Genesis 8
1 And God remembered Noe, and all the wild beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and all the reptiles that creep, as many as were with him in the ark, and God brought a wind upon the earth, and the water stayed.
Alors Dieu se souvint de Noé, et de tous les animaux sauvages et domestiques qui étaient avec lui dans l’arche. Dieu fit passer un souffle sur la terre, et les eaux se calmèrent.
2 And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the flood-gates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.
Les sources de l’Abîme et les cataractes célestes se refermèrent, et la pluie ne s’échappa plus du ciel.
3 And the water subsided, and went off the earth, and after an hundred and fifty days the water was diminished, and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
Les eaux se retirèrent de dessus la terre, se retirèrent par degrés; elles avaient commencé à diminuer au bout de cent cinquante jours.
4 And the water continued to decrease until the tenth month.
Le septième mois, le dix-septième jour du mois, l’arche s’arrêta sur les monts Ararat.
5 And in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the heads of the mountains were seen.
Les eaux allèrent toujours décroissant jusqu’au dixième mois; le premier jour du dixième mois, apparurent les cimes des montagnes.
6 And it came to pass after forty days Noe opened the window of the ark which he had made.
Au bout de quarante jours, Noé ouvrit la fenêtre qu’il avait pratiquée à l’arche.
7 And he sent forth a raven; and it went forth and returned not until the water was dried from off the earth.
Il lâcha le corbeau, qui partit, allant et revenant jusqu’à ce que les eaux eussent laissé la terre à sec.
8 And he sent a dove after it to see if the water had ceased from off the earth.
Puis, il lâcha la colombe, pour voir si les eaux avaient baissé sur la face du sol.
9 And the dove not having found rest for her feet, returned to him into the ark, because the water was on all the face of the earth, and he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself into the ark.
Mais la colombe ne trouva pas de point d’appui pour la plante de ses pieds, et elle revint vers lui dans l’arche, parce que l’eau couvrait encore la surface de la terre. Il étendit la main, la prit et la fit rentrer auprès de lui dans l’arche.
10 And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove from the ark.
Il attendit encore sept autres jours, et renvoya de nouveau la colombe de l’arche.
11 And the dove returned to him in the evening, and had a leaf of olive, a sprig in her mouth; and Noe knew that the water had ceased from off the earth.
La colombe revint vers lui sur le soir, tenant dans son bec une feuille d’olivier fraîche. Noé jugea que les eaux avaient baissé sur la terre.
12 And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him again any more.
Ayant attendu sept autres jours encore, il fit partir la colombe, qui ne revint plus auprès de lui.
13 And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year of the life of Noe, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water subsided from off the earth, and Noe opened the covering of the ark which he had made, and he saw that the water had subsided from the face of the earth.
Ce fut dans la six cent unième année, au premier mois, le premier jour du mois, que les eaux laissèrent la terre à sec. Noé écarta le plafond de l’arche et vit que la surface du sol était desséchée.
14 And in the second month the earth was dried, on the twenty-seventh day of the month.
Et au deuxième mois, le vingt-septième jour du mois, la terre était sèche.
15 And the Lord God spoke to Noe, saying,
Dieu parla à Noé en ces termes:
16 Come out from the ark, thou and thy wife and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
Sors de l’arche, toi et ta femme, et tes fils et leurs femmes avec toi.
17 And all the wild beasts as many as are with thee, and all flesh both of birds and beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, bring forth with thee: and increase ye and multiply upon the earth.
Tout être vivant de toute espèce qui est avec toi: volatile, quadrupède, reptile se traînant sur la terre, fais-les sortir avec toi; qu’ils foisonnent dans la terre, qu’ils croissent et multiplient sur la terre!"
18 And Noe came forth, and his wife and his sons, and his sons' wives with him.
Noé sortit avec ses fils, sa femme, et les femmes de ses fils.
19 And all the wild beasts and all the cattle and every bird, and every reptile creeping upon the earth after their kind, came forth out of the ark.
Tous les quadrupèdes, tous les reptiles, tous les oiseaux, tout ce qui se meut sur la terre sortit, selon ses espèces, de l’arche.
20 And Noe built an altar to the Lord, and took of all clean beasts, and of all clean birds, and offered a whole burnt-offering upon the altar.
Noé érigea un autel à l’Éternel; il prit de tous les quadrupèdes purs, de tous les oiseaux purs, et les offrit en holocauste sur l’autel.
21 And the Lord God smelled a smell of sweetness, and the Lord God having considered, said, I will not any more curse the earth, because of the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth, I will not therefore any more smite all living flesh as I have done.
L’Éternel aspira la délectable odeur, et il dit en lui-même: "Désormais, je ne maudirai plus la terre à cause de l’homme, car les conceptions du cœur de l’homme sont mauvaises dès son enfance; désormais, je ne frapperai plus tous les vivants, comme je l’ai fait.
22 All the days of the earth, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, shall not cease by day or night.
Plus jamais, tant que durera la terre, semailles et récolte, froidure et chaleur, été et hiver, jour et nuit, ne seront interrompus."
A Dove is Sent Forth from the Ark
