Bible Story 圣经故事英文版

2021年1月22日发(作者：申不害)

Bible Story
圣经故事英文版

Bible Story -- The Creation of the World (
人世之始
)


When the Lord God made earth and heaven,


there was neither shrub nor plant
growing wild upon the earth,



because the Lord God had sent no rain on the earth;
nor was there any man to till the ground. A flood used to rise out of the earth and
water al the surface of the ground. Then the Lord God formed a man
１

from the dust
of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Thus the man became a
living creature. Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden away to the east,


and
there he put the man whom he had formed. the Lord God made trees spring from the
ground,



al trees pleasant to look at and good for food; and in the middle of the
garden he set the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.


There was a river flowing from Eden to water the garden,


and when it left the
garden it branched into four streams. The name of the first is Pishon,


that is the
river which encircles all the land of Havilah,


where the gold is. The gold of that
land is good; bdellium and cornelians are also to be found there. The name of the
second river is Gihon; this is the one which encircles all the land of Cush. The name
of the third is Tigris; this is the river which runs east of Asshur. The fourth river is the
Euphrates.




The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and care for it .
He told the man,


‘You may eat from every tree in the garden,


but not from the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for on the day that you eat from it ,


you
will certainly die. ’then the Lord God said,


‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I
will provide a partner for him. ’So God formed out of the ground all the wild animals
and all the birds of heaven. He brought them to the man to see what he would call
them,


and whatever the man called each living creature,


that was its name. Thus
the man gave names to all cattle,


to the birds of heaven,


and to every wild
animal; but for the man himself no partner had yet been found. And so the Lord God
put the man into a trance,


and while he slept,


he took one of his ribs and closed
the flesh over the place. The Lord God then built up the rib,



which he had taken
out of the man,


into a woman. He brought her to the man,


and the man said:


‘
Now this,


at last - bone from my bones,




flesh from my flesh!-

this shall be called woman,


for from man was this taken. ’


That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife,


and the
two become one flesh. Now they were both naked,


the man and his wife,


but
they had no feeling of shame towards one another.





Bible Story -- Man
‘
s First Sin (
始祖犯戒
)


The serpent was more crafty than any wild creature that the Lord God had made. He
said to the woman, ‘Is it true that God has forbidden you to eat from any tree in the
garden?’The woman answered the serpent, ‘We may eat the fruit of any tree in the
garden, except for the tree n the middle of the garden; God has forbidden us either to
eat or to touch the fruit of that; if we do, we shall die. ’The serpent said, ‘Of course
you will not die. God knows that as soon as you eat it, your eyes will be opened and
you will be like gods knowing both good and evil. ’When the woman saw that the
fruit of the tree was good to eat, and that it was pleasing to the eye and tempting to
contemplate, she took some and ate it. She also gave her husband some and he ate it.
Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they discovered that they were naked;
so they stitched fig-leaves together and made themselves loincloths.


The man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the
time of the evening breeze and hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, ‘Where are you?’He replied, ‘I
heard the sound as you were walking in the garden, and I was afraid because I was
naked, and I hid myself. ’God answered, ‘Who told you that you were naked?Have


you eaten from the tree which I forbade you?’The man said, ‘The woman you gave
me for a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree and I ate it . ’Then the Lord God
said to the woman, ‘What is this that you have done?’The woman said, ‘The serpent
tricked me, and I ate. ’Then the Lord God said to the serpent:


‘
Because you have done this you are accursed more than all cattle and all wild
creatures. On your belly you shall crawl, and dust you shall eat all the days of your
life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your brood and hers.
They shall strike at your head, and you shall strike at their heel. ’


To the woman he said:


‘
I will increase your labour and your goaning, and in labour you shall bear children.
You shall be eager for your husband, and he shall be your master. ’


And to the man he said:


‘
Because you have listened to your wife and have eaten from the tree which I
forbade you, accursed shall be the ground on your account. With labour you shall win
your food from it all the days of your life. It will grow thorns and thistles for you,
none but wild plants for you to eat. You shall gain your bread by the sweat of your
brow until you return to the ground; for from it you were taden. Dust you are, to dust
you shall return. ’




the man called his wife Eve because she was the mother of all who live. The Lord
God made tunics of skins for Adam and his wife and clothed them. He said, ‘The man
has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; what if he now reaches out his
hand and takes fruit from the tree of life also, eats it and lives for ever?’so the Lord
God drove him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he had been
taken. He cast him out, and to the east of the garden of Eden he stationed the
cherubim and a sword whirling and flashing to guard the way to the tree of life.


Bible Story -- Cain Killed His Brother (
该隐杀弟
)


The man lay with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said,
‘With the help of the Lord I have brought a man into being. ’Afterwards she had
another child, his brother Abel. Abel was a shepherd and Cain a tiller of the soil. the
day came when Cain brought some of the produce of the soil as a gift to the Lord;and
Abel brought some of the first-born of his flock, the fat portions of them. The Lord
received Abel and his gift with favour;but Cain and his gift he did not receive. Cain
was very angry and his face fell. Then the Lord said to Cain, ‘Why are you so angry


and cast down?If you do well, you are accepted;if not, sin is a demon crouching at the
door. It shall be eager for you, and you will be mastered by it. ’


Cain said to his brother Abel, ‘Let us go into the open country. ’While they were
there, Cain attacked his brother Abel and murdered him. Then the Lord said to Cain,
‘Where is your brother Abel’Cain answered, ‘I do not know. Am I my brother's
keeper?’The Lord said, ‘What have you done?Hark!your brother's blood that has been
shed is crying out to me from the ground. Now you are accursed, and banished from
the ground. Now you are accursed, and banished from the ground which has opened
its mouth wide to receive your brother's blood, which you have shed. When you till
the ground, it will no longer yield you its wealth. You shall be a vagrant and a
wanderer on earth. ’Cain said to the Lord, ‘My punishment is heavier than I can
bear;thou hast driven me today from the ground, and I must hide myself from thy
presence. I shall be a vagrant and a wanderer on earth, and any one who meets me can
kill me. ’The Lord answered him, ‘No: if anyone kills Cain, Cainshall be avenged
sevenfold. ’Sothe Lord put a mark on Cain, in order that anyone meeting him should
not kill him. Then Cain went out from the Lord's presence and settled in the land of
Nod to the east of Eden.


Bible Story -- Noah
‘
s Ark (
挪亚方舟
)




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 frll 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 under 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 creatrues 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 edn of seven days the waters of the