¹ 耶和华晓谕摩西说：

² 你告诉亚伦说：点灯的时候，七盏灯都要向灯台前面发光。

³ 亚伦便这样行。他点灯台上的灯，使灯向前发光，是照耶和华所吩咐摩西的。

⁴ 这灯台的作法是用金子锤出来的，连座带花都是锤出来的。摩西制造灯台，是照耶和华所指示的样式。

⁵ 耶和华晓谕摩西说：

⁶ 你从以色列人中选出利未人来，洁净他们。

⁷ 洁净他们当这样行：用除罪水弹在他们身上，又叫他们用剃头刀刮全身，洗衣服，洁净自己。

⁸ 然後叫他们取一只公牛犊，并同献的素祭，就是调油的细面；你要另取一只公牛犊作赎罪祭。

⁹ 将利未人奉到会幕前，招聚以色列全会众。

¹⁰ 将利未人奉到耶和华面前，以色列人要按手在他们头上。

¹¹ 亚伦也将他们奉到耶和华面前，为以色列人当作摇祭，使他们好办耶和华的事。

¹² 利未人要按手在那两只牛的头上；你要将一只作赎罪祭，一只作燔祭，献给耶和华，为利未人赎罪。

¹³ 你也要使利未人站在亚伦和他儿子面前，将他们当作摇祭奉给耶和华。

¹⁴ 这样，你从以色列人中将利未人分别出来，利未人便要归我。

¹⁵ 此後利未人要进去办会幕的事，你要洁净他们，将他们当作摇祭奉上；

¹⁶ 因为他们是从以色列人中全然给我的，我拣选他们归我，是代替以色列人中一切头生的。

¹⁷ 以色列人中一切头生的，连人带牲畜，都是我的。我在埃及地击杀一切头生的那天，将他们分别为圣归我。

¹⁸ 我拣选利未人代替以色列人中一切头生的。

¹⁹ 我从以色列人中将利未人当作赏赐给亚伦和他的儿子，在会幕中办以色列人的事，又为以色列人赎罪，免得他们挨近圣所，有灾殃临到他们中间。

²⁰ 摩西、亚伦，并以色列全会众便向利未人如此行。凡耶和华指着利未人所吩咐摩西的，以色列人就向他们这样行。

²¹ 於是利未人洁净自己，除了罪，洗了衣服；亚伦将他们当作摇祭奉到耶和华面前，又为他们赎罪，洁净他们。

²² 然後利未人进去，在亚伦和他儿子面前，在会幕中办事。耶和华指着利未人怎样吩咐摩西，以色列人就怎样向他们行了。

²³ 耶和华晓谕摩西说：

²⁴ 利未人是这样：从二十五岁以外，他们要前来任职，办会幕的事。

²⁵ 到了五十岁要停工退任，不再办事，

²⁶ 只要在会幕里，和他们的弟兄一同伺候，谨守所吩咐的，不再办事了。至於所吩咐利未人的，你要这样向他们行。

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."