Genesis 6
1 So when men began to be multiplied vpon the earth, and there were daughters borne vnto them,
當人在世上多起來、又生女兒的時候，
2 Then the sonnes of God sawe the daughters of men that they were faire, and they tooke them wiues of all that they liked.
上帝的兒子們看見人的女子美貌，就隨意挑選，娶來為妻。
3 Therefore the Lord saide, My Spirit shall not alway striue with man, because he is but flesh, and his dayes shalbe an hundreth and twentie yeeres.
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 There were gyants in the earth in those dayes: yea, and after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of men, and they had borne them children, these were mightie men, which in olde time were men of renoume.
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 When the Lord sawe that the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his heart were onely euill 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 it repented ye Lord, that he had made man in the earth, and he was sorie in his heart.
耶和華就後悔造人在地上，心中憂傷。
7 Therefore ye Lord said, I will destroy from the earth the man, whom I haue created, from man to beast, to the creeping thing, and to the foule of the heauen: for I repent that I haue 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 Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
惟有挪亞在耶和華眼前蒙恩。
9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a iust and vpright man in his time: and Noah walked with 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 Noah begate three sonnes, Shem, Ham and Iapheth.
挪亞生了三個兒子，就是閃、含、雅弗。
11 The earth also was corrupt before God: for the earth was filled with crueltie.
世界在上帝面前敗壞，地上滿了強暴。
12 Then God looked vpon the earth, and beholde, it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupt his way vpon 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 God said vnto Noah, An ende of all flesh is come before me: for the earth is filled with crueltie through them: and beholde, I wil destroy them with 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 thee an Arke of pine trees: thou shalt make cabines in the Arke, and 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 it: The length of the Arke shalbe three hundreth cubites, the breadth of it fiftie cubites, and the height of it thirtie cubites.
方舟的造法乃是這樣：要長三百肘，寬五十肘，高三十肘。
16 A windowe shalt thou make in the Arke, and in a cubite shalt thou finish it aboue, and the doore of the Arke shalt thou set in the side thereof: thou shalt make it with the lowe, seconde and third roume.
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 I, beholde, I will bring a flood of waters vpon the earth to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life vnder the heauen: all that is in the earth shall perish.
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 But with thee will I establish my couenant, and thou shalt goe into the Arke, thou, and thy sonnes, and thy wife, and thy sonnes wiues 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 euery liuing thing, of all flesh two of euery sort shalt thou cause to come into the Arke, to keepe them aliue with thee: they shalbe male and female.
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 the foules, after their kinde, and of the cattell after their kind, of euery creeping thing of the earth after his kinde, two of euery sort shall come vnto thee, that thou mayest keepe them aliue.
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 take thou with thee of all meate that is eaten: and thou shalt gather it to thee, that it may be meate for thee and for them.
你要拿各樣食物積蓄起來，好作你和牠們的食物。」
22 Noah therefore did according vnto all, that God commanded him: euen 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
