¹ 神賜福給挪亞和他的兒子，對他們說：你們要生養眾多，遍滿了地。

² 凡地上的走獸和空中的飛鳥都必驚恐，懼怕你們，連地上一切的昆蟲並海裡一切的魚都交付你們的手。

³ 凡活著的動物都可以作你們的食物。這一切我都賜給你們，如同菜蔬一樣。

⁴ 惟獨肉帶著血，那就是他的生命，你們不可吃。

⁵ 流你們血、害你們命的，無論是獸是人，我必討他的罪，就是向各人的弟兄也是如此。

⁶ 凡流人血的，他的血也必被人所流，因為神造人是照自己的形像造的。

⁷ 你們要生養眾多，在地上昌盛繁茂。

⁸ 神曉諭挪亞和他的兒子說：

⁹ 我與你們和你們的後裔立約，

¹⁰ 並與你們這裡的一切活物─就是飛鳥、牲畜、走獸，凡從方舟裡出來的活物─立約。

¹¹ 我與你們立約，凡有血肉的，不再被洪水滅絕，也不再有洪水毀壞地了。

¹² 神說：我與你們並你們這裡的各樣活物所立的永約是有記號的。

¹³ 我把虹放在雲彩中，這就可作我與地立約的記號了。

¹⁴ 我使雲彩蓋地的時候，必有虹現在雲彩中，

¹⁵ 我便記念我與你們和各樣有血肉的活物所立的約，水就再不氾濫、毀壞一切有血肉的物了。

¹⁶ 虹必現在雲彩中，我看見，就要記念我與地上各樣有血肉的活物所立的永約。

¹⁷ 神對挪亞說：這就是我與地上一切有血肉之物立約的記號了。

¹⁸ 出方舟挪亞的兒子就是閃、含、雅弗。含是迦南的父親。

¹⁹ 這是挪亞的三個兒子，他們的後裔分散在全地。

²⁰ 挪亞作起農夫來，栽了一個葡萄園。

²¹ 他喝了園中的酒便醉了，在帳棚裡赤著身子。

²² 迦南的父親含看見他父親赤身，就到外邊告訴他兩個弟兄。

²³ 於是閃和雅弗拿件衣服搭在肩上，倒退著進去，給他父親蓋上；他們背著臉就看不見父親的赤身。

²⁴ 挪亞醒了酒，知道小兒子向他所作的事，

²⁵ 就說：迦南當受咒詛，必給他弟兄作奴僕的奴僕；

²⁶ 又說：耶和華─閃的神是應當稱頌的！願迦南作閃的奴僕。

²⁷ 願神使雅弗擴張，使他住在閃的帳棚裡；又願迦南作他的奴僕。

²⁸ 洪水以後，挪亞又活了三百五十年。

²⁹ 挪亞共活了九百五十歲就死了。

¹ God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

² The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

³ The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

⁴ The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.

⁵ The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

⁶ It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

⁷ and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

⁸ He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

⁹ but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.

¹⁰ He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.

¹¹ The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

¹² He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.

¹³ It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

¹⁴ In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

¹⁵ God spoke to Noah, saying,

¹⁶ "Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

¹⁷ Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."

¹⁸ Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

¹⁹ Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

²⁰ Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

²¹ Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

²² While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."