| 創世紀 | Genesis |
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| 1亞當認識了自己的妻子厄娃，厄娃懷了孕，生了加音說：「我賴上主獲得了一個人。」 | 1 The man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, "I have produced a man with the help of the LORD." |
| 2以後她生了加音的弟弟亞伯爾；亞伯爾牧羊，加音耕田。 | 2Next she bore his brother Abel. Abel became a keeper of flocks, and Cain a tiller of the soil. |
| 3有一天，加音把田地的出產作祭品獻給天主； | 3In the course of time Cain brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit of the soil, |
| 4同時亞伯爾獻上自己羊群中最肥美而又是首生的羊；上主惠顧了亞伯爾和他的祭品， | 4while Abel, for his part, brought one of the best firstlings of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, |
| 5卻沒有惠顧加音和他的祭品；因此加音大怒，垂頭喪氣。 | 5but on Cain and his offering he did not. Cain greatly resented this and was crestfallen. |
| 6上主對加音說：「你為什麼發怒？為什麼垂頭喪氣？ | 6So the LORD said to Cain: "Why are you so resentful and crestfallen? |
| 7你若做得好，豈不也可仰起頭來？你若做得不好，罪惡就伏在你門前，企圖對付你，但你應制服它。」 | 7 If you do well, you can hold up your head; but if not, sin is a demon lurking at the door: his urge is toward you, yet you can be his master." |
| 8事後加音對他弟弟亞伯爾說：「我們到田間去！」當他們在田間的時候，加音就襲擊了弟弟亞伯爾，將他殺死。 | 8Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let us go out in the field." When they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. |
| 9上主對加音說：「你弟弟亞伯爾在那裡？」他答說：「我不知道，難道我是看守我弟弟的人？」 | 9Then the LORD asked Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" He answered, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?" |
| 10上主說：「你作了什麼事？聽！你弟弟的血由地上向我喊冤。 | 10The LORD then said: "What have you done! Listen: your brother's blood cries out to me from the soil! |
| 11你現在是地上所咒罵的人，地張開口由你手中接收了你弟弟的血， | 11Therefore you shall be banned from the soil that opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. |
| 12從此你即使耕種，地也不會給你出產；你在地上要成個流離失所的人。」 | 12If you till the soil, it shall no longer give you its produce. You shall become a restless wanderer on the earth." |
| 13加音對上主說：「我的罪罰太重，無法承擔。 | 13Cain said to the LORD: "My punishment is too great to bear. |
| 14看你今天將我由這地面上驅逐，我該躲避你的面，在地上成了個流離失所的人；那麼凡遇見我的，必要殺我。」 | 14Since you have now banished me from the soil, and I must avoid your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, anyone may kill me at sight." |
| 15上主對他說：「決不這樣，凡殺加音的人，一定要受七倍的罰。」上主遂給加音一個記號，以免遇見他的人擊殺他。 | 15 Not so!" the LORD said to him. "If anyone kills Cain, Cain shall be avenged sevenfold." So the LORD put a mark on Cain, lest anyone should kill him at sight. |
| 16加音就離開上主的面，住在伊甸東方的諾得地方。 | 16 Cain then left the LORD'S presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. |
| 17加音認識了自己的妻子，她懷了孕，生了哈諾客。加音建築了一座城，即以他兒子的名字，給這城起名叫「哈諾客」。 | 17 Cain had relations with his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. Cain also became the founder of a city, which he named after his son Enoch. |
| 18哈諾客生了依辣得；依辣得生了默胡雅耳；默胡雅耳生了默突沙耳；默突沙耳生了拉默客。 | 18To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad became the father of Mehujael; Mehujael became the father of Methusael, and Methusael became the father of Lamech. |
| 19拉默客娶了兩個妻子：一個名叫阿達，一個名叫漆拉。 | 19Lamech took two wives; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second Zillah. |
| 20阿達生了雅巴耳，他是住在帳幕內畜牧者的始祖。 | 20Adah gave birth to Jabal, the ancestor of all who dwell in tents and keep cattle. |
| 21他的弟弟名叫猶巴耳，他是所有彈琴吹簫者的始祖。 | 21His brother's name was Jubal; he was the ancestor of all who play the lyre and the pipe. |
| 22同時漆拉也生了突巴耳加音，他是製造各種銅鐵器具的匠人。突巴耳加音有個姊妹名叫納阿瑪。 | 22Zillah, on her part, gave birth to Tubalcain, the ancestor of all who forge instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. |
| 23拉默客對自己的妻子說：「阿達和漆拉傾聽我的聲音，拉默客的妻子，靜聆我的言語：因我受傷，殺了一成年；因我受損，殺了一青年； | 23Lamech said to his wives: "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my utterance: I have killed a man for wounding me, a boy for bruising me. |
| 24殺加音的受罰是七倍，殺拉默客的是七十七倍。」 | 24If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold." |
| 25亞當又認識了自己的妻子，她生了個兒子，給他起名叫舍特說：「天主又賜給了我一個兒子，代替加音殺了的亞伯爾。」 | 25 Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son whom she called Seth. "God has granted me more offspring in place of Abel," she said, "because Cain slew him." |
| 26舍特也生了一個兒子，給他起名叫厄諾士。那時人才開始呼求上主的名。 | 26To Seth, in turn, a son was born, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to invoke the LORD by name. |
