創世記 6

1 人地の面に繁衍はじまりて女子之に生るるに及べる時

And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,

2 神の子等人の女子の美しきを見て其好む所の者を取て妻となせり

The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.

3 ヱホバいひたまひけるは我靈永く人と爭はじ其は彼も肉なればなり然ど彼の日は百二十年なるべし

And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

4 當時地にネピリムありき亦其後神の子輩人の女の所に入りて子女を生しめたりしが其等も勇士にして古昔の名聲ある人なりき

Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown.

5 ヱホバ人の惡の地に大なると其心の思念の都て圖維る所の恒に惟惡きのみなるを見たまへり

And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,

6 是に於てヱホバ地の上に人を造りしことを悔いて心に憂へたまへり

It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart,

7 ヱホバ言たまひけるは我が創造りし人を我地の面より拭去ん人より獸昆蟲天空の鳥にいたるまでほろぼさん其は我之を造りしことを悔ればなりと

He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them.

8 されどノアはヱホバの目のまへに恩を得たり

But Noe found grace before the Lord.

9 ノアの傳は是なりノアは義人にして其世の完全き者なりきノア神と偕に歩めり

These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God.

10 ノアはセム、ハム、ヤペテの三人の子を生り

And he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.

11 時に世神のまへに亂れて暴虐世に滿盈ちたりき

And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity.

12 神世を視たまひけるに視よ亂れたり其は世の人皆其道をみだしたればなり

And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth, )

13 神ノアに言たまひけるは諸の人の末期わが前に近づけり其は彼等のために暴虐世にみつればなり視よ我彼等を世とともに剪滅さん

He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth is filled with iniquity through them, and I will destroy them with the earth.

14 汝松木をもて汝のために方舟を造り方舟の中に房を作り瀝青をもて其内外を塗るべし

Make thee an ark of timber planks: thou shalt make little rooms in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without.

15 汝かく之を作るべし即ち其方舟の長は三百キユビト其濶は五十キユビト其高は三十キユビト

And thus shalt thou make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

16 又方舟に導光牖を作り上一キユビトに之を作り終べし又方舟の戸は其傍に設くべし下牀と二階と三階とに之を作るべし

Thou shalt make a window in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish the top of it: and the door of the ark thou shalt set in the side: with lower, middle chambers, and third stories shalt thou make it.

17 視よ我洪水を地に起して凡て生命の氣息ある肉なる者を天下より剪滅し絶ん地にをる者は皆死ぬべし

Behold I will bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, under heaven. All things that are in the earth shall be consumed.

18 然ど汝とは我わが契約をたてん汝は汝の子等と汝の妻および汝の子等の妻とともに其方舟に入るべし

And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee.

19 又諸の生物總て肉なる者をば汝各其二を方舟に挈へいりて汝とともに其生命を保たしむべし其等は牝牡なるべし

And of every living creature of all flesh, thou shalt bring two of a sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex, and the female.

20 鳥其類に從ひ獸其類に從ひ地の諸の昆蟲其類に從ひて各二汝の所に至りて其生命を保つべし

Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind; two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.

21 汝食はるる諸の食品を汝の許に取て之を汝の所に集むべし是即ち汝と是等の物の食品となるべし

Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them.

22 ノア是爲し都て神の己に命じたまひしごとく然爲せり

And Noe did all things which God commanded him.

The World is Destroyed by Water