Genesis 7

1 And Jehovah said to Noah, Come, thou and all thy house into the ark, for I have seen thee righteous before me in this generation.

سپس خداوند به نوح فرمود: «تو و اهل خانه‌ات داخل کشتی شوید، زیرا در بین همهٔ مردمان این روزگار فقط تو را عادل یافتم.

2 Of every clean beast thou shall take to thee by sevens, the male and his female. And of the beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female.

از همۀ حیوانات حلال گوشت، هفت جفت، نر و ماده، با خود بردار، و نیز از حیوانات نجس، یک جفت، نر و ماده،

3 Also of the birds of the heavens by sevens, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

و از پرندگان هفت جفت، نر و ماده؛ تا بعد از طوفان، نسل آنها روی زمین باقی بماند.

4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will destroy from off the face of the ground.

پس از یک هفته، به مدت چهل شبانه روز باران فرو خواهم ریخت و هر موجودی را که به وجود آورده‌ام، از روی زمین محو خواهم کرد.»

5 And Noah did according to all that Jehovah commanded him.

پس نوح هر آنچه را که خداوند به او امر فرموده بود انجام داد.

6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

وقتی که آن طوفان عظیم بر زمین آمد، نوح ششصد ساله بود.

7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

او و همسرش به اتفاق پسران و عروسانش به درون کشتی رفتند تا از خطر طوفان در امان باشند.

8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps upon the ground,

همه نوع حیوان، چه حلال گوشت چه حرام گوشت، و نیز پرندگان و خزندگان،

9 there went in two by two to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

همراه نوح به داخل کشتی رفتند. همان‌طوری که خدا فرموده بود، آنها جفت‌جفت، نر و ماده، در کشتی جای گرفتند.

10 And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

پس از هفت روز، آب طوفان زمین را فرا گرفت.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

وقتی نوح ششصد ساله بود، در روز هفدهم ماه دوم، همۀ آبهای زیرزمینی فوران کرد و باران به شدت از آسمان بارید.

12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

باران چهل شبانه روز بر زمین می‌بارید.

13 In the selfsame day Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark,

اما روزی که طوفان شروع شد، نوح و همسر و پسرانش، سام و حام و یافث و زنان آنها داخل کشتی بودند.

14 they, and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle according to their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every bird of every sort.

همراه آنان از هر نوع حیوان اهلی و وحشی، و پرنده و خزنده نیز در کشتی بودند.

15 And they went in to Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

از هر نوع حیوان که نَفَس حیات در خود داشتند، دو به دو، داخل کشتی شدند.

16 And those that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him. And Jehovah shut him in.

پس از آنکه حیوانات نر و ماده، طبق دستور خدا به نوح، وارد کشتی شدند خداوند درِ کشتی را از عقب آنها بست.

17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

به مدت چهل شبانه روز باران سیل‌آسا می‌بارید و به تدریج زمین را می‌پوشانید، تا اینکه کشتی از روی زمین بلند شد.

18 And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

رفته‌رفته آب آنقدر بالا آمد که کشتی روی آن شناور گردید.

19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered,

سرانجام بلندترین کوهها نیز به زیر آب فرو رفتند.

20 fifteen cubits upward. The waters prevailed, and the mountains were covered.

باران آنقدر بارید که سطح آب به پانزده ذِراع بالاتر از قلهٔ کوهها رسید.

21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, from birds, to cattle, to beasts, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, and every man.

همهٔ جاندارانِ روی زمین یعنی حیواناتِ اهلی و وحشی، خزندگان و پرندگان، با آدمیان هلاک شدند.

22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

هر موجودِ زنده‌ای که در خشکی بود، از بین رفت.

23 And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, from man, to cattle, to creeping things, and birds of the heavens, and they were destroyed from the earth. And only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.

بدین‌سان خدا تمام موجودات زنده را از روی زمین محو کرد، به‌جز نوح و آنانی که در کشتی همراهش بودند.

24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

آب تا صد و پنجاه روز همچنان روی زمین را پوشانیده بود.

The Great Flood