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創世記-Genesis 第 8 章

8:1	神記念挪亞和方舟裏同挪亞一起的一切走獸牲畜；神叫風吹地，水就漸落。 And God remembered Noah and all the animals and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
8:2	深淵的泉源和天上的窗戶都閉塞了，天上的雨也止住了。 The springs of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from the heavens was restrained;
8:3	水從地上漸退。過了一百五十天，水就漸消。 And the waters receded steadily from upon the earth. So at the end of one hundred fifty days the waters began to diminish.
8:4	七月十七日，方舟停在亞拉臘山上。 And the ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
8:5	水又漸消，到十月初一日，山頂都現出來了。 And the waters diminished steadily until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
8:6	過了四十天，挪亞開了他所造方舟的窗戶， And at the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
8:7	放出一隻烏鴉；那烏鴉飛來飛去，直到地上的水都幹了。 And he sent out the raven; and it went out, going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth.
8:8	他又放出一隻鴿子，要看看水從地上退了沒有。 And he sent out the dove from him to see if the waters had abated from the surface of the ground.
8:9	但遍地上都是水，鴿子找不著落腳之地，就回到方舟挪亞那裏，挪亞伸手把鴿子接進方舟。 But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to him to the ark; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. And he put out his hand and took her and brought her to himself into the ark.
8:10	他又等了七天，再把鴿子從方舟放出去。 And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark.
8:11	到了晚上，鴿子回到他那裏，嘴裏叼著一片新擰下來的橄欖葉子，挪亞就知道地上的水退了。 And the dove came to him toward evening time, and there in her beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had abated from the earth.
8:12	他又等了七天，再放出鴿子，鴿子就不再回來了。 And he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, and she did not return to him again.
8:13	到挪亞六百零一歲，正月初一日，地上的水都幹了。挪亞撤去方舟的蓋觀看，便見地麵上幹了。 And in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the water was dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and saw that now the surface of the ground was dry.
8:14	到了二月二十七日，地就都幹了。 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
8:15	神對挪亞說， And God spoke to Noah, saying,
8:16	你和你的妻子、兒子、兒媳都可以出方舟。 Go forth from the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you;
8:17	在你那裏凡有血肉的活物，就是飛鳥、牲畜、和一切爬在地上的爬物，都要帶出來，叫牠們在地上孳生，繁衍增多。 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh-birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth-that they may swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.
8:18	於是挪亞和他的兒子、妻子、兒媳都出來了。 So Noah went forth, as well as his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.
8:19	一切走獸、爬物、飛鳥、和地上所有的動物，各從其類，也都出了方舟。 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves upon the earth, went forth from the ark according to their families.
8:20	挪亞為耶和華築了一座壇，拿各類潔淨的牲畜、飛鳥，獻在壇上為燔祭。 And Noah built an altar to Jehovah and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
8:21	耶和華聞了那怡爽的香氣，就心裏說，我不再因人的緣故咒詛地，(人從小時心裏懷著惡念，)也不再按著我才行的，滅各種的活物了。 And Jehovah smelled the satisfying fragrance; and Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I ever again smite everything living as I have done.
8:22	地還存留的時候，稼穡、寒暑、冬夏、晝夜，就永不停息了。 Throughout all the days that earth remains, Seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, And summer and winter, and day and night Shall not cease.

創世記-Genesis 第 8 章