noah, into the ark male and female, —as God commanded Noah.
10 七天一過，洪水就在地上氾濫。
And it came to pass, in the seven days, —that the waters of the flood, came on the earth.
11 諾厄六百歲那一年，二月十七日那天，所有深淵的泉水都冒出，天上的水閘都開放了；
In the six hundredth year, the year of the life of Noah. in the second month on the seventeenth day of the month on this day, were burst open all the fountains of the great roaring deep, and the windows of the heavens, were set open.
12 大雨在地上下了四十天四十夜。
(And it came to pass that the heavy rain was on the earth, —forty days and forty nights.)
13 正在這一天，諾厄和他的兒子閃、含、耶斐特，他的妻子和他的三個兒媳，一同進了方舟。
On this selfsame day, entered Noah, and Shem and Ham and Japheth. Noah’s sons, —and Noah’s wife, and his sons’ three wives with them into the ark:
14 他們八口和所有的野獸、各種牲畜、各種在地上爬行的爬蟲、各種飛禽，
they, and all the wild-beasts after their kind and all the tame-beasts after their kind, and all the creeping things that creep on the earth after their kind, —and all the birds after their kind, every bird of every wing.
15 一切有生氣有血肉的，都一對一對地同諾厄進了方舟。
So they entered in unto Noah, into the ark, —two and two of all flesh, wherein was the spirit of life.
16 凡有血肉的，都是一公一母地進了方舟，如天主對諾厄所吩咐的。隨後上主關了門。
And, they that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered, as God commanded him, —and Yahweh shut him in round about.
17 洪水在地上氾濫了四十天；水不斷增漲，浮起了方舟，方舟遂由地面上升起。
And it came to pass, that the flood was forty days on the earth, —and the waters increased and bare up the ark, and it was lifted high above the earth,
18 洪水洶湧，在地上猛漲，方舟漂浮在水面上。
And the waters prevailed and increased greatly, on the earth, —and the ark went its way on the face of the waters.
19 洪水在地上一再猛漲，天下所有的高山也都沒了頂；
Yea the waters, prevailed very greatly, on the earth, —so that all the high mountains became covered, that were under all the heavens:
20 洪水高出淹沒的群山十有五肘。
fifteen cubits upwards, prevailed the waters, so that the mountains became covered.
21 凡地上行動而有血肉的生物：飛禽、牲畜、野獸，在地上爬行的爬蟲，以及所有的人全滅亡了；
And all flesh ceased to breathe that moved on the earth, of birds and of tame-beasts and of wild-beasts, and of all the swarming things that swarm on the earth, —and all mankind.
22 凡在旱地上以鼻呼吸的生靈都死了。
All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life of all that were on the dry ground died.
23 這樣，天主消滅了在地面上的一切生物，由人以至於牲畜、爬蟲以及天空中的飛鳥，這一切都由地上消滅了，只剩下諾厄和同他在方舟內的人物。
Thus was wiped out all that existed on the face of the ground, from man unto beast unto creeping thing, and unto the bird of the heavens, thus were they wiped out from the earth, —so that there was left—only Noah and they that were with him in the ark.
24 洪水在地上氾濫了一百五十天。
Thus prevailed the waters on the earth, —a hundred and fifty days.
The Great Flood
