Genesis 8
1 And God remembers Noah, and every living thing, and all the livestock which [are] with him in the Ark, and God causes a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subside,
天主想起了諾厄和同他在方舟內的一切野獸和牲畜，遂使風吹過大地，水漸漸退落；
2 and the fountains of the deep and the network of the heavens are closed, and the shower is restrained from the heavens.
深淵的泉源和天上的水閘已關閉，雨也由天上停止降落，
3 And the waters return from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of one hundred and fifty days.
於是水逐漸由地上退去；過了一百五十天，水就低落了。
4 And the Ark rests, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on mountains of Ararat;
七月十七日，方舟停在阿辣辣特山上。
5 and the waters have been going and decreasing until the tenth month; in the tenth [month], on the first of the month, the heads of the mountains appeared.
洪水繼續減退，直到十月；十月一日，許多山頂都露出來。
6 And it comes to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opens the window of the Ark which he made,
過了四十天，諾厄開了在方舟上做的窗戶，
7 and he sends forth the raven, and it goes out, going out and turning back until the drying of the waters from off the earth.
放了一隻烏鴉；烏鴉飛去又飛回，直到地上的水都乾了。
8 And he sends forth the dove from him to see whether the waters have been lightened from off the face of the ground,
諾厄等待了七天，又放出了一隻鴿子，看看水是否已由地面退盡。
9 and the dove has not found rest for the sole of her foot, and she turns back to him, to the Ark, for waters [are] on the face of all the earth, and he puts out his hand, and takes her, and brings her in to him, into the Ark.
但是，因為全地面上還有水，鴿子找不著落腳的地方，遂飛回方舟；諾厄伸手將牠接入方舟內。
10 And he stays yet seven more days, and adds to send forth the dove from the Ark;
再等了七天，他由方舟中又放出一隻鴿子，
11 and the dove comes to him at evening, and behold, an olive leaf [is] torn off in her mouth; and Noah knows that the waters have been lightened from off the earth.
傍晚時，那隻鴿子飛回他那裏，看，嘴裏啣著一根綠的橄欖樹枝；諾厄於是知道，水已由地上退去。
12 And he stays yet seven more days, and sends forth the dove, and it did not add to return to him anymore.
諾厄又等了七天再放出一隻鴿子；這隻鴿子沒有回來。
13 And it comes to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], on the first of the month, the waters have been dried from off the earth; and Noah turns aside the covering of the Ark, and looks, and behold, the face of the ground has been dried.
諾厄六百零一歲，正月初一，地上的水都乾了，諾厄就撤開方舟的頂觀望，看見地面已乾。
14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth has become dry.
二月二十七日，大地全乾了。
15 And God speaks to Noah, saying, “Go out from the Ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons’ wives with you;
天主於是吩咐諾厄說：「
16 every living thing that [is] with you, of all flesh, among bird, and among livestock, and among every creeping thing which is creeping on the earth, bring out with you;
你和你的妻子、兒子及兒媳，同你由方舟出來；
17 and they have teemed in the earth, and been fruitful, and have multiplied on the earth.”
所有同你在方舟內的有血肉的生物：飛禽、牲畜和各種地上的爬蟲，你都帶出來，叫他們在地上滋生，在地上生育繁殖。」
18 And Noah goes out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him;
諾厄遂同他的兒子、妻子及兒媳出來；
19 every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird; every creeping thing on the earth, after their families, have gone out from the Ark.
所有的爬蟲、飛禽和地上所有的動物，各依其類出了方舟。
20 And Noah builds an altar to YHWH, and takes from every clean beast and from every clean bird, and causes burnt-offerings to ascend on the altar;
諾厄給上主築了一座祭壇，拿各種潔淨的牲畜和潔淨的飛禽，獻在祭壇上，作為全燔祭。
21 and YHWH smells the refreshing fragrance, and YHWH says to His heart, “I do not continue to disfavor the ground because of man anymore, though the imagination of the heart of man [is] evil from his youth; and I do not continue to strike all living anymore, as I have done;
上主聞到了馨香，心裏說：「我再不為人的緣故咒罵大地，因為人心的思念從小就邪惡；我也再不照我所作的打擊一切生物了，
22 during all [the] days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night never cease.”
只願大地存在之日，稼穡寒暑，冬夏晝夜，循環不息。」
A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark
