تكوين 8

١ 1 ثُمَّ افْتَقَدَ اللهُ نُوحاً وَمَا مَعَهُ فِي الْفُلْكِ مِنْ وُحُوشٍ وبَهَائِمَ، فَأَرْسَلَ رِيحاً عَلَى الأَرْضِ فَتَقَلَّصَتِ الْمِيَاهُ

But God hadn't forgotten about Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the ark. God sent a wind to blow over the earth, and the floodwaters started to drop.

٢ 2 وَانْسَدَّتْ يَنَابِيعُ الْمَاءِ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَالسَّمَاءِ، وَاحْتَبَسَ الْمَطَرُ.

The subterranean waters were closed off, and the heavy rainfall was stopped.

٣ 3 وَتَرَاجَعَتِ الْمِيَاهُ عَنِ الأَرْضِ تَدْرِيجِيًّا. وَبَعْدَ مِئَةٍ وَخَمْسِينَ يَوْماً نَقَصَتِ الْمِيَاهُ.

The floodwaters steadily receded from the earth. They had gone down so much that by 150 days after the flood began

٤ 4 وَاسْتَقَرَّ الْفُلْكُ عَلَى جِبَالِ أَرَارَاطَ فِي الْيَوْمِ السَّابِعَ عَشَرَ مِنَ الشَّهْرِ السَّابِعِ لِلطُّوفَانِ.

the ark grounded on the mountains of Ararat. This happened on the seventeenth day of the seventh month.

٥ 5 وَظَلَّتِ الْمِيَاهُ تَتَنَاقَصُ تَدْرِيجِيًّا حَتَّى الشَّهْرِ الْعَاشِرِ. وَفِي الْيَوْمِ الأَوَّلِ مِنَ الشَّهْرِ الْعَاشِرِ بَدَتْ قِمَمُ الْجِبَالِ.

The waters continued to drop so that by the first day of the tenth month the tops of mountains could be seen.

٦ 6 وَبَعْدَ أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْماً أُخْرَى فَتَحَ نُوحٌ النَّافِذَةَ الَّتِي كَانَ قَدْ عَمِلَهَا فِي الْفُلْكِ.

Forty days later Noah opened the window he'd made in the ark,

٧ 7 وَأَطْلَقَ غُرَاباً، فَخَرَجَ وَظَلَّ يَحُومُ مُتَرَدِّداً إِلَى الْفُلْكِ حَتَّى جَفَّتِ الْمِيَاهُ عَنِ الأَرْضِ.

and sent a raven out. It flew back and forth until the water on the earth had dried up.

٨ 8 ثُمَّ أَطْلَقَ نُوحٌ حَمَامَةً مِنَ الْفُلْكِ لِيَرَى إِنْ كَانَتِ الْمِيَاهُ قَدْ تَقَلَّصَتْ عَنْ وَجْهِ الأَرْضِ،

Then he sent a dove out to see if the waters had gone down enough to expose dry ground.

٩ 9 وَلَكِنَّ الْحَمَامَةَ لَمْ تَجِدْ مَوْضِعاً تَسْتَقِرُّ عَلَيْهِ رِجْلُهَا فَرَجَعَتْ إِلَيْهِ فِي الْفُلْكِ، لأَنَّ الْمِيَاهَ كَانَتْ مَازَالَتْ تَغْمُرُ سَطْحَ الأَرْضِ، فَمَدَّ يَدَهُ وَأَخَذَهَا، وَأَدْخَلَهَا عِنْدَهُ إِلَى الْفُلْكِ.

But the dove couldn't find anywhere to land. So it came back to Noah in the ark because water was still covering the whole earth. He reached out his hand, picked up the dove, and took it back into the ark with him.

١٠ 10 وَانْتَظَرَ سَبْعَةَ أَيَّامٍ أُخْرَى ثُمَّ عَادَ فَأَطْلَقَ الْحَمَامَةَ مِنَ الْفُلْكِ،

He waited another seven days and sent the dove out from the ark again.

١١ 11 فَرَجَعَتْ إِلَيْهِ عِنْدَ الْمَسَاءِ تَحْمِلُ فِي مِنْقَارِهَا وَرَقَةَ زَيْتُونٍ خَضْرَاءَ، فَأَدْرَكَ نُوحٌ أَنَّ الْمِيَاهَ قَدْ تَنَاقَصَتْ عَنِ الأَرْضِ.

When it came back to him in the evening it had a freshly-picked olive leaf in its beak, so Noah knew the floodwaters were mainly gone from the earth.

