和 创8:1 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。
K 创8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
N 创8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.
和 创8:2 渊源和天上的窗户都闭塞了，天上的大雨也止住了。
K 创8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
N 创8:2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.
和 创8:3 水从地上渐退。过了一百五十天，水就渐消。
K 创8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
N 创8:3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
和 创8:4 七月十七日，方舟停在亚拉腊山上。
K 创8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
N 创8:4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
和 创8:5 水又渐消，到十月初一日，山顶都现出来了。
K 创8:5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
N 创8:5 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.
和 创8:6 过了四十天，挪亚开了方舟的窗户，
K 创8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
N 创8:6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
和 创8:7 放出一只乌鸦去。那乌鸦飞来飞去，直到地上的水都干了。
K 创8:7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
N 创8:7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
和 创8:8 他又放出一只鸽子去，要看看水从地上退了没有。
K 创8:8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
N 创8:8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
和 创8:9 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。
K 创8:9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
N 创8:9 But the dove could find no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.
和 创8:10 他又等了七天，再把鸽子从方舟放出去。
K 创8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
N 创8:10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
和 创8:11 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。
K 创8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
N 创8:11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
和 创8:12 他又等了七天，放出鸽子去，鸽子就不再回来了。
K 创8:12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
N 创8:12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
和 创8:13 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。
K 创8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
N 创8:13 By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
和 创8:14 到了二月二十七日，地就都干了。
K 创8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
N 创8:14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
和 创8:15 神对挪亚说：
K 创8:15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
N 创8:15 Then God said to Noah,
和 创8:16 “你和你的妻子、儿子、儿妇都可以出方舟。
K 创8:16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
N 创8:16 "Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
和 创8:17 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。”
K 创8:17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
N 创8:17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you--the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground--so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number upon it."
和 创8:18 于是挪亚和他的妻子、儿子、儿妇都出来了。
K 创8:18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
N 创8:18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives.
和 创8:19 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。
K 创8:19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
N 创8:19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds--everything that moves on the earth--came out of the ark, one kind after another.
和 创8:20 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。
K 创8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
N 创8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
和 创8:21 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。
K 创8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
N 创8:21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
和 创8:22 地还存留的时候，稼穑、寒暑、冬夏、昼夜就永不停息了。”
K 创8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
N 创8:22 "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."