¹ 有一日，那人和他妻子夏娃同房，夏娃就懷孕，生了該隱(就是得的意思)，便說：耶和華使我得了一個男子。

² 又生了該隱的兄弟亞伯。亞伯是牧羊的；該隱是種地的。

³ 有一日，該隱拿地裡的出產為供物獻給耶和華

⁴ 亞伯也將他羊群中頭生的和羊的脂油獻上。耶和華看中了亞伯和他的供物，

⁵ 只是看不中該隱和他的供物。該隱就大大的發怒，變了臉色。

⁶ 耶和華對該隱說：你為甚麼發怒呢？你為甚麼變了臉色呢？

⁷ 你若行得好，豈不蒙悅納？你若行得不好，罪就伏在門前。他必戀慕你，你卻要制伏他。

⁸ 該隱與他兄弟亞伯說話；二人正在田間。該隱起來打他兄弟亞伯，把他殺了。

⁹ 耶和華對該隱說：你兄弟亞伯在那裡？他說：我不知道！我豈是看守我兄弟的麼？

¹⁰ 耶和華說：你作了甚麼事呢？你兄弟的血有聲音從地裡向我哀告。

¹¹ 地開了口，從你手裡接受你兄弟的血。現在你必從這地受咒詛。

¹² 你種地，地不再給你效力；你必流離飄蕩在地上。

¹³ 該隱對耶和華說：我的刑罰太重，過於我所能當的。

¹⁴ 你如今趕逐我離開這地，以致不見你面；我必流離飄蕩在地上，凡遇見我的必殺我。

¹⁵ 耶和華對他說：凡殺該隱的，必遭報七倍。耶和華就給該隱立一個記號，免得人遇見他就殺他。

¹⁶ 於是該隱離開耶和華的面，去住在伊甸東邊挪得之地。

¹⁷ 該隱與妻子同房，他妻子就懷孕，生了以諾。該隱建造了一座城，就按著他兒子的名將那城叫作以諾。

¹⁸ 以諾生以拿；以拿生米戶雅利；米戶雅利生瑪土撒利；瑪土撒利生拉麥。

¹⁹ 拉麥娶了兩個妻：一個名叫亞大，一個名叫洗拉。

²⁰ 亞大生雅八；雅八就是住帳棚、牧養牲畜之人的祖師。

²¹ 雅八的兄弟名叫猶八；他是一切彈琴吹簫之人的祖師。

²² 洗拉又生了土八該隱；他是打造各樣銅鐵利器的(或作：是銅匠鐵匠的祖師)。土八該隱的妹子是拿瑪。

²³ 拉麥對他兩個妻子說：亞大、洗拉，聽我的聲音；拉麥的妻子，細聽我的話語：壯年人傷我，我把他殺了；少年人損我，我把他害了(或作我殺壯士卻傷自己，我害幼童卻損本身。)

²⁴ 若殺該隱，遭報七倍，殺拉麥，必遭報七十七倍。

²⁵ 亞當又與妻子同房，他就生了一個兒子，起名叫塞特，意思說：神另給我立了一個兒子代替亞伯，因為該隱殺了他。

²⁶ 塞特也生了一個兒子，起名叫以挪士。那時候，人才求告耶和華的名。

¹ The word of Yahweh which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.

² I will utterly sweep away everything off of the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.

³ I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.

⁴ I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests,

⁵ those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,

⁶ those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven't sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

⁷ Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.

⁸ It will happen in the day of Yahweh's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, the king's sons, and all those who are clothed with foreign clothing.

⁹ In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.

¹⁰ In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

¹¹ Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off.

¹² It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, "Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil."

¹³ Their wealth will become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won't inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won't drink their wine.

¹⁴ The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.

¹⁵ That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

¹⁶ a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.

¹⁷ I will bring distress on men, that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Yahweh, and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.

¹⁸ Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh's wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.