١٢ 12 فَمَكَثَ سَبْعَةَ أَيَّامٍ أُخْرَى ثُمَّ أَطْلَقَ الْحَمَامَةَ فَلَمْ تَرْجِعْ إِلَيْهِ هَذِهِ الْمَرَّةَ.

Again he waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but this time it didn't return to him.

١٣ 13 وَفِي الْيَوْمِ الأَوَّلِ مِنَ الشَّهْرِ الأَوَّلِ مِنَ السَّنَةِ الْوَاحِدَةِ وَالسِّتِّ مِئَةٍ مِنْ عُمْرِ نُوحٍ، جَفَّتِ الْمِيَاهُ عَنِ الأَرْضِ، فَرَفَعَ نُوحٌ سَقْفَ الْفُلْكِ وَتَطَلَّعَ حَوْلَهُ، فَرَأَى أَنَّ سَطْحَ الأَرْضِ قَدْ أَخَذَ فِي الْجَفَافِ.

By now Noah was 601, and by the first day of the first month, the floodwaters on the earth were gone. Noah pulled back the ark's covering and saw that the ground was drying out.

١٤ 14 وَلَكِنَّ الأَرْضَ لَمْ تَجِفَّ تَمَاماً إِلّا فِي الْيَوْمِ السَّابِعِ وَالْعِشْرِينَ مِنَ الشَّهْرِ الثَّانِي.

By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

١٥ 15 وَخَاطَبَ اللهُ نُوحاً قَائِلا:

Then God told Noah,

١٦ 16 «اخْرُجْ مِنَ الْفُلْكِ أَنْتَ وَامْرَأَتُكَ وَبَنُوكَ وَنِسَاءُ بَنِيكَ مَعَكَ،

“Leave the ark, you and your wife, your sons and their wives.

١٧ 17 وَأَخْرِجْ كُلَّ مَا مَعَكَ مِنَ الْكَائِنَاتِ الْحَيَّةِ، مِنْ طُيُورٍ وَبَهَائِمَ وَكُلِّ مَا يَزْحَفُ عَلَى الأَرْضِ لِتَتَوَالَدَ وَتَتَكَاثَرَ عَلَى الأَرْضِ».

Let all the animals go—the birds, the wild animals, the creatures that run along the ground—so that they can breed and increase their numbers on the earth.”

١٨ 18 وَخَرَجَ نُوحٌ وَبَنُوهُ وَامْرَأَتُهُ وَزَوْجَاتُ بَنِيهِ مَعَهُ.

So Noah and his wife, his sons and their wives, left the ark.

١٩ 19 وَكَذَلِكَ خَرَجَتْ مَعَهُ كُلُّ الْحَيَوَانَاتِ، وَالزَّوَاحِفِ وَالطُّيُورِ، وَكُلُّ مَا يَدِبُّ عَلَى الأَرْضِ، كُلٌّ مِنْهَا كَجِنْسِهَا.

All the animals, all the creatures that run along the ground, all the birds—everything that lives on land—also left, each kind leaving together.

٢٠ 20 وَبَنَى نُوحٌ مَذْبَحاً لِلرَّبِّ ثُمَّ اخْتَارَ بَعْضاً مِنْ جَمِيعِ الْبَهَائِمِ وَالطُّيُورِ الطَّاهِرَةِ وَقَرَّبَهَا مُحْرَقَاتٍ عَلَى الْمَذْبَحِ.

Noah built an altar, and sacrificed some of the clean animals and birds as a burnt offering.

٢١ 21 فَتَقَبَّلَهَا الرَّبُّ بِرِضًى، وَقَالَ فِي نَفْسِهِ: «لَنْ أَلْعَنَ الأَرْضَ مَرَّةً أُخْرَى مِنْ أَجْلِ الإِنْسَانِ، لأَنَّ أَهْوَاءَ قَلْبِ الإِنْسَانِ شِرِّيرَةٌ مُنْذُ حَدَاثَتِهِ وَلَنْ أُقْدِمَ عَلَى إِهْلاكِ كُلِّ حَيٍّ كَمَا فَعَلْتُ.

The Lord accepted the sacrifice, and said to himself, “I won't ever again curse the ground because of human beings, even though every single thought in their minds is evil from childhood. I won't ever destroy all life again as I have just done.

٢٢ 22 وَتَكُونُ كُلُّ أَيَّامِ الأَرْضِ مَوَاسِمَ زَرْعٍ وَحَصَادٍ وَبَرْدٍ وَحَرٍّ وَصَيْفٍ وَشِتَاءٍ وَنَهَارٍ وَلَيْلٍ، لَنْ تَبْطُلَ أَبَداً».

As long as the earth exists, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never come to an end.”

A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark