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,
神记念挪亚和挪亚方舟里的一切走兽牲畜。 神叫风吹地，水势渐落。
2 and the fountains of the deep and the network of the heavens are closed, and the shower is restrained from the heavens.
渊源和天上的窗户都闭塞了，天上的大雨也止住了。
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.
水从地上渐退。过了一百五十天，水就渐消。
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，方舟停在亚拉腊山上。
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.
水又渐消，到十月初一日，山顶都现出来了。
6 And it comes to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opens the window of the Ark which he made,
过了四十天，挪亚开了方舟的窗户，
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.
放出一只乌鸦去；那乌鸦飞来飞去，直到地上的水都干了。
8 And he sends forth the dove from him to see whether the waters have been lightened from off the face of the ground,
他又放出一只鸽子去，要看看水从地上退了没有。
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.
但遍地上都是水，鸽子找不着落脚之地，就回到方舟挪亚那里，挪亚伸手把鸽子接进方舟来。
10 And he stays yet seven more days, and adds to send forth the dove from the Ark;
他又等了七天，再把鸽子从方舟放出去。
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.
到了晚上，鸽子回到他那里，嘴里叼着一个新拧下来的橄榄叶子，挪亚就知道地上的水退了。
12 And he stays yet seven more days, and sends forth the dove, and it did not add to return to him anymore.
他又等了七天，放出鸽子去，鸽子就不再回来了。
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.
到挪亚六百零一岁，正月初一日，地上的水都干了。挪亚撤去方舟的盖观看，便见地面上干了。
14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth has become dry.
到了二月二十七日，地就都干了。
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;
神对挪亚说：
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、儿子、儿妇都可以出方舟。
17 and they have teemed in the earth, and been fruitful, and have multiplied on the earth.”
在你那里凡有血肉的活物，就是飞鸟、牲畜，和一切爬在地上的昆虫，都要带出来，叫它在地上多多滋生，大大兴旺。”
18 And Noah goes out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him;
于是挪亚和他的妻子、儿子、儿妇都出来了。
19 every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird; every creeping thing on the earth, after their families, have gone out from the Ark.
一切走兽、昆虫、飞鸟，和地上所有的动物，各从其类，也都出了方舟。
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;
挪亚为耶和华筑了一座坛，拿各类洁净的牲畜、飞鸟献在坛上为燔祭。
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;
耶和华闻那馨香之气，就心里说：“我不再因人的缘故咒诅地（人从小时心里怀着恶念），也不再按着我才行的灭各种的活物了。
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.”
地还存留的时候，稼穑、寒暑、冬夏、昼夜就永不停息了。”
A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark
