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 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."