经网友提醒，补漏掉的两句：

【Genesis 8:20,21 李杜圣经札记】

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。 

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。

ERV:

20 Then Noah built an altar to honor the Lord. Noah took some of all the clean birds and some of all the clean animals and burned them on the altar as a gift to God.

21 The Lord smelled these sacrifices, and it pleased him. The Lord said to himself, “I will never again curse the earth as a way to punish people. People are evil from the time they are young, but I will never again destroy every living thing on the earth as I did this time. 

NIV:

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. 

21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. 

点评：

今天的这两句，人类虔敬，上帝慈爱，其乐融融，字里行间有氤氲之气。

ERV版本的这两句英文，浅显流畅，读来比NIV版本舒服。

第20句里，提到作为献祭的洁净的动物和鸟类。东方人没有严格的饮食禁忌，因为东方宗教如道教、佛教等，没有不洁净动物的概念，不像犹太教、伊斯兰教等因教义认为猪不洁净而不吃猪肉。关于这一点，圣经《申命记》第14章有详细的戒律。

第21句，上帝说，我不再因人的缘故而诅咒大地了。我在想，几千年后的人类，已是上天入地无所不能了。如果人类制造的人工智能、机器人再犯罪恶，上帝会再发一次大水么？