¹ 耶和華對挪亞說：你和你的全家都要進入方舟；因為在這世代中，我見你在我面前是義人。

² 凡潔淨的畜類，你要帶七公七母；不潔淨的畜類，你要帶一公一母；

³ 空中的飛鳥也要帶七公七母，可以留種，活在全地上；

⁴ 因為再過七天，我要降雨在地上四十晝夜，把我所造的各種活物都從地上除滅。

⁵ 挪亞就遵著耶和華所吩咐的行了。

⁶ 當洪水氾濫在地上的時候，挪亞整六百歲。

⁷ 挪亞就同他的妻和兒子兒婦都進入方舟，躲避洪水。

⁸ 潔淨的畜類和不潔淨的畜類，飛鳥並地上一切的昆蟲，

⁹ 都是一對一對的，有公有母，到挪亞那裡進入方舟，正如神所吩咐挪亞的。

¹⁰ 過了那七天，洪水氾濫在地上。

¹¹ 當挪亞六百歲，二月十七日那一天，大淵的泉源都裂開了，天上的窗戶也敞開了

¹² 四十晝夜降大雨在地上。

¹³ 正當那日，挪亞和他三個兒子閃、含、雅弗，並挪亞的妻子和三個兒婦，都進入方舟。

¹⁴ 他們和百獸，各從其類，一切牲畜，各從其類，爬在地上的昆蟲，各從其類，一切禽鳥，各從其類，都進入方舟。

¹⁵ 凡有血肉、有氣息的活物，都一對一對地到挪亞那裡，進入方舟。

¹⁶ 凡有血肉進入方舟的，都是有公有母，正如神所吩咐挪亞的。耶和華就把他關在方舟裡頭。

¹⁷ 洪水氾濫在地上四十天，水往上長，把方舟從地上漂起。

¹⁸ 水勢浩大，在地上大大地往上長，方舟在水面上漂來漂去。

¹⁹ 水勢在地上極其浩大，天下的高山都淹沒了。

²⁰ 水勢比山高過十五肘，山嶺都淹沒了。

²¹ 凡在地上有血肉的動物，就是飛鳥、牲畜、走獸，和爬在地上的昆蟲，以及所有的人，都死了。

²² 凡在旱地上、鼻孔有氣息的生靈都死了。

²³ 凡地上各類的活物，連人帶牲畜、昆蟲，以及空中的飛鳥，都從地上除滅了，只留下挪亞和那些與他同在方舟裡的。

²⁴ 水勢浩大，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."