今日读经

神的儿子们和人的女子

¹当人在世上多起来、又生女儿的时候，Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,

²神的儿子们看见人的女子美貌，就随意挑选，娶来为妻。the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.

³耶和华说：“人既属乎血气，我的灵就不永远住在他里面；然而他的日子还可到一百二十年。”So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”

⁴那时候有伟人在地上，后来　神的儿子们和人的女子们交合生子；那就是上古英武有名的人。The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.

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神后悔造人

⁵耶和华见人在地上罪恶很大，终日所思想的尽都是恶，Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

⁶耶和华就后悔造人在地上，心中忧伤。And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

⁷耶和华说：“我要将所造的人和走兽，并昆虫，以及空中的飞鸟，都从地上除灭，因为我造他们后悔了。”So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”

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⁸惟有挪亚在耶和华眼前蒙恩。Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

挪亚与神同行

⁹挪亚的后代记在下面。挪亚是个义人，在当时的世代是个完全人。挪亚与　神同行。This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

¹⁰挪亚生了三个儿子，就是闪、含、雅弗。And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

¹¹世界在　神面前败坏，地上满了强暴。Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.

¹²神观看世界，见是败坏了；凡有血气的人在地上都败坏了行为。And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.

吩咐造方舟

¹³神就对挪亚说：“凡有血气的人，他的尽头已经来到我面前；因为地上满了他们的强暴，我要把他们和地一并毁灭。Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.

¹⁴你要用歌斐木造一只方舟，分一间一间地造，里外抹上松香。Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.

¹⁵方舟的造法乃是这样：要长三百肘，宽五十肘，高三十肘。And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.

¹⁶方舟上边要留透光处，高一肘。方舟的门要开在旁边。方舟要分上、中、下三层。You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.

¹⁷看哪，我要使洪水泛滥在地上，毁灭天下；凡地上有血肉、有气息的活物，无一不死。And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.

¹⁸我却要与你立约；你同你的妻，与儿子儿妇，都要进入方舟。But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.

¹⁹凡有血肉的活物，每样两个，一公一母，你要带进方舟，好在你那里保全生命。And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.

²⁰飞鸟各从其类，牲畜各从其类，地上的昆虫各从其类，每样两个，要到你那里，好保全生命。Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.

²¹你要拿各样食物积蓄起来，好作你和它们的食物。”You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.”

²²挪亚就这样行。凡　神所吩咐的，他都照样行了。So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.

进入方舟

¹耶和华对挪亚说：“你和你的全家都要进入方舟；因为在这世代中，我见你在我面前是义人。Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

²凡洁净的畜类，你要带七公七母；不洁净的畜类，你要带一公一母；You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;

³空中的飞鸟也要带七公七母，可以留种，活在全地上；and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.

⁴因为再过七天，我要降雨在地上四十昼夜，把我所造的各种活物都从地上除灭。”For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

⁵挪亚就遵着耶和华所吩咐的行了。And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.

⁶当洪水泛滥在地上的时候，挪亚整六百岁。Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.

⁷挪亚就同他的妻和儿子儿妇都进入方舟，躲避洪水。And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

⁸洁净的畜类和不洁净的畜类，飞鸟并地上一切的昆虫，The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground

⁹都是一对一对地，有公有母，到挪亚那里进入方舟，正如　神所吩咐挪亚的。came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

¹⁰过了那七天，洪水泛滥在地上。And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.

洪水泛滥

¹¹当挪亚六百岁，二月十七日那一天，大渊的泉源都裂开了，天上的窗户也敞开了，In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

¹²四十昼夜降大雨在地上。And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³正当那日，挪亚和他三个儿子闪、含、雅弗，并挪亚的妻子和三个儿妇，都进入方舟。On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—

¹⁴他们和百兽，各从其类，一切牲畜，各从其类，爬在地上的昆虫，各从其类，一切禽鸟，各从其类，都进入方舟。they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.

¹⁵凡有血肉、有气息的活物，都一对一对地到挪亚那里，进入方舟。They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.

¹⁶凡有血肉进入方舟的，都是有公有母，正如　神所吩咐挪亚的。耶和华就把他关在方舟里头。And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

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水势浩大，淹没全地

¹⁷洪水泛滥在地上四十天，水往上长，把方舟从地上漂起。For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

¹⁸水势浩大，在地上大大地往上长，方舟在水面上漂来漂去。So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

¹⁹水势在地上极其浩大，天下的高山都淹没了。Finally, the waters completely prevailed upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.

²⁰水势比山高过十五肘，山岭都淹没了。The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.

²¹凡在地上有血肉的动物，就是飞鸟、牲畜、走兽，和爬在地上的昆虫，以及所有的人，都死了。And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.

