主所爱的弟兄哪,我们本该常为你们感谢神。因为他从起初拣选了你们,叫你们因信真道,又被圣灵感动,成为圣洁,能以得救。
But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
这见证,就是神赐给我们永生,这永生也是在他儿子里面。
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
雅八的兄弟名叫犹八。他是一切弹琴吹箫之人的祖师。
And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
并且造男造女。在他们被造的日子,神赐福给他们,称他们为人。
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
以诺共活了三百六十五岁。
And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
以诺与神同行,神将他取去,他就不在世了。
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
神的儿子们看见人的女子美貌,就随意挑选,娶来为妻。
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
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, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
这些人的后裔,将各国的地土,海岛,分开居住,各随各的方言,宗族立国。
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
亚瓦底人,洗玛利人,哈马人,后来迦南的诸族分散了。
And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.