Genesis 7
1 Then Yahweh said to Noah, “I have seen that out of everyone who is now living, you alone always act righteously. So you and all your family go into the boat.
| سپس خداوند به نوح فرمود: «تو و اهل خانه‌ات داخل کشتی شوید، زیرا در بین همهٔ مردمان این روزگار فقط تو را عادل یافتم. |
2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind of animal that I have said I will accept for sacrifices. Take seven males and seven females. Also take a male and a female from every kind of animal that I have said that I will not accept for sacrifices.
| از همۀ حیوانات حلال گوشت، هفت جفت، نر و ماده، با خود بردار، و نیز از حیوانات نجس، یک جفت، نر و ماده، |
3 Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird from all over the earth to keep them alive.
| و از پرندگان هفت جفت، نر و ماده؛ تا بعد از طوفان، نسل آنها روی زمین باقی بماند. |
4 Do this because seven days from now I will cause rain to fall on the earth. It will rain constantly for 40 days and nights. By doing that, I will destroy everything that I have made that is on the earth.”
| پس از یک هفته، به مدت چهل شبانه روز باران فرو خواهم ریخت و هر موجودی را که به وجود آورده‌ام، از روی زمین محو خواهم کرد.» |
5 Noah did everything that Yahweh told him to do.
| پس نوح هر آنچه را که خداوند به او امر فرموده بود انجام داد. |
6 Noah was 600 years old when the flood covered the earth.
| وقتی که آن طوفان عظیم بر زمین آمد، نوح ششصد ساله بود. |
7 Before it started to rain, Noah and his wife and his sons went into the boat to escape from the flood water.
| او و همسرش به اتفاق پسران و عروسانش به درون کشتی رفتند تا از خطر طوفان در امان باشند. |
8 Pairs of animals, those that God said that he would accept for sacrifices and those that he would not accept for sacrifices, and pairs of birds and pairs of all the kinds of creatures that move close to the ground,
| همه نوع حیوان، چه حلال گوشت چه حرام گوشت، و نیز پرندگان و خزندگان، |
9 males and females, came to Noah and then went into the boat, just as God told Noah that they would do.
| همراه نوح به داخل کشتی رفتند. همان‌طوری که خدا فرموده بود، آنها جفت‌جفت، نر و ماده، در کشتی جای گرفتند. |
10 Seven days later, it started to rain and a flood began to cover the earth.
| پس از هفت روز، آب طوفان زمین را فرا گرفت. |
11 When Noah was 600 years old, (on the 17th day of the second month [of that year/late in October]), all the water that is under the surface of the earth burst forth, and it began to rain so hard that it was as though a dam [MET] in the sky burst open.
| وقتی نوح ششصد ساله بود، در روز هفدهم ماه دوم، همۀ آبهای زیرزمینی فوران کرد و باران به شدت از آسمان بارید. |
12 Rain fell on the earth constantly for 40 days and nights.
| باران چهل شبانه روز بر زمین می‌بارید. |
13 On the day that it started to rain, Noah went into the boat with his wife, and his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth and their wives.
| اما روزی که طوفان شروع شد، نوح و همسر و پسرانش، سام و حام و یافث و زنان آنها داخل کشتی بودند. |
14 They had already put in the boat some of every kind of wild animal and every kind of livestock and every kind of bird and every other creature that has wings.
| همراه آنان از هر نوع حیوان اهلی و وحشی، و پرنده و خزنده نیز در کشتی بودند. |
15 Pairs of all animals came to Noah and entered the boat.
| از هر نوع حیوان که نَفَس حیات در خود داشتند، دو به دو، داخل کشتی شدند. |
16 There was a male and a female of each animal that came to Noah, just as God had said they would do. After they were all in the boat, God shut the door.
| پس از آنکه حیوانات نر و ماده، طبق دستور خدا به نوح، وارد کشتی شدند خداوند درِ کشتی را از عقب آنها بست. |
17 It rained for 40 days and nights, and the flood increased. It flooded until the water lifted the boat above the ground.
| به مدت چهل شبانه روز باران سیل‌آسا می‌بارید و به تدریج زمین را می‌پوشانید، تا اینکه کشتی از روی زمین بلند شد. |
18 As he water rose higher and higher, the boat floated on the surface of the water.
| رفته‌رفته آب آنقدر بالا آمد که کشتی روی آن شناور گردید. |
19 The water rose all over the earth until it covered all the mountains.
| سرانجام بلندترین کوهها نیز به زیر آب فرو رفتند. |
20 Even the highest mountains were covered by more than (20 feet/6 meters) of water.
| باران آنقدر بارید که سطح آب به پانزده ذِراع بالاتر از قلهٔ کوهها رسید. |
21 As a result, every living creature on the surface of the earth died. That included birds and livestock and wild animals and other creatures that scurry across the ground, and all the people.
| همهٔ جاندارانِ روی زمین یعنی حیواناتِ اهلی و وحشی، خزندگان و پرندگان، با آدمیان هلاک شدند. |
22 On the land, (everything that breathed/every living thing) died.
| هر موجودِ زنده‌ای که در خشکی بود، از بین رفت. |
23 God destroyed every living creature: People and animals and creatures that scurry across the ground and birds. Only Noah and those who were in the boat with him remained alive.
| بدین‌سان خدا تمام موجودات زنده را از روی زمین محو کرد، به‌جز نوح و آنانی که در کشتی همراهش بودند. |
24 The flood remained like that on the earth for 150 days.
| آب تا صد و پنجاه روز همچنان روی زمین را پوشانیده بود. |
The Great Flood
