創世記 7
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
洪水氾濫
7 耶和華對挪亞說：「你和你一家都進入方舟，因為這個世代只有你在我眼中是義人。 2 潔淨的動物，你要每樣帶七公七母，不潔淨的動物每樣帶一公一母， 3 飛鳥每樣帶七公七母，叫牠們以後可以在地上繁衍後代。 4 因為七天之後，我要在地上降雨四十晝夜，毀滅我所造的一切生靈。」 5 凡耶和華所吩咐的，挪亞都照辦了。
6 洪水氾濫的那一年，挪亞正好六百歲。 7 挪亞與妻子、兒子們和兒媳們都進了方舟，躲避洪水。 8 潔淨的動物、不潔淨的動物、飛禽和地上的一切爬蟲， 9 都一公一母成對地到挪亞那裡，進了方舟，正如上帝對挪亞的吩咐。 10 那七天過後，洪水在地上氾濫起來。
11 挪亞六百歲那年的二月[a]十七日，所有深淵的泉源都裂開了，天上的水閘也打開了， 12 地上傾盆大雨降了四十晝夜。 13 那天，挪亞與他的兒子閃、含和雅弗，還有挪亞的妻子和三個兒媳婦都進了方舟。 14 所有的野獸、牲畜、地上的爬蟲和飛鳥都按種類進入方舟。 15-16 這些動物都一公一母成對地到挪亞那裡，進入方舟，正如上帝對挪亞的吩咐。耶和華關上了方舟的門。
17 洪水在地上氾濫了四十天，水不斷地往上漲，把方舟漂了起來。 18 洪水來勢洶洶，淹沒大地，方舟漂浮在水面上。 19 水勢越來越大，把天下各處的高山都淹沒了。 20 水淹沒了群山，水面高出群山七米。 21 世上所有的飛禽、走獸、牲畜、爬蟲和人類都死了。 22 在陸地上所有用鼻孔呼吸的生靈都死了。 23 地上的人類、飛禽走獸和爬蟲等一切生靈都被毀滅了，只剩下挪亞和跟他同在方舟裡的生靈。 24 洪水淹沒大地一百五十天。
Footnotes
- 7·11 「二月」按猶太曆計算，本卷書所用月份都是按猶太曆計算。
Genesis 7
Expanded Bible
The Flood Begins
7 Then the Lord said to Noah, “I have seen that you ·are the best person [alone are righteous] among ·the people of this time [L this generation], so you and your ·family [household] can go into the ·boat [ark]. 2 Take with you seven pairs, each male with its female, of every kind of clean [C in a ritual sense; Lev. 11] animal, and take one pair, each male with its female, of every kind of unclean animal. 3 Take seven pairs of all the birds of the ·sky [heavens], each male with its female. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the flood. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain forty days and forty nights, and I will ·wipe off [blot out] from the ·earth [L face of the ground] every living thing that I have made.”
5 Noah did everything the Lord commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the [L water of the] flood came [L on the earth]. 7 He and his wife and his sons and their wives went into the ·boat [ark] to escape the waters of the flood. 8 The clean animals [7:2], the unclean animals, the birds, and everything that ·crawls [creeps] on the ground 9 came to Noah. They went into the ·boat [ark] in groups of two, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. 10 Seven days later the ·flood started [L waters of the flood came on the earth].
11 When Noah was six hundred years old, the flood started. On the seventeenth day of the second month of that year the ·underground springs [L fountains/springs of the deep] ·split [burst] open, and the ·clouds [floodgates; L windows] in the ·sky [heavens] ·poured out rain [L were opened]. 12 The rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13 On that same day Noah and his wife, his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth [9:18—10:32], and their wives went into the ·boat [ark]. 14 They had every kind of wild and tame animal, every kind of animal that ·crawls [creeps] on the earth, and ·every kind of bird [L every bird, every winged creature]. 15 ·Every creature [L All flesh] that had the breath of life came to Noah in the ·boat [ark] in groups of two. 16 One male and one female of ·every living thing [L all flesh] came, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord ·closed the door behind them [L shut them in].
17 ·Water flooded the earth [L The flood continued] for forty days, and as it rose it lifted the ·boat [ark] off the ground. 18 The water continued to rise [L and increase], and the ·boat [ark] floated on ·it above the earth [L the face of the waters]. 19 The water rose so much [L over the earth] that even the highest mountains under the ·sky [heavens] were covered by it. 20 It continued to rise until it was more than ·twenty feet [L fifteen cubits] above the mountains.
21 All ·living things [L flesh] that moved on the earth died. This included all the birds, tame animals, wild animals, and [L swarming] creatures that swarm on the earth, as well as all human beings. 22 So everything on dry land that had the breath of life in ·it [L its nostrils] died. 23 God ·destroyed [blotted/wiped out] from the earth every living thing that was on the ·land [L face of the ground]—every man, animal, ·crawling [creeping] thing, and bird of the ·sky [heavens]. All that ·was left [survived] was Noah and what was with him in the ·boat [ark]. 24 And the waters continued to cover the earth for one hundred fifty days.
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