پیدایش 7

1 سپس خداوند به نوح فرمود: «تو و اهل خانه‌ات داخل کشتی شوید، زیرا در بین همهٔ مردمان این روزگار فقط تو را عادل یافتم.

And the Lord said to him: “Enter the ark, you and all your house. For I have seen you to be just in my sight, within this generation.

2 از همۀ حیوانات حلال گوشت، هفت جفت، نر و ماده، با خود بردار، و نیز از حیوانات نجس، یک جفت، نر و ماده،

From all the clean animals, take seven and seven, the male and the female. Yet truly, from animals that are unclean, take two and two, the male and the female.

3 و از پرندگان هفت جفت، نر و ماده؛ تا بعد از طوفان، نسل آنها روی زمین باقی بماند.

But also from the birds of the air, take seven and seven, the male and the female, so that offspring may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.

4 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.»

For from that point, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. And I will wipe away every substance that I have made, from the surface of the earth.”

5 پس نوح هر آنچه را که خداوند به او امر فرموده بود انجام داد.

Therefore, Noah did all things just as the Lord had commanded him.

6 وقتی که آن طوفان عظیم بر زمین آمد، نوح ششصد ساله بود.

And he was six hundred years old when the waters of the great flood inundated the earth.

7 او و همسرش به اتفاق پسران و عروسانش به درون کشتی رفتند تا از خطر طوفان در امان باشند.

And Noah entered into the ark, and his sons, his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, because of the waters of the great flood.

8 همه نوع حیوان، چه حلال گوشت چه حرام گوشت، و نیز پرندگان و خزندگان،

And from the animals both clean and unclean, and from the birds, and from everything that moves upon the earth,

9 همراه نوح به داخل کشتی رفتند. همان‌طوری که خدا فرموده بود، آنها جفت‌جفت، نر و ماده، در کشتی جای گرفتند.

two by two they were brought into the ark to Noah, male and female, just as the Lord had instructed Noah.

10 پس از هفت روز، آب طوفان زمین را فرا گرفت.

And when seven days had passed, the waters of the great flood inundated the earth.

11 وقتی نوح ششصد ساله بود، در روز هفدهم ماه دوم، همۀ آبهای زیرزمینی فوران کرد و باران به شدت از آسمان بارید.

In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great abyss were released, and the floodgates of heaven were opened.

12 باران چهل شبانه روز بر زمین می‌بارید.

And rain came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

13 اما روزی که طوفان شروع شد، نوح و همسر و پسرانش، سام و حام و یافث و زنان آنها داخل کشتی بودند.

On the very same day, Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark.

14 همراه آنان از هر نوع حیوان اهلی و وحشی، و پرنده و خزنده نیز در کشتی بودند.

They and every animal according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and everything that moves upon the earth in their kind, and every flying thing according to its kind, all the birds and all that can fly,

15 از هر نوع حیوان که نَفَس حیات در خود داشتند، دو به دو، داخل کشتی شدند.

entered the ark to Noah, two by two out of all that is flesh, in which there was the breath of life.

16 پس از آنکه حیوانات نر و ماده، طبق دستور خدا به نوح، وارد کشتی شدند خداوند درِ کشتی را از عقب آنها بست.

And those that entered went in male and female, from all that is flesh, just as God had instructed him. And then the Lord closed him in from the outside.

17 به مدت چهل شبانه روز باران سیل‌آسا می‌بارید و به تدریج زمین را می‌پوشانید، تا اینکه کشتی از روی زمین بلند شد.

And the great flood occurred for forty days upon the earth. And the waters were increased, and they lifted the ark high above the land.

18 رفته‌رفته آب آنقدر بالا آمد که کشتی روی آن شناور گردید.

For they overflowed greatly, and they filled everything on the surface of the earth. And then the ark was carried across the waters.

19 سرانجام بلندترین کوهها نیز به زیر آب فرو رفتند.

And the waters prevailed beyond measure across the earth. And all the lofty mountains under the whole heaven were covered.

20 باران آنقدر بارید که سطح آب به پانزده ذِراع بالاتر از قلهٔ کوهها رسید.

The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.

21 همهٔ جاندارانِ روی زمین یعنی حیواناتِ اهلی و وحشی، خزندگان و پرندگان، با آدمیان هلاک شدند.

And all flesh was consumed which moved upon the earth: flying things, animals, wild beasts, and all moving things that crawl upon the ground. And all men,

22 هر موجودِ زنده‌ای که در خشکی بود، از بین رفت.

and everything in which there is the breath of life on earth, died.

23 بدین‌سان خدا تمام موجودات زنده را از روی زمین محو کرد، به‌جز نوح و آنانی که در کشتی همراهش بودند.

And he wiped away all substance that was upon the earth, from man to animal, the crawling things just as much as the flying things of the air. And they were wiped away from the earth. But only Noah remained, and those who were with him in the ark.

24 آب تا صد و پنجاه روز همچنان روی زمین را پوشانیده بود.

And the waters possessed the earth for one hundred and fifty days.

The Great Flood