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 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.