Genesis 7

1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

1 耶和华对挪亚说：“你和你全家都进入方舟，因为这个世代只有你在我眼中是义人。

2 You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;

2 洁净的动物，你要每样带七公七母，不洁净的动物每样带一公一母，

3 and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.

3 飞鸟每样带七公七母，叫它们以后可以在地上繁衍后代。

4 For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

4 因为七天之后，我要在地上降雨四十昼夜，从地上毁灭我所造的一切活物。”

5 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.

5 凡耶和华所吩咐的，挪亚都照办了。

6 Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.

6 洪水在大地上泛滥那年，挪亚六百岁了。

7 And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

7 挪亚与妻子、儿子们和儿媳们都进了方舟，躲避洪水。

8 The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground

8 洁净的动物、不洁净的动物、飞禽和地上的一切爬虫，

9 came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

9 都一公一母成对地到挪亚那里，进了方舟，正如上帝对挪亚的吩咐。

10 And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.

10 七天过后，洪水在地上泛滥起来。

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

11 挪亚六百岁那年的二月 十七日，所有深渊的泉源都裂开了，天上的水闸也打开了，

12 And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

12 地上大雨降了四十昼夜。

13 On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—

13 就在那天，挪亚与他的儿子闪、含和雅弗，还有挪亚的妻子和三个儿媳妇都进了方舟。

14 they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.

14 所有的野兽、牲畜、地上的爬虫和飞鸟都按种类进入方舟。

15 They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.

15 一切有生命气息的活物都成对地到挪亚那里，进入方舟。

16 And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

16 所有进入方舟的动物都是一公一母，正如上帝对挪亚的吩咐。然后，耶和华关上了方舟的门。

17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

17 洪水在地上泛滥了四十天，水不断往上涨，把方舟漂了起来。

18 So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

18 洪水来势汹汹，淹没大地，方舟漂浮在水面上。

19 Finally, the waters completely prevailed upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.

19 水势越来越大，把天下各处的高山都淹没了。

20 The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.

20 水淹没了群山，高出群山七米。

21 And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.

21 地上所有的飞禽、走兽、牲畜、爬虫等动物和人类都死了。

22 Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

22 陆地上所有鼻孔有生命气息的活物都死了。

23 And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.

23 地上的人类、飞禽走兽和爬虫等一切活物都被毁灭了，只剩下挪亚和跟他同在方舟里的。

24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.

24 洪水淹没大地一百五十天。