1 当人在世上多起来，又生女儿的时候，
When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, |
2 神的儿子们看见人的女子美貌，就随意挑选，娶来为妻。
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. |
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。
Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years." |
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。
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. |
5 耶和华见人在地上罪恶很大，终日所思想的尽都是恶。
The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. |
6 耶和华就后悔造人在地上，心中忧伤。
The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. |
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。
So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth--men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air--for I am grieved that I have made them." |
8 惟有挪亚在耶和华眼前蒙恩。
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. |
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。
This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. |
10 挪亚生了三个儿子，就是闪，含，雅弗。
Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. |
11 世界在神面前败坏，地上满了强暴。
Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. |
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。
God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. |
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。
So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. |
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。
So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. |
15 方舟的造法乃是这样，要长三百肘，宽五十肘，高三十肘。
This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. |
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。
Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. |
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。
I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. |
18 我却要与你立约，你同你的妻，与儿子，儿妇，都要进入方舟。
But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark--you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. |
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。
You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. |
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。
Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. |
21 你要拿各样食物积蓄起来，好作你和它们的食物。
You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them." |
22 挪亚就这样行。凡神所吩咐的，他都照样行了。
Noah did everything just as God commanded him. |
