Genesis

人类的邪恶

1当人在世上多起来、又生女儿的时候，

2神的儿子们看见人的女子美貌，就随意挑选，娶来为妻。

3耶和华说：「人既属乎血气，我的灵就不永远住在他里面；然而他的日子还可到一百二十年。」

4那时候有伟人在地上，后来 神的儿子们和人的女子们交合生子；那就是上古英武有名的人。

5耶和华见人在地上罪恶很大，终日所思想的尽都是恶，

6耶和华就后悔造人在地上，心中忧伤。

7耶和华说：「我要将所造的人和走兽，并昆虫，以及空中的飞鸟，都从地上除灭，因为我造他们后悔了。」

8惟有挪亚在耶和华眼前蒙恩。

挪亚

9挪亚的后代记在下面。挪亚是个义人，在当时的世代是个完全人。挪亚与 神同行。

10挪亚生了三个儿子，就是闪、含、雅弗。

11世界在 神面前败坏，地上满了强暴。

12神观看世界，见是败坏了；凡有血气的人在地上都败坏了行为。

13神就对挪亚说：「凡有血气的人，他的尽头已经来到我面前；因为地上满了他们的强暴，我要把他们和地一并毁灭。

14你要用歌斐木造一只方舟，分一间一间地造，里外抹上松香。

15方舟的造法乃是这样：要长三百肘，宽五十肘，高三十肘。

16方舟上边要留透光处，高一肘。方舟的门要开在旁边。方舟要分上、中、下三层。

17看哪，我要使洪水泛滥在地上，毁灭天下；凡地上有血肉、有气息的活物，无一不死。

18我却要与你立约；你同你的妻，与儿子儿妇，都要进入方舟。

19凡有血肉的活物，每样两个，一公一母，你要带进方舟，好在你那里保全生命。

20飞鸟各从其类，牲畜各从其类，地上的昆虫各从其类，每样两个，要到你那里，好保全生命。

21你要拿各样食物积蓄起来，好作你和它们的食物。」

22挪亚就这样行。凡 神所吩咐的，他都照样行了。

1And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,

2and sons of God see the daughters of men that they [are] fair, and they take to themselves women of all whom they have chosen.

3And Jehovah saith, 'My Spirit doth not strive in man — to the age; in their erring they [are] flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.

4The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them — they [are] the heroes, who, from of old, [are] the men of name.

5And Jehovah seeth that abundant [is] the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;

6and Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the earth, and He grieveth Himself — unto His heart.

7And Jehovah saith, 'I wipe away man whom I have prepared from off the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens, for I have repented that I have made them.'

8And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.

9These [are] births of Noah: Noah [is] a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.

10And Noah begetteth three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled [with] violence.

12And God seeth the earth, and lo, it hath been corrupted, for all flesh hath corrupted its way on the earth.

13And God said to Noah, 'An end of all flesh hath come before Me, for the earth hath been full of violence from their presence; and lo, I am destroying them with the earth.

14'Make for thyself an ark of gopher-wood; rooms dost thou make with the ark, and thou hast covered it within and without with cypress;

15and this [is] that which thou dost with it: three hundred cubits [is] the length of the ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height;

16a window dost thou make for the ark, and unto a cubit thou dost restrain it from above; and the opening of the ark thou dost put in its side, — lower, second, and third [stories] dost thou make it.

17'And I, lo, I am bringing in the deluge of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh, in which [is] a living spirit, from under the heavens; all that [is] in the earth doth expire.

18'And I have established My covenant with thee, and thou hast come in unto the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy son's wives with thee;

19and of all that liveth, of all flesh, two of every [sort] thou dost bring in unto the ark, to keep alive with thee; male and female are they.

20Of the fowl after its kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every [sort] they come in unto thee, to keep alive.

21'And thou, take to thyself of all food that is eaten; and thou hast gathered unto thyself, and it hath been to thee and to them for food.'

22And Noah doth according to all that God hath commanded him; so hath he done.