Genesis 6
1 When people began to become very numerous all over the earth, and many daughters were born to them,
| وقتی تعداد انسانها روی زمین زیاد می‌شد، و دختران برای ایشان متولد می‌شدند، |
2 some of the men who (belonged to/believed in) God saw that some of the women who did not (belong to/believe in) God were very beautiful. So they took whichever ones they chose to become their wives.
| پسران خدا دیدند که دختران انسانها زیبا هستند، پس هر کدام را که پسندیدند، برای خود به زنی گرفتند. |
3 Then Yahweh said, “[I will] not [allow] my Spirit to keep people alive forever (OR, the breath of life will not remain in people forever). They will die eventually. They will live not more than 120 years before they die (OR, there will be only 120 more years before they die).”
| آنگاه خداوند فرمود: «روح من همیشه در انسان باقی نخواهد ماند، زیرا او موجودی است فانی و نفسانی. پس صد و بیست سال به او فرصت می‌دهم تا خود را اصلاح کند.» |
4 There were [giants called] Nephils who lived on the earth at that time and later. During that time [some of the Nephil] men who (belonged to/believed in) God had sex [EUP] with women who did not (belong to/believe in) God, and they gave birth to children. The Nephils were considered to be heroic fighters, and they became famous.
| در آن روزها و نیز پس از آن، وقتی پسران خدا و دختران انسانها با هم وصلت نمودند، مردانی غول‌آسا از آنان به وجود آمدند. اینان دلاوران معروف دوران قدیم هستند. |
5 Yahweh saw that people on the earth had become very wicked, and that everything they thought about evil things continually.
| خداوند دید که شرارت انسان بر زمین چقدر زیاد شده است، و نیتهای دل او دائماً به بدی تمایل دارد. |
6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made people.
| پس خداوند از آفرینش انسان متأسف شد و در دل محزون گشت. |
7 So he said, “I will completely destroy the people I made. I will also destroy all the animals and the creatures that scurry across the ground and the birds. None of them will remain on the earth, because I regret that I made them.”
| پس خداوند فرمود: «من نسل بشر را که آفریده‌ام از روی زمین محو می‌کنم. حتی چارپایان و خزندگان و پرندگان را نیز از بین می‌برم، زیرا از آفریدن آنها متأسف شدم.» |
8 But Yahweh was pleased with Noah.
| اما در این میان نوح مورد لطف خداوند قرار گرفت. |
9 This is why: Noah was a man who always acted in a righteous way. No one who lived at that time could criticize him about anything. Noah lived in close fellowship with God.
| این است تاریخچۀ نوح و خاندانش: نوح در میان مردمان زمان خویش مردی صالح بود و با خدا راه می‌رفت. |
10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
| نوح سه پسر داشت به نامهای سام، حام و یافث. |
11 At that time God considered that everyone else on earth was very wicked, and everywhere on the earth, people [MTY] were acting cruelly and violently toward each other.
| در این زمان، گناه و ظلم بسیار زیاد شده بود و از نظر خدا به اوج خود رسیده بود. |
12 God was dismayed when he saw how evil people [MTY] were, because everyone (OR, all living creatures) had begun to behave in an evil way.
| خدا شرارت بشر بر روی زمین را مشاهده کرد، زیرا همۀ مردم دنیا فاسد شده بودند. |
13 So God said to Noah, “I have decided to destroy everyone, because all over the earth people are acting violently toward each other. So I am about to get rid of them as well as everything else on the earth.
| پس خدا به نوح فرمود: «تصمیم گرفته‌ام تمام این مردم را هلاک کنم، زیرا زمین را از شرارت پُر ساخته‌اند. من آنها را همراه زمین از بین می‌برم. |
14 [I want you to] make for yourself a large boat from cypress wood. Make rooms inside it. Cover the outside and the inside with tar [to make it (waterproof/so that water cannot get in and sink the boat]).
| «اما تو، ای نوح، با چوب درخت سرو یک کشتی بساز و در آن اتاقهایی درست کن، و درون و بیرونش را با قیر بپوشان. |
15 This is the size you must make it: It shall be (150 yards/135 meters) long, (25 yards/22.5 meters) wide, and (15 yards/13.5 meters) high.
| آن را طوری بساز که طولش ۳۰۰ ذراع، عرضش ۵۰ ذراع و ارتفاع آن ۳۰ ذراع باشد. |
16 Make a roof for the boat. Leave a space of about (18 in./.5 meter) between the sides and the roof to let air and light enter (OR, the middle of the roof should be 18 inches higher than the sides). Build the boat with three decks inside, and put a door in one side.
| یک ذراع پایینتر از سقف، پنجره‌ای برای روشنایی کشتی بساز. در داخل آن سه طبقه بنا کن و درِ ورودی کشتی را در پهلوی آن بگذار. |
17 Listen carefully! I am about to cause a flood to occur that will destroy every creature that lives beneath the sky. Everything on the earth will die.
| «به‌زودی من سراسر زمین را با آب خواهم پوشانید تا هر موجود زنده‌ای که در آن هست، هلاک گردد. |
18 But I will make an agreement with you(sg): You and your wife, your sons and their wives will enter the boat.
| اما عهد خود را با تو استوار خواهم ساخت، و تو وارد کشتی خواهی شد؛ تو و پسرانت و زنت و زنان پسرانت، همراه تو. |
19 And I want to save some of all kinds of creatures. So you must also bring two of all living creatures, a male and a female, into the boat with you, so that their species also may remain alive.
| از تمام حیوانات، یک جفت نر و ماده با خود به داخل کشتی ببر، تا از خطر این طوفان در امان باشند. |
20 Two of every kind of creature will come to [in order that by your putting them in the boat] you will keep them alive. They will include two of each kind of bird and each kind of animal and each kind of creature that scurries across the ground.
| جفتی از هر نوع پرنده، از هر نوع چارپا و از هر نوع خزنده نزد تو خواهند آمد تا آنها را زنده نگاه داری. |
21 You must also take some of every kind of food that you and all these animals will need, and store it in the boat.”
| همچنین خوراک کافی برای خود و برای تمام موجودات در کشتی ذخیره کن.» |
22 So Noah did everything that God told him to do.
| نوح تمام اوامر خدا را انجام داد. |
The World is Destroyed by Water
