学文网这是一个有关挪亚的故事。挪亚是个正直的人，在当时是一个十全十美的人。他与上帝行事。他有三个儿子：闪、含和雅弗。上帝看见整个世界腐朽了，无处不是暴力。他感到世界充满着罪恶，因为所有世上的人都过着邪恶的生活。上帝对挪亚说：“人类的丑恶我再清楚不过了，他们使这世界充斥着仇杀。我决意要毁灭他们，也毁掉与他们同在的整个世界。你要为自己造一艘方舟，用丝柏木做船架，覆盖上芦苇，再在里外两面涂抹上树脂。我要使全世界洪水泛滥，毁灭天下所有存活的人，地上万物也要彻底毁灭。但我要与你立约。你那时要带着你的妻子、儿子、儿媳们一起进入方舟。你还要把各种飞禽、走兽、爬虫，每样两只，雌雄各一只带上，与你一同登舟，在船上喂养好。并且还要带上各种食物，储存在船上，作为你们和动物的食粮。”挪亚听从上帝的话，一一办到了。
这样，为了躲避洪水，挪亚和他的妻、子及儿媳们都上了方舟。同他一起上船的还有那些动物：洁净的和不洁净的野兽，每种都是雌雄各一只；所有的鸟类和地上的爬虫，也是一对一对的，遵照上帝的嘱咐每一样都上了船。第七天结束的时候，洪水降临大地上。那年挪亚是六百岁，二月十七日那天，大深渊的所有泉源一齐喷涌起来，天穹洞开，暴雨倾盆，不停地下了四十个昼夜。……洪水泛滥了四十天，大水涨起来把方舟托起，远离地面。落在地面的水越积越深，淹没了天下所有的高山。水继续涨直到浸没高山十五腕尺之深。一切有气息的生物，生活在陆地上的所有东西，全都没有了。上帝清除了世上的生物，人、兽、爬虫、飞鸟，全部从地面上消失，仅存的只有挪亚和在方舟上和他一起的妻子儿媳、鸟兽爬虫。
四十天后，挪亚打开了他方舟上的天窗，放出一只乌鸦去看看水是否退了。但乌鸦飞来飞去，到地面上的水都快干涸也没回来。挪亚等了七天，又从舟上放出一只鸽子去看看地上的水是否再退了些。但因为地面全部都是水，鸽子无立足之地，就飞回挪亚的方舟那里。挪亚又等了七天，从舟上再次放出那鸽子去。傍晚时分，鸽子返回了，嘴里衔着一片刚啄下的橄榄叶。挪亚明白地面上的水退得差不多了。但他又多等了七天，然后放那鸽子出去。这次它再也没有回来了。这样，在挪亚六百零一岁那年的正月初一，地上的水完全退了，挪亚打开舱口盖，从方舟上向外探望，地面已经彻底干了。
二月二十七日，大地全都干了。上帝告诉挪亚：“你和你的妻子，你的儿子儿媳们都从方舟上出来吧。把你带到方舟里去的各种生物，鸟兽爬虫都放出来吧，让它们繁衍生息，散布全世界吧。”挪亚就和他的妻子、儿子儿媳们从方舟走出来。每一种地上生物：野兽、牲畜、鸟类和爬虫都是雌雄配对的，也都下了船。随后，挪亚为天主修了一座祭坛。他选了不同种类洁净的鸟兽作为供品，放在祭坛上奉献给天主。天主闻到了供品的香味，心里想道：“我永远也不会因人类而使大地遭到灾祸了。不论人从小就有多少恶念，我都不再像这次那样消灭一切生灵了。”
Noah's Ark
This is the story of Noah.Noah was a righteous man, the one blameless man of his time; he walked with God. He had three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. Now God saw that the whole world was corrupt and full of violence. In his sight the world had become corrupted, for all men had lived corrupt lives on earth. 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 it with reeds and coat it inside and out with pitch. I intend to bring the waters of the flood over the earth to destroy every human being trader heaven that 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 creatures of every kind into the ark to keep them alive with you, two of each kind, a male 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 can be eaten; this shall be food for you and for them."
Exactly as God had commanded him, so Noah did.
And so, to escape the waters of the flood, Noah went into the ark with his sons, 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 everything that crawls on the ground, two by two, as God had commanded. Towards the end of seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth. In the year when Noah was six hundred years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that very day, all the springs of the great abyss broke through, the windows of the sky were opened, and rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.The flood continued upon the earth for forty days, and the waters swelledand lifted up the ark so that it rose high above the ground. More and more the waters increased over the earth until they covered all the high mountains everywhere under heaven. The waters increased and the mountains were covered to a depth of fifteen cubits. Everything died that had the breath of life in its nostrils, everything on dry land. God wiped out every living 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 ark survived.
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 continued flying to and from until the water on the earth had dried up. Noah waited about that, on the first day of the for seven days, and then he released a dove from the ark to see whether the water on the earth had subsided further.But the dove found no place where she could set- tle, 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 he dove from the ark. She came back to him towards evening with 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 seven days and released: the dove, but she never came back. And so it came first month of his six hundred and first year, the water had dried up on the earth,andNoahremoved 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 God said so Noah, "Come out of the ark, you and your wife,your sons and their wives. Bring out every living creature that is with you, live things of every kind, bird and beast and every reptile that moves on the ground, and let them swarm over the earth and be fruitful and in- crease there." So Noah came out with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives. Every wild animal, all cattle, every bird, and every reptile that moves on the ground, came out of the ark by families. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord.He took ritually clean beasts and birds of every kind, and offered whole-offerings onheal- tar.When the Lord smelt the soothing odour, he said within himself, "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, however evil his inclinations may be from his youth upwards. I will never again kill every living creature, as I have just done."