Genesis 6
1 And Noe was five hundred years old, and he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth. And it came to pass when men began to be numerous upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,
當人在世上多起來、又生女兒的時候，
2 that the sons of God having seen the daughters of men that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.
上帝的兒子們看見人的女子美貌，就隨意挑選，娶來為妻。
3 And the Lord God said, My Spirit shall certainly not remain among these men for ever, because they are flesh, but their days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
耶和華說：「人既屬乎血氣，我的靈就不永遠住在他裏面；然而他的日子還可到一百二十年。」
4 Now the giants were upon the earth in those days; and after that when the sons of God were wont to go in to the daughters of men, they bore [children] to them, those were the giants of old, the men of renown.
那時候有偉人在地上，後來上帝的兒子們和人的女子們交合生子；那就是上古英武有名的人。
5 And the Lord God, having seen that the wicked actions of men were multiplied upon the earth, and that every one in his heart was intently brooding over evil continually,
耶和華見人在地上罪惡很大，終日所思想的盡都是惡，
6 then God laid it to heart that he had made man upon the earth, and he pondered [it] deeply.
耶和華就後悔造人在地上，心中憂傷。
7 And God said, I will blot out man whom I have made from the face of the earth, even man with cattle, and reptiles with flying creatures of the sky, for I am grieved that I have made them.
耶和華說：「我要將所造的人和走獸，並昆蟲，以及空中的飛鳥，都從地上除滅，因為我造他們後悔了。」
8 But Noe found grace before the Lord God.
惟有挪亞在耶和華眼前蒙恩。
9 And these [are] the generations of Noe. Noe was a just man; being perfect in his generation, Noe was well-pleasing to God.
挪亞的後代記在下面。挪亞是個義人，在當時的世代是個完全人。挪亞與上帝同行。
10 And Noe begot three sons, Sem, Cham, Japheth.
挪亞生了三個兒子，就是閃、含、雅弗。
11 But the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with iniquity.
世界在上帝面前敗壞，地上滿了強暴。
12 And the Lord God saw the earth, and it was corrupted; because all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.
上帝觀看世界，見是敗壞了；凡有血氣的人在地上都敗壞了行為。
13 And the Lord God said to Noe, A period of all men is come before me; because the earth has been filled with iniquity by them, and, behold, I destroy them and the earth.
上帝就對挪亞說：「凡有血氣的人，他的盡頭已經來到我面前；因為地上滿了他們的強暴，我要把他們和地一併毀滅。
14 Make therefore for thyself an ark of square timber; thou shalt make the ark in compartments, and thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
你要用歌斐木造一隻方舟，分一間一間地造，裏外抹上松香。
15 And thus shalt thou make the ark; three hundred cubits the length of the ark, and fifty cubits the breadth, and thirty cubits the height of it.
方舟的造法乃是這樣：要長三百肘，寬五十肘，高三十肘。
16 Thou shalt narrow the ark in making it, and in a cubit above thou shalt finish it, and the door of the ark thou shalt make on the side; with lower, second, and third stories thou shalt make it.
方舟上邊要留透光處，高一肘。方舟的門要開在旁邊。方舟要分上、中、下三層。
17 And behold I bring a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven, and whatsoever things are upon the earth shall die.
看哪，我要使洪水氾濫在地上，毀滅天下；凡地上有血肉、有氣息的活物，無一不死。
18 And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
我卻要與你立約；你同你的妻，與兒子兒婦，都要進入方舟。
19 And of all cattle and of all reptiles and of all wild beasts, even of all flesh, thou shalt bring by pairs of all, into the ark, that thou mayest feed them with thyself: male and female they shall be.
凡有血肉的活物，每樣兩個，一公一母，你要帶進方舟，好在你那裏保全生命。
20 Of all winged birds after their kind, and of all cattle after their kind, and of all reptiles creeping upon the earth after their kind, pairs of all shall come in to thee, male and female to be fed with thee.
飛鳥各從其類，牲畜各從其類，地上的昆蟲各從其類，每樣兩個，要到你那裏，好保全生命。
21 And thou shalt take to thyself of all kinds of food which ye eat, and thou shalt gather them to thyself, and it shall be for thee and them to eat.
你要拿各樣食物積蓄起來，好作你和牠們的食物。」
22 And Noe did all things whatever the Lord God commanded him, so did he.
挪亞就這樣行。凡上帝所吩咐的，他都照樣行了。
The World is Destroyed by Water
