欧洲文化诺亚方舟的故事讲解.pptVIP

* Noah’s Ark ----- Bible The Story Begins~~~ Noah was a righteous（正直的） man, the one blameless man of his time; he walked with God the whole world was corrupt and full of violence. God advised Noah to Make himself an ark an ark with ribs of cypress（丝柏木做船架 ）; cover it with reeds and coat it inside and out with pitch （树脂） (120years) one pair, male and female, of all beasts, clean and unclean, of birds and of everything that crawls on the ground, two by two six hundred years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month all the springs of the great abyss （深渊）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 swelled and 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（腕尺）. 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 the first day of the first month of his six hundred and first year ，the water had dried up on the earth, and Noah removed the hatch(舱口) and looked out of the ark. The surface of the ground was dry. the twenty-seventh day of the second month the whole earth was dry. (Mount Ararat ---northeast of Turkey) 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. (370days) Noah built an altar(祭坛) to the Lord “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