Genesis 8
1 And he remembered God Noah and every animal and all the livestock which [were] with him in the ark and he made to pass God a wind over the earth and they subsided the waters.
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 they were shut up [the] springs of [the] deep and [the] floodgates of the heavens and it was restrained the rain 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 they turned back the waters from on the earth going and turning back and they decreased the waters from [the] end of fifty and one hundred day[s].
於是水逐漸由地上退去；過了一百五十天，水就低落了。
4 And it rested the ark in the month seventh on [the] seven-teen day of the month on [the] mountains of Ararat.
七月十七日，方舟停在阿辣辣特山上。
5 And the waters they were going and decreasing until the month tenth in the tenth [month] on [day] one of the month they were seen [the] tops of the mountains.
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 was from [the] end of forty day[s] and he opened Noah [the] window of the ark which he had made.
過了四十天，諾厄開了在方舟上做的窗戶，
7 And he sent out the raven and it went out continuously and returned until dried up the waters from on 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 sent out the dove from with him to see ¿ were they abated the waters from on [the] surface 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 not found the dove a resting place for [the] sole of foot its and it returned to him into the ark for water [was] on [the] surface of all the earth and he stretched out hand his and he took it and he brought it 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 waited again seven days other and he repeated to send out the dove from the ark.
再等了七天，他由方舟中又放出一隻鴿子，
11 And it came to him the dove to [the] time of evening and there! a leaf of olive freshly plucked [was] in mouth its and he knew Noah that they were abated the waters from on 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 waited again seven days other and he sent out the dove and not it repeated to return to him again.
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 was in one and six hundred year in the first [month] on [day] one of the month they were dried up the waters from on the earth and he removed Noah [the] covering of the ark and he saw and there! they were dried up [the] surface of the ground.
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 month second on [the] seven and twenty day of the month was dry the earth.
二月二十七日，大地全乾了。
15 And he spoke God to Noah saying.
天主於是吩咐諾厄說：「
16 Go out from the ark you and wife your and sons your and [the] wives of sons your with you.
你和你的妻子、兒子及兒媳，同你由方舟出來；
17 Every animal which [is] with you some of all flesh among the bird[s] and among the livestock and among every creeping thing which creeps on the earth (bring out *Q(k)*) with you and they will swarm on the earth and they will be fruitful and they will multiply 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 he went out Noah and sons his and wife his and [the] wives of sons his with him.
諾厄遂同他的兒子、妻子及兒媳出來；
19 Every animal every creeping thing and every bird every creeping [thing] on the earth to families their they went 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 he built Noah an altar to Yahweh and he took some of all - the livestock clean and some of every bird clean and he offered up burnt offerings 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 he smelled Yahweh [the] odor of soothing and he said Yahweh to heart his not I will repeat to curse again the ground for sake of humankind for [the] inclination of [the] heart of humankind [is] evil since youth his and not I will repeat again to strike down every living [thing] just 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 Again all [the] days of the earth seed and harvest and cold and heat and summer and winter and day and night not they will 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
