¹ 当人在世上多起来又生女儿的时候，

² 神的儿子们看见人的女子美貌，就随意挑选，娶来为妻。

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。

⁴ 那时候有伟人在地上，後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。

⁵ 耶和华见人在地上罪恶很大，终日所思想的尽都是恶，

⁶ 耶和华就後悔造人在地上，心中忧伤。

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，因为我造他们後悔了。

⁸ 惟有挪亚在耶和华眼前蒙恩。

⁹ 挪亚的後代记在下面。挪亚是个义人，在当时的世代是个完全人。挪亚与神同行。

¹⁰ 挪亚生了三个儿子，就是闪、含、雅弗。

¹¹ 世界在神面前败坏，地上满了强暴.。

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。

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。

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。

¹⁵ 方舟的造法乃是这样：要长三百肘，宽五十肘，高三十肘。

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。

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。

¹⁸ 我却要与你立约；你同你的妻，与儿子儿妇，都要进入方舟。

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。

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。

²¹ 你要拿各样食物积蓄起来，好作你和他们的食物。

²² 挪亚就这样行。凡神所吩咐的，他都照样行了。

¹ Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

² You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

³ Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

⁴ In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

⁵ Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

⁶ Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

⁷ Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.

⁸ Clean animals, animals that are not Clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

⁹ went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

¹⁰ It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.

¹² The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹³ In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship;

¹⁴ they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

¹⁵ They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.

¹⁶ Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.

¹⁷ The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

¹⁸ The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

¹⁹ The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

²⁰ The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

²¹ All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

²² All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

²³ Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

²⁴ The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.