Genesis 6
1 When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
当人在世上多起来、又生女儿的时候，
2 God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
神的儿子们看见人的女子美貌，就随意挑选，娶来为妻。
3 Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
耶和华说：“人既属乎血气，我的灵就不永远住在他里面；然而他的日子还可到一百二十年。”
4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
那时候有伟人在地上，后来 神的儿子们和人的女子们交合生子；那就是上古英武有名的人。
5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
耶和华见人在地上罪恶很大，终日所思想的尽都是恶，
6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
耶和华就后悔造人在地上，心中忧伤。
7 Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”
耶和华说：“我要将所造的人和走兽，并昆虫，以及空中的飞鸟，都从地上除灭，因为我造他们后悔了。”
8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.
惟有挪亚在耶和华眼前蒙恩。
9 This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
挪亚的后代记在下面。挪亚是个义人，在当时的世代是个完全人。挪亚与 神同行。
10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
挪亚生了三个儿子，就是闪、含、雅弗。
11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
世界在 神面前败坏，地上满了强暴。
12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
神观看世界，见是败坏了；凡有血气的人在地上都败坏了行为。
13 God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.
神就对挪亚说：“凡有血气的人，他的尽头已经来到我面前；因为地上满了他们的强暴，我要把他们和地一并毁灭。
14 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
你要用歌斐木造一只方舟，分一间一间地造，里外抹上松香。
15 This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
方舟的造法乃是这样：要长三百肘，宽五十肘，高三十肘。
16 You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
方舟上边要留透光处，高一肘。方舟的门要开在旁边。方舟要分上、中、下三层。
17 I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
看哪，我要使洪水泛滥在地上，毁灭天下；凡地上有血肉、有气息的活物，无一不死。
18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
我却要与你立约；你同你的妻，与儿子儿妇，都要进入方舟。
19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
凡有血肉的活物，每样两个，一公一母，你要带进方舟，好在你那里保全生命。
20 Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.
飞鸟各从其类，牲畜各从其类，地上的昆虫各从其类，每样两个，要到你那里，好保全生命。
21 Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”
你要拿各样食物积蓄起来，好作你和它们的食物。”
22 Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.
挪亚就这样行。凡 神所吩咐的，他都照样行了。
The World is Destroyed by Water
