¹ 耶和华对挪亚说：你和你的全家都要进入方舟；因为在这世代中，我见你在我面前是义人。

² 凡洁净的畜类，你要带七公七母；不洁净的畜类，你要带一公一母；

³ 空中的飞鸟也要带七公七母，可以留种，活在全地上；

⁴ 因为再过七天，我要降雨在地上四十昼夜，把我所造的各种活物都从地上除灭。

⁵ 挪亚就遵着耶和华所吩咐的行了。

⁶ 当洪水泛滥在地上的时候，挪亚整六百岁。

⁷ 挪亚就同他的妻和儿子儿妇都进入方舟，躲避洪水。

⁸ 洁净的畜类和不洁净的畜类，飞鸟并地上一切的昆虫，

⁹ 都是一对一对的，有公有母，到挪亚那里进入方舟，正如神所吩咐挪亚的。

¹⁰ 过了那七天，洪水泛滥在地上。

¹¹ 当挪亚六百岁，二月十七日那一天，大渊的泉源都裂开了，天上的窗户也敞开了

¹² 四十昼夜降大雨在地上。

¹³ 正当那日，挪亚和他三个儿子闪、含、雅弗，并挪亚的妻子和三个儿妇，都进入方舟。

¹⁴ 他们和百兽，各从其类，一切牲畜，各从其类，爬在地上的昆虫，各从其类，一切禽鸟，各从其类，都进入方舟。

¹⁵ 凡有血肉、有气息的活物，都一对一对地到挪亚那里，进入方舟。

¹⁶ 凡有血肉进入方舟的，都是有公有母，正如神所吩咐挪亚的。耶和华就把他关在方舟里头。

¹⁷ 洪水泛滥在地上四十天，水往上长，把方舟从地上漂起。

¹⁸ 水势浩大，在地上大大地往上长，方舟在水面上漂来漂去。

¹⁹ 水势在地上极其浩大，天下的高山都淹没了。

²⁰ 水势比山高过十五肘，山岭都淹没了。

²¹ 凡在地上有血肉的动物，就是飞鸟、牲畜、走兽，和爬在地上的昆虫，以及所有的人，都死了。

²² 凡在旱地上、鼻孔有气息的生灵都死了。

²³ 凡地上各类的活物，连人带牲畜、昆虫，以及空中的飞鸟，都从地上除灭了，只留下挪亚和那些与他同在方舟里的。

²⁴ 水势浩大，在地上共一百五十天。

¹ It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

² that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

³ Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

⁴ The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

⁵ Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

⁶ Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

⁷ Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

⁸ But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.

⁹ This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

¹⁰ Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

¹¹ The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

¹² God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

¹³ God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

¹⁴ Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

¹⁵ This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship will be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

¹⁶ You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.

¹⁷ I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

¹⁸ But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

¹⁹ Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

²⁰ Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.

²¹ Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them."

²² Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.