Genesis 9
1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.
天主祝福諾厄和他的兒子們說：「你們要滋生繁殖，充滿大地。
2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.
地上的各種野獸，天空的各種飛鳥，地上的各種爬蟲和水中的各種游魚，都要對你們表示驚恐畏懼：這一切都已交在你們手中。
3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.
凡有生命的動物，都可作你們的食物；我將這一切賜給你們，有如以前賜給你們蔬菜一樣；
4 But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
凡有生命，帶血的肉，你們不可吃；
5 I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.
並且，我要追討害你們生命的血債：向一切野獸追討，向人，向為弟兄的人，追討人命。
6 Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
凡流人血的，他的血也要為人所流，因為人是照天主的肖像造的。
7 Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”
你們要生育繁殖，在地上滋生繁衍。」
8 God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
天主對諾厄和他的兒子們說：「
9 “As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
看，我現在與你們和你們未來的後裔立約，
10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.
並與同你們在一起的一切生物：飛鳥、牲畜和一切地上野獸，即凡由方舟出來的一切地上生物立約。
11 I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
我與你們立約：凡有血肉的，以後決不再受洪水湮滅，再沒有洪水來毀滅大地。」
12 God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
天主說：「這是我在我與你們以及同你們在一起的一切生物之間，立約的永遠標記：
13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
我把虹霓放在雲間，作我與大地之間立約的標記。
14 When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
幾時我興雲遮蓋大地，雲中要出現虹霓，
15 I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
那時我便想起我與你們以及各種屬血肉的生物之間所立的盟約：這樣水就不會再成為洪水，毀滅一切血肉的生物。
16 The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
幾時虹霓在雲間出現，我一看見，就想起在天主與地上各種屬血肉的生物之間所立的永遠盟約。」
17 God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
天主對諾厄說：「這就是我在我與地上一切有血肉的生物之間，所立的盟約的標記。」
18 The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
諾厄的兒子由方舟出來的，有閃、含、和耶斐特。含是客納罕的父親。
19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
這三人是諾厄的兒子；人類就由這三人分布天下。
20 Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
諾厄原是農夫，遂開始種植葡萄園。
21 He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
一天他喝酒喝醉了，就在自己的帳幕內脫去了衣服。
22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
客納罕的父親含看見了父親赤身露體，遂去告訴外面的兩個兄弟。
23 Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.
閃和耶斐特二人於是拿了件外衣，搭在肩上，倒退著走進去，蓋上父親的裸體。他們的臉背著，沒有看見父親的裸體。
24 Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
諾厄醒了後，知道了小兒對他作的事，
25 He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”
就說：「客納罕是可咒罵的，給兄弟當最下賤的奴隸。」
26 He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.
又說：「上主，閃的天主，應受讚美，客納罕應作他的奴隸。
27 May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.”
願天主擴展耶斐特，使他住在閃的帳幕內；客納罕應作他的奴隸。」
28 Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
洪水以後，諾厄又活了三百五十年。
29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died.
諾厄共活了九百五十歲死了。
