| 創世紀 | Genesis |
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| 1天主祝福諾厄和他的兒子們說：「你們要滋生繁殖，充滿大地。 | 1God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them: "Be fertile and multiply and fill the earth. |
| 2地上的各種野獸，天空的各種飛鳥，地上的各種爬蟲和水中的各種游魚，都要對你們表示驚恐畏懼：這一切都已交在你們手中。 | 2Dread fear of you shall come upon all the animals of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon all the creatures that move about on the ground and all the fishes of the sea; into your power they are delivered. |
| 3凡有生命的動物，都可作你們的食物；我將這一切賜給你們，有如以前賜給你們蔬菜一樣； | 3 Every creature that is alive shall be yours to eat; I give them all to you as I did the green plants. |
| 4凡有生命，帶血的肉，你們不可吃； | 4 Only flesh with its lifeblood still in it you shall not eat. |
| 5並且，我要追討害你們生命的血債：向一切野獸追討，向人，向為弟兄的人，追討人命。 | 5For your own lifeblood, too, I will demand an accounting: from every animal I will demand it, and from man in regard to his fellow man I will demand an accounting for human life. |
| 6凡流人血的，他的血也要為人所流，因為人是照天主的肖像造的。 | 6If anyone sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; For in the image of God has man been made. |
| 7你們要生育繁殖，在地上滋生繁衍。」 | 7Be fertile, then, and multiply; abound on earth and subdue it." |
| 8天主對諾厄和他的兒子們說： | 8God said to Noah and to his sons with him: |
| 9「看，我現在與你們和你們未來的後裔立約， | 9"See, I am now establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you |
| 10並與同你們在一起的一切生物：飛鳥、牲畜和一切地上野獸，即凡由方舟出來的一切地上生物立約。 | 10and with every living creature that was with you: all the birds, and the various tame and wild animals that were with you and came out of the ark. |
| 11我與你們立約：凡有血肉的，以後決不再受洪水湮滅，再沒有洪水來毀滅大地。」 | 11I will establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all bodily creatures be destroyed by the waters of a flood; there shall not be another flood to devastate the earth." |
| 12天主說：「這是我在我與你們以及同你們在一起的一切生物之間，立約的永遠標記： | 12God added: "This is the sign that I am giving for all ages to come, of the covenant between me and you and every living creature with you: |
| 13我把虹霓放在雲間，作我與大地之間立約的標記。 | 13I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. |
| 14幾時我興雲遮蓋大地，雲中要出現虹霓， | 14When I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow appears in the clouds, |
| 15那時我便想起我與你們以及各種屬血肉的生物之間所立的盟約：這樣水就不會再成為洪水，毀滅一切血肉的生物。 | 15I will recall the covenant I have made between me and you and all living beings, so that the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all mortal beings. |
| 16幾時虹霓在雲間出現，我一看見，就想起在天主與地上各種屬血肉的生物之間所立的永遠盟約。」 | 16As the bow appears in the clouds, I will see it and recall the everlasting covenant that I have established between God and all living beings--all mortal creatures that are on earth." |
| 17天主對諾厄說：「這就是我在我與地上一切有血肉的生物之間，所立的盟約的標記。」 | 17God told Noah: "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all mortal creatures that are on earth." |
| 18諾厄的兒子由方舟出來的，有閃、含、和耶斐特。含是客納罕的父親。 | 18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) |
| 19這三人是諾厄的兒子；人類就由這三人分布天下。 | 19These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was peopled. |
| 20諾厄原是農夫，遂開始種植葡萄園。 | 20Now Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard. |
| 21一天他喝酒喝醉了，就在自己的帳幕內脫去了衣服。 | 21When he drank some of the wine, he became drunk and lay naked inside his tent. |
| 22客納罕的父親含看見了父親赤身露體，遂去告訴外面的兩個兄弟。 | 22Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness, and he told his two brothers outside about it. |
| 23閃和耶斐特二人於是拿了件外衣，搭在肩上，倒退著走進去，蓋上父親的裸體。他們的臉背著，沒有看見父親的裸體。 | 23Shem and Japheth, however, took a robe, and holding it on their backs, they walked backward and covered their father's nakedness; since their faces were turned the other way, they did not see their father's nakedness. |
| 24諾厄醒了後，知道了小兒對他作的事， | 24When Noah woke up from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him, |
| 25就說：「客納罕是可咒罵的，給兄弟當最下賤的奴隸。」 | 25he said: "Cursed be Caanan! The lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers." |
| 26又說：「上主，閃的天主，應受讚美，客納罕應作他的奴隸。 | 26 He also said: "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! Let Canaan be his slave. |
| 27願天主擴展耶斐特，使他住在閃的帳幕內；客納罕應作他的奴隸。」 | 27 May God expand Japheth, so that he dwells among the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his slave." |
| 28洪水以後，諾厄又活了三百五十年。 | 28Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood. |
| 29諾厄共活了九百五十歲死了。 | 29The whole lifetime of Noah was nine hundred and fifty years; then he died. |