²²凡在旱地上、鼻孔有气息的生灵都死了。Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

²³凡地上各类的活物，连人带牲畜、昆虫，以及空中的飞鸟，都从地上除灭了，只留下挪亚和那些与他同在方舟里的。And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.

²⁴水势浩大，在地上共一百五十天。And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.

神记念挪亚

¹神记念挪亚和挪亚方舟里的一切走兽牲畜。　神叫风吹地，水势渐落。But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

²渊源和天上的窗户都闭塞了，天上的大雨也止住了。The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

³水从地上渐退。过了一百五十天，水就渐消。The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.

⁴七月十七日，方舟停在亚拉腊山上。On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

⁵水又渐消，到十月初一日，山顶都现出来了。And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

放出乌鸦和鸽子

⁶过了四十天，挪亚开了方舟的窗户，After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

⁷放出一只乌鸦去；那乌鸦飞来飞去，直到地上的水都干了。and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

⁸他又放出一只鸽子去，要看看水从地上退了没有。Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

⁹但遍地上都是水，鸽子找不着落脚之地，就回到方舟挪亚那里，挪亚伸手把鸽子接进方舟来。But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.

¹⁰他又等了七天，再把鸽子从方舟放出去。Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

¹¹到了晚上，鸽子回到他那里，嘴里叼着一个新拧下来的橄榄叶子，挪亚就知道地上的水退了。And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

¹²他又等了七天，放出鸽子去，鸽子就不再回来了。And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.

地上的水干了

¹³到挪亚六百零一岁，正月初一日，地上的水都干了。挪亚撤去方舟的盖观看，便见地面上干了。In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

¹⁴到了二月二十七日，地就都干了。By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.

出方舟

¹⁵神对挪亚说：Then God said to Noah,

¹⁶“你和你的妻子、儿子、儿妇都可以出方舟。“Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.

¹⁷在你那里凡有血肉的活物，就是飞鸟、牲畜，和一切爬在地上的昆虫，都要带出来，叫它在地上多多滋生，大大兴旺。”Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”

¹⁸于是挪亚和他的妻子、儿子、儿妇都出来了。So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.

¹⁹一切走兽、昆虫、飞鸟，和地上所有的动物，各从其类，也都出了方舟。Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.

挪亚筑坛，神的应许

²⁰挪亚为耶和华筑了一座坛，拿各类洁净的牲畜、飞鸟献在坛上为燔祭。Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

²¹耶和华闻那馨香之气，就心里说：“我不再因人的缘故咒诅地（人从小时心里怀着恶念），也不再按着我才行的灭各种的活物了。When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

²²地还存留的时候，稼穑、寒暑、冬夏、昼夜就永不停息了。”As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

施洗约翰在旷野传道

¹那时，有施洗的约翰出来，在犹太的旷野传道，说：In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea

²“天国近了，你们应当悔改！”and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”

³这人就是先知以赛亚所说的。他说：“在旷野有人声喊着说：预备主的道，修直他的路！”This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”

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约翰的衣着和食物

⁴这约翰身穿骆驼毛的衣服，腰束皮带，吃的是蝗虫、野蜜。John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

⁵那时，耶路撒冷和犹太全地，并约旦河一带地方的人，都出去到约翰那里，People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan.

⁶承认他们的罪，在约旦河里受他的洗。Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

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要结出与悔改相称的果子

⁷约翰看见许多法利赛人和撒都该人也来受洗，就对他们说：“毒蛇的种类！谁指示你们逃避将来的忿怒呢？But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

⁸你们要结出果子来，与悔改的心相称。Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.

⁹不要自己心里说：‘有亚伯拉罕为我们的祖宗。’我告诉你们，　神能从这些石头中给亚伯拉罕兴起子孙来。And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

¹⁰现在斧子已经放在树根上，凡不结好果子的树就砍下来，丢在火里。The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

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那在我以后来的

¹¹我是用水给你们施洗，叫你们悔改。但那在我以后来的，能力比我更大，我就是给他提鞋也不配。他要用圣灵与火给你们施洗。I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

¹²他手里拿着簸箕，要扬净他的场，把麦子收在仓里，把糠用不灭的火烧尽了。”His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

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耶稣受洗

¹³当下，耶稣从加利利来到约旦河，见了约翰，要受他的洗。At that time Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John.

¹⁴约翰想要拦住他，说：“我当受你的洗，你反倒上我这里来吗？”But John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?”

¹⁵耶稣回答说：“你暂且许我，因为我们理当这样尽诸般的义（或译：礼）。”于是约翰许了他。“Let it be so now,” Jesus replied. “It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness in this way.” Then John permitted Him.

圣灵降下，天上的声音

¹⁶耶稣受了洗，随即从水里上来。天忽然为他开了，他就看见　神的灵仿佛鸽子降下，落在他身上。As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him.

¹⁷从天上有声音说：“这是我的爱子，我所喜悦的。”And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”

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