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标 题: Noah's Ark
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发信人: dsyy (零点★戒了,戒了), 信区: English
标 题: Noah's Ark
发信站: 飘渺水云间 (Wed Jun 13 09:49:08 2001), 转信
Noah's Ark
Genesis
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(1)
This is the story of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, the one blameless man o
f his time;he walked with God. He had three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. Now
God saw that the whole world was corrupt and frll of violence. In his sight
the world had become corrupted, for all men had lived corrupt lives on eart
h. God said to Noah, 'The loathsomeness of all mankind has become plain to
me, for through them the earth is full of violence. I intend to destroy them
, and the earth with them. Make yourself an ark with ribs of cypress;cover i
t with reeds and coat it inside and out with pitch. I intend to bring the wa
ters of the flood over the earth to destroy every human being under heaven t
hat has the spirit of life;everything on earth shall perish. But with you I
will make a covenant, and you shall go into the ark, you and your sons, your
wife and your sons'wives with you. And you shall bring living creatrues of
every kind into the ark to keep them alive with you. two of each kind, a mal
e and a female;two of every kind of bird, beast, and reptile, shall come to
you to be kept alive. See that you take and store every kind of food that ca
n be eaten;this shall be food for you and for them. 'Exactly as God had com
manded him, so Noah did.
And so, to escape the waters of the flood, Noah went into the ark with his s
ons, his wife, and his sons'wives. And into the ark with Noah went one pair,
male and female, of all beasts, clean and unclean, of birds and of everythi
ng that crawls on the ground, two by two, as God had commanded. Towards the
edn of seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth. In the year w
hen Noah was six hundred years old, on the seventeenth day of the second mon
th, on that very day, all the springs of the great abyss broke through, the
win-dows of the sky were opened, and rain fell on the earth for fortydays an
d forty nights…The flood continued upon the earth for forty days, and the w
aters swelled and lifted up the ark so that it rose high above the ground. M
ore and more the waters increased over the earth until they covered all the
high mountains everywhere under heaven. The waters increased and the mountai
ns were covered to a depth of fifteen cubits. Everything died that had the b
reath of life in its nostrils, everything on dry land. God wiped out every l
iving thing that existed on earth, man and beast, reptile and bird;they were
all wiped out over the whole earth, and only Noah and his company in the ar
k survived.
(2)
After forty days Noah opened the trap-door that he had made in the ark , and
released a raven to see whether the water had subsided, but the bird contin
ued flying to and fro until the water on the earth had dried up. Noah waited
for seven days, and then he released a dove from the ark to see whether the
water on the earth had subsided fruther. But the dove found no place where
she could settle, and so she came back to him in the ark, because there was
water over the whole surface of the earth. He waited another seven days and
again released the dove from the ark. She came back to him towards evening w
ith a newly plucked olive leaf in her beak. Then Noah knew for certain that
the water on the earth had subsided still further. He waited yet another sev
en days and released the dove, but she never came back. And so it came about
that, on the first day of the first month of his six hundred and first year
, the water had dried up on the earth, and Noah removed the hatch and looked
out of the ark. The surface of the ground was dry.
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the whole earth was dry. And G
od said to Noah, 'Come out of the ark, you and your wife, yoursons and thei
r wives. Bring out every living creature that is with you, live things of ev
ery kind, bird and beast and every reptile that moves on the ground, and let
them swarm over the earth and be fruitful and increase there. 'So Noah cam
e out with his sons, his wife, and his sons'wives. Every wild animal, all ca
ttle, every bird, and every reptile that moves on the ground, came out of th
e ark by families. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. He took ritually cl
ean beastsand birds of every kind, and offered whole-offerings on the altar.
When the Lord smelt the soothing odour, he said within himself, 'Never aga
ued flying to and fro until the water on the earth had dried up. Noah waited
for seven days, and then he released a dove from the ark to see whether the
water on the earth had subsided fruther. But the dove found no place where
she could settle, and so she came back to him in the ark, because there was
water over the whole surface of the earth. He waited another seven days and
again released the dove from the ark. She came back to him towards evening w
ith a newly plucked olive leaf in her beak. Then Noah knew for certain that
the water on the earth had subsided still further. He waited yet another sev
en days and released the dove, but she never came back. And so it came about
that, on the first day of the first month of his six hundred and first year
, the water had dried up on the earth, and Noah removed the hatch and looked
out of the ark. The surface of the ground was dry.
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the whole earth was dry. And G
od said to Noah, 'Come out of the ark, you and your wife, yoursons and thei
r wives. Bring out every living creature that is with you, live things of ev
ery kind, bird and beast and every reptile that moves on the ground, and let
them swarm over the earth and be fruitful and increase there. 'So Noah cam
e out with his sons, his wife, and his sons'wives. Every wild animal, all ca
ttle, every bird, and every reptile that moves on the ground, came out of th
e ark by families. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. He took ritually cl
ean beastsand birds of every kind, and offered whole-offerings on the altar.
When the Lord smelt the soothing odour, he said within himself, 'Never aga
in will I curse the ground because of man, however evil his inclinations may
be from his youth upwards. I will never again kell every living creature, a
s I have just done. '
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