¹ 當人在世上多起來又生女兒的時候，

² 神的兒子們看見人的女子美貌，就隨意挑選，娶來為妻。

³ 耶和華說：人既屬乎血氣，我的靈就不永遠住在他裡面；然而他的日子還可到一百二十年。

⁴ 那時候有偉人在地上，後來神的兒子們和人的女子們交合生子；那就是上古英武有名的人。

⁵ 耶和華見人在地上罪惡很大，終日所思想的盡都是惡，

⁶ 耶和華就後悔造人在地上，心中憂傷。

⁷ 耶和華說：我要將所造的人和走獸，並昆蟲，以及空中的飛鳥，都從地上除滅，因為我造他們後悔了。

⁸ 惟有挪亞在耶和華眼前蒙恩。

⁹ 挪亞的後代記在下面。挪亞是個義人，在當時的世代是個完全人。挪亞與神同行。

¹⁰ 挪亞生了三個兒子，就是閃、含、雅弗。

¹¹ 世界在神面前敗壞，地上滿了強暴.。

¹² 神觀看世界，見是敗壞了；凡有血氣的人在地上.都敗壞了行為。

¹³ 神就對挪亞說：凡有血氣的人，他的盡頭已經來到我面前；因為地上滿了他們的強暴，我要把他們和地一併毀滅。

¹⁴ 你要用歌斐木造一隻方舟，分一間一間地造，裡外抹上松香。

¹⁵ 方舟的造法乃是這樣：要長三百肘，寬五十肘，高三十肘。

¹⁶ 方舟上邊要留透光處，高一肘。方舟的門要開在旁邊。方舟要分上、中、下三層。

¹⁷ 看哪，我要使洪水氾濫在地上，毀滅天下；凡地上有血肉、有氣息的活物，無一不死。

¹⁸ 我卻要與你立約；你同你的妻，與兒子兒婦，都要進入方舟。

¹⁹ 凡有血肉的活物，每樣兩個，一公一母，你要帶進方舟，好在你那裡保全生命。

²⁰ 飛鳥各從其類，牲畜各從其類，地上的昆蟲各從其類，每樣兩個，要到你那裡，好保全生命。

²¹ 你要拿各樣食物積蓄起來，好作你和他們的食物。

²² 挪亞就這樣行。凡神所吩咐的，他都照樣行了。

¹ Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

² You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

³ Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

⁴ In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

⁵ Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

⁶ Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

⁷ Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.

⁸ Clean animals, animals that are not Clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

⁹ went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

¹⁰ It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.

¹² The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹³ In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship;

¹⁴ they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

¹⁵ They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.

¹⁶ Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.

¹⁷ The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

¹⁸ The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

¹⁹ The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

²⁰ The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

²¹ All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

²² All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

²³ Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

²⁴ The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.