Genesis 8

1 But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

1 上帝眷顾挪亚及方舟里的野兽和牲畜，就使风吹在大地上，水便开始消退。

2 The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

2 深渊的泉源和天上的水闸都关闭了，大雨也停了。

3 The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.

3 地上的洪水慢慢消退，过了一百五十天，水退下去了。

4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

4 七月十七日，方舟停在亚拉腊山上。

5 And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

5 水继续消退一直到十月，到十月一日，山顶都露出来了。

6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

6 又过了四十天，挪亚打开他在方舟上所造的窗户，

7 and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

7 放出一只乌鸦。它一直在空中飞来飞去，直到地上的水都干了。

8 Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

8 然后，挪亚放出一只鸽子，以便了解地面的水是否已经消退。

9 But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.

9 但遍地都是水，鸽子找不到歇脚的地方，就飞回了方舟，挪亚伸手把鸽子接进方舟里。

10 Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

10 挪亚又等了七天，再把鸽子放出去。

11 And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

11 到了黄昏，鸽子飞回来，嘴里衔着一片新拧下来的橄榄叶，挪亚便知道地上的水已经退了。

12 And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.

12 他又等了七天，再放出鸽子，这次鸽子没有回来。

13 In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

13 挪亚六百零一岁那年的一月一日，地上的水干了。挪亚打开方舟的盖观望，看见地面都干了。

14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.

14 到了二月二十七日，大地完全干了。

15 Then God said to Noah,

15 上帝对挪亚说：

16 “Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.

16 “你与妻子、儿子和儿媳都要出方舟。

17 Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”

17 你要把方舟里的飞禽走兽及爬虫等所有动物都带出来，让它们在地上多多滋长，生养繁衍。”

18 So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.

18 于是，挪亚与妻子、儿子和儿媳都出了方舟。

19 Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.

19 方舟里的飞禽走兽和爬虫等所有地上的动物，都按种类出了方舟。

20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

20 挪亚为耶和华筑了一座坛，在上面焚烧各种洁净的牲畜和飞鸟作为燔祭。

21 When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

21 耶和华闻到这燔祭的馨香，心想：“虽然人从小就心存恶念，但我再不会因为人的缘故而咒诅大地，再不会像这次一样毁灭一切活物了。

22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

22 只要大地尚存，播种收割、夏热冬寒、白昼黑夜必不停息。”